DISCOURSE 20
THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSES OF
“MATERIAL” CREATION
ISAAC NEWTON’S “PLAN OF THE WORLD”
NEWTON’S “SEVEN CHURCHES” OF THE REVELATION
“Happy are the reader and hearers of this prophecy who observe its
records; for the time is at hand.”
(Revelation 1:3, Fenton.)
“If I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on
the shoulders of giants.”
(Sir Isaac Newton.)
Reader: We are going to begin by restating our knowledge-quotient-opinion on Stephen Hawking’s conclusive judgement that the Material expanse of our universe can somehow be infinite. That means, according to him and many other scientists of the same mind, that it goes on forever! --------- Sorry: WRONG! --- As we said much earlier on: “It is finite!”
Apart from our standard format of assessing any “knowledge” about this subject that the “big three” might have, we will use relevant excerpts from The Grail Message of Imanuel.
Because cosmology has made and will continue to make rapid strides in new “space” discoveries in the time we have left, some of what we include is sourced from earlier publications. Some information may thus have been superseded in either the detail of the original discoveries or discarded as no longer valid.
However, so mind-changing is our revelation that the new discoveries astronomy/cosmology will certainly continue to give us would still not come anywhere near the stupendous nature of what you will shortly learn! For it is the ultimate, the final, “space revelation”!
Before we get anywhere near that; as we embark on the next step into an expansion of our knowledge and even senses, it is vitally important to be seriously cognisant of the key “message” of the last Discourse! For when Creation-Law tells us that “we are not alone” in the Great Creation, it is not about aliens from some distant star system visiting earth; the belief of which has created a whole industry which unfortunately focusses on a very narrow model of “what is really out there”. In any case, in terms of what our true purpose in being here is, the whole idea of physical/material “space aliens” actually existing really matters not one whit. Space “aliens” are therefore totally irrelevant here. (We can leave that subject alone now, and not bother with it any further.)
What we mean by “not being “alone” is exactly about what we have just learned; that in both the seen and unseen Parts of all the Realms of Creation, many beings carry out their ordained activity --- even among the star systems of the billions of galaxies. Logically, that reality presupposes an “upscaling” of activity and both size and power to do that “work”.
Now, reader; if you can get your head around that veracity you, at least, should be able to grasp the crucially-significant import of what this Discourse will reveal. It is highly unlikely that cosmologists and astro-physicists etc. who might cross the path of this Work will agree to things that exist in Creation which they cannot see with their optical and radio-telescopes, and which their super-computers give no hint of. Yet the colossus of “space-knowledge”, Sir Isaac Newton, intuitively understood a far greater dimension to “space” than just its obvious physical nature.
Before we begin our new journey proper, let’s very briefly look at Islam and Judaism’s take on what we will later reveal. Because that “unveiling” is in the Bible anyway, there is no point in assessing any views that global Christendom might have. Historically, various religions have alluded to a belief in a number of “heavens”; seven traditionally being a number in some doctrines i.e., the “seventh heaven”, meaning the highest of the various heavens promulgated.
From Wikiversity
Seven Heavens
‘Seven heavens is a part of religious cosmology found in many major religions such as Islam, Judaism and Hinduism and in some minor religions such as Hermeticism and Gnosticism. The Throne of God is said to be above the seventh heaven in Abrahamic religions.’
Of course, we now know that there are Realms above Realms above even Higher Realms still in the Great Creation. However, whilst we know that Truth, without access to The All-Truth now here, it was not possible to definitively know the actual “Structure” of Creation! What is clearly evident, then, is that those early religious beliefs clearly show that at least they correctly recognised a non-material reality to Creation! But that is not what Isaac Newton intuitively understood to be present in the world of “physical matter”. That is what we will clarify for him and for you!
ISLAM AND THE “UNIVERSE”
Reader, the contribution of Islam and the Koran, for this subject is very brief. M.M. Ali’s key, single verse of 46:3 really gives us all that the Koran can offer vis-à-vis:
‘We created the heavens and the earth and all between them save with
truth and for an appointed term. a And those who disbelieve turn away
from that whereof they are warned.’
Ali gives a single sentence comment to that verse: “The Universe had a
beginning and it will also have an end.”
Though brief, we can note the plural, “heavens”, there; but note the singular, “Universe”, in Ali’s commentary on that verse. In addition, the Koran in this case correctly identifies that our “world” is only for an “appointed term”. (Reader: We will explain why that must be so in the Discourse on The Second Death.) We will, however, still need to explain aspects of that “appointed term” reality in this Text as well.
JUDAISM AND THE “UNIVERSE
Wikipedia gives us an interesting “breakdown” of the seven heavens as determined by 1st millennium CE Jewish “scholars”. They named them:
| 1) | Vilon, or Araphel: The first heaven, governed by the Archangel Gabriel. It is the closest of heavenly realms to the Earth. |
| 2) | Raqia: The second heaven is controlled by Zachariel and Raphael. --- Also Raqia is considered the realm where the fallen angels are imprisoned... (*) |
| 3) | Shehaqim: The third heaven, under the leadership of Anahel, ... The Second Book of Enoch ... states that both Paradise and hell are accommodated in Shehaqim with hell being located simply “on the northern side”. (*) |
| 4) | Maon: The fourth heaven is ruled by the Archangel Michael, and according to Talmud Hagiga 12, it contains the heavenly Jerusalem, the Temple and the Altar. |
| 5) | Makon: The fifth heaven is under the administration of Samael. It is also where the Ishim and Song-Uttering Choirs reside. |
| 6) | Zebul: The sixth heaven falls under the jurisdiction of Sachiel. |
| 7) | Araboth: The seventh heaven, under the leadership Cassiel, is the holiest of the seven heavens because it houses The Throne of God (**) attended by the Seven Archangels and serves as the realm in which God dwells, underneath the throne itself lies the abode of all unborn human souls. It is also considered the home of the Seraphim, the Cherubim and the Hayyoth. |
Medieval Jewish Merkavah and Heichalot literature focused on discussing the details of these heavens, sometimes in connection with traditions relating to Enoch, such as the Third Book of Enoch.
Let’s make just two observations about the differing views on just these “seven heavens” beliefs.
(*) Firstly, disagreement on where The Throne of God really is! Is it in the seventh heaven, or above it? Disagreement, of course, reader; means that they do not know! Remember the admonition of John: “No man hath seen God at any time!” Quite logically, therefore, where He is really “Enthroned” also cannot be seen.
(**) Earlier on in this PART II we learned about the great and immutable and Perfect Divine Laws of Creation! In there, we learned the inviolable outworking of The Law of Gravitation. What it told us was exactly that which our man of the moment, Isaac Newton, wrote extensively about --- “gravitation”. That means lightest at the top and heaviest at the bottom. So, by that very logical maxim Newton well-understood that there could not be two “different sets of rules” for the two Primary Realms of the lighter “Non-Material”, and the heavier “Material” Worlds. We, too, have well-learned that.
Therefore, for Jewish “scholars” to state as some kind of “item of faith” that the darkest and most evil aspects of human thought and deed could somehow be in a Realm above the World of Heaviest Matter is really unbelievably crass. Jewish “intellectualism”, long-lauded as being “elevated”, yet produces unworkable error after unworkable error. Judaism’s “religious elite” certainly have a strange view of what is possible and what is not. Reader: It all resonates with that strange word and concept --- “infallibility”.
The pope, too, also likes that word because he and his predecessors have always believed the Papal mandate to rule was granted by Peter. The Jews, of course, from believing --- very wrongly for them --- that they are still “the chosen”.
Not much there from either Islam or Judaism, so let’s leave the religions to their particular beliefs and concentrate on giving you, reader, the Truth about Newton’s “Plan of the World”. To that end, whilst cosmology can certainly enhance what this Discourse teaches, it is actually the Bible that gives us the greater insight.
In this case, especially to you scientists of “space”, therefore, do not make the mistake of labelling what is written herein non-scientific, for in the final analysis you would be very, very wrong. Since all earth-science springs from the overarching umbrella of The Primordial Laws of Creation anyway --- from which in the end human science derives its very small amount of “knowledge/insight” --- the very nature of Creation Itself stands in final testimony to “Science” on a scale that cannot ever be understood. Let alone emulated by small man on a small planet in just one galaxy of billions.
There is even more to it than that, which is what you are about to learn. That is, of course, if your many years of university-derived education and perhaps “personal position” within the discipline or among your peers will let you bow your head to a revelation that can only be known from The Eternal Laws of Creation ---- which none of you teach, because your “institutions of learning” do not know them!
Right: In relevant concert with this Discourse, thus far we have examined our Origins, the Laws of Creation and now learned about the true “builders” in Creation. The next two Discourses feature the processes of The First Death and The Second Death.
Since all of that all must be learned in the earthly environment first, this Discourse appropriately offers ultimate insight into the wider material environment to which the earth obviously belongs. It reveals the limits of the material parameters in which we live, and allows us to know our respective, thus ordained, place within those far-reaching boundaries.
A Material World, by its very definition, therefore, sets limits on its nonetheless humanly-incomprehensible immensity. Despite its vastness, it really is finite! Indeed, it could not possibly be otherwise!
The key “revelation” of this Discourse is derived primarily from The Book of Revelation in the Bible. Pitted against what human cosmological research has determined as the current state of our “understanding of the universe”, that exalted Book really will give us this new and truly scientifically-explosive “revelation”! Therefore, precisely centred on the unfathomable vastness of the mind-numbing amphitheatre of “our universe”; as we reveal in a step-by-step process Sir Isaac Newton’s “Plan of The World” we, the complete human entity, will nonetheless find our relative, physical, contextual place in the humanly-incomprehensible material entity of “space”.
Crucial to knowing our actual place in the greater scheme of things centres on the question of who and what we actually are, i.e., the duality of man. Whilst we have answered that question earlier in the Work, in the context of this Discourse with its singularly-relevant topic for all of global humanity, we should revisit the question of where we, in our physical form, fit in the greater scheme of things.
So: Are we little more than tissue, blood and bone entities animated by a computer-like brain with a heart-pump holding it all together; nothing more than that...? If so, what, then, is the end outcome? Just a hole in the ground with all animating life-force extinguished. If space-scientists, especially, believe that; why bother with astronomy and/or cosmology at all?
What would be the point; to learn about an immensity that is the greatest marvel in Material Creation and at the end of it simply be no more? Why bother with studying the incredible marvel of the incomprehensible universe/s if that is the believed end-result? Surely a pointless exercise in what would logically extrapolate to being an absolutely pointless career!
No! No! The next Discourse will quash that notion completely! The idea that “the death” we are all familiar with extinguishes our “life-force” is truly a “nonsense-notion”. The huge industry that has resulted from the discovery of the human genome and the concomitant genome mapping project, is ultimately just about physical properties only. The human-gene paradigm that science is all agog over now is therefore not about ‘real life’ at all. It is critical that we understand this primary fact and yet deal with the greater and more crucial dimension of our true nature --0 that of “The Spirit”.
Real life is therefore centred on our Spirit, the inner animating core that is not only within each of us, but is actually each one of us. We have surely said it often now: That is who and what we are! So, upon that non-physical-body, human genes have no bearing or impact whatsoever. Since our Spirit is our actual power and life-force; in close connection with our brain, both together drive all movement and processes concerning our physical body. The make-up and function of the very many genes that support necessary human life-processes, in the final analysis all die with the physical body.
On that very note for this particular Discourse, let us reacquaint
ourselves with the key questions that the Documentary Channels continually
resurrect. National Geographic queried exactly this question in two separate
Documentaries: “Birth of Life”, and “Human Ape”. The associated and most
relevant point asked was:
“How did non-living material come to life?”
The History Channel, too, sought the same kind of definitive answer in the series,
“How Life Began”. It asked:
“Where did [this] life come from? What IS life, exactly?”
And in a space of perhaps insightful prescience, the Series further and crucially
queries:
“Is it chemical, spiritual, or a combination of both?”
The same Documentary Channels also continually screen scientifically-updated programmes about ‘space’. From various key universities, many experts in this field offer their particular level of ‘expertise’ to the documentaries --- astronomers, cosmologists, astro-physicists, astro-biologists etc., etc. What is most striking with regard to this group is the fact that a ‘collective’, across-the-board, academic notion has seemingly emerged from their study of the stars. Currently taught to ‘space’ students globally, the overall paradigm basically states the following:
| 1. | That the ‘creation’ of the physical universe singularly provided, on its own, the building blocks for all life to emerge --- including us. |
| 2. | That the increasing knowledge about the physical properties and make-up of the stars in the universe, including the various gases within it, therefore represents the greatest discovery of all for the human race. |
| 3. | And that, concomitant with such a view --- now part of the educational-paradigm of earth science --- we, the ‘complete’ human entity, are thus constituted of star-material, solely; just stardust. |
| 4. | Within that strongly-promoted, so-called, “scientific reality”, therefore; no place exists or can exist for an inner animating core which would also necessarily be the ‘separable’, non-physical, ‘life-force’ within and for the human entity. |
For many astronomers and cosmologists it would seem; no belief in a life-animating ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ most necessary for one’s “ongoing existence”. Just ‘stardust’; i.e., atoms and molecules precisely configured --- or perhaps re-configured --- to form the tissue, blood, bones and organs necessary for physical earth-life. Then it, however, must somehow animate itself, so as to become a living, breathing, internally-pulsating, communicating, mobile human being. Shall we repeat the key question? We should!
“How did non-living material come to life?”
In truth: Human science can only assemble, not truly create, for we are simply a species of, and in, Creation!
So, on the basis of just reconfigured ‘stardust’ as the building blocks for ‘life’; at the end of a lifetime of valuable furtherance of human knowledge, no ‘form’ that continues on. For those “believers”, just a black hole of nothingness where the very thought-processes that recently engaged with concepts which could not have been even imagined just generations ago are extinguished.
Gentlemen and women of space research: Sorry! Such a notion is not only untenable, but also really illogical. It is, in the final analysis, the ultimate ‘nonsense-notion’, for inanimate matter cannot possibly animate itself, regardless of what empirical science might determine as ‘its truth’. Moreover, that is a sure reality which you will all discover to be true upon your exit from earth-life.
In a truly paradoxical twist for “star-dust only” astronomers, it is precisely the knowledge of the vastness of the material universes (plural) that is essential for the human entity to know in order for the realisation to “fully hit home” that as incomprehensibly vast as what we will reveal further on, the unfathomable scope and scale of it all is nevertheless just our physical home for our physical human form!
To add a final superlative here; the nature of the “revelation” we are journeying to will crucially require you to realise then that cosmological science and their amazing space telescopes had no idea of what really exists “out there”. Yet, all of it is just the smallest and lowest part of just Material Creation!
Only by that very sobering realisation can we gift to ourselves inner peace deriving from the fact that “our real home” is far above the Material Worlds. This in Realms once known by earlier humankind to be sure fact --- before being intellectually-relegated to a “dustbin of derision” by the blinkered constraints of empirical, thus “earthbound”, science. The far greater “space reality” we allude to, and which cosmology and astronomy have yet to recognise, very fittingly really does come from the “Revelation”.
The Book of Revelation, by virtue of its seemingly enigmatic content, provides fertile ground for many interpretations, from the literal to the bizarre. That particular “Book of the Bible” is thought by many to cover key prophetic aspects, often apparently unrelated --- and ostensibly without clear linkages. The Revelation is the last Book of the Bible and it is the foundation for all Christians. Islam refers to them as “the people of the Book”!
For global Christendom therefore --- despite the fact that The Revelation is considered by many to be virtually impossible to understand logically --- by their own admission still plays a critical part in the overall content of their “be-all and end-all” of religious knowledge, the Bible.
Given the prophetic nature of The Revelation, if the purpose of it really was to help all of humankind understand our “reason for being” at precisely this present time of our tenure in the Material World what, then, must derive from either a wrong interpretation, or from ignoring it completely?
During his time with the Anglican Church the great mathematician and colossus of science, Isaac Newton, directed his monumental talent of genius to analysing the Bible, trying to discover the secret knowledge he believed lay hidden there. He further believed that some of the ancients --- in particular the Greek mathematicians --- had known this secret. If he could find it, he would know it too.
Astronomers and cosmologists, therefore: Do not place yourselves in the position of the Scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’s time; they who sought religious/ academic control over the masses. Remember His warning to them. From Matthew 23:13, Fenton:
“Woe to you, play-acting professors and Pharisees! because you lock up the Kingdom of Heaven in the face of mankind; while you yourselves neither enter, nor allow those arriving to go in.”
Instead, open up to the all-encompassing Truth that your great “astronomy-ancestor”, Newton, intuitively understood to be factual reality. Though eluding him then; today, with the immutable knowledge of Creation-Law coupled with recent huge strides in cosmology, you can finally know: — Isaac Newton’s Plan of the World!
Two major points lay at the heart of Newton’s unshakeable belief:
1 A rational God made a rational universe --- and
2 All wisdom lay in the knowledge of numbers.
Of special interest to Newton was the Book of Daniel with its mathematical time-line of prophecy. The Book of Revelation, however, was the primary Book of the Bible from which Newton sought that ‘Plan’. His “Seven Churches” mystery is revealed therein. The journey we need to take for this purpose has powerful echoes to Newton and his genius, for he provides the foundational-mathematics of astronomy which we will need to arrive at our conclusion. Now, why astronomy for that conclusion?
For the moment we should let that reason be a “revelation” in itself. Since we have Newton as a man of the Church and a towering genius of science, he is surely the ideal companion for this august journey. Let us, then, not just take this man of spiritual and intellectual genius with us, but let us stand on his shoulders and discover the treasured goal that he could not find in his lifetime: “The Plan of the World”.
Because Newton believed that only “a few natural laws apply to the whole universe”, he regarded those natural laws “as proof of the existence of a great and All-Mighty God”. Since he was both a theologian and scientist vitally interested in apparently all things, including The Revelation, we would sincerely hope that modern-day scientists and theologians would want to journey with us too.
Any notion that states The Book of Revelation as being an enigma and therefore indecipherable, must thus presuppose that some of the greatest answers to life and Truth which lie in there might be too difficult to even attempt to understand. In our view that is an illogical and untenable position. By such negative statements, we reveal the actual level of our non-understanding.
After all, it is “The Revelation”, and from it we have already shattered the great Christian myth of just “One Son”, by revealing “The Other Son” --- He Who brought us The Truth of The Grail Message! That is the true Book of Divine Revelation!
As has been pointed out elsewhere in this Work, the very fact that we are here on planet earth must logically infer that we are meant to discover all the answers to our purpose for being. Otherwise it all becomes a rather pointless exercise: of either scientific contention deriving mainly from a theoretical-supposition basis; or religious contention deriving from differing interpretations of the many and varied beliefs awash across the globe.
Unfortunately, ideas, theories, guesswork etc., do not provide definitive answers, a good reason why the admonition , “Seek and you shall find”, should act as the impetus to really do so. This vitally-necessary finding of the final and ultimate answers to the questions to life cannot be achieved with the use of our intellect alone, however.
A brief recap: We have learned that the purpose of the intellect is to facilitate, to the highest possible level, the material and technological undertakings that humans require for their sojourn and ongoing development in the earthly environment. The intellect, however, possesses no understanding whatsoever of the many and far higher non-physical Realms of the incomprehensible total we sometimes too-loosely call Creation.
That is because only the physical-body part of man is derived from the Material World. So also, therefore, is its intellectual-brain activity. Thus, on this earth-plane, in order to seek final and complete knowledge and the more important recognition of it, we need two things; our Spirit --- because it is connected to the Source of Life --- and a clarified intellect as its companion.
Since no amount of intellectual or theological sophistry can change this sure reality, any religious or scientific arguments that might be brought to bear to attempt to discredit the true meaning of the “Seven Churches” question is, in the singular nature of things pertaining to Spiritual Truth, immediately rendered irrelevant.
Anyhow, it is well past the time that the true meaning was recognised. That essential recognition, as a vital part of the complete knowledge for humankind, permits critical threads to many of the key questions of life to be woven together to reveal a far larger picture than could ever be the case without this information.
THE SEVEN NAMED “ASSEMBLIES” OF THE REVELATION
For Bible readers generally, but more particularly perhaps for Bible scholars, theologians and the religiously learned of the Universities and Colleges of the world, the question of the “Seven Churches” or “assemblies or communities” in “Asia” or “Asia Minor” represents a curious and fascinating puzzle.
The names of the seven “assemblies” --- to each of which a Messenger of God delivers an address --- are given as follows: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. And, just as The Revelation seemingly notes, they were communities which did exist in Asia Minor.
Ephesus: Ancient Greek city of Asia Minor, in what is now western Turkey, lying near the mouth of the river Ku-cuk Menderes. It was the site of the great Temple of Diana and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was destroyed by the Goths in AD 262.
Smyrna: Now called Izmir: A city and port in western Turkey at the head
of the Gulf of Izmir, on the Aegean Sea, it is the commercial centre of the Levant.
Great Illustrated Dictionary, Reader’s Digest; both.)
Pergamos: Now called Bergama in western Turkey. Once noted for its fabulous carpets; they were the most highly valued and probably woven with gold and silver thread. Nothing survives of these rich textiles because they were all burned long ago to extract the metal.
Thyatira: Now called Akhisar, a town in western Turkey, “... in a fertile
plain on the great Zab River (the ancient Lycus). The ancient town, originally
called Pelopia, was probably founded by the Lydians. It was made a Macedonian
colony about 290 BC and renamed Thyatira. It became part of the kingdom of
Pergamum in 190 BC and was an important station on the ancient Roman road
from Pergamum (Bergama) to Laodicea (near Denizli). Its early Christian church
appears as one of the seven churches in the Revelation to John”.
Also Sardis: Capital city of ancient Lydia, now a small village in Western Turkey. When Lydia was absorbed into the Persian Empire following the defeat of Croseus (c. 550 BC), Sardis remained the provincial capital of Asia Minor. It later became an early centre of Christianity --- one of the Seven Churches of Asia (Minor). Extensive excavations of the site have yielded the earliest known coins, dating from c. 700 BC.
Philadelphia: Now called Alasehir, also a town in western Turkey.
Laodicea: Name given to several cities built in Asia and Asia Minor by the
Greek Seleucid Dynasty in the third century BC. The chief one, Laodicea ad
Lycum, near present day Denizli in western Turkey, was a prosperous market
town on the Roman trading route from the Orient and an early centre of
Christianity.
(Great Illustrated Dictionary, R.D., Italics mine.)
Already now we have a strong academic view about what the “Seven Churches” might mean. Significantly, they were in a geographically very small area of present-day Turkey. In fact, the triangulated area encompassing the locations of those ancient “7 Churches”, including the nearby island of Patmos and the area of sea between it and the mainland, amounts to something like 25,000 sq.km. The total area of modern Turkey encompasses approximately 780,580 sq.km. The representative area of the “7 Churches triangle” is therefore only about 1/30th of that.
If we carefully read the introduction prior to the “messages” being given to the “seven assemblies in Asia” by the individual “Messengers” of God, then read the actual messages, and then finally the explanation about The One who has authorised the messages; a major problem immediately emerges --- if we assume it all takes place in a small area of one small country on Earth.
The island of Patmos, where it is believed John the Disciple “received” The Revelation, is close by. So how do, or how might, the actual messages fit with such a scenario?
Each of the “seven communities” is addressed by its particular Messenger (a Guardian Angel) who calls the inhabitants to task for various transgressions against The Laws of Creation ---- The Laws of God ---- and warns the various “assemblies” what will happen if they do not change their ways.
Let’s take just one message in Revelation 1:9-19, to one of the communities, and carefully note the key to understanding the meaning of that and the other messages.
THE VISION IN PATMOS
I, John,...was in the island known as Patmos. I became inspired on the Lord’s day; and I heard a loud voice behind me resembling a trumpet blast saying: “What you see write in a book, and dispatch to the seven assemblies – to Ephesus, and to Smyrna” ... etc.. I accordingly turned to see the voice which spoke to me. And having turned, I observed seven golden lampstands; and in the centre of the lampstands, one like to the Son of Man... and holding in His right hand seven stars; and a sharp double-edged sword drawn from its sheath... “Write therefore what you have seen, what is, and what will come after these. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are Messengers of seven assemblies; and the seven lampstands are the seven assemblies.”
We have notated key names and phrases in bold, and strongly emphasised the italicised parts of John’s vision because they, especially, hold the key to understanding this apparent mystery, for it was reserved for this point in time in humanity’s journey for it to be fully understood. Verse 3 (quoted under the Discourse Title) offers a further connection:
“Happy are the reader and hearers of this prophecy who observe its records; for the time is at hand.”
The next key part is from Revelation 2:1-6, Fenton. It is the text of the address to the first ‘assembly’ --- Ephesus. Reader: Note that this is only the first part of how we arrive at Newton’s “Plan”! Before we reveal the fullness of it and the especial KEY to understanding it, we need much more background in the spiritual/knowledge reality, and in modern scientific/cosmological findings. For now, however, this Scripture sets the framework and standpoint upon which all those other quite necessary features will find their place!
TO THE ASSEMBLY IN EPHESUS
To the messenger to the assembly in Ephesus write:
“Thus says the Controller of the seven stars by His right hand; who
walks in the centre of the seven golden lampstands; I know your
position, your industry, and your patience; and that you cannot endure
those who are wicked; that you have put to the test those who have
called themselves Apostles, and are not, and have found them false;
and you have had patience and have suffered because of My Name,
and have not failed. I have, however, a charge against you - that you
have forsaken your first love! Remember, therefore, from where you
have fallen, and repent, and practise your former works; failing which,
and unless you alter your mind, I will come and remove your
lampstand from its place.
(An explanation of a key part of this “message” is given by Herbert
Vollmann, a man who personally knew Imanuel as The Spirit of Truth!
Vollmann’s close proximity to Him for many years permitted him deep
knowledge about many things. From his Work: A Gate Opens:
“From whence thou art fallen” refers to the over-cultivated intellect, which
has pushed aside the spirit and caused it to fall, so that it can no longer, as
before the Fall of Man, do “the first works”, namely, keep awake the
spiritual intuitive perception, and thus maintain the connection with God.)
The address to Ephesus continues for a few more sentences, and then there are the further, basically similar, addresses to the other “assemblies” or churches.
Now, reader; this is where you must dig deep within your faculty of just sheer logic, if you are to really understand what we can see very clearly, but the “churches” obviously cannot. So, in the absolute literal sense, if we accept a scenario which declares that Messages from The Revelation were given to the named seven ancient cities or “churches” by “Messengers of God” in what is now Western Turkey, then we might appear to have a number of possibilities.
That in a past event (because the particular cities to which the names once belonged have either disappeared or are no longer known by their ancient names) the Messengers did appear to the people, and did deliver the appropriate messages. Subsequently the cities or communities did disappear so one could believe that they did not change their ways and thus suffered destruction. However, there is no known record of such visitations or warnings to those “churches” having taken place.
We note that the name Laodicea, alone, was given to several cities. That is surely problematic for a “Messenger” of God who is required to deliver a message of obviously great import to that particular “community”. For messages at the behest of The Almighty cannot be superficial or insignificant.
That being the case, the question of which John received The Revelation is clearly important too. There is a school of thought that accepts three different individuals: John the Baptist, John the Evangelist --- the beloved Disciple of Jesus associated with the Fourth Gospel --- and a John the Divine; believed to be the author of The Revelation. We, however, will embrace only two.
If we accept the view that “The Revelation” was received on the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea by John the Disciple, we must logically accept that he was sufficiently “well-connected” to so receive such a powerful “unearthly vision”. For such a ‘Revelation’ could only come from The One Enthroned at the Height of Creation!
Notwithstanding the fact that that John was the “beloved of Jesus”, such tidings of vital import must surely presuppose that only a very special individual --- a greater one prepared over a long period of time perhaps --- would be suitable for such a high task. Or was there a second John on a Patmos? From “A Gate Opens”, Herbert Vollmann quotes Matthew 11:11 where we read:
Only one was found worthy to receive the great Revelation of past
and future happenings: John the Baptist, of whom Jesus said, “Verily I
say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not
risen a greater than John the Baptist.”
And from The Revelation of John, p 161, of the same Work:
“Moreover, John received The Revelation not on the island of Patmos in
the Aegean Sea during his earth-life, but after his earthly death --- on the
Isle of Patmos that lies in The Spiritual Realm, even above the Paradise of
the human spirits. He passed it on to a human being on Earth who was
spiritually open for it, and who translated it into earthly words. Thus the
Book with seven seals, The Revelation of John, was handed down to us.”
Here we thus note that the “mansion” of John the Baptist (the “none
greater”) lies far above human origins. Hence the reason also why only he,
and not an ordinary priest at the time of Jesus, could baptise The Son of God.
People: Take all this on board, for you cannot change anything that The Spirit of Truth has “Proclaimed” in His “All-Truth”!
Now, if it is believed that John the Disciple received ‘The Revelation’ on the island of Patmos in the ‘Aegean’, why did he not simply travel to each of the communities to deliver the messages? He was certainly close enough, would have been well respected in the communities, and therefore probably believed.
Notwithstanding historical notations in some Bibles that John was exiled to Patmos because of his faith and in that case could not travel from there, his followers certainly could have. For we know that the four Evangelists had many eager followers. We note that the Apostle Paul journeyed to all those “churches” to preach, so they were certainly well-established at the time.
Given that John was an especial and faithful ‘servant’ who would have regarded The Revelation as a singularly-important Message from God, he would surely have found a way whereby those clearly ‘crucial messages’ would have been delivered to the named communities. There would not then be the need for Messengers from far Higher Realms to descend into the physical part of Creation to utter proclamations.
That is, of course, if this particular part of The Revelation really was about the “seven Churches” in existence there at that time.
The question therefore remains: Did those small cities warrant such an especial visit, and/or is it still yet to happen? But where are the names now? As we have noted, the cities for the most part no longer exist in their original form. Notwithstanding the fact that the overall region saw the birth of great religions --- from where much recorded proclamation and prophecy is derived --- such a notion nonetheless still focuses on a very small geographical area, and, moreover, on a part of the planet containing just a very small number of people.
The next question we might ask if we follow this improbable thread through is: What does it mean if it was fulfilled in some way, even though no record exists of powerful Messengers from on high visiting and proclaiming to whole communities? Surely the word would have gotten out and been recorded by someone, even if not by those in the actual communities who, however, would have experienced what would surely have been a stupendous event.
After all, only a relatively few people saw the Star of Bethlehem and the “miracles” of Jesus. Fewer still saw Him in His Ethereal body prior to ascending to ‘The Father’ to again become “One with Him”! Yet all of that is accepted by many hundreds of millions today.
Can we not also accept that if such a major spiritual event had taken place “seven times” in such a small area, would not the whole of the known world have been “buzzing”? But — silence!
On this particular issue, then, uncertainty in ‘theological treatises’ and the like on the true meaning of the “Seven Churches in Asia-Minor” persists among the ‘university-learned’ Bible scholars and Christian layman to this day. Again, we ask the key question:
If we accept the view that John the Disciple received The Revelation on the island of Patmos but could not travel to the named “communities” by virtue of his exile there, why did not others close to him deliver the messages to the “Seven Churches” after John received them?
We know that the Disciples were instructed by Jesus to a far greater level of knowledge than most human beings, even to this point in time. So, having been instructed in the far greater expanse of Creation itself --- “In My Father’s House there are many Mansions”; and they are obviously not houses and apartments --- the Disciples were well aware of impending future events. They had all been told in no uncertain terms by The Son of God Himself what would come upon humanity at the “completion of the times” --- our times now --- and why! We can also know this if we wish to, simply because it was recorded by them, and we can read that forewarning disclosure today in virtually any Bible.
However, even though the “Messages to the Seven Communities” were recorded in ‘The Revelation” for all time by John; it was reserved for a later time, a future time --- our present time --- for its sure clarification and wider dissemination, when the true knowledge of Creation would be given to humanity as was promised. Once recognised in its full import, that new knowledge would provide the possibility for present-day man to more readily understand such far-reaching revelations.
Of course, acquiring the requisite understanding means engaging, in the earthly sense, with the necessary disciplines of science and theology to begin with. However, in order to gain a complete organic/holistic sense of what we are “Proclaiming” here, the key human dimensions of man in his duality, i.e., Intellect and Spirit, must be brought to bear!
NOTE
[A necessary “Recap”: The astute and spiritually-aware reader will have
well recognised by this point that under the perfect outworking of The Laws of
Creation --- in particular The Laws of “Rebirth” and “Reciprocal Action” ---
a point in time is set where all cycles previously unresolved between individuals
and even whole peoples would need to be ‘closed off’. In order for such ‘closures’
to be fully understood by all those “peoples” at that ordained time, however, the
evolutionary path of humankind should have reached its zenith for all by then.
And that is so, for that “then”, that zenith, is this present time. Therefore, the paths of religion, philosophy, science, and even the social order of all nations and peoples, should have travelled a road of unfolding enlightenment founded on the great Spiritual Truths -- given in a carefully-guided, step-by-step process through the line of Prophets and Truth-Bringers Called from Above --- to culminate in this present time where all was ordained to be revealed.]
Hence the need for empirical scientists and ‘religious theologians’, particularly, by this time to have subjugated their singularly-egoistic positions ostensibly providing the primary truth for all of humankind, and recognise that both disciplines had an equal part to play in leading global humanity to complete and final knowledge of its true origin and purpose. Unfortunately, however, the window of opportunity for any kind of real accommodation in an harmonious and fully-knowledgeable working together to enlighten humanity has closed.
And because it is primarily the untruth that Kierkegaard identified which “educating-academia” have fed to the masses; at this decisive point in humankind’s journey, who is left to reveal the errors and thereby proclaim for, and lead to: The All-Truth?
Well, reader; we are left to do the job! In concert with that sure proclamation, the next few Sections of necessary preamble will lead you to the truly stupendous knowledge of Sir Isaac Newton’s “Plan of The World”!
So; if the “messages” were not actually for those ancient communities, what might it all mean? In order to understand this great question, a related one stands out as also being particularly important. It is the necessary understanding of where we, as human beings on planet earth in the Material World, actually stand in relation to: The Creator!
For He surely cannot stand in the same part of His Material Creation as we do; i.e., as a Presence or Power actually residing in the physical universes. And neither does He! In truth, such a notion is really silly in the extreme!
Yet there should be an inherent wish on our part to want to know where we do actually stand! The general, broad belief of the three major monotheistic religions is that at death we simply transit from earth to be immediately in “paradise” and thus in the presence of God. We, however, already know the answer to that question. For if it was possible to be in The Almighty’s immediate presence, if it could be so, then that would very illogically place Him quite close to we human beings of earth.
Yet our critical examination of just The Book of Genesis and the two Creations clearly negates such a view of a close and convenient, personalised God. Simple logic should tell us that anyway. Greater than that, however, is absolute knowledge about Creation deriving from the Gifted Grace of Imanuel’s All-Truth!
Now: In the context of what we are saying here, a connection between the “Seven Assemblies” and where we stand in relation to The Almighty might not be immediately apparent, or even seem logical. However, the true understanding of what the “Seven Churches” actually means offers precisely that correct knowledge and relationship. For the correct interpretation tells us what they (the Seven Churches or assemblies) actually are as a complete, overall, entity. And what it (each assembly) is in its singular, individual form.
We have determined that this “apparent mystery” is not solely a religious question, and that certain disciplines within the scientific “communities” as well need to think long and hard about what it all really means. For we contend that intellectual analyses alone --- from either of the disciplines of ‘science’ or ‘theology’ --- will never unveil the true meaning of the “Seven Churches in Asia”. Yet in concert with Hegel’s “dialectic process”, it is a Revelation that precisely merges the two disciplines.
In our case, by using the clarified intellect guided by the spirit --- as we have previously done with other key questions in this Work --- we will, thereby, indeed discover a truly marvellous revelation; the very revelation that Newton himself sought!
It is a revelation which is literally mind-blowing in its ramifications for science and for all religions. It is one so profound that it permits the mind, intellect, soul and spirit to soar in exultant recognition.
Therefore: If recognised and understood correctly, the senses will reel before the true meaning of “The 7 Churches in Asia-Minor”. For this Truth “completely shatters” all current scientific and theological ideas about the actual nature and extent of the universe/s deriving from either astronomy or religion.
It also reveals therewith the huge importance of The Revelation itself. The almost incomprehensible import of such a vastly overpowering, yet spiritually-empowering, extra-world view finally reveals to we human beings on earth where we actually stand in Creation! That singular moment of genuine recognition is virtually life-changing --- or should be!
To that end, the intuitive insights of Einstein and even Galileo -- we already have Newton with us --- are exactly appropriate for this Discourse revealing ‘Isaac Newton’s’ “Plan of The World”. More especially for singularly-focussed and perhaps hard-nosed cosmologists who might cross the path of this Work, the following crucial insights of one noted theologian and three of the greatest foundational-scientists ever, offer an especial help for present-day cosmologists on how to understand “The Revelation of the Cosmos” — herein!
So, between the three great foundational space scientists -- never mind their many other impressive talents -- we firstly have Galileo re-anchoring and thus rescuing the truth of the Planetary System from the egotistical and tyrannical ‘religion’ of Catholicism that has for too long masqueraded as the sole voice and representative of the profound and Sublime Truth of God! That Church’s ignorance has hijacked and controlled a serious distortion of Truth for a very long time.
Newton’s seminal discoveries emerge as especially crucial for the furtherance of ‘space knowledge’. His “Law of Gravitation” allowed for further discoveries of great import. And then we have Einstein; believed by some to be the greatest mind of all. His “Theory of Relativity” gave space-science especial keys to understanding much more about the cosmos than was previously possible.
Now, a hard fact: Whilst these undeniably great scientists ostensibly worked solely under the ethos of scientific-empiricism for their time, present-day scientists really need to recognise the clear fact that those three especial men obviously stood way outside the ‘square box’ of their contemporaries.
For by virtue of the fact that they were so far ahead of their ‘peers’ -- apart from the necessary empirical aspect of mathematics to prove their ‘discoveries’ -- intuitional insight must have played a very crucial part in allowing them in the first place to see or perceive what others could not.
It could be said, therefore, that their seminal discoveries and life’s work
almost placed them in the “lone voices in the wilderness” category. From that
necessary foundation and the amazing discoveries since; should we now say?
Space! The Final Frontier!!! — (Exclamation mark/s!)
Or; as Newton has insightfully intimated for present-day cosmologists and
‘space-science’ and with which we unequivocally concur; should it rather be?
Space? The Final Frontier??? — (Question mark/s?)
Whether believed or not, space scientists should at least be intrigued enough to wonder at what Newton was really searching for. Given the very radical nature of what we will shortly unveil -- and as we have stated elsewhere in this Work -- it is important to reiterate the nonetheless accepted fact that Newton was not a deluded fool. And no scientist today would dare label him deluded, at least not publicly.
So: Of the two possibilities about ‘space’ -- and only one can be right -- the correct position and thus the greatest knowledge of all about the “cosmos” equates to:
Space? The Final Frontier??? — (Question mark/s?)
Let’s now bring in three people, all of whom influenced millions, but in different fields. The first is Pope Benedict XVI, who in Regensburg in 2004 offered, as part of a larger address, the following correctly-insightful Text.
“Modern scientific reason quite simply has to accept the rational structure of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a given, on which its methodology has to be based. Yet the question why this has to be so, is a real question, and one which has to be remanded by the natural sciences to other modes and planes of thought -- to philosophy and theology.”
As we will discover, there are eminent cosmologists who have stated similar views; notions expressed because of the sheer scale, complexity and human inability to make sense of the “behaviour” of many aspects of the “universe”.
Our second contributor here is the genius, Einstein. From his “Ideas and Opinions”, (p. 42-3) it can be readily seen that his particular brand of genius reveals that his spiritual insights balanced his empirical intuitive knowledge. Reader: What is truly amazing about the general thrust of “science” and the greater bulk of scientists; is that despite them all obviously knowing about Einstein, most have not ever understood the crucial concept of balance between the necessary empirical aspects that earth-science needs, and the at least equally important spiritual-intuitive feature we all possess anyway. (All emphases mine).
“Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless
learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the
attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who
are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
On the relationship between science and religion, Einstein notes:
“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelation of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man. And if one asks whence derives the authority of such fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.”
Though a very great mind in both the intuitive and intellectual sense, Einstein’s sometimes almost ‘tongue-in-cheek’ quips nonetheless hold profound truths for a perceptive reader. For example:
“I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”
Our third is Galileo: Regarded by some as the first true scientist. Upon his discovery and recognition that the Planetary Model Copernicus proposed was correct, he was forced to recant by the Inquisition. He is said to have muttered under his breath, however: “But it (the Earth) does move.” Noting the Church’s obsession to have Bible Scripture support Ptolemy’s erroneous view of the Planetary System; anecdotally, Galileo evidently thought that whilst the Bible was ‘the Word of God’: ----- “...it was not a good astronomy book”.
However, as we are about to reveal to you, Galileo was very, very wrong! The huge strides made in astronomy since his death in 1642 would surely have astounded him --– as it does most of us today. However, notwithstanding all the marvellous discoveries since, Galileo was not correct in believing that astronomy was not in the Bible. Perhaps he, too, should have sought “The Plan of the World” in it also.
It was thus left to Newton to seed in the minds of modern astronomers the golden key to discovering the final revelation of the true nature of the cosmos. However, as the great man Einstein intimates, rational thinking will not do the job. Revelation and spiritual intuition, however, in concert with a clarified intellect, most certainly will.
As previously stated, since we have addressed the other key questions from a fundamentally different and far-reaching paradigm, this particular one, too, can only be logically understood by using the same method. However, because The Book of Revelation primarily reveals insights into vast Spiritual vistas and events that must necessarily transcend intellectual interpretations so, similarly -- and by a considerable margin -- must we also vastly expand our human frames of reference to answer and understand the meaning of “The Seven Churches in Asia Minor”!
Since we contend that the premise we postulate is absolutely correct; it means that the question under scrutiny here is not at all about earthly communities or churches. The fact that those ‘churches’ did once exist certainly confuses the issue.
Where, then, might these places be? No satisfactory answer has publicly emerged from Islam, Judaism or Christianity, or indeed from institutional theology. In any case it is not about guesswork or theories, but about the actual knowledge of the outworking of The Laws of Creation and the concomitant knowledge of the structure of the Great Creation that has issued from the very outworking of those immutable Laws. Therefore, there really is a correct answer; there is always a correct answer! So, what does that imply?
In summary, since we have concluded that the answer is not connected with the names of the “churches” in the stated general location of Asia-Minor on earth in ancient times, the so-named “assemblies” must therefore represent something entirely different.
Now reader: Get this! That being the case, that critical fact logically means that both the communities and the delivery of each specific address by a “Messenger of the Lord” (the Guardian Angel of each assembly) must be placed somewhere other than on the earth, in a time different to the times when those named communities once existed.
Thus far we have sparred with possibilities and ideas about the meaning of the “Seven Churches or assemblies in Asia-Minor”. For if; as we unequivocally state, the ‘assemblies’ are not on Earth --- but nonetheless still exist --- they would therefore still have to be, quite logically, in The World of Matter. For this is where “The Revelation” came down to; where we live in our obvious physicality.
However, a seamless transition from current uncertain views to sure certainty in an instantly-recognisable answer is not a simple “fix” in this case, for it requires a huge and fundamental leap of truly gigantic proportions into a completely new paradigm. Moreover, it is not a paradigm that is simply and solely religious in nature and import. In reinforcement for this particular “revelation”, it also encompasses astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology on the most stupendous scale.
Most unfortunately, however, a major problem preventing a wider outlook in the present lies with the so-called “academic elite” from the world of astronomy and cosmology. For are they not the “experts” in their field, and aren’t they the only earth-humans who are supposed to know?
Notwithstanding how incomprehensibly vast the “known universe” is; nonetheless, it is the general inability of cosmologists to recognise that there is much, much more to Creation than just the physical universe we see in the night sky that effectively suppresses any wider vista. Since they accept and teach a smaller Material World than is actually the case; by educational default so, also, does the greater mass of humanity similarly accept that great error.
Despite having radio telescopes and the Hubble space telescope to now peer far further into the great expanse we euphemistically label ‘space’ -- which concomitantly offers us truly marvellous and stunning images of ever new discoveries of the cosmos -- all of that does not even begin to get close to the actual nature and size of just the Material Part of the Greater Creation.
Astronomers and cosmologists, as a global group, do not yet know this to be the case.
In PART II, we stated that Creation and Evolution are essentially one and the same. In reality, there is no separation. The old rivalries between science and religion are just that --- rivalries. Rivalries based on the narrow parameters that each side promotes for its own edification. With regard to the question this Discourse examines, there is no actual separation here, either. Spiritual truth and earthly science were ordained to be mutually inclusive under the parameters of The Divine Laws of Creation!
So, to arrive at the point of sure and conscious knowing about the actual meaning of the “Seven Churches”, we need to now extrapolate our present view of the physical universe/s upward and outward. Firstly, from the immediate environs of our Solar System, and thenceforth undertake a mathematical journey into distances so vast as to be totally incomprehensible. Even the word itself does not nearly suffice to describe the immensity of just our “home galaxy”, let alone the stupendous nature of what is observable beyond that; what science believes is the complete universe.
That is precisely why such a fundamental leap into a far greater level of knowledge was reserved for this particular time in our evolutionary development. For it is only within the last decades that we have had the ability to see our blue planet in its wholeness from a point outside of it; a picture free of all the superstition and ignorance of the past.
As David Suzuki points out:
“We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space; a single entity
in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our
(physical) home.”
We have already explained the process of the formation of the various levels of Creation in broad outline. Now we need to do the same here, but solely with the physical universes of the Material part of Creation. For this purpose, we will use the mathematical unit of the ‘light-year’ as our measuring staff.
THE ‘MATHEMATICS’ OF COSMOLOGY:
The “Big-Bang” and “Inflation” Model
We should seriously note that on the question of the very much vaunted ‘Laws of Physics’ --- which can supposedly explain all events and processes --- the current ‘scientific mindset’ centred on the validity of those laws, particularly in cosmology, fail completely when confronted by the ‘perfectly natural’ cosmological reality-paradigms of quasars and pulsars. The raw power of a ‘gamma ray burst’ from a very large exploding star or from the collision of two neutron stars is frightening in its destructive “extinction-potential”. In addition, there is the resultant formation of the dreaded, and larger, “black holes” --- which are now believed to exist at the centre of every galaxy. All add their astounding measure to what is really a totally inadequate ‘human-scientific’ struggle to even begin to understand such power.
Why should that be? Why should the mathematics of cosmology, which has answered many ‘space questions’ thus far, now fail in the face of those truly amazing spectacles? For astrophysicists, could it be nothing more than just “The Error of Scientism”? Has earth-science reached a point where it is simply “outgunned” by cosmological processes far beyond any human empirical understanding at this time because its ‘current’ level of mathematics is completely inadequate for such an especial degree of elucidation of what must nonetheless still be perfectly natural processes ---- albeit, however, on a truly gigantic scale?
As we have stated many times thus far, The Primordial Laws of Creation alone hold the final keys to understanding the true nature of ‘The Universe/s’. Earth-based university mathematics, whilst necessary for most ‘material’ applications are a very poor cousin to The Law of Numbers. It is thus the far Higher Laws which entirely govern all events and processes in “The Creations”.
Let us therefore examine the ‘mathematics of cosmology’ to begin with, and then travel far further with The Law of Numbers to learn the “The Plan of The World”; the ‘secret’ which Newton sought in the pages of that premier Foundational-book of Science: --- The Bible. So:
One light-year represents the distance that light covers travelling in a vacuum for a period of one year – approximately 9.4607 × 1012 kilometres (5.878 × 1012 miles, at a speed of 186.000 miles per second).
Reader: Even if you are not “up to speed” cosmologically, the following broad information is essential in order to just begin to grasp the ultimate “space revelation” we will shortly disclose!
Our journey starts, naturally, from Earth. It is the third planet revolving around a relatively small sun in a Solar System residing at the outer edges of a galaxy designated the Milky Way Galaxy. It contains 100,000 million odd stars to which the sun of our Solar System belongs. Even travelling at light-speed, sunlight takes 8 minutes to travel the 150,000,000 km before reaching us. The same light travels 5 more hours before striking the planet Pluto at the farthest edge of our Solar System. And 4.3 light-years later, or 40 trillion kilometres away, it reaches our nearest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri.
Our galaxy, a disc-shaped collection of stars with the Earth about a third of the way out from the centre, was once thought to be the entire universe until discoveries in the 1920s revealed a far greater expanse beyond it. Today we know it is only one of billions of galaxies. An observer looking at the Milky Way from Earth is actually looking edge-on into the Galaxy. In a broad-brush time-sweep, the Galaxy started to form some 10,000 to 14,000 million years ago, and its oldest stars are estimated to be perhaps up to 15 billion years old. Our sun takes about 230 million years to complete one journey round the centre. Our galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter.
Beyond the “Milky Way” can be located galaxies in every direction. We are part of a loosely bound cluster of some 20 galaxies called “the local group”. From the centre to its outer boundaries is roughly 2,000,000 light-years -- 4 million light-years across.
The next larger formation we belong to is known as a “local supercluster”. Clusters of galaxies -- like armadas of ships -- congregate in superclusters. The closest cluster to our local group is some 50 million light-years away, near the centre of our local supercluster. From the centre to its outer boundaries is roughly 75,000,000 light-years -- 150 million light-years across.
The only step left to take now with the present level of earthly knowledge derived from astronomy/cosmology, is into what is euphemistically termed “the known universe” -- the largest expanse by far. It is that of the farthest reaches of the universe which can be observed by the use of optical and radio telescopes. Our universe is stated to be isotropic in nature and form which means it looks the same in every direction. Quasars are the most distant objects observed. Each of the brightest quasars emits the energy of hundreds of galaxies from a volume far smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy. The furthest quasars are stated to be rushing away from us at 90% the speed of light.
The “known universe” was, until quite recently, believed to be about 40,000,000,000 light-years across. Further discoveries estimated the edge of the universe, at least the visible part of it, to be 100 billion trillion kilometres away. In the latter part of the 20th century, the size of our universe was calculated at somewhere around 100 billion light-years across. (Perhaps in the 21st century it has been found to be more than that.)
If any case, crazily-expanding numbers here really don’t mean much, for that is not the great revelation that truly matters for the human race --- as we will shortly discover. So how did that vast, utterly incomprehensible expanse come into being?
The question of how the universe came into existence only gained real traction from the early 20th century. Notwithstanding Newton’s crucial contribution to the science of astronomy, still relevant today -- NASA acknowledges Newtonian physics as the foundation for its space programme -- it was not until the larger telescopes and more powerful computers were developed that astronomers began to get a sense of how it might have begun and how it all might work.
At this present time, the ‘Big-Bang theory’ seems to hold the greatest sway. Other ideas have been mooted and subsequently discarded. Various possibilities have encompassed an ‘ever-expanding universe’, the ‘steady state’ theory and an ‘open universe’ -- whatever these terms really mean. Currently thought to have brought the universe into existence, the rather impossible-to-grasp sums of the “Big-Bang” explaining how it all began and developed, at the very least make fascinating reading.
On the question of the merits or otherwise of the ‘Big-Bang’, reader, you must obviously decide for yourself. Current thought on the how and why of the universe, even though able to now answer many previously unanswerable questions, is nevertheless still solely-derived from just an empirical paradigm.
As we have stated often, because the present level of “scientific learning” is not based on a Creation-Law Foundation to begin with, it does not recognise -- let alone even begin to take in -- the far greater expanse of the non-material worlds. Science is therefore unable to derive final answers about the physical universes for, with its present level of knowledge, it can only engage with the ‘singular universe’ (we do not mean just a galaxy here) which the “Hubble” has mapped.
Not possessing the requisite knowledge and thus recognition of the far greater and higher paradigm encompassing all the non-material Realms upwards to our Spiritual Origins, means that cosmological science has effectively shackled itself to a very constrained, solely-empirical and thus very constrained “box”!
Reader: We sincerely hope that this tome will at least reach one cosmologist somewhere who will intuitively perceive the Truth of Newton’s very sure recognition, and thus smash through the walls of modern-day cosmology’s self-constructed and very myopic ‘box’.
Notwithstanding our sure statements here; to explain the origin of the universe according to more recent analyses, the basic mathematics of the Big-Bang theory nonetheless proposes something called “The theory of inflation”.
It states that, “...the entire visible universe grew from a speck far smaller
than a proton, to a nugget the size of a grapefruit, almost instantaneously, when
the whole thing was 0.000000000000000000000000000000000001 of a second
old.” (Have I even quoted the correct number of zeroes here?)
(Time, June 2001. Feature article: “How the Universe Will End”)
According to the “inflation model” the incomprehensible immensity of the universe came from virtually nowhere in an instant. So small that you would have needed a microscope to find it. The inflation theory was proposed in 1979 by Alan Guth, then a junior particle physicist at Stanford University. It holds that within “...a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion. It inflated.”
The whole episode probably lasted no more than one million million, million, million, millionths of a second --- but it transformed the universe from something that could be held (in the hand) to something at least 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger. According to Guth’s theory, gravity came into being at one-ten millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. In a single moment, we were endowed with a universe that was at least 100 billion light years across.
Feasible? Sounds impossible! For apart from the mechanics of such a less-than-a-split-second “expansion”, how do we logically understand a single second carved up into such infinitesimal part-seconds? It is interesting to note the opinion of other astronomers, such as Martin Rees. From: “How to Make a Universe”. Reader’s Digest. August 2004:
‘Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, believes that there are many
universes, possibly an infinite number, each with different attributes, in
different combinations, and that we simply live in one that combines things in
a way that allows us to exist... Rees maintains that six numbers in particular
govern our universe, and that if any of these values were changed, even very
slightly, things could not be as they are. For example, for the universe to
exist as it does requires that hydrogen be converted to helium in a precise
but comparatively stately manner -- specifically in a way that converts seven
one-thousandths of its mass to energy.
Lower that value very slightly -- from 0.007 per cent to 0.006 per cent say -–
and no transformation could take place; the universe would consist of
hydrogen and nothing else. Raise the value very slightly --- to 0.008 per cent
--- and bonding would be so wildly prolific that the hydrogen would long since
have been exhausted. With the slightest tweaking of the numbers in either
case, the universe as we know and need it would not be here.’ (Figures
clarified from “Seven Wonders of the Cosmos”, p.200.)
What we thus clearly note here is a perfected state for life to be able to exist at all, and a stupendously huge “home”, in the physical sense, for it to exist in The Perfection of Creation overall surely precludes any notion that it all emerged by “accident”.
The question of what might happen if we were able to travel to the edge of the universe and look beyond it is an interesting though perhaps ultimately pointless ‘scientific quandary’. Nonetheless, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity holds that the universe bends in a way that cannot adequately be imagined so we would, even after travelling in a straight line to the edge, eventually arrive back at our starting point. His theory suggests that space curves in a way that allows it to be boundless --- but finite. So, as we have been told, the physical universe we see and believe we know is finite!
‘Physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg explains that space cannot
even properly be said to be expanding, because “Solar Systems and galaxies
are not expanding.” Rather, the galaxies are rushing apart. It is all something
of a challenge to intuition. For us the universe goes only as far as light has
travelled in the billions of years since the universe has formed. This visible
universe – the universe we know and can talk about – is a million million,
million, million (that’s 1000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) kilometres across.
According to most theories, however, the universe at large -- the
meta-universe, as it is sometimes called -- is vastly roomier still. According to Rees,
the number of light years to the edge of this larger, unseen universe would
be written not “...with ten zeroes, not even with a hundred, but with millions”.
In short, there’s more space than you can imagine already without going to
the trouble of trying to envision some additional beyond.”
(How to Make a Universe, Reader’s Digest. Italics mine.)
To achieve the incredible expansion proposed by the “theory of inflation” -- from an invisible speck to a structure billions of miles across in a fraction of an instant -- the speed of light is very obviously totally inadequate. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, however, seemingly permits the mathematics to fit a “faster-than-light” possibility. From Time Magazine, June 2001: Feature article; “How the Universe Will End”.
“An equally unsettling implication is that the universe is pervaded with a strange
sort of “antigravity”, a concept originally proposed, and later abandoned, by
Einstein as the greatest blunder of his life.
This force, which has lately been dubbed “dark energy”, isn’t just keeping the
expansion from slowing down, it’s making the universe fly apart faster and faster all
the time, like a rocket ship with the throttle wide open. It gets stranger still. Not
only does “dark energy” swamp ordinary gravity but an invisible substance known
to scientists as “dark matter” also seems to outweigh the ordinary stuff of stars,
planets and people by a factor of 10 to 1. “Not only are we not at the centre of the
universe,” University of California, Santa Cruz, astrophysical theorist Joel Primack
has commented, “...we aren’t even made of the same stuff the universe is.”
These discoveries raise more questions than they answer. For example, just
because scientists know dark matter is there doesn’t mean they understand what it
really is. Same goes for dark energy. “If you thought the universe was hard to
comprehend before,” says University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner,
“...then you’d better take some smart pills, because it’s only going to get worse.”
From two reputable publications, we have noted and quoted the opinions and theories of some key academics in the field of cosmology and astronomy etc. The “Big Bang” is the theory that is primarily current, and ongoing research appears to support and strengthen it. Thus, from an infinitesimal speck, the huge and completely incomprehensible size and mass of the universe was, by cosmologists’ reckoning, “suddenly there”.
The key question that obviously arises is: How could this incredible mass emerge from virtually nothing? Even if we use a standard analogy of growth --- say that of a human being where, at conception, the potential is simply that of a very tiny, fertilised egg but where the full potential unfolds to adulthood --- it is on a scale that is easy to understand. What about a very tiny seedling which might grow to become an immense tree? That, too, is easy to comprehend. Not the ‘Big Bang’ scenario, however.
The physical form of the human being eventually dies, decays and reverts to its component parts; earth to earth, dust to dust --- as will the giant tree. And the mass of the earth, even with billions of creatures living and dying over aeons, remains the same. What about the total mass of billions of galaxies, each with their billions of suns, however? Can we really believe that that absolutely incomprehensible expanse could somehow explode out of something far smaller than a single dot on this page in the micro-millisecond time-frame proposed? Then very much later, in an equally incomprehensible future point in time, contract or implode, and squeeze itself back into something invisible, except through a microscope? It all seems too impossible, too strange, to be possible.
A “white dwarf” is surely a good example; a very small, extremely dense star where the atoms in it have been broken up and the various parts packed tightly together with almost no waste space so that the density rises to millions of times that of water. According to scientific calculations, a spoonful of white dwarf material would weigh many tons. Neutron stars, made up principally or completely of neutrons, have even greater density. Clearly, individual stars can be compressed to an incredibly small size. And in a black hole where not even light can escape, even more so. Multiply the total mass of literally billions of galaxies worth, however, and how do they fit back into that point of almost nothing?
Irrespective of what may seem to be theoretically correct from the point of view of earth science, every event that occurs can only take place within strict and absolutely lawful Primordial Law parameters. Therefore, is the Big Bang theory correct? Deriving from theoretical analyses, empirical observations and mathematical calculations, is science right with regard to how it all came to be? Or has something critical been missed or not understood?
Reader: You are probably quite confused with all these crazy numbers, the theories and conjecture. We, on the other hand, are not at all confused! That is because you know that our foundation for understanding all that is possible for a human being to understand, derives solely from Imanuel’s Divine Laws of Creation!
Never forget the Great Command: “Let There Be Light” --- from whence Imanuel “brought all things into being”! “Through Him all things were made.”
That therefore makes The Son of Man --- very, very logically --- the ultimate Cosmologist! The Lectures in His Grail Message that explain the space-time-continuum and even “black holes”; to the great cycles of dissolution and reformation of star-systems, galaxies and even our universe in its ordained time, were written in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s.
That should tell you how far we have not come in our so-called knowledge of the “universe” --- even despite the fact that space science has photographed the residual signature of some of those phenomena!
To better illustrate our point; the very fact that earth-scientists --- in this case “space-people” --- can never find agreement on “how it all began” means that they have no real foundation of ultimate knowledge from which to work!
Test this out for yourself. Check the “Theory of Inflation” online right now, and you will be amazed at the debate raging among these very earthly-eminent “what”? Whilst the “mathematics” of “inflation” is still much the same for the basic theory, it appears to not be the “darling” that it once was. Consequently, the numbers of cosmologists contesting all or parts of it is, in its own right, quite mind-boggling. Perhaps thousands of notions about it, but not one completely correct!
In terms of the content of the last few paragraphs, this is a good point to hear again from Imanuel: The “Spirit of Truth”.
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THE WORLD
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
AND SON OF MAN!
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The “gigantic funnel” of disintegration and dissolution surely describes the dreaded “black holes” that are seemingly far more common-place than was ever previously thought. Remember, reader; what you have just read was written and published in the decades of the 1920’s/30’s!
In concert with that subject matter, the next three Discourses will take us into more detailed knowledge about “everyday death” to begin with and thence into the reality of the “Second Death” --- that process of which has direct resonance with the end-fate of our universe. Therefore, what that really means for us of the human race! Animals do not need to be concerned about such a dire outcome for they only die once. We, however --- despite what hundreds of millions of human beings believe and/or what their religions and science tells them ---- we do not die just once! More than all other life-forms in Creation, we therefore really need to know!
So, for your necessary elucidation, the three Discourses will take us on journey that will show each and every one of us whether in the end the greatest choice we will ever make was the correct one.
Now from the “knowledge” that “space-scientists” have at their disposal, let’s rejoin the debate!