Encouraged by the success which had attended his initial efforts, [78] he determined upon an independent experiment in bribery, and after the same manner that Leo Taxil procured the “Ritual of the New and Reformed Palladium,” so he succeeded in obtaining the “Collection of Secret Instructions to Supreme Councils, Grand Lodges, and Grand Orients,” printed at Charleston in the year 1891.
— from Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite
A crisis overtook me some three weeks ago from which I emerge only to hurl myself on this sheet of paper and consecrate it to you .
— from The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) by Henry James
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