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IT IS amusing to see how the editor of the Annular World evades the conditions of his offer of $1,000 for the refutation of his annular theory. It is quite a condescension on his part to acknowledge that he does not understand what we intend to do, or what we expect him to do regarding his challenge and offer. Our readers easily grasp it.—and all are not editors nor founders of hypotheses! The status of the matter is merely this: If the earth is concave and the Cellular Cosmogony true, it follows that the ring theory of world formation is necessarily false. We concluded that the shortest route to the point was to prove the annular system to be fallacious. We proved by geodetic survey that the Koreshan Astronomy is true, and offered to prove it again in the presence of Prof. Vail, in order to show him that his annular theory is false, and that he owes us the $1,000. He does not seem to have mental acumen sufficient to see the point. What is the matter with him?
Labor-saving machinery under the control of the money power is a curse; applied for the benefit of the wealth producers, the inventions of the world would be a blessing. What difference does it make to the shoemaker whether it requires ten hours or one hour to make a pair of shoes, so long as he does not get the benefit of the time saved? It makes all the difference in the world to him now, for by the use of machinery thousands of shoemakers are thrown out of employment. It is estimated that it would require 21,000,000 men to do the work of the labor-saving machinery in the United States, that is now done by 4,000,- 000 persons. The working man produces wealth he does not enjoy—he receives less than ten per cent of all he actually produces. The remainder goes to the capitalist who does not earn one cent of it!
The Earth (not a globe) Review, of London, is always ready to say hard things about astronomers and publications that are silent concerning Zeteticism, after challenges have been issued by its advocates. In the May, 1897, SWORD, we challenged the editor of the Earth Review to overthrow the facts of the Koreshan geodetic survey on the Florida west coast in demonstration of the earth's concavity; and since that time he has said nothing concerning the Koreshan Cosmogony. What is the trouble? The advocates of Zeteticism have now as much reason to say nothing as have the astronomers of the popular school, and the reason is that they cannot answer! What are the Zetetics going to do about it?
The daily press is responsible for much of the sensation which attaches itself to modern so called scientific discoveries. A number of observations have been made of stars and Mars, by Dr. See, at the Lowell observatory in Arizona. Dr. See visits Boston, and the newspapers announce remarkable discoveries at the Lowell observatory, "of worlds born from cosmos ready for life," discovered "processes of world formation in space," etc. Dr. See has made no such discoveries; he has only evolved an hypothesis concerning stellar and nebular phenomena, and puts forth the same on the basis of mere assumption. Modern astronomers can assume anything; they can prove nothing.
The world is full of curious gods. There are gods of every description—about as many as there are individuals. A late one is the invention of Prof. Felix Adler, president of the Society for Ethical Culture, New York. He is reported as having in view the substitution for the Christian religion, a religion having the state for its deity. He desires to destroy the idea of a personal God, but if the government were our impersonal god, it follows that the head of the government would be the personal deity! We think that the originator of the new idea is addled, and would like to be the world's Ad(d)ler!
Notwithstanding the fact that there are millions of America's poor, hundreds of thousands of men out of employment, tenement houses of the great cities full of the ragged and the filthy, thousands of tramps begging for food, burglars, hold-ups, confidence men, and money sharks everywhere, and the cry for relief from oppression, the administration calls upon its people to be thankful! The thanksgiving proclamations are the veriest twaddle to blind the eyes of the credulous suffering.
Years ago KORESH announced the fact in THE FLAMING SWORD that gold could be manufactured, and suggested a process. The Daily press of the country ridiculed the idea as being the wildest speculation. Today, page after page is being published concerning the actual work of making gold. Who was right, who was scientific—the Koreshan Alchemist, or the modern chemists who denied atomic transformation?
J. Pierpont Morgan now controls nearly all of the great American trunk lines, comprising about 50,000 miles of railroad. Even success in competism must be wrought through a center— a magnate. The greatest success is the result of system. The Golden Age will be the result of the greatest monopoly of power the world has ever seen.
The panacea for all human ills and social evils will not be found in arbitrary plans of social reform, but in the actual impartation of the potencies of life and incorruption. The reformation of the world is its recreation. The momentum of genuine reform is a substantial energy, and must proceed from the divine center.
Contemporaneously with the establishment of the new government of the twentieth century, the invigoration of man must obtain. Humanity is impoverished mentally, morally, and physically. When humanity is restored to perfection, the social conditions for which the world has hoped for ages, will follow as a sequence. Thought is the progenitor of all things. The universe is the outermost clothing of the divine mind, and therefore the expression of the perfect man. Qualities of mental force ultimate in planetary motion. Man is not governed by planetary vibration, but rather, the universe is governed by mental vibration.
The American college institutions are morally on the descending scale. Participants in football are getting beneath the pugilists. Recently, one thousand students were in a state of intoxication in New Haven during a great game.
There is as much difference between modern astrology and the Koreshan Astro-anthroposophy as there is between modern astronomy and the Cellular Cosmogony. Astrology is founded upon the fallacies of the modern astronomical system.
Modern charity is a humbug. It is not philanthropy to steal the products of the poor to endow colleges, asylums, and homes. The true philanthropist will destroy the conditions which necessitate the existence of charitable institutions.
The policy of American protection is the policy of selfishness. There is no such thing at the present time as the protection of American labor; there is a good deal of protection for the millionaire.
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Vol. 12, No. 4 · 10 December 1897 · PDF pp. 11
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 12, No. 4 · Dec 1897 · PDF p. 11