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Koreshan Science of Cosmogony Substantiated by the Aeronauts
Now comes the Scientific American with this perplexing announcement: “Many aeronauts assert that to them the surface of the earth, viewed from a balloon, appears concave,” and that “various hypotheses have been advanced in explanation of this optical illusion.”
Unfortunately for the guessers who style themselves scientists and spend a great deal of time looking for proofs of the truth of the Copernican system of astronomy, the concavity of the earth’s surface is not an optical illusion, but an absolute, demonstrable fact. Koresh declared the concavity of the earth’s habitable surface in 1870, in the face of a billion and a half people who believed in its convexity. Since then, he demonstrated the absolute truth of his assertions in a geodetic survey that proved the earth’s concavity.
Many facts observed by modern scientists themselves are inexplicable on any other basis than the concavity of the surface on which we live. Take, for instance, the plumb-line experiments in the Red Jacket mines at Calumet, Michigan, where two plumb lines were lowered into the shaft and found to be farther apart at the bottom of the mine than at the surface. Although this occurred several years ago, there has never been any adequate explanation given except the Koreshan statement that we live on the inside of the hollow globe.
The fact that lights and objects are seen thirty miles from shore on Lake Michigan is proven by mathematics to be impossible on a convex surface curving eight inches to the mile. These and many other facts that testify to the concavity of the habitable surface of the earth are all ignored by the so-called scientists, because a ship sailing out to sea disappears hull first and mast last, although the ship can be brought to view again with a telescope after it has disappeared over the supposed bulge or hill of water.
When these facts and the proofs of concavity are brought to the notice of scientific men, they rest supremely safe in the confidence of the people, knowing that so long as the people are unlearned in such matters they are safe; and, like the late brilliant Richard Proctor, they refuse to consider anything that would upset their present lucrative employment. It is only when people have developed to that point in their career where they can see the vital consequences involved in the great truth of the earth’s concavity that they lose faith in the so-called scientists and begin to interpret the facts of observation and the phenomena of life from a different viewpoint than that of the ordinary scientist.
The truth has been declared to be mighty and, for this reason, will prevail. Slowly, it seems, but surely, the great truth of the concavity of the earth will yet force itself upon humanity with such irresistible force that the cohorts of ignorance cannot withstand its onward march.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 24, No. 11 · Nov. 1910 · PDF p. 21