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The Center of Gravity
Of the Earth
When you study a body carefully,
you will notice three things. Beyond its graphic outer appearance — which
means, among other things, its form — a body has its circumference, its
surface, and its coloring in accordance with its length, width, and
height; and, most importantly, the body has a weight which will allow it
to take a certain position.
For example, when
you study the shape of an irregular stone, you will find its center of
gravity in a particular part. This may easily be determined with a bulky
piece of wood; in the water, its center of gravity will be at the lowest
point.
The center of
gravity should not be confused with the central point. Every body has two
center points, one of gravity and another of physical measurement. When
you examine bodies of all kinds, the center of gravity will never coincide
with the corporeal center, not even in the instance of a mathematically
perfect, properly poured metal ball.
For example, break
a steel bar into two pieces and, when it is highly magnified, you will
notice the uneven crystalline texture at the break. When such a difference
can be noticed in the crystalline structure of one of the most solid of
metal bodies, by how much more will such a difference be perceptible to
the eye in a less dense body?
Anyone can
determine this when making a scale. If one were to construct a
mathematically symmetrical scale beam out of dense metal and balance it in
a scale fork, one would be convinced that, even in a mathematically
correct construction, the two parts of the scale beam will never form a
perfect horizontal plane; rather, one part will be a bit longer than the
other.
Even in bodies
that were formed by My power, the center of gravity and the central point
by measurement do not coincide, just as is the case with the positive and
negative polarities.
Why are both poles
on a magnetic bar not located at the mathematical center, but rather at
both ends? Why is the husk of the inner seed not in the center, but only
at the outer part of the seed, while its center point and opposite pole
are located farther inwards and outwards from the germ husk? Why is it
that a human being and an animal do not have the heart in the mathematical
center of the body?
From these
questions alone you may deduce that the center of gravity of a body is
something entirely different from the measured central point.
Thus, when we are
dealing with something as important as the unveiling of the central point
of the Earth, we should not take it for the measured center, but rather
the actual center of life, or, in other words, the center of gravity of
the Earth. The measured central point is only an imaginary point without
any volume, and therefore there is nothing further to be said about it.
For these reasons,
we shall now turn to the much more significant center of gravity of the
Earth, which will, of course, be of great dimension, so that we may devote
ample room to the terrestrial activities of life that go on within her.
What does the
center of gravity of the Earth look like? Is it a rock full of diamonds,
or iron, or perhaps a magnet? Or is it a hollow space, filled with an
eternal, inextinguishable fire of which, perhaps, the volcanic mountains
scattered over the Earth are but the chimneys? Of course, none of this is
true.
The center of
gravity in a human being is the heart, which, from the physical point of
view, is an extremely artistic cellular tissue in which the living soul
resides; and within this soul the spirit of the human being, like a
weaver, is active. The loom is equipped for the development of earthly
life and its timely maintenance, so that, through its wonderful
construction, everything which is necessary for physical life can be
produced by the soul.
For the Earth,
this is the significance of the center of gravity, which our next
investigation will disclose...
