THE NEW FEDERALIST January 12, 1990 Pages 6-7

American Almanac

Was Mark Twain A Satanic Pedophile?

by Stephanie Ezrol and Stanley Ezrol

Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, at his home in Redding, Connecticut.

"You may think Twain is a harmless purveyor of homespun, irreverent humor. A closer look shows that he was a depraved, Satanic ideologue . . . part of a movement to destroy the moral underpinning of the American System, and replace it with amoral pragmatism."

Most citizens, discovering that 50,000 or more American children are kid-napped and butchered each year by Satanic cults, cannot comprehend how it could be possible for human beings to manifest such bestiality. Many assume that Satanic pedophiles must be total psychopaths, incapable of "normal" human thoughts or emotions. But investigators assure us that pedophiles generally operate in well-organized groups, and often include respectable members of the community—lawyers, judges, clergy, teachers, and scout leaders—many of whom get along quite well with children.

In the course of investigating the roots of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of Satanism in the United States and Europe, our attention was arrested by the case of perhaps the most popular author in

American history, best known for his children's books, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain.

You may think Twain is a harmless purveyor of homespun, irreverent humor, but we discovered that he was a depraved, Satanic ideologue, who, at the very least, fantasized about vilely abusing and murdering children. Twain's sarcasm was directed against the principles of American law, the moral tradition of the American Revolution. He was part of a movement to destroy the moral underpinnings of the American System and replace it with prag-matism, the amoral devotion to "whatever works." The strategic goal of this movement was to push the United States into an imperialist alliance with Great Britain, China, and Russia.

You may wonder how this great nation, this temple of liberty, this beacon of hope, could have been so degraded. If you think that pragmatism is "non-ideological" good old American common sense, your ignorance is a reflec-tion of the problem. In fact, pragmatism is born of fiendish rage against the idea of the sacred dignity of man.

Twain's friend, the Harvard psychology professor William James, who invented the term "pragmatism," was the founder of the elite American Society for Psychical Research, and a propagandist for belief in the occult. Although Pragmatists claim to be devoted to "whatever works," by denying the most fundamental scientific truth, namely man's divine quality, and focusing instead on their own infantile immediate urges, and their perception of powerful forces surrounding them, they have proven that pragmatism doesn't work. The stagnation and collapse of the American economy, resulting in two great depressions following the Pragmatists' coup against the legacy of Abraham Lincoln in 1901, is proof of that.

Twain and His Heirs

In Twain's lifetime, the Pragmatists embroiled the United States in an imperialist war against Spain, placed Twain's friend John Hay as Secretary of State of the United States, and, upon the third assassination of a United States President in thirty-six years, placed William James' psychology student Theodore Roosevelt in the White House, and James's life-long friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the son of Twain's literary associate, on the Supreme Court.

In the realm of jurisprudence, the applications of this philosophy of rage against reason culminated in this century in the bizarre conspiracy theory

behind the nationwide "Get LaRouche" prosecutions, which contend that the fact that Lyndon LaRouche and his associates appealed to the public to support policies based on a vision of sacred humanity, was prima facie evidence of a conspiracy to defraud. Rage against the idea of the sacred dignity of man is so ingrained in the judges and prosecutors of these cases, that they have ruled that it may be argued that such appeals are evidence of fraud, without permitting the defense to present any evidence to demonstrate their truth.

The Get LaRouche task force includes biological and ideological heirs of Twain's circle of accomplices. William F. Weld, the former Boston United States Attorney who instigated the 1984 grand jury investigation, is a descendant of Samuel Weld, who financed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s professorship at Harvard, worked for a United States-Maoist Chinese alli-ance, and married into the Roosevelt family. His assistant, John Markham, was an activist in the Satanic Process Church.

Dr. Henry Kissinger, perhaps the best known figure in the task force, was, like Twain, financed by the Rockefeller family. His career was launched by Harvard University, and he was instrumental in the rapprochement between the United States, Russia, and Maoist China. President George Bush, the current titular head of the task force, is an heir of the "progressive" wing of the Connecticut Republican Party, which was founded by Twain's collabora-tors of the "Nook Farm" silk stocking ghetto of Hartford, who served as ambassador to Maoist China, and has done everything he can to mold his administration in the kooky traditions of Theodore Roosevelt.

The American Kantians

Twain's global fame was built through his association with the Boston literary circle led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, known as the "Transcendental-ists." Emerson and his circle were dedicated to promoting the abominable outlook of Immanuel Kant in the United States, in order to destroy the young American republic.

Kant's view was that man's divine qualities, human creativity and human progress, the purposes for which the United States was founded, are freak-ish, mysterious entities which cannot be deliberately fostered by human beings. Since the purpose of the United States Constitution was precisely to nurture human creative progress, Emerson's cabal was dedicated to wrecking

Above, members of the Transcendentalist circle which recruited Twain (from left); W. D. Howells, Twain, George Harvey, H. M. Alden, David Munro, and M. W. Hazeltine. Clockwise, below from top left: Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who promoted Twain, and Emerson's protégés, novelist Henry James, Harvard Professor William James, and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

the republic, and allied with the successors of the Hartford, Connecticut-centered "Essex Junto", which favored the secession of New England.

In 1860, William Dean Howells, the man who was to be Twain's "angel" from 1867 until 1910, traveled from his native Ohio to Boston and met with Emerson and his circle. Howells, who had been born into the weird Swe-denborgian cult, and was an intimate of the Ohio anti-Lincoln Republican, Salmon P. Chase, hit it off well with Emerson's Transcendentalists.

The twenty-six-year-old Howells, who had published some poems in the transendentalists' journal, the Atlantic Monthly, a campaign biography of Lincoln, and some anti-slavery tracts, was anxious to both break into the Boston literary scene, and secure a diplomatic appointment abroad which would keep him out of the fighting, should Civil War break out.

He was invited to the home of James Russell Lowell, holder of the chair of modern literature at Harvard. There, he met Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, father of the future supreme court justice, and James T. Field, of Ticknor & Fields, the chief publishing house of Boston, and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly. A deal was struck.

Dr. Holmes announced the group's decision to give the young Howells a leading role in shaping American literature. He leaned over to his host and said, "Well, James, this is something like an apostolic succession; this is the laying on of hands."

Howells, with his intimate connections to America's West, and public identi-fication with Lincoln, was a suitable vehicle for the Transcendentalists' pro-ject, the importation of Kantian philosophy, or British radical empiricism, to the United States, labeled "Made in the U.S.A."

Howells would find the writers who would create an American literature to replace the heritage of Milton, Shakespeare, Schiller, and Dante, as well as those Americans in the Revolutionary tradition, Edgar Allan Poe, whom Emerson called "the jingle man," when Howells mentioned him, and James Fenimore Cooper. Through the intervention of Salmon Chase, and the Boston circle, Howells secured an appointment as American consul in Venice, Italy where he, according to his own account in Venetian Life, idly passed the bloody Civil War years sipping coffee on the piazzas and taking the sun on the canals in his gondola.

After the war, he returned to Boston, went to work at the Atlantic and later Harper's. In 1867, he was responsible for the publication in the Atlantic, of a favorable review of a "subscription" book, The Innocents Abroad, which had been written by an obscure San Francisco journalist writing under the name Mark Twain. It was the first time that a subscription book had been treated seriously by the Boston literati. The result was Twain's promotion to trans-Atlantic "superstar" status.

The Son of a Witch

Twain's nephew, Charles Webster, wrote that Twain's mother was a devotee of the occult. "To the end of her days anything mystic intrigued her, and when she was an old lady . . . there was nothing she enjoyed more than the visits from her doctor who was a spiritualist. . . . Jane Clemens always answered his questions about her ailments as fast as possible so she would have time to hear the latest news from the spirit world."

Webster also wrote that, "As a boy Uncle Sam was supposed to be a mind reader . . . the neighbors were invited in and entertained by him." The young Sam Clemens was said to have had "strange dreams and premonitions, was a good subject for mesmerism, and was known to be a somnambulist."

In 1856, Clemens became a Mississippi river-boat pilot, in the course of which employment he was inducted into the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. His later writing, was littered with Masonic and occultist imagery. As demonstrated by Alexander Jones of the University of Arkansas in his 1954 article, "Mark Twain and Freemasonry," Masonic ritual was inserted into The Innocents Abroad in ways that are clearly not humorous, but "merely Bro. Clemens indicating his presence in a book by 'Mark Twain.'"

Jones demonstrates that Twain's image of man as an insignificant insect or a microbe is taken directly from the Scottish Rite's leading figure of the nine-teenth century, Albert Pike, who wrote, "We are as unimportant in this boundless universe as the zoophytes and entozoa, or as the invisible particles of animated life that float upon the air or swarm in the water-drop."

When the Civil War started, Clemens and some fellow pilots formed a Confederate unit, which they disbanded before engaging in battle. Mean-while, Twain's elder brother, Orion Clemens, had secured an appointment as secretary to the Territory of Nevada, through Republican Party circles. In 1861, Sam Clemens took the opportunity to work as Orion's assistant and rode out the war far to the West of any fighting.

In May 1864, Clemens relocated to San Francisco, to accept a job as a reporter for the Call. There, he associated with a literary circle transplanted from New York and Boston. Bret Harte, author of the Bohemian Papers (1867), who was appointed secretary of the U.S. Mint in 1862, became Twain's closest friend. Others in the circle included Ambrose Bierce, Charles Warren Stoddard, Prentice Mulford, and Charles Henry Webb, who was the literary editor of the New York Times from 1860 to 1863, and founder in 1864 of the literary magazine, the Californian, which published the works of this circle, pioneering in the use of the western dialect—broken English. In 1867, Webb published Twain's first book, Jumping Frog and Other Sketches, in New York City.

Twain and Harte specialized in muckraking articles attacking the San Fran-cisco police department and the San Francisco municipal government. They continued the work of the vigilante movement which was run by the pro-secession "Chivalry Democrats" against the pro-Union California Demo-crats.

PR for the Yankee Clippers

The turning point in Clemens's career was a trip to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands between March and August of 1866, which provided the core of material used for his public lectures between 1866 and 1873.

In June of 1866, Anson A. Burlingame, the former "radical" Republican congressman from Massachusetts, now U.S. minister to China, stopped in Honolulu on his way to Peking and immediately befriended the Confederate partisan Twain.

Although he was dispatched to China as U.S. minister, Burlingame promptly became the first Chinese ambassador to the foreign powers.

After spending the Civil War years safely in Peking, where he allied closely with the British interests who were supporters of the Confederacy and the opium trade, the Manchus hired Burlingame to convince the U.S. and Euro-pean powers that there was no Chinese need for, and no Chinese interest in, the industrial development of China, or any form of Western culture. In letters discussing his mission as an agent of the Chinese, Burlingame made it clear that he knew that the Chinese rulers continued to consider all non-Chinese as barbarians, whom they would prefer to completely exclude from their country, but Burlingame had gained their respect during his term as U.S. ambassador.

Like his intellectual descendants of today, George Bush and Henry Kissin-ger, Burlingame called for respecting the rights of the Manchu dynasty against outside intervention, at a time when it was butchering millions of its subjects for their agitation in favor of "American"-style reforms.

Burlingame spent six weeks with Twain in Honolulu, introducing him to influential people, and even doing interviews of survivors of a shipwreck for Twain when he got too ill to do them himself. His parting words to Twain were:

You have great ability; I believe you have genius. What you need now is the refinement of association. Seek companionship among men of superior intellect and character. Refine yourself and your work. Never affiliate with inferiors, always climb.

Come to Peking next winter and visit me. Make my house your home. I will give you letters and introduce you. You will have facilities for acquiring information on China.

The text of Twain's first public lecture, given in San Francisco on October 2, 1866, shows that after telling funny stories about natives and descriptive narratives of volcanoes, he spent ten minutes advocating U.S. annexation of the Sandwich Islands.

Annexation was the "punch line" of every speech. Twain had become a pitch-man for the Boston interests whose trade with the orient included opium as well as sugar.

The success of the Sandwich Island lectures was followed by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, Twain's relocation to New England, and his direct collaboration with Howells, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the rest of the Transcendentalists, their protégés, William and Henry James, and their British occultist collaborators.

Reform Republican

By this time, the Confederate partisan had become a solid "radical Republi-can." He settled in the "Nook Farm" community of Hartford, Connecticut, which was a stronghold in the Republican Party battle against urban immi-grant and working class political machines. He collaborated on his second novel, The Gilded Age, with Charles Dudley Warner, a founder of the Connecticut Republican Party, and editor of the Republican Hartford

Courant. Warner used the Courant, as a vehicle for attacks on the "corrup-tion" of politicians, such as New York's "Boss" Tweed, who had working class support. The Gilded Age, published in 1873, in the course of a cam-paign to jail Tweed and dozens of other political figures, painted local townspeople who were trying to develop their regions by bringing in railroads and other improvements as corrupt, greedy, bumbling fools.

Twain aptly described his and Warner's method in Pudd'nhead Wilson, where he wrote, "There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless."

Twain's 1889 novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, is a prototype for the anti-nuclear scare stories of the 1980s. The novel, written when the Morgan interests and the New York Times were at war against Thomas Edison's campaign to electrify America, ends in a holocaust of electrocution of the sort the Times warned would result from electrification.

In the final scene, the "Connecticut Yankee," Hank Morgan, and 52 young boys loyal to him, attempt to protect themselves from an onslaught of 25,000 Knights of the Round Table by constructing several rings of electrified fences and moats. Morgan dies when he is trapped in this cave by the 25,000 dead bodies of knights killed by the fences, and is poisoned by the fumes of the rotting corpses.

These anti-technology propaganda efforts solidified Twain's standing with the same financial interests which direct today's ecology freak movement. In 1893, he began what was to be a close association with Henry Huddleston Rogers, who became his friend and financial adviser. Rogers was John D. Rockefeller's second in command at Standard Oil, as well as a close associ-ate of railroad magnate E. H. Harriman. Twain was sufficiently appreciated in these circles that he joined Rockefeller and Harriman in serving as a pall-bearer at Rogers' funeral.

The Beast Unmasked

In 1935, a full quarter-century after Clemens's death, his designated literary heir, Albert Bigelow Paine, lied about Twain's literary remains in his notes to the edition of his Twain biography published that year. He also reported that Twain's will ordered him to conceal much of his work from public view.

Paine wrote that he denied a request to examine Twain's unpublished works as follows:

I wrote the young man what was exactly true—that the manu-scripts which he wished to glean from were stored in the depths of a safe deposit vault; that I was sure that the trustees of the estate would not consent to their removal and that he could not possibly read them where they were. . . . A little further along I wrote that Mark Twain's own published work, and the examples of his unpublished material in the Appendix to my biography, covered, as I thought, rather fully the scope of his effort. . . .

There was another reason . . . Mark Twain himself had quite definite ideas as to the disposition of his literary effects, and he left instructions accordingly—instructions that thus far have been carried out.

Paine, as executor of Twain's literary estate, knew he was lying when he said there was nothing to be learned from Twain's unpublished work.

We now have enough evidence to show that behind Twain's pragmatism raged a towering hatred of all that is beautiful in mankind. Nor was Twain an aberration in this circle of Ralph Waldo Emerson's protégés. Occultism, drug use, and degeneracy was typical of Emerson's "Pragmatists," who conspired to crush Lincoln's divine hope for America, after John Wilkes Booth took his life.

In 1962, fifty-two years after Clemens's death, and twenty-five years after Albert Bigelow Paine's death, some of Twain's work, which had been written for private circulation to his friends, was exposed to public view for the first time. These works, which Paine and his successors had hidden "in the depths of a safe deposit vault" for decades, reveal that like today's rock stars, the Rolling Stones, who also profess "sympathy for the Devil," Twain was not merely a cynic, or a liberal defender of evil, but an ardent servant of Satan. They demonstrate that Twain's cynical humor was based on his Satanic faith, which he ordered be kept hidden from public view.

In Letters from the Earth, Twain writes as Satan, reporting on the human race to his friend, the Archangel Gabriel. The book is an exposition of the classical Satanic view that God the Creator, is man's chiefest tormentor. The essence of this torment, was that God created man with a base, lustful, bestial character, while oppressing him by teaching that man ought to be good. Satan attempts to tempt man in rebellion against the oppression of God's Law, and to follow his own natural inclination, pragmatism, instead.

Twain, writing in Satan's name, opens the book by attacking the "Master Intellect" for his latest invention, "Law—Automatic Law—exact and unvarying Law. . . . That is the new miracle, and the greatest of all—Automatic Law! and He gave it a name—the Law of Nature—and said Natural Law is the Law of God— interchangeable names for one and the same thing."

Twain thus supports the attacks on Natural Law which his friend's son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, was then making from the bench of the United States Supreme Court. Characteristically, Twain's attack on God the Creator was dishonestly based on a falsified description of God's law as "Automatic Law—exact and unvarying."

Of man, he says:

Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the "noblest work of God." This is the truth I am telling you. And this is not a new idea with him, he has talked it through all the ages, and believed it. Believed it, and found nobody among his race to laugh at it.

Moreover—if I may put another strain upon you—he thinks he is the Creator's pet. He believes the Creator is proud of him; he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him.

Satan's spokesman, Twain, then goes on to assert that the Creator is actually the cause of every misfortune which has afflicted man. Using the case of hookworm, he remarks on how unjust it is that when a cure was finally found, men said, "Thank God," when the disease was caused by God in the first place. The real thanks, Twain suggests, ought to go to "Mr. Rockefel-ler," Twain's real-life patron, who put up the money for the cure.

What does this warm-hearted lover of his fellow man, and especially his fellow man's children, actually think of the "little people," he wrote for? As Satan, he wrote:

Temperament is the law of God written in the heart of every creature by God's own hand, and must be obeyed, and will be obeyed in spite of all restricting or forbidding statutes. . . . If the Bible said to the goat, "Thou shalt not fornicate, thou shalt not commit adultery," even Man—sap-headed man—would

recognize the foolishness of the prohibition. . . . Yet he thinks it right and just that man should be put under the prohibition. . . .

On its face this is stupid, for, by temperament, which is the real law of God, many men are goats and can't help committing adultery when they get a chance; whereas there are numbers of men who, by temperament, can keep their purity and let an opportunity go by if the woman lacks in attractiveness. . . .

During twenty-three days in every month . . . from the time a woman is seven years old 'till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent, competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants the candle-yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

President Abraham Lincoln, whose tradition the Transcendentalists worked to destroy.

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Above, the statue of racist Teddy Roosevelt, flanked by American Indian and negro manservants, which stands outside of the Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Sympathy for the Devil

You might still think Twain was simply trying to be shocking and simply having a bit of fun in the privately circulated, Letters from the Earth, or that

it was a satirical attack against Satan. Letters from the Earth is, however, only one of dozens of admiring invocations of Satan in Twain's work.

In his Autobiography, Twain claims that he inherited a certain sympathy for the Devil from his mother, whom he called a "friend of Satan," adding, "And I have always felt friendly toward Satan."

She admitted . . . that Satan was utterly wicked and abandoned, (he wrote) but would any claim that he had been treated fairly? . . . Who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needs a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

In his 1895 Personal Recollections of St. Joan of Arc, he desecrates the martyred maid by claiming she expressed the same sympathy. "What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child, and yet can't pity a devil's child that a thousand times more needs it!"

In 1899, he wrote an article for Harper's magazine titled "Concerning the Jews." It contains the most vile characterization of Jews as the world's best money-grubbers, but claims not to be anti-Semitic, as follows:

I will begin by saying that if I thought myself prejudiced against the Jew, I should hold it fairest to leave this subject to a person not crippled in that way. But I think I have no such prejudice. . . . All that I care to know is that a man is a human being—that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. We have none but the evidence for the prosecution, and yet we have rendered the verdict. . . . As soon as I can get at the facts I will undertake his rehabilita-tion myself, if I can find an unpolitic publisher. . . . We may not pay him reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. A person who has for untold centuries

maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order. In his large presence the other popes and politicians shrink to midgets for the microscopes. . . . I would rather see him and shake him by the tail than any other member of the European Concert.

A Pedophile's Handbook

If you still think this is all just good fun, consider Twain's grotesque novel, The Mysterious Stranger, published in 1916 by Bigelow Paine, based on Twain's manuscripts.

Keep in mind that Twain's friend, the psychologist William James, pushed psychotomimetic (psychosis-inducing) drugs from his Harvard professorship nearly a century before Dr. Timothy Leary, and proselytized in favor of the positive spiritual value of the ailment known as "multiple personality dis-order," which modern investigators have found is often traceable to child abuse.

As he was writing the manuscripts, a sanitized version of which Paine later published as The Mysterious Stranger, Twain was reading James's Principles of Psychology. He also recorded in his notebooks that he avidly read all of the publications of James's Society for Psychical Research.

Seen through the eyes of an investigator of Satanic cult pedophilia, The Mysterious Stranger reads like a handbook for the Satanic seduction, control, and psychological destruction of young children. The book is the story of a strange young man who arrives in an Austrian village in the year 1590, and captivates a group of children, as told by one of the victims. As you will see in the extensive quotes below, the narrator's lurid descriptions of his feelings for his tormentor can only be classed as "kiddie porn."

Satanic pedophiles generally ingratiate themselves with children by amusing and entertaining them. Upon the Mysterious Stranger's first meeting with his youthful victims, the narrator thinks about his unlit pipe, and then des-cribes the Stranger's opening gambit in the seduction:

"Fire? Oh, that is easy; I will furnish it."

I was so astonished I couldn't speak; for I had not said any-thing. He took the pipe and blew his breath on it, and the tobacco glowed red, and spirals of blue smoke rose up . . .

He was bent on putting us at ease, and he had the right art; one could not remain doubtful and timorous where a person was so earnest and simple and gentle, and talked so alluringly as he did; no, he won us over, and it was not long before we were content and comfortable and chatty, and glad we had found this new friend.

It should be noted at this point, that Twain's friends often attributed to him a quality of alluring talk much like that which Twain attributes to the Stranger.

After initially "making friends" with their victims, Satanic pedophiles will often shock and terrify them, to add the force of fear to the already estab-lished attraction.

After his first encounter with the children, the Stranger amuses them by magically building a small village populated by living two-inch-tall peas-ants, who labor and frolic for their amusement. In the midst of the children's amusement, the Stranger introduces himself as Satan, and then attempts to allay their horror by explaining that he is not Satan himself, but his nephew of the same name. The child narrator then describes his reaction:

I should not be able to make anyone understand how exciting it all was. You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

"Satan" explains to the children, "We others are still ignorant of sin; we are not able to commit it; we are without blemish, and shall abide in that estate always; we—," and, as he was speaking, reached out and crushed two of the little workmen to death between his fingers, and then wiped their blood on his handkerchief, continuing to talk.

The children were shocked by the murder they had witnessed.

But he went on talking right along, and worked his enchant-ments upon us again with that fatal music of his voice. He made us forget everything; we could only listen to him, and love him, and be his slaves, to do with us as he would. He made us drunk with the joy of being with him, and of looking into the heaven of his eyes, and of feeling the ecstasy that thrilled our veins from the touch of his hand.

Satanic pedophiles control their victims by convincing them that they are all-powerful, that they will kill them or their loved ones at will if they refuse to do their bidding. Often, they drive home this fear by forcing their victims to witness or participate in the murder of their friends or others.

In The Mysterious Stranger, Satan kills off his child-victims, and most of their relations and acquaintances, one by one.

Satanic pedophiles use drugs combined with dionysiac music and dance, to destroy the capacity of their victims to make rational, moral judgments.

In The Mysterious Stranger, Satan horrifies his child-victims by murdering the entire village of 500 souls with which he had been amusing them. After this butchery,

he was bent on making us feel as he did, and of course his magic accomplished his desire. It was no trouble to him; he did whatever he pleased with us. In a little while we were dancing on that grave, and he was playing to us on a strange, sweet instrument which he took out of his pocket; and the music—but there is no music like that, unless perhaps in heaven, and that was where he brought it from, he said. It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

After the children were frightened by Satan's butchery of their friends, he launched, by way of explanation, into a tirade against Christian civilization:

We saw Christianity and Civilization march hand in hand through those ages, "leaving famine and death and desolation in their wake, and other signs of the progress of the human race," as Satan observed. . . .

"The Christian has added guns and gunpowder; a few centuries from now he will have so greatly improved the deadly effec-tiveness of his weapons of slaughter that all men will confess that without Christian civilization war must have remained a poor trifling thing to the end of time."

Then he began to laugh in the most unfeeling way, and make fun of the human race, although he knew that what he had been saying shamed us and wounded us.

The above quote may make your spine tingle, but regular readers of New Federalist will be especially enraged when they recall the way this same argument is used by the FBI. This newspaper reported that Kenneth Lanning of the FBI training academy at Quantico, Virginia justified the bureau's refusal to investigate Satanic murder cults, or even train their agents to recognize them, because "Far more crimes have been committed and far more children abused in the name of God and Jesus than in the name of Satan."

Given the FBI's lackluster record against dope pushers, Lanning, perhaps, also approves of Satan's next tactic, which was to ply the children with psychedelic drugs in strange wine goblets:

They were shapely and beautiful goblets, but they were not made of any material that we were acquainted with. They seemed to be in motion, they seemed to be alive; and certainly the colors in them were in motion. They were very brilliant and sparkling, and of every tint, and they were never still, but flowed to and fro in rich tides which met and broke and flashed out dainty explosions of enchanting color. . . . We drank it, and felt a strange and witching ecstasy.

The result of the Satanic pedophile's attack is often the complete psycho-logical breakdown of his victim. The narrator of The Mysterious Stranger, describes just such a breakdown, which Twain's supporters call a "mystic experience," at the close of the novel:

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wander-ing forlorn among the empty eternities!

Was Twain a pedophile? At this point, we have no definite answer, but we would love to examine the Clemens documents still held under lock and key. What is still hidden, which his literary heirs are afraid would be damaging even in the 1980s, when the openly Satanic, fugitive convicted pederast Roman Polanski is praised by the media establishment, and his Satanist friend Jack Nicholson is the highest paid actor in the world?

Researchers who have had access to the materials report that Twain carried on rather intimate correspondence with a number of pubescent girls. In his notebooks, he recorded hallucinatory experiences which can be attributed only to psychoactive drugging, or severe psychiatric disorder.

On January 7, 1897, Twain wrote in his notebook about:

a spiritualized self which can detach itself and go wandering off upon affairs of its own, (an) other and wholly independent per-sonage who resides in me—and whom I will call Watson, for I don't know his name, although he most certainly has one, and signs it in a hand which has no resemblance to mine when he takes possession of our partnership body and goes off on myste-rious trips—but I am acquainted, dimly, with my spiritualized self and I know that it and I are one, because we have common memory; when I wake mornings, I remember . . . whither it, that is I, have been wandering in the course of what I took to be unreality and called Dreams, for want of a truthfuller name.

Now, as I take it, my other self, is merely my ordinary body and mind freed from clogging flesh and become a spiritualized body and mind and with ordinary powers of both enlarged in all particulars a little, and in some instances prodigiously.

The time that my dream self first appeared to me and explained itself, apparently I was for the moment dreaming, it was as insubstantial as a dim blue smoke, and I saw the furniture through it, but it was dressed in my customary clothes.

The medical diagnosis of a person who exhibits clearly evidenced dissoci-ative behavior, such as a separate handwriting belonging to a distinct other self, is "multiple personality disorder."

Three illustrations commissioned by Twain for the original edition of his anti-technology novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Left, the rotting corpses of the Round Table knights, electrified during on attack on the Connecticut Yankee and his followers. Right, Twain's view of the Christian church, binding man in chains of "slavery, ignorance, and superstition."

The Connecticut Yankee ogles his chief protégé, Clarence.

"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

"Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either."

—Mark Twain in Following the Equator

Multiple personality disorders are often created by sexual child abuse. The frightened child creates one or more additional personalities in order to protect its own mind from the horrible memory of the abuse. Abused children are commonly employed as mediums in seances by parents or relatives who are occultists. The child's fear-induced trance, or personality shift, makes a very convincing show for those who want to hear the dead speaking to them. Remember, Twain's mother, Jane, was a devotee of the occult, and, in Twain's words, a "friend of Satan."

Victims of child abuse, particularly occult-related ritual abuse, often go on themselves to become abusers. Twain's confessions in his notebook of the existence of his other self for whose activity Twain himself is implicitly not responsible, certainly lends very strong evidence to the hypothesis that Twain's character of Satan, the Mysterious Stranger, was largely autobio-graphical.

Would you trust your seven-year-old daughter with Twain? We hope you have an answer. We hope you would also consider very carefully what it is that you find appealing about Twain's iconoclastic humor. Twain wrote, in Following the Equator, "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." If you find yourself laughing at jokes based on the assumption that no man or woman can actually be a faithful spouse, that every preacher of noble sentiments is a fraud, and that morality has no place in statecraft, Satan is already enjoying some measure of your sympathy and support.

In the century and a quarter since Lincoln's assassination, a Dark Age, characterized by world war, economic collapse, plague, and Satanic drug, sex, and murder cults, has descended. Let us now destroy that sympathy for evil within us, which prevents us from fulfilling Lincoln's pledge that we foster "a New birth of Freedom—That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."