The Open Court 33, No.767

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y THE SATANISM OF HUVS.MAN'S. 245 fifteenth century as he himself calls him.-'^ lUit this medieval sa- tanist serves only as the author's point d'appiii for a portrayal of contemporary demonomania. Huysmans skilfully interweaves me- dieval satanism with its modern manifestations. His real aim is not to reconstruct the history of a medieval satanist, but to show the hysterical folly of the demonomaniacs of his day.
It is not altogether evident from the novel La-has whether or no Huysmans himself
... really believed in the existence of a satanic cult in Paris. In later writings, however, he expressed his firm belief that Satan-worship was prevalent not only in Paris but all over France and Belgium.-"' The principal proofs of the existence of satanism for him were the frequent thefts of consecrated wafers throughout France, which, as he presumed, were employed in the celebration of the Black Mass.-'" In La-has Huysmans seems to have in mind the modern Rosi- crucians, illuminists, spiritualists and other occultists of the type of the Alarquis de Guaita and Josephin Peladan, but in his prefatory essay to Bois's Lc satanisine ct la magic the !\Iasons are included among the Devil-worshipers, although, to be sure, they are called Luciferians instead of satanists and thus rendered slightly less -* Ibid., p.

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