The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 10 -
The sun's central equator. Landscape and inhabitants. Eruption of a solar billow
The inhabited strip or solar belt along each side of the equator is some twenty thousand GM wide out of the total inhabitable width. This is also the most densely populated solar belt and can be walked and travelled by everyone. The ground is softly cushioned withal, wherefore none suffer the slightest injury on falling.
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South and north upon this belt there are the most extraordinary unbroken and mostly unscaleable high mountains, which in some places cross the equator at more gentle latitudes, easy to scale and surmount. But not so at the northern and southern equatorial borders, where the mountains often reach a height of between one and two hundred GM, and are so steep and mirror-smooth as to make it virtually impossible to set a foot beyond their base.
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Occasional there are spots with seemingly scaleable inclinations that can be climbed with strained exertion; the lofty solar mountains nevertheless have the feature of multiplying an unbearably blinding shine proportional to altitude. This is caused through rotation of the sun on the mountain-faces at these altitudes which are exposed to proportionately greater solar atmospheric pressure, whereby the capsules enclosing their spiritual substance (of which all matter actually consists) are set to a proportionately increased and self-expansionary vibratory reaction, which as you are now aware of, is also the origin of the intensifying, peculiar shine. (note: is also the origin of the intensifying, peculiar shine / The sun's own as distinct from that reflected from other suns.)
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For this reason, these contingently scaleable solar "Himalayas" and "Chimbarossas" are left in peace, the sun dwellers only enjoying these mountain chains at a distances from a hundred to a thousand GM, by your measure. They nonetheless are exceedingly great friends of the more gentle heights and lower mountains, dwelling mostly therein, for the great and extensive plateaus are never safe against an eruption, which, as I have said, we shall be watching in company with the sun-dwellers.
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Scattered over the great plateaus there are great seas as well, which the sun-dwellers like to view though not venturing too close however, as the seas often overflow suddenly and people are not quick enough to escape the flood, such seas frequently holding more water than all the Earth's seas together.
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Notwithstanding this, the many billions of people inhabiting this solar belt still have endlessly sufficient space, a single such solar hill with its ranges covering an area greater than your Asia, Africa and Europe combined; wherefore, be not anxious about sufficient territory for solar inhabitants. These solar hills furthermore are not to be compared with your terrestrial ones, for they still project some five to ten GM above the plateaus, exceeding your highest Alps tenfold and giving glorious views beyond your imagination; because the manifold groupings of the frontier Alps, the grandiloquent dwellings of people occupying the hills and the great diversity of vegetation: the extensive mirror-shine of the sea, the countless colours of things and above all, the exceedingly majestic and grandiose teaching Temples, make the view from this hill so exceedingly glorious as to magnify it beyond all your preconceptions.
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We hardly need to mention the many gentle and beautiful land-based and aerial animals occurring in rare and manifold beauty to indicate also the liveliness of the solar landscape.
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In short, this suffices for us to cheerfully settle down upon one of those hills and attend to one of the most memorable natural spectacles in the company of the sun dwellers. To enable you to observe this amazing scene the more animatedly, we shall join the sun people with sharp ears and listen to how they carry on.
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Behold, over there, not too far from a large Temple whose pointed, exalted roofing rests upon a thousand great pillars, shining white, a group of about a hundred people of both sexes is standing. Watch how they fix their stares to the other side of the hill, pointing with their fingers. What are they on about? We are about to see.
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Look, we are among them.
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Over there, at great distance, in the middle of a large lake, a cone-shaped hill starts forming; watch how it visibly grows! But let us stop talking and listen to what the sun people are saying, and look what they themselves, although familiar with these appearances, are watching with amazement and trepidation!
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Behold, several teachers also are watching. The two principals have a discussion; principal A says: "Brother, what do you make of this manifestation? What height do you think this growth will reach before the eruption? Look, it grows with great vehemence!"
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Says B: "Brother, I can't say yet; if its flank doesn't swell then, as you know, it shall result in just a normal, imminent eruption. But watch, I note a great many forks (note: forks / Side craters) rising above the water! And look, behind the first cone I see one of much greater circumference rising above the first one quickly. Listen brother, we shall have to move higher this time, otherwise the rising growth shall push the water up here before the eruption."
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Says A: "Yes dear brother, you would be right this time, the swelling grows mightily. and further ones are pushing above the water, although I don't see glowing red peaks yet. Wherefore hark, all you dear brothers and sisters, let us retreat up the hill behind us, near the main instruction Temple.
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Now watch how everyone leaves the spot, hastening up the substantially higher hill behind us.
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And now they and ourselves have reached the above Temple; let us hear more!"
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Says A: "What do you think brother, will it be safe to await the eruption? Is it rising vertically or do you notice the cone heading in our direction?"
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Says B: "You are right brother! May the great God now show us the right escape, or we are lost together with everything adorning this place!"
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Behold, thereto everyone falls to the ground, praying the great God for mercy and for enlightening their teachers and leaders, helping the latter to take them to a safe spot to awaiting this calamity.
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Watch how A stands up together with B, A saying: "Brother, eternal thanks to the great God! For look back up there - the third hill; an angelic guardian spirit from the light-spheres is already standing near the Temple of just seventy-seven columns. Let us hasten over there, as we shall just make it before the combined eruption is about to break forth; watch how vehemently all the cones are pushing up with their steadily widening girth! These are signs of a most terrible eruption!"
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Watch them all rise and rush over to where the guardian spirit indicates is a safe spot. Watch them hold hands and pull each other along, that none would be left behind or be exhausted! Look how they are nearing their destination and we with them; a short while and the spot is reached.
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"We are here," says A. "Eternal praise and thanks to the Great, Almighty Protector who saved us! And you our honest guardian spirit, if it is the Great God's will then, stay with us in this time of fear and help and comfort the weak."
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Says B: "Indeed, may the sole, mighty will of the Great God be done forever!"
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A third one joins them, saying: "Brethren, look down at our first position: it is already awash from the mighty waves and the roof of the Temple can hardly be seen!"
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A fourth one comes, pointing his hand upwards and saying: "Behold brother, for the almighty God's will: the mighty swelling that is already exceeding the highest mountain is getting glowing shoots and thousands follow them!"
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Says A: "Be comforted brethren! We are safe, the swelling is turning away from us and no devastation shall reach us with the rupture."
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Says B: "Brace yourselves! The entire cone has turned glowing red and millions of lightning strikes are escaping from its extensions. What would be the height of the swelling now? Has it reached the glowing surface of the bright atmosphere?"
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Here the guardian spirit steps over telling them to lie on the ground and thrust their fingers into their ears, as the swelling is rising above the glowing atmosphere and the eruption will now follow.
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And watch, all lie on the ground with their ears stopped, shaking. But let you also listen and watch the swollen, glowing red cone of several thousand miles diameter! It has ruptured, followed by an earth-shattering bang. The mountains are quaking mightily and the mightiest lightning escapes by the million from every height, accompanied by the most dreadful thundering.
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Look over there where those walls are getting darker, flashing convulsively! But look down there; some tributary cones have not burst yet. Keep looking there to the right, southward; this one shall burst in the deep. Watch out when its peak starts splitting off, glowing white and alive with flashing lightning; thus it shall burst. A little more patience and you shall see the spectacular display! Now watch it is bursting!
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Behold the masses crashing forth from the chasm at super-lightning speed! What are these masses? You already know about them; they are new packs of fiendish monsters for new cosmic bodies, consisting of retarded spirits who had not withstood their freedom test!
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Look into the far distances over there; how great numbers of spherical flares of every size are falling back into the extensive waters. Lift your eyes also upwards into endless space and note how the visible firmament is criss-crossed in all directions with countless shooting stars, as you would call them. And look still further how from the multi-planetary volume crater, massive smoke and cloud-pillars are rising and surging forth towards distant interplanetary spaces!
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And look at how the big crater is becoming narrower and narrower - and how it collapses again into the depths.
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And watch also how our company starts to get up off the ground, rendering Me loud praise for preserving them and for the propitious ending of the eruption to an exceptionally immense swelling.
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Behold, that's what such eruptions look like, except in actuality the duration of its growth and passing is much longer as are the other phenomena also. Since we have seen this now we shall also shortly discuss it a little with the sun inhabitants and indeed get to know the inhabitants of this belt a little better. And so lets leave it at that for today!