Lucifer the organization and had a satanic agenda. As described by "Freemasonry Disclosed" in 1897: Taxil's work and Pike's address continue to be quoted by anti-masonic groups. In "Devil-Worship in France", Arthur Edward Waite compared Taxil's work to today's tabloid journalism, replete with logical and factual inconsistencies. In a collection of folklore and magical practices supposedly collected in Italy by Charles Godfrey Leland and published in his "Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches", the figure of Lucifer is featured prominently as both the brother and consort of the goddess Diana, and father of Aradia, at the center of an alleged
Cat Crescent around the time of the development of agriculture, and then were brought to Cyprus and Egypt. Direct evidence for the domestication of cats 5,300 years ago in Quanhucun, China has been published by archaeologists and paleontologists from the University of Washington and Chinese Academy of Sciences. The cats are believed to have been attracted to the village by rodents, which in turn were attracted by grain cultivated and stored by humans. In ancient Egypt, cats were sacred animals, with the goddess Bastet often depicted in cat form, sometimes taking on the war-like aspect of a lioness. Killing a cat