Solar Biology

departed,
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and his career from that time forward has
been little less than a living death; the solar system,
and especially the earth, has been a charnel house.
Man did not wholly die, but he died to that which
made life pure and noble and worth the living.
Was this calamity unforeseen ? Was the plan of
redemption an after-thought? We judge not. The
catastrophe was at least permitted, and man's adversity
is said to be God's opportunity ;
and from that period
dates a new cycle of this solar system. Measures were
inaugurated in the inner circles and higher atmospheres
of the system, which in due process of time became
operative on the material earth, and stand recorded in
the career of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve
tribes of Israel, and finally in the advent of Christ, in
whom the nature of the race became interiorly opened
and conjoined again to the order of the heavens.
Christ stood in the place of the fallen son of the morning.
He was to be lifted up, that he might draw all
men unto him ;
the solar atmosphere was to be introduced
and restored to the lungs of humanity by an
interior process. The " new heaven " was to stand in
the place of the fallen star. The order of Melchisedec,
" without beginning of days or end of time," was to
be transfused not only to our earth and solar system,
but presumably through that as a centre of new creative
energies, to all the material worlds of the universe
;
for this planet and system would stand interiorly
opened to the heavens. It would be spiritually conjoined
in a manner differing from all others, as the
heavens are present in the externals of other worlds
and systems after a natural order, whereas this earth