lighting

• system on Jerusem

46:1.4The light­ing sys­tem of Je­ru­sem should not be so dif­fi­cult for you to com­pre­hend. There are no days and nights, no sea­sons of heat and cold. The power trans­form­ers main­tain one hun­dred thou­sand cen­ters from which rar­efied en­er­gies are pro­jected up­ward through the plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere, un­der­go­ing cer­tain changes, un­til they reach the elec­tric air-ceil­ing of the sphere; and then these en­er­gies are re­flected back and down as a gen­tle, sift­ing, and even light of about the in­ten­sity of Uran­tia sun­light when the sun is shin­ing over­head at ten o’clock in the morn­ing.

46:1.5Un­der such con­di­tions of light­ing, the light rays do not seem to come from one place; they just sift out of the sky, em­a­nat­ing equally from all space di­rec­tions. This light is very sim­i­lar to nat­u­ral sun­light ex­cept that it con­tains very much less heat. Thus it will be rec­og­nized that such head­quar­ters worlds are not lu­mi­nous in space; if Je­ru­sem were very near Uran­tia, it would not be vis­i­ble.

46:1.6The gases which re­flect this light-en­ergy from the Je­ru­sem up­per iono­sphere back to the ground are very sim­i­lar to those in the Uran­tia up­per air belts which are con­cerned with the au­ro­ral phe­nom­ena of your so-called north­ern lights, al­though these are pro­duced by dif­fer­ent causes. On Uran­tia it is this same gas shield which pre­vents the es­cape of the ter­res­trial broad­cast waves, re­flect­ing them earth­ward when they strike this gas belt in their di­rect out­ward flight. In this way broad­casts are held near the sur­face as they jour­ney through the air around your world.

46:1.7This light­ing of the sphere is uni­formly main­tained for sev­enty-five per cent of the Je­ru­sem day, and then there is a grad­ual re­ces­sion un­til, at the time of min­i­mum il­lu­mi­na­tion, the light is about that of your full moon on a clear night. This is the quiet hour for all Je­ru­sem. Only the broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing sta­tions are in op­er­a­tion dur­ing this pe­riod of rest and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.