Title: The satanic mass; a sociological and criminological study.
Authors: Rhodes, Henry T. F. 1892-
Publisher: Citadel Press
Year: 1955
Subjects: Satanism; Demonology
Abstract: An investigation into the history of the Black Mass and Satanic worship, primarily from the Middle Ages to the present.
Contents: The antique gods -- By the deceit of devils -- The theoreticians -- The legists -- Prelude to the mass -- Sabbat of the goat -- The black turnip -- The black mass priests -- Vain observance -- 17th-century background -- The beautiful heretic -- La Reynie and his police -- The organizers -- The Gibourg mass -- The estate of the clergy -- Underground -- The unholy twelve -- The Franciscan disorder -- The white mass priests -- The white magician -- The last of the Manichaeans -- Dr. Bataille -- The man of Provence -- Great was Diana -- The confession of Gabriel Jogand -- The devil and the freemasons -- The end of the black mass -- Indefinite conclusion.