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It is only by the great law of analogy, or the science of correspondential and differential analysis and synthesis, that we are enabled to reach exactness in our interpretation of the forms and phenomena of the cosmic demonstration of God’s existence and personality.
The truth is boldly declared that the physical universe is in the form of a cell or shell, and that the surface on which we live is a concave, instead of a convex one, as now so universally taught and believed.
Our challenge thus enunciated, opens us to the contempt of the thoughtless, who now, as in every age or generation, are ready to condemn without a hearing, any and every attempt to define the forms and laws of being.
We have not placed ourselves in our present equivocal position, without a thorough estimate of all the consequences, and not without a knowledge of what it costs to make War upon any tolerated fallacy or evil.
The inside theory of the world, is as demonstrable as any problem in mathematics, and all that is essential for its demonstration, is to follow its lines of proof, relying solely upon the facts of nature.
One of the first steps towards the true interpretation of the relations of form, as embodied in the cosmic structure, is the proper understanding of the visual function. The settlement of the question of vision,, is an imperative necessity as preparatory to a correct cosmic theory.
It is an axiom of Eoreshism, that vision depends upon visual substance, precisely as light depends upon a process of combustion in, and emanation from the sun.
All energies are the product of the destruction of matter as such. Destroy a molecule or atom of matter, and it at once becomes energy. Mental energy is the result of the destruction of molecules of matter, circulating in the vascular conduits of the cerebral mass.
We teach that the eye is the light of the body. This is as true in the universal as in the individual. We regard the personal Christ of eighteen hundred years ago as the eye, and the light of the universal body. The destruction of the molecules and atoms of his organic form, produced the Spirit of light by which the world becomes illuminated. *
The very substance of that form was transmitted.
This was not a mere mode of motion, but the substance of his body converted to Holy Spirit, and transmitted through the various degrees of change, which will finally re-aggregate, and again transpose from the discrete realm and degree, to the concrete degree of organic and visible unity.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 1, No. 19 · 12 Apr 1890 · PDF p. 2