The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-26
HORRIBLE CULT
AGAIN ACTIVE
BOYS AND GIRLS TAUGHT MAR
RlhGE SHOULD BE ABOLISH
ED FOREVER.
FREAKS EXPOSE BODIES
Love Considered Atfiiction Needing
Medical Attcntion--Sun Worship
peru Appear Again in New
York City.

New York, May 25.-President An
thony Comstock OF the Anti Vice SO.
cicty was notified yesterday that the
notorius "Mazdazan philosophers or
sun worshlppers whose leader, the
."Rey. Dr." Ottoman ZarAdns Hanish,
was driven out of town by the police
three years ago, have resumed opera
tons.
An investigation of the daring sec
ret rites Of the cult was asked for, and
Mr.. Comstock was furnished with =
copy OF the Mazdazan ritual inner
studies" which Hanish has been circue
ating through the mails, 1t is said
upon receipt Of S. a 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 its president
decides to move against the fanatics,
He declared today after an examina-
ton of the document that 1t should
not he permitted to have general cir
culation and should be bamed from
| the mails.
Otto Schmidt, Secretary.
II has been discovered within the
! last few days that the sun Worship
pers, numerically and financially are
stronger than they were when the
entrance of police captain aud de
tective into one of their soances two
years ago caused fIanish twhose real
name is said to be Hcnnessy) To
change his residence from New Yort
to Chicago.
| The present headquarters OF the
cult is in Genealogical Hall No. ~
| West Fifty eighth street While Ottc
man Ear Adisll llanish Is still thl
leader, he is dividing his time between
this city and the Western metropolis
| lie has acquired an enthusiastic as
sistant in the person of High Prizes
Otto Schmidt, who in daytime is 1
| bookkceper.
| Three hundred members are nov
| following the daring, outlandisb prac
tlces of the Ma2dazanites, A score o
wellknown and wealthy women hay'
been converted since the partia
breaking up of the order In 1905, Boy
and girls Is and 10 years old have
been accepted as members, Mr., Com
stock has learned, and have been inl
tiated into the secret rites of the OF
gauization.
Should Abolish Marriage.
Eating of volets is the least objec
tionable of their practices Exposur
of their bodies to the sun In the mos
daring fashion Is another rite. Anon
their beliefs are these:
Marriage should be discouraged,
not abolished. Modern convention
p governing the relations of the sexe
should be cast aside. Doctors shoul
treat young persons--"as for di
[ ease"-who are afflicted with the POI
1 ular aiIment known as love.
In the frankest manner Mir Con
stock was told the boys and girls wer
J. sun worshppers to hear aud join I
discussion of those subjects. Thei
presence and participation is just
fled by the maxim:
III TO the pure mind all is pure.
The Fees Demanded.
7. Here is a list of the payments Ma
dazuanitcs must make before tn
goodness of Hanish's heart start
, them toward universal knowledge:
Contribution, 81 monthly magszin
81; preliminary books. s.; inned stu
les, So lessons, st2; medical eQui
o. mont. 81 total, $50,
Then there are Mazdazua fruit Cho
+ pers SI75D, nut and grain mills (si
and other odds and ends having to 4
+ with the vegetarian end of the cult.