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Taxil hoax
The Taxil hoax was an 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil intended to mock not only Freemasonry but also the Catholic Church's opposition to it.
Taxil and Freemasonry.
Léo Taxil was the pen name of Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, who had been accused earlier of libel regarding a book he wrote called "The Secret Loves of Pope Pius IX". On April 20, 1884, Pope Leo XIII published an encyclical, "Humanum genus", that said that the human race was
September, 1906, pages 228 and 229, Taxil is quoted as giving his true reasons behind the hoax. Ten months later, on March 31, 1907, Taxil died.
The Luciferian quote.
A series of paragraphs about Lucifer are frequently associated with the Taxil hoax. They read:
While this quotation was published by Abel Clarin de la Rive in his "Woman and Child in Universal Freemasonry", it does not appear in Taxil's writings proper, though it is sourced in a footnote to Diana Vaughan