Evening star., 1896-12-19

the earth, which is not solid sphere. as
Copernicus and others have led you to
imagine. The earth is hollow ball, in the
inside of which we live, and it's circum-
ference embraces the universe sun, moon
stars.
That may stagger you a bit on first hear
ing it, but, believe me, as a surprise it isn't
a circumstance to what l have in store for
you.
l spent the afternoon Thursday with
man-Dr. Cyrus r. Teed of Chicago-who
claims to have disproved the Copernican
theory and to have upset every science
ba sed thereon, who claims, Furthermore
to be the power and personality from which
the millennium is to come at no far-distant
day.
DR.. Teed is in the city, guest Of Prof.
McGee, the ethnologist l met him at the
home of a woman whose purse Is deep
whose charity is broad and whose intel
lectual standard Is high. An introduction
from her would recommend any one to
your most respectful consideration, and
equally potent in recommending DR.. Teed to
even a Philstine is the fact that his theo-
ries have made money.
Co-Operative Colonies.
He has established cooperative colonies
in dozen towns throughout the country,
with a central colony at Chicago, AMI he is
row on his way to Florida. where he has
purchased a large tract of land on Estero
bay and the Gulf of Mexico, for the pur-
pose Of pursuing his Investigations of the
form of the EARTH
In the personality of his knowledge and
power to effect the millennium. DR.. Teed is
known as Koresh, and his doctrine is called
the koreshan system of truth. The vast
ness of this truth appals the most earnest
or the most curious soul that seeks to pos
sess 1t, and it was with humility, not un-
mixed with fear, that l asked DR.. Teed TO
tell me how his discoveries have been made.
Il was born in a Baptist family, and
destined by my parents from early child
hood to be Baptist minister. When l
was ten years old became Convinced that
l was not called to preach, and l began
studying medicine, which seemed 20 me to
be profession Offering next to he minis
try, means of serving humanity AT
nineteen l began the practice of medicine,
and continued in it until ! was thirty, when
l became skeptcal not only of the Bible,
but of science. One seemed 10 me TO have
as little authority to uphold its claims as
the others, and l abandoned my profession
to study nature, with view to finding if l
could find positive. indisputable truth on
which to base knowledge in place Of the
theories generally accepted by men. After
years of hardship and hard work L discoy-
cred this in the truth concerning the
earths form and its relation to The uni
verse.
What is Generally Believed.
You know that according to the notion of
Copernicus the world has been taught for
centuries that the earth is convex; that 1t
Is a large globe filled with molten matter
surrounded by crust inciosing the great
mass of fire, and that We live on the out
side; that the earth. compared with the
universe, is but mere Speck in the vast
ocean OF infinite space; that the sun Is the
of.T,ta fnfa nj nj q al In
the earth reyolveS at given rate of speed.
The universe is held TO be limitless, with
out center and without circumference, occu-
pying infinite space-one vast ocean filled
with numberleSS worlds.
From this notion various deductions
have been made, but at the end of CEN
turtles how much exact knowledge rewards
all the efforts of mankind? What do we
know of all the worlds said to exist about
us? What do we know to meet all the ne
cessitieS and exigencies We experience in
our own world. and of the cause, purpose
and design of the whole. does any man de-
clare that he knows positively anything at
all?
Now. the Koreshan system maintains
and demonstrates that the universe Is
unit; it is an alchemico and organic struc-
ture, limited to the dimensions of 5000
miles diameter. According to the great law
of analogy, we hold that its form Is cellu-
lar; that all life is generated in cellovine
vivum ovo! The earth's shell, composed
of metal and minerals. Is about 100 miles In
thickness. constituting a gigantic voltaic
pile, the basis of the great gavano-mag-
netic battery furnishing the negative ele-
ments of the cell for the generation and
supply of the suns fuel The concaye sur
face of the earth alone Is habitable. Super
imposed upon the strata of the shell and
emplaced in their static planes are the
three atmospheres. At the center We find
the positive pole of the great battery-the
central sun around and with which the
heavens revolve in twenty-four hours All
OF the energies of the physical universe are
engendered through the relation of the posi-
tive center to the negative circumference;
great complex battery of physical unity is
thus maintained and perpetuated.
Not the Real Sun.
but projection upon our atmosphere. The
planets are spheres of energy reflected from
metallic discs in the earth's circumference,
and the stars are focal points of light The
moon is sphere of energy derived from
the planets and from the magneto-electric
energies generated in the earth's concaye
crust. The whole is eternal; it is God S
footstool, and is essential to His existence:
it is the ultimate and outermost limit of
expression of the Divine mind. The earth
is the only physical world 1t has no
orbitai motion: it is fixed and relatively
stationary, while the sun, moon, planets
and stars move in orbits in the heavens
above us: they are inseparably connected
with the universe
How do you know all this?" I hastened
to ask the doctor the instant I got the
chance
by various means. Among others, by
the use of a mechanical device, which I
call the rectiineator, 1 have taken meas
urements of the earth, which demonstrate
its surface to be concave instead of con-
vex. For the elemental fact of my knovI-
edge, therefore, 1 have experience of my
own upon which to depend, and from this
starting point the further facts and deduc-
tions | have developed reconcile the two
heretofore conflicting sources of knowl-
edge, and revelation and science, the Bible
and nature, declare the one same truth.
As Stated in the Bible
Proctor ridiculed Moses conception of
astronomy. because ne wrote of a solid
shell inciosing the universe. In the Bible
the word armament is repeatedly used, and
the Hebrew of this word, vakayia, means
hammered-out plates or strata of metal
Appiied TO the universal environ, It means
me shells or strata surrounding and
In the world. which is the view of
In. GRESHAM system, while the conclu-
sions OF modern astronomy that we are
itvin-- on the exterior surface of the earth
with an infinity of an inclosed space ex-
tending in every direction are diametrical-