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By Koresh — Part X.
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been traversing Virgo. As Aries reaches the extremity &/>a Koreshan System of Cosmogony of Pisces, and the fruitage of prolification matures, By KORESH Libra reaches the extremity of Virgo, the ultimates of PART X. the power of virginity. Libra, then, is in the hand of Virgo, aud justice and judgment culminate in the force ¥T MAY BE asked, if there are twelve constellations of virginity, to counterbalance excessive prolification; and twelve signs, why do astronomers employ the hence the doctrine of celibacy as the power of equitable term the sign, when referring to the precessional move adjustment and regulation of the commercial energy. ment? It is because the first sign (Aries) is the one de The sign Libra, in passing out of the constellation fined as the sign, this being the head of the cycle. Dur Virgo, is passing into the head of Leo. The Lion signi ing the last dispensation the sign ArieshaB been passing, fies the power of truth in ultimates, and, in any given by what is denominated the precessional movement, cycle, the power of the truth in which the cycle termi through the constellation Pisces; or employing English, nates. In this cycle we are culminating Aries and Libra the sign Bam has beenmovingthroughtheconstellation of the signs in relation to Pisces and Virgo of the con Fishes. Bam is the symbol of the begetting principle stellations, hence the power of truth in ultimates as and love, and the constellation Fishes is the proliflcat- pertaining to the counterbalancing relations of the ing constellation. prolific and virginal coordinates of life. Taking the cycleof the Zodiac and drawing six axial Libra is in the hand of Virgo, and the hand of Virgo lines, we will discover six pairs of coordinate constella is the hand of the Lion. As Libra enters Leo, Aries, the tions; Aries and Libra comprising the two poles of the impregnatoror begetter, passes into Aquarius, the coor first axis. In order to comprehend the significance of dinate of Leo. What do these relations of the signs and these coordinates, it is well for the reader to become constellations portend? They are not only indices of familiar with the language of symbolism, so far as the termination of the age, but portray the character symbolism pertains to the distinctive qualities of each of the changes to occur, and the qualities of potency to constellation. The prime element of Aries or Bam is actuate the impending revolution. the love of begetting; and the prime element of Libra, An Illusion Cannot Prove a Theorythe opposite pole of the Aro-Libral axis, and therefore Let a man stand upon the tower of the Auditorium the coordinate of Aries, or the begetting principle, in Chicago and look over Lake Michigan, to what is implies the science, and hence the power of regulating called the horizon, he discovers that the point where the begetting desire so as to conserve the begetting the sky and lake seem to meet is on a level with the eye, potency and adapt it to its highest and best uses. and that, therefore, the line over which he views the And further, to comprehend the full purport and horizon is a horizontal line. The cosine of this line is an importance of the bearings of the Zodiacal axes and extended chord, touching theopposite horizon point. A poles to the corresponding qualities in human life, it is line extended from the point of vision to the ground com of the utmost importance that there be acquired a prises the radius vector, and the surface of the earth, general conception, at least, of a celestial and terrestrial from horizon to horizon, constitutes an arc describing corresponding anthropostic Zodiac, in which there are the bottom of a dish—the concavity of the earth. the corresponding divisions of constellations and signs, The first objection to this definition of the earth's governed by corresponding movements. It must be contour is urged from the appearance of a distant remembered that the twelve constellations and signs object, as, for instance, a ship at sea as it recedes from (the twenty-four elders) do not comprise all the constel or approaches view. As the ship recedes from view in lations of the heavens, nor are all the signs on the surface putting out to sea, the hull of the ship is the first to of the earth. They merely comprise the two coordinate disappear. It is maintained that this illusion proves governing belts, the extra Zodiacal constellations being the theory of the convexity of the earth, a theory upon subsidiary and subordinate. As the signs and constel which is founded the entire Copernican fallacy. lations change their relations toeach other fifty seconds The first question to settle in the consideration of of a degree every year, any given sign passes through the subject, from the basis of argumentation, is the a constellation in a period of about two thousand years. apparent depression of what is called, either truthfully * There are two movements of the constellations or falsely, the horizontal line. Suspend a plumb-line and signs; namely, an esoteric and exoteric. In the twenty feet, and from the vertical point describe a hori esoteric movement the sign Aries, for instauce, has been zontal line. This line is at right angles to the plumbpassing through the constellation Pisces from Aquarius line or perpendicular, aud its extremity touches the • [Note—This article was written in May of 1892, consequently horizon. The ordinary picture or diagram given in the the relation of the signs and constellations has changed since then.] school-room to impress upon the juvenile mind the 294 The Flaming Sword fallacy of the convexity of the earth, is, first a circle, no matter at what altitude the observation is made, designed to indicate its rotundity and convex surface; the horizon is on a level with the eye. This statement related to this is a horizontal line, at the extremities of is denied by the physicist and so called critical objector, which are a man and a ship's mast: the man is at one on the ground that the theodolite or transit instrument end of the horizontal, (not at right angles to thehorizon- indicates to the contrary; for an observation taken tal, but oblique to it,) at the other end of the horizontal through the transit instrument pictures the horizontal is the mast, also oblique to it. hair-line, placed across the focus of the instrument, on The position taken by Koreshanity is as follows: the sky, a little above the water-line at the horizon. First, the earth curves eight inches to the mile, con- Let the critical observer and honest student define cavely, not convexly. Second, aline of vision extend a track on a level surface, to the earth's vanishing ing from the visual point to the horizon is not a point of the horizon, and, at the subjective terminus or straight one, but one curvilineating slightly upward plane of observation, elevate a pole fifty feet, from the and striking the point called the horizon a little above top of which a line is extended (as a telegraph wire) for the exact horizontal direction. Third, this curvilinea- some miles. Let the point of observation, or the visual tion of vision is caused by the deviation of the visual point, be located twenty-five feet above the earth, or substance, deflected through the resistance of the gravic half-way between the earth and the top of the pole. "energy." Fourth, there are two laws governing the The line on the earth will appear to converge upward visual deception of convexity; namely, visual curvilinea- toward the wire, and the wire to converge downward tion and geolinear foreshortening. The horizontal line toward the track, and at the vanishing point the two has the appearanceof a slight depression in perspective. lines will appear to meet. Hang the transit instrument Fifth, the depression is apparent, not real. Its cause is, to the line leveled to it, as the instrument would be first, the simple one of perspective or geolinear fore leveled to the surface of the earth in surveying, with the shortening. longitudinal axis of the instrument sustaining the same Suppose a visual line from an altitude of five hun relation to the line that it would, in surveying, to the dred feet to meet the horizon; we will urge this supposi surface of the earth, and look through it; the hair-line tion from the conception of a concave instead of a con in the focus of the instrument would cross the horizon vex surface, the horizon point being on a level with the below instead of above the horizontal line. altitude of the visual point, or point from which the Look through the instrument, along the parallel of ascension is taken. The natural apparent construction the line from which it is suspended, the distance of ten of the geolinear surface would drop the perspective of rods, to the end of a line suspended, perpendicularly, horizontal, and give it the appearance of being slightly far enough to level with the horizontal hair-line in the descending instead of horizontal, which it really is. focus of the instrument. We may suppose the instru We are in receipt of a sincere inquiry, by mail, con ment to hang ten inches from the horizontal line, and cerning our claim that the surface of the earth upon the suspended perpendicular line to suspend far enough which (or in which) we live, is a concavity instead of a for the lower end to meet the visual line at the level of convexity. The primary element of the premise upon the hair-line. At ten rods farther distant a suspended which we predicate the Cellular Cosmogony, or the Ko- line, to hang pendant enough to appear on a level with reshan system of astronomic formula, is the relation of the first suspended line, would necessarily be longer the horizontal to the perpendicular, as comprising the than the line at the distance of ten rods. Now, would trigonometric and mathematical root of its evolution. this prove that the extended wire or line curved upward? A visual line extended from the vertical point of a Let us take another relation of the same illustra perpendicular to the vanishing point of the earth's tion. Extend two railroad tracks perfectly straight for surface, exhibits two lines at right angles—the perpen a long distance, and perfectly parallel. Stand half-way dicular or plumb-line, and the horizontal. The cosine between the two, and they will appear to converge of the horizontal visual line completes the chord, the equally toward a point. This does not prove that the two extremities of which are the two horizon points or two tracks diverge from each other beyond the point at two points of vanishing distance. The perpendicular is which they appear to meet. Place a transit instrument the radius vector, and the arc of the chord is the con ten inches from one of the tracks, in a parallel attitude cavity of the earth. to the track, or so that the longitudinal axis of the If the earth were convex, any point on the surface instrument sustains the same relation to the track that would be the highest point, and a line drawn from an it would to the surface of the earth in surveying. Two elevated position to the vanishing point or horizon rods from this, a projection from the track must be would not be horizontal; the point at which it touched more than ten inches long to be seen on a parallel with the earth would not be the horizon, and the line called the hair-line across the focus of the instrument, and a the horizontal would sustain an obliquity to the perpen projection double the distance from the instrument, or dicular. A horizontal line is one drawn at right angles twenty rods away, would have to be longer than the to the perpendicular. If one stands on an elevation first, and the third at three times the distance must be above the sea level and looks over the water surface to longer than the second. Would this prove that the the horizon, or to that point where the sky and water track curved away from the other one because it seem to meet, the vision is over a horizontal line; and appeared to do so, as observed through the instrument? The Flaming Sword 295 Men jump at conclusions from appearances, and These constitute the rind or outer crust, and act as so upon these conclusions predicate fallacious theories, many great reflectors and refractors of the "forces." call them scientific, and teach them as facts. Succeed The direct reflection of heat is cold; the direct reflec ing generations drop them, and present new hypotheses tion of light is darkness; the direct reflection of gravity to their contemporaries and theirchildren. The theories is levity. We have, therefore, three "forces—" cold, of modern, so called science are too preposterous for darkness, and levity, which are just as much substance scarcely a notice, but that the masses have been taught as the three opposite "ones." At the points of change, them from childhood, and believe them. We do not are the poles of these "forces." We emphasize the word deny the fact that there is an apparent depression of direct, because indirect reflection partakes less of the the horizontal line, and that the transit instrument nature of the opposite character, as it is less direct or seems to indicate a real depression. The apparent more indirect. These reflex "forces" flow back to the depression isdue to foreshortening and not to convexity. center as cold, darkness, and levity. The contrary The visual point, or the point from which the visual flows move toward the sun in circular strata, takiug impression is determined, is at the focus projection, as their courses according to order between the qualities far in front of the lens of the eye as the convexity of the of the outflowing "forces." lens locates it. It is not the same in every eye, because To gain something of an idea of these return flows, the lenses of different eyes vary. The visual point when let us take the dark "force." In the examination of a telescope is employed, is a projection of the focus spectra there will be noticed the dark lines, that have beyond the objective end of the instrument, and the been termed Fraunhofer's lines. In gravic analysis focal axis is necessarily slightly oblique to the apparent corresponding levic lines will be seen; and in heat analy horizontal line. sis corresponding cold lines will be observed. These Look over a prairie, to the horizon, from an eleva return flows are positive to the sun, but negative to the tion of tenor fifteen feet. Thefirst mileof the landscape eye. Those outflowing from the sun are negative to " makes a long picture upon~the retina of the eye; the the sun, but positive to the eye. Thus the light is second mile, a shorter one, the third, still shorter, and apparent, while the darkness is unapparent to the eye. the fourth would make no picture. This is the vanish As these "forces" flow into the sun they move ing point. The landscape appears to drop out of sight. toward its center into a vortex which, at the center, A line drawn from the subjective visual point to the becomes so rapid that all the "forces" commingle in a vanishing point will appear to be depressed in propor homogeneous fusion. The vortex produces a cross tion to the foreshortening of the geolinear surface. circle, which spreads out into a thin diaphragm, divid This foreshortening is about five inches to the mile, and ing the sun into two halves, (one anterior and one pos allowance is made by civil engineers, as if it were con terior), the center part of which (backward) is dark,— vexity instead of foreshortening. as the most intense dark "force" seeks that part,—while The surface of the earth is concave. We have the front central part is light. The dark "force" moves reached this conclusion from downright geometrical out in just the opposite direction from the light "force." and mechanical hard work. The absurdities of the old The cold "force" moves out at one side, and the heat or Copernicau system are too many, too apparent, and "force" at the other; that is, at their most intense attended by too much guess-work to be of any value to points. the critical and analytical thinker. The modern, so The sun has a double revolution, vertical and called astronomer is a Liliputian, and the time is not lateral. The vertical revolution is comparatively slow. far distant when there will be an awakening. The lateral is very rapid at the diaphragm, but less so The sun has three primary or first principles; at the back and front points, or anterior aud posterior namely, heat, light, and gravity. These primaries are points, which gives to the mass the shape of two spirals all complex. Heat is composed of degrees; light, of or twists. Examine the heart, which will give some spectra (plural); and gravity, of qualities. These are thing of an idea, as the heart represents one of the substantial in character; they are simply the most vertical halves. The diaphragm is one half-wheel cold attenuate solutions of the material substances of which "force," the other half-wheel heat "force." they are the solutions. They are eliminated or emitted These "forces" spread out liketwogreat wings, which from the sun, passing through atmospheres which extend into terminal levic rings that revolvefrom north modify them according to the atmospheric qualities to south, but not rapidly, as at the vortex and dia phragm. The gravic "force" is the formative "force." through which they pass. It is more subtle and diffusive in its reflex than the other Each atmosphere has something of the power of "forces," consequently more flltrative and general in its reflection and refraction, but not so much influence counterflow or inflow, as it is also in its outflow, than upon the gravic as upon the heat and light "forces." light and heat. Electricity, magnetism, etc., are modifi Solid metals refract and reflect gravity; every quality cations of gravic and levic "force." We have partially described the central sun or star of gravic "force" being refracted by its corresponding center of the physical universe; but as those "forces" metal more than by any of the others, though they all are let down toward the circumference through the have refracting and reflecting power over all the gravic atmospheres, they are reflected by the power of reflec qualities of "force." The earth is a shell, having seven tion and refraction of the atmospheres. primary metals in layers or strata, laminae or planes. (To he continued.)
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