| The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet Contributor(s): King, Wendy Tremont (Read by), Millner, Lyn (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798200329687 Publisher: Tantor Audio
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: MP3 CD - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Cults - Biography & Autobiography | Religious |
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| Publisher Description: Cyrus Teed was a charismatic and controversial guru who at the age of thirty had been illuminated by an angel in his electro-alchemical laboratory. At the turn of the twentieth century, surrounded by the marvels of the Second Industrial Revolution, he proclaimed himself a prophet and led 200 people out of Chicago and into a new age. Or so he promised. The Koreshans settled in a mosquito-infested scrubland and set to building a communal utopia inside what they believed was a hollow earth--with humans living on the inside crust and the entire universe contained within. According to Teed's socialist and millennialist teachings, if his people practiced celibacy and focused their love on him, he would return after death and they would all become immortal. Was Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? Why did his promises and his theory of cellular cosmogony persuade so many? In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed's life and those of his followers into a riveting story of angels, conmen, angry husbands, yellow journalism, and ultimately, hope. |
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