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The Alchemist, v. 1, issue 5, February 1941
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Notes on Devil-Worship 7 their master. At once all kneel as the red priest enters, preceded by the two choir boys. He wears a scarlet bonnet ornamented with two protruding buffalo horns of red cloth. As he kneels before the altar, beginning to say mass, Durtal observed that he wears nothing beneath the robe. The chasuble has the shape of an ordinary chasuble, but it is the color of dried blood, and, in the middle, in a triangle-around which is embroidered a border of colchicum, savin, sorrel, and spurge, is the figure of a black billy-goat presenting his horns. It sounds like a simple low mass. Then the choir boys pass behind the altar and one brings back copper chafing dishes, while the other brings forth censers which they pass out among the congregation All the women envelope themselves in smoke, inhaling until they are faint. The lean back, unlace their gowns, sigh ecstatically. Now the priest descends the steps backwards, kneeling on the last one as he cries in a sharp voice: "Master of Slanders, Dispenser of benefits of crime, Administrator of sumptuous sins and great vices, Satan, thee we adore, reasonable God, just God. "Superadmirable legate of false trances, thou receivest our beseeching tears; thou savest the honor of great families by aborting wombs impregnated in the forgetfulness of good orgasm; thou doth suggest to the mother the hastening of untimely birth, and thine obstetrics spares the still-born child and anguish of maturity, the contamination of original sin. "Mainstay of the despairing poor, Cordial of the Vanquished, it is thou who endowest them with
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Notes on Devil-Worship 7 their master. At once all kneel as the red priest enters, preceded by the two choir boys. He wears a scarlet bonnet ornamented with two protruding buffalo horns of red cloth. As he kneels before the altar, beginning to say mass, Durtal observed that he wears nothing beneath the robe. The chasuble has the shape of an ordinary chasuble, but it is the color of dried blood, and, in the middle, in a triangle-around which is embroidered a border of colchicum, savin, sorrel, and spurge, is the figure of a black billy-goat presenting his horns. It sounds like a simple low mass. Then the choir boys pass behind the altar and one brings back copper chafing dishes, while the other brings forth censers which they pass out among the congregation All the women envelope themselves in smoke, inhaling until they are faint. The lean back, unlace their gowns, sigh ecstatically. Now the priest descends the steps backwards, kneeling on the last one as he cries in a sharp voice: "Master of Slanders, Dispenser of benefits of crime, Administrator of sumptuous sins and great vices, Satan, thee we adore, reasonable God, just God. "Superadmirable legate of false trances, thou receivest our beseeching tears; thou savest the honor of great families by aborting wombs impregnated in the forgetfulness of good orgasm; thou doth suggest to the mother the hastening of untimely birth, and thine obstetrics spares the still-born child and anguish of maturity, the contamination of original sin. "Mainstay of the despairing poor, Cordial of the Vanquished, it is thou who endowest them with
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