The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 65 -
Inner, zealous religion upon Miron. Procreation and burial; astronomy as a means for recognising God
With the inhabitants of this planet there is no ceremonial, sacramental divine service to be found; and their religious cult in its entirety consists of an inner recognition of God.
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Nor do they have prayers, but have in their place, the inner development of the spirit, through which they are guided into all other science and wisdom. They say: to worship God with words is ridiculous, and unworthy of an immortal human, and displeasing to the most exalted God. Whoever has nevertheless recognised his true destiny in his spirit, living in accordance with same, pleases God. And the best prayer and the greatest honour we can render to God is, if we live in accordance with our destiny, which He laid in us, faithfully allowing us to find it within ourselves. Behold, that is all there is to their religion, or: the people of this planet live and act by this precept and their divine service is living and acting it at all times.
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Wherefore they also have no holy days, as each day is holy to them. For they say: as many days as we live, we will live out those days for God. Hence there should be no difference between days, and there should be no hour during which we think less of God than any other, nor more of God than in any other. Because just as our life-influx is steady from our entry into the world until our exit, so we cannot say that we live any more or less in any hour; hence we should not fluctuate between one hour and another in our piety.
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Furthermore they say, because there are occasional devotees: of what use is it to man if at certain times he mumbles his prayers, whilst desisting therefrom at other times? Should God, the perpetually holy one, be worthy of honouring only at predetermined times, and not at other times? How would that go down with a pure spirit who recognises that God is equally holy at all times and should be honoured by man constantly in all his actions or refrain therefrom? What can our impotent tongue do, as if it was man's only part that can honour God? Since we were however created by Him in our entire being, should we not honour God with our entire being?
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Behold, after considering the religious precepts of this planet's inhabitants, you will understand Paul's saying: "continue in prayer" (Colossians 4:2). For he who lives in accordance with My order and hence keeps My easy commandments; he it is who prays or honours Me unceasingly. But, he who thinks that he has to carry on with his lips day and night, is either a fool or a deceiver. For it has often been repeated in Scripture how I regard praying with the lips.
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People upon Miron, with very few exceptions, therefore live the way every person upon Earth should live. There are indeed diverse deviations here and there, but the deviants are soon set right by the wise men, and a wise man will not easily rest until he has set an errant brother or sister back on track. The deviations upon this planet are never as severe as with yourselves. The majority are to be found in the domain of opinions, which however are set right far more easily than your deviations along the path of gross selfishness.
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If however you desire something ceremonial in the subject of religion, then you can put procreation and finally burial among the religious sacraments.
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Because over there, procreation, although achieved through intercourse takes place in a most uplifting manner. This act is always performed in the morning and never inside a dwelling, but inside a temple erected for the purpose upon a neighbouring high mountain.
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The bodies of the deceased likewise are brought unto another high mountain where, underneath a temple, again built for the purpose, they are laid face upwards and covered with mown grass, causing them to rapidly decay, perishing so completely that no a trace of the huge bodies can be found after three days. Therewith another sacrament.
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However, their main divine service and most exalted way of honouring God are in music and astronomy. We have already dealt with music in detail, but a fair amount is left to mention; because through astronomy, these people learn about My omnipotence and greatness and simultaneously My exceedingly punctilious order, which has to reside within Me, because in the visible world, all the great works move within astounding order and interconnectedness.
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That their moons play a major role in their astronomy can be inferred from the fact that firstly these people, on account of their great distance from the sun, never get to see any of the other planets orbiting the sun except Uranus on rare occasions; secondly, that their entire stellar sky has besides their moons no moving cosmic body to show for itself, other than an occasional vacillating comet, which at this distance from the sun however appears without a tail and hence is quite a plain sight.
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What is most remarkable and simultaneously highly engaging for their spirit is that they have basically only three moons, but then again ten of them!
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You will ask: how is this possible? Firstly, I say, nothing easier! How? This you shall see immediately by this example.
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Assume that the sun is a perfect planet, as you assuredly can do by now. Since the sun is a perfect planet however, what are the planets such as for example Mercury, Venus, Earth etc? You will say: these are the sun's moons. But what is the number of moons the sun has? You shall say: Mercury one, Venus two, Uranus two and Miron twelve. But now I say: how many moons has Earth? You say, one. How many has Jupiter? You say four. How many has Saturn? You say seven. How many has Uranus? You say five. How many has Miron? You say: according to the first number, three. That makes twenty moons altogether. What relationship have these moons to the sun then? You cannot possibly say anything other than: these are sub-moons. Good! This is all I need. Now we shall move back to our Miron.
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This somewhat amazing planet has the peculiarity that its primary moon likewise has another two moons that move around it, orbiting in conjunction with it around the main planet, hence like your moon with the Earth around the sun. The second and higher moon likewise has two ancillary moons and is larger than the first. The third moon, as the highest has actually three satellites or sub-moons, making it easy to distinguish from the other two moons, so that with its orbit, the now familiar season of this planet is calculated. Therewith you have the entire, impenetrable mystery revealed before you!
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But some would say: but why was this not mentioned right at the outset? But I ask: why are you unable with your naked eye to see Jupiter's four satellites, which appear to melt into one image with Jupiter on account of their immense distance, only a powerful telescope being able to undo this five-fold point, enabling you to view the planet and its moons separately. You will say: the reason is our eye structure, which not infrequently makes us see a distant multipolar object as a single unit. But I will answer your previous question: just as it is within my order to present to you something that is unified through distance and to only then unravel it as a complexity when you have approached it in spirit, the way you did Jupiter with the help of a telescope. Behold, this too is a system, completely measured out in accordance with my Plan.
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When the learned of your Earth say to you: we have discovered three (star) nebulae! Have these erudite astronomers spoken correctly or incorrectly? I say unto you: both correctly and incorrectly! Correctly because they really did discover only three nebulae, incorrectly however because every such nebula often contains a veritable trillion stars! I need not tell you the difference between three and several trillions and you will all see how erroneous this number three is compared to the multiplicity of stars actually discovered thereby.
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Therefore I say: these examples suffice to show you how My gradual revelation of these things is strictly within the natural as well as spiritual order.
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But some could ask: why must the planet Miron's three main moons also have, as no other planet has, ancillary sub-moons? To this question I don't intend giving an answer but will throw it open. Let him who wishes to know this out of idle scientific scepticism first tell Me out of his spirit why for instance the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and the four small planets have no moons at all? Why has the far bigger planet Jupiter only four moons whilst the smaller planet Saturn, besides its rings has seven? Whoever can thoroughly clear this up for Me, to that person's spirit I shall also reveal the ancillary moons of the planet Miron.
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Our subject at hand is the sun and not planetary details. Therefore we know as much about this planet as we need to for our purpose and hence detain ourselves upon its realm no more, but unhesitatingly move back to the sun's seventh equatorial belt. And so we will leave our subject for today.