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Why Did Moses Face Shine ?

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This has always fascinated me! For me this means that Moses must have been in the presence of God.

Exodus 34: 29-30
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
 

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The uncreated light, which was also seen by the Holy Apostles Peter, James and John at the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, which is reflected in the saints, and which is depicted in traditional iconography by a Halo, a circle of light surrounding the head. In the person of Christ this circle also features a radiant cross.

In Orthodoxy and most traditional churches, the Transfiguration is celebrated on August 6th. Some Western churches celebrate it, or moved the date of its celebration in some cases, to the last Sunday before Lent, which is doubly unfortunate, as this has led to the abolition in several liturgical rites of the Pre-Lent, the Sundays of Preparation for the Great Fast (Septuagesima, Sexagesisma and Quinquagesima), and also leaves the summer with one fewer holiday. In many churches, attendance is allowed to plunge over the summer months, which become the most ordinary of ordinary times, with frequently the choir not serving in the summer, as if for some reason there should be no music in the summer months (I can understand not having a boys’ choir active all months of the year, but in Orthodoxy the idea of an adult choir taking a vacation is unthinkable).

Also I would note that the Hesychast monks are in some cases able to see the uncreated light of Tabor through the pursuit of continual prayer of the heart, which requires an experienced elder. For the average layperson, the saying of the Jesus Prayer is sufficient.
 
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Aerogel is the lightest and lowest-density solid in the world. It’s a gel composed of 99.8% air. Looking like frozen smoke, this material is almost as light as air itself. It’s only 1.74 grams.

This substance may actually be found in the firmament, watch how this guy in the video covers himself in Aerogel and shines, could this be what happened to Moses on Mount Sinai ? If this is the case then Moses actually entered heaven & talked with God. This can also be called the light of Tabor.

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Aerogel is the lightest and lowest-density solid in the world. It’s a gel composed of 99.8% air. Looking like frozen smoke, this material is almost as light as air itself. It’s only 1.74 grams. It’s so light that even soap bubbles can lift it.

Despite its weight, it can withstand extreme temperatures from -273 degrees Celsius to 650 degrees Celsius and provides a protection against heat unlike anything else on Earth.

Aerogels can be in different shapes, given that they are 99% air, can you guess the kind of sound would an aerogel make? It’s like an empty can dropping onto a steel surface, very metallic. It’s quite different from what most of you might expect.
 
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Aerogel is the lightest and lowest-density solid in the world. It’s a gel composed of 99.8% air. Looking like frozen smoke, this material is almost as light as air itself. It’s only 1.74 grams.

This substance may actually be found in the firmament, watch how this guy in the video covers himself in Aerogel and shines, could this be what happened to Moses on Mount Sinai ? If this is the case then Moses actually entered heaven & talked with God. This can also be called the light of Tabor.

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For some reason the link from the video doesn't work - Sorry.

Aerogel is the lightest and lowest-density solid in the world. It’s a gel composed of 99.8% air. Looking like frozen smoke, this material is almost as light as air itself. It’s only 1.74 grams. It’s so light that even soap bubbles can lift it.

Despite its weight, it can withstand extreme temperatures from -273 degrees Celsius to 650 degrees Celsius and provides a protection against heat unlike anything else on Earth.

Aerogels can be in different shapes, given that they are 99% air, can you guess the kind of sound would an aerogel make? It’s like an empty can dropping onto a steel surface, very metallic. It’s quite different from what most of you might expect.

Aerogel is extremely brittle, and has a tendency to break very easily. It is also not a naturally occurring material.

If the Earth was encased in a firmament made of aerogel, we would suffer from periodic toxic showers of aerogel particles, which can be extremely desiccating and unpleasant if dried.
 
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Aerogel is extremely brittle, and has a tendency to break very easily. It is also not a naturally occurring material.

If the Earth was encased in a firmament made of aerogel, we would suffer from periodic toxic showers of aerogel particles, which can be extremely desiccating and unpleasant if dried.

But scientists have over come this problem, they have made a closed cell foam combined with Aerolgel making it fire & water resistant.

For video type in;

The Lightest Solid on Earth (You won’t believe this exists)​

in the you tube search box,
 
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But scientists have over come this problem, they have made a closed cell foam combined with Aerolgel making it fire & water resistant.

For video type in;

The Lightest Solid on Earth (You won’t believe this exists)​

in the you tube search box,

Indeed, but that’s not pure aerogel and it also really doesn’t matter. Aerogel, carbon fiber, silicon fiber, graphene, carbon nanotubes, thermal tiles, deep substrate foliated kalkite, kalkite substitutes, synthetic kalkite (forgive the pun, Andor fans, it seemed apt to include a fictitious material in a litany of synthetic materials), these are all advanced compounds like inconel created by the same science and engineering complex you insist are lying about everything, specifically, the needs of the aerospace industry for insulating materials, for applications in supersonic aircraft and spacecraft.

The reason why the face of Moses shown is the reason why the Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ was illuminated with light on Mount Tabor, and why the faces of many saints have been illuminated in the manner of Moses, for example, Abba Sisoes, one of the Desert Fathers, whose feast day was celebrated this past Sunday on the Gregorian and Revised Julian Calendar, is because of the uncreated light of God, which is also encountered by Orthodox Hesychast monks and related Christian monastics.

There is a profound theological and scriptural connection - God is a consuming fire of love and light, so bright that He illumines the New Jerusalem described in the Revelation of St. John the Beloved Disciple. This brightness is intense, and would be a torment for evildoers, so in the Orthodox Church we believe they are consigned to the outer darkness as a mercy by God. The punishment is the knowledge of what they are electing to miss out upon due to their hatred for God, which makes it impossible to be in His immediate presence without unbearable suffering, since the consuming fire of God’s love is experienced as the burning hellfire of divine wrath by those who set themselves up in opposition to Him.

On the sixth day, Christ recreated us in His image on the Cross in 33 AD, before reposing in a tomb on the seventh, and rising again in glory on the first day, which is also symbolic of the eighth day, the life of the World to Come, which is where our focus should be. To celebrate the light of everlasting life, the dawn of the eighth day of creation, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox celebrate Pascha (Easter Sunday) starting at midnight, and the liturgy lasts four hours or more, ending as the sun rises (also many monasteries operate on this schedule weekly or nightly, for example St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence, AZ, and many Athonite and Coptic monasteries). In addition, other traditional liturgical churches like Roman Catholics and Anglicans have similar Paschal Vigil liturgies focused on the same idea.

Thus, the reason why the face of Moses shone is because he was hallowed in the presence of almighty God, conversing with Him with an intimacy that would be unmatched until His incarnation, and this light was again experienced at the Nativity, with the star in the heavens that attracted the Magi to the manger where Our Glorious Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary did give birth to God the incarnate Word, and again at the Transfiguration where St. Peter, St. James the Great (the first Apostle to be martyred) and his younger brother St. John the Beloved Disciple saw Christ together with St. Moses and St. Elijah on Mount Tabor, emersed in heavenly light. This same light would blind Saul of Tarsus while he was traveling to persecute the Christians in Damascus, causing his conversion to Christ and his transformation from Saul the persecutor to St. Paul the Holy Apostle, wherein he was redeemed and glorified and played a vital role in spreading Christ to the gentiles of the Roman Empire, and whose epistles are among the oldest portions of the New Testament.

And this same light has been, and continues to be, experienced by Christians, who pursue holiness, even now.

It is not aerogel, or any other manmade substance, that causes this light, but rather the light, far from being a manmade material, is actually the uncreated Light of God, an uncreated energy of God, like His Grace, which are the means by which we interact with God, for God is in His essence unknowable; we are able to know the unoriginate Father, who has not been seen at any time, but only heard, and then only for sure on a few occasions as recorded in the New Testament, only through His uncreated energies such as the Grace of God the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Paraclete, who is everywhere present and fills all things, and through the incarnation of His Only Begotten Son and Word, our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, who are together with their Father coeternal and coequal, ever one God, united in perfect and everlasting love, the light of the Holy Trinity.

By making ourselves an icon of the Holy Trinity in terms of how we love God and love others, by seeking to love our family, our neighbor, those in the church, humanity at large, with the same purity and intensity of the love between the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, we can hope to be ourselves transfigured by divine love, and to bear witness to the Uncreated Light, that shone from Moses on Sinai, and that surrounded Christ our True God on Tabor, and that blinded and converted from evil to goodness St. Paul the Apostle on the Road to Damascus. Indeed St. Paul could not have been given a better gift under any circumstances, for he was saved form himself by God and allowed to participate in the salvation of the human race, which is a testament to how the Light of Christ transforms the least into the greatest, redeeming sinners and saving us from our own self-inflicted injuries, and then glorifying us, for example, by allowing the Good Thief to dine with Him in paradise.

We should pray to be uplifted and to receive the light of God in our lives.

This uncreated light you might call “Arrow gel” for it is shot at us by the Holy Spirit like a flaming arrow of uncreated grace, that when it strikes us, causes us to glow with the fire of divine love, burning without being burnt, just as the Burning Bush encountered by Moses was unharmed by the presence of the Holy Spirit upon it.
 
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