Yesterday I posted an extract from The Devil’s Party : A History Of Charlatan Messiahs by Colin Wilson. Wilson is quite a maddening writer, slapdash and hurried, but I have to admire the way he litters his text with marvellously entertaining snippets of information. On page 73, for example, we learn that Jim Jones of the People’s Temple funded his early cult-building efforts by being a door-to-door monkey salesman.