f.o.r.m

An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now. It embraces all the generations of man and woman on the hither side of Adam and Eve and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void.

-Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary