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Part XX
WE HAVE thus far (in a general way, and with specific allusions) outlined the relations of good and evil, and in so doing have portrayed some hints of the character of a Universology in which good and evil are antithetical coadjutors; a Universology which could obtain only as good and evil were correlates in some common bond of fellowship and perpetuity. We have shown in a measure, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the fruit of which all men must eat, thereby knowing good and evil, with power to discriminate. The very law by which the elements combine to resist and eject, like the rainfall, that which has become effete in any given field of physics, enables the mind, after the discrimination of good and evil, to resist and eject the evil and retain the good, thus becoming the Tree of Life. In the exposition thus far rendered, there seems an opportunity to question one of the fundamental axioms of the Koreshan System, in which obtains the avowal of absolute good and evil in contradistinction to quite a prevalent belief that these are only relative.
The student of Koreshanity must become familiar with the Koreshan Cosmogony, and learn to associate the alchemico-organic with the anthropostic cosmos, in correspondence. Understanding the relation of the absolute center of a sphere with the outmost limitation of its environment,—the center being in a constant state of electro-magnetic combustion, and the circumference in an equal state of a corresponding combustion, where solid deposition results as the sequitur of electro-magnetic activity,—he can readily comprehend the fact that there obtain at least two extremes or limits of both form and activity; that is, form and function. One is the central, the other is the circumferential limitation. These limitations are absolute. Thus there are two absolute ends of form and motion.
We have announced the fact that, underlying the geologic crusts of the earth, there are mineral and metallic strata, the outermost or circumferential stratum being gold. Here the laws of transmutation perfect the element which, through successive stages of metamorphosis, is deposited as the finished product of radiatory and obtensive operations. In those activities which are impulsed and attracted toward the circumference of the alchemico-organic cosmos, the gravic substances, both of spirit and forms and qualities of matter, are more or less chaotic and uncertain, until the laws of order bring them to those points of stratification in which the pure mineral and metallic substances are deposited as environments of the cosmic shell. Before the precipitated substances which primarily proceed from and are the principles of the electro-nucleus (the astral center) become the metallic laminæ or plates of the cosmic rind, they are precipitated as geologic strata. The laws operative in Nature keep them in the chaotic state.
The mineral and metallic strata are constant, but subject perpetually to an equal waste and supply. Their atoms are constantly being destroyed as atoms of matter; but when destroyed as matter, the substance becomes spirit. This destruction of the stratum is reinstated with the influx of spirit which deposits or materializes as supplemental atoms. Thus the rind is constant, eternal, and pure. The law of supply and waste is equally true of the center, which as a nucleus holds contact or touch with every alchemico-organic atom, and with every motion engendered in the alchemico-organic field. Thus in miniature is this nucleus—the composite subtense of the universe as a macrocosmic whole; and thus the star point of consciousness and the correspondent of the Deific center of anthroposophy— the astral nucleus of the God-Man existence.
The Domain of Order in Contrast With Chaos: Involution, Evolution, and Revolution Follow Each Other
It will be noticed in the exposition given, that after passing the geologic strata toward the circumference, the mineral and metallic strata are related in specific order according to quality, in which is included that of specific gravity ;—specific gravity constituting the law of their relative emplacement. Superimposed in the orderly arrangement of strata are the geologic formations. These are chaotic. Into this chaotic formation all things tend, proceeding from the center and directed toward the circumference. This chaotic state is due both to transmissions from the center and upheavals from the circumference, or upheavals proceeding from activities derived from the outer laminæ.
In the foregoing, we have outlined the great alchemico-organic egg or cell, in which the process of incubation or hatching is developing a corresponding chick, this incubating chick being the Grand or universal Man not complete in its organo-vital development until it passes beyond the state of chaos to that of the order of stratification in social groups, which in humanity correspond to the mineral and metallic laminæ. These groups are the orders of church and state; the seven laminæ corresponding to the seven churches (these are the new heavens); the five mineral strata corresponding to the five divisions of state (the new earth).
Jesus the Lord in his day and time was the astral nucleus corresponding to the alchemico-organic center, or to the physical star at the center of the cosmos, as outlined above. Between the time of the Lord who inaugurated the Christian age and the formation of the seven churches, the world of humanity, before the new church is inaugurated, reaches a chaotic condition corresponding to that in the alchemico-organic field; that is, corresponding to the condition of the superimposed geologic strata before noted.
The universe is integral and eternal as a structured whole. Animal life, including man, with the animal life of God, attains its climax within the concave sphere, the shell or egg of its volutionary processes, which include involution, evolution, and revolution. When the process of development completes itself in the fruition of its life in the production of the Sons of God, the absorption or appropriation of the harvest transposes the offspring from its material fruition into the spiritual status of the invisible but substantial and eternal spiritual entities, for whom these Sons were created. In this absorption there is no loss of consciousness or individual identity, for that which is eternal has no beginning or ending; hence there are eternal entities in the solar realm of man’s interior existence, within the celestial spheres of his invisible and interior life.
In the dissolution of these tangible, visible, and material offspring of the Son of God, in their dematerialization from the tangible to the intangible, they flow into and become the essence of assimilation, in that the blending of what becomes, in its creation, an external consciousness, is transmuted to a unity with the spiritual and eternal ego of being. This is the blending of the natural with the spiritual entity, in the accomplishment of which there is an elimination of extraneous essences precipitated in matter, which meet a corresponding absorption in the existing lower forms of life.
When the Tree of Life (progressing toward the climax of its fruition) eventuates through propagation in the manifest material Sons of God,—the immortal men, for the production of whom the Tree of Life exists,—and has completed its grand cycle, the precipitated essence of these immortals flows down by gradual stages of declension into the various phases of animal and human existence, and is again subject to those processes of reproduction by which, in a succeeding grand cycle, another crop of the Sons of God appear, to be absorbed again into the eternal entities of their eternal life.
The divine consciousness in man is a matter of development and production. From that which is precipitated as the ascending essences of transmutation, fallacy and evil develop. Fallacy is the inversion of truth, and evil is the inversion of good. Man becomes righteous through contrast. He is first incorporated into, and then incorporates, fallacy and evil. By the processes of incorporation, he gains his experiences with fallacy and evil. During the progress of his states there is a constant flowing down from the spheres above, the influx of truth and good, that man may contrast (by progressive stages) his experiences with evil in the false light of inverted truth, with the modified truths and goods with which he is permitted to come in contact.
The Copernican System of Astronomy Cannot Be Proven
A party desires to disprove the Koreshan Cosmogony. We have suggested a process by which he can accomplish this feat—provided it can be accomplished! We will now suggest another method which will settle the whole controversy. Prove the Copernican system of astronomy, ergo: the Koreshan Cosmogony has no basis for its claims; or if he prove any other system of cosmogony to be true, then ours is essentially false.
We invented an apparatus on purely mechanical principles, sent our Geodetic Staff to make a mechanical survey, performing what no other man or number of men ever tried to perform. It is a positive fact that no record can be found of an attempt, in modern or ancient times, to determine the contour of the earth’s surface as to whether it be concave or convex. An attempt was made some years ago to prove that the world was not convex. This demonstration was made on optical principles, and the testimony was in favor of non-convexity. The party making the experiments jumped at the assumption that because the earth was not convex; it was necessarily flat. This is the nearest approach that has ever been made to the truth.
Those who believe in and advocate the Copernican system, do so upon the ground of audacious assumption. We devoted much time and money to the application of a strictly accurate method of confirming the discovery of the contour of the earth’s surface. We proved the instrument to be absolutely perfect, and found the ratio of the concavity to be about eight inches to the mile, as we had previously determined. Now Mr. B—, ignorant of the instrument and its processes, assumes to know more about the instrument than the inventor and experimenter, and desires to prove that the instrument cannot do, and has not done, what the Koreshans claim it has done and will do, under any and all circumstances.
Our advice to Mr. B— is, that he go to work and prove the Copernican system. If he will accomplish this feat, he will confer an everlasting favor on modern astronomers, who have never yet found or submitted a scintilla of evidence in support of their vagary. He will also, by so doing, put to rout the Koreshans, who are making headway in the spread of their gospel. In the meantime, we shall proceed to wage an aggressive warfare on the lines of cosmogony, astronomy, religion, social science, etc., with the full knowledge that the greater our success in the propaganda work we institute, the more rampageous will be the blustering of the advocates of the absurdities we combat.
The universe as a whole is in the form of the egg or cell. It is, however, in the form of the man, but the unincubated man. In this form it is the woman with the male incubed, but not evoluted. There will come a time when the universe itself will, in a measure, change its form to its own evolved anatomical structure. Some of these changes have been noted in previous issues of The Sword and other publications. The universe, the alchemico-organic cosmos, has an anatomy, the details of the form of which can be only known through a complete knowledge of comparative anatomy. It also has a corresponding and inherent physiological function. It is through the correspondential relationship of the individual that we know of the form and laws of the universal.
We are induced to smile sometimes at the bombastic ignorance of those who assume to call in question our knowledge of the structure of the universe and its functions. We are teaching what we know. Our assertative methods, originating in our absolute knowledge of the things we teach, give us the appearance of egotists in the eyes of those who, because ignorant themselves, imagine no one else can be wise. We often hear the assertion, ‘No man can know it all.’”’? We assert that no man can know (accurately) a part, who does not know its relation to the whole; and no man can know the relation of a part to all the other parts, without a knowledge of all the parts in their integralism. A knowledge of the anatomical structure of the individual, with a corresponding knowledge of the functions of the same, insures to one a knowledge of the universe as a whole, for it is an integral thing.
So Called Scientific Experimental Methods Unreliable Because Fallacious
“Scientific”? men are mere guessers; what they guessed at fifty years ago they renounce today, and tomorrow they will guess again. This is called science; it is farce, quackery, empiricism. Our work is to teach those who desire to be taught. The fools who know it all are not worthy. Agnosticism is good enough for such as enjoy ignorance. Koreshanity is the only school of knowledge; its principles are the only truths; its triumph is inevitable.
The following headlines are quoted from the Boston Evening Transcript:
THE EARTH NO GLOBE.—MODERN SCIENCE MODIFIES A POPULAR BELIEF.—A Tetrahedron the Shape Accepted as Correct by the Best Scientific Minds.—How the Earth’s Dimensions Are Figured. *
A tetrahedron is a body enclosed in four triangles, and is the shape of the earth! This conclusion is reached through fifty years’ extensive work in geodetic surveying, and is “the shape accepted as correct by the best scientific minds.” Navigators must have some sharp corners to turn in their tetrahedral navigation, for, according to “‘the best scientific minds,” we can no longer circumnavigate the globe!
How happy the world will be when it can learn something to keep. The article in the Evening Transcript ends by saying:
The shrinking of the earth is a geological rather than a geodetic question, but I believe it is scientifically admitted that 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 duties to determine the size and shape of the earth, upon which all else depends, and hence the great and painstaking experiments which the government is conducting in conjunction with the other governments of the world.
The governments of the world are trying to ascertain the size and shape of the earth! It is an absolute fact that triangulation, on either a concave or a convex surface, conducted ever so carefully, would result in the same conclusions. All their experiments have not determined whether the earth is concave or convex, therefore they cannot conclude as to its shape. The water surfaces of the earth are concave, but the surface is not necessarily uniform, as the cell is not absolutely spherical; but this is the general shape. The mechanical means employed to determine this is simple enough to convince the most skeptical investigator, if he be honest. However, the mechanical survey is of very small importance as proof, as compared with the system of correspondential analogy and the applied principles of optics, a knowledge of which is so essential to any correct conception of the form of the earth.
(To be continued.)
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- These headlines were cited by the Founder of The Sword in the Summer of 1898.—A. W.
Editorial transcription checked against the cited scans; historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 28, No. 8 · Aug 1914 · PDF pp. 5–8