Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Trent Dee Stephens on Kae-e-vanrash in the Book of Abraham and the Sun Being said to "Borrow" its Light

  

When I was young, I marveled at the book of Abraham facsimiles. I was especially intrigued by Facsimile 2 and Joseph Smith's translations, wherein were described by the interconnection between heavenly bodies, "said by the Egyptians to be the Sun, and to borrow its lights from Kolob through the medium of Kae-e-vanrash, which is the grand Key, or, in other words, the governing power [possibly ke-'eban-raš, a keystone]. . . ." I pondered, "How could the sun borrow light from some other celestial body whereas it was, in itself, a source of light?" Perhaps the "light" described in Facsimile 2 is not the ordinary light we perceive emanating from the sun. It is possible that this Kae-e-vanrash or ke-'eban-raš, this grand keystone as revealed to Abraham and taught by him to the Egyptians, is another name for "dark matter," which interconnects and governs all the heavenly bodies? Perhaps it is only "dark" because we can't "see" it; maybe it's a form of invisible light. (Trent Dee Stephens, Science and the Old Testament [Springville, Utah: CFI, 2025], Location 657 of 7943, Kindle ed.)

 

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