The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-01-17

NEkSD ItA, meses | Of Egypt
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/A father Of Rameses
N~ NJ the Great, an d
Nv II founder Of the
~ M nineteenth dynasty,
ME .M$S has come to life
A% again and is living
In a dilapidated old
houseboat on the Thames, near
Staines, England. He comes to Lon
don every week and expounds the
mysteries of Hindoo occultism to a
large audience. At his feet, drinking
in every word of his somewhat unin-
telligible lectures, sit titled women,
and a small sprinkling Of titled men,
representative of that intellectual So
ciety of England which is ever ready
to lend an attentive ear to the new,
the weird, or the mysterious.
Seth l, in his reincarnated state,
is thoroughly modern. He calls him
self plain Frederick Thurston. For
ten years he has lived alone in the
Thames houseboat, delving deep into
the secrets OF the Hindoos. And all
the while he had looked forward to
the time when he can return to
Egypt, not in the guise Of his for
mer Incarceration, but as the founder
of a psychic city on the Alexandrian
coast. "To this city" he said to the
writer, people could come from all
parts of the world for mental and
physical invigoration. People would
live the simple life-simple food
early to bed and early to rise, simple
speech, dancing and singing There
would be daily lessons, lectures in
mystical and occult subjects, and ev-
erything would tend to develop the
psychic qualities In the inhabitants
and the visitors"
But If Thurston cannot found this
city at the moment he is losing no
time in carrying on the work which
1t would do. He believes that the
afternoons are wasted by the English
intellectuals. The mornings are given
over to sleep, the evenings to enter
tainment and pleasure; 1t is only in
the afternoons that kindred souls can
be gathered from the far ends Of the
great city and the higher planes of
intellectualism be developed believes
Thurston. And he has entered upon
that work of development. In a lit
tie room in Regent street, not so
PAGES from Piccadilly Circus, Thurs
ton sits one afternoon a week and an
swers the eager questions Of the men
and women who thirst for the knowl-
edge Of the Hindoo philosophers.
The new Sethi l is a remarkable
looking man. Just above the aver
age height he has an enormous head
crowned with an immense dome of
forehead. Across his temples and
the shining expanse Of his half-bald
head run great protruding veins. But
the strangest thing about this most
extraordinary man is his uncanny
facial resemblance to the Egyptian
ruler of whom he claims to be a re-
incarnation. Compare his profile with
that of the mummy of Sethi | and It
is difficult to put your finger on a
point of difference There 10 the same
sweep Of the full forehead, the same
long nose, the same repressive lips
and, allowing for the sinking OF the |
chin with age, the same formation of
the lower jaw. The resemblance of
the ears and the back Of the head is
even more exact.
The process Of reincarnation, while |
the outward form Of the |
original has played an odd trick in
other respects. 1t has put the soul of
this famous Egyptian ruler in the
body Of a Thames-side recluse, who