LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS - THE BEATLES WERE ON TO SOMETHING....

Ever read something that blows your mind in the scriptures - and you can do nothing but shrug your shoulders?

Well, I have my list that is quite long - and one of the things on the list is that God dwells in everlasting burnings and that all celestial beings will dwell on a sphere of 'glass' in eternal bliss.

Like I said in a previous post, I am awaiting science to catch up with REVEALED religion - and, as far out as this is, I love to throw it out there - just for fun.

WELL, deep breath.....

Here is another great post that I came across that sure blows the mind and may prove to answer a few things on the list above (I have since verified it - this is not a hoax).

You wood have to see it to believe it...:



HERE IS THE EXPLANATION:

For Immediate Release: Friday, February 13, 2004
Note to Editors: An image and animation to accompany this release is online at:

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/archive/pr0407image.html


This Valentine's Day, Give The Woman Who Has Everything The Galaxy's Largest Diamond
Cambridge, MA --

When choosing a Valentine's Day gift for a wife or girlfriend, you can't go wrong with diamonds. If you really want to impress your favorite lady this Valentine's Day, get her the galaxy's largest diamond. But you'd better carry a deep wallet, because this 10 billion trillion trillion carat monster has a cost that's literally astronomical!

"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond!" says astronomer Travis Metcalfe (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), who leads a team of researchers that discovered the giant gem. "Bill Gates and Donald Trump together couldn't begin to afford it."

When asked to estimate the value of the cosmic jewel, Ronald Winston, CEO of Harry Winston Inc., indicated that such a large diamond probably would depress the value of the market, stating, "Who knows? It may be a self-deflating prophecy because there is so much of it." He added, "It is definitely too big to wear!"

The newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. (A light-year isthe distance light travels in a year, or about 6 trillion miles.) It is 2,500 miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which translates to approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros.

"It's the mother of all diamonds!" says Metcalfe. "Some people refer to it as 'Lucy' in a tribute to the Beatles song 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.'"

The diamond star completely outclasses the largest diamond on Earth, the 530-carat Star of Africa which resides in the Crown Jewels of England. The Star of Africa was cut from the largest diamond ever found on Earth, a3,100-carat gem.

The huge cosmic gem (technically known as BPM 37093) is actually a crystallized white dwarf. A white dwarf is the hot core of a star, left over after the star uses up its nuclear fuel and dies. It is made mostly of carbon and is coated by a thin layer of hydrogen and helium gases.

For more than four decades, astronomers have thought that the interiors of white dwarfs crystallized, but obtaining direct evidence became possible only recently.

"The hunt for the crystal core of this white dwarf has been like the search for the Lost Dutchman's Mine. It was thought to exist for decades, but only now has it been located," says co-author Michael Montgomery (University of Cambridge).

The white dwarf studied by Metcalfe, Montgomery, and Antonio Kanaan (UFSCBrazil), is not only radiant but also harmonious. It rings like a gigantic gong, undergoing constant pulsations.

"By measuring those pulsations, we were able to study the hidden interior of the white dwarf, just like seismograph measurements of earthquakes allow geologists to study the interior of the Earth. We figured out that the carbon interior of this white dwarf has solidified to form the galaxy's largest diamond," says Metcalfe.

Our Sun will become a white dwarf when it dies 5 billion years from now. Some two billion years after that, the Sun's ember core will crystallize as well, leaving a giant diamond in the center of our solar system.

"Our Sun will become a diamond that truly is forever," says Metcalfe.

A paper announcing this discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.

For more information, contact:

David Aguilar, Director of Public Affairs
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phone: 617-495-7462 Fax: 617-495-7468
daguilar@cfa.harvard.edu

Christine Pulliam
Public Affairs Specialist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phone: 617-495-7463, Fax: 617-495-7016
cpulliam@cfa.harvard.edu

EARTH WAS TAKEN FROM A PLANETARY NURSERY AND MOVED TO THIS SOLAR SYSTEM

Well, when prophets and those with God's plan in visionary view first gave breath to this over 150 years ago, people probably choked on their gum.  The idea that was put forth by the likes of Joseph Smith and Eliza R. Snow, the two Pratt brothers and many others, that this planet and others are actually from another locale in the universe is just wild to contemplate.   Here is the link to the Eliza R. Snow hymn from an earlier post I did on how the everlasting hills shall tremble when we have planetary chaos again in the future:  CLICK LINK AND READ STANZA 1 AND STANZA 12


I love it when science finally catches up with revealed religion.  Read on:

May 22, 2012

A Universe with Billions of Binary Planets?

           



The discovery that there are perhaps billions of solo rogue planets and binary planet systems in the Milky Way alone has led to a new theoretical study by astronomer Hagai Perets and his colleague at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics that proposes a possible answer: the distant planets are not part of the original stellar system - they were captured by the star.

Astronomers know that there are many so-called "free floating planets" in space - planets that have been tossed out of their original solar system by a random gravitational encounter with another planet. Some of these orphan planets have recently been detected. The CfA team calculated that it would be possible for a star to capture one of these orphans if the conditions were right; namely, if the star and planet happen to pass close to each other with only a small velocity difference, and if there are no other massive bodies nearby to interfere with the "adoption." They ran a series of computer simulations to test all these and other possibilities, and they found not only that such a capture was possible, but that a star could even capture several orphan planets.
In fact, they found that sometimes two free floating planets could capture one another and form a binary planet. None of these binaries has yet been seen, although some astronomers think that since Pluto and its moon Charon have such similar masses they are a binary system, although not necessarily one that was captured.
The new results seem to offer a reasonable, if exotic, explanation for some of the complex planetary configurations that have been discovered, and they remind us that nature is full of surprises.
The Daily Galaxy via Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Incidentally - do we not have a binary system?  Aren't our moon and our planet inextricably tied together in their celestial tracks?

ALL OF THE POSTS WITH THE KEY WORD ELIZA R SNOW

So, you can see I have been doing alot of recapping lately. I think I finally hit the mother lode of data I have been "mining" for over the last three years - and I want to go back and put some of the most influential players in the spotlight. Without having to read the entire blog, I am trying to give a flavor of the quotes/people who led me to this insane hypothesis (which I now consider fact). Here is Eliza's repertoire. Hope you enjoy it as much as I have:

CLICK LINK

After last Friday night's experience in the Temple, I am now at a 100% confidence level and am pulling all the stops out to be ready to leave by September 10th in anticipation of the opening of the 7th seal the last week of September.

ELENIN - AN ACTUAL SOURCE OF NON-DISINFORMATION

THOUGHT THIS WAS WORTH POSTING - AND A GOOD SOURCE OF ACTUAL INFO. THIS IS WORTH TAKING A LOOK AT - THERE IS ALOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE OBJECTS ORBITING THIS THING (I AM PRETTY SURE IT IS NOT A COMET) AND HOW THE RUSSIANS ARE SAYING IT IS NOT COMPLETELY NATURAL AS IT WAS STEERED THROUGH THE ASTEROID BELT ON ITS WAY IN ON OUR ECLIPTIC PLANE:

CLICK LINK

WE ARE ABOUT TO FIND OURS.......ELENIN

Well, the timing of this article (click link) on brown dwarf wanderers is impeccable.

We may have just found ours - dear Elenin who must be a terrestrial body. You will have to dig deep (and I don't have the time to because I am busy getting ready for this thing), but you will find articles on this blog that talk about how virtually every other solar system out there is a binary star system - and ours in an exception. Many failed suns exist - and they show up in the form of brown dwarfs, etc. Many have thought that Jupiter was our second failed buddy who didn't quite have enough energy to light off. Most of these systems however have two burning suns with a largish planet trapped in the gravitational well in between them (Refer to Facsimile 2, on the center panel with number 1 and numbers 22 and 23 for a visual). There is no night in that place - always bathed in light and who have beings who are purified to the point that they can dwell in everlasting burnings as beings of brilliant light (quoting Joseph from TOTPJS) - possibly brighter than the noon day sun. This orb will find its way back to that kind of a home as we are pulled out of our telestial home and taken on a journey (as we experience a change in our heavens and in our earth) that will place us comfortably there in God's presence and finally celestialized as this orb is burned in like manner and purified, every whit. Mother earth will finally receive her glory and all who dwell on her will be able to see things of a past nature by looking into her glassy surface (click link) and all things of a future nature will be given to them by way of their personal urim and thummim (see Revelations). Those who cannot endure/abide the day of that purification process will, due to lack of observing the basics (such as tithing, etc), be swept off. Remember folks, tithing is a lower law - one of a telestial world which prepares us for a terrestrial law. Consecration is the law du jour - the one that brings us (in a terrestrial state) to a celestial state of thinking and being.

And I get to teach the lesson on tithing tomorrow - and how do I water this stuff down to the point that I have to, to have it sink in for the average person that just cares what the score on Sunday football or baseball is??

So it goes - we have a glorious future for those who have the Spirit as their guide.

How is your food storage? How is your comprehension of the First Vision and of the Endowment ceremony after this read? It is line upon line and precept upon precept until we arrive at a perfect knowledge. Can you see yourself there? Or do you think to cry out, "Lord, help thou my unbelief!"? If so, time is short and alot more crying of one sort or another will be the order of the day.

SOMETIMES I WISH I COULD JUST HIE TO KOLOB

WARNING!! THIS IS A FIRST FOR ME - A RANT BLOG TOPIC.

I have had a particularly bad weekend (alot of which I do not wish to get into), but there is one thing that stands out in particular. I was at a Primary "Meet 'N Greet" on Saturday for the students to get to know their new 2011 teachers. As it was winding down, I decided to spend some time chatting with a new member of our ward who actually teaches his children the doctrine (shame on him.....) and whose child actually knew some basic answers that many (read; 60% of the adults in the ward) could not answer.

Anyway, he was chatting up how his dad who is a temple worker in AZ had heard of a guy named Cohen who was preaching the advent of light into our world in the form of Baetelgeuse that was supposed to get jiggy on 23 Sept, 2011 (my birthday...). He was intrigued and googled it and ended up on my blog (much of my traffic comes from that Cohen post and from info on Sarah Menet where I think I have entered first place territory on both accounts). I admitted to him that I have not taken the time to put a disclaimer on the blog about me not necessarily agreeing with the timing that Cohen has put forth (none of the leading scientists out there have any clue when this supernova will go ballistic - let alone exactly when it will get here - and Cohen says it will be midnight, or some such a thing. If he is on, and I get a nice birthday candle to light up the night, then Cohen goes straight to the front of the line as far as folks with the gift of prophecy are concerned.....because he has nailed all three factors (time/place/event) that make a prophecy rock (see my previous post on the Heisenberg principle that says that is an impossibility unless you simply do not impact someone's agency by having made the prediction). He then shared that he and his dad both agreed that this guy (Cohen) was probably off. Next thing I know, our EQ President is saddling up telling my friend that he shouldn't listen to me due to blah, blah, blah which I then let him have it for being a doctrinal ignoramous (which he, in the past, has agreed he is when he is pressed on just about any doctrine). He said something to the effect that he would rather just poke his head in the sand and not know of the coming difficulties, etc (which might partially explain the status of his food storage and other commanded items that the Bretheren have been pounding home of late).

So......my monster RAG for today is how people of our faith cannot take the weakest of weak doctrines without choking and gagging. We are in trouble in a major way and are headed for a monster sifting that will astound even me in its scope and magnitude! We have folks in this church (the "social Mormon" crowd) that are just there because there are some pretty great folks to hang with one or two days a week. My EQ President is a great guy - but he is mostly a social Mormon who will with the coming of the great test (in my opinion). If the stuff I have in this blog is correct, the loss may be as high as 70-75% who will not be able to take the heat when it is applied - and who may simply be clueless as to which way to roll with it because they do not understand their basic (and old; read Joseph/Brigham/J.T. sayings that seemed perplexing 20-70 years ago but are hitting home with monster impact today) doctrines.

In some eyes, I may be walking on thin ice here, but I lay blame for this doctrinal ignorance at the feet of the recent (last 20 years or so since Benson) movement to try and "mainstream" ourselves and fit in with all the people that hate us and what we 'stood' for. Hell, I went to see what the Community of Christ was up to in their endeavors to that end and when I toured their "temple" in Jackson County and saw their D&C and their BofM (largely out of the picture), I knew that the road to worldly acceptance had a bad ending point!! And here we are; I hear regular talks about how the world loves us and how we now have a great spacious building to house ourselves in while we hear adulations of "all is well in Zion". Well, folks - and I pointed this out in my encounter with the EQP - we are statistically 5-10 years behind the world in our teen pregnancy and divorce rates and the highest in the US in the use of mind altering drugs (I am citing Utah, specifically). What this means, is that the divorce rate and out of wedlock pregnancy rate that the world now enjoys today will be ours in a decade, or so. NO THANKS!!

Either I am way off base here with my ravings that all IS NOT WELL IN ZION, or the early Bretheren and the Book of Mormon are correct in stating that things were going to get really bad for the Church right before the purge. Folks, looking at some basic statistics, my money is with the early Bretheren and some of the other straight shooters that I have posted on this blog. A Prophet's job is to give God's children the hard info and hope they have the guts to turn it around according to the principles of moral agency that we all have. Most of them end up on the business end of a fast moving rock or a musket or cross for having done so..... The last thing folks need to hear is that we have it all together - sounds like a little cheating of souls there. I don't expect to get slapped down for having echoed their words. You ought to see the disapproving looks when I state that the Book of Mormon was written for Mormons - and not necessarily to point the finger at Rome or some other organization. The Pope will never read this stuff - it was written for the Gentiles who refuse to listen to good counsel. Joseph Smith finally threw the towel in knowing what his fate was when his wife and most of the other wolves around him would not support him any longer in his preaching of the truths that were so beautiful and saving. The people had reached their spiritual elastic limit for truth and could bear no more, so he was killed - and what I would give to have a fraction of what he could have passed on. Here we sit, as President Benson stated in 1985, still under condemnation and without the sealed portion of the BofM because we are too thick-headed collectively to even absorb and digest what we have. When I realized the Book of Mormon was railing against me (the end of 2 Nephi) about ten years ago, it was a watershed moment. There is a reason that the humble child of Manasseh will have the privilege of building the Temple at the center stake - and we will largely be left out of the process in a way that would be all consuming. Read it - your Book of Mormon says it! Sure Ephraim will be there, but the righteous remnant of Manasseh will dominate the scene while the wicked of the Gentiles and Ephraim will be torn asunder by the doings of their once-scorned brothers. We as a country and a church have made our bed and will sleep fitfully in it while we await the totality of our demise. This is the end result and final stop of the train of political correctness. It will get to the point that I believe it will split the Bretheren squarely causing confusion and fear amongst the ranks. Right now we have high-ranking members of our church who seek for political office who, Peter-style, deny the efficacy of the legacy of their grandparents who clung to a belief that plural marriage was God's way according to Section 132 - even though we caved to the PC crowd back then and began taking the first steps down that thorn-filled road. Those ancestors whose sacred toil and lives of consecration that have been desecrated by the words of these Judas politicians will cry out for a retraction at the very least and there will be much humiliation by those individuals if they do not change. They have spit in the eye of the Prophet Joseph as well. This is the great division that will wrack the church. It is the words of the early Bretheren that precisely condemn many of us today as our current Bretheren echo them and we as a Church throw them aside with impunity. How I do not wish to be part of that punishing wave that will befall us to chastise and purify and cleanse us. I do not fear man, I fear what God's just hand will do to a largely forsaken and corrupt people. We truly will deserve our chosen fate - and I do think we are approaching the time when the day of repentance is past - yes, the Book of Mormon was written for us. The call of Mormon and Moroni at the end of the record, as they looked over their people whose fair ones had fallen echoes largely in my ears as of late. Mormon and Moroni wrote to those who would be reading their words - US!! Not necessarily the prelate in Rome, or the politician in Brussels, it was for us stupid. We are the fallen ones - and NO, all is not well in Zion!!

So as we continue to strip/downplay the wondering doctrines from our scriptures and our hymnals that point our thoughts and intellects heavenward, think of where that trajectory is taking us. Visit the CofC temple sometime and ask them how much it costs to rent what should be their most holy of edifices for a weekend. I about barfed when one of their male 'high priest' tour guides told me back in 2001.

And now to close this outspoken rant, being ever the eternal optimist, I have to state that for the first time in the past 20 years that I can remember, I was able to sing my favorite hymn (that every visitor to this blog must endure....), "If You Could Hie to Kolob" in Church today for the closing hymn. There is hope that someone still believes in that doctrine and that we have not tucked it away as too un-mainstream, or no longer cool to talk about. The PC scrubbing then is not complete - there may be some hope for us.... Just maybe my lunatic ravings are not falling on deaf ears??

Here are the powerful words to my favorite hymn that sends my spirit and mind reaching for the eternities and whose words written over 170 years ago still have science sprinting to catch up with them:

1. If you could hie to Kolob In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward With that same speed to fly,
Do you think that you could ever, Through all eternity,
Find out the generation Where Gods began to be?

2. Or see the grand beginning, Where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation, Where Gods and matter end?
Me thinks the Spirit whispers, "No man has found 'pure space,'
Nor seen the outside curtains, Where nothing has a place."

3. The works of God continue, And worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression Have one eternal round.
There is no end to matter; There is no end to space;
There is no end to spirit; There is no end to race.

4. There is no end to virtue; There is no end to might;
There is no end to wisdom; There is no end to light.
There is no end to union; There is no end to youth;
There is no end to priesthood; There is no end to truth.

5. There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above.
There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above.

And yet another great rendition by Lex de Azevedo:

IF YOU COULD HIE TO KOLOB

ENJOY!!

AN APPENDAGE TO THE ABOVE FROM ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MORTALS TO WALK THE EARTH IN THE LAST 100 YEARS:

Elder Boyd K. Packer in an address to Regional Representatives has said:

In recent years I have felt, and I think I am not alone, that we are losing the ability to correct the course of the church. You cannot appreciate how deeply I feel about the importance of this present opportunity unless you know the regard, the reverence, I have for the Book of Mormon and how seriously I have taken the warnings of the prophets, particularly Alma and Helaman.

Both Alma and Helaman told the church in their day. They warned about fast growth, the desire to be accepted by the world, to be popular, and particularly they warned about prosperity. Each time those conditions existed in combination, the church has drifted off course. All of those conditions are present in the church today.

Helaman repeatedly warned, I think four times he used these words, that the fatal drift of the church could occur in the space of not many years. In one instance it took only six years. (Helaman 6:32; 7:6; 11:26) (See also 3 Nephi 7:8.) (Regional Representative Seminar, March 30, 1990)

THE KOLOB THEOREM - SOME MIND BENDING STUFF

I have alot to say about Kolob that I have not blogged yet. In recent posts, I have started to touch on the way that I think our planet would get from here to there "as we upward move" as Eliza R Snow penned in the hymn I featured in an earlier piece (find keyword KOLOB in the list of blog keywords and click on it for more info). I still have to track down big dipper/North Star statements by GA's in recent conferences that I thought were intriguing (including one by Joseph Smith) and do a little more explaining of how I think binary stars are represented in Facsimile 2 of the Pearl of Great Price.

I did bump into this via one of the blog's followers and I hope you will take a peek. I think there is alot to what little I have been able to read.

http://hickmanmuseum.homestead.com/the_kolob_theorem.pdf

I just can't help myself with this wild and crazy stuff!!

ENJOY!!

PLANETS BEING SWAPPED FROM GALAXY TO GALAXY

So, I haven't got the time to research the quotes from the early Bretheren about our planet having been swapped from another system [click for link], other than the words of my beloved Eliza R. Snow (LINK HERE), where she said that our planet would upward move (to a terrestrial sphere during our millenial glory) and then finally move towards its crowning celestial glory after the final cleansing.

I will say here that it is also scientific fact that the end of the Mayan cycle coincides with the tail end of our galaxy (that you and I currently are hanging out in on this blue orb) is slicing through another galaxy, and it could lead to a rocky ride with previously unbeknownst celestial wonders showing up and our sun doing freaky things as magnetic fields interact (the other galaxy is perpendicular [or near] to ours) and we all remember the magnetic field line experiments from Physics class. It may be an electrifying experience.....

Here is the first scientific article I have seen where science is just beginning to see the glimmer of light backing revealed religion:

Just found: The planet from another galaxy

by Associated Press

KING5.com

Posted on November 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Scientists have discovered the first planet from another galaxy, sort of.

While some 500 planets have been identified in other parts of our galaxy - the Milky Way - none has been reported in other galaxies.

Now one has been discovered orbiting a star called HIP 13044, located about 2,000 light year away. While this star is now in the Milky Way, researchers reported in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science that it originated in a separate galaxy that was later cannibalized by ours.

That makes the new planet, which is about 20 percent larger than Jupiter, the first found to have originated in another galaxy.

"This discovery is very exciting," Rainer Klement of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, said in a statement.

"For the first time, astronomers have detected a planetary system in a stellar stream of extragalactic origin. Because of the great distances involved, there are no confirmed detections of planets in other galaxies. But this cosmic merger has brought an extragalactic planet within our reach."

The new planet is orbiting a star from what is known as the Helmi stream - a group of stars that originally belonged to a dwarf galaxy that was devoured by the Milky Way about six to nine billion years ago.

The researchers say the new planet is also one of the few planets known to have survived the period when its host star expanded massively after exhausting the hydrogen fuel supply in its core. The star has now contracted again, they report.

Johny Setiawan, also from the Max Planck Institute, added that "this discovery is particularly intriguing when we consider the distant future of our own planetary system, as the Sun is also expected to become a red giant in about five billion years."

The study also raises questions about the formation of giant planets, the researchers said, since the host star appears to contain very few elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.

"It is a puzzle for the widely accepted model of planet formation to explain how such a star, which contains hardly any heavy elements at all, could have formed a planet. Planets around stars like this must probably form in a different way," said Setiawan.