rules from the Hindoos, laws from the Confucians--price ten dollars
per volume. Would you like to discover your seventeen senses, to
develop them according to the Ga-Llama principle, and to share the
"expansion of the magnetic circles"? Here is the way to do it:

Inhale through nostrils for four seconds, and upon one
exhalation, speak slowly:

Open, O thou world-sustaining Sun, the entrance unto Truth
hidden by the vase of dazzling light.

Again inhale for four seconds, and breathe out the following
sentence upon one exhalation as before:

Soften the radiation of Thy Illuminating Splendor, that I
may behold Thy True Being.

I have a clipping from a Los Angeles newspaper telling of the
prophet's arriving there. He takes the front page with the captivating
headline: "Women Didn't Think Till They Put On Corsets". The interview
tells about his mysteriousness, his aloofness, his bird-like-diet, and
his personal beauty. "Despite his seventy-three years, Ha'nish
evidences no sign of age. His keen blue eyes showed no sign of
wavering. There were no wrinkles on his face, and his walk was that of
a man of forty." The humor of this becomes apparent when we mention
that at Ha'nish's trial, three or four years ago, he was proven to be
thirty-five years old!

Being thus warned as to the accuracy of American journalism, we shall
not be taken in by the repeated statements that the Mazdaznan prophet
is a millionaire. But there is no doubt that he is wealthy; and as all
Americans wish to be wealthy, I will quote his formula of prosperity,
his method of accomplishing what might be called the Individual
Revolution:

When hungry and you do not know where to get your next piece
of bread, do not despair. Thy Father, all-loving, has
provided, you with everything that will meet all cases of
emergency.

Place your teeth tightly together, with tongue pressing
against the lower teeth and lips parted. Breathe in, close
lips immediately, exhaling through the nostrils. Breathe
again; if saliva forms in your mouth, hold your breath so
you can swallow it first before you exhale. You thus take
out of the air the metal-substance contained therein; you
can even taste the iron which you convert into substance
required for making the blood. Should you feel that,
although you have sufficient iron in the blood, there is a
lack of copper a