Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-10-22

and in thy service shall 1 spend my
last drop of blood. To thee give my
self. oh Lucifer, body and soul Oh,
Lucifer, do with me as thou seest fit
to glorffy thy name. Accept my hum
BILE prayer and shed thy light upon
my way. And when, o Lucifer, my
last hour comes, thou wilt find me
calm and without fear to terror, ready
to be transferred to thy glory Of the
eternal fires. Amen"
The "postulant," or person DESTROYS
of entering the circle, must repeat
this, word for word. He-or she
is heavily yelled In black in an ante
room. as candidates are similarly pre-
pared who enter legitimate secret or
| ders- Then the "postulant" Is brought
| before the Council of Wears of HE'LL
who are seated upon a dais ready to
receive such applicants for admission
to the Church of Satan" as have been
proposed for membership by one al
ready initiated, or have brought Gre
dentfals from some foreign Church of
| Satan
The night 1 was there to take photo
graphs a woman was the ''postulant."
As she approached the throne" as
the dais is called, she was command
ed to drop to her knees.
Now put up your hands in the atti-
tude of prayerI" commanded the su-
preme vicar.
Then a long and blasphemous set
speech was delivered by the Bishop
of HE'LL as the chief person on the
throne" calls himself without equiv
ocation- Standing with staff in hand,
he held an outstretched hand over the
woman's head and read from a little
book the pledge of Lucifer," as he
called it Then followed strange
oaths and much blasphemy. 1 could
recognize no one-all were CARRIED in
black robes and wore black masks
which entirely covered their faces.
On the arm of each one present was
prominently displayed a white horned
| head-the lineament of Satan.
Masks Hide WorshIpers' Faces.
All present wore masks, except the
| woman who was being initiated, and
her head was swathed in black veil
ing. Then she repeated the creed
of Lucifer,' and was duly declared an
initiate Then came more incanta-
tons, directed toward large white
sheets spread upon the floor. On one
painted in black was what. THE Bish-
op of He'll" termed the Great Tri-
angle" On the other were curious
symbols AM figures, surrounded by a
great circle.
For the invocation of Satan" said
the Bishop
Then he took his place in the circle
and faced the triangle With sol
emn voice he slowly recited a long
tumble of words meant to bring about
the naturalization of Lucifer. Ac-
cording to this uncanny person Luci-
fer does not always care to incarnate
himself. At any rate he wasn't in the
flesh that night 1t was explained
to me, however, that II Satan is in the
humor and the hour Is propitious, the
assembled devotees will see the prince
of darkness like a spirit rise from the
triangle and join the group of worship
ers- Satan was very shy that eve
ming and did not materialize-
The invocation ended, the diabol-
lists marched slowly around the room
uttering prayers for his aid-all pray
ers In mockery of regular forms of
} worship. Candles furnished the only
light and In their weird and uncanny
shadows the effects were CHASTITY. with
the black-robed. masked figures march
ing slowly around. mumbling their In
carnations
To the God OF Evil"
!. On the wall a scarlet flame show
ed weirdly through the dim light /
walked near 1T and read copy of the
verses inscribed to .sKakadaimon," or
, God of EVIL" written by George SyI
vester viereck. young poet OF New