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He healed the sick, exorcised demons, and treated domestic animals with great success, so that the peasants soon looked upon him as superior to the curé who was incapable of curing their sick horses and cattle. Vintras had proclaimed himself to be Elijah come to life; Boullan adopted the title of John the Baptist resurrected.
The Religion of Satanism or, as it was sometimes called, the Religion of Mercy founded by Vintras and Boullan, deserves special mention. Vintras was arrested unjustly, it seems certain for swindling, and in the visions which he experienced as a result of his undeserved sufferings he believed himself to be in communication with the Archangel Michael and with Christ Himself.
Having spent about twelve years in London, he returned to Lyons to preach his doctrine, and succeeded in making a number of proselytes. He died in 1875. Some years afterwards a doctor of divinity named Boullan installed himself at Lyons as his successor.
He died at the beginning of the twentieth century, complaining of having been cruelly slandered, especially by Stanislas de Guaita, who in his Temple of Satan had accused Boullan of being a priest of Lucifer, of making use of spells and charms, and worst of all of celebrating the Black Mass. The founder of the Religion of Humanity had a tragic and troublous career.
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