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The New Testament 279
The Books of the Solar System
Lift up thy eyes to Heaven and behold.
The first book of Planetology, called
Mythology269
And long ago,
an ancient civilization ascribed to objects in
the solar system godly characteristics and
assigned them mythological purposes.
And the Sun, Helios, became the goddess of energy.
And She was commanded to burn in Her
inside and radiate from Her outside.
And Her radiation swept across outer space
like unto a chariot drawn by four horses.
And the children of Helios, the nine Planets,
also became gods and goddesses.
Mercury became the god of cosmic transportation.
And He watched over the motions
of the other heavenly bodies.
And He made sure that they obeyed the laws
of Nature and conformed to the rules of fair exchange,
such as the conservation of energy and momentum.
And Venus became the goddess of attractive
forces.
And Venus made sure that two massive objects
wanted to move toward each other.
And Earth became the goddess of life and living things.
And Mars became the god of violent activity,
making stars explode in supernovas.
And He caused galaxies to collide and undergo galactic war.
And Jupiter became the god of electromagnetism.
He caused lightning to flash in atmospheres.
And Saturn became the goddess of cosmic dust and grain.
And She created nebulae, planets and other non-stellar objects
out of the seeds of cosmic dust.
And Uranus became the goddess of the heavens.
She calmed the Universe when it was in its
quantum-gravity beginning and fueled Inflation
when the Universe expanded exponentially.
And She slowed Inflation to a graceful conclusion.
Now Neptune became the god of cosmic seas.
He watched over empty outer space,
created giant voids among the galactic
clusters and instilled in the fabric of space
the desire to stretch and to expand.
And Pluto became the god of far-away worlds.
And wearing a helmet that rendered
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269 It is important to
distinguish myth from reality.
Likewise, one should know the difference
between an astronomer and an
astrologer.
Now astrologers are false prophets (no
different from those who play with Tarot
cards).
And he who knows the Universe knows why,
for astrologers try to predict the future based
on the positions of the planets.
And this is nonsense,
for the sphere of influence of the planets is
limited -- their weak gravities can be
hardly felt on Earth.
And so the positions of the planets can have
little effect on events on Earth.
(And a voice spake, saying
"Beware of false prophets.")
Now on the other hand,
astronomers are true prophets, for they predict
the planets based on the laws of Nature.
And they can do this because Nature's laws are
universal and valid everywhere.
Thus to predict the position of a planet is a
worthy endeavor.
(And a voice spake, saying
"Hearken ye unto these words:
omnipresent are the laws of Nature.")
280 The Bible According to Einstein
Him invisible to the unaided eye,
He watched over the black holes in the Universe.
Thus in ancient times,
the assignment of attributes and duties led to
the personification of the Planets.
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