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We are giving to the world the final and positive warning of the great conflict about to engage, not merely the nations of Christian degeneration, but the world of paganism. The hour is at hand; the world's struggle is upon us. and dire destruction will follow the mobilization of the armament of the Christian world.
Out of this debris will arise the sons of God, who will in the near future direct the affairs of men. If you will but touch the hem of the garment of the divine truth as it issues from the Guiding Star Publishing House, your ills will be dissipated.
Get into the proper atti- tude of acceptance, and all else will legitimately follow. The Lord Jesus, the Christ and Son of God, was absorbed by the church.
This was done through the incorruptible dissolution of his personal and material form. The Holy Ghost was the product of the dissolu- On the Point of the Sword.
A Question for Astronomers. Will you please tell us why the five principal stars in the Great Dipper, Ursa Major, which have been receding for centuries, according to the conclusion of the modern scientist, with the velocity of seventeen miles per second —being millions of miles farther from us than they were one year ago, and trillions of miles during the past cen- tury, retain apparently the same dimensions? If you can, it will be time for you to ask us why any bright light receding from us retains apparently an equal dimension, with a view to questioning the truth of our Cosmogony.
There are too many factors involved in the phenomenon to discuss in a short article, but the subject will be fully answered in our astronomical publications. We have demonstrated the fact that the earth is concave, and that the curvation is eight inches to the mile; that the diameter of the earth is about eight thousand, and the circumference 25,000 miles. This has been com- pletely settled by means so simple that the wayfaring man though a fool need not err therein. Will you please tell us why it is that the space between two railson arailroad track diminishes rapidly by foreshortening, while the space of about two and one half inches of the track itself Behold, How These Brethren Love One Another!
CHRISTIAN SPAIN, Christian America, Christian England, Christian Russia, Christian Austria,
Christian Germany, Christian Italy, Christian Erance, ('hrist ian Portugal, etc.,are getting ready to do some skil- ful Christian-charity maneuveringon the bellicose order.
Christian Spain and her consanguine, Christian, Cuban, recalcitrant, belligerent, and wayward offspring, are per- forming some of the modern Christian prestidigitating tactics of the nineteenth Christian century, after the most approved civilized Christian style; and most Chris- tian America is virtually in the act of punishing, on the most approved scientific and Christian methods of mod- ern charity, the most honorable and ancient conserva- tor of the Christian faith. Who says that Christianity is not presenting the mostnotable illustration of the in- fluence of the olive branch, "the Eatherhoodof God and the brotherhood of man," ever yet exhibited to a world rather inclined to be sceptical regarding the real pur- poses of the Christian system, as it is represented in modern times?
Will somebody be kind enough to tell us where we will lind the Beast and the false Prophet?
The abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, is about to have its fulfilment, not outside of the Christian world, but in it. The church has fallen.
It is under the curse, and the woe! woe! woe! about to startle the world, is the result of the Christian prostitu- tion of the gospel annunciated by the Son of man, vio- lated in the present competitive commercial system, which is found to be the antipode of the communistic system inaugurated by the Lord. The old heavens (the prostitute church) are about to pass away with a great noise, to which the culmination of the present arma- ment will abundantly and conclusively attest, in the very near future.
CONTRIBUTORS' AND EDITOR'S DEPARTMENTS. Koreshan Cogmogony Interests an Astronomer.
I have studied the copies of THE FLAMING SWORD sent me, with interest, but am still a Copernican. Before I could accept the Koreshan System, a few questions would have to be answered to my satisfaction.
For instance, Why is it that the projected or apparent diameters of the sun, moon, and all other celestial bodies which show dimensions to the naked eye or through the telescope, are exactly the same at rising or setting as when on the meridian ?
According to your diagrams, they would be about five times as far from the observer when rising or setting as when on the meridian, and should consequently show corresponding differences in apparent dimensions.
Why don't they?—Prof. J. W. T., Salem, O. B Y REFERENCE to the central diagram on the Six- teenth Page, the reader will observe the basis of the question asked by our esteemed friend, Prof. T.
The subject will prove interesting to the general astro- nomical student and of profit to all. We are glad to get this question from one engaged in the promotion of the old school astronomy, and we cheerfully and kindly reply; taking the liberty to contrast the difficulty that is presumed to stand in the way of his acceptance of the Koreshan Astronomy, with a few difficulties existing in the Copernican System, which we shall be glad to have our friend consider. If he has had the questions we suggest, along the same line, satisfactorily answered, so that he is justified in continuing to hold to the old system, we should be glad to know what the answers are, so that we may know just how much genuine "sci- entific" explanation is required to satisfy him!
The projected sun at noon time in March or Septem- ber, is about 1,000 miles above an observer at the equator. At the same time it is about 3,000 miles from the observer at Chicago, and is about 6,000 miles from Chicago at the time of setting. Measured at noon and sunset, the sun's apparent diameter is about
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Man as he now exists is not in a state of individual- ism, and therefore not in a state of equilibrium. Immortal life must come by processes the reverse of those upon which mortality depends. the same. Why is it not smaller at from 3 to <> times the distance from the eye? There are a number of fac- tors to be considered, aside from the factors which con- spire to cause the sun to appear to go down to the horizon at time of setting, when in fact it is going up as related to our horizontal. We will consider a few of them. Considering the subject from the standpoint of the old system, our astronomical friend assumes that the diameter of the sun should be less at setting than at noon. The conclusion is nothing more than an assumption.
We look down one of Chicago's long avenues, lined on either side with hundreds of gas-lights, with flames of 2 or 3 inches dimension. Away in the distance the lines of street-lights seem to come together; 50 feet of space is apparently annihilated at the junction of the two lines; but the apparent dimensions of the gas flames have not decreased, but rather enlarged. In the center of a disk 2 feet in diameter, place a light with a flame of about 2 inches dimension. Upon going to the distance of one mile, the disc will be reduced to the vanishing point, while the light will be plainly visible. Two lights placed on opposite sides of the disc would at this dis- tance appear to be one light, with the space diminished to naught between them.
From the basis of these facts, we conclude that the laws of perspective which apply to non-luminous bodies. do not apply in the same way to objects which are luminous. The factor which causes a flame of light of a given dimension not to disappear at the distance at which non-luminous bodies would disappear, is irradia- tion, which, according to Helmholtz, is due to the tact that rays of light do not accurately converge upon the
In the perception of any brilliant object, this factor is operative. It is the exaggeration of the size of the object by the intense vibration communicated to the retina, and the consequent extension of the area of pho- toic sensation or agitation in the illumined portion of the retinal coat. The same factor applies to the sun whether observed by the naked eye or through the tel- escope. The most thorough explanation of the phenom- enon involves the science of perception, and explanation of the faculty of adjustment of the relative size of the sun to objects with which "we are familiar in the earth.
The distance to the sun at the time of setting, from :i to (i times the distance at noon time, is not sufficient to cause a perceptible difference in its diameter, though the space between the sun and the earth vanishes by perspective. If perspective apparently diminishes the size of objects where there is no luminosity, it would fol- low that if there were no perspective, the size of the sun would appear to increase proportionably as the dis- tance to the sun increased. The two factors of irradia- f ion and perspective are operative at the same time in the case of observation of the sun, and irradiation very nearly compensates for the diminishing effect of perspec- tive. Another factor that assists in the maintenance of the apparent even diameter of the sun's disc through out the day7, is the magnifying power of 0,000 miles of atmosphere in a direction nearly parallel with the earth's surface, compared with the volume intervening between the eye and the sun at noon time.
()ur astronomical friend has been kind enough to suggest a difficulty he has met with in the study7 of Koreshan Astronomy. He will bear with us after answer- ing his question, while we show him through his own system and point out a few difficulties along the same line—contradictions which must inevitably result if we undertake to apply the prevailing laws of perspective to both non-luminous and luminous objects, as he has with reference to the sun's apparent diameter. He will have to admit one of two things: That we satisfactorily answer his question concerning the sun, and that we have therefore removed his objection, or that the similar difficulties in the Copernican system, through applica-
If the laws of perspective were applicable to any luminous object, they would be applicable to all. If the sun's apparent diameter should decrease proportion- ably as the distance increased, it would do so at a spe- cific ratio. It is usually held by physicists that an object disappears at a distance from the eye equal to about 3,000 times its diameter—the same applying to space of definite length as well as to objects that occupy the same. This is a fair statement of the rule generally applied, and we take it as the basis of calcula- tion for the purpose of illustrating the difficulties we desire to point out.
The planet Jupiter is supposed by the modern astronomer to be about 85,000 miles in diameter, and that its least distance from the earth is 400,000,000 miles. The vanishing point of Jupiter, according to the perspective ratio, should be at the distance of 255,000,- 000 miles. It exceeds in brilliancy a star of the first magnitude, and should therefore be visible even beyond its accredited distance of 400,000,000. This is a dis- crepancy; here is one still more remarkable: The moons of Jupiter, according to the old school, are about 3,000 miles in diameter. The vanishing point of an object 3,000 miles in diameter would be about 9,000,000 miles, and yet both Proctor and Newcomb have declared that these moons have been seen with the naked eye at a dis- tance of 450,000,000 miles!
The sun is supposed to be a body about 886,000 miles in diameter, at a distance of about 02,000,000 miles from the earth. The sun should therefore be re- duced to a vanishing point if it were removed to the distance of 2,650,000,000 miles. At, the distance of 92,- 000,000 miles it is reduced to about 32'of arc diameter.
On December 21, the sun's apparent diameter is about 1' (64".4, to be exact) larger than on June 21; the sun is suposed to be 3,000,000 miles nearer the earth in winter than in summer. If the sun is reduced V by the increase of the sun's distance 3,000,000 miles, it is logical to conclude that if the sun were removed to a distance beyond its present supposed position in space, equal to 3,000,000 miles multiplied by as many times as there are minutes in the sun's diameter (3,000,- 000x31=93,000,000 miles) the sun's diameter would be reduced to 0. The sun's distance would then be 92,- 000,000 (its present assumed distance) plus 93,000,000 beyond, to its vanishing point, or 185,000,000 miles.
In accordance with the law of perspective, an object that would disappear at a distance of 185,000,000 miles is only about, ()0,iHH) in diameter! Alpha Centauri is sup- posed to be about .7 the size of the sun; and yet it is vis- ible at the accredited but fallacious distance of 20,000,- 000,000,000 miles. Here are perspective lines elastic enough to stretch as far as the modern astronomer's imagination,—and beyond!
Take aglance at the so called doubleor binary stars —where two stars appear to be one. When observed
We shall be pleased to have Prof. T. endeavor to account for these discrepancies; and to submit to us any further questions or objections he may have. We will answer and remove them as effectually as we have this.
We have shown according to laws of perspective, if applicable to luminous bodies, the fixed stars and the moons of Jupiter, on the basis of the old school, are A Glimpse of the Cellular Cosmogony.
Explanation ofthe Sixteenth Page. Part II. BY PROF. U. G. MORROW. W E OPENED to your view in last week's issue, the hemispheres of the great concave globe of the universe, with the physical heavens suspended in the cavity of the picture on the right of the Sixteenth Page.
At the end of our article we asked you to close up the hemispheres to complete the sphere, and left you endeavoring to imagine the revolving heavens within.
We trust you did not fail to include yourselves on the inside so as to help you to some conceptions of the real- ity of the situation. This time we cut the globe in two at the equator, and ask you to look into the southern hemisphere.
We cut through the shell, the atmos- pheres, and the central solar sphere, affording a cross- sectional view of the shell and the interior. bustion. These stars are represented in the picture by the little white dots at the circumference of -'The Sphere ofthe Heavens." The visible sun, the planets, and the periodic comets are near the junction of the two atmos- pheres, while the moon is a little this side of the stellar sphere, from 700 to 900 miles from the earth's surface.
Below the diagram we are now briefly explaining, are two cross-sectional views of the earth's shell, with the scale enlarged. The shell is about 100 miles in thickness, composed of geologic, mineral, and metallic strata, with the comparative thickness of each primary division. On the right are shown the metallic strata, composed of the seven primary metals,—gold, silver, copper, zinc, iron, tin, and plumbum.
Between these plates are passing continually discs of mercury, from which the visible planets in the physical heavens are reflected. The mercurial discs are the real and mate- rial, though invisible, planets of the universe.
The universe is about 8,000 miles in diameter, or about 25,000 miles in circumference. The shell is the limit or environ of all there is in the universe—the sun, moon, stars, planets, comets, etc. The rind of the uni- verse in the diagram is represented hy the great circle at the circumference of the cut; at the bottom of the cir- cle are the words, "Earth's Shell." At the center of the sphere is located the great Central Sun, the positive pole of the gigantic Electro-Magnetic Battery.
Between the sun and the circumference are three princi- pal divisions of space, occupied by the three atmos- pheres as shown, the outermost being our common air, about 900 or 1,000 miles in depth. This atmosphere is about the limit of our vision, the visual rays being broken or refracted by7 the contiguity of the surfaces of the two atmospheres, thus preventing visual penetra- tion of the sea of hydrogen above.
The shell of the earth, with its layers of metals, min- erals, and earth strata, constitutes the base, the nega- tive elements of the great battery, the voltaic pile, for the generation of the electro-magnetisms and other levic energies which supply the sun with the fuel it consumes.
The astral center is the pivot of influx and efflux of energy. The space between the center and the circumference is filled with the products of all the combustions which take place at the center and the circumference; it is filled with the thousands of qualites of energies passing to and from the center—the energies of light and dark- ness, cold and heat, etc., the gases or atmospheres being the channels or media of transmission of all the electro- magnetisms, ethers, and other vibratory substances of the entire Cellular System. The cell is complete in itself; there is nothing on the outside. The exterior limit of the universe is plated with solid gold.
Near the junction of our atmosphere and the hydro- gen are located the visible stars—so many little focal points of levic and gravic energies in process of com-
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