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Having perused your articles in the June and July numbers of THE FLAMING SWORD, I feel impelled to write you for further information concerning the very startling propositions you advance. If you can explain the reason why the line of sight bends upwards instead of downwards, and does not follow the same curve when the telescope is used, I shall be very much pleased to have you do so. Also give a more detailed description of the Rectilineator used by you in your Geodetic work at Naples, Fla. I would like to have the dimensions, materials, and such details of construction, manner of using the same, as would enable me to construct one and repeat the experiments that you have made I. D. K., Denver, Colo.
We are glad to note your interest in the Koreshan Cosmogony and the line of work successfully demonstrating the same to be true. If you will procure the files of THE FLAMING SWORD from Aug. 1896 to May 1897, and a copy of the New Geodesy now in press, you will find all the particulars you desire concerning the experiments, apparatus, and method of operation—these will contain cuts of the apparatus. This apparatus is a Koreshan invention, and we would not desire to have it copied and used without the supervision of one of our experts. We are projecting another line of survey on a very extensive scale, when we have sufficiently interested the scientific men to have them commit themselves on the results. The telescope increases the angles of radiation of the lines of the visual energy, and extends the vanishing point. The visual substance is acted upon by both levic and gravic energies. By the telescope the frontal focus is extended beyond the normal point, thereby increasing the power to resist the forces of levity and gravity, and the curve of the visual substance is not so great as when the eye is unaided; the visual substance is projected further in the nearly horizontal direction. Our literature will acquaint you with Koreshan physics and optics and the science of foreshortening, which you should study.
Will you kindly answer what seems to our mind an objection to the System of Koresh? (1) Taking the example of the targets described in your experiments— that of the last target being seen, with its reflection in the water, if that is true, why cannot London be seen when standing on the shore at a long distance, looking in the direction of London, through a good telescope? (2) We have mathematical objections also, but will only ask for the solution of this one, which seems valid to us. (3) If you have any literature giving an account of the survey at Naples, we would be pleased to have it.—W. J. C, La Center, Wash.
(1) The horizon is the vanishing point of lateral vision. Factors which form the horizon are explained in the Koreshan optics. A horizon is seen through the telescope, but it is beyond the normal horizon. Anything beyond the horizon or vanishing point of the telescope appears out of sight according to the same laws governing unaided vision. The distance between the horizon of the unaided eye and the horizon seen through the telescope depends upon the power of the telescope and the altitude of observation. If London is beyond the horizon of the telescope of a given power it cannot be seen; but a telescope of a higher power may bring it into view. (2) If you have mathematical objections, we shall be very glad to have you present them to us, and we will remove them for you. (3) See advertisement of The New Geodesy. This pamphlet will tell you all about the Florida survey and experiments.
How do you explain the phenomenon of what is called the earth's shadow on the moon during an eclipse of the moon?—W. L. J., Currant, Colo.
Study the Koreshan Cosmogony, and locate the metallic shells of the universe. The moon is a gravosphere of the earth; it is produced by the levitation of subtle forces generated in the earth's crust. Dark discs pass between the metallic strata, and partially cut off the energies forming the moon. When they do so there is an eclipse, a cutting off. The discs are circular, and produce a circular obscuration. In the Copernican System, when the moon passes into the umbra of the earth's shadow, the moon should become entirely invisible, as it is claimed that the moon's light is borrowed from the sun. There is no eclipse in the old system. The ecliptic is the clipper; when both the sun and moon are on the ecliptic, the magnetic circuit is broken, and the moon is obscured by the circular eclipsor. The Koreshan explanation is scientific, and in accordance with the meaning of the word and the facts of the phenomenon.
Why do you devote so much space to astronomy and discussions about the earth being concave? Why should the common people become interested in such subjects? —A. B.
Science is the basis of all truth; it is easier to demonstrate a material premise to most minds than it is to prove a point by processes of reason and analogy. The form of the universe is an infallible index to the laws of life on every plane of existence and being. When the physical universe is understood the laws of the relation of humanity are known, and the demonstration of the principles of divine economy and social reconstruction becomes easy. We want the people to understand an astronomy that is sensible, and a system of human physiology that is true, so they can begin to comprehend the processes of getting out of the present hell of competism and the infernal bondage to sensuality and greed of gold. Learn a few things necessary to know; get a few keys of truth, and think!
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Vol. 12, No. 2 · 26 November 1897 · PDF pp. 12
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 12, No. 2 · Nov 1897 · PDF p. 12