The herald., 1895-08-11
Their Daring Robbery of
Churches and Horrible
Religious Fanat-
iciSm
DEMONIACAL EXORCISMS
WITH INDESCRIBABLE
AND SHAMEFUL SCENES
Most Extraordinary Beliefs and Rites
= Among the Frenchmen Almost
lnc0nceivable in Depravity
and SacriIege :.

Paris has Just experienced another out.
break Of that remarkable organization
known as Devil Worshipers. They have
also been operating in Rome. The Devil
Worshipers are robbers, pure and simple.
Their most recent robbery was committed
in tn church of Notre Dame in Paris. An
old woman, at time when the church
was half empty, succeeded in stealing
two chalices, each containing fifty Hosts.
She must have had an accomplice, as it
was physical impossibiliy for her to
hide the sacred vessels under her cloak
in such a way as to leave one hand free
to open the heavy oaken door going out
into the street.
Churches in Paris have been robbed in
this way before. Churches in Rome, too
have been roobed of their chalices and
conseorated Hosts. These chalices as a
rule are Of small monetary value, as they
IRE generally washed gold or ALUMINIUM; !;
therefore they cannot be stolen for the
purpose OF realizing large enough sum
to coz pensate the robber for his theft.
In the last case brought to public no.
tice the thieves have worked in such q
manner as to point Enthusiastically to an
accomplice and especially to one inside.
For instance, in the convent of Santa
Mara delle Graza. at Salerne, and the
monastery of Our Lady of Dolores, in
Rome, no outsider could gain admittance
TO the inner sanctuaries in which the
Hosts are kept unless some one well ac-
quainted with and also we'll known in the
house had aided them.
Why are these Hosts stolen? If for the
purpose Of melting the cbalices and SELL
ing the pure metal afterwards, then the
Hosts would be thrown away either on
tho aItor Cnth Annr Rnf in al1 fho
last known cases the waters have been
carefully carried away. AS though they
themselves were the prime object
Therefore it Is believed that they are
stolen for the purpose of being used In
black magic. A freethinker would not
steal them. as to him they would carry
no significance. Thy are stolen by some
person or persons who belivee them to be
the body and blood of Jesus Christ, to be
used by them for acts Of desecration,
philters or internal cereomnies; in which
case the theft presupposes the existence
OF satanism.
Another question presents itself. Are
these individuals acting from perverted
sense of sacriege or are they communities
banded together and obeying orders as
the nihilists do? In a word, are they
Luciferians or Sa!anists? The presump-
tion is IN favor of the former. The thefts
point to the Luciferians, 40 they have
adopted as their emblem transported
eucharist and an overturned chalice.
In this extraordinary society, Satan is
three. The Satan or the dIsinherited and
the poor; the Satan of the depraved and
the rich the Satan of the am bilious dilet-
tante. the mythical fool and the atheist.
The three are justified in the first He is
vile and his hell brings tears to the eyes
of saints and messiahs.
The second Satan. origin OF sthe two
others. is the root of anarchy and soph-
istry. He is the universal wickedness.
the grumbling of that badness which at
certain times is in the best and purest OF
us, and which hurls itself like grimac-
ing demon at the portals of our souls. He
is the Satan of volt ptuousness, the mother
Vt disaster. He tenn pied Job, he tempted
Jesus, he tempted Buddah and today is
stalking abroad uncovered. unashamed of
his nakedness, under the title OF SATAN
ism.
and most prominent, the woman La
6ooiere. She it is who. after passing
through a certain novitiate, becomes so
saturated with Satanlsm that to her is
delegated the duty of numbering the chill
dren intended for the sacrifice, and whose
blood is drunk by the fanatics. 1t is her
task to lure new recruits to the great
army of satan. She it is who leads the
bacchanalian dances, presides at the ban
quets, becomes ecstatical at the Black
Mass and in her wild frenzy appears to
be revenging:heerself for the long years of
sec1usion to which she was regulated by
the Chris stian church.
Two women in our day have stood
forth as leaders-Katie King, the most
beautiful Of human beings. and Nine.
Blavatsky, who reilluminated the Brah-
manic and Buddhist torches. controlling
Katie King anu affirming the great doc
trins.