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Editorial transcription, lightly normalized from the scan. Line-break hyphenation, spacing, capitalization, and unmistakable OCR errors have been repaired; small capitals follow the printed text and the claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
Printed under the department heading Interrogation Points and Other Punctuations.
Will you be kind enough to answer, in the next issue of THE FLAMING SWORD, for the benefit of a class of students deeply interested in the Koreshan Cosmogony, the following questions: (1) Copernican astronomers claim that the sun is nearer the earth in winter than in summer. Is this also according to the Koreshan System? (2) Please explain the Moon's Phases, new moon, first quarter, full moon, etc.—Class, Denver, Colo.
(1) The hypothesis of the old school astronomers, that the sun is 3,000,000 miles nearer the earth in our winter than in summer, is devised to explain the apparent increase in the diameter of the projected or visible sun in our winter. This is no proof that it is really nearer, for some other cause operates to increase the diameter of the disc—that of difference in temperature, and the difference in quality of energies generated in the central sun, which operate to produce the change of seasons. The visible sun being the image of the solar vortex, and not a solid body as is supposed, is subject to all the variations in size which the central solar sphere experiences. There is some difference in the distance to the visible sun, but no material difference. In the Koreshan Cosmogony, we calculate the vertical distance to the sun, from points on the earth directly beneath the visible projection, to be about 1,000 miles. The sun is nearer Chicago during our summer than it is when 47° further south, in our winter.
(2) The real moon is the mineral and geologic strata of the earth, upon which the sun is constantly shining—covering one hemisphere at any given moment. The material crust of the earth has a corresponding sphere of force in the physical heavens, a little larger in diameter than the sea of hydrogen; this is the lunar sphere. It receives the lunar energies generated in the crust. This sphere has poles of force, the light pole of which is visible. The lunar sphere revolves in the heavens from west to east once in 27 days, and the appearance of the light pole to the eye at any point on the earth's surface, depends upon the relation the pole sustains to the light and dark hemispheres of the earth.
When the moon is new, nearly between us and the sun, it reflects dark rays, because it is on the light side of the earth—the same side as the sun. When the moon is full it reflects light rays, because it is on the dark side of the earth. The first and third quarters of the moon occupy positions midway between the lunar extremes.
The surface of the visible moon in the sky is a picture of the outer surface of the outermost mineral stratum in the shell of the earth, modified by the N-ray impressions of all the substances above the outermost mineral stratum. The reflections are from the metallic mirrors. Please refer to page 16, for cuts showing position of the moon at third quarter—directly on the meridian at sunrise.
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