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Explanation of the Sixteenth Page. Part IV.
By Prof. U. G. Morrow.
Hemisphered on the great circle extending through Chicago and Calcutta, India, and the Poles, known as the Solstitial Colure, we have the earth represented in the diagram showing the “Actual position of the universe and tilt of the Poles from Chicago.” The cut shows the eastern hemisphere, with the heavens as a sphere, not hemisphered, but complete for the purpose of illustrating the rotation of the star-strewn globe. The diagram, which is not a transparency like the last two explained, is a miniature of the larger right-hand cut at the top of the page, but in a different position.
Considered from the standpoint of the horizontal at any given point in the earth, that point in its relation to every other point on the surface of the cell would be the lowest point. Chicago, then, is at the bottom for any observer at that point, with the great arc of the concave sphere gradually sloping up on all sides. The diagram gives the actual position of the continents considered from the standpoint of their angular position from Chicago. To the south extends the continent of South America, away out on the great arc of the earth—a way under the great sphere of the heavens. Facing the north, North America stretches almost to the pole, while beyond the pole are Siberia and China, and almost directly overhead, as it were, is the continent of Australia, instead of being almost directly beneath our feet, as in the old system. For any other latitude than Chicago, turn the cut so as to place the point at the bottom, and the actual position of the poles and continents, as well as the position of the heavens, will at once become apparent to the eye.
We may profitably entertain you with a paragraph or two concerning the physical heavens, as shown in the diagram we are considering. The heavens are by no means solid, but on account of refraction, the large sphere is comparatively opaque. The sphere of the heavens is the outermost limit of spheres of energy in which the stars and planets are strewn; generally speaking, the sphere of the heavens is at the bottom of the star-strewn sea of hydrogen, from 900 to 1,000 miles from the earth’s concave surface. The heavens revolve once in 24 hours; the axis of revolution extends from pole to pole. Every eye in the northern latitudes has observed in the north one star which is comparatively stationary, about which hundreds of stars seem to revolve; and in the general revolution, thousands of stars rise in the east and southeast, and set in the west and southwest, while others rise up in the south a few degrees and soon disappear at the terminus of a short arc. There is the appearance of the great vault above us, strewn with brilliant gems twinkling in their glory. Directly above us is the zenith; there are 90° of arc from the zenith to the horizon all around. A great scope of 180° of the great sphere above us is exposed to view at any given time. Look at the diagram: the line, the “Limit of Sky from Chicago,” shows the distance vision reaches, north and south, in the heavens from the latitude of Chicago. We see 42° beyond the North Star, and the South Pole is consequently 42° beyond the southern horizon. Perspective vanishes the space between the heavens and the earth, making the heavens appear to curve downwards. Now if you have a little mechanical ingenuity and vivid imagination you can understand the phenomenon of the circumpolar motion of the stars within 42° radius from the North Star, night after night. An ingenious school-boy would make a model, and soon become able to explain it, and thereby become an amateur astronomer.
A number of our readers who have seen frequent references to the planetary or mercurial disci in the earth’s shell may not have been able to locate their paths; and for that reason we have endeavored to map out their courses in the diagram now remaining to be explained, showing the Zodiac and Orbits of the Planetary Disci in the Earth’s Shell. The equator, it will be seen, lies midway between the poles, while the ecliptic cuts the equator at an angle of 23½°. The line of the ecliptic extends farthest north and south on the solstitial colure; north of the equator its highest point is Calcutta, India, while at about 20° off the west coast of South America, 23½° south of the equator, it extends farthest south. With reference to Chicago, the diagram shows the ecliptic in its proper and actual position.
The ecliptic is the middle line of a belt 10° wide, known as the Zodiac in the earth; there is a corresponding Zodiac in the constellations in the physical heavens. The earth’s shell is thicker in this belt, forming a sort of ridge on the outside like a great vein. In this great belt between the plates, the mercurial disci are moving in their orbits or paths beneath us. The interstices between the plates are filled with mercury, and the contraction and expansion of the plates force the disci of mercury around in their channels. Notice in the diagram, there are seven larger disci, representing the seven planets; there are smaller disci representing the secondary planets or satellites, and tertiary disci or planetoids. Over 300 planetoids have been discovered in the physical heavens, but only a few of their basic disci are represented in the picture. A few of the planetoids are extra-zodiacal—their orbits extending outside the zodiacal belt.
The path of every planet crosses the ecliptic; the crossing point is called the node. These disci are the real and material planets. The planets in the physical heavens are reflections from these disci or mirrors, of specific energies generated in the plates between which a particular or given disc passes. The explanation, or rather the demonstration of the energies which move the planets in their orbits, is simple and rational, in the Koreshan System. The material planets or disci belong to the great system of the alimentary canal of the universe; the “bowels of the earth” perform functions exactly corresponding to the functions of the alimentary canal of the human system. The great track of the Zodiac beneath is the belt of the greatest activity of the great battery, and determines the limit of the solar gyrations north and south alternately, every six months. In the cut before you, the great shell alone is pictured; the circumference is presented to the eye as a transparency, and as viewed from the outside. The paths of the planets in the physical heavens by means of this diagram of the orbit of the disci in the shell, can be traced.
The Koreshan System being the exact reverse of the popular system of astronomy, explains every phenomenon from the reverse standpoint. Students of the old system can arrive at Koreshan conclusions by applying the principle of inversion. This principle is applicable even down to the last analysis of any subject which has been darkened by the fallacies of modern times. With this Sixteenth Page and the facts of observation in the field of astronomy—in all the departments of astronomical, geologic, and geodetic research—the student can study Koreshan Cosmogony, explain all the usual astronomical phenomena, calculate eclipses, demonstrate circumnavigation, measure the distance to the sun, moon, planets, and stars, and solve a thousand other things. The world will soon awake to a recognition of the truth of Koreshan Universology, and will begin the study of nature in a natural and rational manner, from rational and demonstrated premises; and then once more the mind of the world will become enlightened, and the mental darkness of the nineteenth century will be no more!
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 12, No. 28 · May 1898 · PDF pp. 6-7