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Editorial transcription, lightly normalized from the scan. Line-break hyphenation, spacing, capitalization, and unmistakable OCR errors have been repaired; the claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
Your second number of THE FLAMING SWORD at hand. With your 8,000-mile-in-diameter-hollow-sphere, you seem to overlook or ignore the existence of many planets that swing in space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. I will not, however, enter into any controversy with you in regard to the concave or convex earth. But should you visit our city I would like to meet you, and therefore extend to you an invitation to call and see me. And if you do not object, I will call and visit with you the next time I am in Chicago. I send you a picture of my observatory.—J. A. G., Astronomer, Clinton, Iowa.
Thanks for your favor and courteous invitation; we shall be pleased to have you call on us when in the city. There are no astronomical facts that we overlook or ignore. We not only have place in the Koreshan System for the seven primary planets derived from the seven primary metals comprising the shell or firmament of the universe, but also for the asteroids or planetoids, or the secondary and tertiary planets, which are the product of and cross between the solar and planetary spheres; the Koreshan Cosmogony also defines the function of each in the perpetuity of the great alchemico-organic structure. We believe it would prove interesting to you to know something of the character of the Koreshan Astronomy, and recommend to you an investigation of the facts which demonstrate the System to be true.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 12, No. 26 · May 1898 · PDF p. 11