age", proclaimed by
Koresh on January 15th, 1891.

#Mazdaznan#

And here is another and even more startling revelation from Chicago,
given to a seer by the name of Dr. Otoman Prince of Adusht Ha'nish,
prophet of the Sun God, Prince of Peace, Manthra Magi of Temple El
Katman, Kalantar of Zoroastrian Breathing and Envoy of Mazdaznan
living, Viceroy-Elect and International Head of Master-Thot. If you
had happened to live near the town of Mendota, Illinois, and had known
the German grocer-boy named Otto Hanisch, you might at first have
trouble in recognizing him through this transmogrification. I have
traced his career in the files of the Chicago newspapers, and find him
herding sheep, setting type, preaching prestidigitation, mesmerism,
and fake spiritualism, joining the Mormon Church, then the "Christian
Catholic Church in Zion", and then the cult of Brighouse, who claimed
to be Christ returned.

Finally he sets himself up in Chicago as a Persian Magus, teaching
Yogi breathing exercises and occult sex-lore to the elegant society
ladies of the pork-packing metropolis. The Sun God, worshipped for two
score centuries in India, Egypt, Greece and Rome, has a new shrine on
Lake Park Avenue, and the prophet gives tea-parties at which his
disciples are fed on lilac-blossoms--"the white and pinkish for males,
the blue-tinted for females". He wears a long flowing robe of pale
grey cashmere, faced with white, and flexible white kid shoes, and he
sells his lady adorers a book called "Inner Studies", price five
dollars per volume, with information on such subjects as:

The Immaculate Conception and its Repetition; The Secrets of
Lovers Unveiled; Our Ideals and Soul Mates; Magnetic
Attraction and Electric Mating.

A Grand Jury intervenes, and the Prophet goes to jail for six months;
but that does not harm his cult, which now has a temple in Chicago,
presided over by a lady called Kalantress and Evangelist; also a
"Northern Stronghold" in Montreal, an "Embassy" in London, an
"International Aryana" in Switzerland, and "Centers" all over America.
At the moment of going to press, the prophet himself is in flight,
pursued by a warrant charging him with improper conduct with a number
of young boys in a Los Angeles hotel.

I have dipped into Ha'nish's revelations, which are a farrago of every
kind of ancient mysticism--paper and binding from the Bible,
illustrations from the Egyptian, names from the Zoroastrian, health