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When Jeff Guinn was reporting his 2019 book, The Vagabonds, he learned that his primary subjects, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, liked to spend time in Fort Myers, Florida. While there, they enjoyed visiting a compound created by Cyrus Teed, a late nineteenth-century religious firebrand who came to identify himself simply as “Koresh,” the Hebrew pronunciation of the Persian king Cyrus, of whom Teed claimed to be a new iteration. This Koresh, who had a couple hundred followers, insisted that he was the Lamb, the one who would open the Seven Seals of God named in the Bible and achieve, with his followers, a prominent place in God’s new kingdom. This all sounded familiar to Guinn. It sounded like the pitch of another Koresh—David.These are…

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