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The Science of Koreshan Cosmogony Dispels Illimitability
One of the first objections arising in the mind to the Koreshan Cosmogony, is the apparent impossibility of sun, moon, stars, planets, etc., being limited to so small a space as the area of a sphere, the diameter of which is only about 8,000 miles. Our system being true, the circumference of the sphere is about 25,000 miles, and its diameter 8,000. This, of course, would be an impossibility if these objects had the dimensions usually ascribed to them. The science of Koreshan Cosmogony dispels this hallucination, bringing the mind back to its rational conception of physical form.
According to the Mosaic description of creation, God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also; and set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so. Koreshan Cosmogony fixes the astral center at about 4,000 miles from the circumference of the solar system, this circumference being the earth. Around the astral center is the solar sphere, which we call the sun. Outside of this sun are three atmospheres; aboron, hydrogen, and our common atmosphere, composed of oxygen and nitrogen. These three atmospheres extend from the sun to the circumference; namely, the earth, filling the entire space; and within these three atmospheres are the planets, stars, moon, etc.
The stars are the focal points of physical spirit, produced by its reciprocal reflection and refraction, flowing from the astral center through the solar sphere which surrounds it. The focalization of the stellar (star) points is produced by two systems of radiation and convergence, by which the transmitted energies of the sun, by virtue of the activity of the astral (star) center, are broken and converged to stellar points.
Material creation is the outmost expression of the thought of God. The Creator projects into outermost form and function only that which obtains in the divine mind, and that which He expresses, represents the divine character and purpose when correctly interpreted. A false translation of cosmical form, which is the expressed form of both God’s desire (will) and wisdom, and the manifest phenomena of that form, is the basis of a fallacious theology; for man’s conception and comprehension of Deity must agree with his interpretation of God’s manifest expression in the physical universe, which is the unfolded cosmical speech, or language of the Creator. Astronomy is the law of astral or stellar motion and relation, and the concept we entertain of the physical universe, which is God’s expression of himself, must correspondentially be the concept we entertain of Deity.
The sun is supposed to be the great center of the solar or sun’s system. The emplacement of the “heavenly bodies,” according to the modern physicist, is supposed to depend upon axillary and orbital revolution, and centripetal and centrifugal energy [so called]; that is, motion toward and from the center. If axillary and orbital revolution are laws of emplacement; in other words, if every heavenly body depends for its maintenance in its position upon the two motions, the one upon its axis, and the other upon its revolution in an orbit, then no center, no matter how aggregate the universe depending upon it and reciprocally related to it, could maintain its emplacement without both axillary and orbital motion.
(To be continued.)
Editorial transcription checked against the cited scans; the historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 27, No. 5 · May 1913 · PDF p. 8