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NEW EDITION WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER. All text and pictures are in black and white. Web sites are included to see pictures in color. Do you believe God's Throne is in the Center of our Universe? Have you ever Wondered How God's Universe is Structured? Here is a theory that will give you a deeper understanding of these subjects. The Kolob Theorem written by Professor Lynn M. Hilton allows us to see more clearly the celestial home we lived in before we were born and the home we will live in after we die. These places appear more real; they are made of matter, some of very fine and pure matter, and exist in time and space. It helps us anticipate the reality of the glories of our future home. Lynn, as a man of faith, united in a single theory, scientific evidence, together with LDS sources to account for the form and structure of all of God's worlds, planets and suns. Lynn advocates the theory that the great star Kolob (which is near unto God's throne) is located in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. He examines several basic ideas which grow out of this hypothesis.
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70 of 82 people found the following review helpful.
Bad science + bad scripture interpretation = bad theory
By Michael Parker
The theory the author proposes is an expansion of the Mormon concept of the three degrees of glory. He argues the Milky Way galaxy is divided into three zones (think of a paper archery target), with the inner portion of the galaxy being a "celestial" area (a Mormon term for the dwelling-place of God), the middle portion a "terrestrial" area, and the outermost portion a "telestial" area. These rings are separated from one another by dust lanes that prevent us, out in the telestial zone, from seeing the others. When the earth was created, it was near Kolob in the celestial (central) area of the galaxy, but was moved into the telestial zone before the creation of man. The earth will eventually move back to a terrestrial location, and the stars around us will go by so quickly that they will appear to "fall from heaven." Eventually, it will return to the celestial zone.
The author lists his sources in the bibliography at the end of the book. For his research he consulted three astronomy books, all of which were written in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Needless to say, there have been considerable (!) advances in astronomical research that leave his conclusions wanting. For example, while visible light from the galactic core is largely obscured by dust, we are able to penetrate it with x-ray and infrared telescopes, and astronomers have even recently confirmed that a supermassive black hole lies at the center of our galaxy.
In short, the author's theory is driven solely by his overly-fundamentalist interpretation of the scriptural creation accounts, and has no basis in reality.
As a believing Latter-day Saint, I've been concerned by the number of other Mormons who have been convinced by Hilton's "Theorem." He has gone well beyond the known limits of LDS doctrine, and much further beyond the known truths of science.
44 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Poorly Researched and Supported
By J'aiPourToi
This book is full of inconsistencies and makes faulty use of science to support its premise. The author's theorem seems to stem from his seeing the Mexican Hat galaxy, which he describes as being neatly divided into three kingdoms separated by veils of dust. Unfortunately, galaxies are not all the same. There are elliptical, spiral, peculiar, and irregular galaxies. Many of these have no rings (veils) of dust, or they have many more than three. To see the wide variety, I suggest the author research NGC 4650A, NGC 1705, NGC 2787, and M51.
Points to ponder:
The gospel is very organized and follows a consistent structure. If a galaxy represents one god's domain (celestial, terrestrial, and telestial kingdoms), why are they not all constructed in the same manner? If the author took a college astronomy class, he would realize that his analogies are poorly constructed. To suggest that each galaxy is one god's celestial kingdom really doesn't make sense.
For example, scriptures liken the celestial kingdom to one entity-the sun, the terrestrial to one entity-the moon, and the telestial to many entities--the stars. Yet the author suggests that there are many celestial and terrestrial worlds within one god's galaxy, in our case, the Milky Way.
Moreover, the scriptures say we can become like God. Would we not then have our own galaxy? The author suggests that we would remain in the Milky Way.
And how does the author explain merging and colliding galaxies? If we are eternal beings, why would we have a celestial kingdom that is destroyed by another, or merges with another? More to the point, the Milky way and the Andromeda Galaxies are on a collision course towards each other. Eventually they will collide.
The author suggests that the bright center of each galaxy is a celestial kingdom. Science has shown that most, if not all, galaxies have at their core a supermassive black hole. The bright center core is caused by electromagnetic radiation--not the glory of a celestial kingdom. The author should study galactic accretion to better understand this bright light. I should also add, that the pictures of galaxies the author refers to in his book with red and blue rings separated by galactic dust veils, are composite pictures with many different filters. They do not look like that in reality, nor are they brightly colored. The filters are used so that we can "see" the various components of the galaxy. Some are infrared, some are only visible as gamma rays or x-rays, etc. Many galaxies are not neatly arrayed and constructed and would not support the author's notion of three separate kingdoms.
Leaving science and looking at the author's religious references, many of the author's corollaries are based on a reference to "Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar." The only problem is that Joseph did not write such a book. Hugh Nibley refers to the "book" as more of a collection of papers: "The Kirtland Egyptian Papers." What is interesting is that there were six authors, many of them actively opposing the prophet and the church at that time, and several were excommunicated. The book is sold by the The Utah Lighthouse Ministry, known for its anti-LDS literature and aggressive opposition to the LDS church. This is an extremely poor reference to support the author's assumptions. In fact, many of the quotes the author uses cannot be found in this reference.
While The Kolob Theorem might be interesting, entertaining, and fun to read, it is poorly researched and supported by both science and LDS literature.
Consider this scripture from Doctrine & Covenants 101:32-34:
32 Yea, verily I say unto you, in that day when the Lord shall come, he shall reveal all things--
33 Things which have passed, and hidden things which no man knew, things of the earth, by which it was made, and the purpose and the end thereof--
34 Things most precious, things that are above, and things that are beneath, things that are in the earth, and upon the earth, and in heaven.
Finally, Elder Dallin H. Oaks counseled:
"Consider how we use our time in the choices we make in viewing television, playing video games, surfing the Internet, or reading books or magazines. Of course it is good to view wholesome entertainment or to obtain interesting information. But not everything of that sort is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. Some things are better, and others are best. When the Lord told us to seek learning, He said, "Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom" (D&C 88:118). "Good, Better, Best," Ensign, November 2007.
Perhaps it's best that we focus on more important things, knowing that all will be revealed in the future--things that no man knew. As the author states in his preface: "The ideas of this book are for your contemplation. I do not offer them as absolute truth, but as possibilities. I will be the first to accept any new or additional light that may further establish them as true, or perhaps, require me to alter or abandon them."
Given the faulty references to the Prophet Joseph Smith and the old science references, I suggest the author update his understanding of science, scripture, and LDS literature. He might then decide to abandon his ideas for something better...or best.
(If you are intent on reading the book, save a few dollars. The author has made his book available online in PDF format for free.)
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
An interesting hypothesis (not a theorem)
By Dr. Steve B
The book is not especially well-written or edited, but it is a very interesting hypothesis. After all, if we Latter-Day Saints believe Kolob and the Celestial Kingdom are somewhere, and that "there are many kingdoms; for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser kingdom," then we cannot help but regard the galaxies, star clusters, nebulae, and vast spaces between them in terms of divine creations governing and being governed by each other. To see the marvels of the universe solely as scientifically-described objects is a sterile reductionism. And in point of fact, much of which science purports to "know" -- so confidently set forth by other reviewers -- is in fact theory. No one has ever seen the supermassive black hole alleged to lie at the center of this or any other galaxy. In fact, no one has ever directly imaged a black hole at all, which is why physicists like Stephen Hawking and the late John Wheeler, who have written so much about the structure and properties of black holes, have never won any Nobel Prizes; no one can verify their predictions about theoretical objects. Even Cygnus X-1 is merely a very energetic, invisible companion star that may or may not be a black hole -- but no one has ever actually seen it, or even its event horizon (this in contrast to other superdense exotica like neutron stars and white dwarfs). Another reviewer mentioned veils of "dark matter." "Dark matter" is completely hypothetical, inferred to exist because of its alleged gravitational influence. As with black holes, it may or may not exist; despite the current confidence of astronomers, it has not been observed at all, and no one knows what it might be. The reviewer confused "dark matter" with light-absorbing clouds and lanes of gas and dust that do, indeed, obscure our view of the galactic core, and that Hilton posits to be the "veils" that divide different degrees of glory within the galaxy.
A couple of reviewers mentioned "colliding galaxies," without understanding what this term means. Galaxies are extremely diffuse objects. When they "collide," they pass right through each other; they do not annihilate each other with their respective stars smashing up. One galaxy will frequently absorb another when they "collide," but there's no wholesale destruction of the stars and star systems within them. The eventual "collision" of the Milky Way and M31 will possibly result in a merger, but not a cosmic cataclysm. At least one reviewer mentioned the different classes of galaxies. It is worth noting that we know very little about how galaxies evolve, and, while there are many theories, there is no scientific consensus on exactly how those spiral arms (and, in many cases, the barred spiral structure) came about. I have never seen an explanation as to why the centers of all spiral galaxies are teeming with closely-packed, very luminous stars, or for the presence of the halo of globular clusters above and below the galactic plane in such galaxies. The Kolob Theorem does try to explain such features of our star system in terms of revealed scripture.
None of which is to say that the book is or is not true. But those of you anxious to put all your trust in science should consider just how little we really know, the confident pronouncements of cosmologists to the contrary. Oh, and as for those who think it's heresy to speculate about things that haven't been revealed -- come on, people! We are encouraged in many places to seek out knowledge, to use reason, to think, to form opinions, and so on. Or do you believe it's fine for members of the church to publicly disagree on political issues (for example), but not to form and express opinions on something like the makeup of the universe? This book -- and many others like it -- is properly set forth as one man's opinion, developed by studying and pondering this particular issue. Yes, someday these things will be settled by general revelation, but as long as no one presumes to speak as the Lord's mouthpiece, than discussions about the stars, about where the Book of Mormon lands were situated, about political questions, about the age of the earth, about the role of evolution, etc., etc., are healthy and edifying.
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