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Title: Devil-Worship in France
or The Question of Lucifer

Author: Arthur Edward Waite

Release Date: April 30, 2007 [EBook #21258]

Language: English

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DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCE

_Demy 8vo, about 450 pages, cloth_

THE DOCTRINE AND RITUAL OF
TRANSCENDENT MAGIC

BY

ELIPHAS LEVI

A COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF "DOGME ET RITUEL DE LA HAUTE
MAGIE"

BY

ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE

_With all the original engravings and a portrait of the Author._

GEORGE REDWAY
9 HART STREET, BLOOMSBURY
LONDON

DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCE

OR

THE QUESTION OF LUCIFER

_A RECORD OF THINGS SEEN AND HEARD IN THE
SECRET SOCIETIES ACCORDING TO THE
EVIDENCE OF INITIATES_

BY

ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE

"The first in this plot was Lucifer."--THOMAS VAUGHAN

LONDON
GEORGE REDWAY
1896

PREFACE

The term Modern Satanism is not intended to signify the development of
some new aspect of old doctrine concerning demonology, or some new
argument for the personification of the evil principle in universal
nature. It is intended to signify the alleged revival, or, at least, the
reappearance to some extent in public, of a _cultus diabolicus_, or
formal religion of the devil, the existence of which, in the middle
ages, is registered by the known facts of the Black Sabbath, a
department, however, of historical research, to which full justice yet
remains to be done. By the hypothesis, such a religion may assume one of
two forms; it may be a worship of the evil principle as such, namely, a
conscious attempt on the part of human minds to identify themselves with
that principle, or it may be the worship of a power which is regarded as
evil by other religions, from which view the worshippers in question
dissent. The necessity for this distinction I shall make apparent in the
first chapter of this book. A religion