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THE READERS of The Flaming Sword and students of the Koreshan Universology are becoming familiar with the term "geodesy," and the phrase, "The New Geodesy;" and that there may be no misunderstanding of its meaning and its bearing upon life, we think it admissible to define its significance and its relation to the system of universal culture which the Koreshan Universology embraces. The term geodesy is from two Greek words: ge, earth, and daiein, to divide. It is literally the science of dividing the earth, or of defining its character as to form, that there may be a foundation for a knowledge of its functions.
At this point let us quote a passage of Scripture which has a very significant application to the subject under discussion: "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." This law applies as well to physical observations as to moral, religious, and spiritual things. Things are not as they appear at all times; hence the necessity for understanding principles, that interpretations may be genuinely true. Book optics and practically applied optics are two very different things. The reader must become familiar with practically applied optics. For instance, the books will tell you that because the earth is convex, three posts placed in the water three miles apart will conform to the convexity, and the middle one, will be the highest of the three on the convex surface, and looking from the initial post toward the terminal one, the line of vision will cut the middle post and strike the terminal or distal post at a higher point than the middle one. No one pretends to dispute this fact of observation.
There are three fundamental laws involved which when understood, determine the form and function of the universe as an entirety. These are, first, the science of Comparative Cellology, the foundation principle of which analogically determines the fact that all life, whether that life be specific or general, unfolds within the cell. The law and principle of comparative evolution analogically determines the fact that universal life is a unity, and that the progress of gestative evolution must necessarily progress within the great cell or womb of creative incrementation. Second, the science of vision, known by the term "optics," in which is interpreted the appearances of objects on the surface of the earth as related to the earth's contour.
Now, the interpretation given and generally believed, is that the world is convex, and because it is convex, and vision being in a straight line, the fact is according to the appearance. Place three posts three miles apart, the distal one being six miles from the initial post—the three posts being each one foot above the water's surface. Now place the eye unaided by the telescope, at the top of the initial post and look toward the middle and terminal post. The middle and distal posts will be out of sight, not from the fact of convexity, but from the fact of perspective foreshortening. Place a telescope upon the initial post, say, of about three inches diameter of the objective lens; you will look over the top of the middle post and see the distal one on a curve above the middle post. The truth concerning the matter is that vision is deceptive unless the science of perspective foreshortening is applied to the interpretation of the first and second observation, the one with the unaided eye and the other with the aid of the telescope. The fact that the books and practical experiment do not agree should serve as a precaution against believing all the books say, when those books are made from theory founded upon assumption.
The science of optics, then, may be called the second science applicable to geodetic discrimination, and one of the laws employed to corroborate the testimony of Comparative Cellology, which determines the contour of the surface of the earth, and the fact that the earth is a great electro-magnetic cell. It should be remembered that Comparative Cellology settles the question of the concavity of the earth, and the fact that man inhabits the earth. The science of optics corroborates the testimony of Cellology.
The third science is that of mechanics as applied to the measure of the contour. It will be noticed that there are three methods of proving the fact of the concavity of the earth's surface. The first and greatest, is Comparative Cellology; the second and most complicated, the application of optics; the third and most simple, by mechanical application. In the perfection of a treatise on the "New Geodesy," these three principles would necessarily be included, for the reason that the corroborative testimony of more witnesses than one is essential to conviction of different characters of mentality. Geodetic science determines place in relation to the development of character, and the higher application of the science is the predetermination of character through the designation of the time and place of the inception of the nativity, and to this should be added the parentage and its lineage.
The Messianic character of nineteen hundred years ago declared himself to be the Bread-keeper, and consequently the term Lord was the most legitimate appellation, for the word Lord is an old Saxon word meaning bread-keeper. It is the best English into which the Hebrew word Yavali or Yaweh could be rendered. The Hebrew is generally expressed as Jehovah. Jehovah or Lord signifies the "keeper of the bread." The "house of bread" was the aggregation of people who should eat the bread contained in the retainer of the bread which was to be given to the world—the Bread which came down from heaven, which if a man eat he shall live forever. Because he was the Bread-keeper he was born at Bethlehem, a term meaning "house of bread." The location was predetermined, and the prophets declared that the Son of God would be born at that place. That distinctive location, with reference to the divisions of the earth, was instrumental in determining the character.
One of the necessities, therefore, of a correct geodesy is a correct determination, under a perfect marital order, of the time and place of birth for the development of specific characters. A Napoleon or an idiot might be born under the same general aspects, so far as the deductions of what is now called the science of astrology are concerned, and no one would know the difference, from astrological science as now developed; and no one would be able to give a reason for the discrepancy in the characters of the two nativities. Were it possible for two persons to be born at the same time in the same place—these two, being born of different parents, would not be alike. They might have many peculiarities in common, while one might be a great man and the other less than mediocre.
It will therefore be seen that something besides astronomical phases is essential to the creation of character. Two persons might have been born in Bethlehem at the same moment, under the same astrological conditions, so far as the astrological indications could be deciphered, and but one of those could have had the characteristics of the Savior of the world. It will be seen that to insure a perfect system of astrological reading some things must be involved that are not now included within the province of so called astrological science. Among these factors is a proper geodetic science, which implies a very critical subdivision of the earth's surface.
In the Hebrew system, where the science of astrology was critically defined, there was a record kept of all the family lines from the very beginning of the ramifications of the Hebrew race. Jacob provided that his twelve sons should be born under special astronomical or astrological influences. Each son was born under a particular sign, and each had for his coat of arms the sign of the constellation under which he was born and to which he belonged. It gave to them character and power according to the significance of the nativity. Israel knew and applied the law of stirpiculture to the development of character, determining beforehand the astrological career, rather than to be able to pass upon the career after the astrological fate of the character had been carelessly fixed.
If there be a higher use to which astrological science can be applied, that use is in the predetermination of the character of the native. Such application can be made when the science of marriage is reduced to the laws of its highest uses, one factor of which is the law of propagation restrained to the legitimate function of cohabitation, which means that there shall be no waste of the sexual forces for the mere pleasure of animal gratification. There will come a time, and that in the near future, when it will not be considered "race suicide" for men to conserve the potencies of life to be legitimately employed upon the basis of a definite science, the will or desire being controlled by the cultured and refined intellect.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 18, No. 48 · 9 May 1905 · PDF pp. 3-4