From the January/February, 2019 issue of *Touchstone*

The Devil's Brigade

by S. M. Hutchens

I write this in honor of my old friend Kenneth McMillan, M.D., a great lion of God of whom you have never heard.

While I believe this essay to be a mirror of truth, I have disguised enough factual material to make identification of the protagonist unlikely for all but a very few. It deals with an episode in a certain man's spiritual autobiography that he showed little evidence of understanding, but which readers of this journal can both understand and find instructive.

The author of that account, who claimed to have become a Christian when he wrote it, was before his conversion a rather low-grade "ceremonial occultist" (Lewis), complete with black . . .

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The Devil's Brigade