Nearly three decades after the deadly federal siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, , new evidence has emerged suggesting leader David Koresh's doomsday prophesies were cribbed from an obscure 19th century cult. Koresh, born Vernon Wayne Howell, made religious claims strikingly similar to those of Cyrus Teed, an 'eclectic physician' and alchemist who founded a commune in Estero, Florida in 1894, author Jeff Guinn wrote in his new book , a .Like Howell, Teed also changed his name to Koresh, the Hebrew name for the Old Testament's King Cyrus, and proclaimed himself the Lamb of God and the breaker of the Seven Seals described in the Book of Revelation.
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