The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 16 -
Agriculture upon the equatorial belt; vegetable gardens, sheep grazing and wheat field.
Some six to ten metres below the tree avenue, there is a so-called small fruit field, bordered on both sides with all kinds of fruit-bearing bushes no more than about a metre and a half tall. The field itself is overgrown with diverse small-fruit plants like your strawberries, proebstlings, melons, so-called paradise apples and others. These are relatively rather than completely similar equivalents; otherwise they are of a most extraordinary diversity and like everything else, not found in any other house.
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By this point you are ready to ask why nothing similar should be found on neighbour's properties? For surely the land products found on one property will catch a neighbour's fancy! Why should a neighbour not bring forth something he liked on his neighbour's property? If he does not do so, then either the law prevents him or he regards everything inferior to what he brings forth on his own ground.
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Behold, this question deserves an answer. But before I do so I must point out-that this question has a good basis on your Earth: but in the sun it falls on dry ground, where an answer cannot grow.
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And again you ask why? Only this "why" I can answer as follows: look at yourselves and tell Me why you are dissimilar as individuals as well as in facial expression, so that not even a blood brother completely resembles the other, although each can be recognised as completely human at least in shape? Can you answer Me this question? For I say unto you that it is precisely therein that your "why" fully lies.
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But I see that you are not going to come up with an answer. Which leaves Me only to tell you that the reason lies in the corresponding, relevant individual nature of the spirit; because apart from the general class, every spirit is also given something very particularly individual - as it were a pound given every spirit, through which every individual spirit differs from every other. And this difference then also manifests in the outer form, most clearly discernible in every person's face.
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Now behold, it is just so to a larger extent with the sun's inhabitants, where a spirit's accentuated nature is exhibited not only in outer facial appearance but also in everything solar man brings forth through his will. Wherefore man can indeed bring forth a plant that took his fancy at a neighbour's ground, but it shall not have the same appearance as that on his neighbour's ground; why? Because the neighbour does not look like his other neighbour, neither physically nor spiritually, and this difference in characteristic appearance shall also show in everything he brings forth. Behold, this is the reason why nothing completely similar can be found between two neighbours.
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This difference also bespeaks something else, namely, that every solar man, on entering another's ground immediately becomes conscious of what his neighbour's spirit is, from one or other of the plants - behold, here we have the full answer.
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Basically, something similar indeed emerges also upon the planets, where everyone has a different species of plant or tree in his garden, also building his house differently, excepting that all these differences originate only in the different choices, not different plant individuality, since upon the planets these go forth from seed, within which they already carry a permanent order; whereas on the sun they go forth completely from the will of the spirit and hence relate to the spiritual order of him who brings them forth from his free will.
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Wherewith we have the reason for the differences, and we shall have a look at the way a solar inhabitant's grounds are arranged.
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Within the aforementioned small-fruits field there is a vacant circle, for strolling about that field. This circle in tum is bordered densely with small trees, somewhat like the miniature trees raised in your gardens. These little trees too are of differing varieties, so that no five to seven are of the same variety and hence yield diverse fruits, similar to your pears, apples, oranges, etc. But everything here is perfect and the flavour superb.
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This circle of trees is followed by another vacant one, which then is surrounded by a type of living fence. Beyond this fence there is a luscious meadow of some fourteen to twenty metres width, where the grass is all of one variety.
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This circle is for grazing sheep, which are the only domestic animals kept by solar man, notwithstanding an immense number of all kinds of animals upon the sun - with the sole exception of the snake, which occurs only on some planets.
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You will ask why sheep are the only domestic animals? Firstly because they are the most patient and gentle of all animal species; secondly, because solar man too consumes their milk. And thirdly, because on the sun too sheep supply rich and exceedingly fine wool for man's clothing. Behold, this is why this animal only is kept, together with a grazing pasture.
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Since we mentioned a countless number of animals upon the sun, where are they? What is their habitat and subsistence? You are aware already of exceedingly vast plains upon the sun and especially upon this belt. Behold, these plains, as you now know, are not inhabited by man and that for the much emphasized reason of black spots, or presentation of great eruptions upon the solar equator. It is these very plains that are inhabited by countless and most diverse animal species.
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But this begs the question: how do these animals subsist, since plant growth depends on man's will upon the sun? This is an easy question to answer, namely, that the plains too are over-abundantly covered with most luscious growths, on account of man's will and also through prayer and in close unity with the well-recognised Will of the Great God. How then are these plains cultivated? Through the blessings of the principal teacher - when at the highest temple altitude, a whole community assembles to worship their Great God in the temple of seventy-seven pillars.
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Behold, this too answers that question. But you are holding back another question: how do the sun inhabitants prevent the plain's animals from climbing up to themselves and easily doing damage to their precious ground? This they achieve through group action, by cutting off all hill country with live, unassailable fencing in every direction. This live fence consists of tightly spaced, pillar-type tree logs of up to two thousand metres in height, provided only at the top with bushy crowns carrying an immense number of fruits to feed the animals.
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These fences sometimes run in a straight line several hundred GM along the foot of the hill before changing direction. The crowns of the trees are evergreen, of light hue, whilst the stems are dark red starting at the ground, eventually trailing off to pale red at the top, presenting an exceedingly lovely and endearing look.
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Now we know how the animals are provided for, wherefore we shall return to the grounds of our houses and see what comes after the field.
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At the bottom end beyond the living fence, this field is surrounded by a mound fitted with water sprinklers facing the house pillars; you will ask again: where do the sun men get the water for the sprinklers?
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Nothing easier for them. They place a twenty metre long pipe into the earth protruding about two meters. The water immediately collects around the pipe, drilled in many places, and the pressure produces sprouting water for man and beast.
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Below this field is the so-called twenty-metre wide bread circle. Why bread circle? Because on this field grows the only plant not produced by human will but, as a fruit resembles your wheat, it originates directly in the Will of God, the fruit being regarded as holy.
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Nor is this field tilled but has been dedicated to the purpose and whenever it is to bear fruit, a special prayer is said with deep reverence. Afterwards the house elder walks through this field seven times with blessings, with all his family in train in proper order, after which a praise and thanksgiving prayer is made to their Great God - and so the bread field is tilled.
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At the base, this bread field is enclosed by a most magnificent and artificial railing, which serves also as a property border.
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You will ask of course why this especially consecrated field also is the furthest removed from the house? For it ought to, as a symbol of the more purely divine, stand closer to man than what is just of man. Philosophically this question is a good one, but in this matter, the sun people philosophise even better, for therewith they signify that the divine is not only central to the dwelling but also surrounds the external. Thus should man also, in his most inward parts, erect a throne for a dwelling for God's spirit and then allow same to arrest all his thoughts, desires and actions, that he may be within as well as without, a man fully after the will of the Great God.
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Behold, this means no more and no less than that men should live and act in accordance with My will - that they should let themselves be seized by My will and penetrated to their innermost, not however as currently many 'better' ones are doing, being satisfied with just the knowledge of My will, but that in their deeds I should tolerate being trundled around by their worldly actions. Behold, with such people this bread field does not constitute the exterior surrounds but rather a world field that yields no fruits of My will, but those of self-interest, the world, ruin and death.
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From this short presentation, you can well recognise that the sun people are definitely better philosophers than yourselves. For the order they observe in their domesticity, even taken symbolically, surely is more in accordance with My order than that which you apply in your domestic arrangements and adaptations. It is certainly not possible on your planet to keep to such exterior order, and there is basically not much to it. I nevertheless let you see it, that you may arrange your spiritual foundations accordingly! You should therefore note it well; and so we shall next time have a look at the various office buildings and temples and then turn to the inhabitants' domestic constitutions upon this belt.