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By Koresh — Part XVII.
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132 The Flaming Sword upon tbe bones; after which God's respiration completes THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY the process of the resurrection. o%« Exact Knowledge of the Form and Function In the preceding analysis, we differentiated the two of the Vniverse the Basis of the Social Government of Koreshanity forms of the resurrection, making the distinction be By Koresh tween the spiritual resurrection, which characterized the beginningof the Christian dispensation, and the natural, PART XVII. which must characterize the beginning of the new age. 1HE "higher criticism," founded by the skeptic, Nineteen hundred years ago, the birth was a spiritual infidel, and shaky theological inventor, upon the one for the new man; now, the birth will be a natural fallacionsCopernican assumption, iscompletely knocked one for the new man. This corruptible shall put on out as a fabrication of the devil. The self-structured incorruption,and this mortal shall puton immortality. and self-continuing universe as described by Koresh, The mortal spirit of the Grand Man (the church) was furnishes thelaws and principles of social government in transformed to immortality in the beginningof the age, the earth. If, as it is declared, there can be no question but the body was not thus changed. It remained mor of the demonstration of this theory, it will be the tal, and was to so continue until the resurrection of the destruction of all the books ever published on as dead at the end of the age. tronomy, a revolution in university and collegiate It ought to be needless for us to reiterate the truth instruction, and will give Koreshanity the monopoly of that resurrection, anastasia,rcsurgam, standing again, these departments of activity. are terms which apply to the fact of reincarnation, or As the theological system of Koreshanity is claimed the coming again of those who lived in the beginning of to be the logical outcome of an established astronomy, the age; and that the coming resurrection, to define the the basis of which is the exactitude of mathematical line of demarcation between the Christian and the demonstration, it will naturally come in for monopoly Koreshan dispensations, is but the reincarnation of in the manufacture and supply of material for all the those who, nineteen hundred years ago, were quickened pulpits of the land—as the business of that pulpit work, in the spirit, but who in the beginning of the new age dependent upon a religion modified and warped through will attain the immortal flesh. the influence of modern so nailed science, will be obsolete. There is coming a new universal kingdom. It will The exact knowledge of the form and function of the be manifest in fulfilment of prophetic declaration, and physical universe is the basis for the religious system of in answer to the prayer indited by the Lord: "Thy Koreshanity, and from this develops the governmental kingdom come." It will develop from the germinal be and social life of the order. Mental and physical in ginningof that kingdom planted in the race (thechurch) dustry is classified in the system, and also the products at the beginning of the age. The Lord was that king of industry: and the relation of the one to the other is dom in archetypical structure. He was the germ, the so adjusted as to provide for an equitable distribution kingdom in its least (its individual) form and life. The of all the products of industry. Grand Man, the kingdom in its greatest form, will be as Theology of the Koreshan System absolutely structured as was its germinal beginning. It will be as natural in its universal form and function, as Man is the habitation and permanent dwelling-place the Lord was in his individual organism. Not only is of Deity. The perfect humanity, regenerated in spirit, this true, but the time is at hand when this kingdom soul, and body, so as to render it immortal and incor shall be resurrected. It is already resurrected as to its ruptible, is the temple of God, for "God is in his holy spiritual life; it must be formulated in its external and temple." Jesus, the Christ aud Savior of the world, material structure, when, through the descent of the was one of the many manifestations of the infinite, spiritual, the material will be made alive. appearing at regularepochs and intervalsof theworld's This leads us to the inquiry: What comprises the progress aud perpetuity. TheSon of God was produced bones of this natural organic kingdom? This question from man, therefore he was the Son of man. In Him can only be answered upon the basis of a knowledge of dwelt thefulnessof the Godhead bodily; hence the trinity the law of correspondence. The vidual man and the was in him and of him. He was biune, Bride and Bride individual man in the least form (microcosmic) possess groom; and because of this fact he was immortal and natural, material bones. The universal individual (un became the parent of immortal life, a condition yet to divided) man, macrocosmic and natural, must also be attained by the human race. He was not only the possess natural bones as the framework of the socio resurrection (reincarnation) of David and Abraham, economic fabric. If we are able to defiue the bones of but of the millions of spirits of those who had died dur the microcosmic natural man, we should be able to ing the Jewish age, looking forward to his coming as define the bones of the macrocosmic natural man. their Messiah and resurrection. After His resurrection (To be continued) from Joseph's tomb, which was typical of the resurrec tion of the general humanity, he appeared materially to his Disciples. In the presence of many His material Everyman whodoes business upon the present, busi form was dissolved, his body was reduced by a spiritual ness system, does so in direct violation of the principles of that divine economy toward which the better influen combustion to Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost), and was ces of the world are tending.—Koresh. absorbed by the church. This spirit was the seminal The Flaming Sword 133 essence of Jehovah, and the vitalizer of the church as theory which he declared is predicated upon an assump the germs of regeneration (reproduction). From this tion, a theory which pleases his penchant for building plauting will mature the Sons of God,offspriug of Jesus air castles. the Lord, and therefore Sons of God. Immortality will An object can be seen at the water's edge, with a come to the race as a procedure from Him who is the good telescope, for many miles,—six or eight or ten, Creator and Perpetuator of the universe. and even more, according to the diameter of the instru This dispensation is coming to its close; the old ment. The newspaper fraternity can observe it, and heavens and earth (cliurch and state) are about to pass through their instrumentality the masses of the people away, and new heavens and new earth (church and can have their attention called to the fact and to the state), wherein dwelleth righteousness, will form the observation. Then the so called scientists will have beginning of the new dispensation. something more to do than to say, "We do not believe The ushering in of this new kingdom of righteous it." And more than this; the Rectilineator furnishes a ness will be in the practical proof to the world of the mechanical proof of the coucavity of the earth, from Cellular Cosmogony; it will overthrow all "scientific" which the intricate principles of optics are expunged. beliefs, and establish a true astronomy as the basis of The Geodetic Staff of the Koreshan Unity has demon a true theology. strated the concavity of the earth. Science Founded Upon Assumption Must Fall The scientists do not pretend that what they call "science" is veritable knowledge. If their hypotheses It is time that wise (?) men were turned backward are mere assumptions, as they declare them to be, it is and their knowledge made foolish. Some years since, high time that there be established something positive a man denominating himself "Parallax" attempted to as to the fundaments of a rational prediction. An prove that the earth was flat, by proving that it was argument founded upon an assumption concludes not round like a ball. That he demonstrated it to be merely an assumption,—nothing more. The time has not convex and round like a ball, there is not a shadow come when assumption will no longer be called "science." of a doubt in our mind;—but he did not demonstrate When there is once established a true system of physical the fiat theory. astronomy, which we know to be contained in the the About the time that "Parallax" was engaged in ory of the Cellular Cosmogony, then there rests a foun England upon the theory of theflat surface of theearth, dation, a firmament, upon which may securely stand we had demonstrated the concave theory, or the the superstructure of an established theology and con hypothesis of the Cellular Cosmogony. At that time sequent sociology, as corroborated by Scripture: we knew nothing of "Parallax's" efforts or claims, nor "Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, aud he that did we know of them for many years after. In the dis formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that makcussions occurring at the time regarding the claims of eth all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; "Parallax" we quote the following: that spreadeth abroad theearth by himself. That frus "Parallax's" chief argument, at his first lecture, was trated the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners one which could not possibly beanswered. Hedescribed mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh how he had stood up to his neck in the water of Bedford their knowledge foolish. That confirmeth the word of canal, where there is a straight reach of six miles, and his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messen had, with the telescope, seen down near the water's gers." This prophecy is about to be fulfilled, to the edge a small boat six miles away. OF course, the only dismay of the so called scientists. sound answer to his reiterated questions, "What say you to that? How can you explain that?" was simply, Gfte Planets of the Physical Heavens not Inhab ited; the Earth the Habitation of Man, and the "We do not explain it; we decline to believe it."—Proc Brain of Man the Dwelling Place of Spirits tor's Letter to Harper's Weekly. A brilliant display of lights on the planet Mars In an interview we had with Professor Harkness raised the question as to whether the inhabitants were of the Observatory at Washington, we referred him to trying to signal the earth. Attention was called to the corresponding experiments made by our Geodetic Staff fact that Emmanuel Svvedenborg, in his account of the on the Old Illinois Drainage Canal near Chicago, aud "Earths in the Universe," makes the statement that also to experiments of like character made at various "the inhabitants of Mars have a method of making a places with like results, and then asked the question: liquid fire of great brilliancy." This being true, what is your explanation? To which the Mars is a mercurial disc with metallic amalgama Professor replied: "If that were true.it would prove tions, moving between the laminae or plates of the cos that the theory concerning the convex rotundity of the mic shell,—the crust of the earth. It is seen by reflec earth is wrong; but," he continued, "it is not true." tion, through the action of a ray of ultra-physical sub Would Professor Harkness put himself out to examine stance. It emits essences, nothing more, and is not the experiment? Most emphatically, no! Aud why inhabited. Mars, in the corresponding anthropostic not? "Because," to use his own expression, "I am per world, is the habitation of beings. When Swedenborg fectly satisfied." With what? Why, of course with a visited the spirits of Mars, he did nothing more than to * The interview with the Professor, here mentioned, took place enter the spiritual world of the people born under the in the year 1S96. influence of the so called planet. The spiritual world is 134 The Flaming Sword in man, not'out of him. Mars spirits dwell in Mars his own consummate knowledge of the laws of life and people, but they are on this physical crust, and not in their intellectual and scientific application. the physical heavens. Swedenborg, being under the Eaoch reached his perfection here in this world; so illusion of the old system of astronomy, had not learned did Moses, Elias, and Jesus. Jesus was theocrasised and the difference. sat down in the throne of Deity, for which he was fitted It is not generally known that the entire spiritual by his experiences and growth. From the life of man He world is within man; nevertheless, such is the truth. became the life of God. The throne of God is perpet Man is the habitation of spirits. When the mind of uated through the heir of that throne, who successively any living person recedes within itself and enters the matures in the natural world and ascends to his inheri spiritual world, it does not enter a material world or tance from this world, where the laws of life are discov world of space. The mind in the pneumic or psychic ered, applied, and obeyed. The Almighty raises up his realm never travels as men travel here. The mind heir through successive ages, from among men, and passes through changes of state merely; and when, in when the perfect man appears, he is absorbed into the any change of mental quality, rapport is obtained with eternal consciousness of the Deific center, and thus the any sphere, the spirit is with the inhabitants of that center and throne of the intellectual universe are perpet sphere. The change seems like traversing space, but uated. no space is traversed. If the minds of the "advanced" Mars people in the earth comprise the habitation of people of this material sphere could once learn the fact the Mars spirits. What is true of the Mars spirits is that there is but one world of matter, that humanity true also of all planetary inhabitants. The light gener comprises all there is of being, and that the spiritual ated by the spirits of the psychic realm of the Mars world is in humanity, one great step would be taken people, is nothing more than the light of intellectual toward a general knowledge of Deistic being. power. But this light has its correspondence in the The inhabitants of any planet in the spiritual, do peculiar manifestations that may be seen as the result not belong to the material planets. The alchemico- of natural forces of the mercurial planetary disc. organic (physical) world is the cosmogonic sphere 'She Cortical Area of Vision Through which The shell or rind of the universe, with all it contains— Sight Is Conveyed the sun at the center, the atmospheres intervening, with In considering the objections against the present the various essences and their modifications.—comprises astronomical hypothesis about to engage the reader's the alchemico-organic integralism. Corresponding to attention, we would first invite a consideration of the this is the humanity, with the astral center, the at principles of optics as enunciated through the pages of mospheres (spiritual spheres), and the outer rind of the Koreshan literature, and especially to the fact that humanity; namely, the seven churches culminating at visual- substance generated in the gray matter of the the end of the age, as the environment of the races. cerebrum and cerebellum, has more to do with the func Within these churches are the seven spiritual planetary tion of sight than the motion of extraneous physical spheres of spiritual being. These are all in the human force. Therefore while studying this objection, the race, not out of it. reader will remember that in our presentation of the in £%e Spiritistic Mind an Unreliable Teacher Con consistencies of the Copernican system, we are also pre cerning; any State of Spiritual Existence senting the modern astronomer's views of the action of God dwells in man, not out of him. "God is in the physical substance. generation of the righteous,"—in humanity. These Vision, according to the present conception, radiates things cannot be understood by the ordinary material from any given center of the substance called light, and istic mind, and the so called spiritistic or spiritualistic penetrates the pupil of the eye, making its impression mind is virtually material, thinks materially, and there upon the retina, whence the impression is conveyed fore is unreliable as a teacher concerning any state of through the optic nerve, commissure, and tract, to the spiritual existence. cortical area of vision in the gray matter of the cere It is a fact that the spiritual spheres are so inti brum. Every radiation of substance from the sun or mately and closely related to the external domain, that any of the stars, enters our atmosphere at some nngleof they progress proportionably to the progress of the deflection; the angle of refraction being proportionate mind in the natural, and that the spiritual world can to the divergence of the ray from the central or vertical only aid the natural in its progress, through the com one. In observing any star except the star vertical to parison of thought in both spheres. It is the aggregate thepointof observation.it is observed through an angle knowledge of both that enables the genuinely scien of refraction at the point where the substance enters the tific mind to reach final and infallible conclusions. atmosphere. The final scientific knowledge must be attained in No living being—supposing for the sakeof the argu this world, not in the spiritual. All mysteries of the ment that a ray of light penetrated our atmosphere universe are unfolded here. The climax of human wis from the sun or stars—could possibly determine the dom, of God wisdom, is attained here in the conjunction angle of refraction, without knowing the distance of the of the invisible astral center with the visible humanity limit of the atmosphere from the point of observation. who becomes, here in earth, the central man who walks The depth of the atmosphere is conceded by all astrono with God and becomes not, because absorbed through mers to be only approximately determined; and no two The Flaming Sword 135 astronomers are agreed as to the atmospheric depth. the amount of deviation at the unknown and uncertain Any man can positively know that the angle of refrac point—the limitation of the atmosphere? This is the tion cannot be determined without a knowledge of the question to which the Koreshan Cosmogonist demands ray of incidence, and that if the angle of refraction is an answer, and to which the investigating world also not known, the direction of a star observed through the demands an answer. ray cannot be determined. These considerations entering as factors into the It is positively known that no angle of refraction of problems of astronomy, demand some explanations any given ray of light from an objective source beyond regarding the fact that the astronomers do come to the atmosphere, can be determined unless the exact depth correct conclusions. Upon the basis of the ordinary of the atmosphere is absolutely known to the fraction calculation of the earth's curvation, or even a simple of an inch. In observing a star, either with the unaided divergence of an optical line from a rectiline, supposing eye or with a telescope, at an objective point divergent the divergence at theobjective end of a telescope twenty from the vertical direction, if the atmosphere were forty- feet in length to be only an eighty-one millionth of an five miles in depth, to the fraction of an inch, the angle inch, what would be thedirectiou and location of a sfar of refraction could be determined, had we an exact trillions of miles distant? knowledge of the difference iu the tenuity of the atmos (To be continued.) phere and of the ether beyond. If we could determine the angleof refraction we could determine the direction. If the atmosphere were just ninety miles in depth, as KEY TO THE ^AW OF JUDGMENT some astronomers affirm, then from that knowledge— Separation of the True From the False, were it absolute— we could determine the direction. C/><? Beginning of the Great Judgment
C>ii' Law of Refraction Must Be Known Before (From the Writings of Koresh) Radiatory Deflection Can Be Determined PART V If the atmosphere were forty-five miles in depth, the amplitude of the arc of its curvatiou could be accurately 1*HE CRISIS of judgment is at hand. The good are determined and the degree of refraction equally known. to be separated from the evil, the true from the The depth of the atmosphere, whether forty-five, false, and the good and true—made so by the redeeming ninety, or five hundred miles deep, must be positively power of divine grace through the incarnated Deityknown before the amplitude of its arc can be known, will be formulated into unity. No time is to be lost, and before the amount of radiatory deflection can be therefore, in consummating the work of creating a determined. We know that astronomers, in making ob solidarity which shall be able to breast the storm about servations, pay no attention to any refraction at the to be precipitated upon the world. supposed summit of the atmosphere. We also know Of all the prophetic books ever written, the Apoca that in works on physics and civil engineering, it is lypse is the most wonderful. The real basis of its claimed that allowance is made for what is supposed to marvelous character is the fact that it is a revelation be the refraction of the atmosphere. If the atmosphere made to John directly from the throne, the Lord Jesus refracts three inches to the mile, in an observation made seated on the throne being its author and inspiration. along a horizontal line, how much does it refract at any John was the personal environment of the throne of given direction from the horizontal to the vertical? If God. This is a clear proposition, when it is understood observation is made of a star at or near the horizon, that there is no spiritual existence outside of the hu and theflrst mile shows a deviationof threeinches,what manity in which every spiritual realm obtains. After will be the amount of deviation at any uncertain dis the dissolution of the personal form of the Lord and tance of forty-five, ninety, or five hundred miles? All the absorption of the substance of his body, (imparted of these estimates have been made by various observers through the operation of the Holy Spirit,) the Lord had and calculators. centrally individualized with the supreme Deity in If the earth curvates eight inches to the mile, it is whom he had entered as the specific heir to the eternal estimated, on a calculation made at a ratio inversely to throne, where he sat in his royal dignity and splendor. the square of the distance, that at the distance of three Every spiritual activity in the universe has for its miles thedeviation from the direction of theoptical tan pediment of tenure and perpetuity a material basis, gent is about seventy-two inahes, or six feet. If the without which it cannot operate. If it be the active atmosphere refracts an optical line three inches to the force of a conscious spiritual entity, it must have an mile, then at the distance of three miles—by the appli organic basis commensurate with the degree of power cation of the same law—the second mile would be nine to be expressed through its medium of communication. inches, and the third mile twenty-seven inches. John, James, and Peter constituted three tabernacles If the third mile affords a deviation of twenty-seven in whom the three discrete degrees of the heavens had inches from the tangent of the rectiline, making the cal their nuclei after the theocrasis of the Lord. John be culation upon the basis of the inverse ratio of the ing the environment of the center of the celestial and square of the distance totheuncertain limitation, which innermost degree, he was therefore the medium of this may be forty-five, ninety, or five hundred miles, (as yet wonderful revelation, only possible to be interpreted at undetermined.by any of the astronomers,) what will be the end of the Christian dispensation.
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