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For ten years the disciples of Koresh have been subjected to public persecutions of most injurious character. Our enemies, with tongue and pen, have defamed our reputation for purity of life and righteous intent. Very little effort has been made thus far to answer the charges brought against the members of the Koreshan Unity. They are personally restful in knowing that the truth is mighty and will prevail. Steadfast loyalty to what is known to be true must bring a glorious vindication, when it is triumphant in the lives of multitudes.
Every citizenship has its true nobility. The favor now asked of that saving element of society, is an unprejudiced public hearing. The time is fast approaching for the universal spirit of inquiry to be met with authoritative declarations which must be the final answers of an absolute science to the queries of all who honestly desire to know the truth, that they may apply it to life.
On the Arch of the White City's noble peristyle, which so delighted the eyes of all nations, was this never-to-be-forgotten inscription: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." The disciples of Koresh know that this promise is being fulfilled to them. They know also that, in the order of law which makes manifest the choice of its own Almightiness, and from the standpoint of mortal observation, they are the weak things, and the base things, and the things that are naught, chosen to bring to naught the things that are, by the faithful declaration of the scientific truths upon which the Koreshan System is founded. These truths are being given to the world in due season, and will continue to be given by every means, natural and supernatural, evolved and involved from the life of the Lord Jesus, the Jehovah and Seed of Deity.
This world shall know the truth, and the truth shall make free every man saved by the love of it. The Koreshan System embraces truth in its every relation to every phase of life and death, immortality and incorruptibility. Its foundation premise is so absolutely scientific that it can be made self-evident to the most material mind; this foundation premise has been made manifest from a mechanically adjusted pivot perpendicular to the surface of the habitable earth, to which is related a mechanically extended air line at right angles to it. On the testimony of the facts revealed by such a line, extended and tested by every known device, the truth of the Koreshan System will forever stand.
Koreshans would urge the thinking public to withhold ridicule and condemnation, and aid in making manifest the essential truth concerning the form and functions of the physical universe. The money power is in dominance, and the demonstration necessary to satisfy critical investigators cannot be made without a liberal outlay of effort and money during existing conditions. Nothing could bring more honor and glory to Chicago in the records of the near future, than the act of befriending the scientific Teacher whom the world today ignores. The Lord Jesus embodied the philosophy of this truth in his life. This life was planted as spirit entity in the humanity prepared by the evolution of the Jewish age and prehistoric ages, to receive it. It was planted in them that the harvest of the Christian age might be its science, and a humanity ripened for its application to life in every domain. The light of true science is the glory of God, in which he is revealed to man as man, enlightened, perfected, Deified.
Chicago is to be the center of the world's secular commerce for thousands of years of the Golden Age soon to dawn in the light of Koreshanity. To become this she must be transformed by the power of a love for the divine truth concerning commerce and its true uses to humanity. She must become actuated by a motive the opposite of the greed of gain necessarily the dominating passion as long as our present financial system exists in power. Chicago, the new and greater Chicago, must be animated by the love of equitable distribution according to human needs. The fruits of national industry are for the well-being of the industrious. Chicago must become the center of the establishment of Equitable Exchanges of the products of labor, value for value, rated proportionably to the quality and degree of labor. To be educated in the truths that pertain to the creation of the greater Chicago, attention must be given to the foundation truths which must become her origin, and to their involved promises of a magnificence not entertained in any other system of thought.
The lovers of human redemption from all the degradations of sin, are therefore lovingly urged by the disciples of Koresh to test the foundation premise of the Koreshan System. Having learned the absolute truth of that, one must say: None but an instrument of divine truth could lay so true a foundation for a scientific belief that the Almighty is man-the perfected expression or Word of inherent Deity.
The law of such attainment is universal law, whose science cannot be obtained save from the one Scientist who can demonstrate his knowledge of the form and function of the universe.
It is surely due to the Teacher presenting such a system, that his scientific claims be tested by the crucial method which the premise itself determines. In the promulgation of the Koreshan Cosmogony, the attention of the world will be called to the fact that the truth concerning the form and function of the universe is known, the principles of the perfect system discovered, and the premise of that system demonstrated. * It is the selfish impulse that inclines men to compete with one another.
Source boundary: Begins under An Appeal to the True Nobility of Chicago; ends at the bottom of the printed article on PDF p. 9.
Vol. 12, No. 1 · 19 November 1897 · PDF pp. 9
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 12, No. 1 · Nov 1897 · PDF p. 9