DATE WITH THE GODS

136 DATE WITH THE GODS

the light of the spirits. And it attracts its light from the
other solar systems."
"What about the fire we see here? We sense heat from
the sun, we see the light, and we can observe the sun in a
color scope. We see flames. Where does all this come
from?"
"Imagine a huge magnifying glass in the universe.
This magnifying glass is an atmospheric layer between
the sun and the planets. It works something like this:
The sun emits energy rays, and when they hit this
atmospheric layer, they ignite into fire and light. At a
given point in the universe, there is a cosmic layer
between the planets and the sun.
''I'm going to draw it for you, because I don't wa nt you
to have any misconceptions about this."

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JUPITER

EARTH

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She used the pad of paper I kept handy whenever we
were together to draw a picture of the sun's energy
system:
"You're saying, then, that the sun is a planet as cold as
the earth, and that there's no fire on the surface?"
"Right. Remember, there are many religions whose
source of life and religious inspira tion is the sun. The