Occult Literature
The First Sight of the Smoky God
Olaf and his father notice a persistent dull-red light ahead of their sloop and first take it for a mock sun or mirage. As they continue, the disc rises in the unfamiliar sky and becomes the central luminary of the book's imagined hollow earth. Its haze and changing colour explain the title's Smoky God, later associated with the inner inhabitants' religious language.
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John A. Williams. "The First Sight of the Smoky God" [editorial title]. In The Smoky God, Willis George Emerson. Forbes & Company, Chicago, 1908 scan, 1908, Forbes & Company. Source scan leaf 93. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/smoky-inner-sun
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The inner sun is part of the book's speculative cosmology, not a scientifically established structure inside Earth.
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John A. Williams. The First Sight of the Smoky God. The Smoky God. Scan leaf 93. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/smoky-inner-sun