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Devil-Worship in France; Or, the Question of Lucifer

1896

Arthur Edward Waite

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Devil-Worship in France; Or, the Question of Lucifer

Arthur Edward Waite

1896

History - Modern (1750+), History - Religious, Religion/Spirituality

In 1896, a respected British occultist descended into the shadowy world of French devil worshippers and emerged profoundly skeptical. Arthur Edward Waite, himself no stranger to mystical circles, undertook a meticulous investigation into the rumored cultus diabolicus sweeping through Parisian secret societies and occult gatherings. What he found was a tangled web of sensational claims, credulous journalists, hysterical clergy, and a handful of genuine if eccentric initiates whose practices bore little resemblance to the demonic rites described in newspapers. Waite became a reluctant debunker, sifting testimony from trippers, exposing fraudulent mediums, and questioning why a frightened public so desperately wanted to believe in organized Satanic evil. The book operates on two levels: as a fascinating primary document about late 19th-century occultism, and as a sharp-eyed analysis of how fear, religious anxiety, and the era's appetite for the sensational combined to create moral panics about secret Luciferian cabals that may never have existed in the form described. For readers drawn to the occult's history, Victorian culture, or the eternal human tendency to see conspiracies in shadows.

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