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"Of the many more questions I have refrained from asking you than those I have sent, are a large number propounded by other questioners and answered in various numbers of THE FLAMING SWORD. Among these is a query concerning the seasons of the Zodiacal year, answered in No. 598, that I am unable to get rightly related. It would seem that correspondentially, the Golden Age of perfect fruition should be antipodal to the winter or Iron Age. I have thought that a clear understanding of another hazy question might clear this also—namely, the statement that Jesus was the sixth day of creation and the first Adam, while Adam is said to be the first day of creation. I have a glimpse of the harmony here, but it is only a glimpse. I want a clear comprehension of it. Though the light of Koreshan Science gives inexpressible comfort and joy, yet there is an inevitable pain and discontent with necessary environing limitations. Many points are now plain that I once thought impossible of explanation until I had reached perhaps fourth dimensional amplitude."
We shall touch upon the above points but briefly here. The Golden Age is the age of the golden fruit of the great Zodiacal cycle. It follows the Iron Age as spring follows winter; for the resurrection is out of death and darkness. The Sun rises and the light bursts upon the world. The transformation is marked, and results are achieved which are antithetical to those existing during the age of darkness.
Gold is the symbol of good, divine good; and good relates to external things of life; and good is the coordinate of truth, the truth of science. The seeming inconsistency of the placing of the Golden Age after the Iron Age is only in the seeming. The factors of divine progress have been operative through the world's darkness; and now, while the divine progress ultimates in the highest degrees of light and life, the darkness of the retrogressive evolution also culminates, and we have the rapid transformation.
Jesus the Christ of nineteen hundred years ago, was both the first Adam and the second Adam, then and there: the first Adam as the natural man Jesus, and the second Adam as the quickening Spirit resulting from the combustion of his personality. The Adam of the Old Testament was a man corresponding to the man Jesus in mission and function, and he was the "first day" of a particular series. The student should not think of the planets in humanity as being grouped the same way in every cycle. The succession of Adam, Enoch, Noah, Moses, Elijah, Jesus, and Cyrus in the present cycle of 24,000 years, is not the same for preceding or succeeding cycles.
On this question confusion results from failure to perceive that the Messiahs are anthropostic planets, which are just as much subject to varied groupings and conjunctions and precessions, as are the planets of the physical cosmos. Think of the subject in the light of these suggestions. It is sometimes better to stimulate thought and lead the mind to active effort in comprehension of truth, than to satisfy the mind by detailed explanation.
We do not quite grasp the import of the expression used: "Yet there is inevitable pain and discontent with necessary environing limitations." We presume, however, personal limitations are meant, and not the fact that the cosmos is limited. The fact that the inquirer has already made progress, in that many things are now comparatively clear where before all was dark and vague, should be a source of encouragement. But we would suggest that satisfying knowledge of Koreshan Universology, knowledge for the rational mind, is for the natural man, applicable to and enjoyed by men and women in the natural world.
Knowledge is science, and science is for the intellect that is placed in proper touch and relation with the central Mind manifest in the circumferential Man of the age. Desire to attain to a comprehension of Koreshan Universology, here and now, and conceive that it is possible. Bring desire and expectation into harmony, and not only will the way open for a complete understanding of truth, but also for a complete transformation of the being from death unto life. Doubt not. Doubt is as unreasoning as credulity. Let reason reign supreme—reason illumined by the light of the rising Sun!
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