Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
MAZDAZNANS EAT
F 10 WERS AND
SING To THE SUN
All This in Classic Boston, Where
the Cult Has a Membership
Small but Exclusive.

BOSTON. July 19.-It is ancient
history that Nebuchadnezzer went out
and ate grass like an OK. out in the
Back Bay and up in Lowell there can
be found small yet select circles Of
folk who eat grass and say they en-
joy it.
Not only this, but they worship the
sun, pray to the sun, sing to the sun.
take sun baths, dew baths, eat rose
petals and pansies, drive out disease
by fasting spells Cor say they do sol,
fast for days and then fatten up on a
diet of water to drink and violets to
eat, kiss and rekiss, and try to be az
happy and contented as can be.
These people are the Mazdaznans or
| Sun Worshipers. Into their inner
| most shrines have penetrated none
but ardent devotees. so that none of
their rites have been made public As
| revealed for the first time at the big
Gahanbar. or national peace congress
of the Mazdaznans. these rites are
weird enough-strange to the outside
world, but taken as a matter of
| course by the Mazdaznans
And the strange part of the rites
| and worship is that the devout wor-
shippers believe their practice will
| lengthen their years into three or four
centuries.
Secret Rites of Cult.
Another thing about the sun folk is
that they don't worry. So in the hot
weather they manage to keep cool
fgurativelv and physically. They
usually look happy and contented
when met on the street
None outside the cult itself knew
up to the holding CT the recent Ga
hanbar or Congress-of the secret
rites of the Mazdaznans. These are
practiced In the inner circles, so
called
For years the famous Green Book"
of the Mazdaznans was a mystery
sealed to the eyes of ordinary NOR
tails. The book was guarded sacredly
by the Sun Worshipers. In it are
printed the preCepts of the cult.
Here are some of them:
You can get cured of anything II
you have faith enough long enough,
Sickness, sin and poverty will be
eradicated by MaZdaznanism.
The fly you swat may be the in
carnated soul of a great-great- great
grandmother.
Be careful, then. how you swat the
flies.
obstinacy Cause for Pain.
Pain is nothing but the result of
obstinacy in you. If you are suffering
from a toothache, it is because you
are declining to yield to the peace
full operations of intelligence"
Never go under the surgeons knife
or take herbal medicine"
Deny the bonds of ancestral rela-
ton through sickness, sin or sorrow"
And practice these things: Deep or
conscious" breathing and vegetarian
ism.
If you can do these things, you may
become Mazdaznan, so the Green
Book says.
The High Priestess is Mrs. Marie
Elizabeth Roth Hilton, wife of DR..
George Hilton, of Lowell.
In the inner worship Hanish, the
leader, is His Humbleness. Mrs. Hill
ton is Spenta Marie-the equivalent
Of holy mother"
Their chief New England shrine is
the Mazdaznan Temple, in Lowell.
This was formerly a barn belonging
to DR. Hilton. but later converted into
a house of worship"
The central figure in the worship is
Mrs. Hilton. the High Priestess. She
| is the mother of two pretty daughters,
| one Of whom, the elder, Miss Ruthken
| Mariana Hilton. is being educated to
| follow in her mothers steps as High
| Priestess. Some day pretty Miss
| Ruthken-her name before the court
| changed it was Ruth Mildred Bru-
| baker, daughter of Mrs. Hilton by her
| first marriage-will be the leader Of
| the MaZdaznans. The other daughter
| is Miss Constance Cleopatra Hilton.
The majority of the followers of the
| Little Master" Ottoman Ear Adusht
| Hanish. are the persons of middle life
and evidently of generous means.
| While a few of the cult are young
women of surprising beauty, yet the
| advanced philosophic principles of
| Mazdazuan are so complex and alb
| stract that only those Of mature mind
are Intellectually and spiritually ca
pable of comprehending them. There
| fore, there is d dearth of young people
| in the cult.