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It's a good thing my uncle introduced me to the Book of Mormon at twelve. It prepared me for a lifetime of conversion events which would radically revise, if not utterly replace things I thought I knew all my life. Still today, I'm learning remarkable things that that are so far removed from what I believed before as to make of me a new ... creation. And I'm about to introduce you to one of the most recent, and most remarkable: Our changing solar system.
Now, to be fair, I was first introduced to these ideas about 30 years ago. But that's not true. I had been introduced to them many years before that. I just didn't know it. And the same is true of you, too. You have already been introduced to these things. You just may not yet be conscious of it. It took a man by the name of Immanuel Velikovsky to start me down that road of discovery, uncovering things which science, history, myth, legend, even our own scriptures tell us, but which we all just either fail to recognize, or to accept at face value. Take, for just one example of many, Isaiah 30:26. I'm sure some other references to things like the sun being as black as sackcloth of hair are popping up in your minds about now. But, the amazing thing is, that these are often refences to things in the past, not the future, although we will see their like in the future again. Take, for example, Noah's flood, which God promised never to repeat. And yet, we're also told that the seas will heave over their bounds on their way BACK TO THE NORTH (where they came from) (and beyond) (hence 'great deep'). So, while there will be more floods in our future, the flood of Noah is in our past. And likewise many of the other cosmological passages of scripture, especially Revelation.
And that brings us to 'my' most recent discovery/epiphany. It was actually my friend, Anthony E. Larson, who first mentioned to me that the 'patriarchs experienced a very different world than we do, a darker world, a world with different lighting, and that this had considerable influence on their prophecies of our time.' Hence Isaiah 30:26.
This so stunned me, that I immediately set about finding out what he meant. And it was mere days when an article on one of my favorite science sites mentioned the curious history of color in ancient writings, that blue, as we know it, never appeared in any of their writings, and that, as a result, some scientists were wondering whether this could be yet more evidence of their favorite theory (say it with me now) EVOLUTION! YAY! Perhaps, say they, we humans could not see blue until just recently. After all, we don't really see much of the electromagnetic spectrum. Why should blue be any different? Bees see ultraviolet. Birds see magnetism. Dogs are red-green color-blind, just like some humans. For that matter, why are some humans red-green color-blind?
Unfortunately for them, those same arguments work the other way, too. Why would we evolve to perceive blue, and just stop there? There's so much more to be seen ... today.
So, the point is that maybe those colors weren't actually available to be seen in earlier times.
We'll be coming back to this idea later on. There's a lot more to be told, like the legends of 'the purple dawn of creation', which tend to support this.
And then there's the Indus Valley script's favorite character, which also lends interesting support. (Notice Saturn, the "black star") What? You haven't been following the decoding of the Indus Valley script? That's ok. That's why you guys are better at living in the world than I am. You keep doing what you do, and I'll do this.
I'll keep you posted.
Oh! By the way, this may also be what's meant when God tells Noah that the bow in the cloud would be the sign that the flood wouldn't come again. That rainbow didn't exist before. Neither did the cloud. The climate, and the solar system were different before the flood. After the flood, there were no more 'mists' to water the land. There were now clouds, rains, and, in between, droughts. We never see droughts before the flood. We also never see rainbows. Because there was no full-spectrum, white-light sun shining through cloudy skies to create one. Saturn used to be our sun, and it made a very different kind of light. Click on that Šamaš link at the very top of the page.
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