Extracted text
By Koresh — Part XVIII.
Editorial transcription, lightly normalized from the scan. Line-break hyphenation, spacing, capitalization, and unmistakable OCR errors have been repaired; the claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
When the telescope was invented and began to re E?i« Koreshan System of Cosmogony Confirms the veal the movement of satellites about the planets, the Bible and Upholds the Principles of the Christ facts observed by Galileo and others were stubbornly While our System of Cosmogony confirms the Bible denied by the astronomers of the Ptolemaic system; and and upholds the principles of the Christ of God, it shows for years Galileo succeeded in inducing but few to wit unmistakably not only where the mother of harlots ness the phenomena through the telescope. One scien resides, namely, the old church of Rome, but it as un tist who had more zeal, prejudice, and jealousy than mistakably and unequivocally points out the daughters knowledge and wisdom, wrote a dissertation on the tele who are the harlots; for if the mother of harlots is a scope, attempting to show how astigmatisms could be church, then the daughters of whom she is the mother, produced in the lenses, and the lenses made to revolve must also be churches. Where are these daughters? in such a way as to give the appearance of the satellites The Flaming Sword 165
revolving about the planet Jupiter. That man lived at the end of every eighth of a mile from the beginning and died without ever having made a single astronom of the survey. Let each reader capable of making a ical observation by means of the telescope. What did mathematical calculation of the ratio of curvature of a lie know about the telescope? The sequel proved that lie knew nothing; yet he denied that the objects that were seen, were possible to be seen. Geodetic and Geometrical Ratio of Earth's Concavity The earth's concavity is considered as an absurdity, and the long line of demonstrations of the same, the mere result of deception andfraud. What do our critics concave sphere 2r>,0U0 miles in circumference, test this know about the facts we have observed? Upon what ratio aud the results obtained by the survey, and it will reasonable ground can the evidences we present, be dis be found that such ratio cannot be obtained by the puted by those who have never undertaken the lines of extension of a right line upon any other than a concave experimentation we have projected? The opposition to surface; the geometrical principles involved will not our work today is as unreasonable, absurd, and idiotic admit of it. as that manifested against the work of Harvey and Two Classes of Objections Urged Galileo. We persistently proclaim the facts we have We confront two classes of objections to the char observed and obtained; they are as persistently denied acter of the Geodetic work upon the coast of the Gulf by a few who have never ventured near the surface of of Mexico. From several sources, it is claimed that the water to test its contour. We have surveyed a line Rectilineator is not sufficiently accurate to extend a by means of a mechanical apparatus, the results of straight line; while from others comes the accusation which are as easily (?) explained away by a few who that we purposely inclined the first section at the start have never seen the apparatus, and who know nothing ing point so as to extend the line into the water at a about its capabilities or methods of use, as the moons distauceof four miles; from others, that the first section of Jupiter were explained by those who had never of the apparatus was not accurately leveled, but in observed their motions through the telescope. These clined toward the earth by mistake. We suppose these so called explanations of the results of our survey, we two classes of objections seem satisfactory to the minds purpose to overthrow. expressing them. We have surveyed a line upon the Gulf coast of We knew the objection would be urged that the Florida. The measurements were such as to demon apparatus was not accurate, and therefore took extra strate conclusively the concave arc of the earth's curva precautions, not only that such objections might be ture upon which the survey was made, and not only the overthrown, but also to insure the accuracy required direction of its curvature, but also its ratio. In this for such work; we did not devote four weeks to making survey we found a definite ratio of approach of the the apparatus accurate, for nothing. The method earth's surface to meet the rectiliue extended from an employed to insure further accuracy, was by making altitude of 10 feet above the water level. The line was the apparatus neutralize its own inaccuracies by extended into the water's surface at a distance of about reversal or turning-over of each section at every alter four miles from the beginning of the survey, as shown nate adjustment. This process would correct any error in the diagram accompanying this paragraph. arising from any inaccuracy of the brass-facings—for XY being the concave arc over four miles in length; whatever error in the line would result from a single AB, the air line, A, the beginning, ten feet above the cross-arm being more or less than .005 of an inch out water, aud B, the point of extension into the water; N of right angle, would be corrected when that section is north, S, south; 1, 2, 3, 4, the mile stations; ab repre should be reversed, as every mechanic well knows. sents the external tangent parallel to the air line, show A source of inaccuracy is also attributed to the ing the ratio of curvation of the earth's surface for each contraction aud expansion of the material of which the mile of the survey, while cd represents a line referred to apparatus is constructed. Those who make this objec later in the article. The ratio of the concave curvature tion have never seen the apparatus, aud consequently was in proportion to the square of the distance; at the cannot appreciate the fact that the plan of its construc end of the first mile the distance between the air line tion obviates the effect of whatever contraction or and the water's surface was eight inches less than at expansion occurred. Besides, there are no sources of beginning, because the earth in this distance had curv- error or inaccuracy —those of adjustment, settling, ated upward eight inches; the second mile, about two vibration from the wind, or change of temperature, feet and eight inches; third mile, six feet, while at the that could conspire to produce a deviation of the air end of the fourth mile the line extended into the Gulf. line always in the same direction; check up all the errors In the diagram, the lines of perpendiculars extend that occur, as is done by all surveyors, and the value ing from the air line to the arc at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, deeren.se of the "elements of chance" is found to reside in the fact in length in precisely the same proportion that the that the deviations are finally neutralized. earth curvates concavely. Not only was the proper It is supposed that settling played an important ratio found to exist at the end of seven miles, but also part in the descent of the line surveyed; if so, why 166 The. Fiarningj Sword should the line descend .15 of an inch for the first eighth altitude 10 feet above the water, and inclined out of of a mile, and 6 inches for the eighth between the 19th level so as to strike the water in four miles; N is north, and 20th tide stakes? If settling produced the descent, S, south; 1, 2, 3, 4 indicate mile stations along the line this would be manifest by returning over the same line. of survey. We returned over the same line for a distance of % of a Now contrast the ratio of approach of the line to mile, to ascertain if there would be any deviation. The the water's surface that we have exhibited in the cut fact that the horizontal axis of the apparatus projected the line on the return survey, to the same points on the record stakes indicating the air line in the forward survey, is proof of the fact that the factors of settling, if any existed, were absolutely neutralized, for they did not swerve the apparatus from a true and direct rectiline course. Let those who make such objections ex plain how the exact and definite ratio was obtained, if illustrating the line extended over the concave arc. In we did not extend a rectiline from the beginning of the the first diagram, the line began parallel with the survey. water's surface, and ended obliquely to it. In this, the CZ>e Objections Contradict Each Other line begins at a definite angle from the horizontal, and We now come to the examination of the charge ends coincidental with or parallel to the horizontal at that we purposely inclined the first section so as to B. The ratio of approach of the line to the water's permit of extension of the line into the water in four surface would be just the reverse to that really obtained. miles. Our burden at the present time is not that we As for instance, beginning ten feet above the water, at failed to produce the evidences that the earth is con the end of the first mile the line, according to the basis cave, but to get such minds to see the utter absurdity of the charge, would be four feet nearer the water's of such objections. The fact that these objections con surface than at the beginning. tradict each other, is conclusive proof that both classes The ratio of approach of the line to the water's sur of objections are made without a foundation of conclu face would be more rapid at the beginning of the line sion, and are simply subterfuges with which to evade thau at the ending, and the ratio of divergence of the the evidences afforded through the accurate survey. line from the end of the line to the beginning would be Suppose that we did purposely incline the first in proportion to the square of the distance from the section out of level, what would be the result? The end of the line; whereas in fact, in the survey of the liue charge involves the admission of three things,—very at Naples, Fla., the ratio of convergence of the air line necessary factors in the work of extending a rectiline. and the water's surface was less at the beginning of the First, that our mathematics was exact—necessarily so, line and greater at theending. If the air line had really to calculate the angle of inclination; second, that we descended at the ratio of four feet for the first mile, and were capable of making some absolute measurements so on in proportion, the line would have extended into of angles in the adjustment of the first section of the the surface at a distance of 1% miles from the beginning apparatus; and third, that the apparatus, in order to of the line, and the angle of inclination from the hori extend a line from the inclined position of the first zontal would have been enormous. section into the water at a distance agreed (?) upon If the earth were a plane, the result of inclining the before the work began, would have to be perfect and first section of the Rectilineator so as to extend the line capable of extending a straight line, for with what else into the water in four miles would be an even ratio of than a perfect apparatus and accurate measurements descent of the line, as represented in the diagram below of angles, could we strike the water at the distance the convex arc in the above cut, in accordance with the desired from a given inclination of the first section from principle of convergence of two straight lines. XY an absolute level? would represent the water line; AB the air line as per In order for the charge to be true, we would have charge; N is north, S is south; 1, 2, 3, 4, the mile sta to extend an absolutely straight line, involving just tions. The approach of the line to the water for the the kind of adjustments and minute measurements that first mile would have been 2% feet; for the second mile, the other class of minds say is impossible. We know 2% feet; and the same for third and the fourth. The air that the first section was level, having applied two of line would sustain the same obliquity to the horizontal the finest levels obtainable. We made no mistake—the throughout the line of survey. accuracy of our line depended upon getting the first On the cod rex arc, the deviation of the horizontal section in the absolutely correct position. axis of theapparatus would begreatest at the beginning Reply to Charge of Inclining First Section Really, to conform to the fact that the air line extended We will examine the charge in another light—in the into the water in four miles at an angle, with the horizon i >4 light of geometrical principles, and will endeavor to miles beyond the end of the chord, the altitude of the starting illustrate our exposition of this charge and objectiou in point, on the convex earth as per charge, would have to be 18 feet and 8 inches, instead of io feet! For the sake of simple the two diagrams in the following cut: Let XY repre illustration, we have represented the line as terminating at the sent the convex arc; AB the air line, beginning at an horizon, and consequently parallel to the water. The Flaming Sword 167 of the line, and horizontal at the end. How was it? [the Lord Jesus Christ]; and the world was The line showed no perceptible deviation from the hori made by him.' " As love and wisdom are eternal, they zontal until near the end of the first eighth of a mile, and have always operated, and do operate; hence they increased continually as the line progressed, until at the end of 2% miles, the obliquity of the air line to the hori always have created, and therefore creation is an zontal was sufficient to-extend the visual line from that eternal aud perpetual process. point to the surface of the Gulf, bpJow the horizoD. The foregoing is initiatory to one single exposition Other Experiments Corroborate the Surrey of John's portrayal of the coming of the Lord,— the The above replies to the objections will be conclusive manifestation of the Rider on the White Horse. The to those who will consider and comprehend the facts. scientific exposition of this symbolism of the Revelator It would be impossible to satisfy a man who doubted will settle the whole subject of the coming of the Mes the accuracy of the multiplication table, until he came to a knowledge of some simple principles of mathe siah, so far as the specific character of that coming is matics. We do not expect to reach those who will not concerned. "And after these things I heard a great or cannot reason; their minds will have to be changed voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; salva by the turn in the tide of popular favor from the old to tion, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord the new system. But it seems strange to us that, in the our God: For true and righteous are his judgments: face of the facts obtained; in view of the fact that do such direct means have ever been applied by the old- for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt school scientists; in view of the fact that they admit the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the that all the so called evidences of the earth's convexity blood of his servants at her hand." are only cumulative and circumstantial; and in view of It will appear obvious to any reasonable mind the fact that those who criticise our work were not that the harlotry here referred to is the adulteration brave enough to face the issue and participate in the experiments performed by the Geodetic Staff,—that the of the truths and goods of the church, and that it would direct and absolute evidences we have produced should be impossible for any power to adulterate truth and be rejected by any mind capable of realizing the geo good except such as had been given possession of the metrical principles involved in simple right angles. life which God had committed. To the church was com Corroborative of the demonstration of the earth's mitted the truth and good of life; namely, the Lord concavity by means of accurate survey, we have the long line of evidences obtained by other means,—tests himself, whom the church received as the Holy Spirit. of the surface of water on canals, lakes, and seas—tests The great harlot is none other than the church itself. and experiments which can be repeated upon any body 'When in Time Did Judgment Begin? of water to the satisfaction of the skeptical. The facts we have observed and the line we have surveyed demon Let us ask when in time did this judgment occur? strating the earth's true form, are susceptible of test. Our answer is, that in 1870 the event of the judgment We challenge contradiction; but our challenge will have was reflected into the natural world, when the last ves to be answered upon the field of contest, to which we tige of temporal power was wrested from the Pope of dare the scientific critics, in the many lines of experi Rome; subsequently the Pope became a self-imposed mentation through which we have obtained the facts prisoner at the Vatican. The temporal power ended, we announce to the world. and the Pope becamea"prisouer!" Whatdoes it mean? {To be continued) It means that the great whore had received her judg ment at the hand of the Almighty. Rome as a secular KEY TO THE LAW OF JUDGMENT power ended there and then; ended, never again to (From the Writings of Kokksh) recover her temporal authority. Who was the great E'/><? Scientific Exposition of the Symbolism of the Judge? Emanuel (God) the Victor. Who was his type Rider on the 'White Horse Settles the 'Whole in the earth? Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, by whose ■Subject of the Coining of the Messiah authority Rome was taken when Louis Napoleon was PART VI compelled to withdraw his troops from Rome because of IT MUST not be understood that we draw our con Germany's victory over France. clusions from Swedenborg; if, however, we take bis The year 1870 ended the temporal supremacy of the premise, then the conclusion is inevitable that the uni papal hierarchy. The significance of this great event, verse is eternal, and was never created from the con terminating the seven times 360 years of prophecy, ditions usually assumed both by theologians and so cannot be overestimated as bearing upon the coming called scientific men. One statement from Swedenborg of the Lord. The holy city to be trodden underfoot, ought to settle this question with every professed fol which the Adventists imagine to be Jerusalem, is not lower of the great Seer. The statement is as follows: the old Jerusalem, but the representative city of the "It is to be observed, however, that love and wisdom, Christian church, and that city is Rome itself. The false which are one in God, are not love and wisdom in an prophet is the one in authority over the power which abstract sense, but are in God as a substance; for God is the city represents. the very, the only, and consequently the first, substance Xj'he Twelve Symbols and Twenty-Four Elders; and •What They Represent and essence [first as to quality], which is and subsists in itself. That all and everything was created out of "And again they said Alleluia. And her smoke rose the divine love by the divine wisdom, is signified by up for ever and ever." The smoke of the great whore these words in John: 'The Word was with God, and signifies the false worship which is an eternal concomi the Word was God. * All things were made by him tant, in the hells, of the true worship of God in the
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 28, No. 6 · Jun 1914 · PDF pp. 6-9