The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe

by Isaac W. Heysinger

MOSAIC NARRATIVE.
Moses fully acquainted, by initiation into the priesthood, with the sacred knowledge of the Egyptians (the Hebrews were not), [310].
The Mosaic record more scientific than the Nebular hypothesis, [310].
Improperly rendered from the original in our version, [310].
Full and correct translation not then possible, [310].
Hebrew a root-language, and not original or inspired, [311].
Indefiniteness of translation in our version illustrated, [311]–312.
Importance of accurate rendering of the words of the original, [313]–314.
Cannot be interpreted by writings made long subsequently, [313].
Correct basis of a true rendering, [314].
Use of the important words of the original, [315].
Jehovah not directly mentioned in the narrative; the work was performed by specially energized natural forces operating under guidance of a higher power, [315]–316.
Ancient Egyptians believed in one supreme God, [315].
Also the Aryans of prehistoric times, [316].
The cosmogony of the Egyptians, [316].
Dr. McCosh on the delegated forces of God, [317]–318.
The word which is translated “rested,” [318], [340].
Analogy of volcanic action with work of creation, [318].
Professor Guyot on the meaning of “God rested;” the forces of nature came to a state of equilibrium, [319].
Duke of Argyle on the processes of creation around us daily, [319].
The words “created” and “made,” in verse [3], chapter ii, not properly rendered; popular misconception based on this imperfect rendering, [319].
Signification of the words Bra, Osh, and Iei, [320]–323.
Separation of waters to two opposite foci, with attenuated space between, [324], [325], [329].
The above separation hitherto misunderstood, [325].
Better known to the ancients, [328], [329].
Song of the Three Holy Children, the Psalms, Theophilus, and St.
Augustine, on the separation, [329].
Introduction of vegetable life prior to appearance of free oxygen in earth’s atmosphere, [323]–326.
Jeove as contradistinguished from Aleim, [327].
Mosaic cosmogony based on prior attenuated matter of space, [327].
Astronomical knowledge of ancient peoples, [329].
Table of root-meanings of words used in the narrative, [330]–333.
Some portions of the second narrative examined, [333]–336.

Note.—The second narrative bears the unmistakable impress of its sacred Egyptian derivation; the temptation is pictorially represented on the walls of the temple of Medinet-Abou, at Thebes, which dates from the eighteenth dynasty, while Moses was contemporary with the nineteenth. Joseph entered Egypt during the Hyksos period preceding the eighteenth. (Rawlinson, “Ancient Egypt.” See also his “Ancient Religions,” for Egyptian monotheism, last three pages of chapter i.)

Popular need of a more accurate translation of the earlier Scriptures, [336].
The narrative of creation literally translated, [337]–340.
Order of the successive introductions of life, according to the Mosaic record: 1, land plants; 2, marine vegetation (necessary for sustenance of 3); 3, lower forms of marine life; 4, reptiles; 5, birds (between reptiles and the mammalia); 6, mammals; 7, mankind, male and then female, [338], [339].

NEBULA (Gaseous).
Hydrogen and nitrogen in, [62], [216].
Elongated nebula in Sobieski’s Crown, [189].
Gaseous nebulæ affected by currents in space, [189].
Oxygen in gaseous nebulæ, [216].
Distribution of nebulæ in space, [237]–238, [262], [264].
Herschel’s arrangement of, in progressive series, [239].
Great composite nebula in Orion, [240], [255].
Gaseous nebulæ described, [253].
Spectroscopic analysis of, [254]–258.
Changes in form of gaseous nebulæ, [256]–258.
Reversion of a small planetary nebula, [258].
Progressive changes in nebulæ, [258]–259, [267].
Analysis of drawings of gaseous nebulæ of Lord Rosse, [261]–262, [265].
Typical forms of non-systemic nebulæ, [263].
Crab nebula, [265], [285].
Number of gaseous nebulæ already recognized, [265].
Spiral figure a characteristic, [265], [266].
All spectra of gaseous nebulæ show bright lines, [267].
Development into solar systems, [267], [283].
Spiral nebula in Canes Venatici, [273].
Series of spiral nebulæ illustrating progressive advances, [279].
Types of development, frontispiece and legend beneath.
Comparison of spiral nebula with a jet of water, [285].
Comparison with tail of a comet under rotation, [285].
Development in accordance with general astronomical laws, [346].
Convolutions of spiral nebula pyriform, [293].
Origin of nebulæ from the matter of space, [295].
Production of planetary nebulæ by mutual repulsion, [301]–302.
Distances of gaseous nebulæ hitherto overestimated, [303], [304].
Each spiral nebula develops into a single solar system, [304].
Spiral character of many apparently globular nebulæ revealed by telescopes of adequate power, [304]–305.

PLANET.
Those of our own system resemble each other, [45], [67].
Jupiter’s body covered with clouds and invisible to us, [45]. Saturn, Venus, Mars, [45].
Surface of Mars clearly marked, rarely concealed by vapors, [45]–46.
The planets of our own solar system the only ones visible to us, [63].
Every self-luminous star must have planets rotating around it, [63].
Some solar systems may have a single planet, [67], [171], [302].
How planets generate electricity from space, [88]–89.
No visible atmosphere or aqueous vapor on moon, [122]–136.
Center of gravity of moon apparently displaced, [122].
The atmosphere of Mars, its constitution, [130]–132.
Planets belonging to solar systems with double suns, [167]–168.
Angular positions of planets regulate solar energy, [176].
Due to inclination of solar axis, [119]–122.
Formation of planets from the convolutions of spiral nebulæ, [286], [289], [292].
Abnormalities of planets in our system accounted for, [286]–287, [294].
Formation of planetary satellites and Saturn’s rings, [292]–293.
Formation of belt of asteroids, [294].

SOLAR ENERGY.
Our first investigations directed to phenomena of our own solar system, [8].
Successively extended to other bodies of space, [8].
Simple uniformly acting laws which control, [9].
Different theories of, hitherto in vogue, [17], [34].
Gradual degradation of, according to former theories, [18].
Primary error due to attributing solar energy to an original supply in the sun, [19].
In truth, it is derived from the rotation of the surrounding planets, [65].
Produced by electrical currents from planetary electrospheres, [83]–86.
Experiment with hydrogen envelope in a pail of water, [85], [344].
Its production and permanent maintenance, [86], [88], [195].
Its mode of distribution, [139], [345].
The apparent waste not real, [140], [345].
Correct statement of the mode of production and distribution of all solar energy, [141]–145, [344]–346.
Discussion of the light and heat of, [147]–152.
Due to planetary energy; evidence from the variable stars, [175], [346].
Great heat-wave of 1892, [193].
Illustration of solar energy, analogous to water-wheel, [251].
True final source of solar energy, [252], [345].
Nebular hypothesis with relation to, [268]–274.
Difficulties of nebular hypothesis, [274]–278.
Spiral nebulæ incompatible with nebular hypothesis of, [273]–278.
Splitting up of gaseous nebulæ by internal repulsion, [289].

SOLAR SYSTEM.
Belief, hitherto, in its early termination in eternal darkness, [18].
Constitution of our, [62].
Drifting through space, [63].
Suns and planets mutually correlated, [69].
Electrical connection between sun and planets, [79].
Only 1/232000000 part of sun’s energy received by our planets, [139].
Solar system of variable star Mira, [177].
Operation of solar systems perpetual, [198].
No operative solar system could be built up from meteorites, [199].
Views expressed in this work contrasted with former theories, [250]–251.
Development of a solar system from a spiral nebula, [279].
Genesis of solar systems from the primordial elements of space, [282].
Phenomena of the development of solar systems, [283].
Mode of development of a centripetal planetary solar system from a centrifugal spiral nebula, [286].
Mode of formation of the asteroids, [288].
Of comets, [289].
Disruptive force of repulsion in a gaseous nebula, [289].
Rupture of convolutions preparatory to formation of planets, [290].
Reversal of electrical polarity of ruptured convolutions, [290].
Coalescence into separate planets, [290]–292.
Periodicity in the development of solar systems, [300].
Origin of single planet solar systems, [171], [302].

SPACE.
Estimated temperature of, [82].
Currents in, [106], [187]–189.
Distribution of stars in space, [187].
Universal connection between all bodies of space, [250].
So-called “empty space,” [295].
Tensions in space, [295].
Illustration from Prince Rupert’s drops, [295]–296.
Constitution of space, [297].
Unstable equilibrium, [297]–298.
Apparently blank areas of space, [299].
Our present space eternal, [299].
The attenuated vapors of space the source of all created things, [299]–300.
The domain and workshop of the Infinite, [307].
The last refuge of the human intellect, [307].

SPECTROSCOPE.
Absorption bands and bright-line spectrum, [155].
Spectroscope as used in investigation of nebulæ, [253].
Applied to great nebula in Orion, [256].
Bright-line spectra in all gaseous nebulæ, [267].
(See Chemistry, Star, Sun.)

STAR.
Distances of stars in space, [64], [244], [248].
Our sun a variable star, [75], [179].
Classification by their spectra, [156]–158.
Betelgeuse, [159], [161].
Double stars, [162].
Double and multiple stars of complementary colors, [162]–164, [176], [305].
Origin of double stars, [164], [167], [305].
Mizar, [165].
Interpretation of phenomena of double stars, [168].
Variable stars, [168].
Regularly variable stars, [169].
Algol, [169]–173, [302].
Planetary system of Mira, [177].
Delta Cephei, [174].
Variability due to variable dynamic energy of planets, [119]–122, [175].
Phenomena of temporary stars, [180]–182.
Insufficiency of previous explanations of, [183]–186.
True causes of, [187]–196.
Temporary stars usually appear in certain parts of the heavens only, [192].
Star-clusters, [240].
Limits and structure of the Milky Way, [244].
How stars travel through space, [249].
Common brotherhood of all stars, [250].
Correct principles of interpretation and explanation of the phenomena of the stars, [346].