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‘You claim that you assume nothing in your new Cosmogony. How about those mercurial discs in the earth’s shell? Have you ever seen them? Also, if the earth is a concave shell (which of course it is not), how do you know but what there are thousands of others outside just like it? Have you ever seen the dark side of the sun?”’
In the old schools of thought, an hypothesis is considered as demonstrated and established if after it is put forth, it appears to explain facts more completely than other hypotheses. On such a basis, the Koreshan Cosmogony must stand pre-eminent, because it fully explains all known facts and phenomena, solves all problems, and reveals all mystery. But unlike other schools, it begins with demonstration, and lays its foundation secure; and then the eye of reason sees everything as clearly and unmistakably as with the physical vision.
Knowledge of a few simple principles and laws of physics and keys to the processes of reasoning from analogy, brings to light the startling fact that not only have the Koreshan scientists seen the discs of mercury in the shell of the earth, but that millions of others have also seen them, and do see them every night. The vision is not direct, as by rays of light and vision through a single medium; but through many reflections and refractions of transmitted substances to and fro between the eye and the discs. The discs appear to be in the sky; they are called planets. We look against spheres or planes of energy in the physical heavens, and see reflected in them the mercurial mirrors in the earth’s shell.
By similar processes, we see through the shell of the earth in such a way as to give views from the outside of the mineral strata of the shell. We obtain such a view through what is called the moon. The view is as actual as if the eye were outside, with power to penetrate the illumined interior. We are in a mystic maze; it puzzles the astronomer and bewilders the layman. But when once the processes of reflection are known, and the position of the mirrors are determined, we may know to a certainty where and what the things are that we seem to see.
We may even see absolutely and certainly through the eye of reason. The mind does not reach the most satisfactory nor the most certain conclusions through physical perception. The eye of reason—that is, the intellectual perception, is superior to the physical vision. Reasoning by analogy, reaching conclusions through the application of the principles of correspondence, is the highest and most satisfactory form of reasoning. We may demonstrate by a thousand different processes that the form of the universe is analogous to the form of man. When it is demonstrated that such is true, then to know that there are discs of mercury in the shell of the universe, in the “bowels of the earth,” we have only to find the analogue in the physical cosmos, of the digestive tract in man. Mercury is the only universal amalgamator, the only digestor of the metallic and mineral elements of the physical cosmos.
Through rational processes, through intellectual perception, the mind may see these things clearly and absolutely; and it may perceive the further fact that the universe in which we live is the only one, for the word universe means one system of existence. But all this requires the exercise of mental functions, which seem to be inactive or at least perverted in the modern mind to the extent of complete intellectual blindness. That is one of the reasons why the masses cannot now see the things clearly revealed to the Koreshan.
Editorial transcription checked against the cited scans; historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 19, No. 21 · Oct 31, 1905 · PDF p. 12