Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09
Do not throw female infants here.
A Circle of Wooden Dignitaries.

It is sound Buddhist doctrine that q
woman canno' go to heaven. She can die
and be reborn again as man and then can
be saved. The Chinese mother has to obey
her eldest son. her husband and her hus-
bands parents. ia Chinese child strikes
its father it is his duty to kill that child on
the spot, though child can strike its
mother with impunity. If a boy should
kill his parent Chinese law would demand
his death by slow torment. Women are
being lifted up in Japan; not by Shintoism
or Buddhism. but by Christianity. In
China the state of woman is as low as it can
be. and there are no signs OF change. a
Chinese wife is not an equal. She is SER
want If rich Chinanan dues yon, he
does not introduce you to his wife. 1t
would be degrading you. But he will ep-
tertain you at a tea house and bring public
women to meet you.
When asked Mr. Leonard, our popular
and well-informed Consul General, what be
knew about Chinese social life, he said:
"There is nothing to know. No foreigner
was ever introduced into Chinese home.
The wife may be good wife and a fond
mother, but she is a social nonentity. She is
simply the mother OF children. She never
walks or rides in public with her husband
unless in Englishized cities like Hong Kong
or.Shanghai."
Occult Knowledge of the Aryans.
In China 1 met the Rev. Dr. j. Edkins,
the famous photographer and linguist, who
has translated the Bible into Chinese The
Doctor is so famed as translator OF Egyptian
hieroglyphics and early Brahman and Aryan
literature that Heber Bishop engaged him to
give the carly history of Jade, of which MI.
Bishop has half million dollar collection.
After spending several days with this
learned man, asked him to tell me in SIM
pie language about the wonderful occult
knowledge of the Arvans that Colonel o.
colt, Madame Biavatskl, Madame Besant
and the other Theosophists have been talk
ing about. Alter thinking the matter over
deliberately the venerable scholar took his
pen and slowly wrote:
1.-The Hebrews got their 'cabbala' or
magical medieval knowledge from Babylon,
and the Brahmins aud Buddhists got their
lore from the same source. Babylon and
India were near together, and the Magi of
Persia mingled with the Brahmins of
India. The Babylonians had knowledge Of
mathematics. They also had thorough
knowledge Of magic, mesmerism, hypnotism
and astronomy centuries before Christ.
The Brahnlins of India took tine knowledge
from Babylon and nodded 1t into the So
called occult science.
"What Is this occult knowledge?"
Head of the Occult Science.
1T consists of magical powers hypnotism
and the repeating Of meaningless words like
abracadabra They also used other mean
ingless words as charms and practiced a
species OF witchcrait. It was necessary to
have this magic witchcraft and jusglery put
into refined form, SO a mysterious ritual
was invented by the priests. The Aryans
were the Hindoo BrahMina. They formulated
the idea that nothing in nature il per-
manent, and that annihiiation is the end of
all thinaa They Taught that the greatest
thing 10 the mind, and that Buddha reached