News about Victor Houteff

Born Vernon Wayne Howell (left), a 'eclectic physician' and alchemist who established a commune in Estero, Florida in 1894, David Koresh (left) made religious claims remarkably similar to those of Cyrus Teed (right), an eclectic physician and alchemist who established a commune. Teed converted his name to Koresh, the Hebrew name for the Old Testament's Babylonian King Cyrus, and declared himself the Lamb of God and the breaker of the Seven Seals described in the Book of Revelation. Teed dubbed his religious and scientific theories 'Koreshanity,' and released a version of the 'Hollow Earth' cosmology, incorrectly claiming that humans live on the inside of a concave sphere.