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	Taxil hoax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taxil hoax was a 12-year-long hoax of exposure intended to mock not only Freemasonry, but also the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to it.
		The first book produced by Taxil after his conversion was a four-volume history of Freemasonry, which contained fictitious eyewitness verifications of their participation in Satanism.
		The book contained many implausible tales about her encounters with incarnate demons, one of whom was supposed to have written prophecies on her back with its tail, and another played the piano in the shape of a crocodile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taxil_hoax (871 words)

	Wikipedia: Hoax
		Unlike a fraud or con, which are made for illicit financial or material gain, or a pious fraud, which is perpetrated for religious reasons, a hoax is often perpetrated as a practical joke with a humorous intent, to cause embarrassment, for personal aggrandizement or to serve political purposes.
		Many hoaxes are also motivated by a desire to satirize or educate by exposing the credulity of the public or the absurdity of the target: literary and artistic hoaxes are often of this sort, although political hoaxes are sometimes motivated in part or whole by the desire to ridicule or expose politicians or political institutions.
		The status of a given factoid as reliable or hoax is often the subject of considerable controversy.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/ho/hoax.html (365 words)

	The Baphomet And The Freemasons \| The Knights Templar \| templarhistory.com
		The answer is because of a hoax constructed by Leo Taxil and the gullibility of the masses eager to accept it as the truth.
		Taxil upon petitioning admission to the Masonic lodge met with opposition of its members, largely due to his reputation as an anti-Catholic writer.
		The Taxil hoax has been thorn in the side of Freemasons for years and is unlikely to go away anymore than the myths surrounding the Knights Templar.
	www.templarhistory.com /taxil.html (1096 words)

	Léo Taxil's confession
		Léo Taxil, the particular character of his conversion in the past and his renounciation yesterday would suffice to motivate this publicity; it finds its justification in the general ideas that are put into play and the reflections suggested by an adventure where the burlesque mixed with the serious.
		Léo Taxil's, which justly touched the Catholic world and the Free Thinking world, was but the prologue of a comedy, of an enormous farce in many acts, conceived and constructed by a hoaxer more inventive than concerned about his own dignity.
		Taxil, let us not pause to scold him on this point; let us stick to considering him the joyous and gigantic prankster that he claims to be.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /texts/taxil_confession.html (1255 words)

	Document TitleSTB-JU93 Albert Pike And Lucifer: The Lie That Will Not Die
		Taxil publicly confessed his deccption in 1897; his story is widely available for anyone willing to look for the truth.
		Taxil purported to reveal the existance of "Plladium," the most secret Masonic order, which practiced devil-worship, He re- counted the story of its high prestess Diana Vaughan: and ended by publishig the Memories d'une ex-Palladiste after her conversion to Catholicism.
		After Taxil's public confession, Abbe de la person we shall not name here (Taxil) declared before an assem,bly especially conveined for him that for twelve years he had preoaired and cartried out to the end the most extraordinary and most sacrilegious of hoaxes.
	www.mastermason.com /3rdnorthern/library/stb-93-06.htm (1377 words)

	Taxil Hoax by Sword of the Spirit Apologetics
		Considering the probability that the "Luciferian Doctrine" was indeed a hoax by Taxil, he may rightly be judged as an unfair and dishonest man. It is always a tragedy when one must resort to fabrication or content-altering in order to prove a point.
		Several other notes should be mentioned about the "Taxil Hoax." Remember that Leo Taxil was both a Mason and a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Not only was Leo Taxil a natural liar, but his ability to misrepresent and twist the facts was probably reinforced through his Masonic influence.
	www.luciferlink.org /ftaxil.htm (1177 words)

	Albert Pike And Lucifer
		Taxil publicly confessed his deception in 1897; his story is widely available for anyone willing to look for the truth.
		Taxil purported to reveal the existence of “Palladium,” the most secret Masonic order, which practiced devil-worship, He re-counted the story of its high priestess Diana Vaughan: and ended by publishing the Memories d’une ex-Palladiste after her con-version t0 Catholicism.
		After Taxil’s public confession, Abbe de la person we shall not name here (Taxil) declared before an assembly especially con-veined for him that for twelve years he had preoaired and carried out to the end the most extraordinary and most sacrilegious of hoaxes.
	www.masonicworld.com /education/files/jun03/albert_pike_and_lucifer.htm (1256 words)

	The Pope & The Pornographer - Leo Taxil
		Taxil became a 'free-thinker' and actually joined Masonry but was expelled as a result of wrong-doing.
		In 1897, Taxil publicly confessed to the hoax, just as he was being acclaimed all over Europe for his 'religious zeal'.
		Taxil apparently simply made up the hoax out of thin air and was praised by the religious authorities and showered with honors for having revealed the "true evil purposes of Masonry".
	www.masonicinfo.com /taxil.htm (1214 words)

	CESNUR - Satanism Scares and Vampirism...
		Taxil claimed to be the spokesman for Diana Vaughan, a High Priestess of Lucifer who was converting to Catholicism.
		In 1897 Taxil confessed at a conference in Paris that there was no Palladism nor a worldwide satanic conspiracy at all; his own conversion to Catholicism had been a hoax which he had conceived in order to convince the world how gullible the anti-Masonic Catholics of his time actually were [11].
		Taxil and his co-conspirator doctor Hacks (alias doctor Bataille) were not particularly concerned with Eastern European tales, but rather with living human beings killing people and drinking blood under the influence of Satan.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/vampires_wdc.htm (9930 words)

	Hoax Forum Topic: Historical Hoax
		In 1894, Léo Taxil published a fraudulent quote, supposedly found in a letter from the leader of the Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Masonry, Albert Pike, implying that Freemasons of the 30th Degree of the Scottish rite or higher worshipped "Lucifer."
		Taxil was an atheist who had been accused earlier of libel on account of a book he had written called The Secret Loves of Pius IX.
		On April 20, 1884, Pope Leo XIII published an encyclical that divided the human race into "two diverse and adverse classes, the kingdom of God on earth --- namely, the true church of Jesus Christ --- and the realm of Satan," whose headquarters were said to be in the Freemason's lodges.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoax/forum/forum_comments/2959 (696 words)

	From The East (2001-2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		His last public act was to sign a memorial as president of a slavery abolitionist society, a noble finale to the well-spent life of one of the greatest men and Freemasons produced by this or any other nation.
		Taxil created a hoax whereby he portrayed Pike as the "ruler of all Masons", and attributed to him a completely false quote saying "Lucifer is God," which he alleged Pike had said during a speech to Freemasons in Paris.
		Taxil profited greatly from the hoax, and as an ultimate demonstration of his arrogance, he admitted in 1897 in front of a large audience that every word he wrote about Masonic 'devil worship' was a lie.
	fultonfriendship.50megs.com /ff102east20012003.html (10259 words)

	Little Bibliography in 8 Categories a Little Annotated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Taxil was first anti-Catholic in his sensationalism before latching onto Freemasonry.
		Taxil”s confession is both amusing and appalling and gives the reader a glimpse of the magnitude of his deceit.
		Taxil”s text is colloquial and ungrammatical in many places, as well as being a verbal presentation.
	www.preciousheart.net /freemasonry/FMbib_Hoax.htm (1569 words)

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		Taxil's hoax -- similar in scope and popularity to the more recent "Satanic Ritual Abuse" hoaxes in America -- was quite elaborate.
		Vaughan allowed Taxil to claim on her behalf (in the books "The Devil in the 19th Century" by Dr. Bataille and "Souvenirs of an Ex-Palladist" by Diana Vaughan) that she had participated in the debauched eucharist conducted by the Baphomet-worshipping Freemasons of Charleston, South Carolina (!).
		Taxil's major tactic throughout his long anti- Papacy hoax was to persuade clerics that the Freemasons were anti-Catholic and that they conducted sexually licentious ceremonial rites in their lodges.
	www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/religion/thelema/gnosticmyass.suf2 (1752 words)

	Indiana Freemasons Online
		Born Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pages, Leo Taxil was a fervent anti-Papist, libertine, and pornographer.
		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.
		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.
	www.indianafreemasons.com /imosanctum/pike/taxil.html (1224 words)

	Quotations written by high level Masons praising Lucifer, the Taxil Hoax canard refuted, and the Anti-Clerical, ...
		Jogand (Taxil) was a Freemason in the Grand Orient of France whose lodge in Paris had the characteristically masonic-oxymoronic name of 'The Temple of Friends of French Honor'.
		The "Taxil Hoax" was about the alledged goings on and membership in by senior Politicians and some Clerics inside some super secret "Palladium Rite" and NOT about what Masonic Authors like Pike, Hall, et all wrote about the nature of Heaven and Hell and who occupied same.
		It is true that the reports of the annual General Assemblies of 1896 and 1897 show that they had more important things to worry about, such as destroying the chapel built in the memory of Louis XVI or deciding to impose sanctions on school teachers who sang in church choirs.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /luciferquotes.html (4265 words)

	History of Freemasonry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three years later, the party had disbanded everywhere but Pennsylvania, as other issues such as slavery had become the focus of national attention.
		Between the years 1885 and 1897, Léo Taxil kept up a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church, with containing increasingly outlandish claims regarding Freemasonry.
		On 19 April 1897, Taxil called a press conference at which he claimed he would introduce the "author" of his books to the press.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Freemasonry (1606 words)

	Leo Taxil's confession
		Léo Taxil (1854-1907) [pen name of Marie-Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès] purported to reveal the existence of "Palladium," the most secret Masonic order, which practiced devil-worship.
		After Taxil's public confession, Abel Clarin de la Rive expressed his disgust and recanted his writings on Diana Vaughan in the April 1897 issue of Freemasonry Revealed, a magazine devoted to the destruction of the Craft.
		As much as he hated Freemasonry, de la Rive had the integrity to admit Taxil's hoax.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /texts/taxilconfession.html (265 words)

	Albert Pike - Did he author the 3 Great Wars? - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		Here's one more very long narrative about the whole Taxil affair, from when he was expelled from the lodge up until he came out with the confession that it was all a hoax.
		Taxil was a real character and was proven to libel, and bearing false witness.
		Taxil of crimes which he may be not guilty of committing.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread164516/pg (5575 words)

	Hoax
		During certain events and at particular times of year, hoaxes are perpetrated by many people and groups.
		The most famous of these is certainly April Fool's Day, the annual 'open season' for fictional accounts and dubious announcements.
		A New Zealand tradition is the capping stunt, wherein university students perpetrate a hoax upon an unsuspecting population.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/h/ho/hoax.html (544 words)

	A Page about Freemasonry: More about Taxil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Taxil claimed to have uncovered, with the aid of a renegade lady member, a monstrous plot by the Palladium, an Order of satanic freemasons presided over by Albert Pike, to subvert religion and both the moral and social order.
		His fantastic tales, in Le Diable aux XIXe Siecle (1892-1895) and in Memoires d'une Ex-Palladiste (1895-1897), of human sacrifice, orgiastic devil-worship and meetings of Palladian lodges at which demons in the form of crocodiles would obligingly play the piano, were eagerly lapped up by an almost unbelievably credulous public.
		When the hoax was exposed, in 1897, many of his dupes refused to believe that it was all fiction and insisted, in the face of all reason, that this was the real face of Freemasonry.
	web.mit.edu /dryfoo/www/Masonry/Altf/taxil2.html (211 words)

	the lie that will not die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Leo Taxil conceived the hoax and designed it to slander
		hoax (just one of many he perpetuated against Freemasonry and the Catholic Church).
		The Diana Vaughan hoax is well known and has been explained time, and time again
	members.aol.com /setzer693/page25.htm (954 words)

	Rewriting History - the Freemasonry Watch Way
		"Watchy" now claims that the infamous Taxil Hoax that attempted to discredit Albert Pike is actually a creation of Masons in order to protect his reputation.
		Moreover, having been quickly removed from even THAT organization, Taxil should no more be categorized in that fashion than someone who has been removed from school by expulsion be subsequently referred to as a 'student'.
		Thus the claim that the Vatican somehow became involved in the removal of Taxil from the Lodge is specious at best, unsupported by any author writing factual history.
	www.masonicinfo.com /rewrite.htm (2167 words)

	Untitled
		Taxil's second ingenious idea was to produce a perfect witness who could not be cross-examined since she never existed.
		According to Taxil, Diana Vaughan had converted to Catholicism and was hiding in a monastery for fear of being kidnapped by Palladists.
		Taxil had argued at length that Satan was behind Freemasonry as well as a number of other organizations.
	www.2s2.com /chapmanresearch/user/documents/anti-mormon.html (9608 words)

	Is It True What They Say About Freemasonry? - Chapter One
		Léo Taxil (Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès) (1854-1907), anti-Mason, anti-Catholic, and pornographer, who created an elaborate hoax falsely linking Freemasonry and devil worship, the purpose of which was to defame the fraternity and to embarrass the Catholic church.
		The hoax is well known and has been explained time and time again for nearly a century.
		After Taxil's public confession, A. de la Rive expressed his disgust and recanted his writings on Diana Vaughan in the April 1897 issue of Freemasonry Unmasked, a magazine devoted to the destruction of the Craft.
	rsmasons.org /archives/lsome/chap1.htm (8929 words)

	Myths of Masonry, Part 6 - Pop Occulture
		One the topics which I found the most helpful in it though was something called the Taxil Hoax, which you’ll hear about in researching Freemasonry, but it’s one of those things that a lot of people seem to miss.
		Even after Taxil confessed to the hoax in 1897, the myth served as a staple of anti-Masonic lore, peddled in books like evangelist Pat Robertson’s New World Order.
		Plus, as far as hoaxes go, I prefer Hugh Troy and Joey Skaggs– their pranks actually had a point, and made people laugh.
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2005/09/11/myths-of-masonry-part-6 (1117 words)

	The Confessions of Leo Taxil
		M. Léo Taxil --It is surprising that those who get mad at what I am saying now are precisely the same persons who, in their newspapers, urged me to speak....
		He began as one of the hoaxed, became more hoaxed than all the others and, what is most amusing, he told us he had met the Palladist grand-mistress during one of her trips to Italy.
		Besides this first category of hoaxed people, however, there is a second one, and members of the latter one were not fully hoaxed.
	www.gpdemolay.org /freemasonry/taxilcon.htm (11592 words)

	Modern Witchcraft Hoax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Another example of a modern hoax is spirtualism.
		It is defined as a "hoax, joke, or deception." The...
		Many passed on a ridiculous e-mail hoax accusing Rowling of being a Satanist.....to study at...
	www.americanwicca.com /modern-witchcraft-hoax.html (236 words)

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