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Koreshanity is not stating anything new when it promulgates ideas as to theology, science and sociology; that is to say, it is not advancing thoughts that were not known twenty-four thousand years ago when the sign in the physical heavens sustained the same relation to the constellations that it now does. Progression and retrogression are laws of the universe obtaining in every domain. The seed is planted, brings forth the tree, which develops its seed, then grows old and dies; in the seed which it produced we again have illustrated the laws of progression and retrogression. While the civilization of the nineteenth century fancies that it represents the highest unfoldment of human progress, even that frail thing called modern knowledge has evidences of a higher state of civilization which existed thousands of years ago in Arabia. Wendell Phillips, in his celebrated lecture on "The Lost Arts," did much to dissipate the popular fallacy respecting the inferior condition of the race in ages past.
As stated in a former article, under this head, we are now living in the end of the iron age, when mankind is furthest removed from spiritual light or true science, but soon the effulgence of the golden age will break forth, as the brush and rubbish of the old cycle is being swept away. When that time comes, and the humanity awakens to a realization of the fallacy which it has been imbibing in the departments of science, religion and government, modern literature—the works of Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Tyndall, and most of those of the poets and miscellaneous writers,—will be buried so deep in oblivion that their authors, from their ignominious tombs, may be led to inquire with the tipsy congressman, "Where was I at?" The revolution of thought, sure to come with the triumph of Koreshanity in every department of investigation, will render useless and nonsensical many of the productions of the modern pen.
The book-worm, a very destructive little insect, has made its appearance in a New York library. The advent of this creature is timely, for its services will soon be in demand by a race of people thoroughly disgusted with the stuff which has been palmed off so long upon them as "knowledge." We are coming out into the light of true science. We are just on the threshold of an age which will reveal, through Koreshanity, the great science of correspondences, long since lost by the race on account of its departure from virtue, but which was partially revived by Swedenborg, the Swedish seer who, however, imparted little else than the spiritual, not the literal significance of this great science.
People wonder why the Koreshan system of thought advocates—what they call—"a strange system of astronomy." The very foundation and destiny of Koreshanity rests upon its cellular system of cosmogony, the "Inside Theory." Without this, Koreshanity could never hope to revolutionize thought by defining the true character of Deity and his relation to humanity; a result which modern ecclesiastical thought is unable to effect and which modern atheism believes can never be demonstrated. When Koreshan astronomy triumphs—which will be much sooner than may be supposed—there will be no more left of atheism and agnosticism; of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, with their theories on evolution; of Copernicus and that class of thinkers, than there will of Luther, Calvin, Theodore Parker and the whole band of orthodoxical and materialistic reasoners. Is this a mere boast? Ten years will be sufficient to demonstrate that it is not.
The law of reëmbodiment—which we will not now take the time to prove, more than to state that there is ample biblical evidence to sustain it—has brought Israel down unto this day. God made certain promises to Israel—his chosen people—which are as yet unfulfilled. The ten tribes—which under a revolt, headed by Jeroboam, were lost, through their absorption by the Medes, Persians and Assyrians, of which modern Christianity can render no account—are nevertheless still intact. "As a result of this mixture, came the Teutonic family; the Anglo-Saxon being the principal branch." Those who will comprise the ten tribes are mostly in America today.
God has not forgotten his chosen people although the indications might seem to point to the reverse. In the 7th chapter of Amos he says: "Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more." When the man comes, holding a plumb-line in his hand, he will establish the "Inside Theory" by a simple, demonstrated premise that "will turn wise men backward and make their knowledge foolish," as declared in the Bible. The coming of this messenger with the plumb-line, is the sure indication that the promises made to Israel are at last to be fulfilled, and that the golden age has at last dawned upon us.
God's chosen people, having come down by reëmbodiment through the dark ages, "the elect," of whom Christ spoke, and to whom he came to administer, are to inherit eternal life, that is, experience the redemption for which Paul longed: "For we know," said he, "that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption" [Greek, sonship]; "to wit, THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY" from a corruptible dissolution by death, which is the power of the devil, as declared.
Those who comprehend and live the great science of immortal life as revealed to-day by the plumb-line set "in the midst of Israel," will give evidence of having reached that state of spiritual unfoldment which the reëmbodied tribes of Israel, whom Moses led through the wilderness, will fall heir to in this age.—C. J. M.
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