The Indianapolis journal., 1901-09-29

among them "hair-rasers" OF this sort:
The devil-Pope Pike (an American gen.
tleman. by the way. and his meetings with
Lucifer TO advise about acts of wickedness
for the Masons TO commit ''The devils
workshops under the rock OF Gibraltar.
where hundreds of devils and Masons are
at work producing paraphernalia used by
the Masons." etc. etc
THE DEVILS PICTURES.
The book is illustrated with pictures Of
the devils las they walk among us We
are introduced to Beeizebub sporting duck :
| feet. monkey paws, bat wings, long horns.
ass's ears and cows tail. Devil Moloch
has the head of an ass, while the female
devil. Astarte, wears a cOquettish apron
and has cats paws. "Out of compliment
for my readers-there is no higher form of
fiattery than imitaton-all my devils were
fitted with donkey ears" said Taxil after
ward.
DR.. Bataille devoted many pages OF his
book to a minute description OF the Ma
sons temple in Charleston, L. 5. ~, de-
picting it the abode of the DEVILS cult,
with devil-Pope as high priest, and.
though the Catholic Bishop of Charleston
took the trouble TO deny this silly story in
a letter TO the papal court. Taxi MAIN
tanned that his report was absolutely true
and that his pictures were made from
actual photographs.
By this time Taxil thought his millions
of admirers on the continent ripe for even
wilder extravagances of his fancy. So the
devil cult was invented. His introduction
of the new religion" by the usual high
priced book reads as follows:
I'VE all know that the kingdom of the
fallen on this earth is divided into two
camps, one of the Luciferians. who enoircle
the globe, who possess a pope. a curia,
college of cardinals; who are, in fact
parody on the Court of the Vatican. The
other camp is composed of isolated groups
working alone or under the tutelage of
some seer. following personal end. There
seems to be no relation between the great
army of Luciferans and the cliques of
Satanists"
The book divulged the contract between
Satanists, or Masons, and the devil. AS
FAR as mt to print it is here reproduced:
Il abjure baptism and Christian faith I
repudiate obedience to God. 1 deny the
sacraments. L swear fidelity and vassalage
TO the Prince of Darkness. will do as
other Satanists do, and 1 will endeavor to
bring others to this belief
Then the neophyte is rebaptized in the
name of the Devil. New godfathers and
godmothers are assigned and the old ones
banished. The Devil receives a piece of
the clothing as a gage of possession. BY
faith and baptism he rules the spiritual
welfare, by blood the corporal, by children
the natural, and by clothing all worldly
goods.
THE neophyte then says: Scratch my
name out, Satan, from the Book of Life:
inscribe my name on the Book Of Death
Then he or she adds: L promise to make
pleasing sacrifices to thee. I will slay
magically each month, and every fortnight
go so far even to drink the blood of
young child
Lastly the newly-initiated cries out: L
will never confess my sins entirely. and
l shall guard an eternal silence on my
dealings with the, o Devil
a FRESH INVENTION.
Thinking. perhaps, that the public might
get too much of him, Taxfl next invented
Diana Vaughan" some time the DEVILS
bride and executioner of his unholy COM
mands, but now reformed and eager to dis
close the diabolical secrets she learned
during her apprenticeship in hades and as
high priestess of the Masons
ION DIANA" explained Taxil. "devolved
the awful duty of killing the children in
tended for sacrifice and whose blood is
drunk by the fanatics. To her also is given
the task, after a certain novitiate of entic-
ing men to join the order and enroll them
under the DEVILS banner"
OF course, a person that did such things
and saw such things had a story to tell,
and presently Diana, too, blossomed out as
author of books on Masonry and dev-
iltry. From one of them this description
of the famous BLACK Mass" is borrowed:
''In a thick cloud of perfumes the priest
ascends the altar of satan's synagogue
On the table is seen goat with a human
face, already excited by some preliminary
homages, intoxicated by perfumes and
alteration The priest opens a box and
takes out some waters. The rites per-
formed and the words spoken during the
continuance of the magical ceremony are
blasphemOus in character and the sacred
vessel and it's contents are subjected TO in
suit and mockery. The goat plays the in
fernal part, cursing and reviling, and last
ly the following Incarnation is delivered:
Master of the Esclandres. dispenser of the
benefits of crime intendent of sumptuous
sins and great vices, sovereign OF con-
tempt, preserver of old hatreds and in
spirer of vengeance and misdeeds'
"At this ceremony the children of the
choir are clad i'm red and wear scarlet caps.
surmounted by two horns. They hold black
candles in their hands,"
The above are some of the printable cor
tents of Miss Vaughan's great book; but
matter of fact, there never was Miss
Vaughan The mystical Diana was simply
plotted his alter ego for all it was worth
Among other rubbish he told his readers
that the young lady had been dedicated to
the service OF Satan when scarcely fifteen
years old, and, worse still, by her own
father, himself a Diabolist. She rose quick
ly 30 the higher offices, and soon became
the vicar of hell's' first assistant The
vicar" said Taxil, was General Pike. OF
Charleston, S. c. which is called the IN
fernal Rome"
THE DEVILS SIGNATURE.
While high priestess of the Masons
Diana, we are further informed, owned a
private devil named AsmOdaeus who ex-
ecuted all her commands with promptness
and dispatch, and. small wonder seeing ne
travelled about on a monster half Iioness.
half crocodile. fitted with tremendous
wings" As for Asmodaeus. he had three
heads, either of which he could use at will
an OK head a rams head. and that OF a
crowned parsonage. splitting fire Before
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