While reading in the book of Moses this afternoon, I discovered another parallel between an Ekpyrotic Universe and the scriptures. This parallel is related to the parallel for many worlds, but it concerns the sequence of the worlds being created rather than there being many worlds.
The book of Moses states that as one world passes away another world will take its place.
And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying: The heavens they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but they are numbered unto me, for they are mine.
And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my words. (Moses 1:37-38)
I don't know if those verses should be taken literally, such that only one world would be in existence at a time, or if the verses should be generalized to allow many worlds to be in existence at any given time. The important thing, I think, is that those verses teach that the Lord creates an unending series of worlds being created.
In a previous post, I introduced the idea of an Ekpyrotic Universe, a concept developed from the mathematics of string theory. According to that concept, there is an unending series of universes. Each universe ends in a fiery explosion, an explosion that ends one universe and creates another universe. The name "Ekpyrotic Universe" was given to that concept by scientists because Ekpyrotic is a Greek word denoting a large destructive fire. Ekpyrotic refers to an ancient Stoic concept of the universe having an unending series of hot, destructive births, coolings, and rebirths.
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