tated by
an English lord, judge of the supreme court, assisted by the secretary
of the Grand Lodge, my friend Rustomji, a Parsee and fire-worshiper.
With the religious intolerance in India, where all unite in hating the
Christians, it is only among the Free Masons, who know of no
nationality, race or other barrier, that such things are possible.

[Illustration: THE GODDESS KALI.]

Visited the temple of the goddess Kali in a suburb of Calcutta. Kali
is the goddess of hate and vengence, and this temple is one of the
most celebrated in India. One hundred and fifty Brahmin priests
officiate in the same. The chief priest, Roonish-Chunder-Mokerje, was
a young man with liberal education. He had spent several years in
American mission schools. His office is held by inheritance. He was a
most agreeable companion, well versed in western as well as Sanskrit
literature. Once upon telling him that I had an intimate friend in
Sweden who was a Christian priest, he gave me some pictures of the
goddess Kali and other idols to send him with his compliments. In
return, I had the pleasure a few months later to present him with a
Swedish Bible, with his name in golden letters on the cover, from my
friend, the Swedish minister, which present he cherished very highly.
This Bible is now kept in the temple of Kali.

At my request Mokerje prepared a brief extract of the religious
doctrine of the Hindoos, which reads as follows:

"We believe in heaven and hell as temporary abodes of reward and
punishment. When a man dies his good and evil deeds are weighed on the
scales. First he goes to heaven to receive his reward, then to hell to
suffer in proportion to his sins. When everything is squared up he
again returns to the world in the form of another being, the same
process is repeated again and again, and he can attain perfect bliss
only after he has reached such a stage of development that he can do
neither good nor evil deeds, but must lose himself in the
contemplation of God until he finally ceases to exist as an individual
being, and is reunited with God of whom he really constitutes a part."

[Illustration: ABDUL, MY MOHAMMEDAN SERVANT.]

Was invited to the home of Col. Gordon to see some proofs of
occultation, which is very wide-spread in India, and witnessed
phenomena, which were so strange, that I hesitate to write them down.
I saw heavy objects moving in the air th