The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-30
WAS NOT A LUcIFERIAN.
GEN. ALBERT PIXIES FRIENDS DE
FEND HIS MEMORY.

IND HIS MEMuAN.
say He Has Been Slandered-Wash-
fnEtOnians Who knew the Emil
nent Freemuson and Head Of the
Scottish Rite order N This Conn
try FIatIy Deny the Wild story in
New York Paper 20 the Eject
That lie Was the Leader of "a sect
Of viI-Worshipcrs-A Romantic
Tale.
From the Washington Post.
An attack was made yesterday in a New
York paper ON the memory or the late Al
bert Pike. who during the latter part OF
his life. was. perhaps. the foremost and
best-known member Of the Scottish Rite
Of Freemasoury I'm this country. The pa
per In question asserts that Albert Pike
was. before his death. the Sovereign
Pontn Of the Luciferians." a sect who
worship Lucifer as the Supreme Being.
The paper containing the declarations that
Albert Pike was a Luciferian was shown
to William Oscar Roome. cashier OF the
Ohio National Bank. who. after hastily
reading the article. exclaimed.
'It is an outrage on the memory OF a
good man. knew Albert Pike as well. as
intimately. as any man in this country.
never heard of his being connected with
any such sect know his religious opin-
ions as well as any one did and I have
heard him say that Die believed in God
TO whom it was not folly to pray. I'm the
immortality of the soul and In a future
existence have heard him speak over
the bodies OF dead men. and any one who
heard him could not doubt his religious
beliefs. The religion Of Albert Pike was
good enough for any one to live by or die
by. I have in my house a great pile OF
his manuscripts, and il any one would
read them his religious feeling would be
at once apparent II YOU intend TO refute
the attack on Albert Pixies memory you
cannot make II too strong
The article IN question purports to be
in the main extracts from the writings
of Diana Vaughan. high priestcss Of the
devil wOrshippers. after she was converted
and became a Catholic a year ago. The
story goes that after her conversion In
Paris She created CONSERVATION among
the worshippers by publishing an expose
of their diabolical practices under the
form OF memoirs. Lemi. the vicar OF
satan Il Is said. with the assistance OF
Crispi. suppressed nearly all the copies
OF the expose. but one copy which escap-
ed their vigilance succeeded in making
its way into the hands OF the author of
the article published yesterday. Refer
ring to the memoirs, the New York pa
per says: .ft
There Is much in them that is techni-
cal and undressing except to those who
are Interested In the Ancient order of the
Rose Croix Socienne, also known as the
Rosicrucians and again considerable mat
ter describing religious ceremonies which
is UNIT for publication. They are in
tensely interesting in that they depict a
condition of mind which 1t IS impossible
to ascrbe to a sane person in this en-
lightened nineteenth century. but which
must exist. as Diana Vaughan, though
now a Christian, believes in these super
natural manifestations with this differ
ence alone. that what she believed divine
while a Luciferian she now looks upon as
the work of demons. She says that peo-
pIe have argued with her that such and
such a manifestation might have been the
outcome of an overexcitement-a case OF
hypnOtism, so to speak-but she believes
and knows now that II was the workings
not of Lucifer, whom she considered in
her days of darkness the great God, the
al-powerful, but of satan and his dem
ons."
Speaking OF herself, Diana Vaughan
gives this curious history OF her birth:
my conversion and Joining Gods
church Is the ending of diabolical race
In effect, my paternal uncle and myself
are the last descendants OF the Rose
Croix alchemist. Thomas vaughan. My
uncle. older than my father, in view OF his
age, cannot possibly leave a child behind
him to perpetuate the name, and ], by
Joining Gods church, have effectually cut
off any possibility of its being perpetuat'
! ed through me.
"a secret. known only to the Mages
Elus Of the Luciferian sect, will die upon
he day I am received into a religious
life. and that is the compact signed on
March p. 1915, between satan and my an
cestor, Thomas Vaughan. To gain the
knowledge of the philosophers stone and
thirty-three years additional life and the
secret OF making gold, Philalethe (Thomas
Vaughan's name in science and Lucifes-
ISM obtained from Cromwell the favor
Of beheading that noble martyr, Laud
Archbishop of Canterbury. and having
soaked up some of his blood Philalethc
offered this blood to Lucifer on March
%. 1915, in exchange for compact. which
is the strangest and weirdest ever enter
ed into between demon and human
being The piece of linen which had beer
dipped in the martyrs blood was burn
ed by my ancestor in homage Of satan
Vaughan did as instructed, and at tho
proper time Lucifer directed him to cross
the ocean at once, where he would find
Venus Astarte, who shall be thy wife
and who shall live with thee for clever
days upon this earth, after which you
shall have a daughter who will bear thy
name and mine"
Vaughan obeyed orders. found Venus
Astarte and eleven days later was borr
Diana Vaughan. the foundress OF the
American branch Of Luciferians
Vaughan, Obeying orders from Lucifer
left the child with an Indian tribe and re-
turned to Europe. This child married ar
Indian chief, and Diana Vaughan the re-
Gently converted Christian, is the de-
scendant of the heavenly marriage.
Diana Vaughan's education was con
Quoted by her father and uncle. They wer,
Luciferians. She writes Of how a Maleakf
"a Christian inclination) was exercised
from her by the arts Of her uncle, and
4bay, che infinitely describes her final inf