Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-06-03
A Boston Society Claims That the
Earth is Gigantic Egg Shell.

Here is the biggest Easter egg story
ever told-and it is true, too.
There has lately sprung up in Boston
a society that considers the human
race as chicks, and the earth is the
great egg containing them The shell
| is composed of various mineral and
vegetable layers. The size of the
earth is the same ascribed by the Co.
| pern1can system, but the planets are
comparatively small globes and the
moon is a mere mir OF of the earth.
The sun is in the exact center of the
hollow egg We call the earth Iuis
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 it's image
is reflected from the center Of the hol-
| low globe to the outer atmospheric
sea. That image is what we behold
daily.
Camp Areturus, Society Arch Tri-
umphant, of the Koreshan Unity, is
the mystifying title a 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
KOreehanitZ was founded by Dr.
iced 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
1t, Elijah is the type Of Elohi God
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 highes.
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 it's
followers have taken up will unques-
tionably prove the most entertaining
and it 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 concave,
and instead Of moving about upon the
exterior of terrestrial sphere, we are
all of US of the human family, and
other forms of life crawling around on
the interior of a huge, hollow globe,
! like flies in a bottle.
! Koresh says very truly in relation
, to accept this proposition, all else fol-
/ lows readily
| AS may we'll be supposed, to prove
1 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-
/ lish 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
cross decisions based upon an utter
misconception Of the universe, says
| the Koreshans
In add ion to the Boston camp here
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 unprejudiced OBJ
server is how the koreshan scientific
commission in Florida can prove it's
main tenet. How does it arrive at its