The "rose-coloured region!" How
little astronomers will ever know of its real nature, even though
hundreds of eclipses furnish them with the indisputable evidence of its
presence. The sun is so thickly surrounded by a shell of this "red
matter," that it is useless for them to speculate with only the help of
their physical instruments, upon the nature of that which they can never
see or detect with mortal eye behind that brilliant, radiant zone of
matter.
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* There is an interesting story in the Puranas relating to this subject.
The Devas, it would appear, asked the great Rishi Vasishta to bring the
sun into Satya Loka. The Rishi requested the Sun-god to do so. The
Sun-god replied that all the worlds would be destroyed if he were to
leave his place. The Rishi then offered to place his red-coloured cloth
(Kashay Vastram) in the place of the sun's disk, and did so. The
visible body of the sun is this robe of Vasishta, it would seem.
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If the "Adepts" are asked: "What then, in your views, is the nature of
our sun and what is there beyond that cosmic veil?"--they answer:
beyond rotates and beats the heart and head of our system; externally is
spread its robe, the nature of which is not matter, whether solid,
liquid, or gaseous, such as you are acquainted with, but vital
electricity, condensed and made visible.
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