Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 KNOWING GOD 269
of the lower orders of animate life, and, in so far as it
relates to progress from grosser to finer states, it is true
of the materials of the planet on which we live. If planetary
life is progression and in no case retrogression,
then the mathematics of logic presents to our minds the
following view of the universe. Planets are born as the
offspring of their central suns, and as they develop and
mature satellites are born from them.
As these satellites
advance in development, they, in turn, become
planets, central suns, and planets are again born of
them; and this process will undoubtedly go on thru the
illimitable eons to come.
Let us now return to our planet earth and trace backward
the law of transmutation and refinement-back
thru the unknowable millions of years that have past.
Born of our mother sun, our planet has not yet reached
the period in which it shines by its own inherent luster,
as has our sun; and yet the sun is still a material orb like
her child the earth. The sun, however, is a few hundred
billion years in advance of our planet in the order of
unfoldment and refinement, so that the intensity of life
in that wondrous globe would be to our bodies a consuming
fire, were we capable of stepping upon it.
The origin of worlds is not like the birth and development
of human beings. In the birth of worlds the ashes,
so to speak, the materials no longer useful to the planet,
are sent off to take up the work of growth and development
upon a lower plane, while the more refined qualities
remain in the parent world. Thus each world has been
a gross,
dark planetary body, and will in its order become
a central sun.
If this is the law, then our mother
sun is the child, the offspring, of another, grander and
more refined central sun, and is only one of a family of
worlds born of that great center.
That grand center
is in turn the offspring of another and still grander cen-