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No Am erican University Can JIfford to Neglect IÇo "p VERY UNIVERSITY and college in America would do well to found and equip a chair of instruction in Koreshan Science for the benefit of its pupils. When it is remembered that the principles exemplified in the most recent scientific discoveries in France and Eng land in regard to the destructibility of the atom have been taught in America for over thirty years,—the proof of which is furnished by printed matter,—the im portance of such a step is seen. America should not be reluctant to claim the honor which is hers. She has given to the world the most original demonstration of facts in rebuttal of the Copernican hypothesis. The Geodetic Survey in Florida, all the details of which are printed in the Cellu la r Cosmogony, challenges the at tention of the world because it disproves in toto many opinions long accepted but never proved, just as the in destructibility of the atom was quoted right and left, but had to be abandoned. Koreshan Science has an explanation for every phe nomenon known to physics. All its conclusions have been synthetized into a coherent body of scientific in struction. It is not in a position to furnish a labora tory equipped with all the latest apparatus, but it is prepared to take these implements and by their aid show the inconsequence of professional educators. No university, especially one where research is encouraged and every theory, even the most unusual, is given gen- • ial attention, can afford to neglect what Koreshan Sci ence has to offer. Not long ago a young professor in an American university accidentally found the ultrapenetrable ray. He did not publish the phenomena disclosed in the course of his experiments, because he did not grasp the importance of his discovery. A little later the world rang with the news of the Rœntgen ray. Then he knew what he had missed and what his univer sity had missed, for he saw it was identical with his own discovery. No university can afford to slam the doors in the face of an honest investigator, and no university can afford to miss the honor of being the first to promul gate ideas which are to influence the destiny of millions. Koreshan Science has something to offer which no other system of instruction can give. It furnishes a reasonable, logical, and convincing proof of the con cavity of the earth’s shell. It does not rest this proof entirely upon the operation in Florida, but it brings other demonstrations of a different character to reen force the testimony of the air line. The first university which has the courage to break through the lines of tradition to investigate these facts will be surprised at the avidity with which its pupils will take hold of these subjects and assimilate truth. The mind is so consti tuted that it enjoys the exercise of the logical faculties. SACew Century Studies and Reviews. THE COMING SCIENCE. reshan Discoveries. LUCIE PAGE BORDEN. The very first point to be clearly and definitely set tled is the question of the form and size of the physical universe. Cosmogony is the foundation of science. Lacking the data which are supplied by an accurate knowledge of universal form, no department of research can progress. Take, for example, the science of Optics. One of its primary assumptions is that light moves at the rate of 186,000 miles a second. This number has been found, as stated in various text books, by observing the eclip ses of one of Jupiter’s moons. The basis of the calcu lation is the supposition that the earth revolves around the sun. In the Cellular Cosmogony the earth is shown to be a hollow sphere, while the planets, the real planets, are inside the crust. So that in watching an eclipse of Jupiter, the spectator is simply looking along the ultra-penetrable ray into the very bowels of the earth. Logical Necessity for Some Quality of Substance TT IS A COMMON principle of philosophy that quali ties are distinguished by comparing them with other qualities directly opposite to themselves. Thus heat is contrasted with cold, moist with dry, light with darkness, good with evil, and so on, through the whole category of intellectual and moral percepts. All action tends to produce counter-action whose intensity is equal. It is just as necessary to apply this law to sub stance, and to reason by induction from what is known, that matter, which can be seen, handled, tasted, must exist by virtue of its co-ordinate and opposite, invisible and intangible to the physical senses. There is a log ical necessity for the opposite of matter, for only by this means can it be determined what matter really is, how it is maintained, and whether it is liable to ex tinction. The physical universe exists by virtue of certain laws. How do we know this? Because we see the opera tion of these laws working in and through matter. A person who knew nothing of them might deny that there were such principles, just as a man who is color blind might say that there is no such color as scarlet. Those who have observed, compiled instances, collected facts, know that certain principles capable of being stated abstractly rule and operate in the world of life. Why then should the materialist who admits the function of law, deny the existence of something back of matter to which law is related? Granted that such a force or power capable of producing such results as are seen, does exist, it is plain that it must have its seat in some definite locality. Place or space implies mat ter. The seat of law in the human world is the brain through whose activités it is manifest. Let the mate rialist remember, therefore, that in admitting law he is admitting a quality opposite to matter and which is Opposite to Matter. 9 ■v The Flaming Sword. invisible and intangible. He sees the effect of law. He does not see, taste nor handle the law itself. It is impossible to define matter without something with which it may be contrasted and which shows just whatit is. Given, then, an opposite to matter itshould be distinguished by some generic term. Why not call it by the name which the ancients used to distinguish between the animate and the inanimate creation? Life as they conceived it was the wind, the breath, spiritus. Spirit, then, is a descriptive word fit to embrace all forms of activity which present themselves working in andthrough material forms, but which are never visible apart from these forms. Those who call themselves or who are called mate rialists urge that energy is an inherent property of matter. The claim is not without foundation since the two are found in unison. It is, however, necessary to make a philosophical and a logical distinction to cover the whole number of facts. It would certainly be unphilosophical to call heat a property of cold, or vice versa. They are both properties or states of quality belonging to matter, but material substance is acted upon by something unlike itself, and this something ought logically to be the product of the dissolution of matter. Destroy heat and cold is produced. The same is true of every opposite. Destroy matter and you have spirit. Jin Incident of the Coronation Ceremony. T HE CORONATION of the new pope, according to account, was among the most imposing of earthly rites. This magnificent ceremonial which took place in the basilica of St. Peter’s church where the dome with its lofty arch rises skyward, was conducted with all the solemnity and majestic pomp which are characteristic of the Catholic ritual. It was a scene for an artist to seize and perpetuate in a great historic canvas. Given such a background with the white-robed pope for its central figure, while around him flashes of color light the scene with almost indescribable brilliancy, gleaming richly from ecclesiastical vestments, gorgeous uniforms, the dress of foreign dignitaries, with Italian nobles, and the whole effect must have been dazzling in the extreme. Pius X comes to the papal throne as the representative of a defunct majesty, and it is significant that amid these splendid surroundings one of the chief ceremonies consists in the presentation of a pall. At a certain point in the proceedings, the pallium or, as it is some times called, the pall, is placed upon the shoulders of the man about to be crowned. The investiture is ac companied with these significant words: “ Receive this sacred pallium as a symbol of the fulness of the ponti fical office, in honor of Almighty God, the most glorious Virgin Mary, his mother, the blessed Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, and the holy Roman Catholic church.” The fulness of the pontifical office passed away from the Roman Catholic church in 1870. The fitting sym bol of the office is indeed appropriately called by its other name, the pall. When the life, breath, or spirit has passed out of the body it is covered with a pall. 'P So sacred is the pallium that it is woven from the fleece of lambs kept for this special purpose, blessed by the Pope, and reared by the nuns. It is a long strip of white wool ornamented with a gold cross at each end. Before it is ready to be placed around the shoulders of the pope, it is suffered to lie upon the sarcophagus of St. Peter. The fulness of the pontifical office rests with the only man who shall be able to reunite the severed unity of church and state in the inauguration of the perfect empire. The life has gone out of the Catholic church and out of the Christian church, to center in the holy City, the heavenly Jerusalem. Now John saw the holy City coming down from God out of heaven; its light was as a jasper stone most precious. It had twelve gates, and every gate was a pearl. Under this imagery the Apostle describes the descent of the perfect doctrine, which will ultimate in the perfect life. The Principle Involved in the Destruction of the JItom. I N AN ARTICLE relating to the recent discoveries the following statement is found: “ Everybody is famil iar with the disintegration of matter, which means a rearrangement or recombination of the elements. Thus water may be separated into oxygen and hydrogen, but it never before was imagined that the atoms them selves were capable of disintegration.” This definition of the process by which water or any other substance is destroyed does not express the truth. Here is just the point where Koreshanity takes issue with the world. There is not a recombination or rearrangement of the atoms, but an actual destruction of these atoms. This is the truth which Koreshan Science has been announcing so emphatically for so many years. In regard to the new discoveries it takes the same ground. Atoms are not, as some maintain, simply separated into ions. The smallest particle of matter capable of existing as matter is the atom. When matter is converted into ions, it is no longer matter but has been transmuted to its opposite and co ordinate substance. Why is it such an important point to determine whether matter is destroyed and converted to spirit by a process of combustion, instead of being separated into its permanent constituents? The point at issue concerns the perpetuity of the cosmos. If the universe is composed of two coordinate and interconvertible substances, then it is an eternally existing and vitally recreative unit. Its perpetuity is assured because it is seen to be constructed upon the principle of opposites which are mutually interactive. The little question of the destructibility of the atom holds within itself the key to the solution of the prob lem of physical immortality. If one kind of matter may be converted to its opposite, so may every kind. The body of man offers no exception; and if one mate rial particle can be changed to energy, this law ex tended to the realm of biology shows death outwitted. It is a mistake to suppose that Koreshan Science is caviling over trifles when it insists upon the destructi bility of every form of material substance. A great and vital principle is at stake, and the verification of this principle is to surprise and delight the world. & & &
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 17, No. 40 · Aug 21, 1903 · PDF pp. 6-7