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By Koresh — Part XIII.
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t udiual axis of the dura mater, having one of its poles THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY at the vertical point of the ethmoid, into which it ap VY>f Moon the Compound Reflection of all the pears driven as a nail into the apex of its vertical plate. Strata. Liquid Mercury the Intermetallic Substance We are thus particular in describing this process, By Koresh because of the functional importance of this pole of the IT WILL BE remembered that the moon is reflect dura in its relation to the crista galli,the anterior point ed from the strata comprising the metallic crust of its attachment. It is the pole of the zodiacal axis of of the sphere. The action of the sun upon the earth is the cerebrum and the body. All the electro-magnetic in reality the action of the sun upon the moon. The essences of the dura mater concentrate at this point. moon is not the reflection of any single stratum, but It constitutes the positive terminus of the essences of the compound reflection of all the strata. The pene the falx cerebri, reudering the ethmoid a distinctive cen tration of the thermal and cruosic rays into the strata, ter and basis of that continuous line of activities which causing the alternate expansion and contraction of the comprise, in their course, the consecution of the osseous metallic laminae, observe a spiral course in the lamina1, fabric depositing the bones, laying the foundations of corresponding to the gyral motion of the sun. As the the body, and furnishing the origins and insertions of heat expands the metallic substances, the spaces be the muscles of the organism. The axis of which the tween them contract; and as the cruosic substance con ethmoid bone is the pole, is the correspondent of the tracts the lamina?, the spaces between expand. The re electro-magnetic axis of which the zodiac is the circle, sult is an onward spiral current of whatsoever fills the and the north magnetic terminus, the pole of the terres interstices between the laminae. trial axis. It corresponds also to that polar center We have not the time nor space in this synopsis to which in this, the culmination of the dispensation, shall enter iuto an exposition of the causes which provide for constitute the precursor of the manifestation of the Sons the filling of the metallic interstices; but will herein of God who are to mature as the firstfruits, multiplied merely state the fact that the menstruum filling the from the Son of God who, nineteen hundred years ago, vacuities, and which is being pushed along through a was dissolved, disseminated, and planted in the race. continual spiral from north to south and from south to That we may trace the location of the cerebral north, between the tropics, or over forty-seven degrees origins of the centers of ethmoidal ossification, we have of the earth's laminae, is mercury (quicksilver), holding only to apply a general principle in a somewhat ex in liquid solution the elements of theintermetallic chan tended amplification. This principlewe will state in the nel. axiom of Hilton, quoted from "The Applied Anatomy The motion of the sun is not merely a spiral north of the Nervous System," by Professor Ambrose L. and south, but a spiral, enlarging and diminishing it Rinney: self alternately, having a maximum and minimum The same trunks of nerves, whose branches supply the groups of field, or circuit of motion; hence there are alternate muscles moving a joint, furnish also a distribution of nerves to the periods of approximation to, and remoteness from, the skin over the insertions of the same muscles; and the interior of the concave surface of the earth. This approach of the joint moved by these muscles receives a nerve supply from the same source. ofbit to, and departure from, the earth is the phenom enon called by astronomers perihelion and aphelion, This axiom is merely the expression of the results of from peri, around or near; and apo, distant or away local observation and experiment; but when taken into from, and helios, the sun. Iu Koreshan nomenclature consideration with the Koreshan axiom, "A law dis it would be culled the sun's perigee, near the earth, and covered to obtain in one domain is correspondentially the sun's apogee, distant from the earth, as indicating known to be operative in every other domain of action,'' the nearest and remotest points of his approach and its importance is of deeper significance than appears departure as he describes his helical orbit. from a casual apprehension. The cause of all motion resides, primarily, in the Every phase and form of the microcosmic anatomy voluntary principle of the perfect human (God) mind. has its correspondent in the macrocosmie, and so, cor We say the God mind, referring the reader to the mind respondingly, the physiological functions of the micro of the God-Man, the illustrious Christ of God, in whom cosm agree throughout with the activities in the macro was the fulness of the Godhead bodily; God, in him, cosm; hence, a knowledge of the general and specific having attained the ultimates of his being, he con character of the anatomy and physiology of the universe stituting the esse and existere of Deity. Voluntary ac iu itsleast manifestation, (in the form and function of the tion begets the involuntary, its antithetical coordinate. individual man,) furnishes us a knowledge of the anat The supreme cause of motion is in desire: and the su omy and physiology of the universe in its greatest mani preme desire is love toward God, as a function of the festation,—iu the form and function of the Grand Man. ascending man, and the love of God toward man, as {To he continued.) the function of the descending attraction of God. :■' These two coordinate attractions result in conjunctive Lut Koreshaus show forth their love to God by unity of the two, and God and man become one. devoting their energies to the perfection of the neigh This law of motion is all pervasive, baiug let down, bor's joy, and thus demonstrate that in the Koreshan by gradation, through all the degrees of motion, until Unity is the evolution of Christianity.—Koresh. its energies operate outwardly into the alchemico The Flaming Sword organic world. It is therefore seen that all the on another, that which is greatest in specific gravity motions of the alchemico-organic, while originating in constituting the outermost plate, while the others are voluntary thought, are not the direct and immediate arranged according to diminution in the ratio of their operation of mind upon those domains of activity; but specific gravities. The operation of the sun's gyre there is a correspondence betwpen the two, and the an (spiral motion), in the penetration of his essences into alogy is so perfect that a correct interpretation of the these metallic crusts, acts specifically upon them, prima alchemico-organic will furnish, through correspond rily, according to the quality of the physical spirit, ence, the correct interpretation of the anthropostic. whether it be photoic, scotoic, cruosic or thermic;—these Tj'he Cause of Perigee, Apogee, and Helical Motion being his primary substances. The proximate cause of the perigee and apogee of The penetration of the thermal physical spirit must the orbit of the san resides in the laws of expansion and assume the form of a circular impression upon the lam contraction, induced by the alternation of heat and ina?, and must move in a spiral or gyrp, in the direction cold, as follows: Heat is the result of friction; where of the gyre of the sun as he winds his helix north and there is the more resistance, there is the more friction; south. The pheuomenou following this action of the and where there is the more friction, there is the more thermal radiation, manifest in the lainina?, would be intense combustion. There can be no exception to this singular in this: That as heat expands more where most law. The thermal substance of the sun is most intense intense, and less where least intense, the plates would at the vertical point of radiation, less intense as the rays become thickest at the vertical penetration, (that is, are more oblique, and least intense at the lateral ray. where the thermal ray was perpendicular to the central This would be true even though the heat were measured radius,) aud thinnest at the circumference of the radia at points of equal distance on every line of divergence. tion. Hence, between two plates (lamina?) pressed to The pole opposite the vertical ray would be the coldest gether by the process of expansion, the interstice would point. be filled. If, twelve hours later, there follows this proc Let us suppose the central and vertical substance of ess of expansion and closer contiguity of the laminae, a the sun to be potassium. The direct action of this ray process of contraction by virtue of the action of cruosic would not constitute a thermal ray; but if this spirit physical spirit, a circular concavity would follow the meets, in its radiation to the circumference, the con spiral course of the obliterated interstice. This con verging, or afferent, How of cruosine, or cruosic sub cavity being filled with mercury, there would necessarily stance, the resistance produces the friction from which move a platter or circular disk of mercurial solution in proceeds the heat, precisely as flame will proceed from a spiral course from tropic to tropic. This would pro the union of potassium and ice. vide an amalgamated surface for each of the lamina', Just as we have the north pole and the equator acting at once as a conservator of the superfice and inwhere two opposite conditions obtain, so we have the trafice of the contiguous lamina?, and as an insulator north side of the sun and the south side, where opposite aud channel for the magnetic current generated in the conditions also obtain; and the alternation of these at activities of the solution and the lamina?. titudes alternates the sides of expansion and con £/><> Sun Has a Secondary Gyre traction. This relative action produces the deviation Added to the common and primary gyral or helical of orbital motion. The actinism of the sun's substance motion of the sun in his annual course north aud south as he is caused to approach to or recede from the con between the tropics, he has an axillary motion around cavity within which he revolves, is successively specific an axis perpendicular to the concavity of the earth, upon the metallic lamina- which his substances pene hence the solar substances are disseminated in a spiral, trate, subjecting them to the successive alternation of and this momentum is imparted to the mercurial dis heat and cold, applied to the contiguous layers, pene cus, which, in addition to its motion with the solar he trating first the strata nearest the surface of the earth, lix, revolves from the impetus of the imparted solar axand successively reaching the more outer layers, until illation. he acts upon the outermost. There are four primary laws of motion, originating 75/>e Outermost Metallic Plate of the Earth's Crust and moving as follows: The first impulse from com the Greatest in Specific Gravity bustion is radiatory; this meets the counter and re That it may not appear, in this solution of the sistant moment forming the circular, which, in a second moon problem, that the discussion of the operations of resistance, is transformed to the spiral. The impact of the sun comprises the more prominent factor, we will the radiatory with the resistant, convergent, or affer bere reiterate the statement that the moon is the prod ent flow of physical spirit produces the undulatory or uct of the influence of the sun's activities upon the ter coruscatory movement. restrial strata. We cannot, therefore, discuss the ori With the secondary solar gyre, as with the primary gin, form, aud function of the moon, independently of a helix, there are four primary polar points correspond general and specific consideration of solar functions ing to the caloric, cruosic, photoic, and scotoic nuclei; and phenomena. The reader is already familiar with and corresponding substances are radiated toward the the fact that the crust, shell, or rind of the earth is com metallic circumferences. From these centers there are posed of contiguous lamina1, or strata, concave in form. secondary disci of mercurial solution, formed in the interin seven primary metallic plates, superimposed one up metallic spaces, which, by the secondary solar gyre, arc 6 The Flaming Sword caused to move in orbits around the primary discus iu comprising the compound solution held in amalgama some of the planes. tion in mercury as the basis of the solvency, differential Between the outer lamina?, upon the gold stratum, motion, as each quality reacts against the penetrating instead of there being formed a number of disci sur. photoine. rounding the primary discus, the vermiculation (peri That the above may be clearly comprehended, it staltic motion) is less complete, and the disci merge in will be well to recall to mind the fact that mercury at to rings of mercurial solution. The secondary disci of tracts to itself (as it passes along, washing the metallic some of the inter-metallic laminae are reflected into the surfaces) the metallic atoms loosened by the action of heaveus as so called moons of the planets, (the "moons the thermal and other substances, and absorbs and dis of Jupiter" are from such sources,) and the mercurial solves them. The mercurial solution is consequently a rings as rings of Saturn. general solvent for the metallic substances through Impartation o/ the Peristaltic Motion to the Strata which it passes; therefore, as the photoine penetrates or Plates the discus, it imparts a precipitate motion to the gen The radiatiou of the solar substances toward and eral substance in solution, for the atom of each kind into the lamina? is not direct from the solar center to receives a motionof its own in resistance to the photoic each of the circumferential strata. The physical spirit impulse. from one stratum to another, through all the seven C/>e Correspondence of the Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Alimentary Canal lamina?, is successive, observing a graduated scale of transmission; the ratio of increase being a geometrical The passage of the mercurial solution is not con formula mathematically governed by the complex fined to any single interspace; for at the tropics and square of the ratios of specific gravity and places of the equator, where the ecliptic and equatorial circles deposition. The operation of these laws, comprising meet, there are openings for the evacuation of the men the principles of both motion and form, would impart strua from the various interspaces, and their discharge the peristaltium to the strata (lamina?), which con into other interspaces. While the menstruum of one tinues in them after the direct action of the solar radia cavity is making its passage through one of the me tion has passed over the plates. tallic interspaces, it both attracts to itself the substances There is a primary mercurial discus between each of the surfaces to which it is exposed, and makes certain pair of strata. Each discus pursues its spiral course, depositions to the surface through which it is passing, moved by the thermal physical spirit, along the track of the elements derived from its passage through a mapped out by the course of the solar gyre. When we former one. The continuous spiral canal, through consider the fact that the disci are moved along their which the menstruum is impulsed by the action of the spiral course upon the surfaces of these seven metallic solar substances in the alternate expansion and con lamina?, and associate this fact with the fact that the traction of the metallic strata, is, so to speak, a sort of momentum diminishes, from the inner to the outer alimentary canal, and corresponds, in the alchemicodiscus, with the square of the complex ratios above organic cosmos, to the alimentary canal of the human noted, we are supplied with the data from which may body;—the functions being correspondentially the same. be accounted that specific relative motionof theplanets, There is a correspondence also in the number and form wherein those of the inner orbits overtake those of the of the divisions. outer, and the laws of their anuual circuits propounded That property of actinism through which the pho and elaborated. toic reagency is manifest, is largely influential in the The planets proper are general aggregations of determinations of the metamorphosis or transmutation physical spirit heaped up through the reflection of the of metallic elements; but it is not the only factor of the solar physical spirit from the metallic lamina?. The mutative processes. Every pigmentation is the result substances from these aggregations converge to the of t lie reagency of scotoic and photoic substances, and astral nucleus, and are thence planted, through this while it adds greatly to ornate attractiveness, this is nucleus or focal point, by a succession of divergences not its only function. Processes of assimilation are and refractions, upon the mercurial disci, and are again dependent upon coloring as well as upon other factors reflected from these and impressed upon the planetary of assimilation. stratifications in the heavens. The character of the motion imparted to an atom Thus far, we have considered only the specific action of matter by photo-alchemic action upon the particle, of the two antithetical substances—caloric audcruosic— is determined by the resistance of the color,—each color upon the lamina? and disci, as effecting the peristaltic offering its specific resistance,—beiug differently agi progress in the gyre of their circuits. The observation tated, hence more or less rapidly metamorphosed, and, of these depends upon the action of the photoineand therefore, differently posited. No two atoms of matter scotoine, or the light and the dark substances, moving of a given kind, going to make up the bulk of a mass, in their gyrations, respectively, between the calorine are differently posited iu the mass without having and the cruosine impulses. The photoic physical spirit yielded to different qualities of the same kind of force entering as a factor into the disposition of the atoms. acts specifically different from either calorine or cruos Variations of shade in coloring, so slight that they ine. It has a subtle power of penetrability into and could not be detected by the eye, would be sufficient to through the mercurial disci, imparting to the atoms determine different depositions of the atoms. The Flaming Sword Heat Is Generated by Friction at the Point and KEY TO THE LAW OF JUDGMENT Time of the Meeting of Substances An Elucidation of the Prophecies of Daniel, That the reader may not labor under any false im (St Their Relation to the Culmination of Time pression regarding the transmission of the solar sub- i From tilt Writings of Korf.kh ' staucee, it will be well to state here, that what we have 111 E KEY to the law of judgment is supplied in the denominated a thermal ray becomes the essence of heat book of Daniel. This is a necessary and legitimate only when a descending physical spirit of one kind meets conclusion as derived from the very name of Daniel, the essence of an opposite kind. The heat is generated which, interpreted, signifies the judgment of God. The at the point and time of meeting. No two substances book of Dauiel is the book of God's judgment, and must can meet and produce their effect, except as they form therefore embrace not only the key to the law of judg their conjunction and correlation in the form of matter ment, but much of the detail through which the law is adapted to the union and transmutation to be effected. consummated. Let us take, for illustration, the process of the forma There are three distinct orders of thought involved tion of chloride of sodium in the ocean. Sodium in in the prophecies of Daniel, all of which must be com minute quantities is constantly conveyed to the waters prehended in their series, and related according to their of the ocean, or any inland sea having no outlet, and forms in order to obtain a full comprehension of the transformed to chloride of sodium through the descent import of the prophecies. of solar essence. While it may not properly be called The prophecies relate to time in the consecutive chlorine essence, the descending substance, meeting a order, or the order of succession. In the order of time coordinate ascending essence, does, in its union in the there are four series, three of which are heavenly or atom of sodium, produce chloride of sodium; and be cjlestial, and one of which pertains to the natural cause there is no outlet to the ocean or sea, the solution domain, or the body in which the three heavenly degrees accumulates. inhere or reside. They relate to quality which is sepa We have entered but briefly into the exposition of rate or distinct from time, its conditions or states being the principle of photoine (light), in its action of differ. distinguished as higher or superior, middle, and lower entiation in the process of deposition and assimilation. or inferior degrees. These may be aud are degrees of The mere presentation and study of the subject for a parallel which accompany timic consecution, and may knowledge of the fact, would not be worth the while of also be subject to modifications of states in each parallel the student and investigator. It is only when we appre as time progresses. hend the bearing of such knowledge upon life itself, as Time culminates in the consummation of the age. pertaining to our relationship to God and to one Into this culmination all the parallel series flow and another, in the fulfilment of uses to the neighbor, in the terminate. The end of the time, times or age (which performance of which we insure, by reflex action, the must be and is the foot or feet of the age or dispensa greatest use to self, that the joy of acquisition is ex tions) contains, in the simultaneous order, all the perienced. Precisely as light differentiates, selects, and events and activities of the age as occurring and con rejects, with darkness as the background of resistance curring through aud during the consecutive degrees, and impression, so does truth differentiate between aud culminating in the simultaneous degrees. good and evil, with fallacy as the background to insure The world or age, then, terminates in the produc contrast, and enable the truth to direct in the accept tion of a recurrence in the simultaneous order, of all the ance of good and the rejection of evil. events and activities of the past ages which have mani The scotoic pole follows the photoic in the progress of the sun's gyre, and brings its influence to bear upon fested through the ages in the order of time, or the the particles differentiated and directed by the opera consecutive order. It will be observed, therefore, that tion of light, not in a direct manner, but indirectly, all prophecy has at least a double significance, for all through its influence to obstruct or hold in rest the that has transpired in time must repeat itself in the substance that did not directly respond to the influence order aud degrees of simultaneity. of photoine. As the determination of photoine acceler ates differently each quality of atom upon which it re The book in question, "The book of Daniel, " has, acts, when scotoinere acts it must perform its function first, an historical significance; second, a symbolic signi to retard the various atoms where it finds them, this ficance as pertaining to time; and third, a symbolic sig being at different places, because the momentum of pho nificance as pertaining to quality or space in time at toic acceleration has given to each quality a different the close or termination of the dispensation or age. impulse from every other kind. In the reagencies of photoine and scotoine, we pos The character of the historical features is obvious sess the properties which coordinately determine the enough, and may be passed over, but the most import emplacement of substances in the order of strata; there- ant prophecies— at least as pertaining to their consecu force, the law of stratification. The compactntssof the tive and simultaneous characteristics in the light of strata is determined by their compression through the their symbolic significance—will be considered to a lim alternate action of expausion and contraction, which is a drocess of beating the metallic substances forming ited extent. the strata into thin, hard plates, denominated, in the "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of description of creation given in Genesis, rakiya; in Eng Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, unto lish, rendered firmament. Jerusalem, and besieged it. Aud the Lord gave Jehoia (To be continued.) kim. king'of Judah, into his hand, with part of the ves
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