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By Koresh — Part XI.
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there is at its maximum, the point of its greatest THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY attraction for the gravic cycle in the ecliptic is reached, Union of Heat (EL Cold Produces the Levic that side of the zone is pulled down, and the sun gets Pole, the .Starting Point of Force of Gravity an impetus again toward the south. By K0RI8H As the sun moves toward the south, the levic zone PART XI. increases at the south, until the hot and cold poles are *jPO RETURN to the diaphragm. The lateral rings, south and north, and the levic force at the south or hot which are the periphery of the cold and heat p )le of the zone is at its maximum, when the attraction forces, assume the form of rings at that special relation, b3comes sufficiently great to overcome the momentum because a condensed ring of levity is the polaric opposite of the sun, and he takes his course again toward the of the laminae, plates or scales of gravity. The levic north. These dippings of the rings are the moon's force is not reformed from the mass until it is condensed nodes or noddings. They form four poles, which with at that periphery. This point or periphery is the aggre the modifications of heat and cold in the zone, govern gate positive pole of gravity, the aggregate reflex circle the sun's motions, and make the four seasons by the from the earth, and is therefore the origin of the regulation of the sun's motion. moon. By this may be seen the truth of the statement: XShe Gravic Physical Spirit Spreads a Picture of "Round tires like the moon." (Isa. iii: 18.) the Earth on the Atmosphere What is the origin of gravity? It is the child of In the Koreshan System the ascending and descend cold and heat. Its father is cold, its mother is heat. ing nodes of the moon are accounted for, but on entirely The union of these two produces the levic pole, the different principles from the old theory. The moon starting point of the force of gravity, which solidifies in that we see is the transposed expansion by reflection of metallic form at the circumference, the earth. The sun the levic zone, and the law governing the changes in in the third atmosphere is pendant, so to speak, from the leviczone produces themoon's changes. The moon, the pivot at the center. As the center revolves in its so to speak, is the ghost of the earth, for the reason vertical revolution, the pendant sun in the third atmos that the gravic force takes the picture of the earth, phere moves in an orbit through the space of that transforms it into a ring or zone, and then again atmosphere. This makes night and day. spreads out the picture to our vision against one of the The lateral revolution in the sun (producing the atmospheres. diaphragm and peripheral zones of levic force) produces The occasion of the weather being colder in winter a slow revolution of the cold and heat poles of the is partly explained by the action of the zone, and also lateral cycle from north to south. From the cold pole by the fact that the sun's face is partly turned from us; of the zone to midway between these extremes, from the consequently we get the indirect instead of the vertical cold it grows warmer, and from the hot, colder, until rays. This isa simple fact, true of any system. The the temperate is reached. planets are reflections from the earth planes or strata. There are four poles—the four winds of heaven, the There are seven of them. They are reflected from these four foundations of the earth, the four seasons. As strata or planes by the sun's action upon the planes. heat and cold are the parents of levic force, levity is at The stars are direct reflections from the sun, and are its maximum when the hot pole is south, and the cold fixed in their relations to the sun and to one another, pole north; for then is the greatest degreeof heat south, but not in their relations to the earth. They revolve and the greatest degree of cold at the north. While the nearly with the sun, but change their positions accord levic force is at its maximum it is not in its equilibrium, ing to laws that will be explained in future. in the zone, for contraction by cold diminishes the levic The poles referred to, in connection with the dia force north, but increases it south. When the temperate phragm, are situated within the space of the zone, and poles are north and south, there is a minimum degree not directly on the zone. The two poles at the two of levic force; there is equilibrium in the zone because solstitial points of the zone are stellar points. The the levic force is equally distributed. zone is the product of the influx of the levic force, and is On the line of the ecliptic, which is the center or thrown off as a ring by the vortical action induced by median line of the Zodiac, is a point of continual great the solar influxes; while at the same time it is a new est gravity. This is where the metals are thickest. It creation, yet the zone is a perpetual one. It is the posi 326 The Flaming Sword tive pole of gravity; and the moment the zone is formed, the circle of its area enter the eye more acutely, and or rather the moment the levic "force" reaches this conspire to the formation of a more acute angle, at the extremity, it becomes gravic "force," and is eliminated focus behind thejlensjand at.the visual focal point. The and determined toward the negative pole of gravity at circle of the area of the converging lines in the second the circumference of the shell. At a short distance it application, at the distance of one hundred feet, where meets a counterflow, which becomes the formative line the balloon was first observed, is much smaller than the of a second zone. first circle. If the reason had not learned to discrimi This second ring is larger than the first, and its nate in the measurement of distance, by the aid of other orbit, instead of being parallel with the diaphragm and objects and conditions, the balloon at one thousand first zone, inclines to the orbit of these so as to cross feet would appear to be one hundred feet away, but them. The orbit of the zone is not the orbit of the occupying the ppace of the smaller circle only. stellar points, as perceived from a distant point of view; C/>o Optical .Organ and Its Function for this reason, the ring or zone has two motions; one The construction of the eye has much to do with is the vortical motion, which is in the direction of the t'ie discrimination of size, as related to proximity or ring, from north to south; the other is the motion remoteness, besides its mere adaptation to the implan induced by the vertical motion of the sun, or the motion tation of the picture upon the retina. The columuarforfrom east to west. Both these motions are retarded by mation of the retinal coat and the rods of Jacob com the motion of the vortex and the vertex. prise metric poles and zones to define impressions and Foreshortening Is the Principle of Perspective contribute to the processes of the mind in its rational Diminution determinations. No two pairs of eyes are alike in the Foreshortening is the diminution of the visual area, construction of the lens; and there is no absolute or the apparent attraction of an object occupying criterion for the demarkation of the normal lens, as to space, as it recedes objectively in the distance. The law its degree of convexity. The more convex the lens, the of foreshortening applies as well to space as to the more myopic the vision; the less convex the lens, the object occupying it, though of course without the more byperopic the vision. In either case the forma object, diminution would not be apparent. Foreshort tion of the lens may be perfect; that is, the lens may be ening in art is the representation, on canvas or other clear and without astigmatism (unevenness). surface, of the principle of perspective diminution as The vanishing point of an object in perspective is observed in Nature. proximate or remote according to the contour of the The operation of the principle of perspective diminu lens. That vanishing point in space called the horizon, tion, as above desoribed, is a phenomenon belonging to observed from a given altitude, deviates with each that department of general scientifics denominated person making the observation, according to the adap optics. There can be no accurate interpretation of tation and capacity of the lens of each; no two persons form and function without a thorough knowledge of perceiving the horizon at the same distance. Hence, by optics; hence the study of the organs directly concerned the same law, a magnifying glass extends the vanishing in visual phenomena is the first prerequisite to the point, therefore it extends the horizon. The passage of general and specific disclosure of the laws which govern a balloon, sixty feet in diameter, through the air, in a cosmic manifestation. rectilinear course to its vanishing point, would describe The conclusions reached by the so called scientists the form of a tube whose diameter would be of the who flourished at the time when human progress was same proportion: namely/sixty feet. just emerging from the dark or middle ages, were falsely The fact is, the tube would be of equal dimensions arrived at because, in the interpretation of Nature, the the entire length. The appearance of the tube would be definitions given to phenomena were applied regardless a cone, the base of which would be at the starting point of scientific facts. The impression of every scope of of the balloon, and its apex at the objective end—the area planted upon the retina of the eye is made by the vanishing point, where the object recedes from view. passage of converging motions, reaching a focal point This deception in appearance, or optical delusion, is due just behind the lens of the eye, in what is called the to foreshortening. It has passed out of sight, though vitreous humor. From this pole or focus the motions the balloon is still describing, in its passage, a dimen diverge in every direction to the inner sheath of the sion the area of which is sixty feet, as at first, with a eyeball. This sheath is an expansion of the optic nerve, radius of thirty feet, beyond the point of evanescence or and covers the entire surface of the inner expansion of vanishing. Now place a balloon one hundred feet in the globe. diameter, at the point where the one sixty feet in dimen Observe a balloon, sixty feet in diameter, at the sion disappears. Its margin of twenty feet, forming a distance of one hundred feet. The lines converging to band or wheel around the sixty feet of diameter, that the pupil of the eye, and entering the visual focus from through foreshortening has disappeared, will notappear the circle of the area of the balloon, converge to an as a margin, but as a solid area. abrupt focal point. Let the balloon recede to the dis tance of one thousand feet. The circle of its area is the Illustration of Appearance and Reality,' and Fal lacious Demonstration of the Convexity of same as when one hundred feet distant, but the appear the Earth ance is much smaller, because the convergent lines from If the balloon of one hundred feet were placed at the The Flaming Sword 327 point where the balloon of sixty feet disappears, and If these poles or rods—thirty feet in length, the were covered with black material over an area of sixty inner ends resting at the radial point of the diameter of feet, the remaining marginal area being of white ma the tube really measuring sixty feet, apparently extend terial, the balloon maintaining the same side to the ing also across the sixty feet of annihilated space—are observer, it would exhibit the area of the white margin pushed toward each other, you observe the phenomenon as a white speck, because the sixty feet of black occupy of a pole being pushed and contracted lengthwise until ing the vanished area would have disappeared by virtue both poles, thirty feet long, meet at the actual axis of of the law of foreshortening, and the forty added feet of the tube. The poles have both dropped out of sight, or diameter would have diminished in appearance, not in disappeared from view. Does this phenomenon prove reality, to a narrow ring, which has the appearance of that from the sides of the tube the longitudinal axis a continuous surface. curves every way? Yet this is the argument that the With an object sixty feet in diameter, we have de savants of science (?) employ to demonstrate the con scribed a continuous tube sixty feet in diameter, the vexity of the earth's surface. In order to see the ends radius of which is thirty feet. The longitudinal axis of of the poles, while they remain in contiguity at the the tube is thirty feet from its circumference throughout tubular axis, the poles themselves must be elongated so its entire length, though in appearance the tube is nar as to extend beyond the dimension of thirty feet. rowing down to an apex, and the apparent, not real, Let this second balloon continue the course of the length of the radius is shortening. We will suppose the first. It will describe a tube one hundred feet in diame balloon to have been moving in a straight horizontal ter. The balloon will reach the vanishing point, and course. The axis of the tube will therefore be a straight thedescribed horizontal tube will conform totheappearhorizontal line; but if the line is represented bya thread, ance. If the balloon has disappeared from view through at its subjective end or point of observation, to main the application of the law of foreshortening, the length tain the apparent size of the line at the vanishing point of a pole reaching from the actual axis of the tube must of the tube, or the vanishing point of the sixty foot be more than fifty feet long for the top of it to be balloon, the thread must have gradually enlarged to observed from the center of the starting point of the the dimension of the tube. The apparent thread at the balloon or tube. Does this prove that the actual hori vanishing point is sixty feet in diameter. As the space zontal axis curves? Yet such is the argument of the of the area is apparently annihilated, the visual axis is "savants," to prove that the earth is convex. only theoretical, not practical, for it is virtually annihi What Two Railroad Tracks Demonstrate in Re lated; hence, for geodetic measurement or surveys there ality and Appearance can be no practical level, because of the annihilation of Let the observer stand between two railroad tracks, space in perspective. four feet apart. The tracks appear to run together in The tube has an actual longitudinal axis. We have the distance. Place an object six feet long at the van supposed a balloon sixty feet in diameter, and, there ishing point of the tracks, just large enough to be seen fore, a described tube of proportionate dimensions. at that distance. Paint four feet of the middle of the Now let us adjust a transit instrument thirty feet from object black, and one foot at each end white. That por the longitudinal axis of the tube, (horizontal to, and tion of it—shortened, apparently —between the tracks parallel with it,) and therefore on a line with the side of can be seen from any point within vanishing distance. the tube. The hair-line drawn horizontally across the At vanishing distance only the white extremities can be focus of the objective glass in the instrument, will not seen, as they extend outside the four-foot limit. Four strike the point of apparent convergence of the side of feet ot the object, that part of it lying between the the tube at the vanishing extremity, but will indicate a tracks, has vanished with the space between the rails. line across the sky somewhat above or outside the AVhat is the relation of the rails beyond the point vanishing point. of vanishing? They certainly (though it is not appar With the passage of the balloon, sixty feet in di ent) sustain the same relative parallel direction. The ameter, through space, we have described a tube of the farther the distance is extended, the longer the object same diameter, the longitudinal axis of which is just has to be for the observer to discern the ends of the ob thirty feet from the sides of the tube. The balloon has ject across the track. Does it prove, because the object passed out of sight at the vanishing point. At this across the track (beyond the vanishing point) must be distance in space we have placed a balloon one hundred elongated according to the extension of the distance, feet in diameter. Its margin beyond the sixty foot tube that the center of the two rails curves each way from is twenty feet on every side. Now let us represent two the sides of the rails lying straight and parallel to one opposing radii, by two rods starting from the opposite another? Yet this is the argument of the great and sides of the tube and extending outward across the wise "savants." twenty foot margin, and beyond this margin ten feet Let us suppose the geodetic line of the horizon repre on either side. The space between the two inuer ends of sents one rail, and a line parallel to it—four feet from the two poles being practically and virtually annihi the surface of the earth, and above it—comprises the lated, the two rods would appear to indicate a continu representation of the other rail. The two lines meet at ous pole from the outer end of each, across the annihi the vanishing point; this is denominated the horizon. lated space. These lines run parallel, precisely as did the two rails.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 27, No. 11 · Nov 1913 · PDF pp. 5-7