The plan of my work had been sketched, and a number of chapters written,
when I found myself to some extent preceded by a writer well known to
occultists under the pseudonym of Papus, who has quite recently
published a small brochure, entitled _Le Diable et L'Occultisme_, which
is a brief defence of transcendentalists against the accusations in
connection with Satanism. I gladly yield to M. Papus the priority in
time, which was possible to a well-informed gentleman, at the centre of
the conspiracy. His little work, however, does not claim to be either a
review or a criticism, and does not therefore, in any sense, cover the
ground which I have travelled. It is an exposition and exoneration of
his own school of mystic thought, which is that of the Martinists, and I
have mentioned it in this connection in its proper place.

CONTENTS

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PREFACE v

CHAPTER I

SATANISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1

CHAPTER II

THE MASK OF MASONRY 22

CHAPTER III

THE FIRST WITNESSES OF LUCIFER 42

CHAPTER IV

EX ORE LEONIS 53

CHAPTER V

THE DISCOVERY OF M. RICOUX 74

CHAPTER VI

ART SACERDOTAL 82

CHAPTER VII

THE DEVIL AND THE DOCTOR 97

CHAPTER VIII

DEALINGS WITH DIANA 162

CHAPTER IX

HOW LUCIFER IS UNMASKED 182

CHAPTER X

THE VENDETTA OF SIGNOR MARGIOTTA 201

CHAPTER XI

FEMALE FREEMASONRY 225

CHAPTER XII

THE PASSING OF DOCTOR BATAILLE 233

CHAPTER XIII

DIANA UNVEILED 255

CHAPTER XIV

THE RADIX OF MODERN DIABOLISM 290

CHAPTER XV

CONCLUSION 299

DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCE

CHAPTER I

SATANISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

If a short time ago that ultimate and universal source of reference, the
person of average intelligence, had been asked concerning Modern
Diabolism, or the Question of Lucifer,--What it is? Who are its
disciples? Where is it practised? And why?--he would have replied,
possibly with some asperity:--"The question of Lucifer! There is no
question of Lucife