The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 18 -
Simple temples upon the equatorial belt
How is a temple upon the sun classified, i.e. the pre-eminent temple upon the low altitudes, where there are two further temples which we shall get to know later?
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This temple has the standing of a general educational institute to which one moves from the aforementioned official office building. But the transfer of students is not just from one office building, this temple being the recipient of students from up to forty such pre-schools, making it exceptionally large, occasionally enrolling several thousand students.
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How is the size of a temple determined? It is by number of pillars. Is their number uniform for all temples of this first order? No, this depends on the number of private houses and large and small schools within an area, wherefore in the smallest instance it can consist of a thousand and in the largest case often thousand pillars, the latter's pillars reaching a far greater height and girth than the ones of private dwellings and they are of a light green, transparent material and simple of style.
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On the other hand, architecturally, temples vary greatly even within the same class and purpose. Hence temple pillars can be pyramid shaped or made of bars, or stacked, flattened spheres; or pillars like stacked, overturned cones, or stacked rising clouds; and countless other forms of pillars, carrying the rooves.
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These temples are much more exalted and magnificent than the pre-school, particularly the aforementioned type where students must learn My order. They therefore also have more rooves, among which the roof covering the temple centre is by far the highest, also flying a flag to depict the victory men must gain in this temple, whilst the other seven rooves on each side, progressively lower, in themselves form a pyramid of rooves.
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The rooftops are indeed decorated with flags, but with decreasing size like the rooves whose style otherwise is that of the private dwellings. The central roofs height on occasion reaches about two thousand metres by your measure, depending on temple size, but is never below one thousand metres, and the other rooves are proportional.
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You will of course ask: how can the sun people put in place such dreadfully long roof joists above the pillars and from where do they take a one kilometre long tree? Here I have to remind you that the sun people do not erect these with their hands but through their will. They have indeed to first call forth such trees from the soil, through their will, as said. In this way they also have to produce the pillars. But once all these building materials are produced, they are put in order through group will-power by many people, after which construction again is through the same group will.
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Some building phases nevertheless are still performed by hand, such as covering the roof and its interior painting. The measuring and levelling of the floor also is done by hand; these are the manual operations.
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How long does such a building last? If not damaged or destroyed through some unwatched natural catastrophe, it stands there as if for eternity; because nothing rots or crumbles there, enduring in freshness and soundness as when created.
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Now we also know about temple building procedure and form and so we shall examine the interior and the surroundings.
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What is notable immediately is the majestic height, for the pillars carrying the roof, proportionate to temple size, can rise to a thousand metres and are of enormous circumference. The pillar bases are always perfectly circular with seven nodules each of about four feet diameter, all being proportional to the pillar itself. The base materials in the temples are mostly solid, yet semi-transparent and blue in colour. The pillars are white throughout, except for exceedingly multicoloured decorations.
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The pillars in the temple are not fully continuous to the roof, but carry three galleries, which wind along the entire pillar colonnade, provided with the most masterly crafted landings.
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How are these galleries accessed? In place of inter-pillar resting benches, there are pyramidal spiral staircases, provided with the most delicate landings. After climbing to gallery level a most decorous carriageway connects it to the pyramid. This connects the galleries with the pyramids.
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The pyramid material is like fully transparent, faint-red glass, with the landings like solid gold, wound in most superb style which at their extremities are in turn adorned with sublime and portentous configurations of diverse colours looking like suggestive configurations of most precious self-shining stones.
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The walkway also consisting of a solid gold-type material is provided with a double landing from the pyramid to the main gallery.
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The main galleries of course, are also fitted with landings, inward and outwardly and consist of diamond pyramids i.e. the pyramids are made of a material beaming like your big, polished diamonds in the sun. These small pyramids between walkways are so lined up as to touch at the bottom and at the tips are connected with a solid gold backing connected to splendid decorative foliage which also runs along the gallery landings being interrupted only by the walkways; on the outside gallery landing, the decor backing the pyramid is continuous and more massive.
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The main gallery rests on rainbow-like coloured arches running between the pillars.
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Between the pyramidal staircases again there are pyramids within dark red raised squares upon cube bases, similar to those we have met in the private dwellings.
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These cubes overlap the pyramids by about one metre and again are used for resting benches. During recess the students rest upon these flexible benches according to need. These benches feel like air cushions and bounce back, together with the backing, leaving no impression after use.
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The backings also are marvellously decorated. At the top of the pyramids to which they are fastened there is a shining green sphere giving the temple a grandiose and delicate appearance, especially if not bent when in use.
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So much for the temple interior. Next time we shall move to its even more grandiose interior details, as well as its external surroundings. And so we leave it for today.