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The Perfect Expression of the Divine Life and Mind By Otto T. Frincke
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One who recognizes the Cellular Cosmogony as the true system of the universe, is sure to be stirred by a mingled sense of pity and shame, or is greatly amused, when reading the hypothetical effusions of astronomers who hold responsible positions in the scientific world. Gravely these followers of Copernicus speak of billions of miles of distances from earth to given stars; of this earth, which they claim is flying through illimitable space; and of the innumerable probable suns which circle through other vast spaces and shine upon numberless worlds. The learned and ponderous astronomers here referred to, remind us of the beggar who was found in the streets of London. In his pockets the police discovered a carefully elaborated plan to pay the national debt, of which plan the aforesaid beggar declared himself the author. They go Copernicus one better, since that modest investigator asserted frankly that his volume set forth only a hypothesis, “valuable as it explained phenomena, and not to be considered with reference to absolute truth.” But to the credit of a few modern astronomers, let it be said that they confess the Copernican system cannot be proven. The Koreshan Astronomy is proven; and it gave to the world one of its fundamental demonstrations, when it was shown by mechanical tests on the Gulf of Mexico that the surface of the earth is a concavity.
Concerning Copernicus, it may be interesting to recall that he was a German, born in Prussia, 1473. His real name was Nicolaus Koppernigk; but according to a custom among the learned of that period, he Latinized his cognomen. He was not a genius; but we learn from the record of his brief history that he was a diligent scholar, with sufficient intellectual independence to pursue research on his own account. On leaving the university he practised as a physician, largely gave gratuitous medical aid to the poor, and in various ways attained distinction and honors in the community. His skill as a mathematician led to his acquaintance with noted astronomers and to the study of their science, with special attention to Ptolemy and writers further back in antiquity. The book written by Copernicus, De Orbium Celestium Revolutionibus, which established his fame as the author of the prevailing fallacious system of astronomy, was a compilation, or an orderly selection of theories known in his time. The book expounds his theory of stellar motions, and is an imposing structure erected from the conflicting and more or less absurd hypotheses of his predecessors.
When the demonstration had been made that the earth’s surface is concave, there was no escape from the conclusion that we are not living on the convex surface of a solid globe. A second inference led to the mathematical proof, that eight miles of concavity demanded an extension of the same arc to the whole globe; this globe must then be a hollow sphere, enclosed by a shell, like an egg. The curvature of the concavity being eight inches to the mile, we discover this gigantic cell to be eight thousand miles in diameter. The rind or shell could not be watery vapor, nor an atmosphere, hence it must be a solid structure, a strong and opaque thing. Again, it follows that the heavenly bodies cannot be beyond the shell; therefore the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the clouds, atmospheres and all space, are on this side,—that is to say, they are within the cell, the hollow globe. In this fact we perceive the true form of the universe; and having discovered its form, the laws of its functions are proven. Thus we dispose of the impossible theory that there are many suns and other worlds, and that the planets may be inhabited; and we reduce to nothing the millions and trillions of miles of distances whereby the Copernican astronomers are deceiving the world.
What about the space on the outside of this hollow sphere? The reply comes, that there is no space on the outside. The hollow sphere, its shell, is the limit of all space, and encloses the universe—there is no other. There can be but one universe, since the one wherein we live fills all space, according to the principle that two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Whereas the universal shell encloses all space, there is not, there cannot be, even a so-called vacuum outside the all-embracing circumference; and it follows that God, humanity, spirits good and bad,—all things animate and inanimate, are contained within the hollow globe. Such is the Cellular Cosmogony.
This sphere, then, is the universe; and to define its purely physical phase, we entitle it the alchemico-organic cosmos, while the term organo-vital cosmos describes the mental or intellectual, human and divine powers of the universe. It is the ultimate and perfect expression of God’s creative power. God is perfect, and when he assumes human form, is God incarnate; this man is God. So the universe is perfect in form and function, corresponding to God’s perfection and eternal power.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 21, No. 10 · Oct 1907 · PDF pp. 20–21