The morning times., 1897-01-03

DR.. Cyrus r. Teed, founder of the New
Jerusalem on earth, was in the city within
the past few days. He stopped off here
While on his way to Chicago. on several
occasions lie was present at social gather
ings, and, on invitation, spoke at one OF
them.
Tie Koreshanlter, the new creed OF which
DR.. Teed is the founder, proposes to build a
New Jerusalem in the South, capable OF
containing o ,000, 900 people, has aroused
much interest and directed attention anew
to this sect. This New Jerusalem, which
has already had its Inception-a colony of
some 300 Koreshanites having settled there
lis OH Estero Bay and the Gulf OF Mexico,
embracing the mainland andislands OF that
locality. The situation is on the natural
line of commerce from North to South
America.
Tie ground plan for the New Jerusalem
is square containing thirtysiX square
miles. The site for the construction OF the
temple is 500 feet in diameter, surround
ed by circular sea, 300 feet wide, the
water to be supplied from Estero Bay and
Estero River.
DR.. Teed (Koresh) still has the headqulr-
ters OF his sect in Chicago, where about
seventyfiye members now live. The col
ony has been depleted because OF the de
partures for the New Jerusalem, and Dr..
Teed says it will not be long before he and
the remaining members will shake the dust
OF Chicago from their shoes, and go to the
new city.
Ten Years Old.
DR.. Teed entered upon the active prop
aganda Of hissystem here justten years ago,
although he was illuminated" as it is
termed, twenty-six years ago at Utica, n. Y.
"Koreshanity,' said the founder, lis a
system embracing every department OF
science, and includes every form and quail
ity OF creation and life. The theological
doctrines OF Koresh are founded upon sys-
tenn OF cosmogony, which / make the basis
of theological conviction, as well as social
organization, and are so radically in con-
trast with the orthodoxy OF the day as to
bring upon me the anathema OF modern
Christianity. / have often been held up
To public ridicule by the press, and charges
of the most serious nature have been made
against me, but l do not care for thai.
Il am establishing an industro-sCcial Sys-
TEN of an organic character, the form and
function OF the ph ysical universe comprising
pattern INSTRUMENTATION development
and perpetuity. This can only be compre-
hended by something of a knowledge Of the
Koreshan astronomical system, which in
Koreshanity is designated as the Cellular
CoSmosony, or the concave theory of the
earth. l teach that we do not live on the
earth asa convex surface, ,butthatthewCrld
is concave sphere, all material life exist
ing upon its inner surface. The KOreshan
system describes the earth as curyating con
cavely about eightinches To the mile, which
would constitute shell of eight thousand
miles In diameter and a circumference OF
twenty five thousand miles. Reasoning by
the law of analogy is applied as one of the
methods OF proof Of this entirely new and
unique theory.
''Koreshanity maintains that all life fnthe
process of development progresses in the
cell and that the principle of universal pro-
duction is no exception to the great law of
growth; therefore it necessarily follows that
the evolution of the perfect race must in
obedience to the principles OF development,
proceed in this great CELL