![]() ![]() “Perhaps very few of them believed that the Black Mass induced the Devil personally to intervene on their behalf, but they were convinced that it might released some irresistible tide which taken at the flood led on to fortune.” Rev. “ but whatever your principles, if you tell ordinary men and women that their bodies are the creation of an evil spirit, you are not entitled to complain if they behave accordingly.” ‘First you do this, and then you do that, and the (miraculous) result is so and so.'” ![]() “Such people approach religion very much as a child, who has been badly taught, approaches arithmetic. It was one of the less desirable symptoms of feminine emancipation.” “It is one of the most striking characteristics of the middle period of the 17th century that murder by poison grew to an alarming extent, and that the principal practitioners of it were women. “ a contemporary coolly remarked that ‘From constraint proceed crimes which were unpracticed before and devotion seldom produces a reformation of manners.'” ![]() “She believed that Satan now had the advantage and that his triumph was assured.” Byrd Pedigree Books 1955 | Internet Source Arrow 1965 | Internet Source Jarrolds 1968 | Internet Source 1974 Edition | Scan by Rev. OpenLibrary | Project Gutenberg | Wikipedia | WorldCat Editions (Arranged By Year)Ĭited Edition | Scan by Rev. THE DEVIL IN THE 20TH CENTURY (CONCLUSION)Ī | GoodReads | Google Books | LibraryThing XXV… The Confession of Gabriel Jogand… 191 He is the author of many books, including Some Persons Unknown (John Murray), Genius and Criminal (John Murray), The Criminals We Deserve (Methuen), etc. of Technical Police, Prefecture of the Rhone. He was also a research chemist in the “Conan Doyle” Laboratory of Chemical Research, Dept. Edmond Locard, one of the most famous forensic scientists in Europe. He was one of the few English studnets of the Instutute of Lyon, France, under the distinguished Dr. ![]() Rhodes is a well-known writer in the field of scientific crime detection, and is also professionally engaged in the examination of legal and historical documents. His description of nineteenth-century Satanism, being founded upon the original sources, is also new.Ĭontaining much material never before published and a new presentation of the classic evidence, this curious and fascinating study should become an indispensable source-book for all future works on the subject. His chapters on La Voisin and the Gibourg Mass, in which one of Louis XIV’s mistresses was involved, being drawn from the papers of the Chambre Ardente, throw new light upon this strange passage in French history. In this book is explained for the first time what the Satanic secrets really were, the real nature of the charges made against the Knights Templar, why the worshippers of Satan say their prayers “backwards,” and the true nature of many other strange rites and ceremonies of primitive origin which survive even to the present day. Rhodes starts by showing how the “rite and idea of Satan” has its origin in primitive myth he traces its evolution through the Manichaeans, Cathars, the witch cult and the Templars down to the seventeenth century, when it was caught up in a vicious crime wave, and then to the eighteenth century when it became in England the monstrous plaything of rakes and dandies. Here are almost incredible things which nevertheless happened and are perhaps happening still. It is a story at once fantastic and grotesque, but there is good comedy in it as well. In his remarkable expose of this mystery cult, which bedevilled orthodox Christianity for centuries, the author has turned up many queer facts and brought to light a group of strange and bizarre personalities. This is the first fully documented account ever written of the seret rites of what is commonly called the Black Mass. Subtitle: A Sociological And Criminological Study ![]()
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