The Detroit times., 1908-05-26

NEW YORK. May 26.-President
Anthony Comstock, Of the Anti-vice
Society. has been notified that the
notorious "MaZdaznan Philosophers. .
or Sun Worshipers. whose leader,
REV. Dr." Ottoman Zar-Adusht-Han-
ish (whose real name is said to be
Hennessy), was driven out of town by
the police three years ago, have re-
sumed operations In New York
An investigation OF the daring secret
rites OF the cult was asked for, and
Mr.. Comstock was furnished with q
copy OF the Mathematics ritual
Inner Studies"-which Hanish has
been circulating through the mails, it
Is said, on receipt OF IS copy.
The book, which for the first time
has fallen into the hands OF an out
slider, will form the basis OF the Anti
Vice Society's action II It's president
decides TO move against the fanatics.
He declared. after a superficial exam
ination OF the document, that 1t should
not be permitted to have general cir
culation and should be barred from
the mails
800 Fanatical Members.
Three hundred members are now
following the daring, outlandish prac.
tices of the Mathematics. A score
of well-known and wealthy women
have. it is said, been converted siHce
the partial breaking-up Of the order
in 1906. Boys and girls, eighteeN and
nineteen years old, have been accepted
as members and initiated into the Sc
cret rites of the organization.
Eating OF violets Is the least unus-
ual. and perhaps the least objection
able of the practices. Exposure Of
their bodies to the sun, In the most
daring fashion, is another.
Among their beliefs are these:
Marriage should be discouraged, II
not abolished.
Modern conventions governing the
relations of the sexes should be cast
aside.
Young persons afflicted with the
material ailment known as love"
should be treated by a doctor, "as
though for disease"
In the frankest manner, Mr.. Com.
stock was told, the boys and girls are
permitted In the Inner circles" Of the
n-Worshipers to hear and join dis
cussions Of those subjects. Their
presence and participation Is justified
by the maxim:
ITO the pure all things are pure"
Mr.. Comstock has also been told
that the Mathematics have grown
more audacious than ever; and that
not only In this city, but In Chicago,
Denver, Los Angeles. Philadelphia. and
dozen other cities their bands are
gaining in converts and In wealth.
One of Hanish's chief assistants Is
Mrs. Brownie Rathbone Weaverson,
the healer" who three years ago
caused the exposure Of the cult by
applying to a woman named Mrs. Fan
ME Rahill a poultice composed Of in
gradients, which made necessary the
amputation of the victims leg. The
poultice gave Mrs. Rahill gangrene.
Mrs. Weaverson was arrested for prac-
ticing medicine without license. The
Weaverson woman and her husband
now live in fine apartments In Nicho-
las-ave
Mrs. Weaverson said of Hanish:
Convention has held the world
back and 1t is our purpose to wipe II
away. DR.. Hanish Is a God. He has
universal knowledge and Is immense
ly wealthy. He is doing this work out
OF the goodness OF his heart. not for
profit. He has $4,000 temple In
Chicago, and a temple In Teheran.
Persia. He has the Hindoo lore or
thousands OF years. A former libra
rian of the vatican Of Rome Is one OF
his aides That shows his strength.