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By Koresh — Part XXI.
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260 The Flaming Sword THE KORESHAN SYSTEM OF COSMOGONY ously reinstates from its own generations the potency Hatching Out the Great Cosmogonic Egg, CO. of the physical center; so that waste and supply are the Liberation of the Incubated Product properties of both the center and the circumference of By Koresh the cosmos. This is physical creation. The center and PART XXI. circumference constitute the boundaries or limitations, FN REPLY to the question regarding the relation of the potential confines of the operations of all physical the coeraogouic egg to the incubated product; that essence. is, the chick hatched from the egg, we would say that in One Absolute Spacic Center of the Cosmos. The Strata Posited According to Specific Gravities order to apply the principles of analogy to any question, a more comprehensive conception than is ordinarily The cosmos has one absolute physical spacic center. embraced in the fragmentary intellect is essentially im This center has degrees of tension or intensity, qualities portant. of potency whence proceed varieties of essence extend The chick hatches from the* egg, but it hatches into ing to extremities, and limited by solid depositions the chick, not merely out of the shell, but into another forming shells or solid spherical boundaries. One such shell; for the functional effort is not complete until the boundary—composed of a plurality of ultimate stratachick gets back into the egg. The ordinary analogist constitutes the shell of what is called the solar system. sees the shell broken; but the more comprehensive These layers or strata are posited according to their thinker sees the shell mended by the operation of specific gravities, forming in their contiguity, inter the succeeding chick. The cosmogonic egg is its own spaces for the generation of numerous intensities of mender; and the processof mending is progressing while positive magnetic essence, converging from the circum the process of the cracking of the cell is in progress. ference of the solar system to the pivot or axes of the When the great cosmogonic egg, the cellular uni same,—the point of the positive polarization of the verse, reaches the fruitage of its life, the breaking of the magnetic convergence from this complex boundary. shell is a complete transformation of the shell itself, by The law of deposition governs the maintenance of combustion, to a fire that completely dissolves that the solid shell in its relative position to the axes, the which constitutes the biological egg. This is in corre solar center. The diurnal rotation of the axes, and all spondence to the physical fire, which constantly trans dependent, orbital motions, are governed by the im forms the consmogonic circumference to physical spirit, pingement of the effluent and influent momenta of the and coordinates this function with as constant a ma negative essence generated at the center, the positive terialization and deposition of the physical spirit, into point of polarity, and the positive essence generated at the matter comprising the shell. the circumferential sphere of negative polarity. When humanity reaches the highest fruition into The solar boundary or shell, to which man in his which it is capable of developing, it dematerializes by present stage of development is specially related, has a an electro-magnetic fire and is dissolved into its final circumference of 360 degrees, each consisting of a little spiritual essence, not by any loss of identity, but by a more than 69 mitres (measures), nearly corresponding transposition of the mind from its natural to its spir to the English mile. At the center of polarity there are itual domain. It reaches thelimit of the fourth dimension generated six potencies, forming seven strata in electric of matter; —the fourth dimension being the extremity, solution, in a partial solidification of matter forming a limitation, or end of its existence as an atom, molecule, circular quadrant of seven lenses, which revolve at a or composite structure. When thefruitage of immortal short distance around the absolute astral point, —the life matures, the electro-magnetic (psycho-physical) helical center of the solar system. This is the corre combustion burns theenvironment, carrying the ascend spondent in the physical system, of the sea of glass ing spirit interiorly to the spiritual spheres, while it before the throne in the celestial system. precipitates the descending element into humanity to The boundary of solid matter projects electric and re-formulate another anthropostic environment, or ma magnetic essences into the atmospheres, forming points trix of regeneration. of conjunction with the effluent potencies from the The truth which constitutes the circumference, pivot. At these points of focalization, concretions are extremity, limitation, continent, and ultimate of scien developed from the union of magnetisms with the tific acquisition, is the truth which relates to the substances supplied by the atmospheres, until the form and function of the physical creation or cosmos. chauge wrought in the concretion becomes so like the Physical creation has absolute and symmetrical form. center itself, that the law of attraction consumes and Pertaining to it are the functions, operations, or offices absorbs the substance of the concretions convergently inhering in it. The act of creation does not imply the into the center, at the same time dissipating and posit projection into being of a system having no previous ing toward the circumference, divergently, the descend existence. The cosmos, in the absolute sense in time, ing elements of the dissolving concretions. Comets and had no beginning. Form and function are properties meteoric stars are the product of this complex relation of being; they are both perpetual, but there continually and function of both the center and the solid circumfer proceed from the physical center of the universe, essences ence of the system. flowing into the property of form, by which form is The astral nucleus (the central star) of the alchemcontinually supplied and perpetuated. Form continu ico-organic cosmos is the central point of cosmic limita The Flaming Sword 261
tion. There areas inauy varieties of primary essence the same number constantly radiating into and deposit flowing into this nucleus, as there are primary strata ing the metallic rind or strata. comprising the rind or shell of the circumferential limi The five mineral strata and their consequent tation of cosmic form. The projected and conspicuous essences are subject to the same law of transmutation. sun—the one made visible at the point of atmospheric These all comprise the ultra-penetrable rays of stellar, limitation, the pointof the contiguity of our atmosphere solar, lunar, and planetary potentiality. In anthroof oxy-nitrogen and the atmosphere of hydrogen im postic life, or the existence of universal human form mediately above it—is a refocalizationof these potencies, aud function, there exist a corresponding center and and therefore, in the radiation of solar potency, there circumference, with interchange of spiritual and mental are as many qualities of radiatory essence as there are essence between the anthropostic stellar nucleus and qualities of substance flowing into the central star. the final seven churches,—the Golden Candlestick,—into The astral nucleus and also the solar projection are which the life of the human race merges as the manifes points of congeries of the various qualities of substance tation of the fruit of the grand cycle of progression,—a in existence. Every metallic and mineral substance condition toward which the world is now rapidly known to science, is held in electro-magnetic solution in hastening. the congeries and radiation of the solar fluid; for [so Doubting Thomases in Every Age of the World called] energy is nothing more nor less than material substance destroyed as matter, but converted to its The disciples of Koreshauity have been con spiritual essence. fronted with the absurd argument against the Cellular Cosmogony, that the perpendicular of the plumbliue The Luminous so called Ether of the Universe Is the Ultra-Penetrable Ray, Itjnorantly called X-Ray has not been determined; and that until this is demon strated, the line projected at right angles from the The space from the most central pointof the cosmic vertical point of the plumb, suspended from any given form to the outer limitation or rind of the same form, point and extended into the earth or water surface, is permeated with thisfluid solution. It is theluminous does not settle the question of the contour of the earth. ether, the attenuate ether of the ''scientist," though the The initial bar of the mechanical device is fixed by the "scientist" is totally ignorant of its character and application of a mercurial aud spirit level. source. It is the ultra-penetrable (X-ray) of the The mercurial level is twelve feet long, extending alchemico-orgauic cosmos. The reagency of these cur the entire length of the twelve-foot initial section of the rents of essence, as they unite at the astral nucleus, Geodetic Rectilineator. It makes no difference whether produces a rematerialization; that is, a conversion of the support of this bar is perpendicular, or a solid the potency to matter, which ignites in the brilliant support deviating any number of degrees from the luster of the star. perpendicular; the fact remains, that the extense from It is by virtue of this constant convergence of physi the middle or center of the twelve-foot initial bar, to cal spirit from the complex circumference of matter, the surface over which the bar is placed, is perpendic that the astral nucleus is supplied with the substance ular. The straight line of this bar is at right angles to of its constant combustion and radiation. The central this absolute perpendicular, as determined by the recti star gives out as much potency from its own polar lineal bar and level. center, in the character of spirit, as it receives into itself from circumferences. The essence flowing into the star Che Koreshan Premise Briefly Stated is the product of the destruction of matter, which of Now, the proposition to be discussed is merely this: course is converted to spirit. A mechanical rectiline extended in any direction from There are necessarily twogeneral kinds of (physical) the initial point (the middle of the initial bar of the spirit interflowing from the two extremesof limitations Rectilineator), will project into the water or the surface of cosmic form;—one of these is from circumference to of the earth at a distance proportionate to the height center, the other is from center to circumference. The of the rectilineal bar from the ground surface. currents flowing from the center toward the circumfer The earth curves eight inches to the mile. This is ence are cathodic; those flowing toward the center are determined both by optical and mechanical means. anodic. We have, therefore, a reciprocal interchange of The final application of the rectilineal method of the essences, so equipoised as to maintain in perpetual Koreshan Geodetic Staff, was for the purpose of simpli existence the structure called the universe. fying the demonstration for the comprehension of the In the primary location of the rind of the alchemico- ordinary mind. Let us suppose that it were possible organic world (universe), there are seven prime metallic for the plumbline to be out of perpendicular. The level substances, each one of which is as constantly demate- was not determined by the plumbliue, but by the proc rializing as it is materializin» or depositing. Theouter esses of leveling employed by the geodesists. If the lamina or gold plate geuerates its golden fluid, and level deviated from the plumbline at an angle of a sends it off toward the central star. Thesilver stratum thousandth part of an inch, it would not affect the does the same, with all the other metallic substances straightness of the line; it would simply render the entering into the constitution of the rind or shell of the angle acute on one side of the middle of the initial bar, universe. There are, therefore, seven primary metallic and proportionately obtuse on the other side of the essences constantly flowing into the central star, and middle. la such an event, the straight line in a distance 262 The Flaming Sword of four miles would touch the water an inch or two to meet and argue our claims, is not because they are below the right angle; and in the other direction, as regarded unworthy of notice, but because they all know much above. It would not affect, in the least, the abso that "astronomy would indeed be helpless, were it not lute correctness of the experiment. for the implied approval of those whose authority is Drowning men catch at straws, never realizing that considered a guarantee of its truth,"—and not called the effort is not only a waste of energy, but that it into question. lessens the certainty of escape from danger. If the {To be continued.) relation of a level to the perpendicular is so uncertain a <*» quantity in the distance of ten feet, affecting a distance AGE ENDS IN CONFLICT (Q. CATASTROPHE of eight miles, how will the confession of this uncer The Money Power of the Trusts the Cause of tainty of perpendiculars and angles affect an argument the Great Time of Trouble, Such as Never Was involving quintillions of miles? The objections to the (From the Writings of Kohebh) Cellular Cosmogony, of those who advocate the Coperni- ¥ l1 IS USELESS for the people to rely on what any can and Newtonian fallacies and absurdities, are a political party may offer as a pledge for the correc million times more disastrous to the old theory tban to tion of the trust plague. The trust is the money power; ours. These objections once admitted by "scientific" it has come to stay until the end. Those predictions experts, the entire metric system of modern astronomy founded upon the philanthropy of the millionaire are must inevitably crumble. falsely predicated, and are only intended to deceive. Confessed Hypotheses of the Copernican Astrono In the secular world there is no god but money. mers Upon Which Modern Astronomy Is Built The worship of this god is the worship of mammon, and The astronomers of the world are a set of cowards. this love is the beast which, in the beginning, was more They do not pursue the study of astronomy for the subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God truth's sake, and its application to the uses of life. had made. "But," you will say, "if this is an evil god, Astronomy pursued as a "scientific" study by the or an evil beast,—this love of money,—then God did not astronomers of the old school, is for the purpose set create it." We answer: "I form the light, and create forth by Copernicus himself: "The hypothesis of the darkness; I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do terrestrial motion of the earth was nothing but an all these things." Why does the Lord create evil? hypothesis, valuable only so far as it explained phe Because He cannot help it. Evil comes as the reaction nomena, and not to be considered with reference to from good, and the voluntary power and process by absolute truth." They have a method of explaining which the Lord creates good react in the involuntary phenomena. It is immaterial whether it be true or not, of the Lord, by which the Lord involuntarily produces so long as it gives an explanation that appears reason evil. able, and there is no disposition on the part of the The love of money and the money power constitute people to question authority. the love aud power through which the great elimax of Dr. Woodhou8e, who was astronomer at Cambridge, revolution terminates the dispensation. No political confirmed this indifference to truth, for he said: "We party can effect a cure for this great evil. Money is too shall never, indeed, arrive at a time when we shall be powerful, and the heart of the human race is too corrupt able to pronounce it [the Copernican astronomy] abso and susceptible to withstand the sinuosities of the great lutely proved to be true^ The nature of the subject serpent. There is no hope for the world but in the excludes such a possibility. However perfect our theory revolution of the heart itself; aud this cau only come may appear, in our estimation, and however satisfac through the breath of God in man, in a new baptism torily the Newtonian hypothesis may seem to account about to be poured upon the world. for all celestial phenomena, yet we are here compelled When the Jewish church reached the limit of its to admit the astounding truth, that if our premise be corruptibility, (when the dispensation had attained the disputed and our facts challenged, the whole range of fulness of its iniquity,) it was obliterated in the bloody astronomy does not contain the proofs of its own catastrophe in which the age terminated. Before the accuracy." end came, God breathed upon the people through the The astounding time has arrived, and astronomers operation of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit overshadowed have realized the fulfilment of Dr. Woodhouse's fears. the world, because the source of the Spirit had been The premise, an assumption, which "was nothing but manifest in the personality of the Lord Jesus. Had an hypothesis, valuable only so far as it explained phe there been no Lord Jesus, there could have been no nomena [regardless of the truth of the explanation], baptism. The Christian age will end in a greater revo and not to be considered with reference to absolute lution, in a greater catastrophe; but before that great truth," we assail, with the declaration that an assump and dreadful day of the Lord, now at hand, Elijah the tion does not constitute the true basis of correct conclu Prophet—God the Lord in person— will appear, to inau sion. If one guesses at the first step in an argument, gurate a greater baptism than that by which the Chris every other step is as unqualifiedly a guess as the first, tian dispensation was ushered in. and the conclusion of the argument as uncertain as the The Battle of Gog and Magog, and the Battle of premise—the original assumption or pieceof guesswork. Armageddon The reason so called scientific men will not attempt The battle of Gog and Magog cannot be averted by The Flaming Sword 263 any cries of peace! peace! The time of peace has not yet THE MATERIAL NEW JERUSALEM arrived. Peace will come after the great conflict. In God's Chosen City, in New Palestine, the Perfection of Beauty During the Golden Age our prediction of the coming of the great crisis and catastrophe, we are now merely giving the warning of [From the Writings of Koresh]
what will come in theseculardomain of human activity. nPMI] TERM Jerusalem implies peaceful possession. The battle of (log and Magog will also be fought on the The term is primarily and essentially dual. What social and religious planes of life, and the dispensation that duality may signify must remain a question for will terminate amidst the three great woes. the illuminated mind to settle, for the Hebraists are Is the world growing better? It is reaching the totally ignorant concerning it. The root Jarah or Yaclimax of its glory and perfection in the manifestation rah, foundation, is the initial word. It is derived from of the Sons of God. It is reaching its disaster through the root Yarah, signifying to tremble (vibrate), which, the degeneracy of the masses of the people whose love is reduced to its first significance, refers directly to that in the competitive system, which is begotten of the devil cumulative influence which focalizes in the theocrasis or and born of hell, and is diametrically opposed to the translation of the person or group upon which depends principles and practices of communism as ordained of the throwing, casting, precipitating, or descent of a God, and made operative 1900 years ago through the foundation; for the root Jarah ( Yarah) signifies to cast office and mission of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God and or throw. Creator of the universe. The new dispensation will begin "I John saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, in an organic Communism, the direct outgrowth of the descending from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride planting of the Lord Christ in the soul of the human adorned for her husband." She is described as having race. the glory of God; and when we consider the Biblical We rejoice in the heading up of the money power. statement, that "I will not give my glory to another," We have made these predictions for forty years. The we must conclude she is the same (God), and that it is centralization of the wealth of the world is the false she of whom it is said: "She shall be called the Lord imperialism which, when fully ripened, will inaugurate our Righteousness." (Jeremiah xxxiii: 16.) John saw that other great battle— the battle of Armageddon. things which were to come to pass. It is therefore This is the power of evil against truth and good, the evident that the New Jerusalem seen by John in vision, Imperialism of Jehovah. This battle is that of the and so often mentioned prophetically in Scripture, is wealth of the world and the power of the competitive the Jerusalem to be gathered; and that the description system against the riches of truth, equally centralized of her walls, gates, ornamented and golden streets, and and all powerful. ornate completion as described, is aggregated at the There will come a great conflict. This is not the time of the fulfilment of the Revelator's vision. battle of Gogand Magog, butthe battle of Armageddon. We would suggest that the poor deluded advocates It is the final power of the hells against the power of of a restoration of the material Jerusalem in the old God and his Anointed. (Jod himself will end the strife Palestine, read the description of Jerusalem in Revela through his power to conquer the world, and in this tion, in which are aggregated twelve thousand of each of power alone is the hope of the world against the evils the twelve tribes of Israel, and ask themselves if this into which the great political powers of the nation and does not answer to the complete fulfilment of all that the world have led us. Koreshanityis the ark of safety. is prophesied of the r<(;.-stablishment. God has prepared this place and ark of safety from the Xhe Spiritual New Jerusalem Is Gathered in the storms of revolution about to sweep the face of the Messenger of the Covenant earth, the storms through which the old heavens and By divine authority, and by virtue of our mission the old earth will be made to pass away. The old as Messenger of the Covenant, we declare that the New church and state aregrown hoary with age and iniquity; Jerusalem is already gathered, and that she is ready to with the besom of destruction they are to be swept away descend (to be cast or thrown down), as predicted in by the new light and glory of the ages. the wonderful Apocalypse of St. John. We also iterate, that shewill not descend upon theold, typical Palestine; neither will her place be found on the typical Mount All the wealth of the world, aside from natural production, is the emanation of industry; and it is only- Zion, nor will the Lord descend on the typical Olivet. through industry that natural resources become wealth. The nucleus of the Lord's coming glory, the heart of The conflict of so called "capital and labor" is the con the kingdom, the extremities of which are only limited sequence of the perversion of the principle of the relation by the environments of the universe, will be established of art to nature,—the distortion arising from wrong- in the new world,—not in the old. The place where the principles and wrong conditions of the human soul. The present system of economics is founded exclusively Lord God will establish his throne, and where he will upon a false impulse, originating in self-love. It does place the foundation of his greatest glory and locate not confine itself merely to the wealthy robbers of the the people in whom he will dwell anew, and from whom world; it infiltrates and permeates the mass, and the he will regulate the future progress and development of poor wage-slave is as absolutely and voluntarily wedded the world, is not the old Palestine. to the competitive industrial system as the millionaire, and is as much responsible for his degradation as his The declaration of the New Jerusalem descending oppressor.— Koresh. from God out of heaven, understood from the literal
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