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Are the Solar Rays Electrical ? Several years ago while experimenting in electricity, I discovered that the sun’s rays are not heat rays but rays of electricity. It then occurred to me that the heat and light of this planet are produced by the focalization of the electric solar rays, the atmosphere surrounding the earth acting as a lens to produce the result.
The ordinary sun-glass clearly illustrates my meaning. The lens gathers up the solar rays and focalizes them into heat.
The sun, then, is an electric nebulous body instead of a vast solid body on fire. If the sun proves to be a vast electric nebulous body formed by the concentration of electric force at a central point, why should not the stars also be simply electric nebulous bodies?
And if so, what becomes of the conclusions of modern astronomy about worlds upon worlds and systems of suns and planets whirling through endless space?
Let there be at once a scientific investigation to deter-mine whether the sun radiates direct heat rays or electric rays.—C. G. B., Providence, R. I.
The popular astronomical conceptions concerning the nature and character of the sun and its radiations, are in themselves so unsatisfactory that many minds have endeavored to improve upon them; hence, various theories have been put forth, in some of which electricity is used as a basis of explanation of solar phenomena.
We are familiar with a number of so called electric theories of the sun and stars; but as a rule, there is no marked departure from the usual conceptions of the mechanical relations of the solar system, the originators of theories holding that the earth is a convex body rotating on its axis diurnally, and annually revolving about the sun.
One of the great and insuperable difficulties in modern astronomy is the matter of the supply of the sun’s fuel; in modern astronomical circles this is an unsolved problem.
In the so called electric theories of the sun, an endeavor is made to show that the sun is electric—an electric focus of some kind which constantly gathers up universally prevailing forces and radiates the same as light and heat.
In the old astronomy it is held that the sun is a great ball of fire, and that we receive light and heat from the solar sphere by radiation; but it has been discovered that it is very cold in high altitudes, which would not be the case if solar heat were transmitted from the
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THE EDITOR. sun as heat rays. Many physicists have reached the conclusion that the earth’s atmosphere is necessary to the phenomena of the sun’s light and heat.
A logical conclusion from this basis is that beyond the atmosphere it must be both dark and cold; and if so, how can it be said that light and heat are transmitted as such through mil-lions of miles of space supposed to exist between the sun and earth?
If the solar light is confined to our atmo-sphere, so is our vision; and a further conclusion becomes essential— namely, that the visible sun is in some way produced by focalization on the upper stratum of our air.
So we observe that if the conceptions of modern physics be revised or revolu-tionized, there must necessarily obtain a change in astronomical conceptions; and it is here where the advocates of the so called electric theories of the sun are inconsistent.
They suppose that the sun is made visible by focalization on the atmosphere, and yet hold that the sun itself is 92,000,000 miles from the earth.
Now, if the disc of light we call the sun in the physical heavens is in reality observed to be at the upper surface of our atmosphere, by what means is it determined that the center of the solar system is 92,- 000,000 miles distant?
If there is a solar parallax it must be the parallax of the sun’s refocalization or projection; and it must be apparent to the rational mind that from a convex body the visible sun about 1,000 miles above the earth could not be seen from opposite sides of the earth, as per actual observations.
Now, the fact is that Koreshan Astronomy at once establishes a basis of harmony for all the generally conflicting theories regarding the nature and character of the sun and its relation to the stars, planets, and the earth; and more, it solves all the problems which confront the advocates of these various fragments.
K o r e sh made the discovery thirty-three years ago that the solar rays are electrical; that the visible sun is near the upper surface of our atmosphere; that heat as heat is not transmitted from the sun to the earth; that the sun of which the visible sun is a focalization or projection, is invisible; that our sunlight is generated in our atmosphere, and that heat is produced by the conjunction of the sun’s electric rays with materials at the surface of the earth.
But instead of concluding that the sun itself is a cold electric battery, we maintain that it is a burning point, and that its incandescence, its intense brilliancy, is the direct result of actual fire.
There has never yet been a cur-rent of electricity generated without combustion; this is true, whether the electricity generated be frictional, thermal, or chemical.
All transmutations of spirit and matter obtain through combustion; and the more intense the combustion the more potent the forces generated; and the forces are none the less electrical because luminous. Light is electric; heat is magnetic.
Light and heat are in unison in the solar ray, and the heat becomes manifest, or it is generated only when a material substance intercepts the light.
In the focus of a sun-glass there is no heat unless it comes in contact with a mate-rial substance which acts as the basis or medium of transmutation of light to heat.
Now, let it be observed that the conclusion that the sun is at the upper surface of our atmosphere is entirely out of harmony with the idea that the earth is a convex body; but it is perfectly consistent with the demonstrated conception that the earth is a great concavity.
In the Cellular System the stars are electrical; that is, they are points of intense combustion produced by the meeting of ascending and descending energies— lines of energy generated in and ascending from the earth, which completely surrounds the solar center, and energies descending from that centef.
It is not necessary to suppose that because the rays of the sun are electrical that the sun and stars are not points of combustion.
Light radiates from electric lights on our streets; but in the arc lights materials are con-sumed; and at the meeting point of the carbon tips there occurs an intense combustion— and that point is intensely hot. The combustion is maintained by a constant inflow of energies from the dynamo; and so the central sun of the physical cosmos is maintained through a constant influx of energies from the earth—the source of supply of the sun’s fuel.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 17, No. 45 · Sep 25, 1903 · PDF pp. 10–11