Uganda was proposed as a home for the Jews in 1903.
From 1900 to 1920, a sleeping sickness epidemic in the southern part of Uganda, along the north shores of Lake Victoria, killed more than 250,000 people.
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From 1900 to 1920, a sleeping sickness epidemic in the southern part of Uganda, along the north shores of Lake Victoria, killed more than 250,000 people.
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"Ernest Bevin, Labour's postwar foreign secretary, once told the Zionist leader, David Ben-Gurion, that the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the worst mistake in western foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century."..
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"The story of the Balfour Declaration has been told many times. Geoffrey Lewis has chosen to focus only on the part played by the two principal architects of the declaration: Arthur Balfour and Chaim Weizmann, ..."
"Weizmann, a lecturer in chemistry at Manchester University, was a consummate diplomat and an eloquent advocate who converted many in the British establishment to the Zionist cause."..
"The first meeting between Balfour and Weizmann took place in 1906, three years after the Zionist leadership had turned down the offer of a Jewish homeland in Uganda."
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Jewish Action article:
"Starting in 1895, the British East Africa Protectorate (called Kenya since the 1920s) was administered by the British Foreign Office, but development of the region was stagnant due to a lack of European settlers."..
"Starting in 1895, the British East Africa Protectorate (called Kenya since the 1920s) was administered by the British Foreign Office, but development of the region was stagnant due to a lack of European settlers."..
"In December 1902, Joseph Chamberlain, then the British colonial secretary, visited the protectorate. He conceived of the notion of offering it to the Jews and proposed his idea to Theodor Herzl in April, and then again in May, 1903."..
"On Sunday, August 23, 1903, Herzl stunned the nearly 600 delegates of the Sixth Zionist Congress with his proposal to settle Jews in East Africa. The proposal led to heated, often acrimonious, debate among both the Zionists and the East African settlers"..
Confusion surrounding this issue persists, and the identity of the region offered to the Zionists by Chamberlain remains mired in misinformation. Uganda and the British East Africa Protectorate were both in East Africa and under the control of the British Foreign Office, but
they were distinct and independent of each other.
Despite the fact that the latter is wholly in today’s Kenya, most textbooks of Zionist history speak of the “Uganda Plan.”..
Despite the fact that the latter is wholly in today’s Kenya, most textbooks of Zionist history speak of the “Uganda Plan.”..
"The confusion may have arisen because the offer was linked to the Uganda railway, the principle means of travel from the coast inland. Although the railroad was located in Kenya between the sea and Lake Victoria, it terminated in what was then known as the Uganda Protectorate"
"In the 1890s, 32,000 labourers from British India were recruited to East Africa under indentured labour contracts to construct the Uganda Railway."
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"The first published description of sleeping sickness cases in the 1900–1920 epidemic was made by A.R. and J.H. Cook in their Church Missionary Society (CMS) Hospital at Mengo on February 11, 1901"
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John Howard Cook was a noted Anglican missionary.
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Also , Robert William Felkin 👇
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Also , Robert William Felkin 👇
"Robert William Felkin (1853 – 1926) was a medical missionary and explorer, a ceremonial magician, member of the S.R.I.A, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a prolific author on Uganda and Central Africa, and early anthropologist,"..
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Felkin was the founder in 1903 of the Stella Matutina, a new Order based on the original Order of the Golden Dawn, with its Hermes Temple in Bristol, UK and, later, Whare Ra (or more correctly, the Smaragdum Thallasses Temple) in Havelock North, New Zealand in 1912..
Felkin was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, where he met the explorer David Livingstone, who inspired him to become a medical missionary...
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Theosophy and the Golden Dawn :
Robert Felkin and wife Mary seem to have been introduced to esotericism through a Bible study circle they joined in Edinburgh..
Robert Felkin and wife Mary seem to have been introduced to esotericism through a Bible study circle they joined in Edinburgh..
Robert and Mary joined the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh in 1886, but found it lacking in terms of ritual, and eventually joined John William Brodie-Innes' Amen-Ra Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on 12 March 1894.
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Felkin edited (with others) a collection of the letters and journals of Mehmet Emin Pasha, whom he had met (translated by Mary), which appeared in 1888, and published Hypnotism, or Psycho-Therapeutics in 1890
In 1903 Mary died and Robert reinforced his commitment to both Anglican Christianity and occultism. He made a retreat at the monastery of the Mirfield fathers, the Community of the Resurrection, and considered joining the order.
Several of the Mirfield fathers had an interest in Rosicrucian & Golden Dawn Christian mysticism®arded Felkin as an eminent figure in that tradition. One of these priests,Father Fitzgerald,would later play a key role in bringing Felkin to New Zealand.
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"Also in 1903, a schism occurred within the Order of the Golden Dawn, when Felkin and Brodie-Innes split from A.E. Waite to form the magically inclined Order of the Stella Matutina."..
The poet W.B. Yeats joined the Stella Matutina and was a member for 20 years. Felkin's main temple in London was called Amoun.
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"From the time that Felkin assumed leadership of the Stella Matutina, he came increasingly under the influence of the "Sun Masters", the fabled Secret Chiefs of the Order, and other supposed adepts on the astral plane"..
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Around 1908 Felkin also claimed to have contacted an "Arab Teacher" called Ara Ben Shemesh ("Lion Son of the Sun"), one of the "Sons of Fire" inhabiting a Near Eastern "temple in the desert", who had been given special permission to contact and teach Western students.
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"Another mystical teacher was Sri Parananda, whom Felkin claimed to have first seen materialising out of steam at the Bad Pyrmont baths in Germany."..
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"This apparition, described as a dark Eastern man with a beard and large black eyes, wearing a flowing robe and a peculiar conical cap, arranged with Felkin to meet him in exactly one month in the lounge of the Carlton Hotel in London." 🍿
Felkin was initiated into Freemasonry in Mary Chapel Lodge, Edinburgh, on 8 January 1907, was passed to the Fellow Craft degree on 12 February and raised to Master Mason on 26 February.
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On 11 April that same year he was admitted to the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA), Metropolitan College, to which only Master Masons are admitted. The officiating celebrant was Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magus of that society and co-founder of the Golden Dawn.
Anna Sprengel, a member of this fabled German society of nearly god-like adepts, had allegedly warranted the founding of the Golden Dawn, and Felkin believed that she and her order still existed deep under cover in Germany, along with the tomb of Christian Rosencreutz. 🤔🍿
In search of this group he and Harriet travelled to Europe in 1906, 1910 and 1914, and on one of these trips he met with Rudolf Steiner and claimed to have contacted other Rosicrucian adepts.
Felkin considered Steiner to be an extremely high initiate, and after their meeting incorporated elements of Anthroposophy into his practice, including homeopathy.
During their 1914 trip the Felkins became stranded in Germany when Britain declared war on Germany .. They managed to avoid arrest, and escaped the country via the neutral Netherlands with the help of German Masons.
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> Gordon of Khartoum
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> Gordon of Khartoum
In 1912 Felkin, together with Harriet and Ethelwyn, visited Havelock North, New Zealand at the invitation of the Society of the Southern Cross. This was a prayer and meditation group closely involved with the "Havelock Work"
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Felkin established the Smaragdum Thallasses Temple of the Stella Matutina. The New Zealand Order became known by the Maori name of Whare Ra or "the House of the Sun". Foundations of the house at Whare Ra were laid down by the architect James Chapman-Taylor, who later..
became a member of both the Golden Dawn and the Order of the Table Round (Ordo Tabulae Rotundae), a neo-Arthurian mystical and chivalric order also brought to New Zealand by Felkin.
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Back in England in 1916 Felkin was appointed Inspector General of colonial colleges for the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, although he seems never to have functioned in this capacity..
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In that same year Felkin also founded three more daughter-Temples of the Stella Matutina, together with a side-order, and claimed to found the Guild of St. Raphael.
Felkin become involved in the Baháʼà Faith, through his meeting with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in London in 1911 at Lady Blomfield's.
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So, returning to the story of the medical missionaries and the sleeping sickness epidemic which took place in Uganda between 1900 and 1920.
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The first published description of sleeping sickness cases in the 1900–1920 epidemic was made by A.R. and J.H. Cook in their Church Missionary Society (CMS) Hospital at Mengo
Albert Cook arrived in Uganda shortly before the Ugandan Mutiny (1897–98)
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Albert Cook arrived in Uganda shortly before the Ugandan Mutiny (1897–98)
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Together with his wife, Katharine Cook (1863–1938), he established a maternity training school in Uganda..
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Katharine Timpson went to Uganda as a medical missionary, following work at Guy's Hospital in London.
She was accepted by the Christian Missionary Service in 1896, despite opposition from older missionaries who felt that she should not do medical work..
She was accepted by the Christian Missionary Service in 1896, despite opposition from older missionaries who felt that she should not do medical work..
Timpson and Albert Ruskin Cook founded the Church Missionary Society Hospital at Mengo, which opened in May 1897. She married Cook in 1900..
In 1918, Cook began training midwives via the Maternity Training School (MTS) in Namirembe
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In 1918, Cook began training midwives via the Maternity Training School (MTS) in Namirembe
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The midwives and nurses were expected to defer to Europeans; Cook received requests that her students be scolded or even struck off when they were not deferential..
The training that Cook provided had a strong moralising component; Cook considered Ugandan mothers to be harsh or ignorant in their treatment of their infants & believed that the local Baganda people had a lack of moral conscience that was causing high levels of infant mortality
"Historian Carol Summers has suggested that this patronising and negative view was in part the result of the Cook's confusing yaws with syphilis and thus thinking that there was an STD epidemic of huge proportions.".. 🤔
Albert Cook established a treatment centre for the venereal diseases and sleeping sickness in 1913, which later became Mulago Hospital. 🤔
Working side-by-side with his brother Albert, John Howard Cook brought about significant growth and expansion during his time at the Mengo Hospital. Reports directly from the hospital during this time period describe a shift in the atmosphere of Kampala..
In a report written in 1912, to which John Howard Cook contributed, the term “diseases of immorality” was used to express the increasing presence of venereal diseases, which gives insight into the underlying religious influence in the medical work he carried out.
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Oserian (The Gin Palace; later, Djinn Palace) is a flower farm on the south shores of Lake Naivasha, Nakuru County, Kenya.
During the colonial era, "The Djinn Palace" was "where things usually were very lively" for the Happy Valley set
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During the colonial era, "The Djinn Palace" was "where things usually were very lively" for the Happy Valley set
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It was built for Major Cyril Ramsay-Hill's wife, Molly (née Edith Mildred Maude; 1893–1939), who had an affair with and later married Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll.
Europeans in East Africa database: europeansineastafrica.co.uk
Europeans in East Africa database: europeansineastafrica.co.uk
"“You’ve got the bitch, now buy her the kennel,” Ramsay-Hill cabled Lord Erroll after he had run off with his wife...Ramsay-Hill’s wife got the palace in her divorce settlement, & it went to Lord Erroll after she died from chronic heroin & alcohol abuse."
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"It is rumored the palace was named “The Djinn Palace”, due to the Lord’s liking for large gins."
I think it's more likely due to the Happy Valley Set's connections with the Hellfire Clubs .. but that's for another time..
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I think it's more likely due to the Happy Valley Set's connections with the Hellfire Clubs .. but that's for another time..
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"In 1941, Lord Erroll in all his louch magnificence was brutally murdered, believed to have been shot by the husband of Diana Broughton, (a social seductress with a libido to match his own) with whom Erroll was engaged in a very public affair."
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