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The Open Court of Inquiry. TH E EDITOR. The Phases of the Moon. “ Since the moon is never darkened by the earth g ettin g between it and the sun, why does it not shine upon us con sta n tly ? ” T he moon does not shine upon the earth constantly because in actual fact, and not in appearance only, it w axes and wanes every month. The process of w axing and waning changes the aspect of the moon, and these aspects are called phases. The term ‘ ‘new moon” means in reality a great deal more than is conveyed to the mind of the believer in the modern astronomy. The words moon and month are from the same Sanscrit root; the moon is the month, because the month in time is the measure of the period of the moon, the moon being ren'ewed every lunation. During a given moon or month or lunation, the moon w axes and wanes as to its light and other energies radiating from it. The new moon is dark, not because it is eclipsed, but because it is reflect ing darkness. W hen the moon is full its entire discular area is illumined, not because of reflected light on a globe as is usually supposed, but because the moon has itself w axed to the degree of entire self-luminosity. The phases of the moon are directly related to the position the moon occupies in relation to the hemispheres of light and dark ness in the earth; and the moon has its phases presented in the sky because the earth possesses hemispheres of light and darkness. T he moon is not a material sphere in the heavens, a dead world; it is a com plex reflection of conditions in the body and shell of the earth; and we there fore see in the heavens a representation of the earth, with its light and dark hemispheres— the phases being depend ent upon the relation that the visible moon or picture in the sky sustains to the area of light and darkness in the earth. This may be vividly illustrated by the appearance of the moon at the first quarter, when the moon is seen at. six o’clock in the evening directly in the south, one half of the disc being light and the other dark; the moon is then directly over the dividing line be tween day and night in the earth. The Koreshan conception that the real moon is the earth, is strikingly borne out in the science of the relation of words. W hen we refer to mundane affairs, we mean things related to the earth or world, from the Eatin mundus. That the moon is the world is shown by the fact that the German for moon is mond. The French for world is monde. T he physical moon is the physical earth or world, of which the visible moon is a definite cosmic pic ture implanted in the sky by and through very complex processes. >p <P The Moon a Picture of the Earth. “ I want tokn ow som ething more about the moon. You say it is an X-ray picture or reflection of the earth’s sh ell; but I do not understand how the whole interior of the shell could be accurately reflected on a flat disc. It m ight be that the moon is a m iniature reflection of one hem isphere of the earth, the one opposite the specta tor. Then the new or dark moon would be a picture of the dark hem isphere, and the full moon a picture of the lig h t hem i sphere. But it seem s that if this were the case, the m arkings on the moon in dicating the configuration o f the conti nents, would change according to the point of observation. ” The lunar sphere in the physical heavens is an invisible sphere of energy; its position is outside of the sea of hydrogen and within our own atmo sphere. T hat sphere of energy is con stantly receiving impressions from the ' shell of the earth, through the planet ary fluxions; the impressions come from the entire shell; and in the lunar pole, the visible moon, we see a trans position of those impressions, the map of the world as it were, on a natural projection. Now, this map is not ‘ ‘accurate” space for space and area for area as existing on and in the earth; the northern hemisphere is dominant in influence and impression, and the greater part of the lunar map of the earth is occupied by a representation of the regions of the earth north of the equator; the southern hemisphere being incorporated as a circumference on the lunar disc. This should not seem im possible to a student of Koreshan Cos mogony; why, even J. Steer Christo- ia pher, of England, published an entire map of the earth on the basis of the circular or discular projection. The impressions of the earth in the moon are not by direct reflection, but through a complex storage process. Now, the earth’s picture in the moon is constant, or nearly so, and is the same from all points in the earth. But the relation that the visible moon sustains to the light and dark hemi spheres of the earth changes, causing the moon’s phases. The revolution of the moon is once a month, and in that revolution, the hemispheres of light and darkness as they succeed each other in the heavens, are impressed upon the lunar sphere of energy, and transposed to the visible pole. Thus there are constant markings, with the phases of light and darkness passing over them alternately every 29 days. tP yp >P THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. The Law of Antithesis Operative in the Uni verse; God’s Involuntary Powers. Mr. G oldwin S m ith ’s paper on “ The Origin of E v il” very truly terms it “a part of the m ystery of the universe, as to which all that can be said [till now] is, It is am ystery st ill.” It is an old ques tion, found in the w orld’s oldest written records. A ntiquity m ust have been gray when it was first mooted; yet doubtless it has been satisfactorily answered again and again and as often again forgotten in the ebb and flow of the ages, and the rise and fall of nations; for still, though men learn, they do not remember. In the econom y of the universe we .can not fail to observe that everything seem s conjoined or related by doubles; D ay and night, sunshine and shadow ; the positive and negative electric and m ag netic energies; the gravitation and levita tion of the earth’s substance operating between it and the sun by the law of m utual exchange; the ebb and flow of the tides; the heart of man, with its double cavities and pulsations— systole and dias tole—and double vascular system re spondent thereto. So, too, in the moral and m ental world, love and hatred, peace and war, good and evil. God and devil, are in eternal oppo sition to each other; yet in the ultim ate of each and every encounter,— C ï Q 0 :-
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 19, No. 23 · Nov 14, 1905 · PDF p. 12