The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-20

| in the Temple Ell kharman for more thai
thirty years, and was ordained a priest
AT length, being considered equipped 70
the work of a teacher. it was decided tina
this country should be his field.
Although. according to his statement
DIR. Hanish was sixty last month, he doe.
not seem either in looks or general ap
pearance, to be more than thirty. Their,
is not a thread of gray in his abundant
glossy brown hair, and his movement:
are quick, graceful and unhesitating.
His expression is peculiar combination
since it is at once grave and smiling, re
minding one, in this respect, of the por-
| traits of Leo XIII. HIS eyes, so deeply
blue that at times they seem black. be-
meath overhanging brows, are as limpiG
! as child's. but always serious, earnest
and steadily alert.
| DR.. Hanish recently purchased a house
| in Chicago at a cost of $50, coo. as a head
quarters for the Mazdaznans in this coun-
| try. and a home for himself. Although
he lives here, no odor of cooking is about
the place, for the good reason that there
| is none done there, that is, none 10 speak
| Of
Instead, one is greeted. as he is ushered
| into the broad entrance, with the faint
! odor of incense This proceeds from a
! quaint incense burner resting on a little
ebony table in the audience hall.
The large drawing room is beautifully
! furnished, the reading, billiard and card
rooms and Offices are handsomely APP
| pointed, for the Mazdaznans believe in all
the enjoyments of life save those of Che
| table and idleness. These, they say, are
not enjoyments, in the true sense, and in
vite the decay which shortens life and
| makes it a misery while il lasts.
The kitchen. or perhaps it might be
called the eating office, in the house is
unique. 1t is little white tiled apart
ment beyond the drawing room, fitted up
with closed eases about the wall. small
gas range and a little mill for grinding
grains.
Shelled nuts of different sorts, grains,
fruit and bottled milk are the supplies of
these people as to eating. Each member
of the house-it includes one woman, the
wife of Adolph Dittman, Dr. Hanishs
secretary the doctor himself being a cell
bate-goes to this little culianry office
when hunger prompts. gets what he
wants, and by the same token, cleans up
the place when he has finished.
IN addition TO emphasizing the points
that life is breath and breath is life. and
therefore that correct breathing is all i'm
portant, and that one should eat only
when hungry and never more than three
kinds of food at one time, DR.. Hanish
holds that one should keep constantly
busy doing something useful without ref
erence to reward, holding that work well
done is a means of happiness, and that
change of work is a means of rest, and
he follows his own precepts religiously.
He does not find it necessary to sleep
more than five hours out of twenty-four;
and often does not sleep more than three
hours He delivers two and sometimes
three lectures daily: conducts classes; sets
type for his magazine, in addition to pre-
pairing most of his copy, and never PUSHES
and seems always unhurried andrat ease
1t is from his publications that DR.
Hanish derives most of his income. In
addition TO several volumes of lectures
and teachings, published in parts, he is
sues each month a little magazine which
expounds the Mazdaznan doctrine and
method of living. His constant text is
that each person may be happy and COM
Portable and find heaven within himself
here and now il he will; that having put
oneself in harmony with the facts of ma
ture, all else will be added and that this
may and should be done without effort
save of the will He-says:
I'VE believe in God in the person rather
hav ~, ,la cd nd y-fa helfe
that. by right living. that is. correct liv-
ing, and above all. by conscious, correct
breathing. the body becomes in fact. the
temple of God.
Most people do not grow into life as
all can and should, but as soon as the
impetus which incarnatos life, and con-
tinues potent only through the brief years
OF early youth, is past, begin to decay.
This is wrong.
Life up to the point of the completing
Of the physical is a free gift. part OF
the great impulse Of nature. From that I
point on man is the 'almoner of his own /.
destiny, a free agent with everything 4
within and about him with which to work .
out a satisfying and beautiful. nay. a
glorious destiny
and seventy-five years, and there is moth
ing impossible nor even difficult about
doing so: no mysticism, no occultism, not +
even complexity.
First OF all il is essential 20 realize
that breath is. for fact. life
The breath the mother imparts is the I'M
conscious or mother breath, and its dura-
ion is limited :. nen this limit is reached
he body must die unless the INDIVIDUAL
breath is established
When asked as 10 the origin OF the phi
osophy he teaches, DR. Hanish explains
hat the temple FL Kharnan was estab-
ished more than four thousand years ago.
md that II has been the source from
which the great teachers Of the world,
8uddha. Confucius. Zoroaster ad others,
lavc drawn their wisdom lie declares
Ilso that Christ studied the art Of heal
ne in this temple for thirty months before
lie began his career as teacher.
The two cardinal principles OF the Eaz-
aznan, system are. first concentration
I is held that whatever one IS doing. II
is only walking across the room. should
eceive undivided attention.
Next IS the establishing Of the individ
al or conscious breath When this IS
ore one becomes self known and self
efficient. and begins 70 enjoy the free
ON and liberty which can only Re real
led when one is completely independent.
.lso one will then be satisfied with
mail quantity Of simple food
As 70 this last. DR.. Hanish assumes that 2
hen a human being has learned u {
reathe correctly and II i've in all ways I
ccordinC 70 the Maz5azran system. Re Z
aims much nourishment from he air and Z
ecomes less dependent on more obvious :