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India.
and thousand times over and over , be considered as having separated themselves from the Parsee Tribe . " Our prophecies have often been fulfilled , ancl those Parsees who formerly heeded not our hints , have often had cause to repent . AA ' e throw cut now only a hint , that as Freemasonry has began to attract the special attention of the Parsees , if a stop is not devised to be put to itwe are persuaded that in five or seven years the Parsee religion will
, be wore and more enfeebled , and that of Christ abundantly spread in its stead . " Had auy poor Parsee , even mistakingly committed such an act , our Brother of the Jami- Jammed would have girded his loins with all the twelve weapons ; flashed like lightning , growled like thunder , ancl deluged him with rain ; ( but different has been the case ) , here sons of setts are eating dirt by way of amusement , and our brother ( the
Jami-Jamsed ) being one of the elected buffoons of their table , he has hidden himself under clouds like the moon in the monsoon 1 " From perusal of the above , it will abundantly appear that the Chabook has written untruly in using the words " partook of their meals , " ancl again in repeating that " Parsees and Mahomedans joined in partaking of a meal with their Christian brethren . " Also in the following passage : " they have done honour to a Christian festival ; joined a Christian assembly ; and ate and drank with freedom and without prejudice , with their European brethren , yrom their glasses and on their
plates . Not a word of all this will be found in the " Courier , " of which it professes to be an intelligible " abstract . " It is all fabricated with the object apparently of creating a prejudice against Masonry in tbe minds of the native population , ancl also of attacking the highly respectable families of those Parsees who are classically described by the " Chabook , " as " sons of setts eating dirt by way of amusement . " The knowledge possessed bthe writer in the " Chabook" of the
y , Christian religion , is clearly demonstrated by his attributing to Christian Freemasons the " worship oi St . John , " but we apologise to our readers for the length of observations , which we have been induced to make , solely with a desire to relieve our Parsee and Mahomedan friends from the annoyance of uncontradicted . misstatements . The writer in the " Chabook" exhibits a wonderful degree of ignorance also as to the progress made by Europeans in the art of cookery ;
—ofthe perfection to which his sect may have brought the gastronomic science we have no means of judging , not being admitted to their feasts , but as to the cleanliness and wholesomenessof the good things provided on St . John ' s Day last , we feel some degree of confidence in pronouncing them good and nutritious , and if the Parsee brethren had joined in their demolition , there would have been no danger of " the sons of setts eating dirt by way of amusement "—that being one ofthe pastimes prohibited
, by Freemasonry . This we mention in confidence . [ All works well—the Parsees and Mahomedans in India are being ightened ; the Prince of Prussia , too , mav take a lesson from the " Chabook , " and timely step forward to do justice to his Jewish Brethren , who may safely bide their time . —ED . F . Q . R . l
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India.
and thousand times over and over , be considered as having separated themselves from the Parsee Tribe . " Our prophecies have often been fulfilled , ancl those Parsees who formerly heeded not our hints , have often had cause to repent . AA ' e throw cut now only a hint , that as Freemasonry has began to attract the special attention of the Parsees , if a stop is not devised to be put to itwe are persuaded that in five or seven years the Parsee religion will
, be wore and more enfeebled , and that of Christ abundantly spread in its stead . " Had auy poor Parsee , even mistakingly committed such an act , our Brother of the Jami- Jammed would have girded his loins with all the twelve weapons ; flashed like lightning , growled like thunder , ancl deluged him with rain ; ( but different has been the case ) , here sons of setts are eating dirt by way of amusement , and our brother ( the
Jami-Jamsed ) being one of the elected buffoons of their table , he has hidden himself under clouds like the moon in the monsoon 1 " From perusal of the above , it will abundantly appear that the Chabook has written untruly in using the words " partook of their meals , " ancl again in repeating that " Parsees and Mahomedans joined in partaking of a meal with their Christian brethren . " Also in the following passage : " they have done honour to a Christian festival ; joined a Christian assembly ; and ate and drank with freedom and without prejudice , with their European brethren , yrom their glasses and on their
plates . Not a word of all this will be found in the " Courier , " of which it professes to be an intelligible " abstract . " It is all fabricated with the object apparently of creating a prejudice against Masonry in tbe minds of the native population , ancl also of attacking the highly respectable families of those Parsees who are classically described by the " Chabook , " as " sons of setts eating dirt by way of amusement . " The knowledge possessed bthe writer in the " Chabook" of the
y , Christian religion , is clearly demonstrated by his attributing to Christian Freemasons the " worship oi St . John , " but we apologise to our readers for the length of observations , which we have been induced to make , solely with a desire to relieve our Parsee and Mahomedan friends from the annoyance of uncontradicted . misstatements . The writer in the " Chabook" exhibits a wonderful degree of ignorance also as to the progress made by Europeans in the art of cookery ;
—ofthe perfection to which his sect may have brought the gastronomic science we have no means of judging , not being admitted to their feasts , but as to the cleanliness and wholesomenessof the good things provided on St . John ' s Day last , we feel some degree of confidence in pronouncing them good and nutritious , and if the Parsee brethren had joined in their demolition , there would have been no danger of " the sons of setts eating dirt by way of amusement "—that being one ofthe pastimes prohibited
, by Freemasonry . This we mention in confidence . [ All works well—the Parsees and Mahomedans in India are being ightened ; the Prince of Prussia , too , mav take a lesson from the " Chabook , " and timely step forward to do justice to his Jewish Brethren , who may safely bide their time . —ED . F . Q . R . l