The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-19
Sun Worship in England.

sect called the ''Sons of Men" said m
De OF Iibetan origin. has been Worship
circle of Stonehenge England genera1Iv
/ beieved to be a temple of the sun This
| aacI Is thought by some Psychologists to
| corroborate the solar-temple hypothesis of
| Sir Norman Lockyer, the day of the
| summer solstice having been chosen hv
| the new sect to pay their homage to the
great luminary. The services held bV the the
Sons of Men at Stonehenge are thus de-
Scribed by V. Forbin in La Nature paris.
| June 2): - 40
/ IF we are exactly Informed. If was for
tne 1rst time in 1906 June %, that a
group or five or six Asiatics were sur
prlseo py soldiers engaged in maneuvers
meath the triliths, they recited mysterious
htanies in their own language.
The incident found no mention in the
press But the pilgrims returned in larger
numbers years after year, always on lime
Il or e. This persistence finally attracted
public attention and that of the papers
whose reporters ascertained the FOLLOWING
facts: -e
These pilgrims, Hindus. Arabs, and
Perslans belonged to a religion of rela-
lively recent origin, whose name NAV he
translated The Universal League of the
Sons of Men, Founded. apparently, in
Tibet, it has made rapid progress among
the upper classes in Asia notably In In
dia, Arabia, and Persia; and it already
has numerous adherents in Europe. In
England it is professed- by two or three
thousand persons, who meet to pray in
several houses, transformed into temples;
London.
chester and one in Liverpool.
I'm 1912 the Daily Mirror sent one of
its best staff photographers to take pic
lures of the strange ceremonies at Stone
henge.
LAS generally understood the Sons of
Men have selected the summer solstice for
their sun worship. The pilgrims were led
by priests called the Sacred Five who
were clad in ample robes of purple, COW
cred in part with white turbans on their
heads Among them, two were clearly
Englishmen.
1.-The assemblage met at the stones be-
fore dawn. While awaiting the sunrise
men and women remained PROSTATE be-
fore the great altar stone, reciting pray
ers, each in his own tongue. The transla-
ton Of one of them is as follows:
&c I believe that nature is the reflected
majesty of the powers, and above all of
the omnipotent power behind the great
whole.
= Believing in the omnipotent power I
believe in the great conception Of the
infinite called Allah, universal majesty
and truth, and infinite love, who dweIIs
all things toward good, and also in the
Intentional evolution of all things toward
the better, and toward the best
when the first rays of the sun finally
gilded the front of the monumental tril-
fths, the chief of the sacred five asked in
a loud voice:
met at this time in this sacred Enclosure?
And the faithful answered soIemnly:
ITO proclaim our recognition of the
power of Allah, universal majesty and
truth and infinite love. according to the
commandments of the sacred five the
great souls, angelic messengers Of Allah |
to the Sons of Men,
1.-The ceremony was kept up until sun
set, during which time neither the priests |
nor the faithful seemed to be at all dis /
concerted by the smiles of the curious |
strange festival of the SUM- Literary
Digest.