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The Alchemist, v. 1, issue 5, February 1941
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10 ---- ALCHEMIST ---- ants [remnants] of their clothing and fall upon each other, writhing, shrieking, howling, biting, tearing flesh and spitting forth obscenities and blasphemies. This is a brief summary of Huysmans description. In the introduction to the book, "La Bas", he declares that he has not told the worst, having withheld the really frightful portions of his accounts from publication. It will, however, serve, I trust to take the illusion of glamor away from the concepts of the Black Mass in the imaginations of readers. For this thing is not weird, not imaginative, and not even erotic. It is sheer degradation, the embracing of foulness, nauseating to contemplate. That the participants recieve [receive] no pleasure from the frenzies goes without saying; it lies on the thing borderline of total insanity, a borderline which many worshipers soon cross permanently. It is interesting, I think, to note that worshippers of the Devil are not the rebels they seem to consider themselves. By the very fury of their intricate system of repeated denials they confess their very real belief. The militant atheist is merely a believer turned inside out. Moreover, despite their professed adoration of evil, they cannot escape from concepts of justice and sin, which one logically devoted to the powers of darkness would not consider at all. One can only pity them when confronted with such. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ** ORDER NOW! ** The Lovecraft Memorial Volume, THE OUTSIDE AND OTHERS from August Derleth, Sauk City, Wisconsin. The backing of this superb book will bring about greater assurance of the other two volumes of Lovecraft's works....$5.00 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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10 ---- ALCHEMIST ---- ants [remnants] of their clothing and fall upon each other, writhing, shrieking, howling, biting, tearing flesh and spitting forth obscenities and blasphemies. This is a brief summary of Huysmans description. In the introduction to the book, "La Bas", he declares that he has not told the worst, having withheld the really frightful portions of his accounts from publication. It will, however, serve, I trust to take the illusion of glamor away from the concepts of the Black Mass in the imaginations of readers. For this thing is not weird, not imaginative, and not even erotic. It is sheer degradation, the embracing of foulness, nauseating to contemplate. That the participants recieve [receive] no pleasure from the frenzies goes without saying; it lies on the thing borderline of total insanity, a borderline which many worshipers soon cross permanently. It is interesting, I think, to note that worshippers of the Devil are not the rebels they seem to consider themselves. By the very fury of their intricate system of repeated denials they confess their very real belief. The militant atheist is merely a believer turned inside out. Moreover, despite their professed adoration of evil, they cannot escape from concepts of justice and sin, which one logically devoted to the powers of darkness would not consider at all. One can only pity them when confronted with such. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ** ORDER NOW! ** The Lovecraft Memorial Volume, THE OUTSIDE AND OTHERS from August Derleth, Sauk City, Wisconsin. The backing of this superb book will bring about greater assurance of the other two volumes of Lovecraft's works....$5.00 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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