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Editor Flaming Sword:—I desire enlightenment on the Koreshan theory of the Cellular Cosmogony. I hold an opinion directly opposite to yours. Explain your idea of the exterior crust. I do not see how you can account for the laws of gravity. If you can disprove the idea of the convex curvature of the earth, do so to my satisfaction and I will accept your theory.—W. F. A., Maywood, Ill.
It would be well for those who inquire of us concerning the proofs of the earth's concavity, to ask the world's most noted astronomers for some absolute proof that the earth is a convex body. The force of the Koreshan premise is all the more apparent when placed in direct contrast with the other side. The ablest scientists of modern times make no pretensions to having proved the premise of their astronomical system; in their writings they freely admit that modern astronomy has for its first premise a mere assumption, an hypothesis which has never been demonstrated to be true. The bold claims for modern astronomy are put forth by men trained in colleges, who have never undertaken to investigate for themselves the so called proofs in support of the theory. The basis of the modern system of astronomy is accepted by the world without proof or demonstration, simply because it seems to explain the phenomena of the heavens. The reason why the popular system seems to fit the facts of common observation, is that the system is founded upon appearances.
For those who are familiar with the Koreshan Cosmogony, it is unnecessary to repeat the evidences of its truth; but The Flaming Sword is continually reaching those who know nothing of the facts of demonstration of its premise, and it may not be out of place to briefly present them anew.
The structured universe necessarily conforms to the laws of form; it must therefore be an organic thing, having center and circumference, between which there exists an eternal reciprocity or interdependence. In order to maintain its form and generate the life it contains, the universe must be cellular and limited in size. This is in accordance with the universal law of development of life. All life is developed in the cell; therefore universal life is no exception to the rule. The laws of form and the analogy of the cell constitute the first proof that the universe is cellular.
The material body of the universe corresponds to the physical body of man. We arrive at this conclusion through application of the principles of correspondential analogy and comparative anatomy. We discover through our senses that the earth is physical; therefore, the earth is the physical part of the universe—in other words, the earth constitutes the circumference of the universe. Both man and cosmos are the product of cause; humanity is the first great effect, and the physical cosmos is the second great effect of creative power. Therefore man, individually and collectively, corresponds in form and function to the great cell, because the two great effects must agree and conform to the same laws and principles of life. Man in his perfection is the microcosm or the universe in miniature. Man is a cell adapted to his environment; the universe as the great cell, is the most external form of the egg of man's development and incubation. The evidences of the truth of these conclusions adduced through application of the principles of analogy and comparative anatomy are numerous, and constitute a second general proof of the cellular form of the earth, the physical body of the universe.
Having established these conclusions, it remains to be demonstrated that we live on the inner surface of the universal cell. This is in accordance with the principles of language. We are inhabitants of the earth—that is, we live within the earth. The sun is the helix of the great universal battery cell; the central sun, containing the central stellar nucleus, is the constant involution of the universal form. The ancients understood the form of the universe, and therefore named the different parts of the universe in accordance with a true conception of their functions. The earth is the universe in fact as well as in common usage. A condition which prevails throughout humanity or throughout the earth is said to be universal; and a great city is cosmopolitan because it contains inhabitants from all parts of the cosmos. In the literature of the ancients, the earth was the foundation of the universe, the only physical world. In the Scriptures, the sun, moon, and stars are great lights made to give light upon the earth; and the heavens are "heaved up" by force of levitation from the structured shell or body of the cosmos. The cosmogony of the Bible is the Cellular Cosmogony; the universe and the Bible constitute two forms of expression of the divine mind, and they must agree in fact. The words ocean, sea, and gulf mean great concave bodies of water; and these bodies of water therefore constitute a portion of the inner surface of the concave earth. In language and literature we find the third great proof that the universe is cellular.
We apply the principles of optics as a form of direct demonstration of the earth's concavity. These principles demand the conclusion that the horizon, instead of being a circle of limited vision of a convex surface, is the circle of the limit of vision of a concave surface; for the horizon circle is produced through the operation of the laws of geolinear foreshortening—that is, the apparent contraction of the earth-line. The ratio of contraction is definite from any point or altitude of observation, and makes the horizon on the great concave extense inevitable. Beyond the horizon objects, such as ships, islands, hills, mountains, etc., appear to sink below the water-line. On the basis of these phenomena the entire system of modern astronomy is predicated. The earth appears to be convex, and the astronomer is deceived because he fails to conceive that foreshortening has anything to do with the phenomena; he fails to correctly interpret what he sees, because he is in ignorance of the laws of visual perception. The astronomer knows nothing of geolinear foreshortening; when he deals with the problem of the earth's shape, he leaves the most important factor entirely out of the question. Koreshan Science alone defines the principles of foreshortening. The application of these principles constitutes the fourth form of demonstration of the earth's concavity.
But all the above proofs and demonstrations are beyond the popular mind, which requires something within its grasp. The simple facts within the comprehension of the simplest minds are numerous. We know from the basis of a long series of scientific observations, that the earth is not convex; we have demonstrated by ocular means—by restoration of the disappearing ship's hull by means of the telescope; by viewing targets and objects on the water at long distances, with the telescope on the water; and by observations of Government lighthouses at such distances as would be impossible over a convex surface—that there is not the slightest convexity on any canal, gulf, sea, or ocean in the world. We have directly tested the water's surface by scientific processes, and know that the surface is not convex, but concave. The laws of hydrostatics make the conclusion inevitable that the surface of water must conform to the general contour of the earth. These experiments constitute the fifth general form of demonstration of the Koreshan premise.
We have employed yet more direct methods. For the first time in the history of the world, we applied the principles of mechanical geodetic survey, in 1897, on the Gulf coast of Florida. We surveyed a rectiline, beginning at right angles to the perpendicular at a given point 10 feet and 8 inches above the water level. At the distance of over four miles, the surveyed line terminated in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and the upward curve of the earth toward the rectiline was, as determined by 25 different measurements along the route of survey, 8 inches to the mile. The particulars of this survey and other experiments, are published in book form and supplied by our Publishing House. We commend this work to all inquirers concerning the basic proofs of the Koreshan System. The proofs are absolute; we challenge refutation. The evidences of the Koreshan Geodetic Service constitute the sixth general proof of the earth's concavity.
From October, 1901, to March, 1902, as many as 20 scientific experiments were performed in the Tamarack mines at Calumet, Michigan, where the shafts are 4,250 feet in depth. Plumb-lines were suspended from the top of the shafts, and observations and measurements made at both top and bottom. It is obvious to all minds that if the earth is a convex body with the lines of gravity converging downward toward the center, the plumb-lines should hang farther apart at the top; but this is exactly what the plumb-lines did not do in all the experiments at the Tamarack mines. There was a downward divergence of the lines, thus proving conclusively the main points of our contention that the earth is a concave sphere. This remarkable line of experiments constitutes the seventh form of demonstration of our premise; and all these forms of demonstration we place in direct contrast with the admitted assumptions which constitute the very basis of all modern astronomical conclusions.
The earth is of definite form, about 8,000 miles in diameter. The shell, comprised of geologic, mineral, and metallic strata, is about 100 miles in thickness. The outermost stratum or sphere of metal is solid gold, the heaviest of the primary metals. This is the outside, beyond which there is absolutely nothing. There are no more worlds; there is one universe—that means one and no more. Gravity is an energy generated in the central sun; the force of gravity pushes outward toward the circumference. Newton's "laws of gravitation" are to be accounted for on the basis of their utter fallacy; but the phenomena of gravity are explained from the basis of the Cellular System, which has as one of its departments, a true system of chemistry or alchemy, through the laws of which the earth and sun are related by lines of both levic and gravic energy.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 16, No. 45 · 26 Sep 1902 · PDF pp. 12-13