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

BOSTON. July 1s.-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 so),
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 as
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
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usually look happy and contented
when met on the street.
None outside the cult itself knew
up to the holding Of. 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 70 the eyes Of ordinary NOR
tails The book was guarded sacredly
by the Sun Worshipers. In il are
printed the preCepts Of the cult.
Here are some of them:
You can get cured of anything IL
| 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
II you can Dc these things. you may
/ become a 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
! 10 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 1t was Ruth Mildred Bru-
baker. daughter of Mrs. Hilton by her
first marriage 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. vet the
/ advanced philosophic principles of
! MaZdaZnan are so complex and alb
straCt that only those Of mature mind
are Intellectually and spiritually ca
pabie Of cOmprehending them. There
fore, there is a dearth of young people
/ in the cult.