88. www.johndee.org/charlotte/Chapter7/7pl.html.
89. His companion is often erroneously said to have been John Dee himself.
90. Summers, p. 6.
91. Ibid., p. 256.
92. Automatic writing is a common product of dissociation, deliberate or unconscious. One's hand writes apparently by itself, sometimes in another handwriting style, conveying messages that appear to come from another personality, and giving information that the person holding the pen seemingly could not have known.
93. Guy Lyon Playfair, `This Perilous Medium', The Unexplained, pp. 2934-7, c. 198 1.
94. Ibid.
95. Ibid.
96. Roy Stemman, `The Phenomenal Palladino', The Unexplained, pp. 2241-5, c.1981.
97. Ibid.
98. Ibid.
99. Ibid.
100. Ibid.
101. Suffering from intense religious rapture, Saint Joseph (1603-63) was questioned by the Inquisition, but released. Considered to be simple-minded - as a child he was known as `open-mouth' - he lacked the concentration for the most menial of tasks.
102. Personal conversation between myself and Professor Roy in the early 1980s.
103. Steinman.
104. Ibid.
105. Parapsychologists of the 1980s had a term for this phenomenon: `retrocogni-tive dissonance', meaning the further one moves away in time from witnessing even the most spectacular phenomena, the more one is liable to doubt them.
106. Charles Richet, `On the Conditions of Certainty', PSPR p. 14, No. 35,1899.
107. Dr Margaret Mead, quoted in Archie E. Roy in A Sense of Something Strange, Glasgow, 1990, p. 20.
1. Colin Wilson, The Occult, London, 1971, p. 372.
2. Ironically, as we have seen, `Salem' is Semitic for `peace' - other variations including `shalom'. `Jerusalem' means `House of Peace'. Shalem was the Hebrew Evening Star, twin to Shaher, or Lucifer, the Morning Star.
3. For the verbatim petitions of this and other convicted witches awaiting execution at Salem, see www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_ E&P.HTM.
4. Montague Summers, The History of Witchcraft, London, 1926, p. 146.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Typically, a mob would capture a black man accused of raping or abusing a white woman, and then proceed to beat and torture him publicly, setting fire to him, gouging out his eyes and/or cutting off his fingers, toes or genitals. Members of the crowd would be invited to participate in the torture. Eventually the victim would die of his injuries or be hanged or burnt to death. None of this was usually seen as cruel or anti-Christian: indeed, young people were encouraged to watch and even take part, almost as a sort of initiation into adulthood.
8. The Crucible by Arthur Miller was first produced on Broadway in 1953 but was not received well. However, a year later a new production won critical acclaim, setting the seal on the play as a modern classic.
9. Bombers and Mash, by Raynes Minns, London, 1980, p. 66.
10. As Elizabeth had no children, ironically the throne went to James, son of Mary Queen of Scots, whom she had had executed. James was the first king of that name in England, but James VI of Scotland.
11. More properly known as the Palace of Westminster.
12. Henry T.F. Rhodes, The Satanic Mass, London, 1954, p. 44.
13. Ibid.
14. Quoted in Ibid.
15. H.C. Lea, Materials Towards a History of Witchcraft, Philadelphia, 1939, p.101.
16. Of course if one analyses what is believed to happen during the mass in the form of transubstantiation - i.e., the bread and wine become Jesus' actual flesh and blood - all priests are sorcerers. This is high magic: indeed, some commentators have had no hesitation to denounce it as black magic.
17. In the Beauregard.
18. Montague Summers, The History of Witchcraft, London, 1926, p. 89.
19. Ibid., pp. 160-1.
20. Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, London, 1997, p. 108.
21. Also written 'Rays', `Rayx' or 'Retz'.
22. Joris Karl Huysmans, La Bas, Paris, 1891, is available in English as Down There, trans. Brendan King, London, 2001.
23. Wilson, p. 448.
24. Ibid., p. 449.
25. Ibid.
26. Richard Griffiths, The Reactionary Revolution, London, 1966, pp. 129-35.
27. Picknett and Prince, p. 226, referencing Griffiths, p. 131.
28. Mike Howard, online article for the discussion group Talking Stick South: `The Hellfire Club', //easyweb.easynet.co.uk/-rebis/ts-artic4.htm.
29. Quoted in ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Quoted in Ibid.
32. The Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, 19 February 1998, p. A20.
33. Chambers' Biographical Dictionary, general editor Magnus Magnusson, Edinburgh, 1990, p. 1077.
34. Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, p. A20.
35. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer, born in York.
36. A. Cockren, Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored, New York, 1941, p. 82.
37. F. E. Manuel, The Religion of Isaac Newton, Oxford, 1974, p. 62.
38. Michael White, Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer, Addison Wesley, 1997, p. 49.
39. D. W. Hauck, `Isaac Newton the Alchemist', www.alchemylab.com/isaac-newton.htm, p3.
40. Ibid.
41. Such as B.J.T. Dobbs in The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy Cambridge, 1984.
42. Paul Begg, `The Man Who Created Life', The Unexplained, c.1981, p. 1767.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid. Actually, the first dry-cell battery was produced by Georges Leclanche in1868.
45. Ibid.
46. Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, London, 1972, Chapter XIII.
47. See Picknett and Prince; Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, The Temple and the Lodge, London, 1989, and John J. Robinson, Born in Blood, London, 1990.
48. Lewis Spence, An Encyclopaedia of Occultism, London, 1920, p. 174.
49. Robinson, pp. 55-62, quoted in Picknett and Prince, p. 165.
50. Robert Lomas, The Invisible College, London, 2002, p. 3.
51. Thomas Spratt, A History of the Royal Society, quoted in ibid., p. 79.
52. Ibid.
53. S. Brent Morris, `Albert Pike and Lucifer: The Lie That Will Not Die', short talk Bulletin (Masonic). I am indebted to Robert Lomas for providing the text of this talk.
54. `Do Freemasons worship Satan/Lucifer?', www.geocities.com/endtime deception/worshipprint.htm, citing the alleged `Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, July 14, 1889. Recorded by A.C. De La Rive in La
