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By Koresh — Part XX.
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rd 227 vigorously alert, ever awake and on the offensive, or THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY be may be lulled into a false security through hypnotic Necessity of Associating the Alchemico-Or(janic influences where vigilance is substituted by indifference, with the Anthropostlc Cosmos, and an Under standing of Center and Circumference and the gates are open to the ravages of the usurper of By Kobesh mental liberty and voluntary control. If the rational faculties are not wide awake, and the processes of PART XX. contrast, comparison, and differentiation are not predi ^X7E HAVE thus far (in a general way, and with spe cated upon the premise of demonstration, the custodian cific allusions) outlined the relations of good and at the door of intromission cannot call down from the evil, and in sodoing have portrayed somehints of the char region of the faculties, the powers of discrimination by acter of a Universology in which good and evil are anti which the spirits that would gain entrance are admitted thetical coadjutors; a Universology which could obtain to the mental domain, or are driven from its courts of only as good aud evil were correlates in some common entrance. bond of fellowship aud perpetuity. We have shown in We repeat the oft reiterated statement, which may a measure, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, seem a superfluity, that the universe is in the form of the fruit of which all men must eat, thereby knowing the man, and performs the function of the man. We good and evil, with power to discriminate. The very add the iteration, that form and function—inevitably, law by which the elements combine to resist and eject, everywhere, throughout the universe—must coordi like the rainfall, that which has become effete in any nate^ and correspondingly agree. This signifies that given field of physics, enables the mind, after the dis there cau be no function (by which we mean the per crimination of good and evil, to resist and eject the evil formance of office) without the characteristic forms and and retain the good, thus becoming the Tree of Life. organs, in and through which function can operate to In the exposition thus far rendered, there seems an perform the uses of the universe, singly and collectively. opportunity to question oneof the fundamental axioms Every activity in the universe is exerted by virtue of the Koreshan System, in which obtains the avowal of the fact that matter exists and constitutes the basis, of absolute good and evil in contradistinction to quite the form, and, in the organic domain, the organ for the a prevalent belief that these are only relative. display of the operations of function. The activity of The student of Koreshanity must become familiar spirit-substance can only be known through its phe with the Koreshan Cosmogony, and learn to associate nomena as observed in the chartges and activities of the alchemico-organic with the anthropostic cosmos, tangible substance. Spirit is a substantial thing or in correspondence. Understanding the relation of the substance, not matter, nor having the properties of absolute center of a sphere with the outmost limitation matter, but constituting its working coordinate. There of its environment,—the center being in a constant is no spirit that has not been in the quality and form state of electro-magnetic combustion, and the circum of matter; nor is there any matter that has not been in ference in an equal state of a corresponding combus the condition and quality of spirit. It follows, then, tion, where solid deposition results as the sequitur of that matter and its coordinate (spirit) are constantly electro-magnetic activity,—he can readily comprehend interchangeable, transmutable, and reciprocal, and that the fact that there obtain at least two extremes or therefore there is but one substance in the universe. limits of both form and activity; that is, form and func These two qualities of substance cannot by any tion. One is the central, the other is the circumferential process be transformed into a remote substance singly, limitation. These limitations are absolute. Thus there into which they both can be merged. The balance of are two absolute ends of form and motion. the universe is maintained through the equipoise of We have announced the fact that, underlying the these two correlate conditions of the primal substance. geologic crusts of the earth, there are mineral and metal In order toemphasize the importance of comprehending lic strata, the outermost or circumferential stratum the relation of matter of every form and quality, to its being gold. Here the laws of transmutation perfect corresponding essence, we reiterate the postulate that the element which, through successive stages of meta there is no quality into which either spirit, or matter, morphosis, is deposited as the finished product of radiaor both, can be further merged into a simple primal tory and obtensive operations. In those activities state beyond the coordinate pair or duadof substantial which are impulsed and attracted toward the circum existence. ference of the alchemico-organic cosmos, the gravic sub {To be continued.) stances, both of spirit and forms and qualities of matter, are more or less chaotic and uncertain, until the laws The operation of the Holy Spirit, proceeding from of order bring them to those points of stratification in the Lord and shed upon his Apostles and Disciples, was which the pure mineral and metallic substances are de a Word (Logos) upon the soul, hence it was psychology. posited as environments of the cosmic shell. Before the The operation of this force resulted in peculiar phenom precipitated substances which primarily proceed from ena, giving to the Apostles wonderful powers. These and are the principles of the electro-nucleus (the astral powers were exercised invariably in a divine way, never for personal aggrandizement. This psychological power center) become the metallic laminae or plates of the cos from the Lord was the soul of God acting upon the soul mic rind, they are precipitated as geologic strata. The of his people. laws operative in Nature keep them in the chaotic state. 228 The. Flaming Swofd The mineral and metallic strata are constant, but tion of its life in the production of the Sons of God, the subject perpetually to an equal waste and supply. absorption or appropriation of the harvest transposes Their atoms are constantly being destroyed as atoms the offspring from its material fruition into the spiritual of matter; but when destroyed as matter, the substance status of the invisible but substantial and eternal spirit becomes spirit. This destruction of the stratum is ual entities, for whom these Sons were created. In this reinstated with the influx of spirit which deposits or absorption there is no loss of consciousness or individ materializes as supplemental atoms. Thus the rind is ual identity, for that which is eternal has no beginning constant, eternal, and pure. The law of supply and or ending; hence there are eternal entities in the solar waste is equally true of the center, which as a nucleus realm of man's interior existence, within the celestial holds contact or touch witk every alchemico-organic spheres of his invisible and interior life. atom, and with every motion engendered in the alchem In the dissolution of these tangible, visible, and ico-organic field. Thus in miniature is this nucleus—the material offspring of the Son of God, in their dematericomposite subtense of the universe as a macrcosmic alization from the tangible to the intangible, they flow whole; and thus the star point of consciousness and the into and become the essence of assimilation, in that the correspondent of the Deific center of anthroposophy— blending of what becomes, in its creation, an external the astral nucleus of the God-Man existence. consciousness, is transmuted to a unity with the The Domain of Order in Contrast With Chaos; In spiritual and eternal ego of being. This is the blending volution, Evolution, and Revolution Follow of the natural with the spiritual entity, in the accom Each Other plishment of which thereisan elimination of extraneous Ic will be noticed in the exposition given, that after essences precipitated in matter, which meet a correspond passing the geologic strata toward the circumference, ing absorption in the existing lower forms of life. the mineral and metallic strata are related in specific When the Tree of Life (progressing toward the order according to quality, in which is included that of climax of its fruition) eventuates through propagation specific gravity;—specific gravity constituting the law in the manifest material Sons of God,—the immortal of their relative emplacement. Superimposed in the or men, for the production of whom the Tree of Life derly arrangement of strata are the geologic forma exists,—and has completed its grand cycle, the precipi tions. These are chaotic. Into this chaotic formation tated essence of these immortals flows down by gradual all things tend, proceeding from the center and directed stages of declension into the various phases of animal toward the circumference. This chaotic state is due and human existence, and is again subject to those both to transmissions from the center and upheavals processes of reproduction by which, in a succeeding from the circumference, or upheavals proceeding from grand cycle, another crop of the Sons of God appear, to activities derived from the outer lamina?. be absorbed again into the eternal entities of their In the foregoing, we have outlined the great eternal life. alchemico-organic egg or cell, in which the process of The divine consciousness in man is a matter of incubation or hatching is developing a corresponding development and production. From that which is chick, this incubating chick beingthe Grand or universal precipitated as the ascending essencesof transmutation, Man not complete in itsorgano-vital development until fallacy and evil develop. Fallacy is the inversion of it passes beyond the state of chaos to that of the order truth, and evil is the inversion of good. Man becomes of stratification in social groups, which in humanity righteous through contrast. He is first incorporated correspond to the mineral and metallic lamina?. These into, and then incorporates, fallacy and evil. By the groups are the orders of church and state; the seven processes of incorporation, he gains his experiences with laminae corresponding to the seven churches (these are fallacy and evil. During the progress of his states there the new heavens); the five mineral strata corresponding is a constant flowing down from the spheres above, the to the five divisions of state (the new earth). influx of truth and good, that man may contrast (by Jesus the Lord in his day and time was the astral progressive stages) his experiences with evil in the false nucleus corresponding to the alchemico-organic center, light of inverted trutn, with the modified truths and or to the physical star at the center of the cosmos, as goods with which he is permitted to come in contact. outlined above. Between the time of the Lord who "She Copernican System of Astronomy Cannot Be inaugurated the Christian age and the formation of the Proven seven churches, the world of humanity, before the new A party desires to disprove the Koreshan Cos church is inaugurated, reaches a chaotic condition cor mogony. We have suggested a process by which he responding to that in the alchemico-organic field; that can accomplish this feat—provided it can be accom is, corresponding to the condition of the superimposed plished! We will now suggest another method which geologic strata before noted. will settle the whole controversy. Prove the Copernican The universe is integral and eternal as a structured system of astronomy, ergo: the Koreshan Cosmogony whole. Animal life, including man, with the animal life has no basis for its claims; or if he prove any other of God, attains its climax within the concave sphere, system of cosmogony to be true, then ours is essentially the shell or egg of its volutionary processes, which false. include involution, evolution, and revolution. When We invented an apparatus on purely mechanical the process of development completes itself in the frui principles, sent our Geodetic Staff to make a mechanical The Flaming Sword 229
survey, performing what no other man or number of in the eyes of those who, because ignorant themselves, men ever tried to perform. It is a positive fact that no imagine no one else can be wise. We often hear the record can be found of an attempt, in modern or assertion, "No man can know it all." We assert that aucient times, to determine the contour of the earth's no man can know (accurately) a part, who does not surface as to whether it be concave or convex. An know its relation to the whole; and no man can know attempt was made some years ago to prove that the the relation of a part to all the other parts, without a world was not convex. This demonstration was made knowledge of all the parts in their integralism. A on optical principles, and the testimony was in favor of knowledgeof theanatomical structureof the individual, non-convexity. The party making the experiments with a corresponding knowledge of the functions of the jumped at the assumption that because the earth Was same, insures to one a knowledge of the universe as a not convex; it was necessarily flat. This is the nearest whole, for it is an integral thing. approach that has ever been made to the truth. So Called Scientific Experimental Methods Unre Those who believe in and advocate the Copernican liable Because Fallacious system, do so upon the ground of audacious assump "Scientific" men are mere guessers; what they tion. We devoted much time and money to the appli guessed at fifty years ago they renounce today, and cation of a strictly accurate method of confirming the tomorrow they will guess again. This is called science; discovery of the contour of the earth's surface. We it is farce, quackery, empiricism. Our work is to proved the instrument to be absolutely perfect, and teach those who desire to be taught. The fools who found the ratio of the concavity to be about eight know it all are not worthy. Agnosticism is good inches to the mile, as we had previously determined. enough for such as enjoy ignorance. Koreshanity is Now Mr. B , ignorant of the instrument and its the only school of knowledge; its principles are the only processes, assumes to know more about the instru truths; its triumph is inevitable. ment than the inventor and experimenter, and desires The following headlines arequoted from the Boston to prove that the instrument cannot do, and haB not Evening Transcript: done, what the Koreshans claim it has done and will THE EARTH NO GLOBE.— Modern Science Modifies do, under any and all circumstances. A Popular Belief. — A Tetrahedron the Shape Accepted as Our advice to Mr. B is, that he go to work and Correct by the Best Scientific Minds.— How the Earth's Dimen sions Are Figured. prove the Copernican system. If he will accomplish A tetrahedron is a body enclosed in four triangles, this feat, he will confer an everlasting favor on modern and is the shape of the earth! This conclusion is astronomers, who have never yet found or submitted a reached through fifty years' extensive work in geodetic scintilla of evidence in support of their vagary. He will surveying, and is "the shape accepted as correct by the also, by so doing, put to rout the Koreshans, who are best scientific minds." Navigators must have some making headway in the spread of their gospel. In the sharp corners to turn in their tetrahedral navigation, meantime, we shall proceed to wage an aggressive war for, according to "the best scientific minds," we can no fare on the lines of cosmogony, astronomy, religion, longer circumnavigate the globe! social science, etc., with the full kuowledge that the How happy the world will be when it can learn greater our success in the propaganda work we insti something to keep. The article in the Evening Tran tute, the more rampageous will be the blustering of the script ends by saying: advocates of the absurdities we combat. The shrinking of the earth is a geological rather than a The universe as a whole is in the form of the egg or geodetic question, but I believe it is scientifically admitted that cell. It is, however, in the form of the man, but the such a process is going on. But our coast survey service is primarily for the making of maps, and it is one of our first unincnbated man. In this form it is the woman with duties to determine the size and shape of the earth, upon which the male incubed, but not evoluted. There will come a all else depends, and hence the great and painstaking experi time when the universe itself will, in a measure, change ments which the government is conducting in conjunction with the other governments of the world. its form to its own evolved anatomical structure. Some The governments of the world are trying to ascer of these changes have been noted in previous issues of tain the size and shape of the earth! It is an absolute Thk Swohd and other publications. The universe, the fact that triangulation,on either a concave or a convex alchemico-organic cosmos, has an anatomy, the details surface, conducted ever so carefully, would result in of the form of which can be only known through a com the same conclusions. All their experiments have not plete knowledge of comparative anatomy. It also has determined whether the earth is concave or convex, a corresponding and inherent physiological function. therefore they cannot conclude as to its shape. The It is through the correspoudential relationship of the water surfaces of the earth are concave, but the surface individual that we know of the form and laws of the is not necessarily uniform, as the cell is not absolutely universal. spherical; but this is thegeneral shape. The mechanical We are induced to smile sometimes at the bombastic means employed to determine this is simple enough to ignorance of those who assume to call in question our convince the most skeptical investigator, if he be honest. knowledge of the structure of the universe and its However, the mechanical survey isof very small importfunctions. We are teaching what weknow. Ourassertative methods, originating in our absolute knowledge of These headlines were cited by the Founder of The Sword the things we teach, give us the appearance of egotists in the Summer of 1S98.—A. W. 230 Th© Flaming Sword ance as proof, as compared with the system of corre- combustion, there is obtained a certain amount of spondential analogy and the applied principles of physical spirit. This has been called "energy," under optics, a knowledge of which is so essential to auy the supposition that it is not a substantial thing. The correct conception of the form of the earth. so called scientific world is rapidly departing from its (To be continued.) former conclusion concerning "energy," and is begin J> ning to hold to the idea that, after all, it is a sub THE BASIS OF KORE5HAN THEOLOGY stantial something, yet distinct from ordinary matter. A Comparison of So Called Orthodox TheInvolved in the so called "new thought" conception, olog'y with Horeshan Scientific Theology there is also a modification of the original nonentific [From the Writings of Korrsh] vagary. HTHK KORESHAN theology is founded upon abso TShe Co-ordinate Concomitants of Matter and Their Substantiality lutely scientific principles. The term theology means, literally, a discourse upon the character of If we take a piece of zinc as an element in the Deity; and in the highest sense, human relationship, common galvanic battery, with other elements, it is the obligation of God to men, and man's obligation to reduced on the line or order of physics to a certain man, as predicated upon the basis of a true conception amount of essence, we may call it the spiritual ether of of the divine character and our true devotion to those physics; and on the line of elements, to the regular c inceptions. The theology of the Universology of precipitate, that being determined by the character of Koreshanity differs widely from the theology of every elements in combustion in the cell. The elements being other cult. It differs from what is called orthodoxy, in uniform and of the same kind, the results will be that it is triunitarian instead of trinitarian; its basis invariable. The destruction of a certain kind and of triunism beiDg in the cognition of the .personality of quality of element will produce a certain kind and the Lord God as the man Jesus—he being the fulness of quality of spiritual ether, in given amount proportion the Godhead bodily, as the Scripture declares him to be. ate to the amount of tangible matter destroyed. We Hence our theology centers around the conception of a employ the term destroy, because the elements are recognized Messianic law, perpetually in force, through destroyed as to their material substance, but trans which the invisible Divinity (who is in character a man) formed to spiritual substance. They are no longer becomes incarnate for the purpose of perpetuating his matter, but they are the coordinate concomitants of own being and that of the human race, which, in the matter, and as substantial. regenerate state, is the offspring of the visible Godhood. Inasmuch as it requires the destruction of matter Modern theology of the recognized orthodox type to produce what the physicists have persisted for many describes the Godhead as being an indescribable, incon years in calling a mere mode of motion, in the cbarceivable, noncomprehensible, eternal something with acteristic called "energy, "in one instance, weaver that it out body or parts; in reality, a spiritual nonentity. requires the destruction of matter to produce the effect The Koreshau theology defines the Godhead to be in all instances; and we therefore declare that there is endowed with a certain form, and with functions of . no spirit in the universe that is not the result of the manifestation which do not belong to the caprice of destruction of matter. We maintain this in so far as it any voluntary fiat, but to the inevitable and eternal pertains to that spirit endowed with intellectuality and law of periodicity, involved in which is the forever related to the organic existence which we call man and recurrent Messianic increment of personal incarnation. God, or to the spirit of ordinary matter, which we have We therefore hold that a genuine and true conception denominated the spiritual ether of physics. of the character of Deity, and a proper discourse upon What the Ordinary Parlor Match Illustrates his nature and character, define him as the visible and The spirit of any process of combustion partakes tangible human, and that in the revelation of God to of the simplicity or of the complexity of the elements man, no other manifestation than the human could be in the processes of combustion; the spirit partakes, also, a full revealment of Divinity to humanity. From those of the organic or inorganic character of the process. misleading vagaries involved in what is falsely denomi There is no spirit without its concomitant—matter. nated the "new thought," we differ radicully and neces With the ordinary parlor match, there must first be sarily in that, with the so called "new thought," which the material of which the match is composed; then is but an outgrowth of a spurious orthodoxy, God is there must obtain the necessary friction, after which we au inherent nonentity as indescribable as the orthodox obtain the flame, comprised of light, heat, electricity, Christian's deity. magnetism, and other physical results. The false conception of the so called "christian" and The flame must depend upon the material basis as mental science has for its foundation the false conclu the first substantial factor in the phenomenon. So sion of modern physics—that [so called] energies are with that manifestation called spiritual influxion or but mere modes of motion, and belong to a sphere which pneumic and psychic phenomena, there must be, first, is beyond the ken of any rational analysis and synthe the substantial basis of whatsoever phenomena might sis. If we ignite or destroy matter in any process of be expected or desired. It is upon such a basis that combustion, whether in the ordinary reduction of com the spiritual phenomena depended in the beginning of mon fuel to flame, or elements in electro-magnetic the Christian dispensation; for then all those phe
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