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Growing Uneasiness of the Advocates of Modern Science; the Determined Purpose of the Apostles of Koreshan Universology Is to Overthrow Fallacy.
We have shown in our publications the true character of cosmogonic form, and have placed this revelation in contrast with the uncertain Copernican system of astronomy. We have devoted much energy and effort to bring the questions of Koreshan Universology prominently before the public for public discussion. In this effort we have been held up to insolent ridicule and most bitter persecution, consonant with the invariable rule to which every innovation upon prevailing public sentiment is subject. We would not be worthy of consideration, if our doctrines were not important enough to excite the animosity of the sentiment in both the secular and religious phases of thought which our system assails.
We have pushed our claims to a knowledge of cosmology, until the advocates of the spurious “sciences” begin to feel their insecurity, and the necessity for defending their right to the title of “scientist” and “scientific.” So long as the “scientific” world rested in absolute security upon the ignorance of the laity, it felt no necessity for the discussion of the question of the Koreshan Cosmogony; but our persistence in the advocacy of the truth, in contrast with the audacious assumptions of the Copernican advocates, incites a growing uneasiness regarding the stability of an astronomy which has nothing but assumption upon which to rest its claims to acceptation. The whole batch of assumption and absurdity called modern science is assaulted in front and rear by the consistent and determined purpose of the apostles of Koreshan Universology. We know that when our system is considered of enough consequence to receive candid notice from thinking men, and when the advocates of the prevailing system of astronomy begin to comprehend the fact that their premises, which they confess to be mere assumptions, are being analyzed by honest investigators and are known to be worthless as foundations for the building of the superstructure of science, they will be compelled to make an open defense of their untenable position.
The Copernican system of astronomy had its rise in the dark age; and there is not an astronomer of note who does not know and confess that there is nothing but assumption for its foundation. It is responsible for the agnosticism so much in evidence, and for the attitude of that stupendous farce, the “higher criticism.” There is not a phenomenon manifest that is not easily and rationally explained and accounted for from the standpoint of the Koreshan Universology, whether belonging to the domain of physical or psychical manifestation; and per contra, there are no phenomena, either psychic or physical, rationally accounted for on the basis of the modern system of so called science. All that Koreshanity asks is a fair chance at the absurdities of the so called scientific claims of the age. This chance we will make, for we know we have the truth and are making progress toward a comparative hearing.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 15, No. 18 · March 1901 · PDF p. 5