The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-11
K0RESHANS' CULT EXPLAINED
MRS. ELEANORE CASTLE EXPOUNDS
THE THEORIES AND BELIEFS.

Cultured Audience Listened to Her
Talk at the Chatham Academy.
COpernican Theory RidicuIed as a
Rehash of the PtOIemaic, That Has
Only Succeeded In Getting Men
Further From the Truth-The
KOreshans' Ethical and Religious
BeIief-The Sect Is GrOwing-Ex-
perimentaI Colony Maintained in
Florida.
Miss Eleanor NJ. Castle delivered a sup
Elementary lecture at the Chatham Acad-
envy yesterday afternoon on the new sys-
tenn of cellular cosmogony, upon which is
based the religion and the sociological
cult of the Koreshans. Her audience in
cluded a number of representative people,
lawyers, physicians clergymen, teachers
and scientists, besides many ladies'. She
spoke for over two hours, and was listen
ed to with rapt and undated attention
from beginning to end.
Every system of religion said Mrs
Castle that has been accepted and be-
lieved in the world has had its CORE
spending system of cosmogony, the latter
in accord with the teachings of the former
and agreeing with its doctrines, its mira
cles and its accepted facts. To this gem
eral rule the Christian religion now fur
nishes an exception, its deyotees profess
ing 10 receive a system of cosmogony,
that formulated by Copernicus, Dy T7nlcn
its most cherished dostrines and It's ac-
count of creation and life are falsified.
The Copernican theory is a gigantic de-
lusion and those who believe il true are
involved in lasting error. 1t is founded on
assumption, and the best, as the worst,
that can be said of it is the Scotch YER
dict, mot proven"
THE Copernican theory Is based upon
the same error as the Ptolemaic, that The
surface of the earth is convex. Copenicus
simply perpetrated the errors Of Ptolemy,
who with imperfect Instruments and care
less methods of observation measured the
angle that the sun seemed to make with
the earth and estimated its distance a o.
O00,O00 miles. Copernlcus and his followers,
with perfect Instruments and the most ex-
act methods OF observation, followed NIP
the old error and got 100000 miles fir
Their from the truth. The Copernican the
DRY never has been proven and never viii
be, until the assumption upon which il is
founded, the convexity Of the earth's sur
face, is raised from an assumption TO a
demonstrated fact-and this win be never"
Mrs Castle then explained the method
that had been pursued by the Koreehans
to demonstrate by physical experiment the
truth Of their contention that the surface
Oh the WOJld Is CChtdhEt ana tndt IL Is the
interior of The globe that is habiiab,e and
inhabited. This explanation has already
been gwen i'm the Morning News
IF we have" said the speaker dem
onstrated the truth of our premise. then
we have demonstrated the truth Of our
system of cosmogony sociology and re-
ligion, for upon this premise an of them
are, built and all Of them are consistent
with It, The sun is the center of the gobe
and has a dark as wen as a right side
II is the reflection of the real sun upon
the atmosphere that produces the sun thar
is manifest TO our vision and il is its rev
olution upon its axis that produces day
and night, heat and cold, winter ana
summer. Here, as everywhere, Che law
of oppostes and co-ordinates, that pre-.
walls everywhere in nature is manffes,
and 1t is the struggle of opposing forces
that holds the universe in perpetuity
Another fallacy, equal in Its prevalence
to the Copernican theory, Is the theory OF
the indestructible atom. The one Is as
absurd as the other for in the scheme
OF nature and of God there is constant
change everywhere and at all times The
of old We're nearly upon the
ruth when they looked for a universal
the magic elixir that could trans
mute the metals and change spirit into
matter and matter into spirit. This is