LUCIUS VERUS LES GRIMOIRES DE SATAN UND THE PORTUGUESE POTLATCH

The FREEDMEN IN THE STATE

EVERY DESPOT NEEDS MINISTERS

UNDER LUCIUS SO ARES VERUS CLAUDIUS SILVANUS

AND NERO WOLF (THE SOCRATES COVILHANENSIS)

THE imperial freedmen attained their greatest ascendancy

they accumulated enormous wealth

by abusing their power and making a traffic in civic rights in places or pardons

and were agents of corruption

WHEN THE MORALS OF THOSE POLITICAL CONCUBINES BECAME LOWER THAN SLIME

THE POPULAR OPINION UNDERGONE A INVERSION IN FOUR DAYS

LED IRREVOCABLY TO THE CONCLUSION

PARADOXICAL AS IT MAY SEEM

THAT HE WHO AS GUILTY OF IMMORALITY KNOWING IT TO BE WRONG

WAS FAR LESS CRIMINAL THAN HE WHO BELIEVING IT TO BE RIGHT

UND SO VICE BECOME PROVERBIAL

AND the GODS OF VICE BURN THE PORTUGUESE GIFTS

IN SATAN'S POTLATCH