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Part XIV
Part XIV
THE TERM yareach, or yareah, moon, is a Hebrew word derived from the root yarah, to be pale. The terminal character of the word moon signifies enclosure; that is, a fence, environment, limitation, circumference. The dependent consonant implies the front head, and the initial letter, the right hand, or hand of power. The word is supposed, by Hebrew lexicographers, to be derived from the color of the moon, therefore the root yarah, pale. The earthly life of a man terminates when his natural career is finished; therefore the dead man is paled; that is, fenced, environed, limited by death. So in fright the man turns pale through fear of being paled, or impaled.
In our investigation of the subject under consideration, we have seen fit to corroborate our conclusions from the signification and use of the Hebrew, because the word of every nation must correspond with the character of the people to which it belongs; that is, there is an exact agreement between the language, or word of the people, and the function of that people in the economy of righteousness. The supreme office of the Jew was to bring into being the Logos or Jehovah, the language, or Word, of God. Jesus, the incarnate Deity,—he whom all Christianity pretends to worship as God, at least with the lips,—was the product of the Jewish race. A people capable of bringing into the world the perfect Word of righteousness must be characterized by the possession of the perfect language of the age; therefore, we are safe in resorting to this language for corroboration of the testimony we give regarding the moon’s position and function in the alchemico-organic economy of the universe.
We submit the following proposition: the moon, as it appears in the alchemico-organic heavens, is the reflection from the utmost limitation, or last environment of the cosmos, of all the laminæ, inclusive of the geologic strata and the surface of the earth. The picture of the moon in the heavens is an outline of the land and water of the earth’s surface reflexed from the back of the silver lamina. Luna was the name given by the ancients and alchemists to the metallic substance which we denominate silver. The moon is also called Luna; this is why the silver men, or the bimetallists, are called lunatics; that is, silvertics. Those who hurl the epithet at them are not aware of the origin of the truth of what they assert.
We have already compared the motion and current of the laminæ and disci with the alimentary canal in the human body. This is not merely because there is a similarity in their motions, but because the alchemico-organic universe is the correspondent of the Grand Man, or the general anthropostic world; and in the doubling up of the contents of the cellular cosmos, in the process of the incubation of the great egg or cell of the universe, that part of the environment of the egg becomes the alimentary channel of the dispensations, and these correspond to the alimentary canal of the vidual man.
The Moon the Belly of the Earth
The moon is the belly of the universe; that is, of the alchemico-organic cosmos, and its office in the alchemico-organic terminates where the function of the woman of the Grand Man terminates, namely in reconstruction. “Out of the belly of hell cried I,” said Jonas, when in the belly of the great fish [the sensual humanity]; ‘‘and thou heardest my voice.’ This refers to the descent of the Messiah into the race by the operation of the Holy Spirit, Jonah, signifying dove; the dove being the symbol of the Holy Spirit.
The mind that conceived the Copernican system, arising in the dark ages, was so simple as to take an appearance for a fact, and to deduce a theory, which better thinkers of more modern times would very soon dispose of, were it not for the fact that they will not take time to think. We have shown by repeated illustrations, that the convex theory cannot be true; but the blind idiots, called astronomers and scientists, with their inconceivable bigotry, having gone crazy through the hallucinations of medieval times, must lose their reputations as scientific men, (and their bread and butter also,) if they permit the world to be set right with regard to questions upon which they have built up for themselves names, and, through this, are honored as great lights and as educators of the people.
If any man with brains, having facts at his command, will give two hours’ candid and unbiased thought to the investigation of this subject, with the application of the principles of foreshortening as set forth in the literature of the Koreshan Unity, he will be convinced of the truth of the Cellular Cosmogony, and of the utter absurdity of the so called ‘Copernican” hallucination.
We are told that we do not exhibit the spirit and principle of the Christ, regarding the blockheads called scientists, when we resort to language sometimes seen in THE FLAMING SWORD. What difference does it make whether we say, as did the Lord, ‘fools and blind,” blind fools, blind idiots, or blind bigots and idiots. He told the truth, because it was the best way to exasperate people and set them thinking. Koreshanity has the truth, but the present humanity (steeped in tobacco, rum, and sensualism) prefers to meet the truth of Koreshanity with ridicule rather than to give it candid consideration. But as ridicule is always the strongest argument, and the one that usually has the greatest weight with the non-thinking mind, it is.not surprising that the so called scientist usually takes refuge behind it, when meeting a rational force that otherwise is irresistible.
How to Draw an Air Line
Extend a rail horizontally and in a perfectly straight line. We do not mean by this, on a line level with the surface of the earth; we mean an air line. Place over this rail, and parallel with it, a tube twelve or fourteen inches long, horizontally across the objective end and middle diameter of which is a hair line, and through the visual or subjective end a needlehole. Place this instrument about ten or twelve inches (it may be more or less) from the rail. Now, look through the middle or longitudinal axis so that your line of vision is from the needle hole across the hair line at the objective end. This line of vision—though exactly parallel with the rail—will seem to strike the rail on a level with your line of vision through the instrument, at a distance from the instrument determined by the distance of the instrument from the rail. The hair line of the instrument (if the rail is an air line) will appear to cross or strike the rail exactly at the horizon of the rail.
Place another rail curved eight inches upward, relating the instrument in the same way, and the hair line will seem to strike the sky a trifle above the horizon of the concave rail. Extend a convex rail curving downward instead of upward, placing the instrument correspondingly above the rail, and the hair line will cross the rail a little below the horizon. By this experiment we obtain three distinct visual phenomena.
If we place the same instrument over a level canal or smooth body of water long enough to make a corresponding observation and experiment, we find that the experiment reveals the same phenomenon as the concave rail curving upward eight inches to the mile, but unlike the other two experiments. This is proof positive that the earth is neither convex nor flat, but that it is concave.
Any civil engineer may demonstrate the concave theory by a simple experiment, even more simple than the one above presented. Start a line leveled with the spirit level or the theodolite, then continue the line, not leveled with the earth, but on an air line. It will be found in every instance to run into the ground. Or perform the experiment over an extended water surface; the line—we do not mean the apparent visual direction—started on a level and continued on an air line, will invariably strike the water.
Elevate a post ten feet in altitude. Place a spirit level so as to start an air line in either direction from the top of this post: it will be found that the two lines are at exactly right angles with the post. Now, if we extend these directions,—not with the spirit level, but with the instrument described above, placed by the side of the level chord,—an air line will direct the two air line chords from the post into the ground at the distance of about, or a little more than, three miles and a half. The chords would be extended to meet the earth or water surface at those points. We have then the chord, the arc, and the radius vector of ten feet. This will show a concavity of ten feet in a distance of about seven miles. This argument is unanswerable.
The earth’s surface is concave, as actually demonstrated by physical test. Its diameter is about eight thousand miles, as already fully demonstrated and declared through the literature of the Guiding Star Publishing House. We have taught this theory of the contour of the earth since 1870.
One Universal Substance with Two Universal Tendencies
There are two universal tendencies of substance; one is the constant determination of spirit to become matter, the other is the constant determination of matter to become spirit. By these correlate determinations, the equilibrium or balance of relations is maintained and perpetuated.
In the purely alchemico-organic domain, the various forms of matter have their correlate conditions in corresponding substances; these are called physical. If, for instance, we take the sun as the source of supreme emanation toward alchemico-organic circumferences, we find the primary elements of substance to consist of heat, light, and gravity; these are emanative products of waste, incident to the sun’s activity. Were it not for a counter flow of substances generated at circumferences and constantly returning to the sun to re-supply its wastes, it would rapidly exhaust itself. The material form or condition of substance constitutes one pole and extreme of direction; the sun, the other and force condition of substance, constitutes the opposite pole. Without the correlation of these two poles, neither could exist. It therefore follows that the great battery, composed of these two correlate extremes and all their essential intermediates, such as atmospheres, stars, etc., has had a perpetual existence.
The center of determination—the sun, being the terminal point and center of all the substances generated at the circumferences and reflected toward the center, becomes or is the perpetual savior, because it gathers into itself, transforms or converts, and re-transmits its essences again to the circumferences. Corresponding to the alchemico-organic macrocosm is the biological macrocosm. Its center is the Lord God; its circumferences are composed of the humanity.
As the sun constantly eliminates its debris or waste, it is still perpetuated as a central and focal point. This is also true of the biological Sun. While the emanations from the alchemico-organic sun are alchemico-organic substances, those from the spiritual or biological Sun are spiritual entities. As the eliminations from the alchemico-organic sun have received a material impetus and determination, and can only begin to return to the sun at some terminal extremity where there is a transformation from the alkaline or resinous to the acetic or vitreous determination, so must the spiritual entities, transmitted from the biological Sun, descend until the terminal extremity of descent is reached, where there will be a re-transformation and a diversion of the tendency.
The biological Sun is not outside of, but within the human race. The essences transmitted from that sun toward its circumferences, the human race, are transmitted from atmosphere to atmosphere, or sphere to sphere, from one star (biological) realm to another, until the final atmosphere, the lowest realm of spiritual existence, is reached, when it comes in contact with the sensuous human. As at the circumferential extremity in the alchemico-organic domain are found the elements and principles of transformation, so in the biological domain, at the very circumference and extremity of the outward determination, must be found the wisdom capable of reversing or turning back the tide of fluxion, from its peripherical determination to a central tendency.
(To be continued.)
Editorial transcription checked against the cited scans; the historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 28, No. 2 · Feb 1914 · PDF pp. 6–8