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Short Talks on Koreshan Science. The Catholic church well knew—when the Copernican astronomical system was instituted as a revival of the Pytha- gorean system, which was originated about 600 B. C—that as soon as it was adopted, atheism would spread very rapidly; for this reason it did all in its power to suppress and wipe out the alleged discoveries of Copernicus and his contemporaries, even going so far as to martyr Bruno and others because of their convictions concerning physics. The church at that time believed in the Ptolemaic cosmogonical theory which made the earth flat, and the sun, moon and stars tributary to it.
This same theory is, in a measure, held to-day by one school of scientific thought, and as between the convex and the fiat theory of the earth's formation, the latter has decidedly the best of the argument, although both are far from the truth.
, There are still some adherents to the "Society of Jesus," a body founded by Loyola and known to-day as Jesuits, who reject the Copernican fallacy and fondly cling to the Ptolemaic system, but the Catholic church as a body has virtually given way to modern science.
Romanism fought the ideas of Copernicus so fiercely because his system left the universe without either center or circumference. It made space limit- less. All conception of a personal Deity must necessarily be removed with the acceptation of such an astronomical theory; hence we note that with the advent of the Copernican system, infidelity first began to take deep root in modern society. And n© wonder. How are we to associate the idea of the Lord as the Father of the race when we believe that there are millions of other worlds which are also inhabited?
Thev could not have our Bible, and necessarily not our God. A centreless, limitless universe must be without a focal point of divine wisdom, being without a fixed centre.
Modern Christianity (whether Catholic or Protestant) is powerless to overthrow atheism, which is constantly growing. Ingersoll was never defeated by any of his assailants. Modern science and Scripture will not work in harmony, which fact necessitates the gradual relinquishment of a belief in the Scriptures by a church which accepts modern science.
This it is clearly doing. All basic religious systems are founded upon an astronomi- cal theory.
That man alone will defeat atheism and revolu- tionize thought, who can establish truth as pertaining to cos- mogony; only thereby, through the science of correspon- dences, can we arrive at a correct conception of Deity and of religion, which word means a re-binding of God and man.
Inquirers, therefore, ought to able to understand why THE FLAMING SWOKD SO stoutly maintains the "Inside Theory." Upon the supremacy of the cellular system of cosmogony, which places all life within, instead of without, in agreement with the great law that all life develops in a cell or shell, rests the destiny of Koreshanity.
Since its astronomical premise is impregnable and so clearly demonstrable to analytical, unprejudiced minds, there is no power in the uni- verse that can stay the onward march of this great system of thought which, by the power of illuminated wisdom, "will turn wise men backward and make their knowledge foolish."
IV.
THE FLAMING SWORD.
God has set, as he promised, a pkimb-line in the midst of Israel. You can elevate the plumb-line as high as you please, a line drawn at right angles to it will always touch the. horizon —hence the derivation of the word horizontal. The arc described from the base of the plumb-line to the horizon- tal line is always concave.
This is a demonstrated premise instead of a hypothesis upon which to build an astronomi- cal system; no argument in the world can tear it down. It stares you in the face.
The only difficulty found in the way of a general acceptance of this theory lies in the fact that mankind has been so long reasoning from an assumed premise that when a demonstrated premise, a plain simple fact, is presented to the mind, a race fed on fallacy refuses for a time to accept it. As comparatively few come into a real com- prehension of the accepted science of any age, a thorough understanding, by the masses, of Koreshan astronomy will not be apt to obtain for some time, but the brightest minds will soon perceive the truth of the cellular system, embrace and propagate it.
The masses simply desire to be fed, which they will be when the world awakens to the glorious truth, revealed by the cellular cosmogony, that God is man and man is God; that God cannot exist outside of man.
Therefore when the God wisdom in man begins to develop, through his comprehension and observance of fundamental laws by wrhich true wisdom is unfolded, the world will be brought into a state of order, and we will witness an equitable distribution of labor and of wealth—the product of labor.
Such a doctrine may be called pantheism by the modern church, but it is immeasurably superior to a religious system which makes the Fatherhood of the race an unknown and unknowable nondescript in a limitless world, in defiance of the axiom that that which has no limit has no form.
Jesus Christ, unfolded from the race, was God Almighty, and there was none else beside him.
His doctrine rightly lived by men and women will soon bring forth in earth, as Christ prayed— not "on earth" as the modern clergyman prays—the divine kingdom of uses.—C. J. M. "We are prepared to furnish uniformed men whenever required, by the day, week or month, for day or night duty, and we respectfully call the attention of railroad and other corporations which have to deal with large numbers of pa- trons or disaffected or striking employes to the advantage of our patrol system.
To corporations or individuals desirous of ascertaining the feeling of their employes and whether they are likely to engage in strikes or are joining any secret labor organization with a view of compelling terms for corpora- tions or employers, we can offer any number of competent detectives. At this time, when there is so much dissatisfac- tion among the laboring classes, and secret labor societies are organizing throughout the United States, we suggest whether it would not be well for railroad companies and other cor- porations, as well as private individuals, who are extensive employers of labor, to keep a close watch for designing men among their own employes who, in the interest of secret labor societies, are inducing their employes to join those or- ganizations, and, eventually, to cause a strike."—Kansas City Star.
- *~ • What Pinkerton is Prepared to do. (Extract from a Pinkerton Circular.)
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