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TO THE EDITOR, Denver Evening Post:
We have just noticed a communication from Mrs. H. F. Wright in the January 3 issue of your paper, under the caption, “On the Trail of Cyrus Teed.” The article sets forth in a very general way some of the facts regarding the Koreshan Cosmogony, for which, to reach as many readers, we have expended many hundreds of dollars. She trails into the article the name of a Rev. Dr. Utter, of whom we never before heard, who it is declared is preparing to vanquish this arch enemy (?) of the human race. Were Dr. Teed the fakir and fraud that the article claims him to be, let him alone and he will vanquish himself; but if his enemies desire publicly to show up the audacity of the so-called fakir in question, Dr. Teed will meet in Denver, in public, at any time, in any church or hall that may be designated, the Rev. Dr. Utter, or any reverend gentleman of prominent and regular standing in the orthodox church, or any scientific man in Denver, in America, or in the world.
The Rev. Dr. Utter, we venture to assert, is no more up in “science” than the professional “scientists” themselves; and all that any of them pretends to claim is that the Copernican system is founded upon an assumption. We have promulgated our system for nearly thirty years, but the matter has been apparently too insignificant for investigation. We have endeavored to awaken enough interest to induce some one to notice us enough to attempt a refutation of what we teach. If a disgruntled ex-member of our community has gotten up steam enough to stir up the Rev. Dr. Utter to throw down the gauntlet, we are only too ready to place our system publicly by the side of fallacy originating in the dark ages, by atheists, and against which the church has battled for years. It will blaze the brighter in contrast with the sharpest enunciations of the Copernican perversity.
We are greatly obliged to Mrs. Wright for inducing so valuable and prominent a paper as the Denver Evening Post to announce publicly to the world so much—in a general way—of the Cellular Cosmogony.—CYRUS R. TEED, Founder of the Koreshan System.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 12, No. 9 · Jan 1898 · PDF p. 5