Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-06-03
NEW RELIGIo-sCIENTIFIC FADs
"A Boston Society Claims That the
Earth is a Gigantic Egg Shell.


ever told-and it is true, too
There has lately sprung up in Boston
society that considers the human
race as chicks, and the earth is the
great egg containing them. The ShelI
Is composed OF various mineral ana
vegetable layers The size OF the
earth is the same ascribed by the c.
pernican system, but the planets a!e
comparatively small globes and the
moon is q mere mirror Of the earth
he sun is in the exact center OF the
hollow egg we call the earth. This
sun rests IN the middle OF sea OF
hydrogen. and then comes the Sea Of
atmosphere, which we breathe.
The sun is not visible, but its image
is reflected from the center OF the hoi-
low globe to the outer atmospheric
sea That image is what we behold
daily,
Camp Areturus, Society Arch Tri-
umpnanr, OF the horeshan Unity, is
the mystifying title little band OF
Bostonians has assumed, and outside
their circle the end to which they are
devoted seems even more perpleXing
and incomprehensible than their name.
Koteehanitz was founded by DR..
Teed of Chicago some twenty-siX years
ago. The doctor is koresh itself, and
his following numbers about 10000.
He presents himself as a reincarna-
ton of Elijah. the prophet AS he put
iG nf
in man, and his mission is to foretell
and prepare for the second coming Of
the Lord on earth. He presents the
Koreshan system as having the perfect
life OF the Lord as the standard of
a religious, moral and economic bond,
and in him, as Koresh, is the highest
type of all that in an earthly form.
Beyond all this, however, or any
thing touching the religious, ethical
and economic principles Of the kor-
eshan system the geodetic service its
followers have taken up will unques-
tionably prove the most entertaining
and 1t does not seem too much to
say astounding.
The geodetic service is going ahead
to revolutionize all the long accepted
and supposed firmly founded laws OF
astronomy. 1t is going TO show that
the surface OF the earth is not convex
like the outside OF a ball, but concaye,
and instead OF moving about upon tire
exterior OF a terrestrial sphere, we are
all OF us OF the human family, and
other forms of life crawling around On
the interior Of huge, hollow globe,
like flies in a bottle.
koresh says very truly in relation
to this, that when the world is forced
to accept this proposition, ali else fol
lows readily"
AS may well be supposed to prove
this koreshan idea of cellular cos
mogony true is important, and investi-
cation and experiments are now under
way to be continued through the sum
mer on the coast of Florida to estab-
fish the fact as claimed When this is
done it will be revealed that what is
supposed to be the sun is not a sun at
all
Nobody ever saw the sun. AS for
the law OF gravitation and the move
ment of the spheres, and other funda-
mental astronomical data, they are all
Sr~ss delusions based upon an utter
misconception OF the universe, says
the Koreshans.
In add ion to the Boston amp mere
are similar societies located at Chi
cago Denver. Los Angeles. Cal, San
Francisco, Allegheny City ana Pitts
burg. The geodetic service staff is at
Naples, Fla, There are nine in the
party.
The first question to present itself
to the mind of the unprecedented OBJ
server is how the Koreshan scientific
commission in Florida can prove its
main tenet. How does it arrive at its
conclusion that we live in the interior
of the earth and not upon its surface;
What is the outside of the earth made
of and how is it possible to .nspr 70
the contentious of modern astronomy
with its accurate predictions?
The Copernican theory is a hypo-
thesis into which all the facts. as vet
known, seem to fit. That is TO say.
astronomers proceed upon the theory
that the planets revolve around the
sun and that the law of gravitation is
the cause. But every astronomer adj
mits that this theory has never been
absolutely proved. 1t is believed in
however, because all astronomical cal
culations are based upon it, and such
calculations are always accurate.
When we read in the almanac that
there will be an eclipse next summer.
we believe there will be an eclipse
When we read that in summer the
earth is further from the sun than ii
is in winter, we believe that. too, be-
cause important meteorological OBJ
servations are based upon such a be-
lief. and those observations are invar-
iably accurate. But beyond facts Of
this nature we have no proof The
whole Copernical system rests upsn
what the lawyers call circumstantial
evidence, SO far, the astronomers and
the K1'e ,hans are agreed
The next fact staring te In tbo Co..