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Beginning of the writing of the work 'The Earth' (1st part of
the work 'Earth and Moon') under the title: Natural and metaphysical or spiritual depiction of the center of the earth 28th December 1846
Writer: Ans. H. (through the dictation of the Lord to Jakob Lorber)
[1] If you look at a body – however shaped it may be – with a searching mind and eye, you will easily and soon realize that three things are observed in this body. First, it’s pictorial outer shape, i.e. it’s form with all the natural attributes – as there are it’s perimeter, it’s surface on all sides and the coloration of this surface. Secondly, you will necessarily perceive a certain volume of this body, which has a certain diameter in length, width and thickness, which volume of the body, according to it’s nature, reveals some weight or gravity in any direction.
[2] For example, if you observe any stone or any other regular or irregular clump, so it will soon become apparent that it’s center of gravity does not document itself equally at all parts. Thus, you can see this especially most easily with a somewhat unshaped wooden stake, if you lay it on the water, where it will always lower it’s center of gravity surely deepest into the water. Therefore this would be the second point, which everyone can easily find with every object.
[3] The third point in a body is it’s real center, which is never to be confused with the center of gravity of a body. And therefore every body has two centers, namely one of heaviness and one of it’s physical measure. You may also examine bodies of whatever kind, and you will never find that the center of gravity and the center of the body measure coincide exactly – not even with a perfectly mathematically correct cast metal sphere, and that for the reason, because absolutely no body consists of such perfectly equal parts, according to which the center of gravity could exactly coincide with the actual center of the body measure.
[4] If, for example, you take pure steel as the most solid metal body of all metals, break such a steel bar in two, and you will easily recognize from the white fracture the crystalline structure, which will appear strikingly uniform to the naked eye. But when observed with a microscope, this fractured surface will look like if someone would see from a high mountain all sorts of large and small elevations beneath himself. But if such a difference in the crystalline structure of one of the most solid metal bodies can be perceived, how much greater is such a difference with those far less solid bodies, whose crystalline structure is often notable between large and small, dense and less dense, already easily perceptible to the free eye; and therefore the above set up theory is all the more perfectly true: that the center of gravity and the body measure center, can never coincide.
[5] Anyone could also easily see this principle with the preparation of a scale. Someone should construct a completely mathematically even weigh beam out of metal of the same density, then hang it into the weighing fork, and he will convince himself, that even with such a highly mathematically correct evenness, the two weigh beams, or rather the two parts of the same weigh beam, will never completely form a horizontal plane, but the one will suggest something to the other, and the manufacturer of the weigh beam will then have to come to the aid of the weigh beam with a file or with a hammer either on one side or on the other. The reason for this is of course the above mentioned principle.
[6] But how this relationship manifests itself in all bodies, so it is all the more peculiar completely at home with those bodies, which did not receive a form through human hands, but which My power shaped as they must be shaped to exist. Therefore, the center of gravity and the center of measurement cannot be thought to be the same place, as positive and negative polarity.
[7] You will certainly ask: How is this to be understood? But there I ask you just about it instructively: Why are the two poles of a magnetic rod not found in the mathematical center, but only mostly at the two ends of such a rod?
[8] Why is the germinal pod of a seed not in the middle of it, but mostly only on a part of the seed, while it’s center and it’s opposite pole find themselves mostly around one to three quarters of the whole seed body content of the germinal pod further inwards and outwards of the body?
[9] Why does neither man nor any animal have the heart in his center of measurement?
[10] See, from these questions it is self-explanatory that the center of gravity of a body is something completely different than it’s center of measurement. "If it concerns therefore the revelation of the center of the earth, then under it is to be understood not so much the center of measurement, but rather the actual life- or center of gravity of the earth.
[11] For an unveiling of the mere center of measurement of the earth would be, strictly speaking, an exceedingly significant ridiculousness, which can be seen very easily from that the center of every body, thus also of the earth, must be assumed only as an ideal dot, which is already correctly defined by your mathematical terms a something, which allows neither in length nor in width nor in thickness even the smallest possible diameter, thus certainly in it’s kind is the most minute of all things, and you can safely assume that even in an atomic animal, not even detectable by the strongest solar microscope, would certainly have room for countless billions of such points. Ask accordingly: What would we have to reveal of this infinitely small being, which so actually disappears into the barest nothingness? One might just say: The center of the earth consists of nothing, so it would also already be completely natural and spiritually revealed. For nothingness is synonymous both physically and spiritually; because where there is nothing, everything stops quite naturally. And it is a nothing naturally and spiritually also really not conceivable in anything else than in such a mathematical measure center – for what reason we want to move away from this meaningless center of the earth and want to turn to the extremely important center of gravity of the earth, which of course must be more volumous and, with a body as large as the earth, also of a significantly large size, in order to give the peculiar worldly physical life-activity the correspondingly effective amplitude.
[12] I already see in you through and through that you already ask within yourselves: What does this center of gravity of the earth then look like? What does it consist of? Is it a clump of diamond, or is it pure gold or iron or even a magnet? Or is it a hollow space filled with nothing but an eternally unquenchable fire, and probably even serves as a residence for the damned and bears the respectable title 'hell', of which the fire-breathing mountains scattered here and there on earth are, so to speak, chimneys?
[13] There I say: There is no talk of all this in the center of gravity of the earth, just as little as, physically taken, in the heart of a human being any of this can be. The heart is neither a diamond nor a lump of gold, nor is it iron and magnetic stone, nor is it a hollow space filled with fire, but the heart is, physically seen, an exceedingly artistic cellular tissue, within which the living soul and in it the spirit of man is and can be active like a weaver on his loom, because this loom is for the formation of the natural life and for the timely preservation of the same just so furnished. that by it’s artful construction in the hands of the soul, all this can be produced what is necessary to represent the physical life. Once this loom has become inefficient in it’s natural construction in something, it doesn’t proceed then quite right with the further generation of the physical life any longer. But if it has finally become completely unfit and clumsy, then the soul can no longer use it either, and it is then time for it to leave this vain workshop.
[14] See, this is the actual center of gravity of the earth.