The Community That Dwelt Within The Earth by John Michell

At about the same time as Lady Blount and the Zetetics were proving through experiments at the Bedford Level canal that the earth was flat, another group of experimenters were using similar methods to show that it was in fact a hollow shell, inhabited on its inner surface. The motto of this group was ‘We live inside.’ Their leader and prophet was Dr Cyrus Teed, known to them as Koresh, a Hebrew version of his first name. He was, to say the least, a most unusual person. Born in 1839 in New York State, he became a practitioner of ‘eclectic medicine’, a system combining orthodox science with a religious outlook and the use of herbs and other natural remedies. From there he progressed to alchemy. Energy and matter, he believed, were two different forms of the same thing. It should therefore be possible to…