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"Will you have the kindness to answer in your journal, the following questions: What ground have you for believing that the outside of the earth's cell (as you call it) is globular and uniform of surface? What is on the outside of it? If empty space, isn't it a great waste of space? How do you know that the substance composing the earth does not continue to infinity, filling all space? Providing the earth is as pictured on the back of your journal, is it not possible to bore through and get upon the outside?"
The principles and laws of analogy and correspondence are absolute. Conclusions reached through those principles and laws of reasoning when properly applied, are more absolute than reasoning from the basis of the empirical processes of experimentation can possibly be. We know from the basis of analogy that the universe is cellular; we have already demonstrated its concavity—that is, the concavity of the surface upon which we live, which is the inner surface. The universe being cellular, necessarily requires cell walls or environs of the life within; and those walls must be of a given thickness, more or less uniform. The strata of metals and other substances are materialized from the center; and the laws of radiation and materialization of those substances require planes of materialization or spheres of deposition of the substances, equidistant from the center in all directions.
The universe incorporates all there is of existence and of the materials and substances of existence. There is therefore nothing of the universe outside of itself; neither can there ever be anything more of the physical cosmos than there is now, for it is now as it has been throughout all the myriads of the ages past. The space of the universe is all the space there is, for it is the space of that which exists. The universe occupies all space, because the limited cosmos occupies its own space, which is its own room. There is no space, no room, beyond the confines of the cosmos. If the earth were a mere speck in what is termed infinite or illimitable space, it would be a waste of space, if such space could be without being occupied; but if on the other hand, the matter of the earth extended to infinity, would it not be necessary to conclude that that would be a great waste of material?
We know how the materials in the earth are arranged, because we know that the principles and laws of specific emplacement are definite and compel the relation of the substances of the shell of the earth according to order. From the basis of actual knowledge in physics, we know the relative specific gravity of water and air; we know the depth of the seas of water and air. From the basis of such relations we obtain a ratio, which if applied to all the substances of the atmospheres and minerals and metals of the cosmos, reveals the actual thickness of the shell of the earth to be about 100 miles, and the actual length of a given radius of the earth to be about 4,000 miles. The results of such a computation conform to actual measures of the earth's circumference.
The earth is as represented in the Koreshan Cosmogony; but it is not possible for man to bore through the shell and get upon the outside. It is difficult enough for him to breathe sometimes in deep shafts, owing to the presence of carbonic acid gas. Man cannot live without air; and air usable and breathable would not extend very far down into the crust. Besides, men do not undertake such stupendous tasks without some definite object in view. If reasonable men became convinced that the earth is concave, they would at the same time know that all attempts to bore through the shell would be utter folly.
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