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The Zodiac in the earth is a belt about 16° wide, and in this belt, in the interstices of the metallic plates or shell which constitute the firmament of the cosmos, revolve the basic planets or disci of mercury, the reflections of which we see in the visible planets in the heavens. This great belt in the earth is the electro-magnetic field over which the projected sun moves in a spiral; this spiral is the great helix of the universal dynamo; it is the field over which the moon moves, and over which the visible planets revolve in their orbits in the heavens. This magnetic field in the earth is the material basis of the electric glow which completes, with the Gegenschein or counter-glow, the circumference of the Zodiac in the sky.
The Gegenschein is the reflex of the area of the solar circumradiations or concave hemisphere of daylight, and is always in opposition to the sun as to its celestial longitude. We know this from the fact that all light is electrical. Analogically, we know that electro-magnetic energies produce these phenomena, as we know that electricity is present when the glass tube, rubbed vigorously, attracts pith-balls, or that electricity is present when we see the lightning's flash. Of course, this explanation does not fit the Copernican theory, because the modern conclusions are fallacious. The basis of the science of celestial phenomena is the science of the cellular form of the earth, and this premise has been demonstrated by processes of analogical reasoning, by optical experiments, and geodetic survey.
(2) The mind that is familiar with the Copernican theory of the precession of the equinoxes, will appreciate the difficulties encountered by the astronomer in attempting to explain the movement of the colures through the constellations of the Zodiac. If the earth were convex, a mere speck in space, rotating in space and revolving about the sun, it would be difficult to explain the source of the energies which would be necessary to move the earth uniformly from age to age; because such energies would have to have some uniform basis of generation to produce in unison, without the loss of a second in centuries, the rotation and revolution of the earth; and if in addition to the movements there are others more complicated, and yet as uniformly manifest dispensation after dispensation, the mind staggers under the usual conception, when it attempts to trace them to their origin. Why the poles of the earth should wabble uniformly in space to produce change in the longitude of the constellations, is beyond explanation!
Reverse the order of the universe from the usual conception, and turn it right side in, where eternal law operates; and a simple explanation is not far removed from the mind having a knowledge of the facts of astronomical observation. However, to understand the cause of the precession of the equinoxes fully, necessitates following the subject of Koreshan Universology into its many ramifications, because it involves all the complexities of universal existence. The primary cause of the precession of the equinoxes is the progress of the divine mind in the anthropostic Zodiac.
We may go back to the time of Noah, when the sign began to move through Taurus; to Abraham, when it entered Aries; to Jesus, when it entered Pisces; and come down to the present time when it enters Aquarius, and find that at each entrance into a new constellation, there is a Messianic manifestation or location of the anthropostic Sign or Sun in its precession in humanity. Mortal humanity lies in the plane of equatorial revolution, while the movement of the divine Sun in its orbit in humanity, during a great cyclic year, is in the opposite direction; this is why the Messiah always runs counter to the fallacies entertained in the world when he comes. We may trace, by a line of correspondence, how the anthropostic Sun moves through the constellations or peoples in humanity. The Messiah is the product of energies conserved by the regular equatorial movement of the mortal world. He founds a church, a human constellation, and projects his life into it; he forms the line along which he moves through the dispensation. Co-ordinating with this movement in the line of the divine progress, is the movement of the colure from constellation to constellation.
The Messiah is the product of energies conserved through male circumcision during a dispensation. Corresponding to circumcision in humanity are the solar eclipses in the alchemico-organic cosmos; and in the transposition of energies from one eclipse cycle to another, there is a reaction of a subtle force along the line of the ecliptic, the line on which the eclipses or cuttings-off occur; and this energy gives the heavens an impulse in the direction of the order of the Zodiac (from west to east), and the Zodiacal constellations recede at the ratio of about 50″ of a degree per year in the plane of the ecliptic, and around the axis of the Zodiacal revolution, the north pole of which is located in the constellation Draco, 23½° south of the center of the orbit of Polaris, on the solstitial colure, or eighteenth hour meridian of celestial longitude. The movement of the sign is from east to west, and is called the precession of the equinoxes; the movement of the constellations themselves is termed the recession of the Zodiac. The precession completes a cycle in 24,000 years, which, but for a series of foreshortening of time, would amount to about 25,856 years. A new cycle of precession began when Jesus the Messiah was born into the natural world.
(3) As complex as is the science of the solar precession, is the science of lunar phenomena, because the real moon is the body of the earth, and constitutes the great menstrual system of the physical universe. The moon we see in the physical heavens is a gravosphere or partially materialized X-ray picture of the earth's shell. The energies which form the visible moon pass through the planetary disci; it is the ultimate receptacle of the planetary fluxions. The orbit of the visible moon is always near the ecliptic, and it is near that line because the energies which cause and move the moon are induced through the actinic action of solar energies in the electro-magnetic field of the Zodiacal belt; and as the sun has a spiral motion annually, the moon has a corresponding spiral in the same field every lunation.
Directly related to the moon's nodes is a dark mercurial discus in the earth's shell. When the moon crosses the ecliptic when full, the dark disc, having a corresponding movement, crosses the ecliptic at the same time in opposition to the sun, and opens or breaks the circuit in the electro-magnetic field, and temporarily cuts off the energies which flow to the moon. When the disc has crossed the ecliptic, the circuit is closed, and the moon resumes its usual brilliancy; in other words, the energies are turned on again. The moon is eclipsed by the cutting-off of its energies, as a coin under the X-ray machine produces an eclipse on the camera plate—casts a shadow or skiagraph.
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Source: The Flaming Sword · Vol. 14, No. 29 · June 8, 1900 · Physical PDF p. 12
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 14, No. 29 · Jun 8, 1900 · PDF p. 12