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slie is in fact absolutely infernal — an actual deviless," Hacks 

 asserts that in a Presbyterian church at Singapore he discovered a 

 secret tabernacle for the worship of Satan. The pastor opened the 

 door, and there was a Baphomet, with all the Palladistic (Satanic) 

 apparatus — goblet, host, and dagger — standing before his eyes. 



Albert Pike, Grand Master of the Freemasons in Charleston, 

 S. C, is called the " Satanic Pope," and is said to have a telephone 

 invented and operated by devils, whereby instantaneous commu- 

 nication is possible between the seven principal directorates at 

 Charleston, Rome, Berlin, "Washington, Montevideo, Naples, and 

 Calcutta. He has also a magic bracelet, by means of which he can 

 summon Lucifer at any moment. " One day Satan took Pike 

 gently in his arms and made a trip with him to Sirius, traversing 

 the whole distance in a few minutes. After exploring the fixed 

 star, he was brought back safe and sound to his room in Washing- 

 ton." Whether he found the star as hot and scorching as its name 

 implies is not stated. Hacks discovered, under the cliffs of Gi- 

 braltar, mysterious caverns with laboratories in which devils pre- 

 pared microbes for generating and diffusing epidemics. He was 

 politely received by Tubal-Cain, the director of the establishment, 

 who addressed him in pure Parisian French, from which we may 

 infer that this is the language of the lower regions. On his de- 

 parture Hacks was presented with a small vial, the contents of 

 which would suffice to produce a fearful epidemic of cholera. No 

 less an authority than Professor Bautz, of the Prussian Academy 

 at Miinster, tells us that the volcanoes are the flues of hell, and 

 it was probably this contribution to the topography of Tartarus 

 that led Hacks to look for the devil's workshop in the cavities of 

 mountains, which, however, being used for infernal purposes, would 

 hardly be what Milton calls " umbrageous grots and caves of cool 

 recess. * 



The following may be cited as a specimen of the manner in 

 which historical events were perverted by Hacks to subserve his 

 purpose: Before the capture of Rome by the Italian troops in 1870, 

 a secret meeting of Freemasons was held in Milan, at which Riboli, 

 Cucchi, and General Cadorna were present, and the revolution- 



* Views similar to those of Professor Bautz have been advocated by a French Jesuit, 

 Pfere F. H. Schouppe, in a work entitled The Doctrine of Purgatory elucidated by Facts and 

 Private Revelations. The " facts " consist of the visions of saints, and the " private revela- 

 tions " prove to be apparitions of souls in purgatory to hysterical women and other persons 

 " blasted with ecstasy." The book has been translated into German by a Tyrolese priest, 

 G. Pletl, and just published at Brixen, " with the api)robation of the Prince Bishop." An 

 Austrian journal, the Ostdeutsche Rundschau, printed extracts from the volume with appro- 

 priate comments, and was confiscated by the Government in Vienna for " offense to re- 

 ligion," 



