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Part XV
ALL MOTION resides primarily in the astral center of anthropostic being, and is thence communicated to the astral center of alchemico-organic existence, which becomes subjectively causative of the perpetuity of form and function in the alchemico-organic cosmos. (It is not within the province of this chapter to consider the causes of mental substance and the laws primarily in force to promote mental action, and therefore life.) There is an astral center or stellar nucleus having a triplex motion. The first is axillary, the second slightly orbital, resulting from certain causes which determine the eccentricity of the star, and which we will proceed to define. The primary influences bearing upon the motions above referred to are heat and cold, which are related to each other as two extremes of the equatorial axis of the stellar nucleus. We have to consider the emplacement of the star in relation to the shell or rind of the universe. It is particularly upon the occult rays (rays identical in kind with the so called Rœntgen or X ray) that the star depends for its eccentricity. Its first motion is axillary; this depends upon the impingement of influent substance. The second action is slightly orbital, thrown eccentric by the expansive force of occult caloric rays, and oppositely, by the mutual contraction of the occult cruosic rays. The third motion is that of the rotation of an axis on a pivot, like the motion of a top when spinning, with its central peg or post out of perpendicular. The accompanying diagram partially illustrates it.
The central star is represented by a, the axis of the star b, the poles of the stellar axis cc; d is the axis of stellar eccentricity, pointing toward the corresponding terrestrial magnetic north pole. The poles of the stellar axis cc indicate a magnetic current produced by the axillary motion of the star. The magnetic axis d is produced by the orbital or eccentric motion of the stellar nucleus.
It will be noticed in the diagram, that the stellar axis b lies oblique to the eccentric axis d. The cause of this obliquity resides in the attraction of the magnetic force of d, the axis of the eccentricity. The relatively fixed magnetic pole in the earth is the terminal terrestrial point of the magnetic current d, produced by the friction of momentum flowing first from the orbit of the eccentricity to the center or nucleus of this orbit, thence toward the poles of said axis.
As the stellar nucleus tilts less obliquely in its movement toward the equator, the direction of its radiations is more parallel until the equatorial circle is reached, when the vertical ray is directly over the circle. There is necessarily a cause for the change of the obliquity of the stellar axis. At the equator it is nearly parallel with the axis of the eccentricity d. At the equator and moving toward the north in its obliquity, the stellar axis is being loaded with the magnetic force of its axillary motion. This attracts its pole more and more toward the axis of its eccentricity, d, until it comes near enough to discharge its substance sufficiently to allow its stellar axis c to withdraw. It then recedes from the northern axis of its eccentricity toward the equator, continuing the change in the obliquity of its axis toward the southern magnetic zone e.
It does not reach, as it tilts toward the south, the same degree of obliquity, because at the southern pole there is not the same fixed magnetic center, but rather an inductive magnetic zone with a movable magnetic pole along the course of this zone. It is the motion of this movable magnetic induction center on the induction zone, that causes the variation of the needle south of the equator, which so puzzles the mariner. The three movements above described, cause night and day and the seasons. Besides the change which we know to obtain in the relatively obliquity of the stellar axis c, is a motion of the stellar nucleus from north to south and from south to north.
If the civil engineer or geodetic surveyor will examine the needle of the compass as it points toward the north magnetic pole, taking into consideration the variation of the needle east or west on the arc of the parallel of any given meridian, he will discover that it would be impossible for the two extremities to point toward two local magnetic polar points. It will be noticed that while the needle at the north points to a magnetic center or pole, the needle at the south describes a circle. This in itself demonstrates the fact that the southern extreme is a zone or belt, confirming one of the principal axioms of the Koreshan System; namely, given the pole of a known or tangible axis, the obscure terminus of the same axis is the exact coördinate. For instance; the known pole of the axis being a sphere, the coördinate axis is the cube; or given the known pole of an axis being a cube, the coördinate axis is the sphere. If the known magnetic center is a fixed pole, the opposite and coördinate pole is necessarily a zone.
Measurement of the Earth: the Higher Uses of Geodesy in the Sphere of True Astrology
The readers of The Flaming Sword and students of the Koreshan Universology are becoming familiar with the term “geodesy,”’ and the phrase, “The New Geodesy;” and that there may be no misunderstanding of its meaning and its bearing upon life, we think it admissible to define its significance and its relation to the system of universal culture which the Koreshan Universology embraces. The term geodesy is from two Greek words; ge, earth, and dai, to divide. It is literally the science of dividing the earth, or of defining its character as to form, that there may be a foundation for a knowledge of its functions.
There are three fundamental laws involved which, when understood, determine the form and function of the universe as an entirety. These are first, the science of Comparative Cellology, the foundation principle of which analogically determines the fact that all life, whether that life be specific or general, unfolds within the cell. The law and principle of comparative evolution analogically determine the fact that universal life is a unity, and that the progress of gestative evolution must necessarily progress within the great cell or womb of creative incrementation. Second, the science of vision, known by the term “optics,” in which is interpreted the appearances of objects on the surface of the earth as related to the earth’s contour.
At this point let us quote a passage of Scripture which has a very significant application to the subject under discussion: ‘Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” This law applies as well to physical observations as to moral, religious, and spiritual things. Things are not as they appear at all times; hence the necessity for understanding principles, that interpretations may be genuinely true. Book optics and practically applied optics are two very different things. The reader must become familiar with practically applied optics. For instance, the books will tell you that because the earth is convex, three posts placed in the water three miles apart will conform to the convexity, and the middle one will be the highest of the three on the convex surface; and looking from the initial post toward the terminal one, the line of vision will cut the middle post and strike the terminal or distal post at a higher point than the middle one. No one pretends to dispute this fact of observation.
Vision Deceptive Unless the Law of Foreshortening Is Applied
Now, the interpretation given and generally believed, is that the world is convex; and because it is convex, and vision being in a straight line, the fact is according to the appearance. Place three posts three miles apart, the distal one being six miles from the initial post—the three posts being each one foot above the water’s surface. Now place the eye unaided by the telescope, at the top of the initial post and look toward the middle and terminal post. The middle and distal posts will be out of sight, not from the fact of convexity, but from the fact of perspective foreshortening. Place a telescope, say, of about three inches diameter of the objective lens, upon the initial post; you will look over the top of the middle post and see the distal one on a curve above the middle post. The truth concerning the matter is that vision is deceptive unless the science of perspective foreshortening is applied to the interpretation of the first and second observation, the one with the unaided eye and the other with the aid of the telescope. The fact that the books and practical experiment do not agree, should serve as a precaution against believing all the books say, when those books are made from theory founded upon assumption.
The science of optics, then, may be called the second science applicable to geodetic discrimination, and one of the laws employed to corroborate the testimony of Comparative Cellology, which determines the contour of the surface of the earth, and the fact that the earth is a great electro-magnetic cell. It should be remembered that Comparative Cellology settles the question of the concavity of the earth, and the fact that man inhabits the earth. The science of optics corroborates the testimony of Cellology.
The third science is that of mechanics as applied to the measure of the contour. It will be noticed that there are three methods of proving the fact of the concavity of the earth’s surface. The first and greatest is Comparative Cellology; the second and most complicated, the application of optics; the third and most simple, by mechanical application. In the perfection of a treatise on the “New Geodesy,” these three principles would necessarily be included, for the reason that the corroborative testimony of more witnesses than one is essential to conviction of different characters of mentality. Geodetic science determines place in relation to the development of character, and the higher application of the science is the predetermination of character through the designation of the time and place of the inception of the nativity, and to this should be added the parentage and its lineage.
The Messianic Character the Bread-Keeper: Its Deep Significance
The Messianic character of nineteen hundred years ago declared himself to be the Bread-keeper, and consequently the term Lord was the most legitimate appellation, for the word Lord is an old Saxon word meaning bread-keeper. It is the best English into which the Hebrew word Yavah or Javeh could be rendered. The Hebrew is generally expressed as Jehovah. Jehovah or Lord signifies the ‘keeper of the bread.”” The “house of bread’ was the aggregation of people who should eat the bread contained in the retainer of the bread which was to be given to the world—the Bread which came down from heaven, which if a man eat he shall live forever. Because he was the Bread-keeper he was born at Bethlehem, a term meaning “house of bread.” The location was predetermined, and the prophets declared that the Son of God would be born at that place. That distinctive location, with reference to the divisions of the earth, was instrumental in determining the character. :
One of the necessities, therefore, of a correct geodesy is a correct determination, under a perfect marital order, of the time and place of birth for the development of specific characters. A Napoleon or an idiot might be born under the same general aspects, so far as the deductions of what is now called the science of astrology are concerned, and no one would know the difference, from astrological science as now developed; and no one would be able to give a reason for the discrepancy in the characters of the two nativities. Were it possible for two persons to be born at the same time in the same place—these two, being born of different parents, would not be alike. They might have many peculiarities in common, while one might be a great man and the other less than mediocre.
Something Besides Astronomical Phases Essential to the Creation of Character
It will therefore be seen that something besides astronomical phases is essential to the creation of character. Two persons might have been born in Bethlehem at the same moment, under the same astrological conditions, so far as the astrological indications could be deciphered, and but one of those could have had the characteristics of the Savior of the world. It will be seen that to insure a perfect system of astrological reading, some things must be involved that are not now included within the province of so called astrological science. Among these factors is a proper geodetic science, which implies a very critical subdivision of the earth’s surface.
In the Hebrew system, where the science of astrology was critically defined, there was a record kept of all the family lines from the very beginning of the ramifications of the Hebrew race. Jacob provided that his twelve sons should be born under special astronomical or astrological influences. Each son was born under a particular sign, and each had for his coat of arms the sign of the constellation under which he was born and to which he belonged. It gave to them character and power according to the significance of the nativity. Israel knew and applied the law of stirpiculture to the development of character, determining beforehand the astrological career, rather than to be able to pass upon the career after the astrological fate of the character had been carelessly fixed.
If there be a higher use to which astrological science can be applied, that use is in the predetermination of the character of the native. Such application can be made when the science of marriage is reduced to the laws of its highest uses, one factor of which is the law of propagation restrained to the legitimate function of cohabitation, which means that there shall be no waste of the sexual forces for the mere pleasure of animal gratification. There will come a time, and that in the near future, when it will not be considered “race suicide” for men to conserve the potencies of life to be legitimately employed upon the basis of a definite science, the will or desire being controlled by the cultured and refined intellect.
The time is at hand when men will know that the salvation of the race depends upon the fruition of the offspring of the Lord Jesus the Christ, who will be as free from sensual desire as was the Lord. The salvation of the race from “race suicide’ depends upon the rescue of the race from the influence of public instructors whose highest conception of race progress and perpetuity consists of the indiscriminate propagation of the family like the undomesticated and unrestricted brute. It is time that brute propagation in the human race be restrained and refined, if there is to be a salvation of the race from the suicidal tendencies into which it has so conspicuously declined through a disregard of the propagative law.
Outline of Principles of Accurate Measurement of the Earth’s Contour
Geodesy is the application of mechanical and other means for the purpose of determining measurements of the earth’s surface, including not only that of its general contour as to whether it is concave, flat, or convex, but also of demonstrating the amount of curvation at any given point and in any given direction.
The Copernican system of astronomy assumes that the earth’s surface is convex, and upon this assumption the fallacious system has been fabricated. No astronomer has ever yet presented any proof of the Copernican system; and one of the persistent efforts of the modern physicist is to find some irrefragable proof of what every so called astronomical scientist knows to be merely an assumption.
The Koreshan System of Astronomy is in direct opposition to the Copernican system, and unlike the Copernican system it is founded, not upon an assumption, but rather upon a premise so absolutely within the sphere of mechanical demonstration as to place it beyond and out of the uncertainty of mere postulation, which we assert to be the basis of so called modern science.
(To be continued.)
Editorial transcription checked against the cited scans; historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 28, No. 3 · Mar 1914 · PDF pp. 6–9