Although the full report of lunar expedition findings has not yet been issued, those which have been shared with the public tend to support rather than refute the Masters' teaching about the moon. The sun has little to do with atmospheric phenomena. High above our earth's surface the air is impregnated and space filled with magnetic, or meteoric, dust, which does not even belong to our solar system. . . . This belt traps charged particles such as ultraviolet and X-rays, allowing only relatively few to escape and enter the atmosphere at the poles where their descent creates the phenomena of the auroras. Called the Van Allen belts after their discoverer, these hitherto unknown protective zones around the earth screen out high-energy particles continuously bombarding our planet, which otherwise might destroy life on its surface.
Astronomers now believe that two are really one great belt filled with particles.
Making allowance for the lack of suitable technical language in the 1880s to describe such phenomena, the words of K.H. strongly suggest the Van Allen radiation belts. Other questions commented upon by the Adepts, such as the genesis and size of the universe and the nature of electricity and magnetism, must be deferred because of considerations of space. That their views were far in advance of 19th-century discoveries and shed a quiet but astonishing light on findings that science was to make only in the 20th century becomes crystal clear from the record. It verifies that the Adepts are indeed advanced men possessing an unusual knowledge of the facts of nature beyond that of Western science. The balanced approach they displayed toward problems of life and learning, the careful, tactful treatment accorded Westerners with whom they corresponded, and their open-eyed dedication to solid human progress rather than to fantastic or unrealistic objectives, all inspire us ordinary men with much confidence in them and their purposes.