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An acceptation of the fact that we live on the inside, instead of the outside, of the earth, will make clear all of the puzzling problems of Scripture which otherwise are inexplicable. We know that the Inside Theory seems at first sight ridiculous, but we also know that the world, to-day, has truth inverted in every domain as a result of a violation of God's law. Why should you not give this subject candid investigation? True, a few hundred years ago Copernicus declared —on a supposition, merely—that this earth was a globe composed of solid and molten substance, and that we were revolving around the sun, which body, we are told, is a fiery mass. Although this fiery mass was originally thrown off from some other sun, yet, strange to say, it has never cooled like our earth. Reader, are you prepared to swallow such an absurdity?
Have we in this nineteenth century reached the ultimatum of knowledge? If so, then why read or investigate any further? If not, then why turn a deaf ear to a new astronomical proposition which, because it is founded upon a demonstrable fact, not upon an assumption, is more worthy of your consideration than that of Copernicus? We appeal to every fair minded man and woman in this matter; no truth can be attained in any domain until we have discovered bottom facts as pertaining to the cosmos, for with a fallacious idea concerning cosmogony, all inferences in the line of science, all analogical reasonings go for naught, because of the lack of a sound and fundamental premise.
The chaos of Babel that obtains in modern thought is the product of a false belief concerning the construction of the universe. It is as the discord of an ill-tuned instrument which destroys all harmony in the symphony of human thought. The orchestral leader knows that music is an impossibility where harmony is lacking. The same principle must control in everything whether in the alchemico-organic or in the organo-vital system. Surely the inharmony so plainly manifest, to-day, must be the result of the preponderance of fallacy or evil in human conceptions.
Koreshanity lays down the law that harmony must obtain and actuate all the various departments of being. It teaches that the physical universe is structured on the same plan as the human brain, and that the human body is planned in correspondence with the functions of the brain. Modern scientists tell us that we live on the outside of the earth; they offer as proof, the fact that when a ship disappears, the top of the mast is the last portion of the ship to recede from sight. Such proof seems to have been conclusive evidence to modern query that we are on the convex surface of the earth. Now, on the other hand, if you level a strong glass at the point on the horizon where a ship has entirely receded from view, the ship is again brought back to vision. This fact Koreshans take as more conclusive evidence that we do not live on the outside of the earth. The law of optics, when understood, reveals the fact that vision curves upward, which from one point of view, accounts for the fact that the hull of the ship recedes first from view. The fact is, the mast of the ship would be the last to disappear from sight, even were the earth a flat surface. We say that if there were no other evidence to upset the Copernican theory, the fact that a strong glass can again bring into view a ship which has, to the unaided eye, disappeared below the horizon, is all sufficient.
We find that the brain has its superior, middle and inferior regions, and with the concave cellular theory we have no difficulty in finding three atmospheric regions in the physical universe to correspond to them. When we see an aeronaut inflate his balloon with hydrogen, we know that the balloon will ascend because the hydrogen seeks its own atmospheric weight, which is lighter than our atmosphere. Hydrogen is the atmosphere immediately above our own; the union of hydrogen and oxygen forms the clouds or vapor which we see in the sky, and from which rain descends. Beyond the atmosphere of hydrogen is that of aboron. Here then we have the three atmospheres in the physical heavens corresponding to the three divisions of the brain.
When we read in the Bible that at the end of the dispensation the Lord is coming "in the clouds of heaven," we do not get excited as Prof. Totten does. He would be better off if he were to inquire more into the manner of the Lord's coming. Koreshans are not gazing skyward to see the Lord drop down out of the physical clouds. He did not leave us that way. How then did he leave us, and what is meant by the Lord's coming "in the clouds of heaven"? Koreshanity with its cellular cosmogony can answer this question correctly and without hesitancy. Koreshans regard Emanuel Swedenborg as the greatest theologian and seer of all those whose writings are read—though not understood—by modern investigators. Swedenborg wrote for the spiritual world. He did not profess to give the literal sense of the Word. He said that the coming of the Lord was his coming in the literal sense of the Word. But Swedenborg gave us the key to the formation of the spiritual world. Through illumination, he revealed the fact that the spiritual world has its celestial, spiritual and natural degrees or regions corresponding to the three atmospheric regions in the physical universe; this is in agreement with Koreshan cosmogony.
As the spiritual degree of the Word would thus correspond to the sphere of hydrogen in the physical, it must be plain that the coming of the Lord in a cloud must be the result of the union of the spiritual and literal senses or degrees of the Word. Such phenomena as the ascension of Elijah in a chariot of fire, and of Jesus in a cloud, were the result of the combustion (theoerasis) of the elements of their physical organisms. The law of transmutation or theoerasis as applied to the organo-vital system is very simple when once understood. The human organism is composed largely of water and of chemical properties such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc., all of which are convertible to spiritual energy. Elijah and Jesus understood the law of transmutation; hence, by pivoting in themselves the mental energies of love and hate, generated by their friends and enemies, they were able to dissolve their bodies and convert them to spirit with which to baptize the humanity prepared to absorb that spiritual energy.
The personality in this age who is able to apply this law, and thus pass out by an incorruptible dissolution of his body, will be the Messiah or Messenger of the Covenant; through him the New Jerusalem will descend, and by such dissolution (the spiritual and literal sense of the Word being now united) will the Lord come in the clouds of heaven. That is to say, an entrance having been effected into humanity—through the comprehension by a personality in that humanity of the literal sense of the Word—the New Jerusalem in the spiritual world will descend, and we will have a nucleus for the establishment of the divine kingdom in earth.—C. J. M.
Afraid to Accept the Challenge.
The writer of "Short Talks on Koreshan Science," while knowing comparatively little concerning Koreshan astronomy (although quite enough to expose the fallacies of the Copernican system), will seize every opportunity to keep this subject before the readers of THE FLAMING SWORD. The Inside Theory is the basis of the Koreshan System, and as its conclusions lead one to a position diametrically opposite to that which one must take who accepts the Copernican system, it, above all other questions, will excite the greatest attention, and elicit the most discussion among thinking people. Do not forget that the position taken by Koreshanity as to the physical cosmos is incontrovertible; that through the supremacy of that position, Koreshanity is bound to revolutionize the world, for, with the supremacy of the Inside Theory, Darwinian evolution, the so-called science of chemistry, together with all tenets that are in violation of a true interpretation of the Science of Being, will be relegated to the domain of fallacy.
If the enemies and deriders of this new and marvelous system of thought could gaze a little into the future, and note the position occupied by the Koreshan movement amid the decay of a worn-out church, a premiseless system of science and a disease-stricken government and society, they would now yield to Koreshanity and THE FLAMING SWORD that recognition which they must soon receive in abundance throughout the world, for truth is mighty and WILL PREVAIL.
THERE IS NOT A SCIENTIST IN AMERICA OR EUROPE WHO DARES TO DISCUSS WITH KORESH THE CONVEX OR COPERNICAN SYSTEM AS OPPOSED TO THE CONCAVE OR KORESHAN SYSTEM OF ASTRONOMY. Let us hear from some of the college professors and star-gazers. They cannot much longer keep silent, for the Koreshan arguments supporting a cellular cosmogony are very damaging to the disciples of Copernicus, as they are receiving wide attention from honest, fearless, unprejudiced minds. Come, speak out, ye modern savants! your hypothetical theories are trembling in the balance before the searching investigation of an age determined to know the truth.
Is it possible that modern astronomers are afraid to meet the Founder of the Koreshan System? If not, they must soon disabuse a growing impression to that effect by accepting the challenge printed on page fourteen of THE FLAMING SWORD. In the face of the sledge-hammer arguments presented in favor of the Inside Theory, college students are beginning to doubt the reliability of the Copernican system. If the modern scientist can afford to be indifferent in this matter w7e certainly can. Don't, we beg of you, gentlemen, enter the arena for a discussion of physics with Koreshanity, as such a contest will certainly mean your defeat, and then what of science as taught in school and college? Alas, a sad fate awaits it! A brief outline of one phase of the Inside Theory will be found on page seventeen of THE FLAMING SWORD.— C. J. M.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 4, No. 11 · Sep 1892 · PDF pp. 5–6