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EDITOR FLAMING SWORD:—How does Koreshanity explain the mystery of existence, or what is the purpose and end of life in all its forms, from the lowest to the highest ? What relation does God sustain to the physical universe? Is he not the author and governor of the natural, physical world, as well as of humanity ?— G. T. H., Ft. Worth, Tex.
These questions have been asked by millions of people in modern times; but modern teachers have given the world no satisfactory answer. According to the usual Christian idea, there could be but little use in the creation of a cosmos doomed to final dissolution. According to this view, the universe is a temporary affair, constructed by a Deity who sustains no vital relation to the cosmos, because it is held that he is extra-cosmical, utterly opposed to matter; that the universe contributes nothing to the existence of Deity ; and that the world is in no way related to the divine mentality and life. Modern astronomers can never solve the problem of life and creation, because they know nothing concerning the form of the cosmos, and are consequently ignorant of its functions ; and if they cannot properly interpret the effect, how can they obtain a knowledge of the Cause ?
Cause and effect are reciprocal. The universe is a great system of organic life, and contains within itself all of the functions necessary to its perpetuity, from eternity to eternity. The universe is eternal—it has always existed, and will always exist, because it contains the eternal Deity. The universe and God are interdependent ; the one is necessary to the other. Mind and matter are eternal correlates ; and there never was a time when these correlates did not constitute the great universe of activity. "Heaven is God's throne, and the earth is his footstool, " is a Scriptural and scientific expression.
The physical universe is a cell; it has its center and circumference, which react upon each other in the processes of perpetuity of the cosmic form. Sun and circumference are interdependent; and the same laws of interdependence and correspondence extend to the very climax of all life—the life, being, and existence of Deity. God is inseparably connected with his universe of creation. He is both the Producer and the Produced ; he is the climax of the progress of life; and the physical cosmos is his own ultimate expression.
The great central law of life is, that all forces must flow from all circumferences to one center to be revitalized, re-elabora- Editorial Discussions and Miscellany.
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ted, and renewed. The universe is a unit; it is cellular ; the physical cosmos, which comprises the mineral kingdom, is the outermost and ultimate expression and limit of its interior life. A primary and fundamental doctrine of the Koreshan Cosmogony, the doctrine of the relation of the divine mind to the physical world, is that of impression and expression, the boundaries of which are defined by the two poles of universal being. The pole of impression is the subjective pivot of consciousness in the brain of the Theo-Anthropos, the involved universe, the microcosm. Expression, embracing all forms and modifications of the structured universe in its manifest integralism, is the objective and material product of perpetual activity.
The highest seed of the universe is the God-man; he is the apex of the human kingdom, which in turn is related to the animal kingdom; the animal to the vegetable; and the vegetable to the mineral. These are the links or planes which tie the Creator to the cosmos, even to the outermost; they constitute the planes through which life ascends in its progress to the climax, the planes through which substances of life descend from the creative pivot to the outermost and ultimate expression. The functions of creation inhered in Jesus the Messiah nineteen hundred years ago, the veritable and visible Lord God of heaven and earth. The exercise of the creative functions is through the operation of the laws of divine propagation—the sowing of the divine mentality and life in the field of humanity; from that point, He impulses the human world, and that impulse will extend outward and outward through the several kingdoms or planes of life, until the confines of the universe are reached; and in turn, every plane reacts in the production of the Seed, the climax. In this way, the universe is perpetuated from cycle to cycle.
The purpose of the existence of the cosmos and the planes superimposed, is to maintain the existence of God; and the purpose of the existence of God, is to perpetuate the whole. The origin of all life is God, and the destiny of all is God; he is the beginning and the end of creation, the first and the last, the Alpha and the Omega,—the beginning in whom is involved the universe; and he was all these nineteen hundred years ago, in the fulness of the Godhead bodily, the Word made flesh, the Creator in the natural world.
The Almighty is related to humanity by ties of consanguinity; he is, specifically, the perfect man, the ruler of the cosmos. A practical illustration of the processes of the perpetuity of the divine Being and the universe, is in the common seed. The seed is the creator and the created; it perpetuates itself through death and life, through the processes of involution and evolution. The seed produces the plant, and the plant produces the seed. In accordance with the same law of reproduction, the Almighty creates the cosmos in himself, by involving the whole: then he sows himself in the human soil, and the creator is produced from that soil in the consummation of the cycle, when he is resurrected in his perfection as the seed, the personal, tangible God, the Creator of the tangible world.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 14, No. 22 · April 1900 · PDF p. 12