The use of an apple in allegory has been commented upon by others: long before we had Apple iPhones or the Beatles named their recording company Apple, this was the fruit that my Catholic school told me had been behind the temptation of Adam and Eve, and of course it was an apple that famously fell on Isaac Newton, causing him to think of gravity.

In addition to pondering gravity, anti-gravity and the three laws of motion, Isaac Newton had something to say about the Sun, and God, or the powerful Being he called the Universal Ruler:
“This most beautiful system of the Sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.”
― Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

And the quote at the top of the page shows some of his ideas about the Light Body.

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In previous blogs I have referred to the writings of Harold Boulette and his Solar Wind blog at SpiritSun.net. Here once again I offer an extract from one of his recent posts, with a link to the full text (down below). Harold and I both belong to the Cosolargy organization so our views are well aligned on this topic.

“A common belief among both materialists and occultists like (Rudolf) Steiner is that man has been on a constant upward path of evolution. Spiritual Mystery schools tell a different story. They say that man devolved from spirit into a being of half spirit, half matter. Over time, we have become denser and denser, more and more material. The average human now is probably more like 90% matter.”

Harold includes the following quote in his article:
“The second of the great periods of evolution that have been mentioned, the ‘Sun period,’ effects the raising of man’s being to a higher stage of consciousness. … The higher stage which man reaches on the Sun may therefore be characterized in this way: the physical body, already formed in the germ-state on Saturn, is raised to a second stage of perfection by becoming the vehicle of an etheric or vital body. This last-named etheric body attains the first degree of perfection on its own account during Sun evolution. In order, however, that the second degree of perfection... may be reached, the intervention of still other spirit-beings is necessary during the further course of the Sun life.” ~Rudolf Steiner

Harold then adds:
“Moving to higher states of consciousness is indeed what it is all about. It is what the Pythagoreans were doing. It is what the Essenes were doing. The primary goal of all the mystery schools was to achieve higher states of consciousness. But this is not a form of mental development. Consciousness and intellect are not the same thing. There are people with degrees and very high IQ’s who are still operating at low levels of consciousness. That is because consciousness is more a spiritual thing than a material one. So developing higher states of consciousness means developing our spiritual faculties. And the current Sun Period is the best time to do that.”

Source: http://spiritsun.net/2019/05/sun-period-of-higher-consciousness-and-enlightenment/

On my new Blog site, SouthernSunlight.com, I have posted a story this week about sacred sites and power places, and how many people believe they connect the Earth to the Sun via a kind of invisible ‘umbilical cord.’ This is especially true of Australia’s Uluru (Ayers Rock).

It is noteworthy that the organizers of the annual Cosmic Consciousness Conference also perceive this ‘conduit’ or ‘umbilical’ connection in the heart of the continent, believing Uluru to be the site of Earth’s solar plexus chakra – they envision the next gathering there in 2020 to be an ideal time to “construct a solar umbilical cord from the Earth to the Sun.”

In 2008, NASA may have unwittingly supported the possibility of such an event when it published details of an investigation into FTEs, or flux transfer events, describing how the Earth is linked to the Sun by a network of magnetic portals which open every eight minutes. Such discoveries help to scientifically validate the long-held belief by the New Age community that sacred sites and ancient megalithic structures are places connecting this terrestrial plane with the celestial spheres.

The same article discusses the portals in Bolivia known as the Sun Gate and the Gateway of the Gods. I believe these were established over two thousand year ago by Viracocha.

Credit for Image at Top of Page: Magnetomer survey image of the Rollright Stones. Adapted from Charles Brooker. Magnetism and Standing Stones, New Scientist, January 13, 1983

The following quotations are allegedly taken from an interview conducted by journalist John Smith with the scientist Nikola Tesla in his laboratory in Colorado Springs in the year 1899 for the magazine “Immortality”. Its authenticity has been disputed online by some who claim it is really taken from a 1990s play, 'Tesla or Customizing of Angels', by a Serbian playwright, Stevan Pešić. I present these brief passages here for their interesting comments on the Sun.

❝ Do you know how I discovered the rotating magnetic field and the induction motor, which made me famous when I was 26? One summer afternoon in Budapest, I saw the sunset with my friend. Thousands of fires circled thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses and then, as in a fog, I saw the magnetic field and the induction motor spin. I saw them in the Sun!❞

❝ Everything is light. In one of its rays is the fate of nations. Each nation has its own ray in that great source of light that we see that it is the Sun. And remember that there is no man that has existed and has not died! It became light and as such still exists. The secret lies in the fact that the particles of light restore their original state.❞ (Nikola Tesla)

I have a connection with the great philosopher, teacher and inventor Empedocles, who lived in southern Sicily from 495BC to 435BC. He was the first in history to speak of the Four Elements. So I was intrigued to read this from the person who claimed to interview Tesla:
In the laboratory of Nikola Tesla for the first time an atom has been broken. A weapon has been created that produces seismic vibrations. There, black cosmic rays were discovered. Five races will pray to him in the temple of the future, because he has taught them a great secret: that the elements of Empedocles can be watered with the life forces of the ethers. (“Everything is Light” The Incredible interview with Nikola Tesla)

In Issue 24 of our online magazine, Australian Esoteric, our regular writer on the Tarot, Sean Cooper, contributed an article which was mainly about the Hanged Man card, and in turn made several mentions of its connection to the Sun card (these are both included in the Major Arcana of the Tarot Deck. Below are three excerpts which are thought-provoking:

❝ The Sun shows a successful conclusion – positivity and joy at the beginning of an exciting new chapter after the previous uncertainty of the journey to this point. Most importantly, The Sun is childlike, open to ideas and opportunities. We have moved from the constraints of dogma and orthodoxy with the Hierophant to a new stage in The Sun where the possibilities are endless and hope prevails. This transition was made possible through what The Hanged Man does – withdraw, and look at things from another angle. […]

❝ The reflective aspect of water tells us that the act of suspension is also an excellent opportunity for some self-examination. The outcome, The Sun, is the antithesis of this. As a solution, The Sun represents direct light instead of the reflected light intimated in cards like The Hanged Man and The Moon. Getting to this point, though, is often a process of withdrawal and reflection to get to the outcome of engagement and illumination. The Sun's Hebrew letter is Resh, meaning head and face. This is in direct contract to its previous card The Moon (Qoph -the back of the head, or subconscious). The Moon and The Hanged Man both tell us that getting to the direct light of The Sun is achieved through journeying through the subconscious. […]

❝ The Hanged Man offers a badly needed reminder that it might be time to get off the treadmill and engage in some introspection instead. The Hanged Man is a sign that we've entered the gateway, leaving behind the Hierophant's limiting orthodoxy and heading towards the hope and joy of The Sun. When he enters our readings, we should listen to The Hanged Man because he's there to tell us that we're nearly there, that when we free ourselves, we can embrace The Sun. We should ask ourselves what we can do to re-evaluate our situation in a fresh way and have that "Eureka!" breakthrough moment. And we should recognize that to pass the gateway sometimes means looking within. ❞

Rudolph Steiner had much to say about Beings on the Sun, including our Star’s connection with the Christ.

"My dear friends, when the pupils of the old initiates looked out into the wide universe and spoke of what they saw living out there beyond the Earth in the workings of the Sun, yes, in the Sun itself — when they spoke of the sublime Spirit-Being of the Sun as proclaimed by Zarathustra, they were speaking of the very same Being Whom, in these later times, we designate as Christ." — Rudolf Steiner, MAN'S LIFE ON EARTH AND IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS (Health Research Books, 1960), pp. 14-15.

“The Sun was itself a kind of being of air, surrounded by that substance which had previously formed Saturn-fire, warmth. The part that had densified had formed the gaseous Sun, and what had not densified was a surging sea of fire. These beings could live on the Sun and inhale and exhale warmth, fire; they were therefore called the Spirits of Fire. They stood at the human level on the Sun and they worked in the service of humanity. One calls them Sun Spirits or Fire Spirits. Man at that time was at the stage of sleep-consciousness, the Sun-Fire Spirits had already the ego consciousness. Since then they too have developed further and ascended to higher degrees of consciousness. One calls them in Christian Esotericism Archangels. And the highest evolved Spirit Who was on the Sun as Fire Spirit, Who today is still active upon the Earth, with very highly evolved consciousness, this Sun or Fire Spirit is the Christ. In the same way the most evolved Saturn Spirit is the Father God.
“Christian Esotericism knows that there was incarnated in the body of flesh and blood of Christ-Jesus precisely such a Sun-Fire Spirit, and indeed the highest, the Regent of the Sun Spirits. That He might come on to the Earth He had to make use of a physical body, He had to live under the same earthly conditions as man, in order to be able to manifest here.”  — Rudolf Steiner, ROSICRUCIAN WISDOM (Rudolf Steiner Press, 2000), p. 97.

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There is an interesting article online about Sirius. It contains some inaccuracies (and misspellings) but does convey some interesting information about the Sirius star system. They write:
An example of this can be seen in ancient Egypt. The priests would tell the surfs (sic) (men whom worked the land) that the sun was “god.”  Although most priests believed that the physical sun was not actually the “supreme being” itself, but instead was the spirit which flowed through the physical sun. However, there was even another level that the priests didn’t even know about… and that highest level of priests knew that although spiritual energy goes through the sun, the original source of everything comes from the star Sirius. In other words, just like how the sun keeps our physical world alive, Sirius keeps the spiritual world alive. It’s associated with the divine and even considered as the home of humanity’s “great teachers.”

They add this quote:
“This ancient people (Egyptians) knew that once every year the Parent Sun is in line with the Dog Star. Therefore, the Great Pyramid was so constructed that, at this sacred moment, the light of the Dog Star fell upon the square “Stone of God” at the upper end of the Great Gallery, descending upon the head of the high priest, who received the Super Solar Force and sought through his own perfected Solar Body to transmit to other Initiates this added stimulation for the evolution of their Godhood. This then was the purpose of the “`Stone of God,’ whereon in the Ritual, Osiris sits to bestow upon him (the illuminate) the Atf crown or celestial light.” “North and South of that crown is love,” proclaims an Egyptian hymn. “And thus throughout the teaching of Egypt the visible light was but the shadow of the invisible Light; and in the wisdom of the ancient country the measures of Truth were the years of the Most High.” - Marshall Adams, The Book of the Master

Source: Wisdom Square - http://www.wisdom-square.com/sirius-connection-to-human-history.html
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We have just added a complete article by Gene Savoy – see it in Articles by Others The following is a brief, interesting extract:

"Solar beings of light! Could they exist in the sun? Do such thoughts border on science fiction, or is there a basis of truth in this? If heaven exists, if that other world spoken of by Christ is real, then it must hold some position in the scheme of things. Christ often spoke of light in His sermons. Light/heat/radiation can be converted into matter, forming the material universe. Indeed, absorption of solar energy by our planet results in a net gain of matter.

Astrophysicists theorize that someday the earth will be converted again into light/heat/radiation when our parent sun dies out. The universe, being in a state of continual change, is transformed from light to matter and back again. Is it logical to assume that solar beings, like angels, fly upon wings of light and manifest themselves to man within the vision of his inner eye?

My research into solar techniques has led me to believe (through experience) that human consciousness possesses a built-in point of contact with solar worlds. The human mind is indeed enlightened and illuminated by contact with the sun. . . the apparent source of our origin.

Yet, within the light that illumines the human mind exists a supreme consciousness, some force or power transmitted to us which may not fall within the category of electromagnetic radiation.

The visible sun is but a bridge to something higher!"
 
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“When we say that people should lead pure, sacred and wise lives, we have in mind that they should tap the appropriate energies of the Sun. The more inspired the person, the greater the capacity to make contact with the Spiritual energies of the Sun.

“The most luminous thought, the most sublime feeling and the most beautiful action have the first ray of the Sun within themselves, the first ray which penetrates the human soul.

“If, in the rising of the Sun, in the blossoming of the flowers, in the flowing of the river, in the relations between people, we see the presence of God, then that is the correct look.

“The future houses would be made of glass. The ultra-violet rays of the Sun would pass through them and these houses would be hygienic for that reason.”

~Biensa Douno

The above is from Harold Boulette’s Spirit Sun website.
For his full article, click HERE