Gravity, Science, and the Spirit World

Dear Readers,

To further my own personal education, in this case mostly informal, I have been watching several science videos on Youtube. Some of my favorites are by Brian Greene. I know he got some criticism on Big Bang Theory, but I am a firm believer in John Taylor's saying, "It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it." By this definition of intelligence, I do believe that Greene is trying to be intelligent, and we can benefit from it. In return, I am trying to explain my ideas as "intelligently" as I can.

Anyway, this brings me possible ways to prove the scriptures and that spirits do exist. Now, I am going to try to explain it as best I can in roughly the same manner it was explained to me.

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First up is time. Now, we are all generally familiar with the concept of space, up-down (Y), left-right (X), forward-back (Z). However, most of us do not think about the fourth "dimension" or coordinate of time.

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The application of this coordinate was quite exemplified by the character Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory. He determined that the first moment he sat down on his "spot" on the couch it became the 0 coordinate on his time spectrum. From then on, his life was separated in what I call, BS (before spot) and AS (after spot). I know my acronyms might seem funny, but we have something similar today with a meridian of time. BC vs AD. Now, I am familiar with the way most of us remember BC and AD, (Before Christ, and After Death), however AD actually stands for "anno domini" which is Latin that is generally translated as "in the year of our Lord". I think it is important to point out that 1 AD is from Christ's birth to His first year of age, or usually considered that year in which He was born. There is no "year 0". There would be a zero coordinate on a graph, but there is no Year 0. For example right now as I am writing this, it is August of 2016 AD. August, being the 8th month then becomes 8/12 or 2/3 in the year of our Lord 2016. It is a decision of an entire year number 2016. Like August itself, it begins August first and ends August thirty-first. Thus, going back to our meridian of time, seconds before Christ's birth was part of 1 BC and seconds after Christ's birth was part of 1 AD. What does this have to do with anything? It was just semantics I wanted to get off of my chest.

How do we measure time, it all depends on how precise we want to be. It could be a Planck time, which is the smallest unit of time we have because it is the time it takes light to travel a Planck length which is the smallest unit of length we have. It is interesting how time is always measured from one "book end" to another. The beginning when the stop watch was first clicked to when it was clicked again at the end. I believe this is an important key element in what time is to us. Time is simply the measurement between to events. Christ's birth and now has been 2015 2/3 years, give or take a few months or days and hours due to the adjustment with the beginning of a year moved to January 1st at 12 o'clock AM.

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Thus, though a Planck time is the smallest measurement of time, time itself is made of instants. Easily understood as photographs. Each of these is an instant in time, though, ironically, a photo is countless Planck times after the instant occurred because of the distance the light traveled whether it is a couple feet for a selfie, or miles away for a panorama.

Time Line from Brian Greene on The B-Theory of Time

So, let us pretend that we could actually capture a photo for every single one of these instants, then we lay them all out in a line. Of course, these instants are separated into "folders" or units of time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years. Yet, ultimately, these are all made up of instants. These are set under very specific requirements.

Because science has proved that time is relative usually in correlation to the speed of light. It is interesting how the speed of light is a constant speed throughout all space. The closer one approaches the speed of light, the slower time is experience and is. The slower one moves relative to the speed of light is the faster time passes. This has been proven with satellites moving quicker or slower relative to earth's rotation.

We can also see that light is affected by gravity, especially with black holes drawing in all light creating an absence of light. I will leave this here for now to address a comment from Brian Greene in The B-Theory of Time.

He mentioned that Issac Newton came up with the universal time theory, in essence that there is one time, it is not relative, and it continues to flow unceasingly. Then he mentioned that Albert Einstein with his B-Theory of Time was the first one who had ideas of time being relative. This is not the case.

Though I honorably testify that Joseph Smith Jr. was a true prophet of God, let us pretend for a second that he was not. Under this assumption that Joseph Smith wrote the books of Abraham and Doctrine and Covenants himself, it is interesting how he talks about "...Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time, according to the reckoning of Kolob." (Abraham 3:4). "In answer to the question -- Is not the reckoning of God's time, angel's time, prophet's time, and man's time, according to the planet on which they reside? I answer, Yes. But there are no angels who minister to this earth but those who do belong or have belonged to it. The angels do not reside on a planet like this earth; But they reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord." (Doctrine and Covenants 130:4-7).

This is almost directly correlated with how we understand time today, and with this B-Theory. According to this theory, time is set. Because someone's now could be someone else's future, those events that take place in between have to be set in time. Thus, if all time is set, all time could be continually "before the Lord". This would also explain how God, knows the end from the beginning (Abraham 2:8). Also, that time is relative to every "planet" which correlates because every planet spins and travels through space as different speeds relative to the speed of light. Here on earth, we are all very close to the same time, though technically none of us are precisely experiencing the same time. We are close enough to interact. This is congruent with both the notion of time being relative to the speeds, mass, and whatever of different planets and this B-Theory.

My point is that Joseph Smith Jr. if he was a fraud, must have been as much of a genius as Albert Einstein to have written these same ideas. One could argue that Joseph Smith stole these ideas, if it were not for the fact that Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in 1844 while Einstein was not born until 1879. Thus, literally, either one must accept that Joseph Smith was a genius of Einstein's level, or that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God and he did receive this truth from the only Being who has all knowledge and that this truth is a constant which Einstein was also inspired with.

Alien's perspective relative to speed and direction. B-Theory Video Link

Now, another aspect of this video I care to comment on is that time is relative not only to speed but direction. Greene uses the idea of an alien, perfectly still in space on the other side of the universe and a human perfectly still in space. In an instant, they are along the same instant photograph. However, if the alien gets up and move away from the human, that alien's time instant changes to a slightly diagonal slice into the past. While if the alien moves towards the human, that instant changes to the future for that human. This seems crazy in theory, but how can we see that today?

Imagine that someone is in a room with you. Right now they are in your present instant and for the foreseeable future they will still be there with you. However, if they begin to leave, moving away, soon they will be in another room. They are no long with you, thus not in you present, and you only have memories of them, thus they only exist in your past. However, if they move towards you and re-enter the room, suddenly they are are going to join you in the future. Like a friend saying they are going to come over to your house, you know they are coming, so they exist in your future, but they are not currently in your present.

Thus, and this is why I like this concept, when two people move towards each other, they are in each other's future, until they meet in the middle. Then, at least for an instant, they share that same time. They are one in an instant frozen in time forever. Yes, this is the romantic in me...

Anyway, mathematically we find that gravity not only effects space, but time as well. This is under a similar principle as that speed vs rotation. Though we do not know for absolute surety what causes gravity, there are the theories of gravitons which most scientist believe exist. These are particles that somehow affect space and time. I do not know if they exist or not, but it is an interesting concept. However, because of the correlation between speed and time, I am leaning toward the rotation and motion creating gravity, though I do not exclude graviton particles having some correlation to it.

Gravitational waves from planets around black hole. Gravity Waves Video Link

This was proven when scientists noticed two planets spinning around a black hole. The black holes' interaction causes gravitational waves.

Green explaining the earth's stretching in an over exaggerated visual. Gravity Waves Video Link

Now, in theory, when these gravity waves hit the earth, they would stretch and compress the earth.

laser experiment test. Gravity Waves Video Link

So, it came to how would we prove it? They set up lasers several miles apart. On this scale, minor shifts in distance change the light frequencies. Instead of matching up, they become inconsistent. This was proved to be the case, and we learned that gravitational waves do compress and expand space itself.

Space in cubes. Brian Greene Gravity Video Link

So, let us imagine the cubes of space. We have these four dimensions, XYZ with T for time just existing un-represented.

Fabric of space. Gravity Video Link

Now let us imagine this from a different perspective, from a two dimensional flat surface called the fabric of space.

Sun and Earth. Gravity Video Link

Around each planet or sphere in space, there is a welt or under cone. The earth spins around the sun's cone. This reflects the earth's actual orbit mathematically.

Earth and Moon. Gravity Video Link

Then the earth has its own cone or sag that the moon spins around.

Gravity effecting space. Gravity Video Link

This sag is actually bending those cube edges of space, compressing it around the earth. This space also transfers the waves of the gravity, again with the gravity experiment above.

Higgs Boson Discovered Video Link

Thus, I will now switch directions to the Higgs Boson. The Higgs Boson is a particle I will compare to a water droplet. It is a portion of the Higgs Field which was, for quite some time, theoretical. Higgs Field was theorized first mathematically by trying to figure out why particles have mass. The only way mass could be calculated would be if the particles are constantly passing through a substance. This substance would have to quite unique in that it does not cause any friction.

With this theory, came the problem of how to prove it. As another function of the Hadron Collider, they documented that, extremely rarely, when particles collided and their components were flung out that there was a particle that lasts barely any fraction of a second before completely disappearing. Though I may not agree that this is the best science going on here for there could be several other reasons or properties not taken into consideration, simply because we do not know to think of them, that could explain it, I do like the idea of this Higgs Field being all around us.

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So, to put this another way, pretend we are trying to figure out what water is, when we are all under water. Thus we take two thing, like a submarine and a torpedo. When the two hit, there is an explosion with the particles creating a gap around a portion of the Higgs Field making a Higgs Boson, or a drop of water.

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Another example is like dropping a rock into a pond. Yes, there is the wripple, but sometimes, the force causes a drop of water to rise up and become temporarily severed from the body of water only to then re-combine with the rest of the water.

This would explain why that particle disappeared because it re-constituted back into the Higgs Field.

So, if this Higgs Field exists, which as far as science has been able to determine it does, then this field spans all of space and is likely space itself, rippling and flowing. Yet, again with Joseph Smith: "Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space--" (Doctrine and Covenants 88:12). Though it is not visibly seen as light, it is a substance that fills the immensity of space.

With Einstein's theories, the math words with gravity effecting all three dimensions of space as well as time, but there is something that is not explained by using these known dimensions. That is electromagnetism. For the math to work with electromagnetism, there is required a fourth, or if time is counted, fifth dimension.

Obviously, we cannot see this dimension, but its existence is the only way we can make sense of this electromagnetism. Now, I would like to point out my theories in magnetism, with a positive and negative pull which I talked about in my Gender post. Yet, to sum up, it was my theory that positive and negative polarization is caused by feminine or masculine intelligences on the other side of the veil. This veil could be considered the difference between our 3rd dimension and the 4th dimension.

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Now, Brian Greene and other Theoretical Physisists are looking for this fourth dimension as tiny dimensions curled up microscopically.

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This would be the equivalent of having an XY graph, only the lines themselves, not taking up any distance left or right, were actually straws, hollow on the inside. The dimensional difference would be so tiny that we could not see it.

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However, I disagree with this concept. As with the Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions idea from Edwin Abbott Abbot, a true 4th dimension would not fit this criteria. In a 2D (two dimensional) plane, a being would only see lines, maybe colored lines, but still lines. However, that same world seen from a 3D perspective, the 3D individual would be able to see inside of the 2D beings. Like seeing the inside of a circle, or seeing the unborn chick in this 2D egg from Futurama.

What I really enjoyed about this episode of Futurama was how they explained how a 2D organism would live. They could not have a digestive system like ours, because it would split them in half.

So they would have to eat like a microscopic organism  creating a membrane around the object, break it down, and then transplant the nutrients.

Now, say, if a sphere were to enter Flatland, the inhabitants would only be able to see a line that suddenly grows and then shrinks as the sphere passes through layer by layer until it is gone. To the inhabitants, it would be a very strange phenomenon that none of them could explain.

So, in comparison, what would be a 4th dimension to us? The fourth dimension would be able to see inside of our bodies. What we could see from its interaction would be limited and confusing, like something appearing and disappearing.

This reminds me so much of the spirit world. The spirit world is all around us (Gospel Principles Chapter 41). Spirit can exist within us, around us, pass through us. "...for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7).

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Then we have ghosts, spirits appearing and disappearing and manifesting in any number of peculiar ways.

It seems to me that the spirit world meets quite well the criteria for a proper fourth dimension. If this is the case, then those positive and negative (masculine and feminine) charges would indeed be from intelligences from the spirit world.

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This would explain why strong electromagnetic fields can cause sickness in some people, disrupting their connection with their own spirits. It would explain how and why our brains have their own bio-electrical field.

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This would explain why ghost are known for manifesting in strange electromagnetic fields, as expressed in Ghosthunters.

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This would explain why electronic devices are often correlated with other ghostly manifestations like EVP (electronic voice phenomenon).

Really, the spirit world being the 4th dimension would explain so much about science and in essence, prove scientifically that there is an afterlife. However, most scientists seem to be atheists and thus almost immediately dismiss ideas such as this. So, I am sharing with you my beliefs in the hope that you ponder these things out for yourselves. As always, I am happy to read any comments you might have.

Love,
Jacobugoth

Bleach 3: Aizen

Dear Readers,

I have covered the wonders of the good side of Bleach in my first two posts. Now I feel that I need to complete the main theme by covering the darker side. The side of Aizen. Note: I am writing this under the understanding that my readers have read my first two Bleach posts, and there is a SPOILER ALERT!!!.

This is Aizen Sosuke. He may seem benign and nice, but inside his heart he is conniving and mischievous. He was the captain of the 5th division of the shinigami army. Aizen has high intellect, and his research rivaled Urahara Kisuke, who was the main shinigami scientist operating in the human world.

The research that the shinigami have acquired has allowed them the means of creating items commonly referred to as "soul candy". They are "mod souls" or modified spirits that are encased inside a small candy like sphere. These modified spirits are created from disembodied spirits that are then given special traits. Such as Kon. Kon has the modification of incredible strength in his legs. This causes speed and powerful kicks. Having spirits in candy form could be possible in the same way that spirits can possess bodies not of their form, meaning the same form or shape of the spirit. For example, in Mark 5:9-13 there is the story of Legion. Jesus comes upon a man possessed of about two thousand demons, all of which are able to occupy that one human body, not to mention the man's own spirit is also residing there. Jesus casts them into a herd of swine nearby. Again, swine are not even in the same shape of a human, yet the demons were able to possess their bodies. Therefore, a spirit's influence can be bound inside of something much smaller than the spirit itself.

Kon, and modified spirits like him, were created for the intended purpose of occupying the false body of a shinigami, called a gigai, which are used to allow the shinigami ability to interact with the physical world. The mod spirit can occupy the gigai while the shinigami fights a hollow or anything else as a spirit. As shown above, through happy accidents it was discovered that the soul candy can also animate other objects as well, including a plush doll.

Ichigo uses Kon to keep his body alive and safe when he, Ichigo, has to fight. Thus the reason for the spirits being modified to house powers as well.

While it is also important to note that there was an anime only arc that involved the creation of reigai, artificial spirit bodies, which were used in conjunction with red soul candy. From this arc, though not considered cannon of the series, we can see what might actually fuel soul candy is intelligence. For the red soul candy, they are intelligences that have been organized into personalities, but naked from a spirit body (Abraham 3:22-23) thus their need for a reigai. For the regular yellowish soul candy, they are merely spirits, of course having intelligence and personality, but not being naked intelligence. Intelligence is the light of truth (Doctrine and Covenants 93:29, 36). From this definition, it would make sense why the reigai have "electrical" sparks that emanate from their eyes. If the intelligence, which is now awakened and being used but not permanently bonded to the reigai, is compared or described as light. then that light, which is a form of energy, could be causing that ocular discharge. Especially since the eye is considered the light or portal of the body (Matthew 6:22-23). If any of you have a desire to learn what I mean by intelligence, you can see an earlier post I had entitled "Glory of God is Intelligence":
http://jacobugothbeliefs.blogspot.com/2015/08/facebook-request-3-glory-of-god-is.html

 One might wonder what this has to do with Aizen and his evil plot. Aizen, long before Urahara began to progress in his research field of soul candy, envisioned and created a hogyoku (breakdown sphere).

A hogyoku is created by "sacrificing" the spirits of countless shinigami and normal individuals and encasing them inside of the sphere. Ironically, this reminds me of two items of extreme power.

First, mostly to get it out of the way, there is the "Philosopher's Stone" from Fullmetal Alchemist. In order to create this object of immeasurable power, one has to sacrifice the blood of thousands of people in a three-dimensional alchemy symbol. I do think that this concept was made even more ironic with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

In the original version, it was called the Philosopher's Stone. The book series, nor movies, ever described how it was made, only that it created the elixir of life. Indeed, blood has often been the symbol of life (Deuteronomy 12:23), from vampires drinking it, to Christ's life blood shed (Luke 22:44). If blood is the life of mortality, then light and truth are the life of our spirits. No wonder we are commanded to "feast upon the words of Christ" (2 Nephi 32:3). I also think that it is interesting how both with the concept of vampire's longevity and the healing, restoring powers of the Philosopher's stone, both present false forms of immortality. Immortality meaning the spirit and the body being inseparably connected. Though neither dies from old age, they can still die from other causes, and their lives are on condition of partaking of blood or the elixir of life. While, the Christ's atoning blood, which we partake of symbolically when we take the sacrament on the Sabbath, is the key to returning to our Father in Heaven and obtaining true immortality.

That all being said, doesn't this hogyoku bring to remembrance the galaxy marble from Men In Black? The hogyoku is still the size of a small marble or any of the other soul candy, therefore, with all of the "sacrificed" spirits contained therein, it is very near like unto a galaxy contained within. Indeed the scriptures say that "...there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is no kingdom in which there is no space...." (Doctrine and Covenants 88:37).

Quick rant.....The Higgs Field and the Higgs Boson. Now, literally within the past few years, physicists have been trying to figure out why particles have mass, whether that is quarks, or electrons and protons. Mathematically, they found that they can calculate the mass of sub-atomic particles as if they were moving through a substance. Thus the Higgs Field theory. This theory involves a field, almost like a liquid, that the particles are constantly moving through, thus constantly giving them mass. This theory was later proved with the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Using a super collider, they smash sub-atomic particles together at high speeds. This was how they discovered quarks, but also, they found that there was occasionally a temporary particle that lasts for only a few thousandths of a second. I compare it to dropping a rock in water. Usually it causes ripples, but sometimes a drop of water will splash up. That "drop of water" which then falls and returns to the body of water is the Higgs Boson. Basically a drop of the Higgs Field that becomes temporarily dislodged and therefore measurable or "visible".

The reason I went on this rant is because before these discoveries, scientists thought that the space between quarks, protons and electrons was empty space. Now we know that it is filled with this Higgs Field, which in turn can have infinite amount of "drops of water" or Higgs Bosons. Truly, there was no kingdom, an atom, without space, and there is no space, without a kingdom, the Higgs Field. Joseph Smith, as the Prophet and the mouth piece of God, recorded that scripture back in the 1800's.

Now that rant is over, I will return to the plot of the movie Men In Black. The reason that the cockroach alien and the Arquillians (the little alien inside the head) were after that little galaxy, was because it both supplied resources and energy. Now, in a similar way, the hogyoku emits energy. As the translated name of breakdown sphere suggests, the energy breaks down bonds. Specifically, the bonds separating shinigami and hollow.

The first account of this taking place was when Aizen stole the hogyoku and used to to turn Shinji Hirako and some other shinigami into visored. The individuals exposed become weak and ill, then begin vomiting and oozing white slime from their mouth and eyes. As the hollow goo spreads and hardens, it creates an inner hollow for the individual to have to deal with. I have likened the inner hollow to the "natural man" (Mosiah 3:19) within each of us. Thus, this hollowfication is giving into the influence of the hogyoku.

To contain this energy, after Urahara retrieved his hogyoku and dealt with the incident with Shinji, he created a shell around it. This shell was supposed to keep its energy from leaking out and infecting others. We could compare this to the banishment of the one third of the host of heaven that followed Lucifer and his plan (Revelations 12:4). These angels of the Devil, or demons, would be contained within the hogyoku. They have the power to tempt us, but have fallen. Urahara later hid it inside Rukia, a shinigami that was Ichigo's first contact with Soul Society.

Now comes the first big scandal of the series. Aizen manages to get Rukia sentenced to be executed. During the days and hours leading up to the event, Ichigo launches an attack, with his friends, to try and rescue Rukia. Aizen uses the ensuing chaos to first, fake his own death. Ironic how one of Satan's greatest lies is that he does not exist. 

Aizen is able to fake his death, because his zampakuto's ability is hypnotism over all five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste. When he became a captain, he used this ability to set the hypnosis into play upon all of the shinigami. They all thought his power was water based, but that was just the illusion he caused them to see. It is also ironic how Satan's main objective is to deceive us and place us under his dominion. Making us his slaves or pawns (Moses 4:3).

Now that everyone believes that he is dead, and that Ichigo and his gang are at fault, he makes preparations to remove the hogyoku from Rukia, ripping it out of her spirit. Having acquired his trophy, Aizen escapes Soul Society with two other captains that he managed to convince to join him, by entering Hueco Mundo (the Hollow World) thanks to some Gillians. There, in Hueco Mundo, Aizen somewhat pronounces himself king and begins experimenting on the hollows.

For example, Grimmjow the adjuchas was transformed into an arrancar (Spanish: arankaru, to tear off or ripped mask in Japanese). His hollow mask was cracked as a sign of the breaking bond between hollow and shinigami, and again, as zampakuto and hollows, when they become stronger, they become more human. So it is with arrancar.

Using Grimmjow as an example, he obtains a sword, like an asuachi for a shinigami. Also, his mask has become merely that half of a bony smile. Once again, his appearance resembles the human he used to be. I will compare this to the battle of good and evil around us. Those who choose to do evil, they usually go about doing their own thing. Yes, they can hurt others in the process, but that is because they don't care who they hurt. They are the hollows. Arrancar, however, would be likend unto those who take whatever power or use of the word of God, the sword of the spirit, and use it to attack the things of God. Even the Devil can quote scripture when it suits his needs. Indeed, if shinigami are the servants of God, who would hold the priesthood of God, then the arrancar would be those who not only do evil, but use the very priesthood of the Devil.

I do think that it is interesting that the priesthood of God is given to man through the laying on of hands, using a physical body. Since Satan has no body, I wonder how he bestows his priesthood.

Then there is the arrancar's powers. Similar to the shikai of a shinigami, they have a stage called their release. In the more common translations it is called resurreccion or resurrection, I prefer to use the term release, because it is more accurate, though the Japanese translation is "returning blade". This stage is a release of their inner animal, the hollow they have become.

(Ulquiorra's release top left, Ulquiorra's second release top right) Now, there is one arrancar, that I know of, who has as second release or segunda etopa. That would be the equivalent of a bankai of a shinigami. As one can see, Ulquiorra becomes more monstrous with this second release.

The most common attack of higher level hollows and arrancar is the cero. If translated from Spanish, it become zero, but the general translation is hollow flash or doom blast. This attack includes the charging or gathering of reishi and compressing it into a point, and then release it in a devastating blast. Most hollows use their mouths to exhale the blast, but arrancar, like Ulquiorra above, tend to either use their fingers or horns as the gathering points. I think that the zero version of the name is significant, for it reminds me plotting a graph. There is the X-axis and the Y-axis. One is going horizontal, the other vertical. Where the two meet, that is the zero point on the graph. all other points are either positive or negative on either the X or Y axis. Go figure, you need to know graphs and point plotting perform a cero.

A very similar attack that was developed by arrancar is the bala (bullet). I have noticed that this ability focuses more on the rotation of the reishi rather than the pressurizing at a single point. Because of the lack of need to charge and build up reishi, it works for a quick, fairly powerful attack.

Another ability, very similar to the use of reiatsu by shinigami, is hierro or steel skin. In case if anyone questioned as to whether or not the Devil's priesthood had equal false versions of the armor of God as I presented in my first Bleach post, it is likely that it does.

Now that I have covered the creations that Aizen was making, let us turn to what he did to himself. He bonded the hogyoku to his spirit body, feeding it his own shinigami powers. This caused him to gain dominion over it.

Because of this connection, its energy began to transform him. Very similar to the hollowfication that created the visored, it formed a chrysalis of the same substance to protect him during the metamorphosis.

Quickly, I think that it is interesting how in Digimon, Lucemon (Lucifer) went from an angel, to a fallen angel, and then to a larva stage before becoming the Satan dragon version.

So it is with Aizen, the example of Lucifer in this series. His cocoon eventually hatched and he became a nearly unbeatable tyrant. As he walked, his reiatsu or spirit pressure is so strong that it could completely disintegrate people who got too close. Yet, as with my comparison in my last post, all of the shinigami could not feel his reiatsu, because it was at such a higher level than their own. I like the comparison of trying to feel rain when you are already under water. They could not tell the difference.

Looking like Aizen was without equal, one of his cohorts betrayed him. The betrayal should have killed Aizen, especially since Gin Ichimaru, the one who tried to slay the beast, stole the hogyoku while doing so. It is here we find that the spiritual connections or bonds, like the reiraku or spirit ribbons I talked about in the first Bleach post, are not effected by distance or space. The hogyoku knew its master was in danger and was dying, and healed or evolved him from a distance. Turning him into what is basically an evil butterfly.

Once again, we see how the powers of darkness, when released, make mankind less human, and more beast. This is when Ichigo intervenes after having learned Saigo no Getsuga Tensho, or the final getsuga. They battle, and because of Aizen's pride, he fails to realize the power difference between righteousness and evil. Ichigo, using his new attack, slices Aizen in half. Yet, Aizen's hogyoku keeps him alive, and he evolves again. Though this new form is more monstrous in appearance, it has come to the point where becoming less human only takes away from his power.

This loss of power allowed a spell or seal that Urahara placed upon him to take effect and bind him, fittingly, inside of a cross or star. Lucifer means "light bringer". Like the light of a star. I think that Aizen's encasement rather looks likes one of the stars that are sometimes placed on top of Christmas trees, and that those stars are interchangeable with angels. On top of that, Satan's greatest achievement, and also his greatest downfall, was influencing the hearts of the children of God enough to crucify their own Messiah. Yet, that act of dying and giving up His life while He hung on the cross enabled Christ to fully become our Savior and Redeemer. With that act, the atonement was finished, and on the third day the very chains of death were broken, chains by which Satan sough to bind the children of men. Indeed, the visual symbols of three crosses, one for Christ, and one on either side representing the thief's that were crucified along with him, acts like a final humiliation upon his head, the greatest height of his dynasty is the cap stone of his tomb. Indeed, the powers of the Godhead, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost will forever be the One True God.

From then, Aizen was bound and locked away. Though, as I stated in my second Bleach post, Satan will not be physically bound, but that he will have no power over the hearts of the children of God any longer, and it will be because of their righteousness.

I will now make my last argument of how Aizen represents Lucifer.
The scriptures describe the mourning over the fall of Lucifer, (Isaiah 14:12-14, 2 Nephi 24:12-14)
"12. How art thou fallen from heave, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13. For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."

The mourning of Lucifer's fall is so much like the mourning Momo Hinamori expressed after Aizen's betrayal, not just of Soul Society, but by also stabbing Momo with his blade.

Aizen himself expressed his motives, which are undeniably similar to Lucifer's as mentioned above. "No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on....I will be sitting on it."

Lucifer's greatest sin was the route sin, the sin that begins all others. That is pride. Pride was the cause and downfall of a son of the morning. That same pride he still tries to tempt us with in the hopes that he can drag us down into his dominion, that we may be miserable like him. Misery truly loves company.

I hope that you have enjoyed this post. I know that most of it was dark and sinister, but there is always the light at the end of the tunnel, the silver lining on every cloud. No matter how bad the war for souls gets, we know how it will end, good will prevail over evil. That should make it so much easier to pick a side, and be willing and have confidence for the fight ahead. I will have one more Bleach post, though it will no longer be about the main plot of the series, it will be about gems of knowledge and inspiration that I have not yet covered. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them below. Special thanks to bleach.wikia.com for their useful and relevant information.

Love,
Jacobugoth

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