The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29


Practiced by His Followers.
From the Philadelphia Press.
In the pleasant suburb Of Chicago an
understood, smooth-shaven man Of "a,
whose brown, restless eyes glow and
burn like live Goals, is day after day
B seated in a coy study, from which he di-
reefs the destinies of new race of
men, the "sons Of God" This man is
Dr. Cyrus r. Teed, the "Koresh"-foun-
der of a new religion and of a whole soci-
illogical and philosophical system. He
purposes to launch out on a grand scale,
to build the New Jerusalem and to gather
thereon the southwestern coast of Flor.
ida-the army of his followers and the
legions of new converts he has made.
His converts in Chicago and vicinity
and throughout the rest of the United
States number now some 1000, and an
other thousand or two have been sufi-
| GENTLY influenced by his writings and
words to be reckoned among his sympa-
! thizers and supporters. 1t is on record
| that not long ago this man went out to
California, called public meeting, made
an imprisoned address setting forth his
scheme, and within an hour secured sub
/ scriptiOns OF 500, 600 A number of SEN
sational lawsuits have been begun against
him, for alternating the affection of sun
dry wives and mothers and some of these
are still pending. A man of such unusual
! persuasive powers, of such tremendous
energies is well worth studying.
THE MANS DOCTRINES.
A word as to his personal claims. He
] is convinced, or at least says that he is,
of being the reincarnation of the deity
the second Christ; that he is iiawless sin
! less that he has found the second revela-
| ton, taking the place of the first, Chris
tianity; that acceptation of his new
| dogma and serupulOus living up to it be-
| gets immortality, not only OF soul, but OF
body as well; that the state of physical
| ana moral perfection to which his system
the Koreshan system-must lead, will
! to use his own words-"unfOld a new
race of men, entirely free of all sexual
! passion and yet procreating the human
kind in mysterious process out of their
| own selves; that the sexes, in fact, will
| disappear among the whole of humanity,
and each human being will be of the new,
/ the 'blune" type, a junction or amalga-
nation of the two sexes in one. Much of
| the inner and more mysterious kernel of
his weird and unnatural doctrine cannot
be repeated, but the points, summarized,
will show what the substance of it is, at
least the theological side.
DIR. Teed, himself, as the ideal "Mau
OONs bu6 1ueOhu bnfOpOS. OF MS own
mind, as the Christ became flesh once
more, and as the founder and head of the
| new church and the dispenser of the new
| dispensation, deems himself, of course,
above criticism, and has a calm convic-
ton of the supreme truth of his teach
ings.
TEED's LATEST SCHEME.
He is undoubtedly sincere and not
humbug in the common acceptation of
| tina word Ea haa r.aad a
| Elected deal more, and then has evolved
his system. How firmly convinced he is
of the ultimate triumph of his new doc
trine and Of his own Christ nature is
shown by the fact that he has started
new era-the present year being A K
lmeaning Ammo Koresh) "a. For, as the
MoSlem date their era from the hegira
and Christians from the birth of the
Saviour, so do the Koresh and the Kore-
shans date their new era from his birth,
tifty-four years ago. Koresh by the way,
is Hebrew for Cyrus, the great Persian
king.
Cyrus r. Teed was born in 1889, in
Walton, Delaware county, New York, but
4 was educated in Utica, and when a youth
studied medicine in an eclectic college at
New York city, where he graduated
In 1870" he said, while pursuing a
chemical and electric investigation in my
laboratory made the discovery, probably
aided by research and study in my profess
sion, OF the law of transmutation' a
law underlying all chemical processes, by
which elements entering into chemic al
combinations were interconverti ble-gold
could be changed into silver, mercury into
copper, etc. l further discovered that the
basis Of what has been denominated chem
istry is not chemistry but alchemy, the
mystical science of old ! discovered
through repeated Investigations that any
| M apt1TH no tod ;,,t,
corresponding energy, as zinc into zinc es-
sence or zinc electricity, and by dint of the
correlation of matter, gold into gold cleo
triCity, copper into copper electricity, etc,
a process well known IN alchemy. BY sub
hitting myself to tests of different kinds
of electricity | could distinguish
them even when bliudfolded, by
the taste of the current, could tell
whether it was gold electricity or silver
electricity, etc l recognized this law of
transmution and its correlation with the
law of energy as a scientific fact, and |
found that matter could be transmitted
into energy and energy into spirit. This
important new truth became the basis of
my whole system, religious, scientific aud
sociological. And the law of transmu ia
ton is what will produce new race of
men,"
BUILDS ON ERRORS.
He has abolished the solar system and
all the rest Of astronomy. The earth, ac-
cording to him, is concave, plate-shaped,
stationary. Up aloft in the ether, dis
tance Of exactly 1000 miles, is suspended
the luminous and half solidifed body of
the sun. The stars are mere specks of
light, reflected back into space, but not
cele stial bodies nor moving orbs.
And he and the rest of the
Koreshan luminaries pride themselves
vastly on this discovery. In DR.. Teed's
paper, the Flaming Sword, Alice Fox
Miller, of Chicago, writes an essay which
puts the ordinary science and astronomy
in juxtaposition with the Koreshan article
and says of the latter: after the weari-
some and futile stretch of the magma
tion that was necessary in graphing with
the old theory 1t is restful from its very
dctniteness." Restful, indeed
Immortality" according to DIR. Teed,
"is a science" BY overcoming the sexual
instinct men will become immortal, and
for the present generation or two they
win attain such longevity as that spoken
OF in the Bible become as old as Enoch,
'Methuselah, and the rest of them. The
ten tribes Of Israel, DR. iced teaches, who
were led into captivity among the Me
dians, Persians, and Assyrians, intermin-
/ Crled with these nations and the t,ro1 NOT