Solar body

The Work on the lower left (Hod), the waters of the intellect are panned. On the lower right (Netzah), the desires are cooked and skimmed. The center shows the Higher-Self Angel (Tiphereth) holding the embryonic solar body. On the summit, the Alchemist is with God (cum Deo), in super-consciouness. Theophilus Schweighart, Speculum sophicum Rhodostauroti-cum, 1604. 

Like the old royal chariots, the chariot of the solar body has four wheels. Wheel is the root meaning of the Sanskrit word, chakra, used because of the chakras rotating motion. The four chakras that are the wheels of the fiery chariot of the spirit are the Mercury and Venus centers to the front and the Sun and Mars centers to the back. This is the Merkabah which was seen in Ezekial s vision in the Valley of Bones, the omnipresent throne of Adam-Qadmon. The name Merkabah is also given to the Jewish mystical system of the post-Temple period. 

Diaspora. In fact, all exoteric religious beliefs concerning immortality are rooted in the innate knowledge (within the collective unconscious) of the solar body as a potential for all humanity. 

The solar body that is the fruit of the Great Work is a vehicle in which the powers of both the physical and astral bodies are fully manifested. The astral body takes on the materiality of the physical, while the physical body inherits the powers of the astral vehicle. The result is a body, freed from the Wheel of Birth and Death, able to materialize at will—physical enough to be touched, to eat, yet subtle enough to raise the vibrations of its atoms at will and so operate upon any level of the... 

Astrochemists can also tell us a great deal about the nature of solar bodies that fascinate and intrigue all of us. What is Venus like Where did the Moon come from What is the composition of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn Can Mars support life Questions like these that people with little or no background in astronomy are likely to ask can now he answered, to at least some extent. 

Fig. 2. The plot of total reduced iron, Fe, and oxidized iron, Fe, normalized to Si abundance shows how the chondrite classes fall into groups distinguished by oxidation state and total Fe Si ratio. The soHd diagonal lines delineate compositions having constant total Fe Si ratios of 0.6 and 0.8. The fractionation of total Fe Si is likely the result of the relative efficiencies of accumulation of metal and siUcate materials into the meteorite parent bodies. The variation in oxidation state is the result of conditions in the solar nebula when the soHds last reacted with gas. Terms are defined in Table 1 (3).

The fractionation of these refractory elements is beheved to be the result of relative efficiencies of incorporation of condensed sohds rich in early high temperature phases into the meteorite parent bodies at different times and locations in the solar nebula. The data are taken from Reference 3. 

During heat dissipation by radiation the colour and condition of the surface plays a similar role. Dark-coloured bodies dissipate more heat than the light-coloured ones. The amount of heat absorption and emission for the same body may therefore be assumed to be almost the same. Accordingly, Table 31.1, for selected colours, may be considered for the coefficients of absorption and emission of heat due to solar radiation and natural radiation respectively. 

Reaction (12-9) shows the photochemical dissodation of NO2. Reaction (12-10) shows the formation of ozone from the combination of O and molecular O2 where M is any third-body molecule (principally N2 and O2 in the atmosphere). Reaction (12-11) shows the oxidation of NO by O3 to form NO2 and molecular oxygen. These three reactions represent a cyclic pathway (Fig. 12-4) driven by photons represented by hv. Throughout the daytime period, the flux of solar radiation changes with the movement of the sun. However, over short time periods (—10 min) the flux may be considered constant, in which case the rate of reaction (12-9) may be expressed as... 

Radiative heat transfer is perhaps the most difficult of the heat transfer mechanisms to understand because so many factors influence this heat transfer mode. Radiative heat transfer does not require a medium through which the heat is transferred, unlike both conduction and convection. The most apparent example of radiative heat transfer is the solar energy we receive from the Sun. The sunlight comes to Earth across 150,000,000 km (93,000,000 miles) through the vacuum of space. FIcat transfer by radiation is also not a linear function of temperature, as are both conduction and convection. Radiative energy emission is proportional to the fourth power of the absolute temperature of a body, and radiative heat transfer occurs in proportion to the difference between the fourth power of the absolute temperatures of the two surfaces. In equation form, q/A is defined as ... 

Book II investigates the dynamical conditions of fluid motion. Book III displays the law of gi avitatioii at work in the solar system. It is demonstrated from the revolutions of the six known planets, including Earth, and their satellites, though Newton could never quite perfect the difficult theory of the Moon s motion. It is also demonstrated from the motions of comets. The gravitational forces of the heavenly bodies are used to calculate their relative masses. The tidal ebb and flow and the precession of the equinoxes is explained m terms of the forces exerted by the Sun and Moon. These demonstrations are carried out with precise calculations. 

These isotopes are sometimes used as tracers of natural terrestrial processes and cycles. Long-lived isotopes, such as Rb and Sm are used for precise dating of geological samples. When the solar system formed it also contained several short-lived isotopes that have since decayed and are now extinct in natural systems. These include Al, Fe, Pu, Pd, and Al with a half-life of less than a million years is particularly important because it is a potentially powerful heat source for planetary bodies and because its existence in the early solar system places tight constraints on the early solar system chronology. 

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