THE SOLAR RADIUS

The whole of the sun appears in the form of a sphere or circle whose characteristic measure is its radius. If the solar whole is determined by the twelve adityas—the first twelve layers above the half measure—then its radius should correspond to the characteristic scale of the twelfth layer above the half measure.

The universal rule of thumb provides an estimate of this scale as 10¹¹ centimeters. This leads to an accurate prediction regarding the radius of the sun, derived on the basis of the ancient science of the gods: According to modern astrophysics, the radius of our sun is indeed roughly 10¹¹ centimeters.

To reach this prediction, we need only rely upon the ancient science of the gods, which gives the sun a twelvefold inner nature. We can interpret these twelve inner aspects in terms of the first twelve layers above the half measure whose parameters have been set using a universal rule of thumb. Because the upper layers are dominated by synthesizing power, it follows that they should determine the size of the solar whole. This represents the spherical body of a single being—the celestial sun god, whose awareness serves to correlate nonlocally into a single whole all the microscopic parts of its body.

The methodology is simple, but the question remains: Why does it work? The fact is that there are many stars or suns in the galaxy with radii different from that of our own. Some are considerably larger than that of our sun and some are considerably smaller. Further, we do not know if these other stars possess solar systems that include a planet similar to our own—a planet upon which human life has evolved. All we know is that the solar system associated with our sun provides suitable conditions for the evolution of human life.

This goes back to our concept of a standard cosmological model. Because our sun represents a celestial god that has presided over the evolution of human life from the very beginning, it must share the same ideality possessed by the human being. This means that the dimensions of its celestial body, like the dimensions of the human body, must reflect the layered organization of the metaphysical Logos. Whereas the characteristic dimension of the human body corresponds to the digit, tied to the first layer above the half measure, the characteristic dimension of the solar body corresponds to its radius, tied to the twelfth layer above the half measure.

But why are there twelve layers? What is it that makes the twelvefold formulation of the sun ideal and scientific? To answer this question, we must invoke the principle “as above, so below.”