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By GEORGE WELLER 5 TAY- NINH, Southern Indo-China, May 30 (CDN)—A. modern’ army with mortars and machineguns, answering to a religion of spiritistic seances, is the strangest newcorher to the war against communism in Indo-China.

The army belongs to the Cao-| daists, a sect composed of the!

faiths of Buddhism, Christianity,

Taoism and Con- | fucianism; In the fe. CREE flat country of southern Indo China, once ruled by the Communist Viet Minh, the gentle Cao-"/ dalsts have raised an army of 20,000 that has cleansed their villages of Reds, Formerly antiFrench because the French exiled one of their fopes to Madagascar, the godly Caodaists have now swung around and are fighting a local war against communism. “We are working for the absence of the French and the annihilation of the Viet Minh Communists,” a close-cropped Caodaist monk told me. Caodaism, a 27-year-old religion of borrowings, was born of the supernatural craze after World War I and the experiments stemming from Conan Doyle, Houdini and Ouija. Table Rappings | Some Budafiist monks and governmental clerks began catching table rappings from the .infinite, They switched to a sort of Ouija board, using written characters spelled out by a basket platform

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sure from several outstretched hands, Slowly they accumulated a body of doctrine, .partly from libraries, partly from seances. Today, Caodaism has. a cathedral, about two million worshipers, and a whole cult of teachers, women §s well as men. There are

. posts for two popes, the Giao- |

To who is the executive, and the Ho Phap who is the legislative pontiff. Women hold two of the 35 seats of archbishops, and one of the six posts of cardinal was formerly held by a woman, now “sanctified” and represented by a statue on the cathedral’s facade. The Holy See, as the Caodaists

spelled out by the Having basket 'to be the “protector of the rites,” and accepted.

Empty Chairs This legislative pope has been pinch-hitting also as executive pope. The latter is supposed to be |

§ [elected by universal suffrage of |

all the faithful. Six empty chairs covered with! silk cloths, before the brassy high | altar of the marble cathedral, |

¢ |testify as to why there ‘is no

executive pope and no election. | These six vacant chairs are sup-| posed to be occupied by three cardinals and three censor cardinals. Only a cardinal of five | years standing is eligible for the! papacy. But the cardinals’ ranks! are all empty also, all inferior candidates being “unqualified.” | Top clergymen of Caodaism | may marry, but are not allowed! to live with their wives aftef their | elevation.

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