Julian (Born Flavius Claudius Julianus in 331 AD, died 26 June 363 AD) was Roman emperor from 361 to 363 AD, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. Raised as a Christian, he later embraced Neoplatonic Hellenism and became a devotee of the Sun.

The following is from Wikisource - Hymn to King Helios:
“Emperor Julian followed Plotinus and Iamblichus in making the supreme principle the One (ἓν) or the Good (τὸ ἀγαθὸν) which presides over the intelligible world (νοητὸς κόσμος), where rule Plato's Ideas, now called the intelligible gods (νοητοὶ θεοί). Iamblichus had imported into the Neo-Platonic system the intermediary world of intellectual gods (noeroi theoi). On them Helios-Mithras, their supreme god and centre, bestows the intelligence and creative and unifying forces that he has received from his transcendental counterpart among the intelligible gods. The third member of the triad is the world of sense-perception governed by the Sun, the visible counterpart of Helios. What distinguishes Julian's triad from other Neo-Platonic triads is this hierarchy of three Suns in the three worlds: and further, the importance that he gives to the intermediary world, the abode of Helios-Mithras. He pays little attention to the remote intelligible world and devotes his exposition to Helios, the intellectual god, and the visible Sun.”

To determine how much gold is in the Sun, researchers have analyzed its light, because every element leaves its trace in the spectrum of sunlight. In a study from 2014, a team led by astrophysicist Nicolas Grevesse from the University of Liege found that in the Sun there are only eight gold atoms for every trillion hydrogen atoms.

That doesn’t sound like much at first. But if you consider that the mass of the Sun corresponds to 1.99 quintillion tons or 332,946 times the mass of the Earth, it is a lot. The total mass of gold in the Sun amounts to 2.34 trillion tons. A trillion is a number with 18 zeros.

All oceans on earth contain water with a total weight of around 1.3 trillion tons. So, there is almost twice as much gold in the Sun as there is water in the world’s oceans, at least in terms of weight. The reserve of gold on Earth appears rather poor compared to the solar treasury. Around 150,000 tons of gold have been mined on our planet and processed into jewellery and bars.

If the entire gold supply of mankind were poured into cubes, it would have an edge length of just 20 meters and a surface area of just 2.4 KM. The gold of the Sun, on the other hand, would result in a cube with an edge length of almost 500 kilometres and a surface area of 1.5 Million KM.

I have quoted before from the works of Paul Tisdell and I think it is apt to do so again here in regard to Alchemy.
Gold is incorruptible, it is the metal of the Sun, the Sun shines constantly; the movement of the Earth creates duality, night and day, life and death. Consider a Sun-like consciousness that has no day and night, no life and death, it is one consciousness – your soul, solar the Sun, the Son/Sun of God.
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The entire Sun vibrates from a complex pattern of acoustical waves, much like a bell. The Sun's acoustical waves bounce from one side of the Sun to the other in about two hours, causing the Sun's surface to oscillate, or wiggle up and down. If your eyes were sharp enough, you could see a bell's surface jiggle in complex patterns as the waves bounced around within it.
The Song of the Sun – just like its 11-year & 22-year cycles – is governed by its magnetism.

The You Tube video embedded here is from V101 Space. (It comes complete with sub-titles in Tagalog for my friends in the Philippines!)

To hear an audio version of the “hum” of the Sun, try this link from Stanford University: http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html (Choose the format according to whatever program you have on your PC. Mine plays the AU but not the AIFF format, for example).

The Sun is a magnetic ball composed largely of plasma, with a solid core surrounded by liquid moving in waves. Recent photographs taken by solar observatory spacecraft show us a lot about the visible surface, although mainstream science is reluctant to accept what it sees. If you find yourself interested in the Sun, explore some of the its sounds that can be found on the internet, via Google.

The famous Trundholm Sun Chariot is a bronze and gold artifact said to belong to the Nordic Bronze Age (created around 1400 BC). It consists of a bronze horse, a bronze disc with a thin sheet of gold pressed into one side, and six four-spoke wheels made also of bronze. The artifact was first discovered on the coast of the southern Danish Island of Zealand in 1902.
 
The importance of the Trundholm Sun Chariot lies in the fact that it is the finest example of a crucial aspect of Scandinavian Bronze Age religion: the cosmic passage of the Sun through heavenly light and the darkness of the underworld. One side of the Sun disk is gilded, to give the impression of the Sun during the day, while the other side was left dark as way of depicting the journey of the Sun during the night.
 
The following two paragraphs are excerpts from an article that appeared recently in Ancient Origins (by DHWTY):
“Apart from being a ritual object, it has also been suggested that the Trundholm Sun Chariot may have functioned as a calendar. This theory was proposed by Klaus Randsborg, a professor of archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, who explained that the golden day-side of the Trundholm Sun Chariot has dimensions associated with one third of a solar year.

“Ransborg argues that the night-side of the large central concentric circle has dimensions linked to six lunar months. He therefore concluded that ‘the reference is to the Sun-calendar on the day-side, and to the Moon-calendar on the night-side of the Sun Chariot, which seems the perfect calculation’.”
 
Travelling Suns not only appeared in Norse, Celtic, and Hindu mythology, but were also prominent features of Egyptian and Greek traditions. In ancient Egypt, the Sun was represented as being transported across the sky by Ra’s solar barge, or pushed by Khepri, a being depicted as a scarab. Due to the importance of the Sun as a life-giving force, it is not too difficult to understand why the ancients perceived the Sun as being divine.

Long-time host of ‘UFO Sightings Daily,’ Scott C. Waring, has posted this article, which is accompanied by a short You Tube clip. You can see why he speculates the existence of a city in the Sun. Scott invites readers to leave comments and share with their friends.

His article says:
“A dark area of the sun began to form as the surface material moved away, revealing something below the surface of the sun. I believe this is an alien mega structure. What I mean is we see only about 3% of the structure, because the rest is deeper within the sun. We only see the 3% because these structures are taller like mountains on Earth poking through the clouds. I have done UFO research for over 20 years and during this time I have only seen this phenomenon twice. That last time was back in 2013 as I show you in the video below. This is undeniable proof that there is a Dyson sphere within our sun!”

Mostly I write about the timeline from when Western Civilization started two and a half millennia ago, up to the present day. The images on this page of beings carrying certain objects relate back to the previous era, when they often came and went between the Celestial dimension and the Earthly realm. Look at the way many ancient Egyptian images show beings (both human and other) gripping the Ankh in the same manner that ancient Sumerians gripped what appear to be “handbags.”

These are power packs and keys to the higher realm. You will see pictures of Egyptian adepts using them to endow mortals with the power of ascension.

As Empedocles recorded, there was a time of experimentation a few thousand years ago, when those of the next higher dimension took on hybrid forms. I have written about the Birdmen and the Tetramorphs in other articles on this website.

In the modern world it is rare for humans to be visited by Masters who carry these keys to ascension with them. One needs to resonate with the Frequency of Unconditional Love before they can break free from the repetitious mundane cycle.

Presently I am re-reading the classic work, Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, having being gifted a hard-cover copy of it. I am struck by the fact that he refers to the Pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles no less than three times in the book.

My readers know that I am an ardent admirer of Empedocles. About twenty years ago, I made a pilgrimage to visit his birthplace, Agrigento in southern Sicily, where the ancient Valley of the Temples is situated. I have written about him for magazines and incorporated his life and works into one non-fiction book, The Sign of the Quatrefoil, as well as my novel, The Griffin in the Valley.

In Meditations 12.3, Marcus writes, “Make yourself like Empedocles’ Sphere, ‘All round, and in its joyous rest reposing,’ - striving to live only the life that belongs to you here and now, then you will live out the rest of your days with peace and kindness, at peace with the divine spark within you” (which he calls your Daimon).

In 8.41 he refers again the Empedocles’ Sphere saying, “Neither fire, nor iron, nor a tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. A sphere once forms remains round and true.”

In 11.12 he declares that, “The spherical form of the soul maintains its form when neither stretching itself out towards anything outside itself nor contracting itself inwards, and when it is neither dispersed outwards nor shrinking back into itself, but is illuminated by light, by which it sees the truth, the truth of all things and the truth within itself.”  Here, the image of the Empedoclean Sphere appears to merge with that of the Sun shining its pure light onto objects without being defiled by them.

Quotes from Marcus Aurelius about the Sun:
“The Sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all directions, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines.” (From Meditations).

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the Sun. If you do not, the Sun will soon set, and you with it.” (From The Emperor’s Handbook).

This week, Dr Joseph Mercola posted the following information on his website, based on the work of Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman.

Cortisol is often demonized and considered this bad thing. And, indeed, you don’t want cortisol to be chronically or consistently elevated throughout the day or night. But you do want cortisol to reach its peak early in the day right about the time you wake up. One way that you can ensure that that cortisol peak occurs early in the day, right about the time you wake up, is to view bright light, ideally from sunlight, within the first 30 to 60 minutes after waking.
 
You want to trigger that cortisol increase to occur very early in your day, and you don’t want that cortisol peak to happen later, which is what will happen if you wait to get outside and see sunlight. The reason for this is that you have a set of neurons, nerve cells, in your eye. They’re called intrinsically photosensitive melanopsin cells.
 
Those neurons respond best to bright light, and especially right after waking early in the day, they are best able to signal to a set of neurons that reside over the roof of your mouth called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which is a cluster of neurons that then sends a huge number of other signals, electrical and chemical, out to your entire body that triggers that cortisol increase, provides a wake-up signal for your brain and body, and sets in motion a timer for you to fall asleep later that night.
 
Huberman refers to viewing sunlight immediately, or within the first hour, after waking as “the most powerful stimulus for wakefulness throughout the day,” which will also help you fall asleep at night.
 
As always, the author adds the caveat that you should not look directly at the Sun. We also advise this, unless you have been taught the correct practices.  He says, “This can be as simple as going outdoors right after you wake up and looking toward — not directly at — the Sun, without sunglasses, and not through a window or vehicle windshield.”

Below is an edited excerpt of an article that appeared in the Luxor Times Magazine two years ago (10 August 2020) about the Sun Cult complex in Hatshepsut's temple at Deir El-Bahari:

"The complex of the Sun Cult is a group of rooms located in the northern part of the upper terrace of Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir El-Bahari. It was first unearthed by the expedition of the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1893 under the direction of Edouard Naville and some of its texts and representations were published in his monumental publication of the whole temple."

The Night Sun chapel was decorated with the representations of the solar barque with the Sun god while his nocturnal journey in the netherworld. The location of the chapel in the eastern part of the complex stressed the idea of the resurrection of the Sun in the eastern horizon after having traveled through the netherworld at night. From this chapel comes also the very first attestation of the text called King as the Sun Priest, an important theological treatise that stresses the role of the pharaoh as the heir and the servant of the solar god.

The Altar courtyard is, contrary to the Night Sun chapel, open to the Sun light. The courtyard is dominated by the huge limestone altar which every day was touched by the Sun rays. This part of the complex is dedicated to the diurnal journey of the Sun in the sky.

Together with the Night Sun chapel it constitutes thus the small scale representation of the whole universe, mirroring the diurnal and nocturnal journey of the Sun god.
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The main deity worshiped in the complex of the Sun cult was Amun-Re, but an important place was reserved also for Ra-Horakhty and Atum-Amun, which are nothing more than three different aspects and forms of the solar god, complementing each other. The rituals represented on the complex walls were performed by the king which once again stressed the role of the pharaoh as the heir of the Sun god. In the case of Hatshepsut it had also an additional purpose of the legitimization of her kingships as she claimed to be the bodily daughter of Amun-Ra himself."

The home page of this website includes the lines, ‘We are encouraged by science’s gradual acknowledgement that what appears to be the empty space that surrounds us, is not empty at all. They are still toying with names like dark matter and dark energy. We understand from the Zero Point Field that limitless energy is latent in the invisible worlds;’ And this, ‘In ancient times, Plato referred to the Ether. This is from his work Phaedo:
“And upon the Earth are animals and men, some in a middle region, others (elementals) dwelling about the air as we dwell about the sea; others in islands which the air flows round, near the continent; and in a word, the air is used by them as the water and the sea are by us, and the ether is to them what the air is to us.” ’
 
One of my favourite researcher/writers is Arjun Walia, who this month has posted a very interesting article about the Ether (or Aether) on The Pulse. (You can read that piece HERE).
 
As we have noted elsewhere, any conversation about esoteric or mystical matters may be easily derailed by semantics. The fact that an invisible world is nestled right alongside our 3D Earthly realm has long been acknowledged by religious teachers, spiritualists, alien theorists, psychologists and, more recently, by physicists. To assist you in forming a mental image of this parallel reality, research (or google) these words and contemplate what they mean to you.
 
The Aether.
The Field.
The Akasha.
Zero Point.
The Void.
The Dreamtime.
Zep Tepi.
The Fifth Dimension.
Heaven.
The Higher Realm.

You may have other terms of your own. Could they all be the same thing?