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fc BRIE.F DIRECTORY Uhe Flaming Sword ° f KORESHAN UNITY, Estero, Lee County, Florida. Estero, Dee Co., Fla. Devoted to the promulgation of Koreshan Universology; to the Perfection of Human Character and Life on the basis of the Principles of Religious, Social, Commercial, The Ecclesla or Church, the Society Arch- Triumphant, the Collegiate System, and Political Relations; and to the Discussion of Current Topics and Events. the Secular Corporation.

Established by Koresh in 1889. Published under the auspices o f Bounder and Prime Counsellor, the Koreshan Unity, Victoria Gratia, Pre-Eminent. KORESH.

PROF. U. G. MORROW, Editor. Pre-Eminent of the Koreshan Unity, Head over all Orders of the System, VICTORIA GRATIA. Make Money Orders payable at Port Myers, The number on the printed address tab indicates Fla., to The Guiding Star Publishing House, time of expiration of subscription. T he President Society Arch-Triumphant, but address letters containing same to F lam ing Sword is discontinued to an ad­ Estero, Fla. dress unless renewal is sent immediately. Berthaldine, Matrona. The First Department of T he F lam ing Sword Subscribers should send in renewals prompt­ Secretary of the Koreshan Unity and of ly so as not to miss numbers. is conducted by K oresh, not by the Editor; the Society Arch-Triumphant, and all communications concerning this Letters requiring answers by mail should he Virginia H. Andrews. department should he addressed, K oresh, accompanied by stamp. We cheerfully reply F lam ing Sword, Estero, Fla. to ail important letters. Corresponding Sec’y, the University, Everything pertaining to the Editorial Depart­ Prof. U. G. Morrow. ments— questions, discussions, and criti­ Remittances from Foreign Countries must be cisms, and all articles or communications by International or Foreign Money Order— Manager Printing Department, for publication in any of the several De- - not by Domestic Orders or Exchange. James H. Bubbett. partments, except the first, should he sent to When you change your address advise this E ditor, T he Flam ing Sword, Estero, Fla. office, giving old as well as new address. Business Agent of Koreshan Unity, George W. Hunt. Estero, Lee County, Fla., is Headquarters of Published Every Tuesday by The Guiding Star Publishing House, Evelyn Bubbett, Manager, the Koreshan Unity, and is therefore the post Estero, Lee Co., Florida. office address of the Founder of the System, the Pre-Eminent, and Officers of the Unity whose Terms, $1.00 per Year in Advance. Foreign Subscriptions, $1.50 per year. names appear in the above Directory.

THE KORESHAN UNIVERSOLOGY. in his perfection and power is the God-Man man brain. It explains the phenomena or the Man-God, the Seed of universal of spiritism, mental healing, etc., and A General Summary of the Doctrines and perpetuity. Jesus the Christ was God Al­ teaches the science of the relation of mind mighty; the Holy Spirit was the product and matter. Principles of the Religio-Science. of his transmutation, or the burning of The Bible.—The Bible is the best his body. written expression of the divine Mind ; it T^-ORESHAN UNIVERSOLOGY is a com. Messianic Law. — The coming of the is written in the language of universal plete system of the Science of the Messiah is as inevitable as the reproduc­ symbolism, and must be scientifically in­ great Universe of life; and it involves the tion of the seed. The divine Seed was terpreted. Koreshanity demonstrates the knowledge of the Creator and his creation. sown nineteen hundred years ago; the truth and scientific accuracy of the Scrip­ The name by which it is designated, in firstfruit is another Messianic personality. tures, and proves its astronomy, alchemy, contradistinction to perverted Christian­ The Messiah is now in the world, declar­ theology, ethnology, etc. There is no ity, is K o b e s h a n i t y ; and the new Religion ing the scientific Gospel. conflict between the Bible and genuine must supplant Christianity, as Christian­ Reincarnation is the central law of life— Science; the Bible and the natural uni­ ity supplanted Judaism. Koreshanity has the law of the resurrection; reincarnation verse must agree in their expression of come to fulfil the Dope of the world in the and resurrection are identical. Resur­ the divine Mind. liberation of humanity from the curse, in rection is reached through a succession of Communism. Koreshanity advocates the establishment of the Kingdom of God re-embodiments. One generation passes communism, not only of the goods of life, in earth, the introduction of the New Era into another; the^ millions of humanity but of life itself. It has not only the of Light and Life, of universal harmony march down the stream of time together. scientific theory of communism, but is and happiness. practically communistic in the relations What does Koreshanity teach? We pre­ The Spiritual World_Heaven and hell and affairs of its own people. In this it sent a brief summary of the System—a few are in humanity, and constitute the corresponds to the primitive Christian cardinal points, which will serve to sug­ spiritual world; the spiritual domain is church, where all things were held in gest the great scope of the System in its mental, and is in the natural humanity— common. The bond of the true com­ completeness. It is the antithesis of all not in the sky. munism is the true religion, and the modern theories, of all schools of thought. Human Destiny.— Origin and destiny central personality of the divine com­ It is the climax of all mental progress, the are one and the same. The origin of man munism in the Messiah. ultimate and absolute truth of Being and is God, and God is man’s destiny. God is Koreshan Socialism.— Our Social System Existence; it is the revelation of all mys­ the highest product of the universe, the is patterned after the form of the natural teries, the uncovering of the occult; the apex of humanity. Absorption into cosmos; that form is the natural expres­ true explanation of all phenomena, the Nirvana is entrance into eternal life—in sion of the laws of order. We demonstrate scientific interpretation of Nature and the the interior spheres of humanity, not in the fallacy of competism; advocate the de­ Bible. the sky or atmosphere. struction of the money power; the control Cosmogony.—The universe is a cell, a Immortality in the Flesh.—Koreshan­ of the products of industry by the govern­ hollow globe, the physical body of which ity declares and defines the laws of im­ ment, and the equitable distribution of is the earth; the sun is at the center. We mortality, and its attainment in the the goods of life. Koreshanity will abolish live on the inside of the cell; and the sun, natural world. The first step is recogni­ wage slavery, and make it impossible for moon, planets, and stars are all within the tion of the Messiah and the application of men to accumulate wealth and impoverish globe. The universe is eternal, a great his truth. K o k e s h was the first in modern the people. battery, and perpetually renews itself times to announce the possbility of over­ Church and State_The true form of through inherent functions, by virtue of coming death in the natural world, in the government is the divine Imperialism, the which it involves and evolves itself. flesh. unity of church and state; such will be the Celibacy.—The saving of human life Kingdom of God in earth. The Govern­ Alchemy.—The Science of Alchemy is consists in the conservation and appropria­ ment of the New Age will be in the unity the Philosopher’s Stone, the Key to the tion of life in humanity. To become im­ of the empire and the republic, involving mystery of life. Chemistry is false; Al­ mortal, one must cease to propagate life the principles of all present forms of chemy is tru e! Matter and energy are on the plane of mortality. The standard government, which are but fragments of interconvertible and interdependent; they of Koreshan purity is the virgin life of the perfect system which existed mi are correlates; matter is destructible; Jesus the Messiah. The Central Order of ancient times—in the Golden Age of the the result of its transmutation is energy. the Koreshan Unity is Celibate and Com­ past. The government of the universe is Alchemy is the key to the analysis of the munistic. Celibacy obtains in the cen­ imperialistic, and humanity will consti­ universe. tral nucleus, never in the world at large. tute a unit only when every class is em­ Theology.—God is personal and biune, Psychology.—Koreshanity points to the placed at rest and liberty as are the strata, with a triunity of specific attributes. God basis of ail psychic phenomena—the hu­ stars, and spheres of the physical cosmos.

Entered as second-class matter, June 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Estero, Fla., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. “ And He placed at the East of the garden of Eden cherubim and a Flaming Sword, which turned every way to keep the Way of the Tree of Life.']

J Vol. xviii. No. 19. ESTERO, FLA., OCTOBER 18, 1904. A. K. 65. ^A/hole No. 576.

**The Coming SJSCew Qenus or ^ace of Men** o Tfye Principles of 'Development and aManifestation of tfe cArch-^Catural ^Manhood; the Kindling of tfe Fires of the Qreat Conflagration. KOdfESH. n p H A T TH E EVOLUTION of a new race of men is what we know of the processes of growth, that any pro­ O about to startle the world, is a fact that Koresh- toplasm could produce in the form and function of life anity has for the last thirty years proclaimed, and one a higher life than the form and function from which that with which the readers of protoplasm was derived? Koreshan literature are very If we examine the proto­ Q familiar. We will premise plasm of any animal life, the exposition about to fol­ taking the various kinds in low in this article, with the the inceptive state of gener­ statement that nothing can ation, it will be found that come out of a thing th at is there are no chemical differ­ not in it. We mean pre­ ences; there is nothing to cisely this: There can be no chemically distinguish the evolution of forms of life character of one kind of not previously involved in protoplasmic formula from the substance whence the another. Yet, we see that character of life proceeds. each kind will produce the The phase of humanity now character of life which pre­ obtainingin the world, came ceded the formulation of the from that stage of proto­ protoplasm capable of pro­ O plasm capable of embracing ducing its kind. The proto­ all of the qualities essential plasm of the sheep produces £ to the development of the the sheep, and nothing be­ organic degree of its form sides; of the horse, nothing and function. Let us sup­ but the horse; the elephant, > pose that the universe has K O R E S H , (T>r. Cyrus R . Teed.) nothing but the elephant. sprung, in those processes Then, we are bound to the * which have aggregated the present form of highest life cognition of the fact that preceding the protoplas­ known in the order of progression from below upward, mic condition there are the sperm and germ; and from a universal protoplasm. Can we imagine from that with the breaking down of these two coordi- 3 4 The Flaming Sword uate forms the protoplasmic product takes its rise. culture,but the kind cannot be changed. If it is greatly We must notice also, that before the germ can ap­ improved it is because a better kind is incorporated by pear, the life in which the germ has its development, the horticultural processes. living animal, has its form and function. The natural Human existence as it now obtains, is unlike the order, then, is first the male and female being of what­ universe as a whole. We mean by this that the form soever type must exist; then comes the development of and function of the vidual man is not microcosmic. the germ ; then follows the breaking down of the germ The present vidual is the divided, not the complete of life in the protoplasmic formation; then the reorgan­ man—not the least form of the universe. As the uni­ ization of the life which the protoplasm has involved. verse is integral, self-perpetuating, and eternal, so If it is the evolution of the horse, it is because the form must be the least form and function of that universe, and function of the horse preceded the manifestation of namely, the microcosm. As man has not reached this the protoplasmic formula. What is true of a kind is stage there must be a further evolution in the unfold- also true of the whole, the universal. ment of a genus or race of beings; and they must be The evolutionists have so far studied but one side natural in order to be perfect and to constitute the of the great question of life. There has been an ex­ first fruit of the highest evolution. ploitation of the one-sided phase of creation without We look, then, for a new race to come as the restor­ any consideration of its coincident and coordinate ation of the race which once existed in the Arch-natural factor of activity. If there is a process of evolution in state as the Sons of God, and which was made in the progress, it is because there has been the germinal be­ beginning of the Zodiacal cycle in the image aud like­ ginning of that process in the involution of the germ. ness of the Gods. “ And the Gods said, Let us make Involution and evolution are two coordinate factors of man in our image, after our likeness.” And the Gods existence. If there is a universe in process of evolution “called their name Adam, in the day when they were it is because there is the germ of that universe, for the created.” They were not separated in their male and evolution could not obtain without the involution of female functions, for they were integral beings, whole in the germ. No perfect thing can be without the material form and function, because they were in the form and aud spiritual parts of that thing. The germ of the function of the macrocosmic universe—namely, male universe must be the perfect whole of that universe in and female united in the one body. These were the Sons its least form and most potent function of its possibili­ of God as they were in the beginning, and as they will ties. Evolution is not complete, then, until every series obtain now in the new beginning at the end of the culminates in the highest and most perfect form aud Christian age.

phase of life. The Evolution of the Immortal Genus From its Germ. The Present Form of Humanity is not the Perfect The evolution of a new race must be the product of C hara cter. a previously infolded vital germ of the kind or genus. The universe as a whole has a definite form, and If we take the Lord’s testimony of himself, and his Dis­ performs a definite universal function. It has within ciples’ testimony of his mission, we are compelled to itself the laws of its own perpetuity; aud whether we confess that the Lord was a man of the highest Arch­ admit this to be a consciously projected force or not, it natural character. From the fact that the universe is proceeds with regularity to carry out its various phases an integral unit; that to be self-perpetuative it must of activity in orderly methods, and by well-defined include its germ of development; that as it has at least processes. These laws and functions are all-sufficient a natural existence, it must produce its own natural and adequate to the performance of the uses involved in germ—from all these facts, it must be admitted that the perpetuity of the perfection required for the suste­ there should come sometime in the progress of its nance of the whole. The present status of manhood in activity, the complete germinal beginning of its being its material and so called scientific stage of advance­ aud of its existence; and it therefore follows that it ment, cannot comprehend the science of the universe should produce its own microcosmic germ. nor the science of its life; therefore, it is not developed When should such a germ appear? Rationally, at to the consciousness of its being, and hence cannot con­ the time when the sign culminates in its own constella­ stitute the highest phase of evolution, neither can it tion. When was there such a period in the progress of claim to be the highest phase of human development. thesign through the constellations? Nineteen hundred Human life as it now exists cannot in any sense years ago, when the sign Aries culminated in the con­ claim to be the perfect kind. Of the kind, it is ripe. stellation Aries; when the sign Ram the begetter, When any phase of life produces within itself its own entered the constellation Risces the producer. Accord­ seed capable of reproducing its kind, that fruit is as ripe ing to the developments of science, such a germinal as it will ever be, and is incapable of any further devel­ beginning should have come in the beginning of the opment. It may improve a little with certain kinds of Christian dispensation; and according to the records The Flaming Sword 5 of abundant testimony, sucb a man was born, and of the culmination of the sign Aries in the constella­ he matured and planted the germs of evolution in the tion Pisces. race over which he presided as the Shepherd and The Sons of God or the new race, will come through impregnator. a specific process—a process which has been denomi­ The Lord was the Arch-natural man, the first biune nated the “burning-up of the world.” There is about or two-in-one of the new race. He was called, and was to be operative a general conflagration of thousands in fact, the first fruits of immortal life. He was the of people, through a dematerialization having a Father and the Son. He was the first male-and-female specific origin ,and consumated through a conscious in one form of the new creation. In his descent into and voluntary desire from a scientific knowledge of the the race he impregnated the race for the regeneration or factors which enter into the properties of such a con­ reproduction of the Sons of God,ior there can be no flagration. Elijah demateralized in the presence of reproduction without the germinal beginning of the Elisha. He ascended into the spiritual spheres without kind. the ordinary corruptible dissolution of the body. He The evolution of the new race must be through the ascended in a chariot of fire. It was the Arch-natural conjunctive unity of the male and female of the present process of departure from this world. He was the cen­ form. Males and females as they exist at the present ter of a particular sphere, and was the highest natural time are disintegral, and of a consequence, are mortal. type of its manhood. His ascent was a spiritual con­ The present existence is corruptible and mortal from flagration, and the chariot of fire was “the flaming the spirit through the soul to- the body. The present sword” by which the way of the Tree of Life is perpetu­ form is not the form of life, but the form of death. It ated or kept. is the form of death because not the integral form. If it was possible to burn one man, as in the case of The present sensuality of the race leads it to desire the Elijah, through certain applications of law, it is pos­ perpetuity of the mortal kind ; hence the effort to bring sible, the law being understood, to repeat the process. into disrepute the purpose and operations of the new The Lord understood the law of his dematerialization movement to introduce the laws of the higher life. The nineteen hundred years ago, and passed out of the present character of reproduction involves the pro­ world by the new and living way, being theocracised in cesses of perpethal death—the form of corruptible dis­ the presence of his disciples. He went the Arch-natural solution which now obtains with the sensual humanity. way without the corruptible dissolution of the body, but by an incorruptible dissolution—by a dematerial­ The New Race to be Manifest Through New Principles and Specific Processes. ization. His was a translation at the center, the heart of life. There will come a translation at the circumfer­ The new race will develop from the present one ence of theuniversal manhood. This is the great fire to through the application of new principles. We have consume the world at the end of the present age. This already stated that the new life cannot come from consumption of the world will take those who desire to common generation, nor can it come from virginal re­ become the Sons of God in the regeneration. production. The Son of God was the result of virginal propagation. That was a psychic transmission from Essential Conservation of Sex Energy. the interior mind of Joseph the husband of Mary. It The conservation of the sex energy of the two sexes was a process from the operation of law, but a law and their utilization are essential prerequisites of the not understood by the so called scientific world—and it conflagration. Resistance to currents or to activities is is not very astonishing when we are constantly re­ the one great essential factor to that operation called minded of the ignorance of “scientific” men, by their combustion. Any successful effort to dam back the positive assertions and sudden renunciations of pre­ great tide of sensuality which is sweeping the world in vious conclusions. There are a great number of things its destructive flood, will engender the greatest opposi­ to be learned by the “scientists” before they can with tion. To place a barrier in the way of the gratification any propriety, assert that the Lord was not produced of the sensual passions of the present sensual race is by virginal propagation or by parthenogenesis. like the enstalment of a bull in the excitement of his The planting of the personality of the Lord in the passions. race prepared to receive him, by that operation called It is not enough to curb the passions of the race. the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, constituted the ger­ There must not only be a conservation of the sex ener­ minal beginning of the creation of God. It is for this gies through the institution of the celibacy of a people, reason and no other that the Lord was declared to be but there must be the utilization of the energy through the beginning of the creation of God. From him will its direction to a given focal point; and in this factor come, through the processes of reproduction (regenera­ we And the application of the Messianic law. Polariza­ tion) the Arch-natural men to inhabit the earth, at the tion is one of the prime factors of all the activities of life. end of the Christian age of the world—now, at the time Jesus, the Sou of God, was the supreme focal point of the 6 TTh© Framing Sword

resistance of the evils of his day; and because of this, the energy essential to the conflagration of his body and the conversion of that body to the Spirit of his com­ | New Century Studies Reviews | bustion, focused in him and made of him the con­ j , & Lucie Page Borden § e (o stituent Messianic center of his time, and specifically *04c)40404S404©404c>404c>434340434c)404343a4c>4c>)4 the Son of God. The two fires—the central fire which consumed the THE ECONOMY OF NATURE. one in the beginning of the age, and the circumferential The Laws of Reciprocal Activity Applied to the Perfection of Society; fire which consumes the many at the end of the age- the Law of Unitary Conjunction. are relatively and correspondentially like the combus­ n T H E ECONOMY OF NATURE is shown in a thou- tion at the center and at the circumference of the vidual sand ways. An example of this is seen in the body. At the end of the dispensation and at the revela­ vegetable kingdom, which is able to appropriate and tion of the “man of sin,” there is to be a general confla­ transform into living tissue what has been thrown off gration in the destruction of the wicked. At this time as refuse in the kingdom above. The correspondence the wicked, the tares, are to be gathered into bundles between man and Nature is enough to establish princi­ to be burned. What is meant by the gathering of the ples for human guidance. The fact that there is no tares? Simple this: The tares and the wheat were waste without repair is an evidence th at when the divine placed in the same field. Every man is wheat and tare, economy is practiced in society, there will be an entirely for every man is representative of the entire field. In new system put into use. The Maker of the universe order to burn the tares they are to be gathered into has endorsed the law of reciprocity; and it is a fitting tribute to His greatness when the same manner of bundles. This means that there will be a gathering effecting an orderly arrangement of society is brought into societies for the purpose of resistance, where the into service. There is nothing in the solar system to fire will be kindled in which the tares will be burned endorse waste, nor is there any precedent for the sacri­ that the wheat may appear. Hence, when the reapers fice of human life to gratify the passion for dominion are sent out to reap they will first gather the tares into that causes disregard for human happiness. bundles or societies to be burned. This is a part of the There is no one more gullible than the ordinary process of providing for the final reunion which will materialist. He not only swallows the Copernican consummate in the rematerialization of the two-in-one system whole, but he also endorses a view of the uni­ beings. verse where no provision is made to offset the radiation The great problem of life is solved, and the keys of energy. By studying the universe from the divine which have unlocked the mysteries of immortality are point of view, as seen from the center, not from the with the Koreshan Unity. The Koreshan Univers- environ, it assumes a different aspect. Not only is its perpetuity assured, but the mind is aghast at the ology is the science of immortality. The nucleus of thought that there are those who argue the extinction Koreshanity is the vitellus of the great universal egg, of that which is so wonderfully designed. There is and for this reason the great truth of the Cellular nothing which gives so abiding a sense of reverence and Cosmogony had to be revealed, that the location of its trust in the divine goodness—nothing which stimulates vital point could be defined. The scientific world will the heart and gives it stronger faith than an evidence yet be made to confess the truth of the science of the of the Creator’s wisdom in establishing the earth and Cellular Cosmogony, the science of the material form of endowing it with the principles of recreative activity. the universe. Universal development takes place from How beautiful it is to look upon the earth as the en­ the universal egg; and for this reason the cosmogonic vironment of a central star which is the transforming structure is a cell possessing its vital point which is the medium for all the waste which is eliminated by the universe in its least form—which form is that of man. surrounding cell! It is an object lesson both in polit­ ical economy and natural science. Here man is warmed For this reason the Son of God is the Son of Man; and and fed and nourished by the emanations th at would for this reason also the Son of Man, the Son of God, be useless with no sun to act as the transformer of is the Godhead revealed as man. The perfect creature waste. of the universe becomes the absolute Creator, and There is nothing in the universe that is not capable therefore the Sons of God, the new race of men, become of being recreated. The decaying vegetable matter inheritors of the many thrones of the universal king­ has its own office and it becomes the means of replen­ dom, being Kings and Priests unto God. ishing the fires of the central sun, in common with ^ other worn-out substance. The law of transformation The Sons of God now about to arise from the hu­ and renewal is written large all over the visible crea­ man race as the multiplied first fruits of the Tree of Life, tion. Why not take it as an object lesson to show how the new genus to be called Theo-anthropoi (God-men), society is to be perfected? The man who discovered will not be spirits or spiritual beings, but literal, nat­ the nature of the physical earth and has put forward ural, material Sons of God. the permanence of the great battery cell, has a title to The Framing Sword 7

consideration in advancing a corollary to his main cSicSacS&cSjcS&cSftcSjcSjC&lcSjcSjC&IC&lcS) (S& cSicSicSjcSjDSjt&lcS&t&lcSHS&cSjcSicS&cSj proposition. He has claimed that the same principles 1 f3 which rule in the stellar world when applied to human­ | **General Contributions*- | J ity, will effect the reconjunction of man to his Maker. t§ $ It is the logical application of the divine law of reci­ procity which must establish proper relations among THE KORESHAN CITY AND ITS FOUNDER. men. The waste of energy consequent upon a hetero­ The Proposed Cosmopolitan Center of the Koreshan Cult in Process geneous grouping of society, together with the strife of Formation at Estero, Florida. engendered by opposing interests, has almost wrecked the body social. With a central body composed of THE EDITOR. [Note.—We publish the folio wins in this the Solar Festival Number of light-giving orbs and an environ of perfectly adjusted T he Flam in g Swokd, as a fitting tribute to the Founder of Koreshanity and his workers, the happiness of society would be secured. great work. The matter following consists of extracts from aitieles written by the writer, not as Editor, but as reporter for a number of daily newspapers, and The idealist who has always fought for the final tri­ is penned from the newspaper standpoint, so far as forms of expression are umph of the ethics of Jesus, has kept alive the hope of concerned. Enough of the articles are inserted to cover a general view of the purifying society. His faith is going to be justified. City, the Koreshan System, and a description of the character of the Founder.] Were it impossible to establish the principles of reci­ HAT JERUSALEM WAS to Judaism; what Rome procity, there would be no earnest for the future. To W was to Christianity; what Mecca is to Islamism; one who has learned to read the signs of redemption in Estero, Lee County, Florida, promises to become to the physical earth, the human race cannot offer a hope­ Koreshanity—an entirely new cult, distinctly American <-■ less problem. in origin, which is being extensively advocated in this The necessity for economy in all departments of country. But eclipsing all other past and present at­ life is absolute. If the resources of reproduction are tempts at city building*,unique in its architecture and not husbanded by a celibate order the material for the government, at once the center of a new order of prog­ recreation of humanity will be lacking. There must be ress, the new twentieth Century city, the New Jerusalem economy in social relations, otherwise the energies of of a new age may stand upon the Gulf coast of Florida life will be dissipated on minor objects. There must be with all the magnificence and glory of a thousand an opportunity afforded to put in practice the princi­ world’s fair cities, if intricate plans and gigantic ples derived from a study of the earth as a perpetual schemes originated and promulgated by theLeader of an o thing. The effort of the people to promulgate these enthusiastic and resourceful people count for anything. truths must be supplemented by a definite place where The foundations of such a city are already laid. they can be applied to society. The law of reciprocal The municipality springs into existence on such an activity is in harmony with the law of unitary con­ extensive scale as to create genuine surprise wherever junction. The advantage of concerted effort appears known. The work of creating the new municipality is c in contrast with the ordinary field of activity where unprecedented in history. All known towns and cities men’s interests are at variance. It is a nobler thing had their beginning in small areas. The original in­ to work for the common welfare than for private ends. corporations of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, This explains why the people who are devoted to the embraced comparatively small districts. But Estero, Cellular Universe need a township to display their Florida, the new City of the Koreshans, begins its exis­ activities. tence with an area of about one hundred and ten square >P >? >? miles, the largest area ever contained within the The Divine Kingdom Involved in Jesus. boundary lines of any new town or city. KORESH. It is claimed by those who seem to know, that HE LORD was to the Christian dispensation what h every thingabout the new cult, called Koreshan Univers- T the acorn is to the oak. The acorn involves the ologv, -is likewise a surprise. It manifests striking oak tree; for this reason it can unfold the oak. The originality and pure genius. It contains the elements Lord was the kingdom involved. As the acorn puts of discovery, and startles conservatives with its daring forth the oak, so the Lord unfolds the kingdom in the in research and boldness of declaration of truths dis­ earth, which, when mature, will involve all the principles ■J . covered and plans conceived. The establishment of the and laws which gave to the Christ of nineteen hundred Koreshan System involves the founding and building years ago the character which constituted him the Son of its representative city, from which may emanate a o of God. That character will be imparted to the social worldwide influence. * * organic structure of righteousness, and thus will define The plans for the construction of Greater Estero, the character of the divine earthly kingdom. Florida, are both unique and extensive. There is to be no chance development of the city. Its streets, avenues, S LONG as the self-appointed teachers of modern and boulevards, its parks and plazas, magnificent J A times abrogate the authority of the Most High, courts, and all public buildings, including colossal educating the people under their direction into the fal­ temples aggregating in harmony all known styles of lacy that the law has no binding power, so long will the efficacy of a crucified Redeemer plead in vain; so long architecture and reflecting all the colors of the rainbow will death and hell hold their sway, and so long will cor­ from its gem-set domes and towers, are all mapped out. ruptibility desecrate the temple. In the work of building the city there is to be no waste V- 8 The Flaming Sword

of energy nor material, nor waste of funds in the con­ The Founder of the Koreshan Cult. duct of its affairs. The homes of 10,000,000 people, Who is the man th at manifests such daring in the the population expected for a world-focus, may be field of thought, research, and discovery? He must maintained according to the principles of the strictest possess great force of character to stand boldly order and economy. * * against such tides of criticism and opposition that his Estero City, as incorporated and projected, has system calls forth. I have found it comparatively easy come as a surprise in an age of surprises. Not less to make general statements regarding many of the unique and remarkable, but infinitely more complex, is important features of the Koreshan System, and to the cult of which the new city is the headquarters. describe some of the objects of the Koreshan move­ Koreshanity is a religio-science, which means th at the ment and the founding of their city. But when I cult teaches what purports to be a scientific religion, undertake to describe the character of the Founder of as well as the science of all forms and functions of life the System I feel at a great loss. I have never felt this in every domain of the universe. In some respect or before with regard to any other man. I have never other, Koreshanity is like every great system of thought met a man who seemed so open and frank upon first ever promulgated in the world. It certainly has a acquaintance, none more willing to meet one on his great deal to say about the great universal doctrines own level or social status, nor yet a man th at seemed so of religion, about the various systems of mental and full of mystery. His terms of acqaintance are easy, for moral culture, about the realms of the unseen, about he is easy to approach; but the longer one knows him the physical sciences, and about social, industrial, and the deeper his character seems to extend. The Founder political economy. of Koreshanity manifests many of the elements of sim­ It weaves a new mental fabric adorned with new ple life; but his manifest simplicity is interwoven with a figures and designs; the breadth of the fabric seems complexity of character and the elements of possible to cover the universe; and the scope of its vision pene­ achievement and high attainment. He appears to trates far beyond the distant horizon of past history, stand in the attitude of waiting, on the eve of some great and brings to the twentieth century, involved in the triumph. Though born in comparative obscurity, he sum of all knowledge and experience, the potent factor has the air of inherent greatness and dignity of man­ and fruit of all philosophy and all experience. Chris­ ner; and I have observed in him many of the character­ tianity was the undoubted evolution of Judaism, which istics of a king. I have no doubt that many other re­ was the religion of a distinct people of a distinct age. porters have thus viewed him, and have felt his mag­ The Koreshan cult, it is held, is the natural evolution netic influence, and have studied awhile before penning of Christianity, and a remanifestation of the elements lines descriptive of his character. of its prototype, the primitiveChristian system founded Any one can see th at he is a man of great deter­ by Jesus and his Apostles. The mysteries of the Chris­ mination ; that is easily observable in the protruding tian system, especially those which relate to the mis­ chin and the clear, steady look of the eye. He has pro­ sion and character of the Lord Messiah and his relation mulgated his system for the past thirty-four years, to God and humanity, are subjects of Koreshan inter­ and has labored patiently in the building up of his in­ pretation from the basis of an entirely new conception stitutions. He means to accomplish something, and of Being and Existence. his seeming ability is written in all his physiognomic In recent years, men of research have disclosed expressions. Though he is sixty-four years of age his some of the wonders of radio-activity. The X-ray has hair is not gray nor his eyes dimmed; practical appli­ enabled men to visually penetrate otherwise opaque cation of his doctrines of life has wrought within him objects and substances. What the X-ray has done in an obvious miracle, for it is evident that extraordinary the realm of physics as an aid to the natural vision, factors have conspired to build up what now appears Koreshanity claims to do in all realms of thought and to be an extraordinary man. kingdoms of life, as an aid to the human intellect. Du. Cyrijs It. T eed, whose religious cognomen is With the discovery of radium came the overthrow of K oresh (the Hebrew word for Cyrus), whence the name the universally accepted theory of the indestructibility of Koreshanity, the system he has founded, made his of the atom, resulting in the acknowledged downfall of great discoveries in the lines of alchemy and cosmog­ the so called established theory of chemistry. What ony in the year 1870, thirty-four years ago. He then radium has done to chemistry and physics, Koreshanity made the bold declaration that he had discovered proposes to do to all modern conclusions; for it is the secret of human redemption from the curse under maintained that notwithstanding the fact that there is which man has fallen; and he set himself to the task of today a better and more comprehensive classification performing his work—not through any power of mir­ of superficial knowledges than ever before, not a single acle, but through scientific processes. Comprehension conclusion of modern scientists is fundamentally true. of his mission necessitates careful study of the man With one great sweep, Koreshanity completely subverts and his system. He is eminently practical, and the sys­ modern astronomy and all kindred sciences, by claim­ tem of education which he institutes requires individ­ ing to demonstrate the startling discovery that the universe is cellular in form, the basis of which is the ual methods of study and thoughtful observation and physical body of the earth, itself concave, with its research. It should not surprise the people of this age inhabitants dwelling upon the inner surface. * * if, as in olden times, there should arise a prophet with a The Framing Sword 9 distinct message of science to the people of a scientific foolish and superstitious, saving only the rational and age. Dr . T eed has succeeded in convincing many peo­ the useful; gather together all the schools of art and sift them ; put together all styles of architecture in the ple who are now his followers at Estero and in various most exquisite harmony; aggregate in one great carpet parts of the world, that he possesses a power of men­ of living green all the beautiful parks of Paris, Berlin, tality, a gift of mental or spiritual penetration, un­ and Boston; build Venice anew in the West; gild the known and unclaimed by any other modern teacher. temples and pave the streets with gold; aggregate the Dr. T eed is a man of striking versatility, with millions on the basis of the most desirable social and surprising stocks of information which, with long ex­ economic relations— with all the most modern improve­ ments, and a thousand other unique features, with the perience in meeting opposition render him gifted at concentration of all educational progress, and with a repartee. He is a formidable opponent in debate; and religious power greater than a dozen papacies—and those who oppose his views in his presence always feel vou have a picture of the great City of the Koreshan considerable discomfiture under his searching eyes, Cult. * * forceful arguments, and apt answers to questions and Dr. T eed, through his system, is attracting con­ siderable attention in the world. One can scarce help criticisms. With the fire of his eloquence and enthusi­ being impressed with his personality and manifest asm, he strongly appeals to his audiences. He ap­ character. In some respects he resembles a minister or pears to possess all the elements of leadership; he is a a bishop, though he was never a minister in an ortho­ director of men, a maker of plans, and a projector of dox church. It would be difficult for a character reader great movements. to determine what profession he would be best fitted for. He seems to be capable of taking up and following out a number of different lines at the same time. He Another View of Koresh and His Work. was a physician years ago, and was quite successful in HE PURPOSE of Estero City, the heart and secret his care and cure of the sick. His philanthropic ten­ dencies were not in keeping with the usual desire to of the giant undertaking, indicate a determined T make money. He would spend considerable time and purpose in accordance with the most elaborate plans energy in treating the poor without charge. His phil­ conceivable. A large city is not even enough for these anthropy has now assumed more practical and more people; it must not only be the very largest, but it must extensive proportions. * * be so unique and pure, glittering with all the glories of Dr. T eed is from the common people. His life has been of a plain character and his modes of life simple; perfect architecture, as to eclipse all the cities of his­ but his personality is not without distinction. His face tory. The civilization of ancient Egypt centered in indicates a well-rounded character and well-balanced Memphis, and the learning of Greece found its highest mentality; his eyes show clear mental perception, and seat in Athens; and now it is declared that upon the his chin great determination. He resembles Napoleon, west coast of Florida, the center of the new cultcontain- Washington, and McKinley. It is evident that he was never destined to be a hermit, nor for common life, nor ing full expression of its ideals of communism, coopera­ for a restricted social circle. He manifests the qualifi­ tion, municipal ownership, and social life, will be built cations of a general, fit to direct, to plan, and to pro­ to endure through the centuries of a new era. * * mote movements on large scales. In contradistinction Dr. T eed, the founder of the city, proposes some with ultra-democratic conceptions, he advocates the surprising architectural plans for the construction of principles of leadership, and professes the power of demonstration of all his doctrines. the most magnificent temples which we are capable of It was Dr. T eed’s good fortune some years ago, to conceiving as possible structures. As massive as the find a very estimable character to stand at the head Great Pyramid of Egypt; as varied in architecture as a of his organization—a woman whom he exalts as Pre­ score of mosques, cathedrals, and national capitols, eminent over all his ecclesiastical, social, and secular or­ with the splendor of a hundred royal palaces, the cen­ ders. Her offical title is V ictoria Gratia K oresh. tral Temple, the site of which is in the heart of the She was converted to Koreshanity from the Theosoph- ical school, and now occupies the highest place in the present area of the Town of Estero, is to be reared, sur­ System, where she is esteemed by a large following. rounded by state, ecclesiastical, and educational build­ She is well fitted, it is easy to see, for the executive ings and plazas, covering in themselves several square head of the new cult. She is a disciplinarian of unques­ miles of territory.- This is but the center of the city as tionable ability, a forceful character, and a power planned. The city itself is supposed to outrank New among her people. Such in part, are the characters which command York and London in size, and to be in itself a city of the forces of the new religion, under whom the heads of the greatest splendor, unique in arrangement, so that departments of the work perform their duties. No one when shown upon the map, geometric figures are strik­ acquainted with Dr. T eed can say that he is a mere en­ ing and harmonious. * * thusiast. Heis undoubtedlysincerein histeachings and Rome, the center of Christianity, is located on the claims. That he is educated and well-informed is ob­ vious from the language he uses in writing and speak­ Italian peninsula, on the river Tiber. Estero City, the ing. On account of his radical views on all lines, he proposed center of Koreshanity, is located on the must make for himself a sphere of activity. There is Florida peninsula, on the river Estero. But Rome was no place for him along the old lines; he doesn’t fit in never a center of science, neither was Athens a center of them at all; there is nothing in them to tie him to any religion ; nor is London a center of art, though London of the pursuits and customs of the world at large. His revolutionary tendencies, his qualifications, his is the world’s capitol. Take all the characteristics of composite character, his unique and stupendous plans, all great cities of the past and sum them up, excluding and his success in establishing and directing a great all that is evil; sum up the religions, excluding the movement, render him conspicious wherever known. HE SCIENCE OF SYMBOLISM is made to rest upon the eastern horizon in the early morn, and then ascends to T the fundamental principles and laws of relation which full view with its life-giving potencies shedding forth over exist between the human world and the physical cosmos. the earth. Art and literature are full of portrayals of the Unless these principles and laws are operative in the uni­ fact that in humanity there is a dawning, a morning of the verse there could be no such thing as comparison. All ef­ new day of progress. No one conceives of day coming in / forts at analogical reasoning would be futile if there were the natural world without the presence and function of the no likeness between the kingdoms of existence. No truth sun itself. It is therefore most rational to conclude that is more obvious nor abundantly proven than that Nature the beginning of truly enlightened periods of civilization * expresses faithfully and infallibly whatever of life or must be marked by the manifestation of the anthropostic thought or character exists in man. Indeed, man could Sun, corresponding in function to the king of day in the never be complete if he did not himself involve all that is in physical cosmos. the world of Nature; man could never be in harmony with the universe if in man there were not operative laws analo­ The testimony of art and literature corroborates every gous to those which form the cosmos and produce in it all Koreshan conclusion concerning the analogous relation the complex relations of all the species in all its domains. existing between man and cosmos. If the forms and phe­ Unless such relations exist Nature has no meaning. Its nomena of the natural world were not expressions of quali­ forms would be observed without making any impression ties and characteristics of human life and thought, there upon the mind, and man could derive no profit from intel­ could be no art, no poetry worthy of the name. No sooner lectual contemplation of the works of physical creation. do we begin our investigation of the achievements of the a Koreshanity presents to the world a new basis of interpre­ human mind through brush and pen than we discover that tation of Nature and all the phenomena of the universe, art is more than picture and poetry more than rhyme. That because it reveals the keys to the great laws of expression is highest art, that is the most sublime poetry, which em­ in Nature, of all possible conceptions of the human mind. bodies the deepest thought. Both the artist and the writer The use of symbolism is as old as the universe and as uni­ employ means to express their mental images; the one does versal as the world of man. Symbols are not invented by it through representation of form, and the other through any one; they exist, and so potent are the factors of rela­ the agency of words which constitute forms of expression; tion between human life and cosmic form that the very but in either case, views of the natural world are made to language of man, involving all the elements of expression stand for the ideas or the ideals conceived. No art is of thought, is itself founded upon the symbols of the ex­ merely imitative of Nature; art that inspires the mind to ternal world. Words, the forms of language, must in nobler thought and action lives, because it is in harmony themselves ever stand related to the forms of existence. with the impulses which make character and promote prog­ This is manifestly true, because there is no thought which ress. The mind of the artist or the writer is full of the im­ does not in the course of time, become expressed in specific ages of natural things; his gift is in making the natural forms which ultimately result from the essential mutations forms convey truths to the intellect and to the soul. The of the thought itself. One of the most powerful factors of great conceptions of the masters in the world of art and lit­ conviction as to the absolute truth of the Koreshan System, erature are embellished with all the natural shades, hues, is in the manifest and obvious agreement, without excep­ and colors, and the forms, harmonies, and motions of Nat­ tion, between its conclusions and the very fundamentals of ure. They endow Nature with human sentiments, for to all language and all avenues of expression, including not them Nature speaks the very essence of truth; they are in­ only art and literature and music, but the elements of spired with the spirit of a degree of understanding of the progress manifest in the history of the development and fact that Nature is so true as to be taken as the very es­ trend of events in the human race. There is that fitness sential foundation of the highest imagery. They appre­ of things in the Koreshan System which does not exist in ciate Nature most who can bring into touch with what they any other system before the world today. Its terminology see the greatest number of inspiring mental associations t* is scientific; its names are appropriate, and its symbols are and correspondencies. A child may observe the first rays pregnant with meaning. If we take a name, or symbol, or of dawn, the sweep of the wings of the morning, and the truth in Koreshanity, and trace it to its most fundamental orb of light as it rises from the horizon. It may all appear origin, we find a Koreshan claim corroborated, a Koreshan truth demonstrated. No symbol of Koreshanity is more very beautiful and may greatly excite the nerves of the eye; striking than the symbol of the sun as used in connection but the view of the child is comparatively insignificant when with the Solar Festival of the Koreshan Unity, which considered in contrast with the broader view of the philoso­ occurs on October 18th of every year, and which is recog­ pher or scientist who, while observing all the phenomena of C nized and appropriately observed by all Koreshans. This approaching day, translates them into a higher language festival has its origin in an event of the greatest importance of expression that enables him to see imaged in the rising to the progress of the world; and surrounding the day are sun all the glorious truths concerning the origin of the all the truths symbolized in the golden orb which illumines great days of civilization. i a The Flaming Sword 11

The symbolism of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures inspirations of the musician, are so full of symbolism that is much more complete than that which is today involved in they may be taken as the strongest evidence of the truth of the sphere of the fine arts. The symbolism of the Bible that System which constitutes the Light of the new day covers a wider field and involves more central truths, emanating from the rising Sun of the new age. because it expresses the fundamentals of the life of Deity, the laws of his creation, and the principles of the perpetu­ Koreshanity signifies the religion of the Sun, and in ity of the divine Being. We have said that symbols are itself involves all the elements of all knowledge. That pot invented, because they are natural. This must be true, light has had its dawning, and now the Sun is rising upon since symbolism is universal; and the symbolism of the Bible is not only in harmony with all the ancient mytholo­ the world. If the student of science were sufficiently alert mentally, he would perceive the necessity of a sun of the gies, but with all the arts, and with Nature itself. If we human world, not in some spiritual sphere, but in the ex­ consider the Bible as authoritative in its testimony, we dis­ cover in it the most abundant evidence that the Koreshan ternal world in open realization of the depths of human System is true. However, Koreshanity is not in itself darkness and the necessity for the shining light; and if founded upon the Bible as authority, but upon the author­ the student of the Bible were sufficiently wide-awake he ity of demonstrated science; the Bible is none the less true would find the name of the personality designated as the because of such a course, but decidedly more emphatic, Sun, the date of his birth, the scope of his mission, and the character of his work; and if all those who have heard por­ since that which demonstrates Koreshanity, demonstrates tions of the message of Koreshanity were able to rationally the Bible also. Koreshanity declares from the basis of follow the logic of the System, its followers would now analogy, that the sun of the physical cosmos has its corres­ number hundreds of thousands instead of hundreds. The pondent in the human world; that in fact, everything in thoroughly rational mind would derive the greatest satisfac­ the natural world is but the expression of some principle, tion as to the absolute truth of Koreshanity, not from mere law, characteristic, or quality of human thought or life. mechanical demonstration nor ocular corroboration, but from The human world is a universe in itself, and the laws of the higher forms of demonstration which obtain through its perpetuity are analogous to the laws operative in the scientific analysis of the symbols of Nature—symbols which physical cell in which we live. The writers of the Bible foresaw a great Luminary, the Sun of Righteousness, have been many times emphasized by the masters of all true art. No truth is more obvious than that every great whose light would bring the recurring Golden Age of the world; they foresaw a personality, who should come as a idea that has ever come to the world has come through a Prophet sent, a High Priest of sacrifice, a Messenger of natural man; and it is most rational to conclude that the great system of truth for which the world waits, must be conjunction—even the Messiah, the Precursor or avaimt- revealed to the world through a personality who shall con­ coureur of the resurrection. stitute to the world a shining Light, the great Orb of the # world of man. The words day and Deity are derived from The artist and the writer, as well as the composer, the same root, meaning to shine. The root is a Sanscrit must have a theme, without which their expressions would word, but it is in harmony with the Hebrew conception of have no meaning nor attraction; indeed, these branches the rising Sun in the form of the ideal Man. belong in the category of the fine arts, and are near akin in origin and object. The truths of one are the truths of the other; and the truths of each are true to the elements of The universe is founded upon the strictest and most language, which is the art of expression; and they all must definite and exact geometrical relations and proportions. agree with the revelations of the natural cosmos. When The laws of proportion are as necessary in the construction the secrets of Nature are discovered, the highest key-notes of the physical cosmos as in the development of the human of all the fine arts are revealed. Nothing can be truer to form. Because the forms of man and cosmos correspond, real art than genuine science; no system of conceptions of it is possible to establish a system of analogical reasoning modern times other than the religio-science of Koreshan and to demonstrate the form and function of the great Universology, has been able to present, interwoven in one world of Nature from the basis of the definite principles of beautiful fabric, all the elements of progress in all the comparative anatomy. It is through the discovery of the branches of human knowledge, because no other system great laws of universal correspondence that the mind is possesses the key to the solution of all the problems of enabled to grasp the very fundamentals of all life and Nature. Bacon said that. “Art is man added to Nature,’’ language, and to solve all problems. What water is to all meaning that man comprehending the symbols of Nature is material substances, science is to all mental problems; it is able to express the truths of life in some artistic form. the universal solvent. What the light of the sun is to The word art is from a Greek word meaning to fit or join vegetation, the light of science is to the elements of spring­ together. The word articulate is from the same root. We ar­ time in humanity; and from the effects of its rays in the ticulate syllables; the anatomist articulates bones of the body. prepared soil, will spring the Renaissance or rebirth of all But the artist articulates forms of the imagination, and the true forms of expression, from the arts up to the mani­ makes one the thought of the mind and a symbol of Nature. festation of the Immortal Manhood, the living Temples of We believe that art is so true as to embody in its every the divine architecture. worthy production a truth of human life or character. The works of art, the works of the poet and prophet, and the The failure of evil comes through the success of good. | Tfe Open Court of Inquiry. f

The Great Mystery of Iniquity. through the elements of corruption. nated church of the dispensation for “ Ido not understand the law govern­ Now, what the plant is to the life it there is no such church—the whole ing the descent of God through the contains, the church was to the divine church having fallen. Neither have we Christian age. The statement was made life and mentality. The church of the any doubt that the Coptic church, and several times in T h e F l a m in g S w o rd that God descended through the popes of age constituted a tree, and its life has the Armenians, and others, also received Rome. Now, I confess I do not like to passed, not through pure channels, but early instruction and have also per­ believe that. Why through Rome? Be­ petuated certain forms and doctrines cause the popes are the successors of through the corruptions which were Peter? It has never been proved that inevitable as a result of the processes of which resemble those practiced in the - Peter was in Rome. That is the hypothe­ regeneration. As to His external or early church. But such facts do not sis or guess on which the whole papal constitute evidence that the central structure rests, and it is as much an as­ animal life, the Almighty died during sumption as the Copernican hypothesis. the age in the people of the Christian vitality of the Christian age was in Now, the Anglican church claims catho­ church, and all the corruptions of that those branches of the church. The licity. It is older than the papacy. It was never legally subject to it; it was church and the branches of that church, Anglican church rests its claims to continually protesting against the usurp­ are the result of that death. In the catholicity upon as much of an hy­ ation of authority by the popes for channel of that death, that corruption pothesis as the Roman church. centuries prior to the Reformation. The bishops in Wales never did acknowledge and the despotism of the powers of The papal claim that Peter was in 4 the papacy. At least, this is part of the darkness operative in and through the Rome may or may not be true; but the education I received as an English church­ church of the declension, hidden away Apostolic and Messianic succession man. It is hard to repudiate it, but if I am wrong I want to get at the truth at deeply in the interior of the heavens of does not depend upon Peter’s being in any cost. But I was wondering why the that church, and enswathed by spheres Rome. Papacy has perverted the doc­ spirit of God should choose the papacy as of countless thousands of angels con­ trine of the Apostolic succession, but a channel of descent. Not on account of its purity. Purer channels could be found stituting the various spheres of protec­ the protestant churches have wholly in the Greek or English churches. But tion of the divine court in its absolutely ignored the plain declarations of Jesus perhaps I am prejudiced against the Ro­ pure state in the celestial world, the to the effect that he would establish man Catholics. I want to settle all these questions on the basis of Koreshanity. ’’ eternal life of the Almighty has pro­ his church upon Peter the Apostle, to gressed through the dispensation. The great apostasy, foretold by the whom he gave the keys of the kingdom The reason the descent was made Lord Jesus and his Apostles, was not a of heaven and the power to bind and mere falling away from the church of through papacy is not because God lose in both heaven and earth. Peter certain professed elements of Christen­ chose that way, but because that way was never authorized to give the keys dom, but the fall of the church itself— was the inevitable way, the one way in into the possession of another, and he the corruption of that power which which he could come down through never parted with them. While the made the church and operated in and the age and produce at the end of the popes have constituted a line of descent through it. The fall of a seed is in dispensation the state of the resurrec­ of the life of the age, the keys of its sowing and its death, which is ab­ tion of himself and the elements of his heaven and hell have not been pos­ solutely necessary to the reproduction offspring. In the central orders of the sessed by them. Peter was to be the of its life. It falls into the ground Catholic church celibacy and a con­ Shepherd, and as such he was to be and it falls into decay and corruption; servation of life forces have obtained, given the supreme office of feeding the a plant or tree is produced, the body of the ascending elements of which have sheep when he should be converted which is made up of descending ele­ had to do with the propagation and through the processes of regeneration. ments of the life operative; and finally, maintenance of the life of the age. The Peter stands in his Messianic function, the plant produces its seed and passes popes have constituted the very central in the true Messianic and Apostolic into disuse. line of the power of the Christian succession, at the end of this dispensa­ Now7, all through the plant from church, until the critical period in tion. seed to seed, there is a central line of papal history—when the central Spirit The Scriptures have been transmitted V persistent activity which, while it passes passed from the Roman papal line to to the people of modern times through along with the elements of death in the another line of activity, the result of the Roman church. It was the keeper corruption of the seed and the forma­ which is now the focus of life and of the oracles. Church history has tion of the sheath of development, is truth in the Koreshan System. been handed down through that chan­ so interior to the elements of disruption We have no reason to doubt the nel. Even the English language has and decay as to maintain and preserve claims of the Anglican church to hav­ been powerfully influenced by the the original character of its kind. The ing received teachings from very early Latin language; and it is notable that life of the plant has its several degrees representatives of the primitive church; the letters of the English words are of activity, interior and external; they nor that they have stood aloof to some Latin letters, so that the vitality of the all must march down the season to­ extent from the papal system; but that Anglo-Saxon roots is embodied in Latin * gether, and in the same channel; and does not constitute any evidence that forms. The course of events in the the line of march through the season is the Anglican church is the uncontami­ Christian system from early times was la The Flaming Sword 13 through Rome; and the most powerful the earth, are created in the atmosphere. ing. Thus it may be seen that the dark religious influence of this age has come Even the meaning of the words meteor pole is a reality—as much so as the pro­ down through the Latin church; and and aerolite is indicative of the truth jected sun itself. The dark pole situ­ so the central life of the Word has of this statement. The word meteor ated directly opposite the projected come down through the Latin channel. is from the Greek word meteora, sun, is in the exact location of the The majority of the Protestant sects “things high in the air,” from meta, lunar eclipse, with which it has to do, have sprung from Romanism. The high or beyond, and eora, in the air, as the lunar picture passes through the influence of Romanism is much greater from aeirein, to lift up, from aer, air. apex of the great cone of darkness today than that of the church of Eng­ The substances of meteors are lifted called night. land; and if catholicity were made to rest up through levitating processes—that upon extent of influence today, it looks is, through the energies of levitation. The Koreshan Communistic City. as though the Roman church would The word heavens means “things Florida is first in a number of things take the palm. heaved up’ ’—that is, heaved up from that will do to boast about, and the latest We maintain that the potency of their material base, the earth. The to be added to the list is the distinction divine activity in the Christian dispen­ word aerolite means an “air-stone” —a of having within our borders the largest sation has descended through the great stone which has fallen from the air. town ever incorporated—Estero, in Lee County, that became a municipality on “mystery of iniquity,” manifest as a Meteors and aerolites, as well as com­ September 1st. Estero is the home of the result of the marriage of Christianity ets, belong to the order of meteoro­ Koreshan Unity and has been settled for and pagan Rome. The reason it is logical phenomena. The relation be­ ten or more years, by the Koreshans under called a mystery is because it belongs tween meteors and comets is now ac­ D e . C y r u s R . T e e d , whose energy, backed to the order of divine descent, as a knowledged by eminent astronomers. by considerable capital, the combined wealth of his followers, has now laid the product of the regenerative and repro­ Those large metallic and mineral necessary legal foundations for an abiding ductive powers of the Almighty him­ bodies which sometimes fall to theearth, city for those of his faith. The new town self. We must look for the life of the are materialized or actually created embraces 110 square miles, eighty-two of plant to come through the channel of in the atmosphere from zones of en­ which are land, and twenty-two water. its greatest corruption; and so we ergy in the physical heavens, which This includes a number of small islands in Estero Bay. Estero is the first instance must expect the descent of the divine zones periodically open and precipitate of a Florida town in which are applied the Spirit through the channel of death their contents in the form of these principles of municipal ownership of and perversion of the elements of peculiar materials. This is especially public utilities and industries, and a com-

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However, it is devoted to the home. Itcontains m atter directly related to the every-day affairs of the home, most perfect and authoritative science evident that great effort is being made by and tells how to make the home attractive ever placed within the intellectual the Japanese to reduce Port Arthur to through display of artistic taste. The magazine grasp of the human race. is entirely out of the ordinary in every way. point of surrender. It is reported that 72 pages, 9'A x 13 inches; superbly illustrated, and comes in illum ined covers. Guiding Star they have taken a number of forts sur­ Library Series. rounding the main defenses of the city. “Captains of Industry” is a handsome book of 500 pages, giving the Book J.—The Immortal Manhood : the Laws and In Manchuria the Japanese armies are early lives, growth, achievements, and successes * Processes of its Attainment in the Flesh. By of the men who now occupy high positions in K oresh. 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*2> A . d . 1870 . ..;-.’v.v""." i-:?; • .•• V •*//'•'V<*-"vV;;'-.•;?• n r U E EARTH is a stationary Concave Cell, about 8,000 miles in diameter, with people, Sun, Moon, Planets^nd *■ Stars on the inside, the whole constituting the only physical Universe in existence. It is an Alchemico-Or- ganic Structure, a Gigantic Electro-Magnetic Battery, the Central Sun being the Positive Pole, and the Earth con­ stituting the Negative Elements of the Cell. The Universe involves the functions of its own perpetuity, and is Eternal. All Life is Cellular— within the cell; we INtiabit the Earth. K oreshan C osmogony comports with all facts of Astronomical, Geographical, Geological, arid Alchemical research, and International Geodetic Survey,' Ex­ perimentation and Navigation. It interprets all Ancient Legends, Mythologies, and Bibles, and furnishes the basis of air Reason and Science, the premise of the true Theology, and the pattern of the new order of Human Society.' c