Artist: Felicien Rops (1833-1898)

Library arranged by Date Added here

General

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.)

A History of the Black Mass in Pictures

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

The 1960s and After

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)

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)

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

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

Falling Angel
(The source of Aubrey Melech's Missa Niger; Latin audio at end of page)

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

Messes Noires
(A novel about Black Masses in Paris, by Jehan Sylvius, 1929)

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.)

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

La Messe Noire
(The chapter on the Messe Noire in Gabriel Legué's La Messe Noire, Paris, 1903. A novelization of the Guibourg Mass.)

Apparitions de Satan, in Le Palladisme
(Two sections from Domenico Margiotta's 1895 book Le Palladisme, which present prayers in Latin and in French, worshiping Satan and demons. Although Margiotta's book is an offshoot of the Taxil Hoax, it can't be denied that he is publishing detailed and complete prayers, some in Latin, which are praying to Satan and cursing Jesus and God. The second half here is presented as a Satanic version of the Roman Catholic Litany of Saints, and is an invocation in French of 77 demons, asking them for their aid in fighting against and defeating Christianity. Some demons are described as being the specific enemy of a particular Christian personage, such as the Virgin Mary, or Saint Benedict.)

La Messe Noire
(The chapter detailing the Guibourg Mass in Gabriel Legué's Médecins et empoisonneurs au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1893. The records of Legué are cited by Anton LaVey as one of the sources for his "Messe Noir". H.T.F. Rhodes writes about Legué's work in his book The Satanic Mass: "Since Dr. Legué wrote his classic book wherein the Guibourg Mass is partially reconstructed, information concerning the ritual has been freely available". The presentation here is from Legué's chapter on the Messe Noire which was published in the popular French periodical Gil Blas in 1895.)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Early French Description of Black Mass at Witches' Sabbath
(In Florimond de Raemond, l'AntiChrist, Paris, 1597)

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

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.)

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.)

This web site cannot be fully understood, and the material contained on it fully appreciated, without understanding the Traditional Roman Catholic Latin Mass, in the original Latin. The essential tools for learning the Latin Mass are here: 1) A guide which contains all the Latin vocabulary for the Mass, and 2) the Latin Mass itself (about 20 pages), along with the rubrics (instructions) for the Latin Mass (about 40 pages). The reading of the Latin Mass takes about 1/2 an hour, and is on the MP3 file. Once familiar with the Latin of the Mass, the Rubrics are not difficult to learn to read, as they are in relatively simple and straight forward Church-Latin.

Latin Mass Guide
(Guide to the Latin Mass - PDF file.)

Latin Mass Instructions for Priests
(Guide to the Latin Mass for Priests - PDF file.)

The Latin Mass and Rubrics
(The Latin Mass and Rubrics - PDF file.)

Latin Mass
(Audio of the traditional Latin Mass - MP3 file.)

Latin Mass
(Video of the traditional Latin Mass - AVI file, 230MB.)

Missale Romanum
(The entire Latin Missal, 1920 edition - PDF file.)

Directory of the Traditional Latin Mass
(Directories for locating Traditional Latin Masses being offered in many locations)

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