rain

41:5.7So­lar en­ergy may seem to be pro­pelled in waves, but that is due to the ac­tion of co­ex­is­tent and di­verse in­flu­ences. A given form of or­ga­nized en­ergy does not pro­ceed in waves but in di­rect lines. The pres­ence of a sec­ond or a third form of force-en­ergy may cause the stream un­der ob­ser­va­tion to ap­pear to travel in wavy for­ma­tion, just as, in a blind­ing rain­storm ac­com­pa­nied by a heavy wind, the wa­ter some­times ap­pears to fall in sheets or to de­scend in waves. The rain­drops are com­ing down in a di­rect line of un­bro­ken pro­ces­sion, but the ac­tion of the wind is such as to give the vis­i­ble ap­pear­ance of sheets of wa­ter and waves of rain­drops.

57:7.7Pres­ently, the at­mo­sphere be­came more set­tled and cooled suf­fi­ciently to start pre­cip­i­ta­tion of rain on the hot rocky sur­face of the planet. For thou­sands of years Uran­tia was en­veloped in one vast and con­tin­u­ous blan­ket of steam. And dur­ing these ages the sun never shone upon the earth’s sur­face.

2:5.1“God is love”; there­fore his only per­sonal at­ti­tude to­wards the af­fairs of the uni­verse is al­ways a re­ac­tion of di­vine af­fec­tion. The Fa­ther loves us suf­fi­ciently to be­stow his life upon us. “He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the un­just.”

140:3.16“Your Fa­ther in heaven makes the sun to shine on the evil as well as upon the good; like­wise he sends rain on the just and the un­just. You are the sons of God; even more, you are now the am­bas­sadors of my Fa­ther’s king­dom. Be mer­ci­ful, even as God is mer­ci­ful, and in the eter­nal fu­ture of the king­dom you shall be per­fect, even as your heav­enly Fa­ther is per­fect.

166:4.4“The Fa­ther causes his rain to fall on the just and the un­just; the sun like­wise shines on the righ­teous and the un­righ­teous. You know about those Galileans whose blood Pi­late min­gled with the sac­ri­fices, but I tell you these Galileans were not in any man­ner sin­ners above all their fel­lows just be­cause this hap­pened to them. You also know about the eigh­teen men upon whom the tower of Siloam fell, killing them. Think not that these men who were thus de­stroyed were of­fend­ers above all their breth­ren in Je­ru­sa­lem. These folks were sim­ply in­no­cent vic­tims of one of the ac­ci­dents of time.

85:4.3Clouds, rain, and hail have all been feared and wor­shiped by nu­mer­ous prim­i­tive tribes and by many of the early na­ture cults. Wind­storms with thun­der and light­ning over­awed early man. He was so im­pressed with these el­e­men­tal dis­tur­bances that thun­der was re­garded as the voice of an an­gry god. The wor­ship of fire and the fear of light­ning were linked to­gether and were wide­spread among many early groups.

46:2.2There are thou­sands upon thou­sands of small lakes but no rag­ing rivers nor ex­pan­sive oceans. There is no rain­fall, nei­ther storms nor bliz­zards, on any of the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds, but there is the daily pre­cip­i­ta­tion of the con­den­sa­tion of mois­ture dur­ing the time of low­est tem­per­a­ture at­tend­ing the light re­ces­sion. (The dew point is higher on a three-gas world than on a two-gas planet like Uran­tia.) The phys­i­cal plant life and the mor­ontia world of liv­ing things both re­quire mois­ture, but this is largely sup­plied by the sub­soil sys­tem of cir­cu­la­tion which ex­tends all over the sphere, even up to the very tops of the high­lands. This wa­ter sys­tem is not en­tirely sub­sur­face, for there are many canals in­ter­con­nect­ing the sparkling lakes of Je­ru­sem.

90:2.1Spirit con­jur­ing was a very pre­cise and highly com­pli­cated pro­ce­dure, com­pa­ra­ble to pres­ent-day church rit­u­als con­ducted in an an­cient tongue. The hu­man race very early sought for super­hu­man help, for rev­e­la­tion; and men be­lieved that the shaman ac­tu­ally re­ceived such rev­e­la­tions. While the shamans uti­lized the great power of sug­ges­tion in their work, it was al­most in­vari­ably neg­a­tive sug­ges­tion; only in very re­cent times has the tech­nique of pos­i­tive sug­ges­tion been em­ployed. In the early de­vel­op­ment of their pro­fes­sion the shamans be­gan to spe­cial­ize in such vo­ca­tions as rain mak­ing, dis­ease heal­ing, and crime de­tect­ing. To heal dis­eases was not, how­ever, the chief func­tion of a shamanic med­i­cine man; it was, rather, to know and to con­trol the haz­ards of liv­ing.

90:2.6Though of an­cient ori­gin, the rain mak­ers, or weather shamans, have per­sisted right on down through the ages. A se­vere drought meant death to the early agri­cul­tur­ists; weather con­trol was the ob­ject of much an­cient magic. Civ­i­lized man still makes the weather the com­mon topic of con­ver­sa­tion. The olden peo­ples all be­lieved in the power of the shaman as a rain maker, but it was cus­tom­ary to kill him when he failed, un­less he could of­fer a plau­si­ble ex­cuse to ac­count for the fail­ure.