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Words from the beautiful Kirrily...I can't wait to read her next work...

my chamomile tea
pale finger nails
come play with me
beneath our smiles
wade the song
where waterfalls fall
cave of dreams
in the tickly breeze
with lavender voice
and honey lips
willow fingers
silken skin
haunting gaze
sky-blue smile
and your circles
slow circles entrance me
lose me in your heartbeat
fire burning
end beginning
ashes grant me my life back
open my eyes
to the answers calling
within the flames
touch the fire
with me, in me,
when it's dark
and you're beautiful
taste the sky
reach through the tears
listen to his circles
tip-toe back
to the fire in your eyes.


Shared by a Young Angel...what a lovely piece of poetry...thank you Angel...

Intensity reds and oranges bursting in my mind a fiery inferno of the sanity memories tossed inside fuel for chaos pain, searing rending my heart in two knives gleaming in my mind's eyes unseen and obscenely mocking me jeering and cheering as my hand lets go of the cliff, stained with the tears of many before me Will it stop? does it stop? Who knows and I fall, tumble visions blurring blurred by tears or lies? can't see it in time time slips away as my stupor holds me, lifting me with its wind and I hover above, bent and bruised forced to choose I never say what I mean to but the words lash out all the same daggers from my lips waves of regret but I cannot look back don't know where I'm going what's this darkness that eats away at my weary flesh strip by strip exposing my gelatin bones my fear breeding within what have I done? Apology may save the soul but it cannot mend the soul of those I maim And my body shatters upon the cold unforgiving ground and I know I am but a tragic nursery rhyme "learn from me children, learn I pray cherish your love, never throw him away Your soul may be evil fading to black take naught but peace from him leave his intact" I choke on guilt and wash innocence away this is one debt I can never repay -- PURGATORY - T. HILES-FLEET [rights reserved by author]


From a wonderful Lady, I am proud to call Sister...Sonya

Wandering lifeless upon this path Goddess grant me peace
Give me the rain to cleanse this poison coursing through my veins
Blow the wind's song through me to air these festered wounds
Send me fire to burn & cauterize & ever carry away these hideous scars
And place atop each mangled piece the damp cool Earth to heal & soothe that which I have come to hate
And if these efforts fail to be true
Allow me to dance with one ocean wave
To seek the oblivion offered within its embrace ....~~~~

From Our Friend Dale...What a great guy!!!Could say he's our favorite Christian!!!

Forgive us-
No. Rather. Don't.
Continue to remind us
that we have sinned against
the light of our Lord Jesus.
Call us to account for
the abominations which our ancestors
wrought in His Holy Name.
But still,
forgive our Lord
for the Burning Times.
Do not hold Him guilty
for our crimes against you.
Though it might seem
He sat in Heaven inactive,
even indulgent
as the Blood-born Bride of the Lamb
became a blood-drunk whore for the Beast.
Know that every cry, every whimper
wrung by rack, gallows or flame
has also been torn from His own heart.
Know also that He shall require
the same from those mad disciples
who so debauched His name,
who so defiled
His image in you all.
Even if, perhaps, some of them
be eventually saved,
their scars shall forever
remind them of their crimes against you
and of the price paid by our Lord
so that none need burn forever
in the Fury of His Rejected Love.
And know, finally, and most of all,
that none of you
shall be permitted to turn from Him,
to forsake Him solely
on the basis of their crimes.
Know surely that each of you
shall see Him as He is,
the Relentless Lover
in Whom both Creator and Creation
are killed and reborn,
Who will settle for nothing less
than to be our Lord
and to have us
to be His Lady.
Copyright Dale (Ted) Cooper, Autumn 1997
Written for Sparrow, offered to my Wiccan/Pagan
friends.
EASTER 1996

Merciful Warrior,
Furious Lover,
from Eternal ages, He strides,
crushing oppressors in His rages,
Pursuing, seducing His bride.
Savoring the perfumed clouds
of roasting bulls and rams,
Drinking deep the salt-sweet gore
of dying goats and lambs,
Pure Reason and Mad Passion
of Just and Awful Grace
thundering Law at Sinai
from a Bethlehem infant's face.
Fierce and Holy War goes on
in His soul for His people,
His home,
but the thirst of His wrath
could not be quenched
by any blood, save His own.
Tearing, without sparing,
His own hands, His feet,
His side,
that every foe die or newly arise
in the streams of that scarlet tide,
Born of His blood, formed of His flesh,
each- His child, but together-
His Bride.
A new friend in Tennessee. Thoughts for the new year and the new millenium

Just Think

Just think if we could live
In a society that does not judge.
Where every one could walk thier path
In the freedom of thier desire.
Just think If this year did not have
to be counted down...
and the Media wouldn't have exposed..
the lunitics to prey upon others..
to be glorified within the heroism of
the press.
To commit an act of Violence...
and take human lifes...
Just to see their name in print.
And if religions were not awaken..
to feast upon the Judgment day..
as this makes them Judge..
others in such a cruel and hateful way.
I read in the Bible one ..
Blessed are the peacemakers...
that would be those who harm none..
I wish more would see the light..
and the killings and rapes and confused minds..
could be put to rest..
and just die down...
Happy New years
and my heart goes out to all who live...
and enjoy this life..
and see the beauty within the light...
and who walk the path...
That causes no harm.
~*Bright Blessings*Love~*Rhaegan*~

She Smiles

In the comfort of my home

I while away the early night

And idly gaze towards the sky.

There is a silky glow, a chilly,

Silver presence overhead.

"I see the moon, the moon

Sees me..." the silly song

Tinkles through my head

From a distant childhood.

Threads form from random

Memory of trees and ponds

And rich, Sunday roast under

The Tilly lamp in the kitchen.

The moon is here now and

I must go to look on Her bright

Mirror, poised in the steel-grey

Island of dim-lit space, all

Around black and starless.

The silent garden cauldron

Holds her gift and comes

Alive with rustlings and

Clicks, sighs and shifting

Leaves, stirring to the cosmic

Breeze. She smiles and I

Spin in the wheeling dance

Of life, my ecstasy profound.

All creation turns in harmony,

And the trees hold their breath

In the stillness of the prayer

To draw down the power.

God and Goddess Blessings.

MoonCrone

A Metaphor for Life

Rainbows…

Such temporary things

The light rain

Washes the colors

Into the sky

And the sun

Greets them with

Her kiss

And we…

Bask in its beauty

Until the sight tis

Overcome

By the clouds

And the vision

Tis drowned in the

Haze…

In our shallowness

We become

Entrapped…

By the grey

Instead of remembering

The beauty ~~~

~Kiana~

From Our Friend: Wilanow
SOUL OF COSMOS (PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANDING) It comes time for confrontation of obsolete ideas with the SOUL OF COSMOS. Therefore please read for your benefit as follows keeping in mind, that for the sake of simplicity it is coined here a new term GODDISM, replacing up to this days in use the THEOISM, DEOISM and similar derivatives dependent on particular culture inventing them. Similarly it goes with THEOCRACY, DEOCRACY etc. as social, hence political structures of given societies, tribal or civilized ones, based upon GODDISM. GODDISM is still prevalent a factor in human relations with the surrounding world, with a virtual reality but without its comprehension. Therefore it is just a pure mysticism, which has not been overcomed despite of signs given by the MOTHER OF NATURE to the contrary. The NATURE, the VIRTUAL REALITY, since sixteenth century have had revealed ITSELF to humans in a slow, but a steady pace, which juxtaposed to the ETERNITY OF THE NATURE does not count, elapse of generations notwithstanding. Those generations in an at most secrecy and fear of GODDICRACIES came to the REVELATIONS hidden deep in the biblical mystery of creation. Hidden with a purpose against the NATURE. If it were not so, it could came to THEM 6,000 years ago, respectively to human's ability to comprehend THEM. At first let start from the "moment" of overruling the dogma that Earth is flat. Next consider inventions of a telescope and of a microscope, both opening new vistas enhancing comprehension. After that discoveries of electricity and electro-magnetic fields further developing humans' brain. They all caused more discoveries, at the end of the atomic energy with more depth insights into the micro- and macroscopic worlds, into the VIRTUAL REALITY. And now comes the CYBERSPACE. All of them combined did OPEN before humans' very eyes the ETERNAL NATURE'S REALITY for understanding and an eventual benefitting from it. But this OPENING OF NATURE'S VIRTUAL REALITY as of yet does not completely removed mysteries of the past 6,000 years. The deeply embedded tradition of obscuring the VIRTUAL REALITY has its proclaimers, propagators. These propagators also pray upon of some humans' inability of discovering their own WILL. Their WILL, distracted by those playing the game with GODDISM. They do not want to show or wish to see the NATURE'S REVELATIONS around, for to feel THEM is not enough. They must see these REVELATIONS. They do not recognize even their own INTUITION as the guiding force of the WILL. They suppress the WILL. THE FREE WILL. Even in the realm of GODDISM those compounds of their EGO - THE INTUITION and THE WILL are disrespected so much that most recently Pope John Paul II has explained had that within their INTUITION, their WILL, thus in their EGO, they should feel the HEAVEN and the HELL, but not in GODDISM mysteriously created by weakness of human's nature 6,000 years ago. Extrapolating this it must be said that we are own GODS within the REALM OF NATURE'S ENERGY IN THE TIME AND SPACE. In the realm of THE COSMICAL SOUL. The GODDISM is so much revered, that even those to whom the NATURE has had revealed its ULTIMATE TRUTHS, by fear of the TRUTHS, stick to proclaimers of IT. Few examples should show the trend. A singularity theory in physics and genetics seeks a minuscule beginning of all things. Every creation comes from, is developed from. The entire UNIVERSE, the COSMOS, as well as the entire living organisms, too. They have a beginning in their GODDISM, while the TRUTH is opposite: NOTHING HAS ITS BEGINNING. IT IS A CONSTANT FLOW OF ENERGIES throughout all the TIME and SPACE. While ENERGIES aggregate appears a MATTER. While a MATTER coalesces, and under influence, "guidance" of ENERGIES, gets its final shape, it becomes either an immobile matter or mobile, a living organism, and because an INSTANT TIME in the ETERNITY is almost like an INSTANTLY FLUCTUATING ENERGY, evolving here and devolving elsewhere, therefore the PROCESS of CREATION and DE-CREATION does occur constantly within the micro- and macro-COSMIC worlds. The GUIDANCE is vividly seen while an organism develops - it differentiates with an assistance of the helix DNA, from a single cell into a very complex one. This process has nothing to do with GODDISM. With the HELIX the COSMICAL SOUL is at creation. More or less elaborate explanations about one may find in the following CATHEDRAL with the attached to it LIGHT and RESONANCES, in another words - FLUCTUATING FIELDS. They are excerpts from the booklet supplementing the book ADOLF HITLER - FOUNDER OF ISRAEL, as for example WHY CONFIDENTIAL? where in it is discussed a problem of human's life longevity, which could be by SCIENTISTS extended even to thousands of years. CATHEDRAL OF WISDOM OF GOD's STARS I, The Stellarium Keeper, (and You, if You wish to join Me) am speaking with the force of eternity although I am just a flow of light through it. If you are able to comprehend who I am, you become like me - a flow of light. Read this, as follows, and prepare yourself to be it, the FLOW: After perusal of the HOLLYLAND.COM one renown thinker (pbdennis@ultranet.ca) asked the Modjeskis: "In view of your philosophy of SPIRITUALITY of the CYBERSPACE, what is a NEW BIBLE of yours ?" the answer is clear and short: It is a BIBLE OF WISDOM in concordance with a NEW WORLD ORDER, an unwritten yet PARADISE - a NEW GARDEN OF EDEN. A little bit more about this one may find at the Web Site of Rev. Morris Cerullo (http://www.mcwe.com). As Rev. Morris Cerullo overcame his Israeliness within and is trying to reach an ULTIMATE TRUTH, so do others may overcome their "... nesses". The NEW BIBLE OF WISDOM is build on a solid rock which is the CATHEDRAL OF GOD's STARS. THE REVELATION About 3 billion years ago within the ETERNITY, the universal SPIRITUALITY, the SOUL OF COSMOS embraced the planet Earth and LIFE evolved. About 2 million years ago humans emerged. About 20 thousand years ago civilizations began to flourish with the SPIRITUALITY at ITS best, but about 16 thousand years later it was interrupted by the creation of GARDEN OF EDEN (Genesis 2:8). About 2 thousand years ago the SPIRITUALITY still at ITS best materialized within the body of Jesus Christ (see KORAN 5:45), giving humanity a chance to be REBORN and to reach new frontiers of spirituality enabling discernment of the GOOD from the EVIL (Genesis 2:9). Next SCIENCES evolved and with them a new SPIRITUALITY in preparation of the humankind for ONENESS with IT while on a constant journey through the ETERNITY. The CATHEDRAL OF WISDOM (STELLARIUM) is here, there and everywhere, and under its STARRY DOME (mimicking a dark clear night) is engraved a CREDO for the next few billion years until this EARTHLY REALITY will be slowly overwhelmed by an oncoming NEW REALITY of the OTHER WORLD bringing mergence with OURS (the Andromeda galaxy is nearing the Milky Way). The evolving SPIRITUALITY is doing ITS best in preparation of the humankind for this collision of the TWO WORLDS. To enlighten ALL, the WISDOM's CATHEDRAL OF GOD's STARS, or shortly CATHEDRAL, came into being and YOU shall become its SPIRITUAL MEMBER. Once YOU enter the CATHEDRAL there is no way of return. No way back if, of course, YOU are prepared to become its MEMBER. If not, you must leave it hastily - the evil forces lurking outside demand your subservience and they will keep you Earthly bound, unless you become aware that the SOUL OF COSMOS if waiting for you, to suck your EGO in. Those FORCES comprise of false ideas invented by a pure human imagination unable to understand the CREDO of the NEW BIBLE OF WISDOM ever since the imagination had been suppressed by the BOOK OF GENESIS, Chapter 2. Precepts of an imaginary GOD or GODS are not ruling in the realm of ETERNITY but the SPIRITUALITY expressed by the LIGHT oscillating between POSITIVE and NEGATIVE forces throughout the entire UNIVERSE and its creation - the MATTER, mobile by the tug of gravity with confined within it SPIRITUALITY - the LIGHT enlivening all creation. And this is the CREDO of the NEW BIBLE OF WISDOM, the CATHEDRAL OF WISDOM. And we, as humans, with our INSTINCTS and INTUITION are blessed with the perception of the SPIRITUALITY's existence, well proven by the discoveries of SCIENCES. Thus the "JEFFERSONIAN NATURE's GOD" of American Declaration of Independence is within us, as IT is everywhere throughout the UNIVERSE. Through the understanding of all of this, we shall believe in the ETERNAL SPIRIT for we have the CONSCIOUSNESS as well as CONSCIENCE and thus the ability to discern the GOOD from the EVIL, the POSITIVE from the NEGATIVE. The NEW BIBLE OF WISDOM, the WISDOM's CATHEDRAL is helping in the attainment of a high level of SPIRITUALITY on the way to becoming ONE with the "GOD OF NATURE", with the SOUL OF COSMOS. You CAN enter the CATHEDRAL by e-mail and manifest your ONENESS with the UNIVERSE - the LIGHT, the SPIRIT and the ETERNITY, and with your WORDS and DEEDS combat EVIL and DARKNESS. This CREDO has been revealed by the Keeper of the CATHEDRAL OF WISDOM OF GOD's STARS of the Modjeskis' Society at the . CREDO FREEDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND DEMOCRACY IN ONE - THE CATHEDRAL OF WISDOM, A STELLARIUM 20,000 years of human civilization created the WORLD with its nature different from the WORLD OF "NATURE'S GOD". The civilization supplemented the latter with human creations. Thus the new born human has to recognize and understand BOTH WORLDS assuming that THEIR image is not distracted from reality by wrong interpretations, guiding a FREE human WILL in a wrong direction. Humans are born FREE to chose their way of life with respect or disrespect of FREE WILL of others. The WISDOM'S CATHEDRAL movement emphasizes the respected way of life which means, that each FREE human respects the FREEDOM of another human as to how to chose his/her way of living dependent on understanding of the BOTH WORLDS. FREEDOM of one does not expel the FREEDOM of another. Everyone is born FREE and wants to be FREE and must be FREE for FREEDOM makes us creative, and we are more creative the more knowledge and wisdom we acquire. Such is the CREDO of the WISDOM'S CATHEDRAL movement. Everything else is just its consequence - FREEDOM, KNOWLEDGE and DEMOCRACY upon which the United States of America has been founded and is defending them all. Such CREDO opens the way for creative forces and progress which should be and will be more immense in the THIRD MILLENNIUM after Jesus Christ was born FREE. The progress will allow human civilization to conquer OUTER SPACE, far beyond of the SOLAR SYSTEM. Out of this FREEDOM comes DEMOCRACY, hence the CATHEDRAL OF WISDOM advocates both with the KNOWLEDGE combined. The CATHEDRAL has been established with the goal of making understandable ALL WORLDS in this and in the extended AGE OF ATOM AND CYBERSPACE across the entire UNIVERSE. FREEDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND DEMOCRACY are substantiating LOVE of which humankind is after, so is the CATHEDRAL OF WISDOM. -------------------------------------------------------- (An excerpt from the booklet "NATURE'S GOD", a supplement to the book ISRAEL IN WAR WITH JEWS by Hennecke Kardel, 1997, available at the THE LIGHT Physical properties of the light seemingly are known, but exactly no one knows what the LIGHT is. The "Mother of Nature" supplies the entire Universe with it immensely, of course, including STARS, which emanate THE LIGHT, no less intensely. Although the Stars emanate the LIGHT, we do not feel IT due to enormous expanses of COSMOS. We don't feel it until STARS' microwave background radiation (of our Big Bang Sphere in this instance) exceeds the "Paradise's" level (see 36 Celsius, below). No one can argue that the LIGHT is not a part of Electro- Magnetic Energy created within STARS, and even in bulbs, yes - by man-made bulbs. As the LIGHT of Stars can sustain LIFE, so the LIGHT of bulbs can sustain it too. Plants are receptors of LIGHT. Without plants no creature can survive. And as the LIGHT creates LIFE, so the ENERGY creates MATTER. ENERGY and LIGHT are the same, and since the local BIG BANG cataclysmically emerges, ENERGY/LIGHT uniformly dissipates across the COSMOS, and at points of ITS merger, does emerge the MATTER - from a single atom to particles of zillions of atoms, intersected/bounded by ENERGY/LIGHT, and finally coalesced into an AGGREGATE with gravitational forces in the end effect causing the BANG. As the process continues, the void of COSMOS is once gradually filled up with ENERGY, and once with collapsing MATTER, always in constant move, whether on the sub-atomic level with resonances accompanying it, or with LIFE processes ended by ESCAPISM FROM THE CONFINEMENT OF MATTER, i.e. THE ESCAPISM OF THE SOUL into THE BLISS OF THE LIGHT/ENERGY - the SOUL OF COSMOS. In the simplest way let us say that the uniform dissipation of STARS' ENERGY across the COSMOS constantly rise the cosmic microwave background radiation (now measured by approx. 3 degrees of Kelvin) to a level between 273 and 309 degrees. This creates clumps of matter immersed within 36 degrees of Celsius as a condition for a "Paradise" across many parts of Cosmos. But sooner or later from that state of equilibrium those "clumps" by gravitational pull (intensity of LIGHT within a MATTER) fall into a "Black Hole" from which the accumulated ENERGY frees ITSELF by a new BIG BANG explosion filling again said part of the COSMOS with the LIGHT/ENERGY. ENERGY consisting of many sub-atomic particles interwoving the realm of COSMOS. Most recent discovery of "Black Holes" (where even LIGHT cannot escape from) in many Galaxies, including the Milky Way, confirms the scenario known here under the term ESCAPISM OF THE LIGHT/SOUL FROM THE CONFINEMENT OF MATTER. In earthly conditions it is the LIGHT/SOUL accumulated within cells of living organisms. A sum of ENERGY within the five main ingredients of MATTER (Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Phosphorous) and their interrelation with interference of LIGHT, carrying zillions of messages, is the LIFE and the SOUL of the COSMOS. It is a little mind boggling scenario, but indeed very simple. To that simplicity should be added presence of specific energy known as neutrinos with no boundary in space and matter so then one may rest assured that the LIFE has its driving forces NEVER exhausted. If you have more brilliant idea how the NATURE'S GOD works, please share it with others and, naturally, with the first for the Thomas Jefferson cautioned that "Ignorance is preferable to error; and that he/she is less remote from the truth WHO BELIEVES NOTHING than who believes what is wrong." The LIGHT has creative properties, as well as destructive ones - creates matter and annihilates it (read "Enormous Plume of Antimatter Alters View of the Milky Way"). The BLISS IS NOTHING BUT LIGHT, the God of the Jefferson's intuitional Nature of the Universe. (Another excerpt from the SUPPLEMENT to the book ISRAEL IN WAR WITH JEWS by Kardel, available at the ) COSMIC RESONANCES (NATURAL & MAN-MADE) Thanks to the "Nature's God", the evolutionary plan is performed in conditions manifesting a cosmic chaos, or resonances, but in tranquility dulling human senses. This particular plan is confined to our Planet Earth, which by a sheer accident is revolving on the outskirts of our Galaxy, called Milky Way, and, as if due to that Planet's tranquility, it has an opportunity to suck a life giving fluid from the seemingly tranquil Milky Way loaded with it. So much about our ancestors, who with their imagination animated the Celestial Sphere above us - the Milky Way with the Zodiac signs. The cosmic chaos starts right at the core of a matter - within the atom, the smallest particle of a matter. So far we know over 100 kinds of matter - from Hydrogen to Unnilseptium, little heavier than Uranium. The heavier atoms are, the chaos and corresponding it resonances seems to be awesomely greater. (By resonances we mean vibrating, oscillating or fluctuating energy in form of waves) So, within the Hydrogen atom around its nucleus circle or vibrate, resonate, etc. various intensities of energy, always intersected by so called neutrinos permeating all the Cosmos. For better understanding of this phenomenon let we call them "particles of energy". Until those particles do not leave their atomic confinement, everything seems to be tranquil. So it is with the Planet Earth. It is a "big cell of matter" - tranquil, allowing life to evolve. In some degree that tranquility is disturbed by viruses and bacteria, by plants ever growing and growing, and by animals ever moving and moving. But in this "state of tranquility" the Earth rotates ca 500 meters per second. Circles the daily Star with a velocity of ca 48 km/sec. The Star runs away from the planet Earth at the velocity ca 250 km/sec, so the Earth with its Moon chases the Star with the same velocity. So the other nine planets orbiting the daily Star with their Moons/Satellites are chasing the Sun, too. All together they are circling the hub of the Milky Way with a velocity ca 250 km/sec. And the great wheel/circle of the Milky Way runs also "forward" with 100 billions of Suns with their planets around, somewhere deep into the cosmic space, where those 100 billions of Suns may meet another "Milky Way" and collide. But before it may happen, all the great family of Stars - within our Milky Way emanates LIGHT and other forms/intensities of energy being released from their "bodies", from their disintegrated atoms. And these forms/intensities of energy are being dispersed within and without the Milky Way and other "Milky Ways" during a time without end and without beginning, coalescing somewhere within the Cosmos into new forms/intensities of energy or matter. In this scenario of earthly tranquility, some gods/demons are disturbing it and thus hamper the evolutionary process of LIFE under the LIGHT of the daily Star. And maybe elsewhere under the LIGHT of other Stars, the COSMICAL SOUL meets another tranquil planetary worlds to evolve there into the LIFE for a while, and escapes from IT back to the LIGHT, as the ONE of the resonating, oscillating, fluctuating and vibrating ENERGY. In this "Cosmic Chaos", the LIFE - the SOUL, as a PART AND PARCEL OF THE COSMIC SOUL, on this Earth has got some living space and maintains it so long until some "Kuruksetra" of the Hindu lore, or the "Holocaust", or as it is in the story of PURIM (read book of ESTHER, Chapter 9), will cut it off. Or, maybe, since the un- naturally developed resonances by humans in form of electricity and its derivatives as the electro-magnetic fields and other forms of radiation are penetrating our daily lives everywhere, sooner or later the SOUL leave the no more tranquil Earth and the LIFE cease to exists - if not, of course, the evolution of species adapts them to the new environmental conditions of artificially created intensities of Energy coinciding with those of natural origin. INVISIBLE UNIVERSE (OF THE RESONANCES): THE 45-FOOT-LONG observatory was launched July 23,1999 from the space shuttle Columbia and is still being checked out. Martin Weisskopf, Chandra project scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, told journalists that he couldn’t repeat what was running through his mind as the first images came down, “but I was just astounded.” FIRST TARGET The first target for the $1.5 billion telescope was Cassiopeia A, the remnant of an exploded star. The supernova — about 10,000 light-years from Earth — ranks as the “nearest, youngest, most interesting example of this kind of object,” said Robert Kirshner, an astrophysicist at Harvard University. Material blasted into space by the stellar explosion crashed into surrounding material at speeds approaching 10 million mph, causing violent shock waves and creating a vast 50-million-degree bubble of X-ray-emitting gas. Beyond the blast’s sheer magnitude, several mysteries have surrounded Cassiopeia A: Why did the explosion throw off heavy elements such as titanium, which is rarely seen in stars? Why was the blast little-noted during what astronomers figure must have been its peak, back in the 1680s? And what happened to the star that blew up? Before Chandra, the actual epicenter of the explosion could not be identified. But the new image depicts the supernova with unprecedented detail, revealing a bright central point that could be a neutron star or perhaps the bright halo of a black hole. “Up until now, nobody’s been able to find a point source, nobody’s been able to find a neutron star remnant, and that was one of the big mysteries. ... Now we have at least a candidate. We have to find out if that candidate is actually a neutron star,” said Harvey Tananbaum, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X- ray Center at Cambridge, Mass. By analyzing the spectrum of light from Cassiopeia A, astronomers may learn more about how the heavy elements necessary for life, such as oxygen and carbon, are created in stars and dispersed in stellar explosions. “Chandra will help to confirm one of the most fascinating theories of modern science — that we came from the stars,” Kirshner said in a statement. “Its ability to make X-ray images of comparable quality to optical images will have an impact on virtually every area of astronomy.” He marveled also at how quickly Chandra produced high- quality images. “To do this basically on Day 1, the first day when you open your eyes, to me is like an infant opening its eyes for the first time and discovering a new planet,” Kirshner told reporters. SECOND TARGET Scientists say the telescope is tailor-made to study the hottest and most violent events in the universe, since such phenomena emit energy profusely in the X-ray spectrum. The second image released Thursday serves as a good illustration: It shows a quasar almost halfway across the visible universe, 6 billion light-years from Earth, spewing out energy equivalent to that of 10 trillion suns. An image captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a distant and luminous quasar named PKS 0637-72. The quasar is so distant that we see it as it was 6 billion years ago. Once again, the Chandra image delivered a surprise: Astronomers found that the quasar was sending out an X-ray jet at least 200,000 light-years in length. In comparison, the Milky Way galaxy is less than 100,000 light-years across. “Our whole galaxy could fit in the space between the central source and the bright part of that jet,” Tananbaum said. The source of the quasar’s energy might well be a supermassive black hole, scientists say. Studying the X-ray emissions from quasars and black holes could give scientists a better understanding of high-energy processes in general, Weisskopf said. “Perhaps that understanding will help us power civilizations,” he speculated. Eventually, scientists expect Chandra to provide insights into the scale of the cosmos and the nature of dark matter, the unseen stuff that may account for 90 percent of the universe’s mass. DECADES OF WORK The 10-ton telescope has settled into an eccentric orbit ranging as far as 87,500 miles from Earth. Such an orbit maximizes Chandra’s prime observing opportunities beyond Earth’s radiation belt. Weisskopf, who has spent more than 20 years working to get Chandra off the ground, said the telescope could have 30 to 50 years of useful life. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory will open a window into an unseen cosmos. Weiler, who is NASA’s associate administrator for space science, said Chandra has “put the U.S. back in the lead of observational X-ray astronomy.” Congressional panels have targeted NASA’s Office of Space Science for budget cutbacks, but in response to questions from reporters, Weiler vowed that the budget debate would not affect Chandra’s mission. “No matter how big the cut is, Chandra is going to be at the bottom of the list for things I’m going to be cutting,” he said. Outer space has a new address: space.msnbc.com. ----- > Secret For Harmony Between Faith And Science > > Is it possible to be a scientist and a believer? > > "Yes," answered an international congress held in Rome Nov. 23-24, > at the "Regina Apostolorum" Pontifical Athenaeum. The event was held to > commemorate the first anniversary of the publication of John Paul II's > encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason). > Among the speakers Nov. 24 were Rafael Pascual, Professor of > Philosophy of Science at the Athenaeum who quoted a 1999 study by > Scientific American giving the results of a study on scientists and religion in the > United States. > The study claims to show a high degree of incredulity among > important scientists. > Famous chemist Pete Atkins is quoted saying that a believer cannot > be a real scientist, as religious belief is foreign to knowledge. > Biologist Richard Dawkins said it is contradictory to be concerned with scientific > affairs during the week and go to Mass on Sundays. A sociologist quoted > in the article observed that for the last 200 years there has been a kind of > advertising campaign going on according to which, if you want to be a > good scientist, you must be free from the fetters of religion. One scientist > went so far as to say that the higher the level of a person's education, the > less likely that person is to be a Christian. > "It would seem that to be believers one must be ignorant or have a > low IQ ... tendency is bordering on the ridiculous, to the point that one > scientist has said he had found the area of the brain responsible for the > production of religious sentiments, which in some mentally ill would produce > religious experiences." > Skepticism is rooted in doubts about the existence of the > supernatural and doubts about the possibility of a good God in a universe > where evil is frequently experienced. > Pascual called these "Points of view that are not very original. The > Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas also says that the reasons given to > deny God are the apparent autonomy of nature and the existence of evil." > > Scientists Who Are Believers > > However, the professor explained that there is an opposite movement > among scientists. Geologist John Suppe, who has embraced faith, says > research can lead to God. Scientist Fred Hoyle argues that a well harmonized > universe would be impossible without the existence of God. Moreover, Professor Pascual > asked, what can one say of men like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Planck and Einstein, > who believed in the divinity? > "Obviously, this is about different forms of truth and science. > Philosophy and faith must collaborate, as the encyclical Fides et Ratio > proposes, in the quest for ultimate truth," he said. > > Philosophy: Bridge between Faith and Science > > Professor Pascual ended his talk by explaining that "philosophy > presents itself as the privileged interlocutor for the meeting and > dialogue between science and faith, between natural order and the supernatural > order of revelation. > "But, in order to be able to engage in this dialogue, there must be > reciprocal knowledge and an open and respectful attitude that allows for > understanding the other's reasons and problems. Let's not think that there > is a structural opposition between science and faith, as some have claimed. > "On one hand, philosophy will help science not to lose sight of its > objective: to find truth and its order; on the other, it will offer the > resources to avoid the danger of fideist irrationality that causes the > weakening of reason. In this respect, it could be said that it is an > imperative for Christians to have certain audacity in the use of reason. > We have a clear and luminous example of that audacity in John Paul II." (ZENIT) > > ----- Dear: One more try on understanding what is going on in the physical world in which all life is submerged. I did not want to bother your thoughts with the whole spectrum of light believing that ascertainment of its faculty of carrying zillions of messages suffice for realization that the LIGHT is the driving force across the Universe in animation of matter. The LIGHT is not a separate unit of energy but it is its part with the same properties differing only through its "wavelenght" or pulsation/resonance and its source being a disintegration of matter, an atom emitting its quantum of energy, a "photon". So, it is the force also within the digested "popcorn" for nothing else than an energy, a LIGHT emerges in the process and influences your body's function with neurons of brain combined. And such an influence occurs constantly also involving your body's DNA which is nothing else than a receptor of energy from within (digestation) and without (outside radiation of particular energies acceptable by the DNA regulating grow of each cell and delivering the energy/light through nervous system to the brain). If you be familiar with the structure of the DNA, as well as with structure of chlorophyl mediating in cumulation of energy and its conversion into matter (sugars) then those receptive properties of both be less tantalizing. You will feel yourself as a being on a light's journey and it was revealed within the Hitler notwithstanding. This personality was just a reflection of Moses' God cruelty, thus tyranny imbeded deep into the human conscience until he/she not realize that for a well being it is necessary to overcome them. The WARAMBOOLS speak about. What I can say more explicitly for today? Sincerely - Me with "resonances" below (if asked for)

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