The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky 18. On Solar Energy

From letter no. 23 B: ‘Philosophical and Theoretical Teachings : Received at Simla Oct. 1882

On Solar Energy:

With us it is an established fact that it is the Earth’s magnetism that produces winds storms and rains….Earth’s magnetic attraction of meteoric dust, and the direct influence of the latter on the sudden changes in temperature, especially in the matter of heat and cold, is not a settled question, to the present day, I believe. (Dr. Phipson in 1867 and Cowper Ranyard in 1879 both urged the theory but it was rejected then.) It was doubted whether the fact of our earth passing through a region of space in which there are more or less meteoric masses and has any bearing on the height of our atmosphere being increased or decreased, or even upon the state of weather. But we think we can easily prove it; and since they accept the fact that the relative proportion and distribution of land and water on our globe may be due to the great accumulation upon it of meteoric dust, snow—especially in our northern regions—being full of meteoric iron and magnetic particles, and deposits of the latter being found even at the bottom of sea and oceans, I wonder how science has not hitherto understood that every atmospheric change and disturbance was due to the combined magnetism of the two great masses between which our atmosphere is compressed! I call this meteoric dust a “mass” for it is really one. High above our earth’s surface the air is impregnated and space filled with magnetic, or meteoric dust, which does not belong to our solar system. Science having luckily discovered that, as our earth with all the other planets is carried along through space, it receives a greater proportion of that dust matter on its northern than on its southern hemisphere, knows that to this are due the preponderant number of the continents in the former hemisphere, and the greater abundance of snow and moisture. Millions of such meteors and even of the tiniest particles reach us yearly and daily, and all our temple knives are made of this “heavenly” iron which reaches us without having undergone any change—the magnetism of the earth keeping them in cohesion. Gaseous matter is continually added to our atmosphere from the never ceasing fall of the meteoric strongly magnetic matter, and yet it still seems with them still an open question whether magnetic conditions have anything to do with the precipitation of rain or not! I do not know of any “set of motions established by pressures, expansions etc., and due in the first instance to solar energy”. Science makes too much or too little at the same time of “solar energy”, and even of the Sun itself; and the Sun has nothing to do whatever with rain and very little with heat. I was under the impression that the glacial periods as well as those periods when temperature is “like that of the carboniferous age “, are due to the decrease or increase or rather to the expansion of our atmosphere, which expansion is itself due to the same meteoric presence? At any rate we all know that the heat the earth receives by radiation from the sun is at the utmost one third if not less of the amount receive by her directly from the meteors.