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Our sun
8th August 1842
Beginning of the dictation about the "natural sun". It was continued almost daily until it's conclusion on November 21, 1842, with Anselm Hüttenbrenner being an avid writer of the word dictated by Jakob Lorber.
[1] It will not be necessary here, as at most with the representation of another star, to determine the location of this shining star (sun) more exactly, since that does each day anyway obviously. Therefore we want to ask and solve the question first: What is the sun? After solving this question, everything will be easy to order and will certainly be wonderfully clear. And so we ask this question again: What is the sun?
[2] The sun is a fixed star with respect to the planets circling around it, but for itself it is only a perfect planet, in that it too (like the earth with it's moon circling around this very sun), moves around the central solar body already known to you with all it's planets circling around it. A journey, which however, of course, lasts somewhat longer than that of the earth around the sun, for it needs almost 28,000 earth-years to complete this great orbit.
[3] Thus we would know that the sun is not only a pure sun, but that it is rather a perfect planet, which, in proportion to it's physical size, has more light flowing around it than any smaller planet orbiting it.
[4] But if the sun itself is a perfect planet in and of itself, it must certainly contain in the most perfect measure all those planetary components which occur in very diminished potencies on all the other smaller planets orbiting it. And so the sun must be found in great perfection, which is in a much smaller form and therefore also much more imperfect again in the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and it's moon, Mars, the four small particular planets Pallas, Ceres, Juno and Vesta, Jupiter and it's four moons, in Saturnus, it's rings and seven moons, in Uranus and it's five moons, and in an even more distant planet and it's three moons, and finally in all the comets (counting 12 000 million), which are still moving around the sun in the farthest distances.
[5] Or, to put it more precisely: the perfect planet Sun is the naturally perfect epitome of all it's world-children; or: in this perfect planet, everything appears more naturally perfect in a living way than it appears in any planet, moon and comet. So, for the sake of better understanding, let us add some examples.
[6] The earth of your planet is dead, hard, stony and is not able to produce anything without the light of the sun. The earth of the sun, on the other hand, is soft and mild, it is neither stony nor sandy, but is soft, like the flesh of a man. Or, so that you may understand it even better, it is almost everywhere elastic, so that no-one who would fall on the ground would be able to damage himself painfully; for he would fall there just as if he were falling over air-filled cushions. This earth, however, in this state is not as tough as the so-called rubber elasticum in your case, but it is quite loose and is not (only) elastic as a whole, but in it's smallest parts, which in themselves are all shells filled with the true life ether.
[7] Such is indeed the case with the earth of your planet; but the shells are in themselves too brittle and do not give way in the event of a blow or trap, but only press themselves more firmly together; and when they lie undisturbed for many consecutive years, thus layered next to and on top of each other, they finally take hold of each other so tightly that, as a result of this mutual grip, they then turn completely to stone, and in this state they then naturally offer even more stubborn resistance than before, since they lay even more packed on top of each other; for which reason the vegetation on a planet must be much more scanty than on the perfect solar planet.
[8] For on a planetary earth-body, as is for instance your earth, a coarser seed provided with a living germ must first decay in the soil, and must, by this very act, compel the earthly husks that are about to become, to co-decay, or rather to become soft, so that then the freed living germ can immediately suck from these softened earth-husks it's appropriate ethereal food. Then, however, it must immediately drive in a lot of roots between the earth-hulls, softening these, then through it's stubbornly crushing increase in volume, in order to win the farther necessary food to it's plant- growth-stalk.
[9] Is such a thing also necessary on the perfect solar planet? See, there is a big difference. Because the soil of this planet is so soft, delicate and mild, the parts without seeds belonging to whatever kind of plant, take hold directly in the soil itself and sprout above it as the most innumerably diverse and useful plants, whose beauty, goodness and usefulness surpass all that is conceivable on all other planets many times over, as the sun with it's light and it's size surpasses all it's world-children.
[10] In the sun neither a tree, of whatever kind it may be, nor a bush, nor a plant has roots and seeds, but everything grows and develops there in the same way as the original stone moss, the mould plant and the sponges. But these plants are therefore imperishable and not of such short duration as those formerly named on your earthly body; but where such powers let something grow, there it then grows on for ever. And if such plants are also in a way cut down by the natural inhabitants of the sun, they are not killed by it, but the cut down tree or plant will soon grow again. For since the roots of such a plant are not really coarse-material, but only like fiery ether veins, such vegetative power takes hold again after the former removal and grows up in new splendor and glory.
[11] Some might think and say: Yes, if the plants cannot be eradicated in this way, will they not soon occupy every area of this planet so strongly that no other, freely walking being will be able to exist beside them?
[12] But such is not the case, because the natural humans of this perfect planet have a much stronger willpower than the vegetative driving force of the solar soil. For this reason, neither a tree, nor a bush, nor a plant, nor a blade of grass grows on the sun without the intervention of the human will. The human will is the sole, infinitely varied and diverse seed for all vegetation on this perfect planet. Therefore, for example, a tree or plant grows from the ground of the sun, only where a sun- person wants to have it, and how he wants it shaped. Therefore, on this perfect planet, there is no permanent, uniformly occurring species in the realm of all plant life, but rather this species always depends on the respective will of the people. But when a man has called any tree or plant out of the ground by his will, no-one else can destroy it, except only he who has caused it; or another only then, when he has been authorized by the creator to do so by will.
[13] For this very reason there is a truly infinite diversity in the realm of plant life on the sun's earth. Because with two immediate neighbors already not two homogeneous plants are present, but each calls forth also other plants on the ground, which it inhabits. And so one of you would like to wander through the wide expanses of the solar earth for many thousands of years, so he will surely come across always new and miraculous plant species and forms; but even on this long journey he would not find two species that would be completely alike. See, from these examples you can get a little idea of why the sun is a perfect planet. For similar things do indeed occur on every celestial body or smaller planet; but compared to the sun, only imperfectly.
[14] Existing plants on your earth can also likewise be changed and refined, but in a much more laborious and by a far more restricted way. Only in spirit is similar perfection evident among people on the other planets too, as, for example, the fruits of poetic imagination, be it in the language of pictorial art, which is expressed by corresponding pictures with the help of colors or other objects suitable for pictorial art; but especially through the language of sounds, in which such
a tone poet can unfold the greatest variety if he is fully awakened in this discipline. But all this notwithstanding, even this apparent perfection on the planets is but a faint image of all that is found there in every conceivable respect on the perfect planet of the Sun.