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By Koresh — Part IX.
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B%e Koreshan System of Cosmogony decreasing dimension of form, it can also think of its By Koresh largest limitation, or the increasing dimension of form. PART IX. These two dimensions of that property of matter called TPHE UNIVERSE has form. Form constituting a form, are thinkable and therefore existent. Illimita property of natural existence, Nature in any bility is unthinkable, and therefore non-existent. modification could not have existed without it. Form, That the universe has form, we may demonstrate then, is the natural concomitant of eternal being, and by ten thousand proofs. Can we determine the char the form of being must continue as the perpetual and acteristics of this form? The almost universal concept euduring monument of the continual descent and muta of the divine mind, or of the cause of all things functate tion of spirit to matter, and the complete expression of and formate, is, that it is perfect. The mere belief that the function of its mobility and metamorphosis. it is perfect does not prove that such is its or his char Dimension is a general property of form. Limita acter. The proofs of the divine perfection must rest tion is a specific characteristic of dimension. There are upon an argument for which, now, we have not space. Wre may assume, however, inasmuch as such a belief is three appreciable and cognized dimensions; namely, length, breadth, and thickness. Size is determined by universal, or nearly so, that the divine mind, made up these three dimensions. The mind has faculties of form of the aggregations of all phases and qualities of love, and size. If these are qualities of mind, they are also and their correlate concomitants, (these being the com properties of natural existence, and pertain to matter. ponents of mind,) is in a state of perfection, and that in The mind can appreciate limitation as pertaining to the expression of mind into form it will manifest such form, but illimitability is unthinkable, and that which expression as will involve the most of corresponding is unthinkable has no existence. Illimitability, then, is formate repleteness. not a property of matter, and does not belong to it. The sphere, as pertaining to curved lines, and the There are two senses in which dimension may be re cube, as pertaining to straight lines—the one the type garded; first, as having simple extense and direction of of truth, the other of life—are the two characteristic extense. A cube as a whole represents dimension; the forms of integrality. The compromise of these is the faces of the cube, the direction of its axes, the three spiral. Assuming that the cause of all things is replete principles of which denote its six sides, its direction. so far as cause is concerned, (and we hazard the as We may conceive of a spiritual substance, a substantial sumption because there is little danger of contradic but immaterial potency, as occupying equal space (the tion,) we then predicate, upon this assumption, the same extense) with the cube, as the spirit and soul axiom that the complex form of the sphere and thecube within the body of man. This might be consistently is the most complete expression of the divine power to denominated a second dimension; within this, another formulate, and thus maintain that these characteristics more refined spirit, constituting the third dimension; of formation comprise the general embodiment of the by a second mathematical dimension, we mean the out will and intellect of causation. lines and occupation of form limited by length, breadth, In a former issue, we have shown the sphere or shell and thickness. We have named three dimensions only. to comprise the outlines and limitation of universal la There a Fourth Dimension? form. All convergent lines from the circumferences of thespheredetermine toward and terminate inthecenter, Let us think of an atom of matter, the smallest con which must necessarily constitute the focal point of ceivable or geometric point of a material substance. It centripetal flow — the central point of contact of all has length, breadth, and thickness, with their accom material things. The physical universe being the panying directions. The mind can think of a reduction formulated expression of mind, the astral center of the of the atom of matter, even to its vanishing point. physical universe must comprise the analogical corre This is its limitation toward its fourth direction. This spondent of the astral center of the mind of the universe. is the limit of its fourth dimension. At this point it The physical universe is proximately moved by the becomes spirit. It is not destroyed as substance, but potenciesof alchemical, electrical, and magnetic action— at this point it is mutated to spirit; substance of an "forces" generated by the very form and relation of the other kind. The materialist may conceive of the exist elements which enter into the constitution of the great ence of a fourth dimension of matter, but he cannot cell or shell of generation. Remotely, it is moved by determine its character nor define its property, for the mental potencies thatare aboveand prior inquality at the moment the mind discovers this limitation it to even the unconscious or material "forces;" such as becomes spiritistic. physical lumen, caloric, electricity, magnetism, levity, The integral mind is both materialistic and spiritis and gravity. Universal form and its correlate universal tic. There are two distinctive and antithetical classes function are persistent, never having had beginning of mind; one, in its professed belief, is spiritistic, (the only so far as the modifications of time—by the break christian science mind is the type,) the other, in its pro in continuity— mark the end and the beginning of fessed belief, is materialistic, of which the ordinary periods, and denote timic aspect,or that modification of material scientist and atheist are types. These are both continuity called time. partial or fragmentary. If the mind can think of the "In the beginning God created," does not imply vanishing point of an atom, or matter limited by its more than the beginning of a specific cycle; and such 262 The Flaming Sword creation, or recreation, is manifest whenever a cycle mos. The unique and complex cell, with its correlation closes in the beginning of a succeeding one. If function of circumference and center, is the expressed orevoluted and form are correlate and persistent properties of per form of integral being, and the forms and laws of this petual being, (and there is a sense in which things were cosmical integrality are the pattern of the integral gov not created,) still the continuity of the universe must ernment of man. depend upon its recreation or creation in an existent Freedom and liberty are words which in the mouths form and function. This last is what is meant by crea of the rabble have no significance. Axillaryand orbital tion. motion, modifications of the compromise of centrifugal Atheists, infidels, materialists, and spiritists may and centripetal fluxions of "energy "and matter, are the continue to rave and rant at the obduracy of man's products of two physical laws, the principles of which adherence to what they may denominate a book of are revealed in these phenomena of moment. These fables; it yet remains as an enduring monument of a laws, though physical, originate from correspondential never-fading glory of conception, as far beyond the laws of mentality. Axillary momentum is the third intelligence of the ranters as they are below, in descent, moment of physical energy, and the direct product of an ancestry from which they maintain they have degen the conflict originating in tke impact of the controver erated. We mean, of course, the monkey, chimpanzee, sial ascendingand descending fluxionsof energy. Efflux and gorilla, of which modern atheism seems so proud ions from the center toward the circumference, and into boast for ancestral origin. After thousands of years fluxions from the circumference toward the center, meet the Bible remains the bulwark and citadel of towering at their points of concurrent and revolutionary moment strength, unaffected by the onslaughts of its enemies. in the product of their compromise. Religious systems, founded upon false interpretations The revolutions of the great cosmic unity, called of the Scriptures, may rise and fall, but the truths of the physical universe, are motions resultant from free the Bible never,—they are eternal. dom of action. That direction of motion which gives Koreshanity regards theuniverse as one vast system, to us night and day, and the modification and variation with such a perfect adjustment of parts as to embrace called seasons, originates in choice of action. Though every department in a combination of cooperative unity these are involuntary and unconscious, as modes and and procedure, not merely as pertaining to the solar moments of the physical universe, they proceed from and stellar realms, embracing the earth inhabited by the laws and activities of mind, and correspond to free man, but inclusive of mineral arrangements, and vege dom of will and choice of will in the domain of conscious table, animal, and human life. life. As freedom of motion, embraced in axillary and Man, both as to his individual and universal being, orbital revolutions, is the liberty to move by virtue of is the archetype of the cosmic structure and function. law, and according to prescribed limitations and direc He is both origin and product of the integral coordina tions, so freedom of action, as a mental influence, must tion of universal mode and motion. The mind of man, be governed by correspondinglimitations and directions. inhabiting his organic form, is the positive pole of con Asdirectionof motionisthe result of determinations structive energy,andthe material cosmos has proceeded of concurrent fluxions and specific compromises, so from his voluntary purpose and coordinate involuntary choice of action, which must originate in freedom of ac consociation. The laws of construction, with the poten tion, is according to the determinations of wisdom in tial and kinetic energies through which the depositions the economic adaptation of uses to the ends for which of circumferences are formulated and maintained, and uses are instituted. primary and subsidiary centers pivoted, focalized, sup Revolution, as an observed phenomenon of the plied, and regulated, correspond to the laws of organic physical universe, is a determinant of moment in the unity consociating mind and body. line of least resistance and in the direction of the great The universe is the great ovum of integral incuba est freedom. There is no freedom of revolution in op tion. In-cube-ation is the modification of the lines and position to the original impulse of the compromise. forms of the cube and sphere, adjusted to the purposes Correspondingly, freedom of mental action, or freedom of use in the integral economy. The chick is incubated of choice, is the liberty to move according to the affec (hatched) from the egg; the infant is incubated in the tions of the will. If the affections are good, the choice matrix. Humanity as a whole is incubated within the is upward; if evil, it is downward; and freedom of will is great cell or ovum of universal life, and not, contrary liberty to move according to selection. There is no de to the universal law of development, on the outside of viation or escape from this law and from its inevitable an uneconomic adjustment and compilation of matter, consequences, until other conspirations aggregate to as men, throughout the world of boasted civilization, determine a revulsion in the inclination of the moment. have been blindly taught. The astral center, or star of centripetal limita The forms of the incubated are but the modified ad tion, (nucleus of the concurrent fluxions of the cosmic justments of curvilinear and rectilinear motions and unity, and baptismal font of all generative procedure modes; or, as applied to man, he is the cell doubled as pertaining to external Nature,) is essentially the upon itself, and the laws of mental and organic life corre pivot and crucible of transmutation. It is related to spond, in him, to the laws of motion and arrangement the greatest circumference as the central limit of ener in the functions and emplacements of the physical cos getic impulse. Its circumference marks and limits the The Flaming Sword 263 correlate extreme of material existence, and center and a distinct system of stellar spheres and groupings or circumference define the cosmic physical form. constellations, the three arranged as 60 many distinct If center and circumference are related as we have stories or planes of stellar existence, emplacement, and portrayed, then the focal point is in touch with every motion. Within the three atmospheres is a distinct or atom of matter; receives the impress of every phase and discrete degree of great complexity, at the center of modification of form; vibrates responsively to every which the radiation and convergences of spirit-sub phenomenon, and, in the position of thecamera obscura, stance take the form of a wondertul tabernacle, covered photographs for reproduction the creation to which it with a multicolored and variegated manifestation of owes its perpetuity, and which it again depends upon light. The cubical and spherical proportions of the for recreation . universe are so marvelously fashioned here, from the The physical universe as occupying space, circum photoic essences outflowing and inflowing, as to blend scribed by its center and circumference, is a great egg or the straight and curved lines of geometrization into the ovum. That part of it so far denominated by the term formulate perfection of unity. physical, includes all that which belongs to natural life From all that has been annunciated of the Cos of every kind and phase. We have employed the term mogony of the Koreshan System, the proposition must physical in a restricted sense, as pertaining to that have become so well defined in the minds of interested which is usually termed inorganic. Exclusive of organic investigators, that the alchemico-organic world (uni life, and in this we include vegetable, animal, and verse) is a complex formulation in which form and func human life, are the solar, stellar, planetary, lunar, and tion are coordinate and coequivalent factors, and that terrestrial domains, comprised of their mineral and this relationship of form and function also comprises a metallic substances, with concomitant "energies." perpetual structure so perfectly adapted in its parts These, as a complexion, are integumented by their and offices as to render it a self-sustaining cosmogonic metallic rind, and embodied, organically, in the forms whole. From this view of the case it will be understood which aggregatively comprise a great galvano-alchem- that there is no such thing as creation in the sense ical cell, the positive pole or extremity being the center, usually designated, described, and believed. the negative pole, the circumference or rind of the cell; We have already, in a detached and fragmentary the space being interfilled with atmospheres of one way, defined in outline thegeneral form of the alchemicoseries, and spheres of aggregative "energies" of other organic complexity, called the universe, and have series. shown that in the coordination of form and function it It is this cell, not inclusive of the organic vegetable, comprises a great self-mobilizing dynamo, the creations animal, and human life within it, that we have included of which are merely recreations, or perpetual timic in the name physical universe. Henceforth, however, revivals of eelf-creation, and that the wear and tear of to the part of the great physical or natural integralism the institution are but the counterbalancing of its con above defined, we shall give the title or name,alchemico- structive powers; in other words, the disintegrative organic. We are compelled to regard it as an organic processes are adequate to, and only meet the emer structure because, though not endowed with the same gencies of, constructive order. degree or quality of life that actuates the biosmic or The universe, as an alchemico-organic dynamo, is a vito-organic (this includes vegetable, insect, animal, perpetual, self-reconstructing, and self-sustaining form human, etc.), it still is organized into form, and, act and order. Its general form is that of the perfect egg uated by law and manifesting phenomena, is correspon- or shell, with its central vitellus at or near the center of dentially the product of voluntary and involuntary the sphere. In the direction of the celestial perspective, mental expression. This division of the integralism, at night, the constellations in the heavens meet the denominated alchemico-organic, in contradistinction to vision, and the critical and honest observer can but the organo-vital, is the outermost and last product of note the systematic order in the arrangement of the mental spirit, and grows from the activity of mind as stellar groups as their natural demarkations appear. the bark of a tree is deposited through the activities of The visible system of stellar groupings is divided the vital essences actuating its life. into polar hemispheres by the ecliptic, defined as the The first dimension of space embraced within the median line of a series of constellations called the two extremes, namely, the central star, or astral center, Zodiac; a term signifying the cycle of God's animal life. and the surface of the earth as the circumference of the This circle is composed of twelve groups, the lineof their outer atmosphere, contains not only the three atmos orbit circumscribing an axis oblique to the polar axis pheres defined,—the first, our common air, composed of the earth, of about 23J4 degrees; hence the ecliptic chiefly of nitrogen (nitre former) and oxygen (acid sustains a relation to the equatorial circle of 23% former); the second, hydrogen (water former); the third, degrees. This is called the obliquity of the ecliptic. aboron,—but a solar atmosphereor solar realm around The Zodiac marks the sun's annual path through which the three atmospheres are posited as environ the heavens. According to the present system of ments. On the border of these three atmospheres are astronomy it is the apparent path of the sun, but the three suns, or solar poles, as three projections of the real orbit of the earth. The earth, which is a shell, (the central and, to us, invisible sun. concave surface being inhabited,) is practically staThe three distinct atmospheres contain within each, tioaary, while the stars move in their relatively fixed 264 The Flaming Sword orbits within the shell; they beiDg focal points of If chaos in its domain were not an eternal accompani "energy." At the vernal and the autumnal equinox ment of cosmos or order, the universe could have no ex the sun is on the line of the equator. At either of these istence; for the very principle of activity implies the seasons the Zodiacal circle in the heavens is over a cor wearing out (by friction) of the forms of order wherever responding belt on the surface of the earth, a terrestrialthey exist. Zodiac marked by corresponding divisions. The alchemico-organic cosmos has its sphere of The divisions in the heavens are called constella light and its coordinate sphere of darkness; its time of tions, and are named in their order from Aries, the light in certain places, and its times of darkness in the bead of the circle, to Pisces, the foot or extremity. The same places; it also has its focal point of light and its divisions on the earth are called signs, and are named focal point of darkness. These two focal points so ap in their order; the signs bearing the same names in the proximate each other as to comprise a light and a dark same order as the constellations. While at one time star center—two stellar nuclei which revolve around during the year the belt in the heavens is over the belt each other, related to a central axis. This pertains ex on the earth, any special point of the celestial belt is clusively to the alchemico-organic (physical) cosmos. not exactly at the same point on the terrestrial belt One of these stellar points is the constant point of that it was at the same time the year preceding; the order, whence is derived pure light and pure heat; the difference being fifty seconds of a degree every year. It other point is that from whence are derived darkness is claimed that this movement of the equator on the and cold and disorder. Disorder at its point and state ecliptic—called the precession of the equinox—was dis of activity is as constant as the point and state of covered by Hipparchus, about two hundred and twenty- order; therefore the creator and the destroyer are fun five years B. C. It would require about 25,816 years damental factors, if not mental attributes, of being it for any given sign to pass through the entire ecliptic, self; and these two factors may be denominated, the were there no retarding or accelerating influence to one eternal, the other, from everlasting to everlasting. modify the movement. When in the activity of any sphere of operation {To be continued.) there are wearing out and waste from that sphere, there is a precipitation or fall into the underlying sphere; such precipitation belongs to the law and op The Brotherhood of the New Order eration of gravity, coordinate with which there are also [From the Writings of Korish.] the law and operation of levity. We therefore must ad ALL "REFORMERS" agree upon the desirability of mit the existence of ascending and descending principles some social arrangement by which the principles and forms: and this is true of every sphere, every do of equity and justice may be made to apply to all hu main, and every phase of activity in life and death. It man affairs. With a certain class there is a prevalent is thus that we may observe, if we will, the two direc conception that God is our common Father, aud there tions of all things, not only in physics, but also in is necessarily a common and universal brotherhood, metaphysics; and when we consider the operation of hence the hackneyed phrase; "the Fatherhood of God the law of correspondential analogy, we may readily and the brotherhood of man." In this general concep observe the corresponding ascent and descent of every tion of the relation of humanity to the Cause and vidual of the human race. Source of its being, the human mind—like a great pen It does not require a very profound reasoner to dulum—oscillates from the one extreme to the other of understand the fact that thousands of the race are de its vibration from the central point of gravity. scending, under the influence of mental darkness and The Christian church has departed from the genu evil, to the realm of hades, while others (under the ine principles of primitive Christianity, and through its guidance and guardianship of the center of mental light deviation from, and perversion of, the principles, pre and heat, love) are ascending toward the Fathercepts, and practices of Christian charity and fellowship, Mother of the divine and eternal life. These latter com has brought the doctrines of the Lord Christ into disre prise a brotherhood when the state of their perfection pute with many, and the mental pendulum swings as is attained, and they come into a knowledge of their far in one direction as it was out of norm in the other! relations of fellowship, and they have a Father-Mother, In our study of the general character of man, in the the Lord God. The very laws of being compel us to relation of that character to the Source of being, we distinguish between those who may comprise a brother must explore man as we would explore any other phase hood aud a fellowship of organic unity, and such as and domain of universal activity. It is only upon the are under the domain and influence of fallacy and evil, basis of the principles of correspondential analogy and cannot, under any consideration, influence, or that we may acquire any true knowledge of socialistic power, attain to order and brotherhood. function. At the present time the visible humanity is In the development of the ascending forms of life, in a state of universal chaos; hence there are no cosmic there is an ultimate attainment to the perfection of a functions operative, only so far as this chaos is one of general order. This order comprises sub-orders, genera, the factors in the progress and function of the universal and species, the degrees of which are so defined that cosmos, for the reason that cosmos and chaos are anti there can be no encroachment of one sphere upon an thetical coordinates in the universal sphere of activity. other, nor of one member upon another, any more than Th© Flaming Sword 265 the constellations in the alchemico-orgauic cosmos cau leading to criminality and bankruptcy, is the universal encroach upon one another. In this state and stage of and inordinate display of wares, particularly in the development every member of the order has the laws line of the ornamental, through which the principle of of the universe written in the heart; the laws of order competism seduces the shop-goer. "The pride of the are understood, and the love of order governs the entire eye" is the channel through which this species of prof fellowship, so that any written code outside of that ligacy aborts the true design of commercial exchange. which is written in the heart is non-essential. Genuine and economical use, that which accrues This condition, with its quality of life, has its reflex from love to the neighbor, provides (in the adaptation of in the perversions of truth in what is called anarchy; use to legitimate ends) the creation of supply adequate for it is an absolutely eternal law, that every thing and to, and not beyond, the essential demand with a corre quality in the universe has its opposite, aud every sponding and distributed ornamentation. By a distrib plane of cosmos has its antithetical chaos. Anarchy, uted ornamentation, we mean that equitable diversifi or that which is called anarchy, is but the reflex of cation of the beautiful which lends universal charm, truth and good as they obtain in the order of the Sons culture, and enjoyment. of God. Every Son of God is a law unto himself; he is Thousands are deprived of the beautiful, whose therefore not an anarchist, but the archist, because he tastes and inclinations are exquisite; while many who is a law unto himself, (the law being written in the are dull, are constantly surfeited in the luxuriation of heart,) and he requires no law outside of himself to superabundance. True industry, or the genuine adap guide his life. Change the life of the individuals first, tation of use to ends, would preclude the possibility of and the environment will be made to conform to the a great surplus of production. quality of the mass. But then, you say, how can the laborer be supplied The environment of Christendom during the uni with work? To supply with work is not the great de versal sway of Catholicism was the power of the Roman mand of the age. Less work and a proper distribution Catholic church, with its hell and purgatory, having of the proceeds of industry, is the crying need of the their keys in the hands of the papal hierarchy. The times. Diminish the hours of industrial use to the mini growth of the liberty of thought, and the breaking mum; to that point where labor becomes a recreation. away from the restraints of the church of Rome, This might mean a reduction to four hours a day. To changed the environment. The change came in the meet the requirement of public demand for employment, miari first, and the change of mind changed the en treble the working force, and make industry the criter vironment. This is according to the law of progress. ion for distribution. Labor-saving inventions should be Do away with law and order, even though the law be multiplied, and the advantages derived should always arbitrary, and let loose the fiends of chaos under the accrue to the domain of industry. conviction that if we change the environment we will The regulation of commerce and industry, to insure improve conditions, and We would precipitate among a proper administration of economy, must and will be men the activities of the most consummate hell and dis national; and that which now is denominated politics, order. The anarchy of today is but the reflex of the and conducted by rogues and demagogues, will be regu heavenly Archy. lated to the people, the masses of which will have be While the heart of man is in the chaotic state and come cultured into an adequate knowledge of their stage of its being, worldly governments must and rights, and have learned the process of national admin will obtain. All worldly governments are degenerate istration. departures from the original divine kingdom in the <*» Military Discipline Necessary earth. They will continue until the new kingdom of heaven is established in the earth, when they will be In our work of formulating an orgauic unity, we dissipated by the power of God's rulership. Then will have nothing less in view than the general unification be fulfilled the prediction: the old heavens and the of industry under an equitably adjusted system of pro old earth shall pass away, and there will be new gressive order, in the application of industrial skill to heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous production. This is to be wrought through our in ness. The new heavens and new earth will be the new dustrial school system, applied to every branch and church and the new state, the re-marriage of God and phase of artistic, literary, and mechanical use. The man. system necessarily provides for the ownership of its railroad, telegraph, telephone, postal, and other service. Basis of Individual and National Existence In order to insure uniformity and alacrity in re [Kohksh in Plowshare and Pruning Book, June 1, 1891. J sponse to the general aud specific directions of the ¥T ought to be one of the first offices of education to order, there is to be instituted military discipline, which is to be extended to both sexes, and to be made uni impress upon the mind of the world, the fact that versal.—"In the Mielstrom of Commercial Prostitu industry does not imply drudgery. To insure to the tion,'' by Koresh, in Flaming Sword, May 31, 1901. people the advantages of the judicious performance of uses, their orderly ministration should constitute an One of the factors of theocrasis in the volume of essential, if not the most essential, factor in economics. power flowing into the prophetic Center, from the con One of the prostitutions of industry and trade, served potency of mental purification.—Koresh. A T^e Indicia of Human Progress <S€«2€«3€€«£>
THE SEX CRUSADE astically or domestically. These archives exist, and The Lard's 'Way Is the Best ana Only are being multiplied for such true followers of Jesus as "Way For the Prevention of Race Suicide are willing to take steps for the scientific keeping of his TiHE multiplicity of efforts now being made to in- commandments to do them, and so become the prom I duce society to take up the study of sex hygiene ised Saviors upon Mt. Zion: the place where the law is 11111 has increased rapidly. Pearson's Magazine for truly honored as the covenant of life, the source of a Sept., in an article by Dr. Howard, certainly true religion, retying pr uniting, i. e., identifying man furnishes reasons enough for all thinking people to be with God and God with man. come thoroughly investigative for a knowledge of the The falling away of the church and the revelation of wisest way to bring to an end the ever-increasing cor itself as the "man of sin," now calling evil, good, and ruption of the human mind and body. There is always good, evil, have about accomplished their purpose of a best way out of a difficulty, and sometimes the best preparing this world to eat of the fruit of the tree of way is the only way. The best way for the Christian the knowledge of good and evil. Those ripe to the church to advocate is that defined by its Founder. He point of ability to discriminate will become as Gods, made short work of prescribing for the attainment of and cease to do evil and learn to do well. So, walking the incorruptibility and immortality of the human with God, like Enoch of old, they will cease to be exist body; the prescription never has been and never will be ent because of absorption into the Deific state of spirits. popular with the great multitude. We have reached the No true Christian can be an endorser of the pres time, however, according to Scripture chronology, for it ent divorced state of state and church, nor of the now to become the one sovereign remedy for all the ills of a ruling financial system, providing profits unearned by God-begotten Christian. This variety of Christian is industry; nor of the sex relations of a marital order, rare in the presence of the nominal strength of modern whose covenant is a pattern of the curse pronounced as Christendom. Those really of it may not be what are the just due of the man fallen from the biune image and called members of any Christian sect whatever, but likeness of Deity, which is the portion of the born Son they surely exist, and are bound to become society's of God. saviors within a relatively brief period. While not The rights of the private family, as now existing, necessarily members of any sect of modern Christen are all out of harmony with the welfare of a purely dom, when found they will not sit in the seat of the Christian community, in which the claims of the Fatherscornful when the name of the Lord Jesus is men Mother Deity must ever rank first, and be expressed in tioned, as that of the greatest of all physicians; and his love to the neighbor as the friend of God. The deepestremedy for race suicide will be reckoned by them as the dyed iniquity of society, at present, is its ignoring of one truly rational. the keys of knowledge offered it by their God-ordained This cult of Christianity will accede to the propo possessor. This is the long foretold and promised sition to cease prolification by degeneration alto Prophet of the second coming of the Lord Jesus in the gether, and will devote their sum total of human clouds of heaven. The Lord canuot come till this energies to the application of the now well-developed Prophet is heard and heeded. He must be recognized science of regeneration, to all the uses of natural life- by the provably scientific nature of his message, and his The Lord and his Apostles were united in teaching that most clearly defined Biblical credentials. He must, chaste celibacy was the stepping-stone to immortality moreover, be recognized as the once indwelling Fatherand eternal life. Those having the hope of this attain Mother with whom the Lord Jesu8,as the Son and Holy ment were to reach, in the mortal body, the state of Seed of Deity, was heard to commune; Elias, the neither marrying nor giving in marriage, and of being prophet or teacher of the law to all who learn to do as the angels. These angels are represented in the Mes the commandments. In this supremely great character sianic Messengers, who appear as men in the sphere of must the love of humanity become focalized as unto time to restore humanity's true progressives to the the Lord. power of the position of "stand-patters" on the Lord's The Lord declared we should know him no more own platform of righteousness, the law of Moses pre after the flesh, but in the elect and manifest Overcomer, sented in the platform due the age they inaugurate. who should stand as an Ensign to the Gentiles; the Sign • A Messenger of the law of the new covenant relation of Jonas the prophet. He, as the High Priest of the order of man to his Maker, appeared in due season for the of Levi, was to lead his flock, the God-begotten elect Aquarian era. He committed to the few he found ripe constituting his true Ecclesia, into conjunctive unity to receive his cult, the archives of the coming kingdom (through the quickening influence of his spirit) with the of righteousness. In their totality they form a system heavenly order of Melchizedek. This order has power to of Universology so comprehensive as to provide scien go in and out by the new and living way, opened up by tific instruction in all departments of organized society, the Master, the Lord Jesus Christ. This order having united in a University System industrially and ecclesi absorbed those who walk with God in the "doing of The Flaming Sword 267 the commandments" instituted by the Lord Jesus, will "Socialism the Handmaid of Anarchy" re-appear in due season as the Sons of God, without re ¥N July 1897 Kokesh wrote: "The disease of social birth through the avenue of the descending flesh. ism is spreading among the mid die classes. We say It is for the women of this age to become "the disease, because we know what we say, when we declare daughters of Joseph," and to herald this doctrine of that the present form of socialism is but the precursor the Church Triumphant in earth, for the prevention of of the day of vengeance now at hand. * We are not race suicide through sexual excess prolification of de in favor of the masses against the classes." He also generates of every conceivable variety. A great White declared: "The powers of fallacy and evil prey upon Horse Army needs to be formed for the promotion of the organic constitution, and not even the most ardent chastity and celibacy; the conservation of life forces to socialist expects human nature to be changed by social this end. Unless properly polarized they will be dissi ism." Kokesh regarded socialism as "the handmaid pated a.s zeal not according to knowledge. Properly of anarchy." polarized in the coufession of the Lord as the spirit of The disease of socialism is certainly spreading, and truth in his prophets, they mean the salvation of the it is becoming more pronouncedly hydra-headed. The race from inevitable ruin. Hon. Stitt Wilson, Professor Geo. Herron, and other That the supposedly most progressive race is on representatives of different branches, are not demon the high road to sex ruin, is made evident in the article strating as a primary group, in the practice of what in Pearson's, and in the following from the Chicago they advocate, any of the values of their theories; i. e., Tribune of August 21: so far as we have been able to learn. Neither do they recognize the necessity of a most radical change of mind "Blame for immorality among young girls of Wisconsin was placed principally on their parents by Dr. C. A. Harper, and heart, as essential to their being co-workers with Secretary of the state board of health, in testifying before the God in the "making of all things new," from basic special legislative vice committee at its first session here today. premise up. "Lack of surveillance by chaperons, social ambitions of The knowledge of the new sociology, if its founda parents, late hours, suggestive dances, immodest dresses, auto tion is to be steadfast and immovable as the Rock mobile rides, telephones, stimulating food and drink, and organ ordained to lay it in the Messianic Name, must rest izations of boys to ostracize girls from society who refuse to upon a demonstrable premise, to which all rational submit to their will, are same of the principal causes of the minds can accede. The almighty Creator of this uni social evil among the better class of citizens of Wisconsin, said verse has a way of not leaving himself, in the critical Dr. Harper. Remedies suggested by him, were stricter watch by periods of its history, without a faithful witness to the parents, less suggestive clothes, wholesome food, early retiring all-comprehensive truth of all things. Having reached hours, and elimination of the automobile and telephone from the end of the Piscatorial era, familiarly known as the the use of the young women. " Christian, He has met the need of the present time by "For years small merchants in certain sections of New York supplying an equipment for the working out from have been paying tribute regularly to organized.gangs. They were taxed by these gangsters according to their earnings, impending chaos, of a social salvation worth while. which were thoroughly ascertained by the underworld characters. The only trouble with it is, it is so radical that even If a man refused to be bled by the gang, he was promptly made those who intellectually see its value, want to try it out an example of. If he had horses, they were poisoned. If not, by meeting its requirements. This meeting its require his wife and children were annoyed and threatened until no ments is entering a fire as hot as the one which Shadplace on earth seemed safe for them. rach, Meschac, and Abednego entered. It really won't "A few merchants who were bolder than the rest of their hurt them any more when once in, than the one referred clan, threatened to expose the gangs to the police. Their threats to did its masters of the situation, if the angel of the were answered with murder. In cold blood the gangsters slew Lord's presence be with them. The angel of the Lord these rebels among their victims. Such terror have the desper can bring men through all right, if they will just consent adoes spread among the people in these districts in New York, to have their tares burned out of them in his name, and that no one dared to testify against them, so that when a mem for the love of his humanity. ber of such a gang fell into the clutches of the police he had to These tares are the loves of the competitive system, be set free, because there was no one to prosecute him. beginning with money that can make money; private "According to dispatches from New York, the merchants ownership of the utilities of universal industry; an in the gang-ruled districts have now united into a strong organ unknown and unknowable god without body or parts, ization, and propose to war upon these blackmailers and mur derers. or a three-headed one, two of whom are really headless; the whole list of the debasing lusts of the flesh; pri "The boy problem too is at the bottom of the girl problem. The boy gangster is often also a pander, a white slaver. Black marily, male dominion of the sex functions of woman mail is only one of his sources of revenue. kind, etc., too numerous to mention. "The weeding out of gangs and gangsters must begin with It takes a truly wonderful love of God and his constructive training of the boy. The boy problem is the next variety of humanity to get together, for the burning overshadowing problem of our cities. Not alone the forces en out of all these tares, in crucible groups. The crucibles gaged in fighting for law and order, but the educators, the offi have need of nothing short of a divine Alchemist, a cial bringers-up of our boys, as well as parents, will do well to knowable and known God to supervise the burning. prepare to meet this problem." The elements have to keep steadily in mind that their 268 The Flaming Sword tares are not burned until they quite reflect the Master's thirty papers already announced, only three refer to face to each other. They will do it when made so har material subjects, while twenty-seven deal with psychol monious that they can pull together on any line of his ogy. This suggests that physicians and psycholo clear indicating. gists are confining their efforts mainly to the discovery When they know their Master as the epitome of the of mental processes. It seems lamentable that men universe, "the many made in one," with a right use, a should grope for knowledge on the wrong road, when bright and happy use, and a right place for everything it is so get-at-able on the right. Men want immortal in it, they will be somewhat like him. They will study ity secured to them without the difficulties of its attain the laws of order in the universe and the anatomy of ment. The mastery of the forces of life and death, ena man, to avoid trespassing on the visible rights of bling man to prevent a break in the continuity of his others, and make a way for the liberty of the Sons of consciousness, in passing from the natural to the spirit God for themselves. ual degree of his being, is the God-Man's pre-eminent The universe is quite as broad as it is long. The prerogative, and is shared with men in process of being long-faced variety of human jailers of the other fellows, created in his own image and likeness, only as they come has made it a straight-jacket place full of convict labor into mental conjunctive unity with the law-abiding for the others. The disposition to do this, now so uni spirit of his being. versally dominant, is going to produce anarchy, and God, as the Lord, the Word made flesh, to dwell anarchy will result in the dissolution of the old order of among us, has declared the law of his immortal being; society to chaos. This is the dust out of which the his power to "go in and out" of life in the flesh by a Almighty will construct that social order called Adam. new and living way, without that break in the continu This social order was known as that of Melchizedek, of ity of consciousness which is the portion of the mortal which Jehovah was the High Priest. spirit, as well as of body, in the children of the disobedi This order provided for its eternity of life, and that ent to the law of God's being. of the earth, the universe, its environment. Unity with Sir Oliver Lodge and his fellow mortals, who claim this order is what the truly begotten of the Lord Jesus a desire to know the truth, had better return to the sci (its holy Seed) aspire to. He begat in a ripe portion ence of the Mosaic law, which Jesus the Christ claimed of humanity the living hope of becoming the Sons of was the law of immortality and eternal life. The Lord the living God. These begotten were to grow in knowl Jesus did not communicate the natural science of that edge (genuine) and maturity of Christian character till law, because the world he came to vitalize was not the doing of the commandments, the law of the Lord, ready to receive it. His Disciples received what they would become the most preferred of all delights. were ready to bear, /. e., its philosophy by inspiration. Right doing must be according to a system of This impulsed them to strive to enter in at the straight knowledge relating to all things. The track must be gate and narrow way leading unto life; first spiritually, cleared of all fallacies and evils, provably such, ere man as a preparation for receptivity to the natural rational can run the race and reach the goal, with the crown of science of how to obey the law, in scientifically organ life, that is life indeed, as its prize. The Elijah, the ized social relations for the redemption of the body,— Prophet of this age, has done this work in its funda social and individual. mentals. It is for those who willliear his voice, accept Now that investigation in all domains of knowl him as their all-seeing eye, to walk in the light furnished edge, both those falsely and truly so called, is beeoming by it, and become children of the great Father of more and more active, we know that thousands, yea, Lights, who lighted the Lord Jesus in his obedience to hundreds of thousands, are to learn the truth and ap the law of love, and will light all who truly believe in ply it to all the uses of life. They will thus attain the his Name. immortal state; the mastery of all mental and physical forces, and go out of the mortal body deathless, and The Search for Immortality appear and disappear at will, as did the Lord Jesus. 2k T a meeting of the British Association in Birming These thousands and hundreds of thousands are to be ham this month, Sir Oliver Lodge is to address come known by their fruits; their practical living be the assembly on "The Saquel to Life." The Chicago coming, in scientific harmony with the knowledge of tthe Tribune's announcement states that the center of his truth, the science of the Decalogue given by Moses. system is, that sciences should take into account spirit The first commandment of this law requires a dis as well as matter; and he will contend that the contin tinct science of the Godhead, so distinct that he, as uity of life is the new essential to modern science; this as a person, may be loved because known, in relation to an argument in favor of immortality. He will contend all that is attributable to him as origin and destiny, that mass and energy are the same things in different as the seed-man of the universe, its Alpha and Omega, forms, and will cling, like Faraday, to the idea of a having a nomenclature distinctly announced by the law, universal medium pervading all space, through which the prophets, and priests by himself elected to serve as the energies of light, heat, electricity, gravity, and the his tent and his tabernacles. phenomena of mass, are enabled to act and become It is absurd for men having derived personality to manifest. deny the Lord his own. It is absurd for succeeding The reports of the association say that of the generations of men to persistently seek what no one
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