Mystical Visions of the Concentric Cosmos

Cellular Cosmology is not a modern construct. Across millennia and cultures, mystics, shamans, poets, and visionaries have described the same concentric cosmos — independently, in different languages and traditions. Their visions agree in astonishing ways.

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Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)

The Fiery Egg

The Benedictine abbess, mystic, and polymath Hildegard von Bingen received a series of cosmological visions starting in 1141, which she recorded in Scivias ("Know the Ways") and had painted as illuminations.

Her most famous cosmological vision shows a "fiery, shimmering egg" — the cosmos as a closed, egg-shaped structure with concentric layers:

• An outer fire shell (the Earth shell)
• Below it a dark layer (the aether)
• At the centre a luminous celestial body (the celestial sphere)
• Winds and stars in the intermediate layers

Hildegard wrote: "I saw an enormous structure resembling an egg, surrounded by a flaming sphere of fire."

This is an exact description of the cellular cosmological model — 900 years before its modern formulation.

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Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

The Divine Comedy

Dante's Divina Commedia (completed ca. 1320) describes a journey through concentric spheres of the cosmos:

• Inferno: Descent through concentric circles into the Earth's interior
• Purgatorio: Ascent up the Mountain of Purgation
• Paradiso: Ascent through nine concentric celestial spheres to the Empyrean — the pure light of God at the centre

In Canto 28 of Paradiso, Dante describes a decisive inversion: he gazes into a radiant point (God), surrounded by nine concentric rings of light — the angelic hierarchies. The universe has its centre not in matter, but in light.

Dante thus describes exactly the topology of the cellular cosmos: the Earth at the periphery, divine light at the centre, connected by concentric spheres.

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Domenicus van Wijnen (1661–ca. 1698)

Allegory of the Creation of the Cosmos

The Dutch painter Domenicus van Wijnen, known in Rome as "Ascanius" among the Bentvueghels, painted this monumental Allegory of the Creation of the Cosmos around 1685 (now at Pavlovsk Palace, Saint Petersburg).

The painting shows: - At the centre: Concentric luminous spheres with a radiant core (God/the light) - Surrounding them: Planets as transparent globes in their orbits - Angels and biblical figures between the spheres - At the edges: Scenes from the biblical Creation and the life of Christ - Bottom right: Most remarkably — angels present the viewer with a shield bearing an armillary sphere showing concentric rings. They are literally explaining the model of the egg-cosmos with its nested spheres

The painting is visual testimony that the concentric, theocentric worldview was still alive in the 17th century — despite Copernicus.

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The Quran — The Light Verse (An-Nur 24:35)

Light Upon Light

The famous Light Verse of the Quran describes a concentric light structure:

"God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. His light is like a niche in which there is a lamp. The lamp is in a glass. The glass is as if it were a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree — an olive, neither eastern nor western — whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light."

The structure is concentric: Niche → Glass → Lamp → Flame → Light. It mirrors the structure of the cellular cosmos: Earth shell → Aether → Celestial sphere → Sun → Divine light.

Surah 79:30 adds: "And the Earth — after that He made it egg-shaped" (دَحَاهَا — dahaha, from duhya = egg). The cosmic egg is explicitly named in the Quran.

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Black Elk / Hehaka Sapa (1863–1950)

The First Peace

Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk), shaman of the Ogallala Sioux and later also a Christian, described the cosmic order of his people in "The Sacred Pipe":

"The first peace — the most important — enters the soul of man when he realises his kinship, his harmony with the universe — knowing that at the centre of the world Wakan-Tanka, the great Mystery [God], dwells. And that this centre is actually everywhere — in each of us. This is the real peace. All others are merely reflections of it."

Black Elk describes the fractal theocentricity of Cellular Cosmology: the Divine dwells at the centre of the world (= centre of the cosmic cell), and this centre is simultaneously everywhere (= in every cell, in every person). Worldview = Self-image = Image of God.

The North American "Great Mystery" (Wakan-Tanka) at the centre of the world aligns precisely with Far Eastern Taiji philosophy and the cellular cosmological worldview.

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Cyrus Teed / Koresh (1839–1908)

The Illumination of 1869

The American physician and alchemist Cyrus Reed Teed experienced a transformative vision in his laboratory in 1869, which he called his "Illumination." An angelic figure revealed to him:

"You live on the inner surface of a hollow sphere. The entire universe is contained within this sphere."

Teed took the name Koresh (Hebrew for Cyrus) and founded the Koreshan Unity — a community dedicated to scientifically proving the hollow world model. He organised the famous "Rectilineator" experiment on the Florida coast in 1897, which demonstrated a concave Earth curvature.

Teed was the first to systematically formulate Cellular Cosmology and published it in "The Cellular Cosmogony" (1898).

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The Pattern

All these visions — spanning 2,000 years, five continents, and six traditions — describe the same cosmos:

Visionary	Era	Tradition	Core Image
Quran (An-Nur)	7th c.	Islam	Concentric light: Niche → Glass → Lamp → Flame
Hildegard v. Bingen	1141	Christian mysticism	The Fiery Egg — luminous cosmos in a shell
Dante Alighieri	1320	Poetry/Theology	Concentric celestial spheres, point of light at centre
D. van Wijnen	ca. 1685	Baroque painting	Creation of the Cosmos with concentric spheres
Black Elk	ca. 1930	Ogallala Sioux	"At the centre of the world dwells Wakan-Tanka"
Cyrus Teed	1869	Illumination	"We live on the inner surface of a hollow sphere"

Either all these people shared the same hallucination — or they saw the same truth.