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The “Big-Bang”: A Problematic Theory

Thus far in this book, you, reader, will have encountered concepts and explanations about the key questions to life that are vastly different to the standard educational fare fed to the student body of humankind. In this Discourse you will have certainly noted the clear fact that this writer finds the present state of general cosmological theory centred on the Big Bang illogical, and therefore untenable.

For cosmologists and astronomers, mathematics must fit proposed theories. If not, they must be abandoned, or at least radically modified. Given the scale and time-frame of the life of the universe/s --- unlike the mathematics required for architecture and engineering --- ‘cosmological maths’ must enter a very different realm. The necessary expansion of theoretical analyses certainly allow for radical proposals here, but the associated mathematics must somewhere, somehow, have it all ‘make sense’ in order ‘to make it fit’.

Again, unlike architecture, which --- if the maths is wrong, might see the building collapse --- the ‘mathematical playground’ of the cosmos will not produce ‘collapsed buildings’ for astronomers. Nonetheless, if something is not correct, it is forever incorrect; or wrong!

As we must reinforce often, as long as astronomers remain locked to the notion that the be-all and end-all of human endeavour and existence is tied solely to just a Material-world paradigm, they will never ever arrive at the correct picture. And therefore never recognise what the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton intuitively understood:

That the universal reality of “The Law of Numbers” inherent in “The Book of Revelation” can -- if present-day astronomers/cosmologists were also intuitively open to such recognitions –- actually reveal for them and the earth-science of astronomy. The Truth of “The Plan Of The World!”

In April of 2009, the Telegraph Group news agency featured a spectacular picture of the collapse of a huge star. The most distant object ever seen in the universe at 13 billion light years, it is so far away that its ‘gamma ray burst of light’ has taken almost the entire age of the universe to reach us. (Gamma ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe and are the afterglow of dying stars.) Scientists believe the ‘burst’ was caused by a massive star collapsing and exploding at the end of its life, leaving a black hole. Yet we are told that the star which triggered this event, designated GRB 090423, was only 640 million years old.

Was this massive star ‘unstable’, and thus ‘died young’? Or did it live out what would be a normal life span for such a large mass? Professor Edo Berger, from the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who also studied the burst, said:

“We now have the first direct proof that the young universe was teeming with exploding stars and newly born black holes only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.”

So, in the latest course of processes cosmic we are told that a small star can live longer than a massive star. Simple logic would seem to suggest that the opposite would be the case. However, a larger body will burn off its fuel supply at a faster rate, thus leading to a ‘short’ life. Our sun has not only lived for 4.5 billion years and counting versus just 640 million years of our example but will be around for a while yet. In that single fact lies the key insight into not only why our sun is the size that it is, but therefore why we concomitantly inherit a long time-span for life down here.

The long evolutionary processes the earth needed to undergo required a time-period commensurate with not only the physical development of its great creatures, but more importantly for us, our spiritual maturation too. Therefore, a small sun provided the time required. So, was it all a cosmic accident? Or did it come into being through Divine Ordination gifting us conscious life? Thus: A Plan! Deriving from the logical analyses throughout this Work, our unequivocal conviction embraces the latter.

On the question of a problematic ‘Big Bang’; according to Daniel Pendick, Associate Editor of Astronomy Magazine, much evidence exists to support the ‘standard model’, such as the ‘radiation afterglow’ from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background [CMB]. Maps of the CMB from the Cosmic Background Explorer [COBE] and, more recently, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe [WMAP] confirm a number of Big Bang cosmology predictions. However, trouble spots, such as the true nature of dark matter -- the glue that binds galaxies together -- remain. Strange patterns in the CMB challenge one of the foundations of the standard model, inflation theory. The ‘standard model’, moreover, requires innovative hypotheses ‘to make it all fit’.

One of the strangest proposed is ‘dark energy’. The notion of dark energy offered a ready explanation for accelerating cosmic expansion, yet ‘creates nearly as many problems as it solves’.

Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist, and cosmologist at Arizona State University --- in Astronomy, April 09, “Is the Big Bang in Trouble?” --- says:

“When it comes to dark energy, we know that it exists, but we don’t know anything about it.”

Whilst WMAP’s detailed picture of the CMB, the supernova observations, and ‘various surveys of the distant universe have advanced cosmology at light speed’, those discoveries did not get to the heart of the matter. Krauss further states:

“We’ve been so successful that the questions we’re asking are so deep that they may remain unanswerable for some time to come – and maybe forever. We don’t understand the model we have. It’s completely inexplicable.”

The concept of ‘inflation’ resolved fundamental theoretical problems for Big Bang cosmology. Blossoming into ‘multiple versions’, which according to science rests on a ‘solid foundation of theoretical physics’, there nonetheless remains an unresolved question here. Since there is so much dissension, there is thus no final agreement, about the “inflation theory”.

Gary Hinshaw, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a member of the team that designed WMAP says:

“The idea that there was a period of exponential growth is by far the best explanation we have of the current data. ... But the details of inflation, we have very little grasp of.”

Theoretically, inflation generated ripples in space-time called ‘gravitational waves’, which would have left ‘an imprint on the CMB’. Even if an ‘imprint’ were found, that might not be sufficient to ‘dispel all doubt’, according to Krauss.

“The issue is not whether it is consistent with observations. ... The question is how to falsify it. What could you observe that would be different if inflation did not happen? It is a beautiful, natural explanation of everything we see, but that doesn’t mean it’s right.”
(All emphases mine.)

The discovery of dark matter helps cosmologists understand how galaxies and galaxy clusters hold together. In fact, dark matter’s gravitational influence keeps them from flying apart. However, whilst it fits the standard model, no one has yet found a particle of the stuff. An alternative to dark matter, called ‘modified gravity theory’, holds that gravity behaves differently ‘out there among the galaxies’. Even though this theory accounts for some of ‘the same observations as dark matter’, it nonetheless faces a ‘major hurdle’: Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Einstein’s theory explains the universe more comprehensively than ‘modified gravity’ does.

‘Astronomy’ reports that data culled from the CMB support key aspects of the standard model, in particular a snapshot of the seeds of cosmic structure that evolved after inflation. British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, ‘proclaimed the COBE satellite’s first glimpse of the CMB’ as, “...the discovery of the century, if not all time.” (p.49. Italics mine.)

We looked at Hawking’s dogma very early on, and we know that his view of a finite universe solely, and thus no life in any shape or form beyond that, is completely wrong, for his brand of “great error” only accepts a physical entity for all that is supposed to be the Whole of Creation!

‘But nothing is beyond question in the standard model. Since WMAP released its first set of data in 2003, scientists have found patterns in the CMB that seem at odds with the standard model’. ‘If someone finds a one-in-a-million weirdness in the CMB -- highly unlikely to be an accident -- it might suggest something is wrong with inflation theory’.

Hinshaw states: “The consequences are potentially profound. The large-scale alignments in the CMB might be inconsistent with inflation.” (Italics mine).

So: What fills the ‘empty’ parts of space, the incomprehensible areas in-between the equally incomprehensible galaxies? The standard model hypothesises ‘dark energy’ as the intrinsic “vacuum energy” of empty space.

This notion postulates that as space expands, the density of dark energy (and its consequential ‘repulsive-effect’) remains constant, while matter (and its gravitational pull) thins out. Cosmic expansion thereby speeds up. General relativity and quantum mechanics offer a mechanism for calculating the energy of empty space. Here we have one more example of impossible-to-understand numbers. The answer turns out to be 10120 more energy than astronomers have actually measured. That’s the number 1 followed by 120 zeroes. Lawrence Krauss dismisses this quantity as “ridiculous”.

At this point in Astronomy Magazine’s article on the problematic “Big Bang” theory, further quotes from various theorists have resonance with the very thing we state must be taken into serious consideration by all scientists if they are ever to even get close to really understanding the ‘space-time continuum’ of the Material World in which we must reside for part of our complete existence.

To illustrate our point, ‘Astronomy’ notes that Krauss and other theorists find it unsettling that:

“...the universe contains just enough dark energy to have allowed galaxies and other structures to form -- and, coincidentally, human observers to exist.”

Now why should the interesting term, unsettling, be used to describe what really should be easily recognised by all astronomers, cosmologists, astro-physicists -- and whatever other names/titles this particular branch of ‘human learning’ deems relevant for its work -- as the “created reality”?

In terms of the notion that dark energy actually exists, there appear to be only two possibilities:

• ‘If there were just a small amount of dark energy, or none at all; the universe would have collapsed in a Big Crunch early in the expansion.’
• ‘However, if dark energy matched the incredibly large proportion predicted by quantum physics, it would have expanded so rapidly that nothing more than a thin fog of matter and energy would fill the universe today.’

Quite obviously, we live in a universe exactly tailored and proportioned to support the myriad life-forms present on Earth. Here Astronomy uses another interesting term, cosmic coincidence, to explain why “...we seem to live in the best of all possible universes”. The ‘anthropic principle’, invoked by some scientists to explain the ‘odds stacked in our favour’, states that ‘...the universe has the ideal amount of dark energy because we wouldn’t be here to measure it if it didn’t’. Krauss states:

“If the amount of dark energy weren’t that much bigger than what we measure, then there wouldn’t be galaxies. And if there weren’t galaxies, there wouldn’t be stars; and if there weren’t stars, there wouldn’t be planets; and if there weren’t planets, there wouldn’t be astronomers.”

Daniel Pendick of Astronomy Magazine writes:
‘The anthropic principle’s explanation for dark energy has the potential to shake the foundation of all physics.’
And Krauss adds: “Physics is supposed to predict why things are and why they have to be that way. This would say they don’t have to be that way at all. They just happen to be that way because we’re here.”
(All emphases mine.)

Whether from a foundation of physics, ‘cosmic mathematics’, or from simple but ultimately more valuable “intuition” driven by “the spirit” within each of us; in that last sentence Lawrence Krauss has hit upon the true reason for the existence of the cosmos in the first place. We are not here by ‘accident’. Such a view is both a truly ridiculous notion, and a monumental error. That idea, unfortunately too prevalent in ‘earth-science’, concentrates valuable academic thought and research on a completely wrong paradigm which can never find resolution --- for it is forever wrong.

We have already well-learned why we are here and thus why we, the human entity, needed a material home for our physical component. Primarily, two words --- or perhaps one hyphenated word --- tell us why Lawrence Krauss is correct: Free Will.

Free-will! Of all creatures in Creation, we, alone, possess the attribute of Free Will! That is why we seek answers to our reason for being. That is why we were seriously enjoined to “Seek and you Shall find.”

Free Will, however, means exactly that! We are free to choose a correct path of learning -- one that will bring the true answers and thus genuine enlightenment --- or we can choose to follow a path that is literally a dead-end in all respects. Many scientific paths are already dead-ends before they even start. In that regard, it is crucial for humankind to get right astronomy/cosmology, but in an especial way for a most especial reason.

At this time, that particular branch of earth-science correctly reveals the incomprehensible immensity of our universe in its materiality. However, what it does not do is recognise the connecting links which would offer the especial revelation that Newton knew to be fact. That, then, should be cosmology’s next step.

For that to happen, however, a fundamental shift in thinking must first take place within that scientific discipline. A paradigm shift -- just to begin with -- which encompasses a greater horizon than simply a material universe that astronomy thinks it knows. A conscious shift into the relevant cosmological Creation-knowledge would bring the requisite recognition that would allow the science to build constant upon constant. Only then could true knowledge replace the present, fractured state of that regime’s ‘guess-work reality’; trying to make things fit a particular theory or idea.

Astronomy Magazine gives an excellent example of differing ideas between the ‘experts’. Firstly, however, a note: Whilst the general tenor of this Discourse takes aim at the too-many theories of cosmologists and their resultant inability to pronounce absolute determinations as to how and why the universe is, and how it works in every single aspect, the engineering that has produced the incredible “space telescopes” moves us to greatly marvel at the sheer wonder, beauty and scale of our particular universe.

Perhaps the key paradox here is that the very fact that those engineering marvels have shown us far more than we could have ever thought possible, surely means that there is therefore much more than even what we now know exists. Like Newton, “space scientists” of the present era should therefore have also spiritually-perceived that there really is much, much more to CREATION than the nonetheless marvellous wonders which have been revealed thus far in just the physical world.

From “Astronomy” magazine, we quote the next relevant segment verbatim:


“Lost in the Hubble Bubble.”

‘Some researchers have proposed to solve the problem by getting rid of dark energy entirely. It’s theoretically possible to modify the standard model so that dark energy is not necessary to explain accelerated cosmic expansion. For example, Oxford University theoretical physicist Subir Sarkar and other researchers are investigating an alternative -- the “Hubble Bubble” hypothesis. It holds that the local universe lies in a region of space with less-than-average density. It would expand at a faster-than-average rate relative to the space outside the bubble. If this is true, then accelerated cosmic expansion may be just a mirage caused by the assumption that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on all scales.
   Critics say the Hubble Bubble hypothesis is an example of stacking up “what ifs” until they add up to the desired answer.’ Hinshaw says:
   “You can contrive models to fit the data without dark energy, ... but it then becomes a question of what is really plausible.”
   ‘Dark energy, he says, is the most plausible of all known possibilities. But Sarkar insists it’s too soon to dismiss alternatives when confronted with something as bizarre as dark energy. He says:
   “The real universe looks more complex than the idealized standard model that makes us infer the existence of dark energy. ... And it’s presumptuous to imagine that cosmology is basically sorted out. I think we have just started.”

If it is a question of a final answer to the “cosmos”, then we know that they have not really “started” at all. For if we extrapolate just that division of opinion between two renowned and no doubt respected academics in their field to encompass all ‘divisions of opinion’ since the “Age of Enlightenment”, what can we really claim as ‘genuine’ scientific progress, i.e.: That which no longer needs refinement but stands as an absolute forever? Not too much, one would have to say.

The April 2009, edition of Astronomy Magazine also featured an article that offers an alternative to the Big Bang. Written by Paul J. Steinhardt; “Why the universe had no beginning” proposes the idea that instead of one Big Bang to explain the instant of creation and thus the beginning of the universe as we believe we know it; the current Big Bang was a single event in an infinite cycle. On page 33, he writes:

“The cyclic model and the Big Bang model produce ... different pictures of the past history and future evolution of the universe. In the Big Bang view, the Big Bang marks the beginning of time, so the universe is only 13.7 billion years old. A period of inflation after the Big Bang sets the large-scale structure of the universe. Theorists introduced dark energy to explain the universe’s current accelerating expansion, but otherwise it serves no needed role. Once introduced, however, dark energy dominates the future of the universe. ...
   In contrast, the cyclic view says 13.7 billion years represents only the time since the last bang and the creation of the matter and radiation we see today. The universe has had many such cycles -- perhaps infinitely many -- prior to the present one. And the true age of the universe is far more than 13.7 billion years.
   The theory has no need for inflation because large-scale structure derives from events that lead to each bang. ...”

Do we accept the notion that the material universe into which a myriad telescopes peer is infinite, thus in existence forever? No, we do not, for the Material World is a “Work of Creation”, in the same way that the Higher Non-Material Realms are.

The primary purpose of including the ‘infinite cycle’ theory here is to strongly illustrate --- again very necessarily --- the problematic nature of a scientific discipline (cosmology) that does not possess a ‘foundation of sure knowledge’ from which to conduct further research to gain greater insights. Such a ‘scientific quandary’ surely has resonance in the following obviously correct observation. From page 19 of Dr. David Suzuki’s The Sacred Balance:

“Scientism, the aura of authority carried by scientists, has made us believe that knowledge obtained by scientists is the ultimate authority, that as we accumulate information, our capacity to understand, control and manage our surroundings will grow correspondingly. But the basic principle of scientific exploration contradicts this faith: knowledge comes from empirical observations, which are “made sense of” by hypotheses, which in turn can be experimentally tested. All information is open to being disproved. As Jonathan Marks has pointed out”:
   “...the vast majority of ideas that most scientists have ever had have been wrong. They have been refuted; they have been disposed of. Further, at any point in time, most ideas proposed by most scientists will ultimately be refuted and disposed of... Science, in other words, undermines scientism.”

If science is ever to reach the point of no longer ‘undermining itself’ with wrong theories, it must first recognise what is inherently wrong with ‘scientism’ -- which very few scientists seemingly want to acknowledge as problematic at all. From that correct recognition, engage with and embrace the key ‘human-entity pointers’ that would facilitate the necessary transition from the present inconsistent state -- which obviously reveals uncertainty in the cosmology industry --- to one that begins to open up to knowledge that mightily transcends current astronomical theories.

To that end, let’s basically reinforce what they are:

• Our inherent free-will attribute.
• Which part of we, the human entity, possesses that free-will aspect.
• Where that free-will attribute comes from.
• How we acquired it.
• These points consequently then lead to the knowledge of the true nature of we, the human beings in Creation; and thus to:
• The knowledge of our true home.

In the final analysis, does it really matter what astronomy postulates as the true picture of the cosmos? Our purpose on earth was always to recognise and strive to understand the Universal Laws of Creation — Creation-Law — by which we are enjoined to live. And to thereby recognise our Spiritual Origins -- that place in the great Creation from whence we came --- our true home, and to where we are meant to return. So, the incredible amount of time and energy expended on trying to understand the physical universe/s, never mind the huge cost of it, may be ultimately wasted -- if those particular scientists concentrate solely on just the single, material aspect.

Such efforts are nonetheless invariably lauded as possessing the potential to lead to some kind of ultimate knowledge, which is most unfortunate. For under current educational parameters -- at least in the Western world anyway -- generations of students, obviously numbering in the hundreds of millions, simply follow academic lines of thought which are ultimately detrimental to the more necessary “deeper-seeing” spiritual paradigm.

That is not to say we should not study the stars and the universe, for such investigation really is the preserve of science. The truly intuitive scientist within that particular discipline will understand that the gift of intelligence, which most scientists obviously possess is exactly that; a gift. It is one, therefore, which should be employed for the purpose of studying and explaining the connections between the transitory material and The Eternal non-material; thus to reveal and explain the most powerful and profound correlation between that which is here in our material home-world, and that which exists far above the physical universes -- “the many mansions”. As it stands today, however, science often appears to edify itself.

Science, and therefore scientists -- out of themselves and through their work -- should edify The Creator and His Work of The Creations. The very nature of scientific endeavour and discovery should bring about this recognition naturally in any case, particularly where the study of the cosmos is concerned. For:

“When we consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?”
(The Gospel of the Essenes.
E.B. Szekely, p 175)

Such clear wisdom from the ancient world has finally led us to the 21st century world of the Hubble Space Telescope, powerful radio telescopes and super-computers which help us better understand the make-up and behaviour of the stars within the ‘incomprehensible’ universe we belong to. Such wonderful aids, however, are yet still insufficient to provide final and definitive answers as to what the material universe really is. In any case, all these “intellectual” musings ultimately mean nothing to our ordained human journey ---- as it really is!

Reader: Having said that; for the three monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism whose doctrines teach that there is a “distance” between God and His Creation, you need to really strive to understand what you are about to read. What it will show you is how far we all are from The Source that brought everything into being, and therefore why no human being can ever be in the direct presence of that immense Power! So, listen up!

Notwithstanding the fact that present-day computer-power can number-crunch very accurately, does anyone really understand such ‘space’ distances? It all seems rather meaningless when many, many zeros are slotted behind a given digit and then perhaps to the power of another number for good measure. Nonetheless, such determined effort to accurately establish the size of the universe has vital relevance to our understanding of the “Seven Churches” question.

A few quotes from various people and publications over past decades reveals the struggle to even try to begin to genuinely understand this thing known by millions of Star Trek fans, unfortunately very wrongly, however, as: Space: The Final Frontier! — (Exclamation mark/s!!!)

J.B.S. Haldane notes: “My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

   “But what came before the big bang, and how will it all end? Billions of years hence, will gravity overcome the expansion and pull matter back into its primordial state -– in a big crunch? And if the universe is closed, might another big bang follow, with another expansion? Or, as many astronomers now believe, will an ever-expanding, or open, universe end in a whimper, its galaxies scattered irretrievably, their star fires spent and cold?
   For now, the questions are the domain of the philosopher as well as the astronomer.”

(National Geographic Star Chart, 1983.)
   “It may be that our universe is merely part of many larger universes, some in different dimensions, and that big bangs are going on all the time all over the place. Or it may be that space and time had some other forms altogether before the Big Bang -- forms too alien for us to imagine -- and that the Big Bang represents some sort of transition phase, where the universe went from a form we can’t understand to one we almost can.” “These are very close to religious questions.” Dr Andrei Linde, a cosmologist at Stanford University, told The New York Times in 2001.

So, what is the true nature and extent of the physical universes? Earth-science will surely say we may never ever know. The greater knowledge that lies inherent in The Primordial Laws of Creation, however, absolutely states we can know. Moreover, it is the Spiritual duty and responsibility of every human being to seek out this knowledge, exactly as the great scientist Isaac Newton sought.

The series of questions we asked regarding the impossible-to-understand numbers of the Big Bang ‘inflation model’, which mainstream cosmological science evidently claims is mathematically valid, should offer you, reader, powerful food for thought for “digesting” the next and rather mind-blowing, key part, of this Discourse.

With the huge strides made in the “science” of astronomy and cosmology wrought by the building and use of more and more powerful instruments to observe the great expanse “out there”, a fascinating paradox has seemingly emerged. It would appear that because the expanse of the, now, known universe is simply too incomprehensible to grasp, a point or limit in our brain capacity to truly understand would inevitably be reached. So that any greater understanding would perhaps derive initially from the conjoined and expanding paths of philosophy and religion, but only reaching a complete and final picture with, and from, the knowledge of the actual “Structure of Creation” of which the material universes are, to emphasise once again, the lowest and smallest part.

If we now move a little closer to understanding the meaning of the “7 Churches” question proper, we should revisit the notion of what might happen if we could travel to the edge of the universe and look beyond it. To what, we may wonder?

According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, man could never reach that point because “...the universe bends in a way that can’t adequately be imagined”. Therefore, we would, even after travelling in a straight line to the edge, eventually arrive back at our starting point because space curves in a way that allows it to be boundless -- but finite.

“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.)

Now, reader: Since the science of astronomy/cosmology has seemingly not concerned itself with the great and key Truths contained in certain religious writings, let us now use the Spiritual/intuitive faculty we all possess --- though deeply buried in most human beings --- to finally explain and clarify --- for ‘Science’ and ‘Theology’ --- the true meaning of “The Seven Churches in Asia- Minor”.


SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S “PLAN OF THE WORLD.”

Specifically, in concert with the great intuitive perception of Newton -- and perhaps even high spiritual guidance in his case -- here is the final and greatest space discovery of all. To explain what it is, we need to return to, absolutely fittingly in this case, The Book of Revelation; in particular “The Vision in Patmos”! ----- From Rev. 1:9-19 Fenton:

The ‘Revelation’ of “The Plan of The World” ---
The ‘Meaning’ of the “7 Churches”

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!”

The key to understanding this apparent ‘mystery’ lies in connecting the words/phrases in bold to the italicised explanation. The next part is the text of the address to the first ‘assembly’ of Ephesus, which we shall quote once more, for it, too is key! All emphases are mine!

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.”
(Revelation 2:1-6, Fenton.

Here, too, the italicised sentences represent a golden key to the final and complete understanding of the meaning of the “7 Churches in Asia”. In relation to the vast gulf and humanly-unbridgeable distance between we of Subsequent Creation and The Almighty, it reveals where we actually stand during the earthly phases of our complete existence.

We note that the address to Ephesus continues on for a few more sentences, then basically similar addresses are given to the other ‘assemblies’ or ‘churches’. Notwithstanding the unequivocal stance we are postulating here, we nonetheless clearly recognise that the Messages as they stand certainly give the impression that they were/are addressed to the seven ancient cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

For words like Jews, synagogue and Satan are used, along with the phrase, ‘sons of Israel’. Moreover, we have mention of Balaam and Balak; names associated with ancient Asia Minor. Luther also cites the Nicolaitans, who are supposedly corrupting two of the “7 Churches”.([It appears, however, that no one has really confirmed, historically, who they were.)

It must surely be known that The Book of Revelation possesses a powerful spiritual dimension that reaches way beyond the world of just ‘Physical Matter’ -- the size and extent, alone, of which we ‘earth-humans’ will never ever be able to truly grasp. Therefore, the actual reality of that which Isaac Newton assiduously searched for must necessarily and inherently encompass a far greater expanse than the present, nonetheless mind-boggling, ‘vista’ currently accepted by science and Christendom.

To that end, we need to crucially understand that those particular and well-known terms used in the addresses must also relate to that comprehensively wider view. In this instance, then, the words used in the seven addresses similarly possess a far deeper and wider spiritual meaning; much more than would ever be the case here on earth.

Thus, a ‘Jew’ simply means ‘a spiritual person’, synagogue akin to a ‘place/assembly of worshipers’; and ‘sons of Israel’, a ‘righteous group’. Satan -- or the ‘Being’ Lucifer --- affects the whole of ‘The World of Matter’, not just we on Planet Earth.

By way of example: If we now apply those ‘spiritual’ meanings to a small segment of just the addresses to Smyrna, Pergamos and Philadelphia respectively, a greater and wider vision arises; therewith permitting us to actually perceive Newton’s: Plan of The World!

“...and the insolence of those who assert themselves to be Jews and are not, but are, on the contrary, a synagogue of Satan.” .... (2:9-10)
“...because you have there some who are holders of the teachings of Balaam, who instructed Balak to place a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel,...” (2:14)
“Therefore, I will give those of the synagogue of Satan, who assert themselves to be Jews and are not, but lie...”
(Revelation 3:9, Fenton.)

Our ostensible cosmic reality is that we live in a physical environment on a small and beautiful planet in an expanse so vast as to be totally incomprehensible. Because it is so vast, the obvious assumption that could be drawn is that the visible universe really is the be-all and end-all to our total existence.

We know, however, that the Material World is purely for the purpose of developing to personal self-consciousness and maturation, both intellectually and spiritually. Whilst a good balance between those two aspects is essential for an harmonious working toward achieving necessary earthly goals, the greater responsibility of man was always to develop the Spiritual part within to the highest possible level attainable. And thereby lead the intellectual part.

A larger emphasis placed on developing the Spiritual part would have thus ensured that the connection to, and recognition of, our actual Spiritual Origins would not have been lost, and we would not need to struggle to understand the key questions to life and Creation such as we are addressing here.

Therefore, the Material Worlds designated for the creature, man, to mature in should not be assumed to be just that which we believe we know and perhaps even roughly understand. For that would, indeed, be arrogance. From an extremely narrow, solely earth-oriented, viewpoint, earth-science prides itself in believing that it, alone, possesses the ability to solve the ultimate questions to ‘life’.

Such a stance, however, represents a “delusion of denial”, where the very sciences themselves become a kind of all-knowing god for their adherents. Such a belief logically states that there cannot be any other avenue open to mankind for those very answers which science believes only it can answer.

If, then, we are able to accept even just the possibility of Realms or regions that are non-material -- the “many mansions” -- and which therefore lie far above the physical universes, then we gift to ourselves the sure acceptance that the physical-world part of Creation is, very logically, far larger than we could ever have even supposed.

By that we do not mean just what we now know exists in our universe, but that a far greater reality really does exist --- materially! And, moreover, that the key to this stupendous knowledge has been with us for a very long time.

Since that ‘Material World’ is the physical home of man, why should we assume that the entity, man, resides solely on planet earth in our particular universe, and therefore nowhere else in the complete physical expanse we allude to? Such a view assumes that we know and understand more than The Creative Power Which permitted us conscious life. By such a belief, we actually limit ourselves to very narrow parameters of so-called great knowledge.

So, if the Messengers of God did not address seven earthly communities in the ancient world, yet nevertheless did address “communities or assemblies of men” upon the directive of “One like unto The Son of Man”, that surely reveals the stupendous scale of the actual happening. A happening, moreover, that could not possibly be confined to a very small part of one very small region of one very small planet.

That being the actual reality of things here, we shall now simply take the boldest step and proclaim, here and now, that Truth which John, the receiver of The Revelation from a Higher Sphere, understood and passed on to humankind primarily for this present time.

The very Truth that he received ultimately derives from The One by Whom we came into being -- IMANUEL -- The One Enthroned -- The One Who Comes: The WILL OF GOD!

He It was Who brought into being the “seven homes of humanity” : — the “7 Churches”. It is He, therefore, Who, (figuratively), stands in the centre of the seven golden lampstands.

(Reader: In order to fully grasp the “concept” of One Who can “stand in the centre” of the “seven homes of humanity”, it is imperative to further understand that in the ascending order of the many, many Realms or Levels of the whole of Creation, the inhabitants within each will be of slightly larger stature than the preceding lower one. For it would be nonsensical to believe that Divine Beings residing at Heights and distances completely incomprehensible to we who reside at the lowest levels of Material Creation only, in our crass human thinking still might somehow expect that They “are the same as us”.)

And therewith we note; “...seven golden lampstands; and in the centre of the lampstands, one like unto the Son of Man... and holding in His right hand seven stars”.

So, we are not only given indications of what the seven golden lampstands actually are, but also the key to the meaning of the seven stars.

Thus: “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.” (All emphases mine.) There lies the answer!

Do we really get this most profound Revelation? The seven ‘assemblies’ are the ‘Seven Churches’ in the ‘Asia Minor’ of the Revelation, not the Asia Minor of ancient times. The designation, “Asia-Minor” --- used to describe the colossal ‘Material-Creation expanse’ that the “7 Churches” ultimately encompasses --- is simply a Spiritual one, as are the names of those ‘7 Churches’. The Revelation, however, permits us to know about the other ‘6 Churches’.

In each of the seven “churches” or “assemblies” resides a “community of men”; of humanity, similar to us! Thus, the “Seven Churches” are the seven golden lampstands of “The Book of Revelation”.

We need to repeat that. They are actually seven universes of roughly the same size and configuration as the universe in which we reside, and in each one an ‘assembly’ of men --- of humanity. We of planet earth have our physical home in the ‘universe’ or ‘church’ called Ephesus!

Reader, it is crucial that you clearly understand that these “lampstands” are not simply seven universes within the huge expanse of the cosmos visible to us via our radio and optical telescopes. No! Each universe or “church” is an incomprehensibly-vast rotating “island”, each a separate entity unto itself: Each one similar to our own in mind-numbing size.

The distance between each universe is naturally greater than the diameter of each individual one. We will therefore never be able to see the other universes and, quite obviously, never be able to travel to them, at least not by physical means. Thus the “mystery” of the “7 Churches” is not a mystery at all. The Bible provides the cosmological answer to Isaac Newton’s Plan of the World.

Just as the sublime vision of “blue-planet earth” produced awe in many, so were we, via such technological aids as the Hubble space telescope, meant to take cosmology to new heights in the recognition of the awesome greatness of just the vastness of the physical universe alone.

The sheer and unfolding scale of it should have thus produced the certain recognition that what was being revealed, in the physical sense, could yet only represent the heaviest and therefore lowest and smallest part of the whole of Creation. (Newton’s Law of Gravitation!) And that there was very much more beyond that “small immensity”!

That should have been a watershed recognition for humankind -- especially cosmological science -- recognising, in humility, that we are only “developed beings”, far from our Creator. Yet even though we stand a very, very long way from the Very Source of All Life, Its ever-present Grace permits us the possibility to eventually leave behind the confines of the material parts of Creation to return to our true home -- our point of Origin in a far Higher Realm.

Since the purpose of this Work is to Proclaim the Final Truth --- and thus Correct the many great errors in the major questions to life and our “purpose for being” that human beings have formulated therefrom --- such a thing as an ‘Apocalyptic Judgement’ must inevitably surface. If so, a very telling human paradigm/question arises here ----- and it is this. From me:

‘Why is it that we of the human race — who say we so desperately want to be rid of the bloodshed, violence and evil that permeates global societies and cultures with increasing ferocity; who long for a world where abject poverty and human exploitation is eliminated; and for a world that will not end up the nightmare we all know we are rushing headlong towards — obtusely refuse to accept the only mechanism that can bring about precisely that “better world”?’

And the answer?
   ‘Quite simply: The only way that that desirable state can be achieved is through the complete annihilation of the very many who are the problem!’

As previously stated, humankind was given a long period of time in which to learn and experience all that was necessary for the recognition of Divine Truth -- the primary human responsibility. Refusal to do so logically presupposes that within inviolable Creation-Law parameters -- which ultimately govern all processes, events, and outcomes -- there must come the inevitable day when ‘the ferryman must be paid’.

For all who refuse to accept and/or recognise such Truth, a period of ‘cleansing’ must therefore logically carry with it an appropriate level of apocalyptic accompaniment. Commensurate with that harrowing process -- increasing at this very time -- will be revealed the, then, rapidly-approaching cut-off point which will precede the final, inevitable, ‘catastrophic-phase’ for we of intransigent humankind.

Such a ‘cut-off point’ obviously represents the moment where there is no further time left to redeem or put right past transgressions. That opens the way for the final cleansing or “sorting out” phase. After the “sorting-out” process comes the next phase --- a time of harmonious peace no longer marred or harmed by what went before, i.e., that which needed to be excised and removed through the great human cull.

What happens, however, if after the “time of ordained peace”, the collective transgressions of a given ‘assembly’ of humanity in the wider Material World are so serious that there are no redeeming points whatever? What, then?

Reader: To answer that question, here is what we all really need to understand about the new knowledge in this Discourse and the reason why it comes at this point in time!

The “Seven universes” of Newton’s “Plan of the World” together rotate in a huge wreath-like formation at the lowest part of Creation. What we need to get into our heads, therefore, is that there comes a point where --- in turn --- each one reaches its time of disintegration and renewal. The time frame for that is, of course, way beyond our human ability to grasp.

Our universe of Ephesus, however, is the next in line. Of course, it will not be tomorrow or next year. Nonetheless, our universe-home has reached its point of either/or for we of its group of humanity! That is why all the prophecies of a final Judgement have long pointed to now! So, if we look at the key point of the crucial message given for us here in the “Assembly” of Ephesus and use that example to flesh out what we are telling you, it is very chilling in its clear import:

“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; ... 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.”
(Rev. 2:1-6. Emphases mine. Fenton).

Remember, reader; each “lampstand” is actually “one” of the 7 great Universes in which an “assembly of men” resides.

Now, since the whole of the Material World encompassing the “7 Churches” or ‘universes’ is the lowest and thus smallest part of Creation, the removal of one lampstand or ‘Church’ -- as unfathomably vast as they are even individually -- must nonetheless be understood to be a completely lawful and simple process for the humanly-incomprehensible Power which not only produced them, “down here”, but before that brought the even far greater expanses of the Non-Material Worlds into being!

For the ‘assembly of men’ in each of the “7 Churches”, however, it means destruction on an unimaginable and truly apocalyptic scale. Of course, we could not ever know of such an event occurring to any one of those “other universes”. But that is not our concern anyway. What we have been gifted with is the precious understanding of the far greater vista of real life --- if we are prepared to accept it.

In any case, our ‘time’ means that we would only be aware of the smallest beginnings of the great dissolution process of Ephesus when our earth --- and whoever is left on it --- by comparison in a relatively minor dissolution-process, ends its life.

In the case of the “Seven Churches”, what is stated here is the stupendous, constantly-recurring, ‘renewal-cycle’ of birth, life and disintegration that since the moment of Creation they all must undergo, but in a time-frame of cosmic proportions that could not ever be even imagined. Thus, finite universes rotating through an infinite cycle of birth, life and disintegration.

We who reside on the tiny speck of the earth in the great “universe-community” of Ephesus; do we even begin to recognise from whence we have fallen? Unfortunately, we do not. More unfortunately, truly Spiritual aspirations are often derided and dismissed as irrelevant and of no consequence or importance for 21st century man. They were not considered all that relevant last century either.

And what was our first love with which we no longer bother: The love for The Creator, as stated in The First Commandment, or the love for one’s neighbour? Not much evidence of either in today’s world. There is, however, much love and adulation for our much-vaunted, totally aspiritual, intellect, precisely by which we fail to practise our former works --- the far earlier spiritual ones.

Carefully and craftily nurtured by the present, intellectually-derived, university-driven ‘education system’, only the adulation of human ‘works’ and ‘achievements’ by humans holds sway today. Even within global religions, the ‘love of man’ is far greater than Love of The Creator!

Clearly, then, our former works –- which we are directed to once more practise –- were better than those we produce now, before our spiritual fall and decline. Failing which, and unless we change our ways, our lampstand, the universe containing our earthly home, may well one day be ‘removed’. In other words, total disintegration of the whole universe of Ephesus at some designated future point.

What is this, just religious ranting? Or is it the clearest warning yet that we could possibly receive to change our ways and begin living correctly according to The True Laws of Life: The Primordial Laws of Creation? — Creation-Law!

Whilst the dissolution and reformation of the great Universes in their turn follow a logical outcome, what we are saying to you is that it is precisely in concert with that “dissolution process” that the similar “dissolution process” of all the human souls who have not bothered to heed the great and serious admonitions of Prophets, Messengers and finally even The Sons of God to “Obey Divine Creation-Law” will finally take place then! Let’s hear it again:

“I set before you life and death. Therefore choose life, that you and your posterity may live!”

Whilst those realities are perhaps more the preserve of the previous Discourse, it is during the dissolution/disintegration process of our part of the Material World in which the many seriously-transgressing-humans will experience the final extinguishing of their lives! The degraded and poisoned state of planet earth today, along with the dysfunctional social order of most societies globally, clearly testifies to totally wrong thinking and wrong practices by we of the ‘human assembly’ of Ephesus for a very long time, but certainly more especially in the appalling distortions of Divine Truth!

Therefore, in terms of Perfect Justice now, most of humanity will be “taken out”! The inherent Perfection of Creation-Law will automatically achieve that terrible outcome.

The path we have traced, explored, analysed and explained in this Discourse marries the earth-science of astronomy/cosmology to Bible Revelation and theology in a way that both transcends, illuminates and conjoins the respective views to provide the sure answer to the “7 Churches” question: ----- Isaac Newton’s “Plan Of The World!”

Therewith may we now know our ‘place’ when ‘residing’ in The World of Matter. And thereby ‘begin to perceive’ the Immutable Truth of the vast, humanly-unbridgeable, distance between we humans of just Subsequent Creation — and —

The Almighty --- Creator of All the Worlds!

AN ASTRONOMY LECTURER’S RECOGNITION!

We have noted this next observation in a number of places, but here it really comes to life. It is featured in one of the many books that crossed my path that have contributed to the writing of this tome.

It was stated by a woman who lectured in astronomy and who was at the same time also a devout Christian and thus knew of the “Seven Churches” of the Revelation. When made aware of the true nature of them, she voiced a long-held personal recognition about religious attitudes towards God. Simply:

“I’ve always believed we’ve tried to make God too small!”


A DIFFERENT KIND OF FOOTNOTE:
“ALIENS” --- THE BELIEF AND QUANDARY!

From the very earliest days of man’s tenure on earth, one constant appears in virtually all folklore of at least most peoples; and that is the belief, sightings, visitations, etc. of “alien beings”. They feature in some of the great religious writings and are depicted on ancient cave and rock paintings, even to recent times. Even gods are portrayed in them. In fact, one “chosen one” is slotted to arrive here by alien spacecraft to save us and planet earth.

As well as countless “sightings” by the general populace of many countries and verified radar signals, there are any number of recorded sightings by pilots, and even “near-misses”. In addition, at an “official” level some governments have conducted investigations into the more credible events. And, of course, for decades conspiracy theorists have had a field day with the “alien” question.

Reader: Whether such things are real, credible, or are some kind of inexplicable aberration that will forever defy explanation; that is not our concern in this Work. Having said that; the greater level of knowledge about Creation and the far vaster World of Physical Matter that we are also directed to make known means that we can offer a singular and very logical point on the subject. It is this.

Leaked government documents of some nations reveal that at the highest levels of those administrations, plans have long been formulated on ways to respond to “arrivals” and “encounters” etc., all the way to possible “confrontation”! Whilst the thought of such a possibility might be decidedly unnerving to many, such beliefs actually hinder any thought of higher “spiritual” aspirations. All adherents of “alien” beliefs are thus held fast to earthly “stuff”.

Everything in Creation has its time of birth, life, and death/disintegration ---- even “aliens” if they are out there. Since not one thing can live forever in the physical sense, where do they go after their death?

That is the key point of being a human being gifted with conscious life on this planet. Let’s say it again! This is not out true home. It is only the home of the physical shell. That being the case, the vast industry that has developed around “aliens” effectively prevents huge numbers of people from travelling the journey that we were always ordained to do, so that we might have the chance to “get home”!

As with all subjects, this one, too, has many experts and any number of authors and books, with each one planting seeds in the day-consciousness of usually avid readers. But it all leads nowhere, for none of it provides any degree of serious and very necessary “spiritual knowledge” and will thus hold such “alien adherents” earth-bound!

Reader: Don’t be counted among them. What would await you if you did would be a very bad personal outcome!





THE BOOK