When we hear of the star of Bethlehem and of the great comet, one simple way of understanding what they are is to look at our childhood “twinkle,twinkle little stars” on a starry night. Always, there is an uncountable number of them blinking or twinkling and appearing to be no bigger than a pin head or a ball pen point. They are so small only because they are far, far away. Actually, our sun, scorching and dangerous to view with an unaided eye, is a star! It appears so big and easily visible only because it is just 93 million miles (146.6 kilometers) away.
The nearest star from our sun is called Proxima Centauri. But it is not a distinctive star as such. It belongs to a company of three related stars.The other two stars, called Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, are closely related although 23 times the distance between the sun and the earth i.e 23 x 14. 6 million kilometers. In mathematical terms which my brain cannot catch, this is a whooping 40, 208, 000,000,000. Isn’t that 146 trillion kilometers?
I do not intend to bore you with mathematics. I never liked the subject at school. Infact, it wasn’t among my “O” level subjects because mathematics was not a compulsory subject in 1968!. I am only trying to show how expensive our universe can be and how more mature we can be on earth in everything we do if only we pay a little more attention to what is going on beyond our noses on this lowly planet.
In August 2016, NASA scientists discovered a planet around Centauri B which is believed to be rocky, 1.3 times the size of the earth and habitable if its atmosphere permits water to run on the surface. The planet is 4.5 million miles (about 7.3km) away from the planet which it orbits in every 11.2 earth days. If we recall that the earth orbits our sun in 365 or 366 earth days, life on this planet must be extremely fast at an orbit time of 11.2 earth days. Scientists have discovered what they say may be a second planet orbiting Centauri B and are working to establish if it, too, can support life.
Star Sizes
I would like to mention the sizes of some stars and our earth to invite attention to the wonderous nature of our universe through which The Great Comet is travelling towards us. They are gigantic and moving on their courses, guided by invisible and invincible forces which do not make them collide. What may happen if these forces are disarranged may be unimaginable. Yet, it may happen.
The diameter of the earth is…12, 742 kilometers. That is what you will measure if you run a tape rule from one point round the spherical globe and back, as in running the Tailor’s tape round the waist from the navel, round the body and back to the navel.
The diameter of the sun is 1.3927 million kilometers. This makes it 109 times wider than the earth. Thus, if the power which puts it up there asks the sun to fall upon the earth, where shall we all be?
Now, let us see how wide the largest star may be. uy scuti, the star, thought to be the widest among the stars, is about 1,700 times as wide as our sun. What commotion may arise in the universe if the star loses balance?
Ladies and gentlemen, finally in this introduction to The Great Comet, as this huge star and more powerful star outside our universe, is on its way to visit us, I wondered about which star could be farthest from our earth and how long it may take us to reach it. This star, say astronomers, is called…ICARUS.
It is an enormous blue star said to be between and 500 times more massive than our sun. This star is about 12.9 billion years old and millions of times as bright as our sun. Even this star is a baby star when The Great Comet stands beside it.
If you are to travel from the earth to icarus, it will take you nine billion years at the speed of light which is 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,000 miles per square second. Poor you, the fastest commercial jet liner will crawl like a snail at 2,180 kilometers per hour. Even a space craft may be of no use, flying at about 40,000 kilometers an hour or 25,000 miles an hour. The light we see from the “twinkle Little stars” comes from the burning of hydrogen and helium gases inside them. Like all things, stars also die. That is when the spiritual forces which hold their material parts together (the breath of life) is withdrawn. Dead stars become black holes.
Black Holes
The Grail Message describes them as “funnels of disintegration”. When a material planet such as the earth is due for its Final Judgement and is, therefore, literally speaking, to “die”, a black hole will suck it in from one end and spew it out at the other end in the form of gases and dust, which will be reformed into new celestial forms by the forces of nature. Human beings who are still existing on such a planet at that time will also suffer disintegration of their physical bodies and spiritual egos. This amounts to spiritual death or final death. It was to prevent spiritual death for earth men and women that the Divine Mission of Jesus to the earth, for which Christmas is a warning memorial, was set up as an emergency act of Grace. The star of Bethlehem accompanied Him on that mission from paradise as a greeting from the Father. The Great Comet which The Grail Message says is on the way is coming to spiritually purify the earth for the promised Millenium before The Last Judgement
Scientists say some black holes, the size of an atom, may harbour the mass or content of many mountains. This makes them very dense. One hypothesis says that if the match box size of a black hole is placed on the soil in any part of the earth, it will automatically bore its way through the earth crust and come out at the other end, leaving a channel hole behind. There are also stellar black holes. These are black holes made of dead suns. Some stellar black holes may contain the mass or content of 20 suns. In every galaxy in the universe, there are many black holes. A galaxy is a collection of many solar systems. The earth belongs to the Galaxy called The Milky Way, because it looks milky when observed from the earth. Scientists say that there are many stellar black holes in the galaxies, and that every galaxy has a super massive black hole formed at the same time the Galaxy was formed. The super massive black hole in our galaxy is called Sagittarius A. It is said to have capacity to store the mass or content of four million suns or several million Earths. It is around Sagittarius A that the entire Milky Way galaxy revolves as our solar system revolves around the sun.
Stars are, therefore, not decorations in the sky. Everything which exists has a purpose for coming into being. When a group of stars relate, as in a constellation (family), they produce unique radiations (emanations) which affect us on Earth. Certain radiations of the constellations produce certain plant or animal species on earth or support their well-being. The dinosaur, a group of reptiles, some dimunitive, others fearsome giants, and dominated several parts of the earth for between 140 to 160 million years or more before the stellar radiations which supported their existence disappeared because the stars which form them no longer worked together for that purpose. We humans have different skin complexions because we are meant to experience existence in different parts of the earth bathed with different stellar radiations! It should be obvious from the foregoing that, when The Great Comet enters the community of the stars, it would cause such changes in their arrangements which would bring about new constellations and, with them, new radiations hitting the earth which the souls of humans, like their earth bodies, may have not prepared for.
The World
Before I come to possible effect of The Great Comet on the earth, I would like to quickly relate it with the structure of The World. The world is not the earth as we erroneously call it in our earthly vocabulary. It is like a grain of sand in The World. The world is the gigantic, ever expanding structure known ascreation, from paradise where The Great Comet coming from, to the Earth, it’s outpost. Since the stars are what I have been looking at, I would begin the survey from below up, as man always does, and later from the above down, as revealed knowledge educates us. It is important to note that a significant star always appears on Earth when spiritual knowledge is about to be expanded or is being expanded in this great school.
Bottom, UP…
The earth and the stars belong to the world of Gross Matter, that is all material or physically tangible things which exist and we can see or touch or detect using aids such as microscopes.
Gross matter has three major divisions…(a) Coarse gross matter b)medium gross matter and (c)Fine gross matter. We live in coarse gross matter. The forms created by our spoken words await us in medium gross matter, on our way, upwards, to paradise. Our thoughts are converted into forms (beautiful or demonic) in fine gross matter.
Above the gross material spheres of existence lies ethereal matter with its various gradations as well. Above ethereal matter lies the animistic spheres. The souls of animals originate here and will return there after they become fully developed on Earth and elsewhere. Nature beings and elemental beings, such as the ones seen by Balaam in the old testament like Giants and their leaders come from here. They formed the material spheres, including the stars, over millennia.
Paradise, the eternal realms of the human spirit, lie above the animistic spheres. It has two broad divisions, each with seven realms of existence. The upper division, as stated in the first part of this series, is the world of human spirits created by God in his image. The beings here have no need to come to the earth. The Great Comet is coming from this realm, like the Star of Bethlehem, The Radiant Star,to visit to the earth, though for a different purpose from the former.
The second or bottom realm is part of paradise. Human spirit seed germs who could not develop in upper paradise and who had to journey to the earth for this purpose will eventually return to lower paradise, if they successfully develop themselves in the world of matter, gross or ethereal. For want of the right expression, I sometimes imagine that we earth men and earth women are “premature babies” from paradise who exist in “incubators” on earth. In the final analysis in our home or the bottom portion of paradise, we cannot be anything beyond Shadows of the Created Images, for we are merely developed or evolved beings!. Yet we make so much fuss about Jesus coming to personally lead us home to sit on the right hand of his father!
World Events
These are not necessarily earth events but, as explained, events within the structure of creation. This comprises
1) upper paradise
2) lower paradise
3) animistic realms
4) ethereal spheres
5)material Spheres.
Everything which exist above is replicated below though in less beautiful terms. Thus, as there are stars in gross matter the sizes and brightness of which amaze us, there are stars, also, in upper paradise. The Book of Revelations in the Bible gives a hint of this in the story of a pregnant woman in the birthing process who was attacked by the dragon and whose son was rescued and taken before the throne of God. The Dragon’s tail dragged a third of the stars to the “earth”. These events did not take place in paradise or our earth, but in the Divine world which also has a tangible land surface of divine material. The woman was not Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus on Earth. She is a Divine personality known as Elizabeth or the queen of Heaven, or Primordial Mother a prototype of what every woman in creation, including the earth, should be, tending and caring. The Divine child, queen Elizabeth was reported to be heavy with was not Jesus. Jesus had left our earth upon his murder on the cross. For his murder, the Lamb, one of the four animal beings at the foot of God’s throne, bore testimony with a bleeding wound. This was because it was the One among the Animal Beings most spiritually inclined to humanity, to the spiritual specie of Creation. The Wound and the Blood are testimonies at the foot of God’s throne of the failure of humanity on earth and in the other material spheres. So, when we speak of “the lamb which beareth the sins” of the world, this is the meaning, the accusation of ingratitude against humanity. In the child that will rule the earth with the “rod of iron”, we are allegorically presented with the preparation of the mission of The Holy Spirit in its infancy of which Jesus spoke (please see the first part of this series). He was “caught” to the throne of God, we are told. Only from this height could anyone come who could overcome Lucifer, the Anti Christ bind him for the millennium of a thousand years and “restore the power of God’s Christ”. Lucifer knew the mission would terminate his unlawful activities, and power and influence over mankind, so he tried to destroy the woman and the child (The Mission, in its infancy).
The Guardian
Three journalists in Nigeria were first among their professional peers to come to these recognitions. Their insights prepared them to position the newspapers on which they worked to enlighten their readers of these events when time was ripe. Prince Tony Momoh, as editor of the Daily Times, was the first. In 1978, Femi Kusa, one of the newspaper’s sub editors , walked into Prince Momoh’s office to wish him a beautiful Festival of The Radiant Star. . Prince Momoh was startled but rejoiced. As Oyinlde Bonuola (aka Ladbone) was Kusa’s closest colleauge, it was only natural that, in time, Bonuola’s insights expanded as well. When the Daily Times appeared politically handicapped for this task, The Guardian opened its portals. Anyone who still wonders why Bonuola and Kusa literally worked their hearts out on this newspaper, did not abuse their offices and had no more than N5000 at part in their bank accounts when they had to set off from The Guardian, despite being the two most senior powerful editorial helmsmen, may now see that matters other than pecuniary benefits engaged their vision. Thanks to Barrister Kierian Enechi, who lent them money to register The Comet, their own newspaper.
If I may drop other clues…. The name the comet was Bonuola’s idea. Jossy Ajiboye, the popular Daily Times cartoonist, designed the logo. Bonuola, a conservative journalist, wanted the typography so conservative it would have the effect of leading the readers back to the good, old days, away from the ruinous contemporary lifestyles. The insignia of the comet could not be placed before the logo, the name plate, because it would not flow well into it. So, Kusa placed it after the logo. This way, insignia of The Great Comet, flowed into the name plate or logo from the East. Actually, The Great Comet to come to our world in a straight line from the East!
Back to The Guardian newspaper… thanks for the contributions of Dr Okey Ikechukwu, a philosophy lecturer from the University of Lagos,and Mr Jacob Akindele, an economist,the Editorial Opinion ( OPED) pages provided insights into transcendental or Spirit Age enlightenment. Dr Stanley Macebuh was a thorough intellectual from the background of the History of ideas. By intellectual,I mean he believed only in what he could see,hear or touch,all within the bounds of time and space. But he nevertheless, bowed to superior opinion which, of course, transcends time and space. Dr Tunji Dare who succeeded him as Editorial page Editor was no less broad minded and a fervent defender of truth. And the Publisher,Mr Alex Urueme Ibru? Innner struggles for spiritual enlightenment led him back to school in a Bible College in the Middle- East, the insights of which he brought to bear on the Ibru Centre Bible College he founded in his home town Agbhara- Otor on his return.
Alas, as with everything and everywhere on Earth where the darkness still has a powerful foothold because of the foibles, spiritual indolence and inevitable narrow mindedness of mankind, the darkness hissed, evoking and provoking conflicts which confronted The Guardian dream!.
•Next week: The Spirit age.
