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About two months ago I was asked if I wished to co-author a book. I asked what the book would be about and I am not sure that I agree.

The book is going to refer to the Light of Christ being the "light of ether". Which is an interesteing comparison, but I don't agree with it. This notion was derived from the book of Moses and Facsmile no 2. I accept the light of ether as being a possible theory in that light particals are photopolymerised into a beam giving the particals a wave nature. A bit like the corpuscular theory I guess. I don't accept it as fact though. I certainly do not believe that Jesus takes the form of an ether is space. I believe Jesus was a man and that perhaps there are parallels with gospelS and nature, particularly nature in space.

I have always imagined the light of Christ to be a non physical non literal thing. Light being a knowledge. His words bring knowledge which brings light. In the begining Christ was the word, the light.

There are some beliefs out there that God's mother was a bright light and that she gave birth to God out of wedlock and they were banished and for God to gain power (which was light) he had to create people to give him more power by worshipping him. Or something like that.

There are tons and tons of parralels in the world. More than one might like to imagine. Perhaps it is just different ways designed to help our understanding. Or it is unconscious truths being brought out in different forms. The answers are right in front of us, we just can't see them and don't have the courage to reach out blind with faith and grasp them.

Pirate,

There are some beliefs out there that God's mother was a bright light and that she gave birth to God out of wedlock and they were banished and for God to gain power (which was light) he had to create people to give him more power by worshipping him. Or something like that.

I have never heard this before. It is obviously bogus, do you have a reference?

Sounds pretty crackpot to me, if I'm understanding you correctly. Are you saying that Jesus is supposed to be performing the function of a luminiferous ether, the existence of which was disproven by the experiment of Michelson and Morley?

This sounds like a very smart person thinking themselves down a rabbit hole. I sort of know what that feels like. I recall distinctly what it felt like when I, as a Physics undergrad, was in full-on speculation mode with one of the Physics grad students, and speculated that fundamental particles display quantum effects because they were granted "free will" by God within their particular domain of spiritual existence. And it made perfect sense to me at the time, too.

If I were in your situation, I'd politely decline.

Sethbag wrote:Sounds pretty crackpot to me, if I'm understanding you correctly. Are you saying that Jesus is supposed to be performing the function of a luminiferous ether, the existence of which was disproven by the experiment of Michelson and Morley?

This sounds like a very smart person thinking themselves down a rabbit hole. I sort of know what that feels like. I recall distinctly what it felt like when I, as a Physics undergrad, was in full-on speculation mode with one of the Physics grad students, and speculated that fundamental particles display quantum effects because they were granted "free will" by God within their particular domain of spiritual existence. And it made perfect sense to me at the time, too.

If I were in your situation, I'd politely decline.

Perhaps you misunderstood the part where I say I don't agree with this idea. As a Physics undergrad, I know Jesus cannot be luminescent ether. But I do believe in photopolymerisation which could take a similar form to a luminescent ether.

P.s. How could particles having free will from God make perfect sense to you as that time? I'm not the brightest in my class and even I would never consider that a possibility.

Gazelam wrote:Pirate,

There are some beliefs out there that God's mother was a bright light and that she gave birth to God out of wedlock and they were banished and for God to gain power (which was light) he had to create people to give him more power by worshipping him. Or something like that.

I have never heard this before. It is obviously bogus, do you have a reference?

No, this is something I learned growing up. I grew up around eccentric people that studied and delved deep into religion and the secrets. And read tons of books. Very smart people. It was funny to watch a woman bounce around excited about something she discovered in a book and then show my mum what she found. I often never understood lol.