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Printed under the department heading Editorial Discussions, Chats, and Correspondence. — The Editor.
EDITOR FLAMING SWORD:—As you have invited me to investigate Koreshan Universology, I will say that I always try to consider everything that comes up. But there are many new theories published that I do not understand; and then, there is so much confusion of theories that it is difficult to know when one hears the truth. I have been taught that the church is right, and that I could find the way of life in it; but I find the teachings of the church to be untrue. I have also been taught that the earth is round like a ball, and that we live on the outside of it; but I may find that this is all fallacy. It is on this point that I want light, and I hope you will not consider it impertinent if I ask you a few questions.
(1) Why, if the Koreshan view of the earth is correct, do the sails of a ship appear first when the vessel is coming into view, and lastly the hull?
(2) It does not seem to me to be unreasonable to suppose that the mutual attraction of the sun, planets, and earth would hold these bodies in space; but if we place the sun, planets, and stars on the inside, how could these bodies so attract the outside of the earth as to hold it in space?
(3) How could day and night occur if the sun was on the inside?
I ask these questions in good faith, hoping that you will publish them and reply, as is your custom. There are two of us here that are interested in these questions being answered before we go on with the investigation of the new astronomy.—C. C. F. Reinhardt, Tex.
The way to ascertain whether or not a system is true, is to test the premise upon which any system or theory, new or old, is constructed; if the premise is fallacious, the system is untrue. Every theory has some kind of a premise; and if one has the mental capacity to ascertain what the premise is, and can discover the true method of test and apply it, one can ascertain whether a theory is true or false.
The Copernican system of astronomy is founded upon the idea that the earth is a convex globe, inhabited on the outside, and moving through space as an astronomical body. We are living upon the earth's surface; its surface is accessible, and quite within the reach of investigation and experimental test.
If the earth's surface is not convex, there can be no truth in the entire system of modern astronomy. By both ocular and geodetic evidences, through a long series of experiments and survey, we have demonstrated that the surface of the earth is concave, and therefore we know that the old school astronomy is not true. We have published to the world the results of our experiments; many of which can be duplicated by any one with a good telescope on the sea shore.
Modern theology has developed alongside the fallacious astronomical system. The church has been compelled to keep pace with the rapid extension of worlds in the fallacious, infinite space of the old astronomy. It must suppose a great spirit pervading the infinite abyss—a supposed being to create and perpetuate the billions of solar systems imposed upon the mind of the modern world by the astronomer. Modern theology is as fallacious as its companion fallacy,—astronomy.
(1) Our correspondent has no doubt noted the result of recent scientific experiments on Lake Michigan, published in the last issue of THE FLAMING SWORD. The illustrated article is quite sufficient to answer the above question concerning the invisible ship's hull. Factors of geolinear foreshortening and perspective vanish, at the distant horizon, an amount of vertical space equal to the altitude of the eye at the point of observation. The horizon is the vanishing point of geolinear vision. The telescope extends the vanishing point, and makes visible objects on the water between the vanishing point to the naked eye, and the vanishing point through the telescope.
(2) When one comes to consider the Koreshan System of astronomy, all assumptions which find place in the old system must be laid aside. One cannot reach logical conclusions from the true premise of the earth's concavity, by the application of hypotheses which are employed in the Copernican system. The hypothesis of centrifugal and centripetal forces as applied to the sun, moon, and planets in the theory of Newton, was invented to explain the supposed motion of these bodies in accordance with the previous conclusion that they were in infinite space, and needed support to hold them in space. The modern astronomers know of no center and circumference in the infinite universe, and therefore know of no static planes of either matter or force. In order to hold the moon in its orbit, it is made to revolve about the earth; the earth and sister planets to revolve about the sun; the sun, about a larger sun; the larger sun about a still larger sun, and so on, ad infinitum, throughout the infinite fallacy.
The cellular universe has both center and circumference. The shell is composed of material substances which are deposited through the materialization of solar energies, in their static planes, or planes of rest. The central sun is the center, where all the energies of the universe meet; it is a great center of metamorphosis or transmutation of all energies which levitate or rise up from the shell of the earth. The central sun cannot fall from its place, because it is at the only place where it could be a sun; it is at the static point of levic energies. The visible sun is a projection or reflection of the central sun, on the upper surface of our atmosphere; it is in an external static plane, hence it cannot rise above nor fall below its plane of rest. Likewise, the planets and stars are points of combustion of energies, in their planes; the stars are electric lights of the physical heavens, maintaining their places through both ascending and descending energies.
The universe does not exist in infinite space. The earth fills all the space there is. There is no space on the outside of the earth, for space is the dimension or measure of extension of existing things. The universe has form, and is therefore limited, because limitation is an inexpugnable factor of form. The space of the universe is limited to its form. There is nothing outside of the earth to attract it to another place; and there is no other place in which the universe could exist, because the one cellular structure occupies the only place there is. There is no location elsewhere. So far from its falling anywhere else, there is no power in the universe that is capable of moving it in any direction except its own direction,—in its own space. It has motion in itself; and there can be no motion, sensation, nor life outside of its own environ, which is the limitation, the most outward expression of its interior life. When that limit is reached, there is no more. It is the end, the terminal point of external space, beyond which there is absolutely nothing.
(3) The central sun is light on one side and dark on the other; it is the inevitable result of its functions of absorption and reflection; it revolves on its axis by virtue of its attraction and repulsion. The energies of light proceed from the light side, and refocalize in the visible sun at a distance of about 1,000 miles above the earth's concave surface. The central sun rotates on its axis once in 24 hours, and produces a corresponding revolution of its projection in the same time. The projected sun illumines just one half of the earth's surface, and its revolution in the earth produces alternate day and night,—successive noons and midnights on every meridian. Its spiral motion north and south is the cause of the seasons. The relation of the projected and invisible suns may be seen by a study of the diagrams on the last page of THE FLAMING SWORD.
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