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The Modern
Fausts Among Us

Jake Arnott explores the demonic in the recently released Epstein Files

Mephistopheles looks down towards the devil and the damned in a 1886 etching in the ‘Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News’

The Epstein Files have released something undeniably diabolical into the air.

The reprise of Peter Mandelson’s nickname, the Prince of Darkness, and Jeffrey Epstein’s own eerie denial that he was ‘the devil himself’ reveals there is something demonic going on.

But it is not the devil we are dealing with, but his intermediary.

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