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The Devil and All His Works DENNIS WHEATlsEV - TheDevil and All · His Works BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES LONDON Designed and produced by George Rainbird Ltd 36 Park Street London WI Y 4DE Photoset, printed and bound in Great Britain. Picture research: Patricia Vaughan and Alison Bewley Cathie Design: Stuart Perry First published 1971 This edition published 1977 by Book Club Associates By arrangement with Hutchinson Publishing Co. ©Dennis Wheatley 1971 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd Title-page The bat: a form that vampires were said to assume for flying through the windows of their victims 4 ontents _\uthor's Note 6 PART 4 Beliefs in the Past 2,500 Years ratement 8 Introductory I3I Greece I3I Palestine I 38 Gnosticism I44 P'lRT I The Invisible Influences The Druids I47 • ntroductory I I Rome I48 _ 1esmerism: in the Old World I2 The Coming of Christ I 56 _ 1esmerism: in the United States I8 Mithraism and Manichaeism I6I Hypnotism 22 Mohammedanism I64 Faith Healing 29 The Cabala I68 Telepathy 30 The Dark Ages I7I Premonitions 34 The Incas I75 The Rosicrucians I82 The Freemasons I83 P_\RT 2 Predestination or Free Will? The Theosophists I8S Introductory 4I Astrology 4I PART 5 Of Witches and Warlocks _- umerology 45 Introductory I89 Cheirognomy and Cheiromancy so The Little People I89 Cartomancy s6 The Coming of the Devil I93 Oairvoyance 59 The Middle Ages I97 P ychometry 62 The Alchemists 205 Clairaudience 63 Sorcerers 2IO Oracles 65 The Tools of the Trade 2I9 _ ecromancy 67 The Sabbaths 223 Haruspicy 76 The Later Middle Ages 229 Other Methods of Divination 76 The Great Persecution 234 The Salem Witch Trials 239 The Frauds 243 P.\RT 3 Beliefs in Early Ages Australasia and the Pacific 245 Introductory 83 Of Apparitions 248 Prehistoric Man 85 Modern Occultists 253 The Sumerians 89 Voodoo 26I Egypt 94 Magic and the Fate of Nations 265 Taoism I02 The Black Art Today 268 India Io6 Conclusions and the 'Way' 275 Central America I IS Zoroastrianism I20 Notes on the Illustrations Confucianism I22 and Acknowledgments 280 Buddhism I26 Index 283 5 Author's Note To write a book with so great a range of subjects as this one attempts to cover, I have by necessity used a great many literary sources. Their very bulk prevents me from making detailed acknowledg ment of them all, and if, in mentioning those to which I owe most, I omit any that should have been included, let me assure my benefactor, with apologies, that the omission is inadvertent and will be remedied in future editions of the book. My thanks are specially due to the following publishers or other owners of copyright, and to the authors or editors if still living, for permitting me to quote, often quite extensively, from the works specified: Faber & Faber Ltd: Modern Experimwts in Telepathy by S. G. Soal and F. Bateman. The Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., New York, sponsors: Abnormal Hypnotic Phenomena, Vol. I (France by Eric]. Dingwall) and Vol. IV (U.S.A. by Allan Angoff, Great Britain by Eric ]. Dingwall), from the series edited by Eric]. Dingwall, published by J. & A. Churchill, London. Ernest Benn Ltd: Death and Its Mystery by Camille Flam marion, translated from the French by E. S. Brooks. C. A. Watts & Co. Ltd: Twilight of the Gods by Richard Garnett. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd: Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot de Givry, translated from the French by ]. Courtenay Locke. Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., New York: The Devil in Massachusetts, copyright © 1949 by Marion Starkey, published by Alfred Knopf, Inc., New York; and The Reluctant Prophet by Daniel Logan, published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, all rights reserved. Rider & Co.: Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi, translated from the French by A. E. Waite. Barrie & Jenkins Ltd: Cheiro's Language of the Hand and Cheiro's Book of Numbers. IPC Magazines Ltd: article 'Quantum processes predicted?' by Dr Helmut Schmidt, published in the issue of New Scientist dated October 16th 1969 and quoted in part, with acknowledgment, by the London Times. Mr John Symonds, literary executor of the late Aleister Crowley: Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley, published privately. To Mr Richard Cavendish I am particularly indebted for the use he has permitted me to make of his The Black Arts (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd), now almost a classic in its kind. Acknowledgment must be made to that invaluable work the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has provided me with much useful information, besides acting as a check on auth~rities less compre hensive than itself. Finally, I should like to offer my grateful thanks to the staff of George Rainbird Ltd for the assistance given to me in the preparation of this book for the press. D.W. 6 or my dear wife Joan a. I have by necessity en ~1r George Rain bird first invited me to write a book of this kind, I felt that : detailed acknowledg ·ed the academic knowledge for such an undertaking, and I declined. my that should have But a few months later Mr Rainbird approached me again, and my wife then o::::SSion is inadvertent and uaded me that from the four thousand books in my library and nearly sixty of serious reading, I had acquired more knowledge than I could have by a years spent at any University. It is therefore to her that my readers owe this ·, and I the great enjoyment I derived once I set about writing it. "--==>..,., HypnotiC Phenomena, Great Britain by Eric Churchill, London. ~Tight © 1949 by ' Reluctant Prophet by ·:hts reserved. chmidt, published acknowledgment, D.W. 7