The Pike, Lucifer, Taxil thing has been a known hoax for decades but Catholic clerico-fascists and Xtian Fundi's ever eager to demonise, just don't care about the truth.
Dave.
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> The Taxil Hoax
> by Bro. Eric Schmitz, P.M.
>
> "On July 14, 1889, Albert Pike, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal
Freemasonry,
> addressed to the 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world, the
following
> instructions:
>
> "That which we must say to the world is – We worship a God, but it is the
God
> that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors
> General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32 nd
,
> 31 st , and 30 th degrees – The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us
> initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian
> Doctrine. Yes, Lucifer is God, and the true and pure philosophical
religion
> is the belief in Lucifer."
>
> Thus was instigated what would come to be the most sensational, the most
> widely abused, and the most tenacious of all hoaxes ever perpetrated
against
> the institution of Freemasonry. The words I just quoted were attributed to
> Albert Pike, a prominent Freemason of the late 19 th century, by one Leo
> Taxil, and are commonly known as the "Taxil Hoax" – although many
Freemasons
> have come to refer to this hoax as "the lie that would not die." Indeed,
as
> Mark Twain once said, "One of the striking differences between a cat and a
> lie is that a cat only has NINE lives."
>
> Albert Pike, who lived from 1809 to 1891, was the Grand Commander of the
> Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite’s Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 until
> the end of his life. Many Freemasons consider him to be a Masonic genius,
but
> he has not managed to avoid a certain degree of controversy. Pike wrote a
> book called Morals and Dogma, in which he quoted many religious and
> philosophical teachers’ works, on the theory that unless one knows the
> history of a concept, one cannot understand the concept itself.1 This book
> tends to be the focus of most of the controversy surrounding Pike.
However,
> the real furor did not get fully underway until three years after his
death,
> upon the 1894 re-publication of a work by a certain Leo Taxil, whose
alleged
> purpose was to reveal a highly secret Masonic order called the
"Palladium,"
> which he claimed "practiced devil worship, murder, and other brutalities
of
> an erotic nature."2
>
> Born Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages, Leo Taxil was a fervent anti-Papist,
> libertine, and pornographer. He was a member of a Masonic Lodge for a
short
> time, but was expelled from the fraternity, possibly due to his reputation
as
> an extremely Anti-Catholic writer. It may have been his expulsion which
> turned him into an anti-Mason as well, but it is also possible that he
joined
> the order merely to acquire fuel for an already existing hostility to the
> Craft. At any rate, Taxil’s publication of Pike’s "Luciferian Doctrine"
> marked the beginning of an ongoing chapter in Masonic defamation that
> persists even to this very day.
>
> Why did Taxil pick Albert Pike as the target of his venomous prank?
Possibly
> because Pike did make some mention of the name "Lucifer" in his own works.
It
> is a little known fact that the name "Lucifer" is, in some sense, a hoax
in
> and of itself. The name made its first biblical appearance in the King
James
> Bible, in the book of Isaiah (14:12), where we read, "How art thou fallen
> from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" One problem here is that the
> name "Lucifer" is actually Latin, a language that did not exist at the
time
> the Hebrew manuscript of Isaiah was written. In fact, the context of this
> chapter of Isaiah is an account of a fallen Babylonian king, not a fallen
> angel, and the in the original Hebrew, the name used is "Helal, ben
Shahar,"
> or "Day star, son of the Dawn." The day star, or morning star, is Venus,
> which appears in the morning just before sunrise. Hence, "lucem ferre," or
> "bringer of light," becomes the name "Lucifer," and a fallen king becomes
a
> fallen angel. Ironically, Christ is often identified as the "morning
star,"
> and in fact referred to Himself as such, as we read in Revelation 22:16. 3
>
> Pike may well have known all this, or at least suspected it. His writing,
> when properly inflected, clearly indicates his shock and surprise at the
idea
> of such a name being applied to the fallen angel and ruler of hell. He
> writes, "Lucifer, the light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to
> the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it HE who
bears
> the Light, and with its intolerable light blinds feeble, sensual or
selfish
> souls?" Pike is clearly upset by the attribution, referring at one point
to
> the "false Lucifer of the legend."4
>
> Now, I have mentioned before that there are many instances where a Masonic
> author could be said to have chosen his words somewhat imprudently, and I
> believe that this may well have been one of those times. After nearly half
a
> century of anti-Masonic persecution due in large part to another incident
> known as the "Morgan Affair" (a long story for another day), our "Uncle
> Albert" may have been wiser to remember the persistent efforts of his
enemies
> to discredit his organization. Indeed, it was almost certainly the
boldness
> of his own writings that opened the door for people like Leo Taxil to make
> their wild claims, and for successive generations of anti-Masons to
> perpetuate those assertions.
>
> And my my! How they have been perpetuated! The first instance was the 1894
> re-publication of Taxil’s quote, which I mentioned before. This appeared
in a
> publication known (in English) as Woman and Child in Universal
Freemasonry,
> by A. C. DeLa Rive, another prominent anti-Mason. The quote appeared
again,
> slightly modified, in the 1933 Occult Theocrasy, by a Lady Queenborough,
also
> known as Edith Starr Miller. Since then, it has been repeated and
excerpted
> (that is, plagiarized and mis-annotated) in the anti-Masonic works of such
> luminary notables as Jack Chick, author of the well-known series of comic
> tracts; James Holly, of the Southern Baptist Convention; Texe Marrs,
author
> of many books on the "new age," and enemy of just about everyone, from the
> Church of Scientology and the Mormons to the Girl Scouts and the Smurfs;
Pat
> Robertson, a name we all recognize, who repeated the Taxil quote in his
"New
> World Order"; and the so-called Rev. Ron Carlson, a master of the
mis-quote,
> who incorrectly implies that the text of the "Luciferian Doctrine" can be
> found in Pike’s Morals and Dogma.5
>
> To many Masons of today, the Taxil Hoax has become almost a kind of sick
> joke, except for the sad fact that people are still taken in by it.
Indeed,
> well-informed Masons can easily apply a kind of intelligence test upon the
> anti-Mason and his works, by looking for the passage that starts, "On July
14
> th , 1889, Albert Pike, Sovereign Pontiff..." It is ridiculous enough that
> this "Doctrine," known to be a product purely of Taxil’s imagination, has
> enjoyed such immortality. It is even more ridiculous, then, when one
realizes
> certain other things, the first and foremost being the fact that Taxil
> himself publicly recanted his hoax three years later! This was immediately
> seconded by DeLa Rive, who published the following sharply worded
retraction
> in the April 1897 issue of Freemasonry Unmasked:
>
> "With frightening cynicism, the miserable person we shall not name here
> declared before an assembly especially convened for him that for twelve
years
> he had prepared and carried out to the end the most extraordinary and s
> acrilegious of hoaxes. We have always been careful to publish special
> articles concerning Palladism and Diana Vaughn [the ‘priestess’ who
> allegedly carried Pike’s message to Paris]. We are now giving in this
issue a
> complete list of these articles, which can now be considered as not having
> existed."
>
> DeLa Rive’s series of articles are not the only non-existent entities we
are
> dealing with here. To add to his list, there is no such thing as the
office
> or degree of "Supreme Pontiff of Universal Masonry" nor any organizations
> called "Universal Masonry" or "the Confederation of Supreme Councils."
There
> is no "Palladian Rite of Masonry," and its "priestess, Diana Vaughn," was
> another creation of Taxil’s imagination. I have also wondered how a hoax
that
> began "twelve years earlier" than 1897, which would have been 1885, could
> make reference to an event alleged to have taken place in 1889, as Taxil
> claimed, although it is not known exactly when his story was first written
or
> published.
>
> As Leo Taxil himself finally admitted, Pike’s "Luciferian Doctrine" was a
> complete fabrication, but by the time he recanted, it was too late. The
idea
> of a Satanic connection was already too juicy, too irresistible to Masonic
> detractors who were already defaming Pike as having said things like,
> "Lucifer is not the Devil. In fact, he might really be the good guy." As
> always, checking the facts is a good policy, but it must be remembered
that,
> even without all the hoaxes and fabrications, there are many people in the
> world who have become very proficient at making any source say exactly
what
> they want it to say. Freemasonic literature is no exception.
>
> 1 Dafoe, Stephen. Unholy Worship?, Templar Books, 1998, p57.
> 2 Ibid, p 59.
> 3 Robinson, John. A Pilgrim’s Path. (Quoted on MasonicInfo.Com.)
> 4 Ibid.
> 5 deHoyos, Art and Morris, S. Brent. Is It True What They Say About
> Freemasonry?, Masonic Information Center, 1993, p11.
>
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