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Document: Certificate of Ordination of Cyrus Reed Teed in the Mount Lebanon, New York, Shaker community, 1892
Get PDFFrom the Koreshan Unity collection N2009- 3, Papers, ca 1887-1990; 232.20, Member Files: Teed, Cyrus: Shakers, State Library and Archives of Florida.
Editorial note: We present here images of this document, recently uncovered by Adam Morris. The original scroll is three feet long. See Christian Goodwillie, “Heaven in a Hollow Earth: The Shaker Koreshan Connection,” American Communal Societies Quarterly 3, no. 2, (April 2009), for a full account of the circumstances surrounding Teed’s attempted merger with the Shakers
Perils, Gold and Yellow: Cyrus Teed’s The Great Red Dragon
Get PDFFor much of 1908, Cyrus R. Teed, known to his followers as Koresh, lay dying on a private island in Estero Bay. The founder of the Koreshan Unity was in severe nerve pain, his condition allegedly the result of a blow to the head he sustained during a tussle in the street in Fort Myers, Florida, in October 1906. Although his anguish may have had as much to do with the electricity treatments he periodically took as a cure, the blame was squarely placed on Teed’s political enemies and made to fit the narrative that he, like Jesus, was a persecuted messiah.
Teed doubtless hoped to rest and convalescence during his retirement on the island, but he was by no means idle. Rather, he began work on what would be the final book-length tract he authored in his lifetime. Unique among his output, this text was not a scientific treatise, in the manner of The Cellular Cosmogony (1898); nor was it a theological, pseudo-theological, or politico-spiritual text in the style of The Immortal Manhood (1902). Rather, it was a futurist war novel titled The Great Red Dragon, or, The Flaming Devil of the Orient. Teed signed it with the name “Lord Chester.” It was published under this pseudonym in 1909 by the Koreshans’ Guiding Star Publishing House, not long after Teed expired
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Get PDFRear cover illustration: Koreshan Unity Sculpture. Koreshan Unity collection N2009- 3, Papers, ca 1887-1990; Box 6, folder 2, KOR2259A, State Library and Archives of Florida
Shrill Echoes from the Hollow Earth: Transgressive Intellectualism and Inner Earth Utopia
Get PDFAlternative cosmographies like the hollow Earth are a means for imagining solutions to problems associated with cultural change. Not only are underground civilizations a theme in many literary utopias, hollow-Earth ideas have figured into the structuring ideologies of many intentional communities
Document: Diary of Virginia H. Andrews of a visit to Mount Lebanon, New York, Shaker community, 1892
Get PDFFrom the Koreshan Unity collection N2009- 3, Papers, ca 1887-1990; Box 236, folder 6, State Library and Archives of Florida.
Editorial note: We present here a transcription of a diary attributed to Virginia H. Andrews, recently uncovered by Adam Morris. Andrews is known to have visited the Mount Lebanon Shaker community in company with Annie Ordway (aka Victoria Gratia) during this time. See Christian Goodwillie, “Heaven in a Hollow Earth: The Shaker Koreshan Connection,” American Communal Societies Quarterly 3, no. 2, (April 2009), for a full account of this trip, as well as images of Ordway and Andrews’s signatures in the North Family’s guest register
