Black Mass (Page 2)
One early account described how the marquise de Montespan (who was maid of honor to Queen Marie Thérèse and mistress of Louis XIV) had a Black Mass said in order to oust the existing queen and her rival (the duchesse de la Vallière) and to win the king's love. The marquise's schemes came to nothing, but the plot was discovered during the 'Affair of the Poisons' scandal. De Montespan was spared, but Catherine Monvoisin — a French sorceress and midwife commonly known as 'La Voisin' — was burned alive.
Gilles de Rais — a French noble, soldier (one time brother-in-arms of Joan of Arc), and allegedly a sorcerer as well, who with two assistants practiced diabolical rites at his castle of Machecoul — was also said to be in the habit of performing Black Mass, including the slaughtering of children, to aid his search for the philosopher's stone.
Pierre Aupetit, an apostate priest of the village of Fossas, in Limousine, France, was also burned for having celebrated the mysteries of the Devil's mass. His denouncers claimed that instead of speaking the holy words of consecration, the frequenters of his Sabbaths were on the habit of saying:
" Beelzebub, Beelzebub, Beelzebub."
The Devil in the shape of a butterfly would then appear and fly round those who were celebrating the Black Mass, who next ate a black host, which they were obliged to chew before swallowing.
It is possible that the concept of the Black Mass derived from underground traditions of Cathar heretics, who were put down by orthodox Christianity during the 14th century. The Cathars believed in two gods, the God of light and the Prince of darkness, the maker of all material things.
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Sources: (1) Dictionary of the Occult, Caxton Publishing; (2) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (3) Lavey, Anton Szandor, The Satanic Bible, Avon Books; (4) Cavendish, Richard, The Black Arts: An Absorbing Account of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages, Perigee Trade.
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