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The Flaming Sword was the weekly publication of the Koreshan Unity — a utopian community founded by Dr. Cyrus Teed in late 19th-century Florida. Over its decades-long run, the paper built a detailed case that Earth is a stationary hollow sphere containing the entire universe.
This archive indexes the articles that made that argument — verbatim transcriptions with scans and editorial notes. It's a work in progress: 785 issues survive, and only a portion have been transcribed so far.
38 articles
The 1897 Naples survey: preparation, field reports, claimed measurements, and contemporary objections to the Koreshan geodetic method.
Vol. 2, No. 39 ·
An 1891 report recounts a surveyor’s tower-top view across Lake Michigan, where the distant waterworks crib appeared below a raised waterline. The Flaming Sword treats the observation as a challenge to the convex-earth model.
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Vol. 9, No. 5 ·
Editorial transcription lightly normalized from the cited scan; historical claims below are those of The Flaming Sword and are not independently verified.
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Vol. 10, No. 8 · Aug 1896
A Koreshan article published in The Salvator and Scientist laying out the straight-line survey premise, proposing the Greatest Geodetic Experiment of Modern Times, challenging astronomers with unsolved problems, and reporting telescopic observations that restored vanished ships' hulls to view — including the Lake Michigan experiment and Parallax's Bedford Canal tests.
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Vol. 10, No. 9 · Sep 1896
A surveyor’s discussion of tangents, levels, and the geometric implications of the reported earth curvature.
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Vol. 10, No. 9 · Sep 1896
An explanation of the air line and the new geodetic rectilineograph, presented as a practical test of the earth’s curvature rather than a purely theoretical claim.
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Vol. 10, No. 12 · Dec 1896
An announcement of the Florida expedition and the apparatus intended to record its reported survey results.
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Vol. 10, No. 12 ·
This Vol. 10, No. 12 item takes up Koreshan Geodetic Service, (No. 1). Geodesy through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 11, No. 1 · Jan 1897
This Vol. 11, No. 1 item takes up CORRESPONDENCE. / The Operating Station. / Koreshan Geodetic Service, (No. 2) through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 11, No. 2 ·
Editorial transcription lightly normalized from the cited scan; historical claims below are those of The Flaming Sword and are not independently verified.
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Vol. 11, No. 3 · Mar 1897
This Vol. 11, No. 3 item takes up The Devil Failed in His Attempt to Neutralize the Demonstrations of the Geodetic Staff through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 11, No. 4 · Apr 1897
The earth is concave! This truth Koresh has proclaimed to a skeptical world for over a quarter of a century.
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Vol. 11, No. 5 ·
This Vol. 11, No. 5 item takes up CONCAVITY DEMONSTRATED! THE AIR LINE EXTENDS INTO THE WATER FOUR MILES! through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 11, No. 5 ·
This Vol. 11, No. 5 item takes up THE EARTH IS CONCAVE through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 11, No. 6 · Jun. 1897
This Vol. 11, No. 6 item takes up THE EARTH IS CONCAVE through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 11, No. 6 · Jun. 1897
This Vol. 11, No. 6 item takes up THE GEODETIC SURVEY through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 11, No. 6 · Jun 1897
A post-survey defense of the Koreshan Geodetic Survey at Naples, Florida, addressing critics who claimed the Rectilineator was inaccurate or deliberately inclined. The article demonstrates the ratio of concave curvature matched predictions at every eighth-mile interval, explains the reversal method that neutralizes mechanical inaccuracies, and shows how the two main objections contradict each other. Cites Harvey and Galileo as historical parallels of scientific truth prevailing over denial.
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Vol. 11, No. 8 · Aug. 1897
(1) Does Koresh teach the personality of God (Jehovah)? (2) Does he hold that the world was created (as Moses represents) about 6,000 years ago? (3) What proof that the world revolves in 24,000 years;.
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Vol. 11, No. 8 · Aug. 1897
"For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines to the west, so also shall be the presence of the Son of man.
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Vol. 12, No. 1 ·
This Vol. 12, No. 1 item takes up An Appeal to the True Nobility of Chicago through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 2 · Nov. 26, 1897
This Vol. 12, No. 2 item takes up Correspondence and Brief Replies through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 4 · Dec. 10, 1897
This Vol. 12, No. 4 item takes up In the Editorial Perspective through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 29 ·
This Vol. 12, No. 29 item takes up Blodgett’s Survey of the Air Line Demolished. / THE FLORIDA GEODETIC SURVEY through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 31 ·
This Vol. 12, No. 31 item takes up Latest Conclusions from Government Geodetic Survey through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 32 ·
This Vol. 12, No. 32 item takes up Interpretation of Astronomical Phenomena through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 39 ·
This Vol. 12, No. 39 item takes up The Basis of Modern Astronomy through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 42 ·
This Vol. 12, No. 42 item takes up View of the New Astronomical and Geodetic Work through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 12, No. 46 ·
This Vol. 12, No. 46 item takes up Blodgett's Criticism that We Did Not Dare Answer! through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 13, No. 12 ·
A neighbor of mine told me yesterday that he stood on Newport wharf, which is 30 feet above the water level, and saw the hull of the steamer Santa Rosa when the steamer was on the other side of Catali.
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Vol. 13, No. 41 ·
This Vol. 13, No. 41 item takes up Plumb-Lines and the Earth's Concavity through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 13, No. 42 ·
This Vol. 13, No. 42 item takes up Recent Scientific Experiments on Lake Michigan through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 14, No. 8 · Jan. 12, 1900
This Vol. 14, No. 8 item takes up Opponents of Koreshanity Busy Searching for Loop-Holes; An Argument Against Koreshan Cosmogony Proves Fatal to Modern Astronomy through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 14, No. 43 · Sep 14, 1900
A candid civil engineer (Associate Member I.C.E., England) writes to Prof. U. G. Morrow after studying the Cellular Cosmogony. He praises the Florida rectilineator experiment but questions its conclusiveness, suggesting a test on a frozen lake would be more definitive. He notes his own level-and-staff tests on still water showed no curvature. Prof. Morrow responds in detail, explaining the water-level transfer methodology, hypsometric operations, and the visual extension of the air line via telescope, concluding that Koreshanity has an absolutely scientific foundation.
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Vol. 16, No. 38 · 8 Aug 1902
The article links gravity to the Koreshan geodetic survey and presents field measurement as support for the paper’s account of the earth’s form.
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Vol. 18, No. 23 · Nov 1904
An explanation of the apparatus and geometric principles offered as the basis of the new geodesy.
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Vol. 18, No. 47 ·
This Vol. 18, No. 47 item takes up Direction of the Earth's Curvature through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 18, No. 48 · 9 May 1905
An outline of the paper’s proposed principles of scientific geodesy and the measurements it considered necessary to establish the earth’s form.
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Vol. 19, No. 22 ·
This Vol. 19, No. 22 item takes up The Air Line and Concave Water Level through claimed surveys, field observations, and the paper's account of the earth's contour.
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Vol. 24, No. 11 · Nov 1910
A periodical argument presenting reported observations offered as proof of the earth’s concavity.
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26 articles
Koresh's serialized masterwork from 1913-1914: the definitive statement of the concave-world system, published across Volumes 27 and 28 of The Flaming Sword.
Vol. 27, No. 1 · Jan 1913
[With this issue we begin a series of articles from the writings of Koresh, on the Koreshan System of Cosmogony.
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Vol. 27, No. 3 · Mar 1913
This Vol. 27, No. 3 installment sets Koreshan Cosmogony for Juniors within the paper's larger account of Koreshan cosmogony.
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Vol. 27, No. 3 · Mar 1913
KORESHANITY is universal science applied to all the concerns of practical life, involving the science of immortal life in the body.
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Vol. 27, No. 4 · Apr 1913
THE VERY overshadowing of the primary seven successive baptisms proceeds directly, not from an invisible "oversoul," but from the tangible personality.
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Vol. 27, No. 5 · May 1913
IT WILL FIRST be noticed by the reader, that the perpendicular pole forms a right angle in both directions with a chord, the extremities of which meet the verge or horizon.
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Vol. 27, No. 5 · May 1913
This Vol. 27, No. 5 installment sets The Science of Koreshan Cosmogony within the paper's larger account of Koreshan cosmogony.
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Vol. 27, No. 6 · Jun 1913
OUR SUN, which would comprise the center of the solar system, with its planets, moon, etc., would revolve, with thousands of other similar solar systems, around another far distant center.
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Vol. 27, No. 7 · Jul 1913
THE FUNDAMENTAL statement of Koreshan Cosmogony is, that the world is a concave sphere, and that its inhabitants dwell on its concave surface.
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Vol. 27, No. 8 · Aug 1913
IF WE TAKE the atmosphere as zero, and water as our ratio of calculation, by the relation of zero to the substance taken as the ratio, (the specific gravity of the two being taken as the basis of calc.
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Vol. 27, No. 9 · Sep 1913
B%e Koreshan System of Cosmogony decreasing dimension of form, it can also think of its By Koresh largest limitation, or the increasing dimension of form. PART IX.
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Vol. 27, No. 10 · Oct 1913
been traversing Virgo.
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Vol. 27, No. 11 · Nov 1913
there is at its maximum, the point of its greatest THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY attraction for the gravic cycle in the ecliptic is reached, Union of Heat (EL Cold Pr.
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Vol. 27, No. 12 · Dec 1913
is adapted.
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Vol. 28, No. 1 · Jan 1914
t udiual axis of the dura mater, having one of its poles THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY at the vertical point of the ethmoid, into which it ap VYf Moon the Compound R.
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Vol. 28, No. 2 · Feb 1914
This Vol. 28, No. 2 installment sets The Koreshan System of Cosmogony within the paper's larger account of Koreshan cosmogony.
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Vol. 28, No. 2 · Feb 1914
of the incubation of the great egg or cell of the universe, THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY that part of the environment of the egg becomes the ali mentary channel of the dispensations, and these cor.
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Vol. 28, No. 3 · Mar 1914
e 68 Th© Flaming Sword crista galli and ethmoid, we have said comparatively THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY little of the counter-flowing currents return.
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Vol. 28, No. 4 · Apr 1914
the to a first step that is absolutely demonstrated.
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Vol. 28, No. 5 · May 1914
132 The Flaming Sword upon tbe bones; after which God's respiration completes THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY the process of the resurrection.
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Vol. 28, No. 6 · Jun 1914
When the telescope was invented and began to re E?i« Koreshan System of Cosmogony Confirms the veal the movement of satellites about the planets, the Bible and Upholds the Principles of.
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Vol. 28, No. 7 · Jul 1914
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Vol. 28, No. 7 · Jul 1914
THE Copernican system of astronomy (built upon an hypothesis) seems to satisfy the minds which will not and cannot think. The Koreshan Astronomy has its foundation on the rock.
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Vol. 28, No. 8 · Aug 1914
rd 227 vigorously alert, ever awake and on the offensive, or THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY be may be lulled into a false security throug.
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Vol. 28, No. 9 · Sep 1914
260 The Flaming Sword THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY ously reinstates from its own generations the potency Hatching Out the Great Cosm.
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Vol. 28, No. 11 · Nov 1914
324 The Flaming Sword THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY Ezekiel's Visions of God Prof.
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Vol. 28, No. 12 · Dec 1914
divinely legitimate, must include the love of its pursuit THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY for its highest and best uses. This can only be true on the basis of love to the neighbor.
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9 articles
The six-part Koreshan Astronomy sequence and related foundational articles: perpendiculars, the horizon, the hollow globe, and limit of vision.
Vol. 4, No. 1 · Jul 2, 1892
We are in receipt of a sincere inquiry, by mail, concerning our claim that the surface of the earth upon which (or in which) we live, is a concavity instead of a convexity.
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Vol. 4, No. 2 · Jul 1892
An early Koreshan astronomy article explaining the geometry used to argue for a concave earth.
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Vol. 4, No. 3 · Jul 1892
A companion early-volume astronomy article extending the periodical’s concavity argument.
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Vol. 10, No. 12 · Dec 1896
The first installment considers common objections raised against the Koreshan cellular cosmogony.
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Vol. 11, No. 2 · Feb 1897
The second installment addresses sight lines and the possibility of seeing across the concave earth.
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Vol. 11, No. 3 · Mar 1897
The third installment discusses the apparent limit of vision and visual diminution on the concave-earth model.
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Vol. 11, No. 5 · May 1897
The fifth installment presents the periodical’s explanation of day and night.
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Vol. 11, No. 7 ·
This Vol. 11, No. 7 item presents Koreshan Astronomy (No. 6) through the paper's Koreshan account of astronomy and cosmic order.
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Vol. 16, No. 31 · Jun 20, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:—I understand that the path of the visible sun, according to Koreshanity, for 20 minutes or any other given length of time, is a part of a circle, and that a line connecting two p.
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24 articles
The Law of Optics sequence and related writings on sight, perspective, the retina, and the horizon.
Vol. 9, No. 3 ·
This Vol. 9, No. 3 item takes up A Knowledge of Optics Essential to a Correct Comprehension of Physics through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 10, No. 2 · Feb 1896
A source-faithful treatment of optical and visual laws within the Koreshan system.
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Vol. 13, No. 21 ·
This Vol. 13, No. 21 item takes up Atmospheric Refraction and Magnification through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 13, No. 22 · 14 Apr 1899
This Vol. 13, No. 22 item takes up Sky and Horizon Viewed from the Convex Earth through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 13, No. 31 · 23 Jun 1899
An argument that familiar optical effects can be read as evidence for the earth’s concavity rather than for a convex globe.
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Vol. 13, No. 39 · 18 Aug 1899
This Vol. 13, No. 39 item takes up The Koreshan System and the English Language through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 13, No. 41 ·
This Vol. 13, No. 41 item takes up Measuring the Distance to the Stars through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 13, No. 43 · 15 Sep 1899
This Vol. 13, No. 43 item takes up What Supports the Hollow Globe in Space? through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 13, No. 45 ·
This Vol. 13, No. 45 item takes up The Telescope and the Convex Bulge through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 13, No. 46 · 6 Oct 1899
This Vol. 13, No. 46 item takes up Koreshan Science Contains No Hypotheses Nor Inconsistencies through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 14, No. 3 · 8 Dec 1899
This Vol. 14, No. 3 item takes up The Engineer's Allowance for the Earth's Curvature through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 14, No. 4 · 15 Dec 1899
EDITOR FLAMING SWORD:—Phenomena in connection with concave curvature observed in mid-Atlantic, Nov. 21, 1886: In the above-named year I sailed from England to Portland, Ore.
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Vol. 14, No. 16 · 9 Mar 1900
This Vol. 14, No. 16 item takes up The Main Convex \"Proof\" Gone through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 15, No. 27 · 24 May 1901
Editor Flaming Sword: — You say that foreshortening does not take place in space, nor on the surface of the earth and sky, but within the eye.
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Vol. 16, No. 9 · 17 Jan 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:—Please explain clearly the exact or relative action of the sun upon and toward us in rising and setting.—F. H. S., Shippensburg, Pa.
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Vol. 16, No. 26 · May 16, 1902
This Vol. 16, No. 26 item takes up Perspective and Geolinear Foreshortening through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 16, No. 28 · 30 May 1902
This Vol. 16, No. 28 item takes up Phenomena of Sunrise and Sunset through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 16, No. 44 ·
This Vol. 16, No. 44 item takes up Geolinear Foreshortening and Telescopic Power through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 17, No. 8 · Jan 9, 1903
Prof. U. G. Morrow examines historical examples of theories overturned by experiment and argues that optical appearances do not establish a convex earth.
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Vol. 17, No. 17 · 13 Mar 1903
A discussion of perspective and vanishing points that applies the paper’s theory of optics to familiar visual experience.
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Vol. 17, No. 42 · 4 Sep 1903
Having read the Koreshan Literature a great deal since I saw Dr.
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Vol. 18, No. 26 ·
This Vol. 18, No. 26 item takes up Telescopes and the Earth's Concavity through questions of sight, perspective, and the paper's challenge to conventional astronomy.
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Vol. 20, No. 11 · 21 Aug 1906
A discussion of sight and optical interpretation that treats visual perception as evidence in the paper’s case for a bounded universe.
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Vol. 29 (1915 bound volume) · 1915
Application of the Principles of Optics to Geodetic Observation; the Law of Refraction; Assumption No Basis for Truth.
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26 articles
Standalone geometric and physical demonstrations: theodolite arguments, plumb-line tests, eclipse geometry, surveyor-level refutations, and direct observational challenges to convexity.
Vol. 1, No. 40 ·
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Vol. 3, No. 8 · Feb 20, 1892
Questions naturally arise, when considering the Koreshan theory of Cosmogony, regarding the common phenomena of appearance, always grounded in preconceived opinions of the stumbling Copernican system.
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Vol. 4, No. 19 ·
This Vol. 4, No. 19 item presents The Sages of the 'Sun,' vs. the Sages of Antiquity as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 7, No. 4 · 27 Jan 1894
This Vol. 7, No. 4 item presents THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE PICTURE as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 9, No. 9 ·
A brief editorial argues that conventional astronomical assumptions, rather than direct observation, produce errors in celestial measurement.
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Vol. 10, No. 3 · Mar 1896
This Vol. 10, No. 3 item presents Eclipses as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 10, No. 10 · Oct 1896
A polemic arguing that reported geodetic observations contradict the convex-earth hypothesis.
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Vol. 12, No. 21 · 8 Apr 1898
This Vol. 12, No. 21 item presents Distance to Sun, and Moon's Phases as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 13, No. 4 · Dec 9, 1898
This Vol. 13, No. 4 item presents Eclipses of Jovian Moons and Discovery as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 13, No. 6 · 23 Dec 1898
This Vol. 13, No. 6 item presents One Universe Is Sufficient as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 13, No. 25 ·
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Vol. 13, No. 42 ·
This Vol. 13, No. 42 item presents The Cause of the Tides as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 13, No. 43 · 15 Sep 1899
This Vol. 13, No. 43 item presents Equatorial Diameter and the Earth's Curvature as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 14, No. 27 ·
This Vol. 14, No. 27 item presents The Eclipse of the Sun as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 15, No. 17 · 15 Mar. 1901
This Vol. 15, No. 17 item presents Surveyors Project Curved Lines as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 16, No. 21 · Apr 11, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:— Please answer the following questions: (1) How do the advocates of the globe theory get the fact (conceding that the earth be a globe,) that the earth is 25,000 miles in circumf.
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Vol. 16, No. 47 · Oct 10, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:—I am trying to interest a gentleman in the Koreshan Cosmogony, and he has propounded the following question: If the earth is concave, how is it possible for engineers to calculat.
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Vol. 18, No. 18 · Oct 11, 1904
This Vol. 18, No. 18 item presents The Convex Appearance of the Moon as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 18, No. 23 · Nov 1904
The periodical sets out the cellular cosmogony as the scientific premise from which its visual and geodetic arguments proceed.
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Vol. 18, No. 37 · Feb 21, 1905
This Vol. 18, No. 37 item presents The So Called Center of Gravity as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 18, No. 45 · April 18, 1905
A. Time may be determined with ease to the hundredth of a second, and very closely to the thousandth of a second.
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Vol. 19, No. 12 · Aug 29, 1905
An editorial commentary on the nature of solar eclipses written in the context of the 1905 eclipse season. The editor criticizes astronomers for spending fortunes on eclipse expeditions while ignoring fundamental questions about the earth's form. Argues that eclipses are actual events in the sun itself — a cutting-off of vital forces — not mere shadows. Cites the crucifixion eclipse as a historical example. Points to the narrow 100-mile shadow as a contradiction of Copernican predictions about earth-moon-sun geometry.
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Vol. 19, No. 23 · Nov 14, 1905
This Vol. 19, No. 23 item presents The Phases of the Moon as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 19, No. 34 · Jan 30, 1906
This Vol. 19, No. 34 item presents New Experiments at Tamarack Mines as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 19, No. 39 · Mar 6, 1906
This Vol. 19, No. 39 item presents Curvilincation of the Lines of Vision as part of the paper's case against the conventional account of the earth and heavens.
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Vol. 22, No. 6 ·
"I copied the enclosed from a printed article in a recent issue of the National Geographic Magazine, of Washington, D. C.
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15 articles
Direct attacks on Copernican and Newtonian science: articles that name, mock, or dismantle the old astronomy by its own contradictions.
Vol. 4, No. 8 · 20 Aug 1892
In the third of its ‘Short Talks on Koreshan Science,’ the paper connects its astronomy, theology, and social theory to a claimed ancient body of knowledge.
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Vol. 6, No. 18 · 4 Nov 1893
This Vol. 6, No. 18 item uses COSMOGONY. SCIENTIFIC IDIOCY THE BASIS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 6, No. 18 ·
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Vol. 9, No. 4 ·
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Vol. 11, No. 4 · Apr. 1897
This Vol. 11, No. 4 item uses Absurdities of Science So Called to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 11, No. 4 · Apr. 1897
This Vol. 11, No. 4 item uses Unanswerable Objections to the Truth of the Copernican System of Astronomy to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 16, No. 10 · 24 Jan. 1902
This Vol. 16, No. 10 item uses Modern Astronomy's False Premise to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 16, No. 36 · 25 Jul. 1902
This Vol. 16, No. 36 item uses Fictitious Angles in Astronomy to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 16, No. 45 · 26 Sep 1902
This Vol. 16, No. 45 item uses Modern Astronomy a Great Fallacy to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 17, No. 47 · Oct 9, 1903
This Vol. 17, No. 47 item uses So-Called Proofs of Modern Astronomy to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 18, No. 10 ·
This Vol. 18, No. 10 item uses An Astronomer's Consummate Folly to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 19, No. 14 · Sep 12, 1905
This Vol. 19, No. 14 item uses Science with a Large S to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 19, No. 50 ·
This Vol. 19, No. 50 item uses Modern Astronomy Wholly Fallacious to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 20, No. 15 · Sep 18, 1906
This Vol. 20, No. 15 item uses The Helplessness of Modern Science to challenge a rival claim, institution, or school of thought from the paper's own position.
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Vol. 35 ·
The Absurdities of the Copernican System Are Attended by too Much Guesswork to Be of any Value to the Critical Thinker.
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24 articles
Letters from readers, editorial replies, and public challenges: the Open Court of Inquiry, Interrogation Points, and direct exchanges with critics.
Vol. 4, No. 14 · 1 Oct 1892
This Vol. 4, No. 14 exchange takes up Correspondence through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 9, No. 3 ·
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Vol. 9, No. 12 ·
This Vol. 9, No. 12 exchange takes up What Is the Matter With the New Church Messenger? through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 12, No. 24 ·
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Vol. 12, No. 47 · Oct 7, 1898
A skeptical reader challenges the Koreshan position on Kepler's third law, arguing that planetary mass is not a factor in orbital dynamics and that the Koreshans misstated the law. The reader also discusses tidal theory, noting that the anti-lunar tide is explained by earth-moon barycentric rotation. The exchange reveals the ongoing debate between Koreshan cosmology and standard astronomy.
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Vol. 13, No. 21 · Apr 7, 1899
This Vol. 13, No. 21 exchange takes up Is Universal Space Limited or Infinite? through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 14, No. 5 · Dec 22, 1899
The Star of Bethlehem shone brilliantly over Judea at the beginning of the present dispensation; and now the civilized World celebrates Christmas, the anniversary of the birth of Lucifer, the Light-be.
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Vol. 14, No. 11 · Feb 2, 1900
This Vol. 14, No. 11 exchange takes up How Do Koreshans Pray? through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 14, No. 22 · Apr 20, 1900
A reader asks three questions: the Koreshan teaching on telepathy and clairvoyance, whether intercourse between the living and dead is possible, and the teaching concerning the hollow globe. The editor responds with a Koreshan explanation of spirit communion through the alchemico-organic body, electromagnetic soul-duplication, and the concave earth doctrine. Includes the Koreshan Cosmogony letter from a convinced reader, a letter calling the Cellular Cosmogony the greatest work outside the Bible, and a reprinted Albuquerque Journal-Democrat review of the Cellular Cosmogony book titled 'Are We In It?
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Vol. 14, No. 44 ·
The theories regarding the character and velocity of light and other "energies," are founded entirely upon false principles. Light, heat, electricity, magnetism, etc.
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Vol. 16, No. 11 · Jan 31, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:— While visiting the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, I had a talk with Dr. Cyrus R.
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Vol. 16, No. 13 · Feb 14, 1902
A reader asks four questions about the sun in Koreshan cosmology: its temperature, how energy reaches plants, the Golden Age universal day, and the Zodiac. The editor explains that both the 'hot sun' and 'cold sun' theories are partially true, describes the four poles of the central sun (light, heat, darkness, cold), explains that the visible sun projects energy into the atmosphere where light is generated electrically, and details the annulus of light that will produce universal day.
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Vol. 16, No. 32 · Jun 27, 1902
A response to a critic from the Springfield (Mass.) Daily Republican who claimed atmospheric refraction explains the Koreshan Lake Michigan telescope experiment. The editor demonstrates that standard refraction tables (Johnson's Surveying) show refraction equals only 1/7 of the earth's curvature — far too small. After allowing maximum refraction, the target at 8 miles would still need to be 36.7 feet higher than the 11-foot elevation from which it was seen.
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Vol. 18, No. 39 · Mar 7, 1905
A reader asks about Koreshan planetary mechanics: the laws of planetary motion, why only Venus and Mercury transit the sun, the satellite systems, and whether undiscovered planets exist. The editor explains that planets are mercurial discs in the earth's shell moving via peristaltic action analogous to digestion, describes how reflected light creates apparent planetary motions, explains retrograde paths, and argues there are exactly seven primary planets corresponding to the seven colors, metals, and musical tones.
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Vol. 19, No. 7 · Jul 25, 1905
This Vol. 19, No. 7 exchange takes up Does the Earth Go Round? through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 19, No. 21 · Oct 31, 1905
This Vol. 19, No. 21 exchange takes up Physical and Intellectual Perception through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 19, No. 24 ·
This Vol. 19, No. 24 exchange takes up The Limited Space of the Universe through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 19, No. 33 ·
This Vol. 19, No. 33 exchange takes up Koreshan Science and the Bible through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 19, No. 42 · Mar 27, 1906
This Vol. 19, No. 42 exchange takes up The Famous Bedford Canal Experiments through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 19, No. 49 ·
This Vol. 19, No. 49 exchange takes up The Spherical Form of the Earth through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 22, No. 7 · Jul 15, 1908
"I have received copies of The Flaming Sword, and am pleased with the make-up of the Magazine and its contents; though, as heretofore, I cannot accept your basic idea of the earth being concave, and w.
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Vol. 22, No. 8 · 15 Aug. 1908
This Vol. 22, No. 8 exchange takes up The Astronomic Issue through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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This exchange takes up A Clergyman’s Objections Answered through a reader's question or objection and the paper's response.
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Vol. 37 ·
I have received your letter of August 31, 1923, and note that you are sending a copy of your book, entitled "Cellular Cosmogony," to this office, for which please accept my thanks.
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72 articles
Foundational definitions of the Koreshan world-model, its astronomical claims, and its distinction from other hollow-Earth theories.
Vol. 1, No. 8 · 18 Jan 1890
This Vol. 1, No. 8 item takes up Cosmogony within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 2, No. 23 · May 9, 1891
This Vol. 2, No. 23 item takes up Science the Foundation of Religion within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 3, No. 12 · Mar 19, 1892
This Vol. 3, No. 12 item takes up A Few Points of the Koreshan System within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 4, No. 9 · Aug 27, 1892
This Vol. 4, No. 9 item takes up Short Talks on Koreshan Science within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 6, No. 2 · July 1893
A long-form treatment of the moon’s form and function in Koreshan cosmogony, connecting lunar phenomena to the paper’s wider theory of universal structure.
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Vol. 6, No. 2 · July 1893
The paper reinterprets solar and lunar eclipses through its concave-earth cosmology and its theory of returning solar radiations.
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Vol. 6, No. 2 · July 1893
An account of how the sun’s motion was thought to act on the earth shell’s metallic layers, producing electro-magnetic and levic forces.
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Vol. 7, No. 6 · Mar 24, 1894
A philosophical essay distinguishing knowledge (comprehension of facts through observation and reason) from belief (acceptance of unproven concepts). Argues that absolute knowledge requires experiencing all facts of the universe through cycles of embodiment, and that the Christ exemplified this perfection. Modern scientists are portrayed as rejecting the appointed Way of Christ while seeking truth through antichrist channels.
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Vol. 7, No. 7 · Mar 31, 1894
Miscellany page consisting of two parts. First: 'Random Notes from Various Lectures' — a collection of Koreshan aphorisms touching on chemistry, the sun and moon symbolism, gender in nature, the Anglo-Saxon and German nations, money, Gog and Magog, the fall of man, and cycles of the zodiac. Second: a 'Correspondence' letter from Estero (New Jerusalem), Feb 22–Mar 13, 1894, describing the Koreshan pioneers' life — digging sweet potatoes, fishing, alligators, climate, honey extraction, and the plans for building the Great City.
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Vol. 7, No. 10 · Apr 21, 1894
Miscellany page consisting of three items. (1) 'Random Notes From Various Lectures' — Koreshan aphorisms on the messianic principle, Spiritualism, chastity, the Godhead, the pyramids, symbolism, education, and the two shepherds. (2) 'Unalterable Law' — a poem on cosmic justice, that every soul must experience all phases of good and ill. (3) 'As Funny as Any' — a humorous anecdote about Joe Jefferson and a grieving husband who requests Scripture about Samson and the foxes for his wife's funeral.
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Vol. 8, No. 3 · Sep 1894
An early Koreshan critique of Zetetic (flat earth) astronomy as promoted by 'Parallax' (Samuel Rowbotham) and The Herald of Glad Tidings. The editor argues that while Zetetics have proven the earth is not convex, they have not proven it is flat. Presents the concave theory as the correct alternative, with geometrical arguments from the cube-sphere analogy, a rail-and-tube experiment showing perspective foreshortening, and a proposed canal experiment to demonstrate concavity.
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Vol. 9, No. 8 · Aug 1895
A poetic-theological meditation on Elijah/Koresh as the 'man with the plumb line' who confronts the cross of Calvary at the end of the Christian dispensation. Portrays Elijah as the restorer of true cosmic knowledge — the firmament, the sun, moon, and stars in their right places — and as the divider of the world, the cross of Christ that will turn the world upside down and make all things new.
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Vol. 10, No. 4 · Apr 1896
Two-part miscellany. First: O.F. L'Amoreaux describes watching sail vessels off Estero Island vanish from unaided view but reappear through a telescope — a practical test against the convex-earth theory. Second: 'The Holy Ghost Then and Now' examines the primitive Christian communal life under Acts 2, contrasts it with modern revivalism, and argues that true conversion requires the full ripening of the divine seed through cycles of embodiment.
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Vol. 10, No. 11 ·
A Disclosure of a Few of the Factors of Conclusion in the Modern Astronomical System.
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Vol. 10, No. 11 · Nov 1896
A compilation of evidence against convexity from the visible distances between mountain peaks, the U.S. Army Signal Corps heliograph experiment transmitting messages 183 miles between peaks in Colorado and Utah, and authoritative lighthouse visibility records showing lights visible far beyond the calculated convex horizon. Includes the classic example of Holyhead and Poolbeg lights across St. George's Channel (60 miles) and the English trigonometrical survey.
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Vol. 11, No. 2 · Feb 1897
A Koreshan survey of alternative astronomical systems current in the 1890s. Examines the Copernican system's debt to Ptolemy, the Electric Theory of planetary currents, Vail's Annular/ring theory (with its $1,000 challenge), the Gillespian geocentric system, and Captain Wolff's cone-shaped earth theory — all critiqued from the Koreshan standpoint as lacking a demonstrated premise.
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Vol. 12, No. 16 · Mar 4, 1898
This Vol. 12, No. 16 item takes up Some Real Things Beyond the Power of the Telescope within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 12, No. 25 · May 6, 1898
This Vol. 12, No. 25 item takes up Genuine Science the Panacea for Human Ills within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 12, No. 28 · May 1898
Part IV explains a cellular-cosmogony diagram, relating the eastern hemisphere and visible heavens to the paper’s enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 12, No. 36 ·
I agree that we cannot always be sure of a fact from the visual appearance. To illustrate, I will relate what came under my observation repeatedly in Colorado.
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Vol. 13, No. 26 · 19 May 1899
An account of the fixed stars within the Koreshan cosmic shell, explaining their apparent positions through the paper’s concave-earth cosmology.
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Vol. 13, No. 27 · May 26, 1899
A correspondent calling himself 'an astronomer in the hollow globe' presses four questions about planetary motion, tides, and Kepler's laws, then argues that the Koreshan optical proofs and rectilineator evidence fail to demonstrate concavity — and that the 'optical illusion' explanation for celestial appearances is less probable than an unreliable instrument.
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Vol. 13, No. 31 · 23 Jun 1899
A report on the reception of Koreshan astronomy in Georgia, placing the movement’s cosmological claims in a contemporary public setting.
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Vol. 13, No. 37 ·
This Vol. 13, No. 37 item takes up Koreshan Cosmogony and Zeteticism within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 13, No. 52 · 17 Nov 1899
A systematic presentation of the premises the paper considered necessary for Koreshan Universology and its account of the universe.
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Vol. 14, No. 22 · April 1900
An editorial considers fundamental questions of being and origins, presenting the Koreshan cosmology as its answer to the mystery of existence.
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Vol. 14, No. 27 · May 25, 1900
Editor Flaming Sword: — I see the astronomers are making great preparations for observing and photographing the sun's eclipse on the 28th inst.
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Vol. 14, No. 29 · Jun 8, 1900
A Koreshan explanation of the Zodiacal belt within the earth's shell, the planetary disci whose reflections appear as visible planets, the Gegenschein as the reflex of the concave daylight hemisphere, and the precession of the equinoxes explained through the anthropostic movement of the divine Sun through the human constellations. Includes lunar science: the visible moon as a gravospheric X-ray image of the earth's shell, the dark mercurial discus that causes lunar eclipses by cutting the electromagnetic circuit.
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Vol. 14, No. 30 · 15 Jun 1900
An argument for a religion grounded in the paper’s claimed scientific principles, with Koreshan cosmology offered as its foundation.
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Vol. 14, No. 38 · Aug 10, 1900
THE SAME OBJECT viewed from two different points of sight, differs both in aspect and position.
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Vol. 14, No. 51 · Nov 9, 1900
This Vol. 14, No. 51 item takes up Swedenborg and the Cellular Cosmogony within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 15, No. 3 ·
Editor Flaming Sword:—Take your own diagram—the one showing Chicago as the lowest point—and explain how it is that the region of stars that never set extends right and left, above and below, with the .
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Vol. 15, No. 16 · Mar 8, 1901
The Flaming Sword editor responds to Edward A. Osse's critique in the Baltimore American. Rebuts claims about the Lake Michigan telescope experiment, describes a practical optics demonstration with a telescope, fence, board, and string that proves the telescope sees through barriers, includes a Lighthouse and Target diagram discussion, and addresses refraction arguments. Dr. O. J. Ruth provides background on Osse, revealing the pseudonym 'Edward A. Osse' probably originated as 'O. E.' from the Odorless Excavating industry.
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Vol. 15, No. 18 · March 1901
An editorial on advancing Koreshan cosmogony, framed as a response to the paper’s claimed weaknesses in modern scientific explanation.
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Vol. 15, No. 19 · March 1901
A polemical editorial attacks the assumptions of contemporary science, especially Copernican astronomy, and sets out the paper’s case for Koreshan alternatives.
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Vol. 15, No. 40 · Aug 23, 1901
This Vol. 15, No. 40 item takes up The Koreshan Science of Alchemy within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 15, No. 46 · 4 Oct 1901
A critique of what the paper presents as unresolved anomalies and contradictions in modern physics.
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Vol. 15, No. 48 · Oct 18, 1901
This Vol. 15, No. 48 item takes up La Cosmogonie Cellulaire Ou La Terre Une Sphere Concave within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 16, No. 6 · 27 Dec. 1901
This Vol. 16, No. 6 item takes up The Earth and the Solar System within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 16, No. 15 · Feb 28, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:— How do you explain the fact that mathematicians determined the location of the planet Neptune before it was observed by astronomers? The calculations, you know, were made upon t.
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Vol. 16, No. 16 · 7 Mar 1902
The paper treats the apparent dome overhead as an optical effect and uses it to argue for its enclosed, concave-earth model of the heavens.
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Vol. 16, No. 18 · Mar 21, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:— I have taken up the study of astrology; but as the computations by the heliocentric and geocentric methods are not at all satisfactory to me, I want to know if the Cellular Cosm.
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Vol. 16, No. 19 · Mar 28, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:— Will you please explain why the rays of the rising sun touch the top of a mountain before the base; and why the rays of the setting sun leave the top of the mountain last? Accor.
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Vol. 16, No. 23 · Apr 25, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:—Permit me to recommend for your careful perusal, an article in the February (1902) number of the Popular Science Monthly, entitled "Stellar Evolution in the Light of Recent Resea.
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Vol. 16, No. 33 · Jul 4, 1902
Editor Flaming Sword:— Why does not a ship as it passes out to sea, become smaller and smaller until it entirely disappears from sight as a whole, as does the rising balloon, instead of disappearing h.
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Vol. 16, No. 34 · 11 Jul 1902
The paper presents space as a bounded, cellular phenomenon rather than an infinite void, explaining the idea within its Koreshan system.
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Vol. 16, No. 46 · 3 Oct 1902
An explanation of a total lunar eclipse through the Koreshan system, set against the standard account of the moon and its shadow.
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Vol. 16, No. 49 · 24 Oct 1902
The paper offers a Koreshan explanation of a lunar eclipse and contrasts it with the conventional astronomical account.
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Vol. 16, No. 50 · 31 Oct 1902
An editorial critique of modern astronomy’s methods and assumptions, written from the paper’s Koreshan perspective.
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Vol. 16, No. 50 · 31 Oct 1902
An editorial criticizes modern astronomy for what it describes as unsupported assumptions and failures to explain celestial phenomena coherently.
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Vol. 17, No. 3 · 5 Dec 1902
A technical discussion of astronomical triangulation, criticizing the assumptions used to infer distance and celestial position.
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Vol. 17, No. 4 ·
Editor Flaming Sword:—A friend who is interested in the new theory known as the Cellular Cosmogony, has been explaining to me as best he can, the points upon which the assertion that the earth is holl.
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Vol. 17, No. 14 · Feb 20, 1903
This Vol. 17, No. 14 item takes up Science in Sunday Schools within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 17, No. 15 · Feb 27, 1903
Editor Flaming Sword:— In a recent letter I asked you to show why astronomical triangulations have heretofore been incorrect.
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Vol. 17, No. 29 · 5 Jun 1903
A discussion of cosmic force and mechanical energy, using the language of ‘horse-power’ to describe the universe in Koreshan terms.
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Vol. 17, No. 40 · Aug 21, 1903
This Vol. 17, No. 40 item takes up The Coming Science within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 17, No. 45 · Sep 25, 1903
This Vol. 17, No. 45 item takes up Are the Solar Rays Electrical? within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 18, No. 28 · Dec 20, 1904
This Vol. 18, No. 28 item takes up Uranus the Significator of Koreshanity within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 18, No. 35 · Feb 7, 1905
Two astronomy Q&As from the Open Court. First, a reader asks how the Koreshan System explains seasons without an orbiting, rotating earth. The editor explains the sun's spiral motion — the central sun's revolution carrying the projected sun in a spiral path between the tropics, the lantern-and-lens analogy, and the annual Zodiacal sweep. Second, a reader asks about precession changing the months' relation to seasons; the editor explains the difference between the tropical and sidereal year and why the Gregorian calendar maintains seasonal alignment.
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Vol. 18, No. 42 · March 28, 1905
"Will you please explain as clearly and thoroughly as space in the Inquiry Department of The Flaming Sword will admit, the phenomena manifest in the rising and setting of the sun? The first impression.
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Vol. 18, No. 51 ·
This Vol. 18, No. 51 item takes up Progress in Koreshan Study within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 19, No. 6 · Jul 18, 1905
This Vol. 19, No. 6 item takes up The Obliquity of the Ecliptic within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 19, No. 10 · Aug 15, 1905
This Vol. 19, No. 10 item takes up The Mystery of the Stars within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 19, No. 26 · 5 Dec 1905
"Science now computes the distance to the sun to be all the way from 90,000,000 to 95,000,000 miles from the earth.
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Vol. 19, No. 28 · Dec 19, 1905
An Open Court of Inquiry response explains the periodical's account of sunrise and sunset through perspective, visual curvilineation, and the concave-earth premise.
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Vol. 20, No. 2 · 19 Jun 1906
A later discussion of the sky’s apparent vault, setting familiar visual experience against the paper’s cellular model of the universe.
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Vol. 20, No. 8 · Jul 31, 1906
This Vol. 20, No. 8 item takes up Are There Men on Mars? within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 22, No. 2 · Feb 15, 1908
This Vol. 22, No. 2 item takes up Outline of the Koreshan System within the paper's account of celestial phenomena and its enclosed-universe model.
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Vol. 24, No. 5 · May 1910
An installment of the paper’s introductory cosmogony series for younger readers, presenting its universe model in instructional form.
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Vol. 24, No. 6 · Jun 1910
A discussion of cometary phenomena and the role assigned to them within the Koreshan account of the cosmos.
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Vol. 25, No. 9 · Sep 1911
A later installment of the paper’s instructional cosmogony series for younger readers, continuing its account of the Koreshan universe.
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Vol. 43 ·
IN THIS AGE of scientific marvels we are wont to look upon the ideas and efforts of the people of earlier times as out of date and lacking somewhat in real sagacity.
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