"The black magic of the middle ages, with its witchcraft and orgies, is not dead; only its

form has changed like all other forms in nature. It has incarnated again in our age with all its power and fury. It is gnawing as in the days of old, gnawing at the very heart of our civilization... As the black magaician has no legitimate means of securing his power, not having passed through the school of reclamation, he wanders the earth vampirizing humanity in order to secure the vitality which he must have in order to continue his operations." - Manly P. Hall