Artist: Felicien Rops (1833-1898)

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Added June, 2009

Die Synagoge des Satan: Ihre Entstehung, Einrichtung und jetztige Bedeutung
(Synagoga Satanae: The Origins of Satan's Church, and the Worship of Satan's Church, by Stanisław Przybyszewski, Berlin, 1897)

Added April, 2009

La Sorcière: La Messe Noire
(Chapter 11 of Jules Michelet's 1862 book on witchcraft, with illustrations from the 1911 edition by Martin van Maele )
More illustrations from book here Entire French source text

Added November, 2008

The Satanic Mass of the Church of Satan
(not an actual Black Mass in the traditional sense; contains material some of which later appeared, re-worked, in The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals; from the album by Anton LaVey and members of the Church of Satan The Satanic Mass, 1968)

Added June, 2008

La Messe de Saint Sécaire
(The original French text of the Mass of Saint Sécaire, from the Gascony region of France. First published in 1883 by Jean-François Bladé, later referred to by James Frazer and Montague Summers)

Added January, 2008

Epistula Fundamenti
(The main competitor of the early Roman Catholic Church, this 3rd century Latin book clarifies how the evil satanic realm of matter and greed was separate from the good, spiritual realm from the beginning, and describes the details of the realm of darkness and its satanic collaborators, and their fight and victory against the world of light.)

Added August, 2007

Messe Noire filmed in 1928
(Clips from a 1928 French movie of a Black Mass and initiation of a neophyte into a group of Satanists.)

Added January, 2007

The Year 1966 - I Anno Satanae
(The timelines of the Latin Roman Catholic Mass and the Latin Black Mass, and the critical turning point in 1966.)

Added December 22, 2006

La Messe Noire
(The chapter on the Messe Noire in Gabriel Legué's La Messe Noire, Paris, 1903. Essentially a novelization of the Guibourg Mass, it is cited by Anton LaVey as one of the sources for his "Messe Noir". )

Added August 2, 2006

Falling Angel
(The source of Aubrey Melech's Missa Niger)

Added January 2006

Hocus Pocus
(The first documentation of the use of the words "Hocus Pocus" is apparently from 17th century England. The words seem to be derived from the Transubstantiation in the Roman Catholic Mass)

Added December 2005

Missa Potatorum
(Parodies and satires of the Roman Catholic Mass, written by Roman Catholics between 1200 and 1600. Gamblers Mass, Drinkers Masses, and the Gospel of the Silver Mark.)

Original Four Black Masses
(The complete texts of the Satanic Mass - 1969, the Missa Solemnis - 1970, the Messe Noir - 1972, and the Missa Niger - 1985. Brief historical notes added.)
Word Document here

Added January 2005

Messe Luciférienne
(A Black Mass in Paris in the 1930s, in Pierre Geyraud, Les Petites Églises de Paris, 1937)

Added October 2004

Sources for the Black Mass of Abbé Guibourg
(Translated from the original French sources, in Gerhard Zacharias' book Der Dunkle Gott)

Added September 2004

Les Messes Noires
(Black Masses from de Sade's works Justine, Juliette and Les 120 journées de Sodome)

Là-bas - la Messe Noire
(The Black Mass of J. K. Huysmans, 1891)

Added August 2004

The Satanic Mass of Coven
(an early attempt at creating an authentic Black Mass, from the album by Coven Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls, 1969)

Added June 2004

Gerald Gardner on the Black Mass
(from The Meaning of Witchcraft, 1959)

Added May 2004

Messa Nera
(The Black Mass of Catherine de Medici, 1574)

Added February 2004

Retap Retson
(The Lord's Prayer backwards in Latin - various versions)

Added November 2003

Libri Luciferius
(Information and links to this Latin book of praises to Lucifer, 1999)

Added February 2003

Pact with the Devil
(A Pact with Lucifer, used as evidence in the trial of Urbain Grandier, Loudoun, France, 1633)

Added November 2002

Missa Niger: La Messe Noire
Missa Niger (MS Word) Missa Niger (PDF)
(The complete book by Aubrey Melech)

Added October 2002

The Black Mass, Ancient and Modern
(Italian translation of La Messe Noire, by Joanny Bricaud, Paris, 1924 - PDF file)

The Black Mass of the Marquis de Sade
(A chapter on the Black Mass from Iwan Bloch's book on de Sade)

Montague Summers on the Black Mass
(From Witchcraft and Black Magic, 1946)

The Incense of the Black Mass
(An analysis of a section in Huysmans' Là-Bas)

Added September 2002:

A History of the Black Mass in Pictures

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