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“There is one thing I would like to mention, which has puzzled me. In photographs taken for the stereoscope, we notice that when placed under the glass they are reproduced as in life. How then is it that photographs of the moon, when viewed under a stereoscope, appear like a vast globe? Photographs of circular discs always appear flat. Now, I do not believe that the moon is a globe, but I confess I cannot explain how the illusion occurs when a photograph of the moon is viewed through a stereoscope. I am sure you can solve the puzzle and will be glad to do so; and I have no doubt that others of your readers would be glad to read your solution.”
The fact that the moon appears spherical in form, with an apparent convex surface covered with various indentations and irregularities, from which are projected shadows varying in length as the moon’s phases progress, offers no obstruction to easy and beautiful explanation from the standpoint of the Cellular Cosmogony. The whole subject of lunar phenomena must be considered from the Koreshan point of view, which disregards the popular conception that heavenly bodies are material spheres, and that the relations of these supposed spheres are for the most part mechanical. The universe is a living thing; and while it has a material environ, the intricacies of the activities of the great hollow result from the subtle action of the millions of qualities of energies which circulate between the center and circumference.
Notwithstanding the fact that representations of a sphere appear globular when viewed through a stereoscope, the pictures are really flat. The same pictures viewed through a pseudoscope will appear concave. It is easy to see that distribution of light and shade upon the material upon which the pictures appear, convey the impression of the globular form. What a stereoscope view is to objects with whose forms we may be acquainted, or what a reflection in a mirror is to the thing reflected, the visible moon is to the earth, A mirror above us reflects images of things beneath. The visible moon is the reflection of the earth itself, the mirror being located in the sky of the physical heavens.
When we look at the visible moon we see, through the operation of ultrapenetrable rays which extend into and through the crust of the earth, the convex surface of the outside mineral stratum, the metallic planes lying outside the mineral planes constituting the material reflectors. To make the point clear, let us observe that the earth’s image in the heavens is formed through an X-ray process, which implants in the sky a faithful representation of the earth as seen from the outside, as it were—hence the convex appearance of the visible moon, which is but a picture of the earth.
The mineral strata are comprised of crystals, having the appearance of chalk; so the impressions of these strata in the heavens appear to be those of chalky substances. The visible moon is not material, but a polar point of impression from the earth. Extending all the way round the earth at a height of about 800 miles, is a sphere of energy or force; this invisible lunar sphere rotates in the direction of the equator. The multiplex impressions of the earth are received on this invisible sphere and transposed to the light pole of that sphere, which is the moon we see. The phases of the moon are the result of complex processes by which the moon is renewed every month; but the light and dark portions are reflections of the hemispheres of day and night in the earth.
Now, upon the apparent surface of the visible moon there are numerous peculiar protuberances and depressions, in the interpretation of which many astronomers have given free rein to their fancy. The fact is that the external or convex surface of the outermost mineral stratum—the one lying just above the uppermost metallic stratum, is not smooth but rough, full of circular pits, irregularities, and streaks or rays wholly unlike anything ever seen on the upper or concave surface of the earth. All of these irregularities are faithfully pictured in the Xray photograph of the earth, visible as the moon in the sky. The various permanent shades on the moon are due to X-ray impressions of the superimposed materials in the earth—even the continental outlines are traceable.
Shadows are projected from the various protuberances, falling into the circular pits and being cast along the rough surface of the outermost mineral stratum—a fact due to the ultrapenetrable effect of the projected sun’s radiations. These shadows are seen on the moon; and as the lunation progresses they change in length and direction—extending toward the east at first quarter and toward the west at third quarter—no shadows appearing at all on the full moon. But one may easily observe that while the shadows on the moon are projected toward the east at first quarter, when the moon is on the meridian at sunset, shadows of the hills on the earth are also projected toward the east. Now, the shadows reflected in the visible moon are not the shadows of the hills on the concave surface of the earth, but of the irregularities on the convex surface of the outermost mineral stratum—-the protuberances and circular pits being reached by the projected sun’s ultra-penetrable rays, casting X-ray shadows similar to shadows cast by objects in sunlight.
To these irregularities is due also the peculiar and irregular distribution of the stars in the physical heavens. While the primary energies of the stars are projected from the central sun, the emplacement of the stellar focal points is determined by the character of the basis to which they are directly related—and that basis consists of the mineral strata of the earth’s shell. The gradual shift of the position of stars in given constellations is due to gradual change in the form of the “mountains” and “craters” in the mineral strata which project their impressions on the moon.
The various peculiar lines upon the moon, light-colored “streaks” or rays, are the impressions of the different substances which make up the bony frame of the cosmos, the bony structure being the mineral strata. The most striking system of streaks on the moon is that surrounding the so called great crater of Tycho not far from the lunar south pole.
Editorial transcription checked against the cited scans; historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 18, No. 18 · Oct 11, 1904 · PDF p. 12