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One of the principal proofs adduced of the globular form of the astronomical bodies is the fact that in an eclipse the supposed body passing between the one eclipsed and the sun forms a circular shadow. This would be positive proof if there could be adduced no other or better reason for the phenomenon. That is, if no other equally cogent reason could be assigned, this might be taken as proof; otherwise it is no proof. The sun transmits its radiations in a circular form, as may be illustrated by the appearance of the rainbow. These radiations strike or touch the concave strata of' the earth's circumference as only a circumradiation can do, and must therefore, in a reflex action of those emanations, return to the pivot or center of influx in a circumconvergent, as they passed out in a circumdivergent form. Ecliptical phenomena, whatsoever may conspire to effect them, must necessarily conform in contour, in the circumcision or cutting off, to the circumvergent aspect of the energetic fluxion, whether afferent or efferent in direction. If it can be determined by what processes the circuit is closed and the current generated, it can as readily be determined by what processes the circuit can be opened and the current eclipsed.
Purpose Of The Ecliptic.
Every phenomenon is governed by law operative for some specific purpose. We therefore study the laws of the ecliptic with the end in view for which they are instituted. The object of the ecliptic and the operation of its functions is the conservation of energy and the perpetuity of motion. "Except those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved," has direct reference to the application of the principles which govern the ecliptic in the alchemico-organic world, as well as those which govern circumcision and the direction of its uses as a religious rite, and the laws of conservation, operative in the alchemico-organic, are dependent upon those operative in the organo-vital, and are related to them as effect to cause.
Position Of The Ecliptic (Cutting Off).
The ecliptic is the line or direction of the sun's yearly course. According to the Copernican system it is the earth's orbit around the sun, and therefore the sun's apparent annual motion. The earth is a shell, with its concave surface occupied. In other words, the surface we occupy is concave instead of convex, and is comparatively stationary. That which we call the sun is the projected focus of the occult or hidden solar center. His motion is helical or spiral from east to west, moving toward the south, in his gyrations, six months of the year, and north the other six months. The limitations of these motions are the two tropics. He has no zenith point north of the tropic of Cancer, nor south of the tropic of Capricorn. The sun's zenith at the tropic of Cancer is June 21, and at the tropic of Capricorn, December 21. These are called the solstices; meaning the standing still of the sun, for at these points the sun circles the earth without going farther north or south till making a complete diurnal circle. June 21, the rays of the sun are vertical at the tropic of Cancer; December 21, they are vertical at the tropic of Capricorn.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 6, No. 2 · July 1893 · PDF p. 6