The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 50 -
High School for spiritual cognition and the innermost temple.
Behold, at a mile distance from the tree circle, a split-level building of about seventy levels, each about two thousand metres high. Within each level you will see four storeys with windows shaped like your Gothic windows, but of fifty-fold size. Here again it could be asked: (since this building, built inwardly and outwardly in sections, with every section fitted with good railings), what is the purpose of this building which although an inner part of the temple, nevertheless has a diameter of seventy of your miles (GM)?
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This building serves for the teaching of higher spiritual cognitions, but also as a dwelling for the servants of the actual, inner Holy of Holies.
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These servants are fanned out to seventy classes, each class having its own function in the temple. The class occupying the four storeys of the lowest section is the most elementary. Each succeeding class on a higher level is more advanced in its office and its turn for functioning in the temple is more rare. The class occupying the highest level i.e. the seventieth, very seldom gets to do temple service. Hence this level is occupied by the highest and most fundamentally wise priests of the temple.
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Here you will ask: who delivers food to these people at such dizzying heights? Behold, this is taken care of; because every two thousand metre-wide level also has a perfect garden laid out with good, fruitful soil and planted with all types of medium-sized fruit trees and other edible plants and roots. Essential animals also are kept, finding abundant food in these gardens.
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It can furthermore be asked: where does the water come from? Through sophisticated plumbing, the aqueducts from the circular mountains of over one hundred miles height being extended right up to this temple building, the water then travelling frequently from over a thousand miles away (GM). And so this immense multi-storey building is well supplied with water through plumbing. Those storeys are indeed often fitted with such enormous pools that their residents can travel far and wide upon them by canoe; and upon the seventieth level, among the fruit trees and gardens there are a plethora of fountains where the water shoots out from fairly high obelisks falling down like dense rain over large water basins.
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But you will say again: these dwellings are bound to be damp from so much watering! Let this not trouble you, because this building is built from massive, cuboid stones and cemented firmly so that it is like an immensely solid single creation. Not a drop of water can penetrate these almost two hundred metre-thick walls, whilst the wetted stone surface is instantly dried by the solar heat, leaving no trace of moisture in any chamber.
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One can get to this building's storeys through countless stairs and stairways, both internally and externally. You yourselves would not, of course, get far on these steps, each being four metres high; but for the people upon this equator whose height is between thirty-two and forty metres, they are effortless as they have stairs eight and ten metres high as well.
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Besides the stairways that lead externally up to the highest point and which are fitted with sturdy railings on both sides, there is also, in the building interior, a so-called chute, serving a purpose similar to your drains; it is an open half-pipe into which all cast-offs and refuse are thrown from each storey to slide or be flushed down or swept out if caught up.
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As we have seen this multi-storey building from the left and right sides, it shall be evident that if cut in the middle it would form a triangle of equal sides, making it as wide at the base as it is high, wherefore it has a diameter of fourteen thousand metres, whilst the entry and exit gates are two thousand metres high and have two hundred metre-wide tunnels that have to be lit up internally with artificial lighting. This however is not as costly upon this or other equators as you would think. For upon the sun there is an exceedingly great profusion of white stones that are of such powerful luminescence that you could no more tolerate their light than the sun itself at noon. From these stones great spheres of four metres diameter are masoned upon square bases and placed at regular intervals both in the tunnels as well as the chambers of the buildings. With these, the tunnels and chambers are lit up more intensely by several degrees than your Earth at noon. Upon the sun, this light is, of course, considerably weaker than the natural exterior light, but strong enough for everything to be adequately lit up and seen.
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Such entrances or rather passageways in this gigantic building are there by the thousands. If you are able to stir up your imagination then the grandeur and splendour of this building shall not escape you. Go on the feet of your fantasy up to the seventieth floor and from this lofty terrace look into distant regions and upon the other buildings that we have already got to know and you shall be persuaded of the extraordinary splendour and size of this building.
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But turn around upon this lofty terrace, which is already seventeen miles (GM) (86.81km) above ground and you shall then see the actual temple at not too great a distance.
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Behold, this temple does not resemble any other building, but rather a mountain of about twenty GM (148km height). Hence this actual temple (by no means symmetrical), as if built or placed there by chance, resembles a gigantic Gothic tower, with pinnacles over pinnacles and battlements over battlements rising on and on.
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This temple is perforated with archways upon archways and everywhere you still see rising, internal and external storeys. The highest pinnacles gradually vanish from the beholder's eye into the bright solar atmosphere with only an occasional blink down to the depths like a bright star.
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This entire building, as you are watching it in your imagination, is put together entirely from white, luminescent stones, being equally bright in and outside. If you were to approach this temple even within a hundred miles (GM), the powerful shine would blind you. Because in the open, these stones shine a thousandfold brighter than your sun does on the Earth. But for the residents' eyes, this shine is no brighter than an area of snow under sunlight.
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How these people worship God shall be explained later when discussing their religion.
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Therewith we have learnt about the appearance and size of the temple upon this belt and can now draw a comparison in grandeur and immensity between these three types of structures.
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Seen from the right angle, you would have to say: these residents' great highways would still have to remain the focus of their gigantic building technology. Concerning the amazing and exceedingly multiform art of building however, their temple, by comparison, certainly ranks higher and emerges as the high point in the artistic building greatness of these equatorial inhabitants.
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It hardly needs adding that there are multiple temples occupied by several million people. How many of these temples might there be upon this solar belt? Not too many. You would probably find no more than ten. What then is the size of the temple diocese? In area it would exceed your Europe, Asia and Africa combined.
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How many private dwellings therefore would make up a diocese? Rarely more than twelve. But by number of people it would come to many millions. For you are already familiar with the exceeding density of residents per private dwelling, so that there would be up to three million in just one such building. Adding the several million temple residents, the number of inhabitants is certain to seem more than the number of temples and private dwellings would lead you to believe.
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All residual land, except for the lowest coastal regions of the sea, are utilised for fruit and tree cultivation. Valley regions are usually planted with forests whose gigantic trees are used for diverse building works. High plateaus and even the not too steep hillsides are used for fruit trees and other plants.
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Private dwellings and temples however are invariably built on lands not suitable for one or other fruit varieties with the very stony ground being used in general. Along the highway there are indeed also small dwellings allowing at most a hundred residents, wherefore these are spread out at smaller distances of ten, twenty or thirty miles, depending on the type of road railings employed. These residents maintain and sometimes improve a section of the highway, any minor damage being reported to the temple builders.
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This is all that is noteworthy to report in the outward, natural sense upon this equator. And hence we shall once again, turn to the three codes, i.e. the domestic, political and religious, next time. Hence let us conclude for today!