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KORESHAN ECCLESIA, THE, or CHURCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 913 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KORESHAN

ECCLESIA, THE, or CHURCH  ARCHTRIUb&PHANT, a communistic
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body, founded by Cyrus R . Teed, a medical practitioner, who was born at
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Utica, New York, in 1839 . Teed was regarded by his adherents as " the new Messiah now in the
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World," and many other extravagant views both in science and
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economics are held by them . Two communities were founded: in Chicago (1886) and at Estero, in Lee county,
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Florida (1894), where in 1903 the Chicago community removed . Their name is derived from Koresh, the
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Hebrew form of Cyrus, and they have a journal, The Flaming Sword .

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