Koreshan Unity
Koreshan Unity
Communal group founded by Cyrus Reed Teed (1839-1908) under the name " Koresh. " Teed was a major exponent of the cellular cosmogony theory, which postulates that humans actually live on the inside of a hollow earth and the sun is in the center of the globe. Current address unavailable.
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