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TShc Science of Xoreshan 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 impos sibility 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 circum ference 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 inter preted. A false translation of cosmical form, which is the expressed form of both God's desire (will) and wis dom, and the manifest phenomena of that form, is the basis of a fallacious theology; for man's conception and comprehension of Ddity must agree with his inter pretation of God's manifest expression in the physical universe, which is the unfolded cosmical speech, or lan guage 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 ex pression of himself, must correspondentially be the concept we entertain of Dejty. 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, ( To be continued.') The Universal Law of Vibration (From the Writings of Kobish) TPHERE CAN BE no knowledge of the relation of the natural and spiritual spheres, nor any attainment of the science of intercommunication, until there is a true understanding of the relation which the atom of matter sustains to its equivalent spirit. The trans mutation of matter and spirit is induced through the law of agitation or vibration. Matter and its spirit are tvo conditions of the same general substance; matter is the basis of every function of the universe. If matter did not exist as the constant pediment, and groundwork of all the operations in being,being could not obtain. Matter as an atom can be destroyed as matter, but not as substance; for when an atom of matter vibrates to the extent of its annihilation, it immediately bec )mes the spirit of the same substance. In the inter change of matter and its physical spirit, on the plane of physics, we have the law of all the interchanges which can obtain between natural and spiritual things. At the center of the brain there is an organ called Lyra, the harp. It is the instrument of vibration, in the performance of the function of vibration in the human mind. Without this instrument or organ there could be no intercommunication between the natural and spiritual spheres. This being the case, the science of vibration must depend upon a knowledge of this or gan and its relation to all the other organs of the brain and body. The Lyra is a part of the mental mechan ism, and the man who thinks he can understand the functions of the mental spheres without possessing a knowledge of the organs upon which those functions de pend, is verging on idiocy. Mental science has its foundation in matter. Men tality is generated in brains. The foundation of the spiritual spheres is the natural humanity. So far as time is concerned, neither existed before the other, be cause neither could exist without the other. The struc ture of the physical (alchemico-organic) universe, as a pattern, furnishes us with a complete example of the re lation of all spiritual realms to the natural humanity. The alchemico-organic rind, the shell of the cosmic structure, is the firmament in which is grounded the alchemico-organic spirit, which focalizes and flows into, and forms and'perpetuates the stars. The stars exist because they radiate their essences to
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 27, No. 5 · May 1913 · PDF pp. 8-9