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... | Readers of the ''Spiritualist ''will remember the “Hindoo Brothers” of theosophical fame, concerning whose existence and claims no little controversy has arisen. The editor declines to accept their existence as a fact, and in an article upon “The Deification of the Sons of Moonshine,” thus proceeds to banter one Sohrabji J. Padshah, who has composed a hymn in honour of the “Brothers.” The article commences:— | ||
“One would have thought that as much attention as the subject is worth has already been devoted to those red herrings trailed by Theosophists across the path of Modem Spiritualists, the Himalayan Brothers. The gigantic assurance given by Theosophists to the public is, that these Brothers form a secret society living in the Himalayas, and that they, with their colleague, a good woman living in Bombay, are able to control and produce nearly all the phenomena known to Spiritualists. No evidence of weight to that effect is before the world, and the absurdity of the position is enhanced by the circumstance that a hymn in honour of the Himalayan Brothers, recently written by a Theosophist, is already published, and in circulation among Theosophical believers in assertions given through physical mediums. The whole subject, therefore, is growing too temptingly amusing to be easily let alone.” | |||
And the editor in some verses, which he states “were ''not'' published in the ''Theosophist,''” where'' ''the hymn in question appears, thus attempts to be satirical:— | |||
{{Style P-Poem|poem= “Hail! Awful Brothers! Hear my howl, my yell! | |||
List to my mournful dying-swan-like cry; | |||
Seize me by nape of neck, by stern of breek, | |||
Then quickly to your far-off mountains fly. | |||
List not to Padshah—a tin whistle he; | |||
I’ll sound your praises like a mighty gong, | |||
The Himalayan poet of the skies I’ll be, | |||
And burst the ears of sceptics with my song.”}} | |||
The editor disclaims the idea that he ever considered the publication of a journal in the North as being in active hostility to himself, and he characteristically comments upon the matter as follows: — “Those who have tried for years to harm us, are two or three London men, by inventing injurious untruths which they cannot substantiate, and are destitute of the moral courage to honourably withdraw, or to withdraw where they are circulated.” London readers, who know the facts, will rub their eyes with astonishment at such a statement, to say nothing of the grammatical construction of the language in which it is couched. | |||
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