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The Modern System to be Supplanted by the Integral Cosmogony of Koreshanity.
The Copernican system of astronomy has many devotees, but truth does not rest upon numbers. The Copernican system is taught in every school, college, and university, but the simple application of a mechanical straight line to the water surface of the earth has sapped the foundations of the whole edifice. It will not be long before the house built upon crumbling error falls to ruin. There is nothing to preserve the structure upright save the bigoted conservatism which impels men to cling to the old chaotic order because it yields them a living. How precarious the chances may be under the despotic rule of organized tyranny, many a man has found to his sorrow; many more will yet learn. The astronomical system of the present day has little to recommend it beyond the fact that it feeds the desire for the marvelous, with its stories of suns and systems spreading in limitless expanse. It keeps its hold on the popular fancy by this means, and few stop to inquire whether its countless worlds have more reality than Munchausen's tales.
Astronomical reports for the year just closing are barren of results. No one has discovered the source of solar energy, nor can anyone point to valuable knowledge gained to support the system in vogue. This statement is not made unadvisedly, but is founded upon written reports from those whose interest leads them to seek every confirmation. The great telescope of the Lick Observatory, directed by experienced operators in the field of celestial research, can offer little save the discovery of what are termed binary stars. There is nothing to prove to the mass of inquirers who look to the colleges as centers of information, that the Copernican hypothesis is correct in any of its conclusions. "We observe but we cannot explain." Such in sum is the testimony of the great astronomical centers.
It is not necessary to have an expensive observatory fitted up with all the appliances of art, in order to determine whether the present system of astronomy be true or false. It is only requisite to project a rectiline line sufficiently extended from the top of a given perpendicular. By this means unquestioning evidence is furnished of the shape of the earth's surface. Such a line must be either a chord of arc or tangent to the great circumference. If the former, then the earth must be concave; if the latter, then it is convex. No one can refuse to credit the testimony of a witness so reliable. This little line speaks for the new system in eloquent refutation of the accumulated fallacy of ages. It is an unimpeachable witness whose sincerity cannot be questioned, and it has proclaimed the verity of the Cellular Cosmogony.
The exceptions of caviling critics who refuse to believe that a line of this character could be extended, would not be silenced by a repetition of the experiment which, however, is free to all. There are some who neither can nor will accept the truth even when their own eyes see the proofs. Every day adds a name to the list of interested inquirers, and one person comprehends a whole company of spiritual believers. There are some who long beyond utterance to see the merits of the new system formally recognized. The desire thus generated will act as a powerful lever to propel it in the direction of universal acclaim. Now, as ever, it is often found that the common people reason better than the scholar whose mind is filled with pride.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 16, No. 50 · 31 Oct 1902 · PDF p. 8