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EDITOR FLAMING SWORD:—I have read the CELLULAR COSMOGONY, and other Koreshan literature. I wish you would say something about the tides, as I do not see anything about them in what you have published.—J. W. M., Montrose, Minn.
The question of the tides is one which has puzzled the human mind from time immemorial; and the modern scientists have not satisfactorily solved the problem. It is well known that when the moon reaches the meridian, it is high tide; this phenomenon is so regular that the relation of the tides and the moon is obvious. Newton undertook to explain the tides on the basis of his theory of gravitation. He concluded that there was a mutual attraction exerted by the moon and the earth; and that the moon, although estimated to possess only one eighty-ninth the mass of the earth, and revolving at a distance of about 240,000 miles from the earth, with its gravic force decreasing as to the square of the distance, is able to so overcome the earth's gravity as to lift the waters of the ocean a number of feet, causing a fluctuation of the sea level from east to west as the moon passes over the earth!
This explanation passes as satisfactory to some minds; but there is another side to the question, and that is the corresponding tide on the other side of the earth at the same time. In other words, when it is high tide at New York, it is also high tide at Calcutta, India. If the moon pulls the water when it is on the meridian of New York, what pulls the water away from the earth at Calcutta? There is another very noticeable feature, and that is, when the moon is full it seems to exert a greater influence upon the ocean than when it is at first and third quarters. If the moon is a mere planet, reflecting the sunlight, what difference should it make to the moon's gravity what part of the moon's surface the sun illumines?
The tides are beautifully explained in the Koreshan System. The great shell of the earth is the real moon; it is the great womb of the universe—the menstrual system of the physical world. The moon we see in the physical heavens is an X-ray picture of the earth's crust. The great cell breathes and pulsates; it has its lungs corresponding to the human system of respiration. A great diaphragm of force extending north and south divides the lunar system into hemispheres; this diaphragm revolves diurnally; the visible moon is on one side of the diaphragm, and revolves with it. It is not the visible moon that causes the tides. The waters breathe and expand as the great diaphragm sweeps over the earth; the expansion of the water causes an increase of the quantity of water at a given point, and there is high tide in the latitude of the diaphragm on both sides of the earth at the same time. This zone of expansion moves from east to west with the moon. When the diaphragm has passed a point 90°, it is low tide, because the waters have breathed out the force which caused them to expand. When the moon is full it is full in reality; that is, it possesses its maximum of force; and the result is the higher tide. The cause of the tides is the cause of the visible moon—the action of electro-magnetic energies generated in the earth's crust. This explains the reason why the tides exactly correspond to the diurnal revolution of the moon, and the reason why it is high tide on opposite sides of the earth at the same time.
The Koreshan Astronomy accounts for all astronomical and cosmographical phenomena; but the 200-page book, the CELLULAR COSMOGONY, is devoted to demonstrating the fundamental premise of the entire System, rather than to explaining the various phenomena. Other works following the CELLULAR COSMOGONY will explain the System in detail. In the meantime, this department of THE FLAMING SWORD is open to the questions of our readers.
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