I enjoyed your article. It is always about the money.

You will enjoy my other two articles, “Decoding the Taxil Hoax,” which are follow ups to this one.

To your points:

1) Pike’s letter was fake, a figment of Leo Taxil and William Guy Carr’s libelous imagination. Carr’s use of such words is a dead giveaway that he fabricated it.

2) I’m not passing judgment on P2 or Gelli, merely remarking that this real-life case is conspicuously absent from all of the diatribes against Freemasons. Fighting communists is dirty business, though.

Whether, or not, the Church (and/or Taxil) invented some terminologies (e.g. Luciferian, Baphomet, etc) to demonize the Templars (who sought to rule the world after becoming immensely wealthy) and later the Masons (or the Church itself if/when it came from Taxil) should also not detract from the fact that we are moving towards to a totalitarian one-world government.

Whether, or not, the Freemasons worship Satan should not detract from the fact that virtually every chaotic world event in modern times (bloody revolutions, WW1, WW2, mass-killings, all the wars to date, etc) had a Masonic fingerprint. All of the leaders behind those events were Masons. Giole Magaldi covers a good portion of it in his book 'Massoni'.

Whether, or not, Freemasons are the ones behind ruling the world should not detract from the fact that for thousands of years, merchants and bankers have ruled the world with a 'government' serving as a facade to keep themselves in the shadow .

So yes, maybe Freemasons don't rule the world but a certain small group (the 'oligarchy' term is more fitting) does. Laying out layers after layers of facades ('Jews', 'Freemasons', 'Illuminati', 'Rothschild', etc) only keeps the true and real power in the shadow. Real power is after all, silent.

Two points that caught my attention:

1) "It is quite amazing that Pike would discuss things like Nazis and Fascists decades before they emerged on the world stage."

Assuming the authenticity of Pike's letter and its content, that sentence alone would say it all.

2) "More interesting is the fact that we already have a real-life case of Masonic subterfuge in the case of the Italian Propaganda Due (P2) lodge, led by Licio Gelli. This, however, was a group of fierce anti-communists drawn from the ranks of a broad spectrum of political ideologies, who managed to collapse a mob bank that was also doing significant business with the Vatican. Their activities do not fit the New World Order conspiracy model, and so perhaps that is why they are ignored."

I am not judging but merely making an observation: Mr. E strikes me as a Freemason apologetic. Licio Gelli was a torturer and a criminal. The P2 Lodge was a (once secretive) Masonic Lodge serving and protecting the financial interests of those ruling Italy, Europe and beyond.

The Communists in question and the Vatican sought to forge an alliance. The P2 Lodge intervened to stop that. The killing of Aldo Moro was directly linked to it.

The word “Luciferian” does not appear in any of Blavatsky’s major works, like Isis Unveiled, or The Secret Docrine. It was coined by Taxil.

Blavatsky discusses the subject of Lucifer in her books, just as Albert Pike does. But that does not mean they are “Luciferians” in the way that word is meant.

Seems hate has blinded you and pride made you incorrigible. I didn’t say Taxil coined the word “Lucifer”, he coined “Luciferian”.

Point me to ANY text prior to 1885 where that word appears.

Point me to ANY canonical source using the word “Lucifer” as a reference to the Devil/Satan.

Point me to ANYTHING written by Albert Pike where he says Masons worship Lucifer.

If you cannot, rest assured you’re a pawn for the Lord of Lies.

My agenda is the truth. You didn't address my points about modern Luciferians, and apparently you think that the wicked actions of Luciferians like Aleister Crowley or Alice Bailey have their proximal cause in Leo Taxil.

Crowley, for just one example, engaged in depraved "sex magick' and wrote poems extolling the virtues of sodomy, pederasty, bestiality, and necrophilia. I assume you are opposed to this – why? Are you seriously going to argue whether this evil is more appropriately called Luciferianism, Satanism or Thelema? Or perhaps whether the evil deity behind the veil is actually Ba'al or Moloch? This is a bad faith appeal to semantics.

And you didn't address any of my points. What do you think of Alice Bailey's Lucifer's Trust and her magazine "Lucifer"? Are you going to say that's from Taxil as well? Because if you are, you better bring the receipts.

You are completely wrong about Leo Taxil being the origin of the word "Lucifer". Yes the word originates in the Bible, but it's also all over the Western Canon, like in Dante's Inferno. Next article you are going to be telling everyone that Dante was influenced by Taxil despite preceeding it.

Let me ask you, do you believe in God? Do you believe in Satan? Are you a moral relativist? I'm certainly curious to know.

As a point of information, I believe Blavatsky and Theosophy preceded Taxil's hoax. She founded the theosophical society in 1875. And it seems that others mentioned above inherited their ideas from Blavatsky, not from Taxil.

Absolutely…never been truer than today.

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Glad you made it out Brother. Thanks for sharing.

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