This having also failed, great stones were raised from the floor, a nameless stench ascended, and a large consignment of living fakirs, eaten to the bone by worms and falling to pieces in every direction, were dragged out from among a number of skeletons, while serpents, giant spiders, and toads swarmed from all parts.

The Grand Master seized one of the fakirs and cut his throat upon the altar, chanting the satanic liturgy amidst imprecations, curses, a chaos of voices, and the last agonies of the goat.

The blood spirted forth upon the assistants, and the Grand Master sprinkled the Baphomet.
A final howl of invocation resulted in complete failure, whereupon it was decided that Baal-Zeboub had business elsewhere.

The doctor departed from the ceremony, fraternising with Campbell, and kept his bed for eight-and-forty hours.
Sec.5._The seven Temples and a Sabbath in Sheol._ It was in the month of October 1880 that, in the course of his enterprise, Doctor Bataille reached Calcutta.

Freemasonry, he informs us, invariably affects the horrible, and as he invests Calcutta with the sombre hues of living death and universal putrefaction, it naturally follows that the Indian city is one of the four great directing centres of Universal Freemasonry.