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A FEW POINTS OF THE KORESHAN SYSTEM. THE FLAMING SWORD is the official expositor of KORESH- ANITY, a term derived from KORESH (Hebrew for CYRUS).
Its founder, Cyrus R. Teed, received through illumination, in 1870—when the infallibility of the pope of Rome was declared by the Ecumenical Council—a knowledge of the phenomena and form of the universe, and of the true char- acter and relations of God and man, based on the great sci- ence of correspondence, well understood by the ancients, but now lost.
Koreshanity illustrates the truth of the declara- tion of Ecclesiastes that "There is no new thing under the sun."
It is simply giving to the world anew that which was known twenty-four thousand years ago, when the signs in the earth and the constellations in the heavens occupied the same relative position that they do now.
When the disciples asked Christ, "Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover," he said, "Go ye into the city; and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him."
The Bible, as demonstrated by KORESHANITY, is a book of types and symbols. "City" here can be corresponded to the aggregation of wisdom.
Christ was pointing down to the end of the Christian dispensation or Fish age, marked by the passage of the sign Aries into the constellation Aquarius (water carrier), when his second coming would be announced by the appearance of "the SIGN of the Son of man in heaven."
Koreshanity teaches that, in harmony with the great law of analogy, all life develops in a cell or shell; that the earth is a hollow globe containing three atmospheres and a sun at the centre, corresponding to the three spiritual atmospheres and Jehovistic sun, annunciated by the Swedish seer, Sweden- borg;, who, notwithstanding the denials of so-called "New Churchmen," affirmed, while in a state of illustration, the truths of Koreshan cosmogony.
["True Christian Religion," Sec. 76.] • The stars—which modern astronomers claim are millions of miles distant, but which we are able to see with the naked eye, which is quite limited in its power of vision— are simply focal points of light; the planets are "spheres of energy; stratified at specific distances between the earth's concave surface and the focal centre," while the moon "is a reflection upon the atmosphere of hydrogen" (above our at- mosphere of oxygen and nitrogen) "from the strata compris- ing the earth's shell or circumference, the energies converg- ing through the geologic strata." "The astral centre has a light and dark side, and from this arises all the phenomena of variation of light and darkness, to which the universe is sub- ject.
The astral centre, with its concomitant solar system, revolves on its axis; the earth being relatively and compara- tively stationary."
The inside theory, the arguments sus- taining which are irrefutable, is a complete vindication of biblical revelation, a death blow to the triune deity of ortho- doxy, and an insurmountable obstacle to the further inroads of infidelity which are rapidly disintegrating a church that cannot disprove the conclusions of modern science, which are based purely on assumption.
A limitless universe without centre or "circumference is void of form and therefore of function, limitation being an essential property of form.
The Lord said, in Amos vii: "Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel." The man has come with the plumb-line which, with a line drawn at right angles and extended to the horizon, is the simple, demonstrated premise
"that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowl- edge foolish for the reason that the arc of the chord thus de- scribed is concave."
The earth's concave surface is divided into twelve signs, corresponding to trie twelve divisions of the Zodiac of the heavens.
These divisions mark the twelve dis- pensations of a cycle of twenty-five thousand eight hundred and sixteen years, which, with the major and minor periods of foreshortening, render the length of time necessary for, say the sign Aries—the first of the twelve—to make one rev- olution of the Zodiac, the twenty-four thousand years which constitute one grand year with the Lord.
The twelve divisions are grouped under four grand divisions of six thou- sand years each, called the gold, silver, brass and iron ages.
Humanity advances and recedes or evolves and involves in love and wisdom in consonance with the movement of the sign through the twelve constellations, and the seven major periods of the foreshortening of the sign are marked by seven messianic manifestations.
Thus Adam, Enoch, Noah, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus were six of these manifestations in this cycle; the seventh is manifest while the sign is passing out of the constellation Pisces or Fishes—the foot of the iron age or period of the greatest spiritual darkness—into the constel- lation Aquarius, the beginning of the golden age or period of the greatest spiritual light.
With the occurrence of the seventh or last major period of the foreshortening of the sign, in the Mazzarothic cycle, the seventh or last messianic man- ifestation will be cut off or theocrasised.
Hence the signifi- cance of Christ's words in speaking of the signs of his second coming and of the establishment of his kingdom in earth in "the last days:" "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake "those days shall be shortened."
Like the order of Melchis- edec—the sons of God who now occupy the spiritual astral centre—the universe is eternal "having neither beginning of days, nor end of life."
Jesus Christ was the fulness of the Godhead bodily, the arch-natural man or the fruition of the God life in humanity, God being intrinsic not extrinsic.
This" head of the body, the church," was an involution from the sinful race when the sign Aries (ram or lamb) stood directly under the constellation Aries, which position it occupies once in twenty-four thousand years.
Thus in every cycle, in con- sonance with the sign's movement, "the Lamb of God" is born in humanity.
Christ was the product of the institution, by Abraham, in the Jewish race, of the law of circumcision. This conserved a force in the brain, for the reason that each physical corpuscle has its corresponding mental.
Hence Solomon and Jesus appeared in humanity one thousand years apart as the opposite poles of this conserved Jewish force; Solomon as the sensualist, Jesus as the immaculate one.
Hence Paul declares in Romans: "Now I say, that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers."
As the Son of God he became the Father or Elohi when he reached the amplitude of his power by victory over death.% This Son of God was planted in his church by theocrasis, at the beginning of the dispensation, as the God seed, in order that he might come forth in "the harvest," which he declared was "the ena* of the world" (Greek, age).
At the foot of the Fish dispensation (age of prolification) and at the begin- ning of the Aquarian or golden age, we therefore look in
humanity for the one hundred and forty-four thousand sons of God, the amplified body of Christ, whom John—on Patmos (father-mother), looking down to the end of the dispensation —saw standing on Mount Zion "having his Father's name written in their foreheads" (meaning an intellectual and affectional appropriation of the scientific truth communicat- ed by "the sign of the Son of man in heaven," the "man bearing a pitcher of water;" water in correspondences signi- fying scientific truth).
The coming of the Son of man "in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory," by Koresh- an cosmogony and the revealed science of correspondence, im- plies the descent of "the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
According to Koreshan Science, physical clouds are formed by the union of the atmosphere of hydro- gen, which is above us, with our atmosphere of oxygen and nitrogen.
Their correspondence in the anthropostic is the union of the spiritual heavens with the literal. Hence the appropriation of Koreshan Science, by humanity, will bring the second coming of Christ "in the clouds of heaven."
A dematerialization of men and women will be the great conflagration referred to in Revelation, or the burning up of the world.
This will illustrate the laws of unitary con- junction and transubstantiation, besides furnishing a solution to current dualistic speculations. "The elect" (those men and women who received the baptism at the beginning of the age) will then be re-created in the image and likeness of God, male and female in one form.
These are the Elohim (Gods) not Elohi, as translated, who, in Genesis, said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
This will be the new heaven and new earth that John described-, or the fulfilment of Christ's prayer: "Thy kingdom come; thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
At its head will be the Divine Motherhood, the Goddess Minerva, who will be the product of the theocrases of "THE SIGN" and his six female apostles, who correspond to the six motory centres in the brain.
Christ was the Fatherhood or impregnator. As declared by Isaiah, "She shall be called the Lord our righteousness."
Through her the Sons of God will be born by the dematerialization of those who will reappear in biune form as virgins (virgunes, men-women) "redeemed from among men, being the first- fruits unto God and to the Lamb."
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and chastity of woman are essential to the attainment of this state. "They who shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world" (age) "and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection."
It also involves a common treasury as in the days of the primitive church. This alone is loving the neighbor as the self. All other professions are counterfeits and hy- pocrisies.
The seven celibate bodies now existing in Amer- ica—which is God's chosen ground for the final redemption of his chosen people, Israel—are the seven churches to which John wrote.
In the coming social revolution, precipitated by the battle between "Gog and Magog" (capital and labor) which will be the culmination of "the third woe" of Revela- tion, segregating society will fly to these seven churches which will all come up in the resurrection in their order.
Accord- ing to Koreshanity the resurrection is not the literal rising from the graves, but a recurrent creation of previous embodi- ments for twenty-four thousand years or one cycle of time. "And at that time," the time of trouble spoken of by Daniel, "thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth" (the mortal body) "shall awTake, some to ever- lasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."
These seven celibate bodies, in consonance with other great aggregations of capital, to insure their preservation and pros- perity, must yet be united, on account of the persecution of their enemies and the greed of the present grasping commer- cial system with which they will be unable, much longer, to compete.
They comprise the seven golden candle-sticks that John saw, in the midst of which was "one like unto the Son of God."
They are all advancing to-day certain new scientific truths and are represented by the seven principles of life, ingestion, digestion, respiration, circulation, assimila- tion, incretion, and excretion.
But their external power will never be felt until they are united by the central or circula- tory principle.
Then will accrue true commerce, which is the product of the application of the plumb-line of integrity to secular affairs, yielding an equitable interchange of products between producer and consumer, the banishment of fictitious values, or the destruction of the money power, and the elimina- tion of competism.
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