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By Prof. U. G. Morrow.
Editorial transcription, lightly normalized from the cited scan pages. Historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
(1) Does Koresh teach the personality of God (Jehovah)? (2) Does he hold that the world was created (as Moses represents) about 6,000 years ago?
(3) What proof that the world revolves in 24,000 years; and how do you get the 24,000 Scripturally?
(4) What are the practical proofs of the concavity of the earth?
(5) What holds up those seas above us? (6) Is heaven above? [Continued from the May number; and through Inadvertence, omitted from the
.I June and July issues. ] (4) There is no fact in the universe that may be regarded as indicative of the shape of the world, that is in disagreement with any other fact; hence, when understood, every fact within the realm of human investigation and reason proves the earth to be concave. Nowhere in all the world, can there be found any life that has not developed in a cell; there is no life that is not contained within its own expression. The life of man is in man; the life of the universe is within the universe. The inhabitants of the world live on the inside of the great universal cell. The many facts of alchemy, demonstrating the relation of energy and matter, are evidences that the material portion of the universe, which is directly related to the pivotal center of replenishment, must be materialized equidistant from that center, causing and maintaining a shell or environ which encloses all. A practical proof of the earth's concavity is seen by all aeronauts; from the altitude of the balloon the earth is seen to be concave. The principles and laws of optics and perspective foreshortening, when understood, lead to the invariable and inevitable conclusion of the earth's cellular form; without an understanding of the laws by which we perceive, it is impossible to correctly and properly interpret the character of the impressions of the earth's true contour, or of the movements of the sun, moon and stars. The simplest proofs that the earth is concave reside in the ocular and mechanical demonstrations of the water's concavity, conducted by the Operating Staff of the New Geodesy, at Naples, Fla.,—the actual views of the water's contour, and the survey of the "air line" as the chord of the earth's concave arc.
(5) The seas above us—as hydrogen, another form of water, —are sustained in their own static plane. The plane of emplacement of any substance is where the energies which produce it are materialized; above that plane, the material could not rise, neither could it sink below it; the emplacement of all substances in the universe obtains through the relation of their specific gravity. They do not need to be held up. The laws governing the generation and materialization of gravic energies may be found explained and demonstrated in the new book to appear shortly, on Koreshan Astronomy, by KORESH.
(6) The physical heavens are above, as to space; the spiritual heavens are above as to condition, or in relation to the mental world. The spiritual heavens are within humanity—in the brain of mankind. Jesus came down from heaven—down from above, while the people whom he addressed came from beneath. He did not refer to up and down as to space, for he himself came down through a human lineage which, according to his genealogy, is traceable back to Adam, the Son of God.
Source boundary: Begins under Lady Blount's Questions; ends before Koreshan Songs, New Edition.
Vol. 11, No. 8 · August 1897 · PDF pp. 12
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 11, No. 8 · Aug 1897 · PDF p. 12