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The English revised version contains the following:

And abundance of peace so long as the Moon endureth.
Besides, many other texts refer to the future metamorphosis of the Sun and the Moon,

seen from the Earth. It is said that:
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The Sun shall be turned into darkness and the Moon into blood... These indications

have a symbolic meaning of course. In esoteric language, blood often signifies life.
According to Tradition, the solar system, in its entirety, SOL-FA-MI-RE of the Great

Octave and the totality of the lateral octave, plays the role of a nursery-garden in the

Ray of Creation and should produce new suns endowed with their planetary worlds. The

actual planets will become suns, their satellites will become planets and the asteroids
will form the satellites of the new systems.

The Moon will change from a satellite to a living planet when the notes RE of the

Great Octave and of the lateral octave will resound fully. This can happen only when our

satellite has absorbed a sufficient quantity of solar energies transformed by the
Tritocosmos and of such quality that an atmosphere may be created.

We have already seen one of the reasons for which the Moon presents always the

same face to the Earth. Here is another: due to its rotation on its own axis – rotation

which lasts about one month according to our earthly standards, — the entire surface of
the Moon is regularly illuminated by the Sun. On the other hand, radiations from the

Earth reach only a part of its surface about one hemi-

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Acts, II, 20. Quoted after the Slavonic text, corresponding
with the Vulgate: Sol convertetur in tenebras et Luna in sanguinem.