美国人 Sergius Riis 将军曾是马克思的信徒。他哀于马克思之死，因而去了伦敦，拜访他所景仰的导师的故居。马克思的家人已搬走，他唯一能见到的人是马克思的前女佣 Helen Demuth。她说了一些有关马克思的惊人之语：
“他是一个敬畏神的人。当他病重时，他独自在房间里，头上缠着带子，面对着一排点燃的蜡烛祈祷。”
An American, Commander Sergius Riis, had been a disciple of Marx. Grieved by the news of his death, he went to London to visit the house in which the admired teacher had lived. The family had moved. The only one whom he could find to interview was Marx's former housemaid Helen Demuth. She said these amazing words about him:
He was a God-fearing man. When very sick, he prayed alone in his room before a row of lighted candles, tying a sort of tape measure around his forehead.
This suggests phylacteries, implements worn by Orthodox Jews during their morning prayers. But Marx had been baptized in the Christian religion, had never practiced Judaism, and later became a fighter against God. He wrote books against religion and brought up all his children as atheists. What was this ceremony which an ignorant maid considered an occasion of prayer? Jews, saying their prayers with phylacteries on their foreheads, don't usually have a row of candles before them. Could this have been some kind of magic practice?
（图：犹太教徒早晨祈祷时带在头上的符）
另一线索，则在马克思之子 Edgar 于 1854 年 3 月写给马克思的一封信中。此信开头就是惊人的一句 “我亲爱的魔鬼”。哪个孩子会这样称呼自己父亲的？不过，撒殚教徒正是这样称呼其所爱之人的。难道连他儿子也入教了？
Another possible hint is contained in a letter written to Marx by his son Edgar on March 31, 1854. It begins with the startling words, "My dear devil." Who has ever known of a son addressing his father like this? But that is how a Satanist writes to his beloved one. Could the son have been initiated as well?
同样重要的线索是，马克思的妻子在1844 年 8 月写的一封信中，这样称呼马克思：
“你最后的牧师信，高级牧师兼灵之主教，已再次将安息与和平赐予你可怜的羊儿。”
Equally significant, Marx's wife addresses him as follows, in a letter of August 1844,
Your last pastoral letter, high priest and bishop of souls, has again given quiet rest and peace to your poor sheep.
Marx had expressed, in The Communist Manifesto, his desire to abolish all religion. Yet his wife refers to him as high priest and bishop. Of what religion?
Some biographers of Marx have undoubtedly had a suspicion about the connection between devil-worship and the subject of their book. But not having the necessary spiritual preparation, they could not understand the facts they had before their eyes. Still, their testimony is interesting.
The Marxist Franz Mehring wrote in his book Karl Marx:
Although Karl Marx’s father died a few days after his son's twentieth birthday, he seems to have observed with secret apprehension the demon is his favorite son....
Henry Marx did not think and could not have thought that the rich store of bourgeois culture which he handed on to his son Karl as a valuable heritage for life would oily help to deliver the demos he feared.
