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By Koresh — Part XIX.
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d.) Every cortical center derives an influence from the conarium, either through the distribution of fibres, or THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY through the current's of the blood, which impart their Unquestionable Proofs Furnished by the Koreshan Geodetic Staff Concerning the Cellular Cos. influence through their specific channels; and through a mojony more subtlechannel the conarium derives from all these By Koresh centers the spirit which is here recreated for the uses of PART XVIX. the general body. FHI0 Copernican system of astronomy (built upon The coronal area of the cerebral cortex may be de an hypothesis) seems to satisfy the minds which fined as twelve general groups of the cortical cells, con will not and cannot think. The Koreshan Astronomy stituting the belt of the cerebral zodiac, the fibres of has its foundation on the rock. We have presented an which converge to the optic thalamus. These cortical experimental fact, the result of invention and months areas consist of duplicate layers of gray matter, divided of careful labor by the Geodetic Staff of the Koreshan bya most delicate septum of fibrous tissue; but at their Unity, thus furnishing unquestionable proof of the summits they are augmented by a third layer; hence Cellular Cosmogony advocated by the discoverer for there are, mainly, two lines of fibres converging toward the last forty-five years. In view of the fact that the the pole of the cerebrum; but centrally there are three,— so called scientists declare "That hypothesis, or guess the inner and most refined having their origins at the work, indeed, lies at the foundation of all scientific poles or summits of the twelve cortical areas, and knowledge," we maintain the right to call a halt, while extending centrally until they meet the fibres of the we declare from positive experiment, that the cerebellum; the goal of their currents being the pineal only true science is founded upon a demonstrated gland, premise, and not upon an assumption or mere guess Their fluids terminate in a double spiral vortex, work. We know we are right. We know, as well, that where the volume and activity of their motion convert no man can guess at a premise and claim that heknows the essence of their flux into electro-magnetic spirit, the conclusion, reasonably; for it is admitted by all which completes its function in the vortex of the gland scientists that their premises are hypothetical. in two opposite products, one material, the other It has been said that the man who cannot think is spiritual; the material product being deposited in the a fool; the man who will not think is a bigot; and the follicles of the gland, whence it is subsequently made to man who dares not think is a coward. It matters not ooze through the interstices of the gland, and through to us what excuses are offered for ignoring us, we the foramen into the aqueduct of Sylvius, where it is can show to the people—by methods so simple that all dissolved for its use in the third ventricle. can understand—that we are right, and that the astro The Zone of Co-ordination, and the Differentiation nomical guessers are wrong; and through the common Between Spirit-Substance (Sb Matter-Substance masses compel the humbug scientists to admit their The cineritious cushion upon which (lie conarium folly and blundering hypothetical processes. rests constitutes the zone of coordination with the ver Schiaparelli discovered seas, and also land covered tex of the conoid, and is mainly operative in the crea with canals on Mars. More critical (?) observation may tion and deposit of the acervulus cerebri found in the discover that the canals on Mars traverse the seas, and pineal gland. The function of the conoid comprises the the scientist (?) changes the conclusion of yesterday to very starting point and first motion of the acervulus an opposite conclusion today. Yesterday he observed (sandy matter) entering into those further metamor seas on Mars; but today what he declared to be water phoses through the third ventricle, tuber cinereum, and is land, because the Martian contractors have run the glandula vita1, which elaborate the osseous fabric. canals across what the other scientist (?) declared to It is impossible to comprehend the character of the be seas or oceans. Now we ask in all good faith, Is this fuuctions of the conarium without a knowledge of the science (knowledge) or is it guesswork? Are these fact of the substantiality of what the physicists have hypothetical conjurers, scientists or quacks? And we heretofore called "energy," and which they are now cau ask, How long must the world be gulled by the sham tiously assuming to be a more refined kind of matter. and nonsense of pretended experts in science? 196 The Flaming Sword We are absolutely sure of our ground; and we The corresponding stellar nucleus in humanity appears reiterate, that no man who builds a theory upon the and disappears as the Lord, the Son of God, at stated basis of an hypothesis, and who declares that "hy periods of the world's progress. These changes of state pothesis or guesswork, indeed, lies at the foundation of with man, correspond to the varied qualities of stellar all scientific knowledge," has any reasonable claims to nuclei in the space of the alchemico-organic cosmos. consideration. Guesswork is not science. A statement When man attains to the perfection reached by the made by a so called scientist today and contradicted Lord Jesus, he is so related to all things in the natural tomorrow, is not science; and yet this is the stuff that aud spiritual humanity as to render him as central to has been palmed off as scientific upon a credulous public this whole, as the astral (alchemico-organic) nucleus is for hundreds of years, and the men who have the central to the alchemico-organic cosmos. For this audacity to eject these emanations are dubbed as reason, when the crucifixion of the Lord obstructed the scientists. flow of the anthropostic nucleus, the current of the A Modern Orthodox Question Answered from the physical cosmos was interrupted, and the sun was dark Koreahan Viewpoint ened. A priucipal lesson is found here in the general "I cannot see why the universe should be limited to a law of astrology. The central man—the Lord Jesus single cosmic cell. The analogy of cell structure in the human Christ, the bright and Morning Star of the anthropostic body, with groups coordinated in interdependent series, would seem to suggest a plurality of worlds, limited in number, and cosmos, was so related to the central star of the forming, in their serial aggregate, that larger cosmic structure alchemico-organic world, as to interrupt its currents which Swedenborg designated as the 'Grand Man. ' Does the (its vibrations) when the current of his humanity was logic of your premise inexorably limit the universe to a single world?" for the time being obscured. AVhat is true supremely We are frequently met with the above inquiry. The as pertaining to the central man, is true correspond cosmic cell, which we claim includes the universe, focal- ingly with every other man. izesits universal imprint upon myriadsof stellar points, In the Koreshan Cosmogony, it is announced that through the subtension of its pencilings of potency. immediately above our common atmosphere of oxygen These focal stellar nuclei are grouped in clusters, and nitrogen there obtains one of pure hydrogen. In according to the geometric action of reflection and the activities which comprise the life and perpetuity of refraction. These constellations, fixed in their positions that atmospheric field, there are combinations of spirit and relations according to the "inexorable" laws of and matter which, if not precipitated, would constitute geometrization, correspond to nations and individuals deleterious elements. These are thrown down and at of humanity; and in the lesser form of creation (the once appropriated by the field below. The gravic (de microcosm), to the arrangement of cells in the infolded scending) essences produced by the contiguity of the or incubated form of the vidual. Were the ordinary hydrogen with the oxygpn upon which it rests, unite in human form opened out or evolved into the form of the our own atmosphere with coordinate levic essences pro cosmic shell, as it is before incubation, it would be in duced at the point of contact of our atmosphere with the form of the grand cosmic structure, with its rind or the surface upon which it rests. circumference and its stellar groups, though in magni Z>'ha Descending or Eliminations Gravic and Ascending or Levic tude, the correspondent of the microcosm or the little The descending or gravic eliminations of the hydro universe,—the universe in its least form. gen sphere combine, in our atmosphere, with the levic Every star in the grand cell (the universe) is the eliminations of the surface below; and in the union of imprint of the whole in proportion to its attitude the two the cloud is formed and thence the water is toward all other stars, and is complete in proportion produced, which, precipitated (dejected as water), to its approximation to the astral nucleus. The stellar clarifies the atmosphere and becomes a supporter of life nucleus is the point at the center of the great camera in the field beneath. There is not a domain in existence, obscura, where the photograph (light writing) is taken either in the alchemico-organic world or in the lower of the great shell and all contained in it. As the astral biologic, anthropostic, angelic, or theo-anthropostic, center is the photograph of the alchemico-organic in which this law does not prevail and operate. (physical) cosmos as an entirety, it is—in the least The hells themselves generate the forms of life they form—the kinetic nucleus of the essences of the cosmic cannot endure, and spew them upward in their ascend structure, and therefore the point of both the inception ing flight to realms of joy above. Christ the Lord, in and ex-ception; that is, the point of the limitation of his ascending development, came from the hells, and the afferent tendency, and beginningof the efferent flow, was the first begotten of the .dead; and when created, that is, of radiation. had he remained a tangible personality among the Z>hf Astral Nucleus of the Physical Cosmos inhabitants of earth, would have done so as an effete Eternally Fixed Point element of the nether world, a cause of disintegration, This astral point is not the Lord God, but it is the a disease in the body politic, and a disrupter of society; point in the alchemico-organic whole which coordinates but being eliminated as an ejection from the sphere of with and corresponds to the astral nucleus in human brutality whence he arose, he operated as the conser ity; that is, to the Lord. The astral nucleus is an vator of the less brutal field of benign activity in his eternally fixed point near the center of the alchemico- spiritual power. organic structure, because it is in and related to space. (To be continued ) The, Pl&rnin$£ Sword 197 THE COMING OF THE LORD OR THE In what particular manner will the Sign of the CHURCH TRIUMPHANT Lord's coming be made manifest to the world? To all Discrimination Between the True and such as desire to discriminate between the false and the the False, an Essential Prerequisite true Christ, and to be directed by the wisdom of illumi [Cyrus iu (Juiding Star, March, ISSO.] nation to the genuine presence, this is a most impor /k T A TIME when there is so much agitation of the tant inquiry. "Behold, I will send my messenger, and subject of the Lord's coming, it befits rational he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom men to question for a moment the causes which lead to ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the the entertainment of a thought so repugnant to most messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, minds. When the Lord Christ departed with his visible he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts." This Messen presence from among men, he unequivocally annun ger must necessarily have both a name and a function. ciated the truth that iu due season he would return to The Bible, if in a supreme sense a revelation of God gather the fruit of his planting, or to make up his to man, ought to announce so important an event as jewels for the new church. the coming of his Messenger so specifically as to declare his name. The reader may consult Isaiah xliv: 28, and Among other things taught to His Disciples and there find an unmistakable and unequivocal statement church was the doctrine, that at the time when the true of who this Messenger shall be: "That saith of Cyrus, Messiah should return there would be false christs and He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: false prophets; and the most natural and rational con even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to sideration would relate the counterfeit with the genuine the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid." in such a manner as to make them manifest about or nearly co-existent. A counterfeit bill is always made This is doubly confirmed in the chapter succeeding, upon a genuine bank. the first verse of which reads as follows: "Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand In the beginning of the Christian age, and a little I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will prior to the Lord's public declaration of his Messiahloose the loins of kings, to open before him the two ship, there came a counterfeit so nearly like the genuine leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go that the impostor even had the name Jesus, and he before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I gained a large following. The coming of the Lord "in will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the clouds of heaven with power and great glory," is the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of his coming in his people who shall constitute the multi darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou plied fruit of regeneration. The coming of Christ is mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy "the great and dreadful day of the Lord." The one name, am the God of Israel." supreme indication of the proximity of the harvest C/ie Church Established Through Cyrus Is the time will be iu the Sign of the Lord's coming, which Church Triumphant must unmistakably precede and announce the manifes What will be the special office of this Messenger? tation. "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet 'But who may abide the day of his coming? and before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a Lord: and he [not she] shall turn the heart of the fathers refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap: And he shall sit as to the children, and the heart of the children to their a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." sons of Levi." The name Levi signifies conjunction; The sure Sign or indication of the presence of the "day and the sons of Levi are those who, through the process of the Lord" is the appearance of this Prophet. of purification, are conjoined to the Lord through the Elijah the Prophet the Sign of the Lord's Coining baptism of fire, which is to obtain as the result of the The Disciples of Jesus went to him and said: theocrasis of Cyrus. "When shall these things be? and what shall be the The church or ecclesiastical branch of the Koreshan sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" He System has been known for the last eighteen years as spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem, then of the mani the Church Triumphant. It has so gone forth to the festation of "the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and world; and the attempt to steal the name by a certain then," said he, "shall all the tribes of the earth mourn; sect of religionists, is but another proof of the counter and they [the tribes] shall see the Son of man coming feit character of the body making the theft. We have in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." two reasons for calling the attention of the public Has this Sigu appeared? And if so, where, when, and through this channel to the special name of the church how? If there is to be a Sign specifically desiguative of department of Koresh. The first is, that there be no the coming of the Lord, it must be of a conspicuous confusion regarding the distinction of the Church and pronounced character; and it will certainly precede Triumphant or Assembly of the Covenant, the ecclesias the special great divine manifestation. W'hat is this tical branch of the System, from a secular branch called Sign to be? This question is suggested by virtue of the the Society Arch-Triumphant, holding its name under very importance of the subject, and is answered by the the corporate authority of the State of Illinois. The passage already quoted: "Behold, I will send you Society Arch-Triumphant is the special domain of the Elijah the Prophet." secular uses of the Order. 198 The Flaming Sword £/,e Woman Clothed With the Sun Absolute Truth or the Perfect Mentality of the GodMan; Absolute Good or the God-Man Per la Revelation we read of a phenomenon described fected in Life as follows: "And there appeared a great wonder in The literal Word, as to truth, is its science. As to heaveD; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon its life, it is the manifest and formate God-Man. As to under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve both life and truth, or truth and good, it is the man stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in perfected in life, in whom is also the truth as to that life. birth, and pained to be delivered." This woman in one Why does cherubim signify the natural or literal Word? aspect or phase of Biblical interpretation is the spirit The word cherub, as has been already stated , is from of the church in tribulation, because still under the the root chur or koor. This root in its primary signifi curse. The proof of her being under the curse and in cance means to bore through or pierce. Its secondary tribulation, may be found in the fact that she is with meaning is smelting place or place for smelting metals. child and is in pain to be delivered, which, if compared This can only be fully comprehended through a knowl with the curse pronounced upon the woman as recorded edge of the Koreshan Cosmogony, which is the true sci in Genesis, will prove her to be the same. ence of the form and function of universal creation. The spirit of the church is not delivered of her child This System is defined as center and circumference; until it is born. If the spirit is the universal spirit, the the pivot, focal point, or center being the point of influx child is the universal child. There are many forms of of all forces proceeding from the circumference, which is interpretation to the Word, any one of which is correct composed of a, shell made up of a number of strata or if the exposition is logically founded upon and logically layers of metallic substance. The relation of the center succeeds the premise of its own degree. to the circumference, is that of influx and efflux. If all "And he placed at the east [rising] of the garden of forcesflowfrom the universal circumference to the center Eden Cherubim [the masculine dual form of the noun of such periphery, and thence again from this center to chur, koororkur], and a naming sword which turned the circumference, this pivot or nucleus is made the point every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." What of piercing or boring through. Again, if this center is is this Flawing Sword which turns every way? And the point of the aggregation of all forces resulting from what is the significance of its turning every way? The the dissolution of the metallic substances comprising sword is the literal Word or Logos, for this alone can the circumference of the System, it is the center of com keep or perpetuate the tree. But what is the Word or bustion of all substances, and therefore the smelting Logos in its last or ultimate degree? Elijah was the place. Elohistic manifestation of the Word. His ascension in The Uniform Significance of the Lord's New Name in the Various Ancient Languages a chariot of fire was its flame. This poiut is the astral or star center, and is within Jesus was the Jehovistic manifestation of the Logos and central to the solar sphere. The root koor should or Word, and his ascension or theocrasis was its flame. therefore constitute the root of the word signifying the The theocrasis of Cykus, which is his ascension by the sun, and consequently the son, both words having their chariot of fire, will be its flame. But what is the signifi origin in the same idea. The Egyptian word Horos cance of its turning every way? What is a way or the applied to the son begotten of the invisible Father way? Said Jesus, "I am the way." This was one way, O.siris, through Isis; the corresponding Greek word and it was turned by the theocrasis of Jesus. Elijah Kuros; the Arabic word Koreish; Persian, Surya; San was a way, and it was turned by his theocrasis. Moses scrit, Svarya; Hebrew, Korean, are all identical, and all was a way, and it was turned by his theocrasis. Enoch mean the Sun or the Son of man, and the Son of God, as was a way, and it was turned by his theocrasis. Every the final name by which the Lord will be known at the one of these ways was turned as shown; therefore every end or the grand cycle. way was turned that the way of the Tree of Life (divine If the reader will take a compass or pair of dividers human) should be kept or perpetuated. and describe a circle, and make a point or dot at or The two cherubs (two male forms) were represented near the center; then imagine essence to be flowing from with very large and extended wings. This is because the circumference or circle thus described to the poiut, wings signify powers. The wings of the cherubs imply and thence flowing toward the circle, it may readily be the power of truth in last or ultimate things. The imagined that this center would comprise the double cherubs assymbols were significative of the literal Word. apex; namely, the point of inflow and outflow, therefore It may be well here to state what is meant by the literal the point of conjunction. This, then, would be the end Word. By it is signified the Word op Logos according and beginning as to space, because it would be the ter to the letter. This is its outermost aspect or phase, or minal point of all essences, and as the terminal point, as Swedenborg denominates it, "sense." also the beginning. It would therefore constitute the vivifying point or apex. As such, it would comprise Koreshan Science teaches elsewhere that there are four true and the impregnative center. four opposite or false interpretations, but the four true ones are har The physical universe is the literal expression of the monious when the law of correspondential analogy is applied. For instance, in one aspect or phase of the true interpretation, Cyrus mind of God, which cannot be comprehended except as (Koresh) is "the woman clothed with the sun." for sun is mascu this letter of God's life is correctly rendered or inter line.-.-/. W. preted. There might be a thousand or ten thousand
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