they are
animated by an implacable hatred against the Christian God, whom
they declare to be an impostor. They have a formula which sums up
their state of mind; it is no longer: "To the glory of the Great
Architect of the Universe," as in the two lower Masonries; it is
G.'. E.'. A.'. A.'. L.'. H.'. H.'. H.'. A.'. D.'. M.'. M.'. M.'.,
which means "Gloire et Amour a Lucifer! Haine! haine! haine! an Dieu
maudit! maudit! maudit!" (Glory and Love for Lucifer! Hatred! hatred!
hatred! to God, accursed, accursed, accursed!)

It is professed in these societies that all that the Christian God
commands is disagreeable to Lucifer; that all that He forbids is,
on the contrary, agreeable to Lucifer; that in consequence one must
do all that the Christian God forbids and that one must shun like
fire all that He commands. I repeat that with regard to all that, I
have the proofs under my hand. I have read and studied hundreds of
documents relating to one of these societies, documents that I have
not permission to publish and which emanate from the members, men
and women, of the group in question.[730]

I do not say that any society in England consciously practices this cult
of Satan, but I too have seen dozens of documents relating to occult
groups in this country which practise rites and evocations that lead to
illness, moral perversion, mental derangement, and even in some cases to
death. I have heard from the lips of initiates themselves accounts of
the terrible experiences through which they have passed; some have even
urged me to bring the matter before the attention of the authorities.
But unfortunately no department exists for the investigation of
subversive movements. Yet since all these movements are intimately
connected with revolutionary agitation they are well worth the attention
of Governments that desire to protect law, order, and public morality.
The fact is that the very extravagance of their doctrines and practices
seems to ensure their immunity. Nevertheless, whether the power at work
behind them is of the kind we are accustomed to call "supernatural," or
whether it is merely the outcome of the human mind, there can be no
doubt of its potency for evil and of its very definite effects in the
obliteration of all sense of truth and in sexual perversion.

In the opinion of an initiate who belonged for years to the Stella
Matutina, the dy