![]() Ten months later, on March 31, 1907, Taxil died. In the magazine National Magazine, an Illustrated American Monthly, Volume XXIV: April – September, 1906, pages 228 and 229, Taxil is quoted as giving his true reasons behind the hoax. Later interview with Taxil Parisian newspaper with the account of Leo Taxil's confession to the Taxil hoax The Chick Publications tract, The Curse of Baphomet, and Randy Noblitt's book on satanic ritual abuse, Cult and Ritual Abuse, both cite Taxil's fictitious claims. The hoax material is still cited to this day. Léo Taxil, at the Hall of the Geographic Society in Paris. Miss Diana Vaughan–The Devil At The Freemasons. Taxil's confession was printed, in its entirety, in the Parisian newspaper Le Frondeur, on April 25, 1897, titled: Twelve Years Under the Banner of the Church, The Prank Of Palladism. He thanked the Catholic clergy for their assistance in giving publicity to his wild claims. At the conference instead he announced that his revelations about the Freemasons were fictitious. On April 19, 1897, in Société de Géographie, Léo Taxil called a press conference at which, he claimed, he would introduce Diana Vaughan to the press. A supposed Diana Vaughan published Confessions of an Ex-Palladist in 1895. Bataille, the society had two orders, "Adelph" and "Companion of Ulysses" however, the society was broken up by French law enforcement a few years after its founding. Bataille asserted that women would supposedly be initiated as "Companions of Penelope". II: "The Mask of Masonry" (London, 1896), reports according to "the works of Domenico Margiotta and Dr Bataille" that "he Order of Palladium founded in Paris or Sovereign Council of Wisdom" was a "Masonic diabolic order". ![]() Īrthur Edward Waite, debunking the existence of the group in Devil-Worship in France, or The Question of Lucifer, ch. Bataille" (actually Jogand-Pagès himself) alleged that Palladists were Satanists based in Charleston, South Carolina, headed by the American Freemason Albert Pike and created by the Italian liberal patriot and author Giuseppe Mazzini. An 1892 French book Le Diable au XIXe siècle (The Devil in the 19th Century", 1892), written by "Dr. In 1891 Léo Taxil (Gabriel Jogand-Pagès) and Adolphe Ricoux claimed to have discovered a Palladian Society. Adherents worshipped Lucifer and interacted with demons. ![]() According to Taxil, Palladism was a religion practiced within the highest orders of Freemasonry. In the Taxil hoax, Palladists were members of an alleged Theistic Satanist cult within Freemasonry. As Diana Vaughan, Taxil published a book called Eucharistic Novena, a collection of prayers which were praised by the Pope. ĭiana was supposedly involved in Satanic Freemasonry but was redeemed when one day she professed admiration for Joan of Arc, at whose name the demons were put to flight. The book contained many tales about her encounters with incarnate demons, one of whom, a devil snake, was supposed to have written prophecies on her back with its tail, and another who played the piano while in the shape of a crocodile. Karl Hacks", Taxil wrote another book called Le Diable au XIXe siècle ( The Devil in the Nineteenth Century), which introduced a new character, Diana Vaughan, a supposed descendant of the Rosicrucian alchemist Thomas Vaughan. With a collaborator who published as "Dr. 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. Photograph by Van Bosch, published in the book Mémoires d'une ex-palladiste parfaite, initiée, indépendante (1895)Īfter this encyclical, Taxil underwent a public, feigned conversion to Roman Catholicism and announced his intention of repairing the damage he had done to the true faith. The so-called "Diana Vaughan", dressed as "General Inspector of Palladium". At this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. The one is the kingdom of God on earth, namely, the true Church of Jesus Christ. Separated into two diverse and opposite parts, of which the one steadfastly contends for truth and virtue, the other of those things which are contrary to virtue and to truth. On April 20, 1884, Pope Leo XIII published an encyclical, Humanum genus, that said that the human race was: 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. 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. 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil Poster advertising the work of Leo Taxil
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