Evening star., 1896-02-29
The Initiation.

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The Initiation.
Nervous prostration-that is how I was
initiated. 1 overworked. You may accom-
plish the same end by any preferred ex-
cess But to enter the order of devil wor-
shippers you must first somehow acquire a
nervous condition, which enables you to vi
brate with emotion at the sound of a fly
walking across the ceiling. to perceive in
broad daylight all sorts of lodging, dark
things nobody else can see, ard in the
night. above all things, not to sleep. In
somnia is the second degree. This equips
you to fairly start your record as devil
worshiper, and the particular Office you
will fill will depend altogether on your
previously acquired habits and natural ten
denotes. If you are religious, you Will be-
gin to have visions and you will hear mys-
terious voices calling you to impossible
missions. Your spiritual discernment will
increase in direct ratio with the number of
nights you go without sleep, and If you
don't take to riding a bicycle or take a
run to the seashore to brace up, in all
probability you will found a new church.
If. on the other hand, you have been
worldly and deceutly vicious as the world
goes, the second degree devil worship will
Introduce you to profound depravity quite
impossible to describe or even hint. In any
event you will write. A few make posters
or illustrations for chap book and the yell
low book. But the majority write, or in
tend to write. which may amount to the
same thing. Mailarme one of the literary
gods of the diabolists of Paris, acquired
fame as a poet without having written \
line. He is discreet with his soul,' his
admirers assert, and he himself has said
that he could not understand how any one
could let himself appear in print. Such a
proceeding gave him the impression of IAN
indecency, an alteration, resembling that
form of mental disease called exhibition
ism'
That last word is a key to demoniac
thought, which may be summed up thus:
Everything is something else, and what
ever is as it Is Is wrong. The rest is moth
ing. and everything you don't know must
be put in words. If there are no words in
the dictionary, make them. If you can't
make words, try posters.
Like everybody else living at the end of
the century, / number a great many devil
worshipers among my friends. Indeed,
ent. / would not have you understand any
circle of very respectable acquaintance are
conscious devil worshipers. Dear no! They
call themselves critics-art critics, music
also variety Of misunderstood souls, and
not few embryonic seers, who, by the up
lifting influence of q vegetable diet and
oriental literature, expect great things Of
wise live perfectly correct lives SO that I
never guessed their real character until six
weeks training in nervous prostration
brought me en- rapport with them, and en-
abled me to accumulate experience, which
afterward, upon regaining my health, has
made 1t possible for me thus to tell all about
them.
From the Omcial Organ.
In any case of suspected devil worship I
may give you the following as a certain test.
1t is taken from the official organ Of devil
worship in this country. Any one, who,
upon reading 1t, understands it, should GER
tainly try malt with his meals, and Join a
gymnasium. He hasoI1ade great Roadway
In the service Of Luzesr.