SONS OF THE MORNING (a.k.a. THE LUCIFER SECT) – A Satanic cult of uncertain origin, its members, feckless members of the minor aristocracy alienated by Puritanism, became notorious in the seventeenth century. Their depredations ranged from the church desecration to the mutilation of livestock, offences punishable at the time by death. By the nineteenth century the group, still outlawed, had lost many of its anti-Christian associations and was primarily a networking group for well-to-do Hell-raisers. In the 1880's Francis Gibb attempted to revive the society's former traditions, hosting black masses and initiating neophytes with missions. The Whitechapel Murders of the period, wrongly associated with Freemasonry, were almost certainly linked to his offshoot of the society.

When Gibb disappeared in 1890, the Sons of the Morning ceased to operate in any capacity.

In 1905, however, they resurfaced in America as ‘The Rotary Club'.

 

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