Taxil hoax

The Taxil hoax was a 1885-1897 prolonged vertigo, in which concerned an alleged revelation of secret satanic rites of Freemasonry by Léo Taxil ( 1854-1907 ). After Taxils exclusion from the Freemasonry he used through his dizziness the suspicions of the Roman Catholic Church against Freemasonry financially, at the same time he could do his dislike both sides with respect to satisfy.

Léo Taxil

Léo Taxil (his real name was Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand - Pagès ) was an atheist and already because of his diatribe The secret liaisons of Pius IX. been sentenced.

On April 20, 1884, Pope Leo XIII. an encyclical humanum genus, which postulated that humanity consists of two different, mutually in opposition projecting parts; a steadfast fight for truth and virtue, the other for a lie and vice. The one is the kingdom of God on earth, the Church of Jesus Christ, the other is the kingdom of Satan, led or supported by Freemasonry.

Previously well known as opponent of Catholicism, to Taxil publicly allegedly decided after this encyclical in 1885 for Catholicism and declared that he intended to make good the damage caused by him to the true faith. In addition, he announced that he would go into a Trappist monastery. This impressed the Apostolic Nuncio in Paris so that he asked him, he would put his skills as a writer in Rome the services. Taxil procured the beginning of his anti- Masonic campaign an audience with Pope Leo XIII. Taxils intention was more probably, Freemasonry to slander public because they had shut him out after only three visits because of dirty business, and bring the Roman Catholic Church in embarrassment.

Satanism Swindle

The first book Les frères Trois- Points (1885 ) was the major passages in fictitious four-volume history of Freemasonry, the fictional eyewitness accounts of a supposedly androgynous " palla Indian Freemasonry " contained with luziferianischen orgies.

In 1891 he published the book Les Sœurs Maçonnes, in which he invented " palladistische Satan lodges " and Eliphas Levi's Baphomet invented in 1854 took up a shape of an idol with goat's feet, female breasts and bat wings. An invented Sophie Walder was the palladistische Grand Master and " great-grandmother of the Antichrist [ s ] ."

Together with Taxil wrote the German Dr. Karl Hacks, under the pseudonym " Dr. Bataille " in 200 installments, the work titled Devil in the nineteenth century, which found 10,000 subscribers. The work contains many implausible assertions. Man invented a 1874 -born Diana Vaughan, who was said to be the daughter of the " devil Bitru ". With ten years she has been dedicated to Satan and included in an American Palladistenloge. Next their encounters were described with demons incarnate, and this is a prophecy have written on her back with his tail, another demon in the form of a crocodile playing the piano. Later, she would have resigned, as if she had one day be known to the worship of Jeanne d' Arc, the demons would have been put to flight in their name. When Diana Vaughan published Taxil their supposed memoirs of an ex - Palladistin and a book with the title Eucharistic Novena, a collection of prayers that have been praised by the Pope. In 1896 she was the focus of the Trent Anti Masonic Congress at the residence of the Prince Bishop of Trento, Carlo Eugenio Valussi. This congress was opened after the publication of the encyclical praeclara gratulationis publicae of Pope Leo XIII. at the request of the President of the Italian anti- Masonic League Gullino Luigi on September 27. Present were 36 bishops, episcopal delegate, cardinals and more than 700 mostly spiritual emissaries.

Revelation

1896 exposed the Cologne newspaper people under Hermann Cardauns Taxil as swindlers and Miss Diana Vaughan as his wife. Cardauns held from 1901 public lectures on "Literary Curiosities " in which he also received great detail on Taxil.

On April 19, 1897 Taxil then revealed to itself instead of a photo - lecture on Diana Vaughan and the Palladismus cult in the hall of the Geographical Society that his spectacular revelations about the Freemasons were fictitious, explained cynically that Diana Vaughan had never existed, and thanked the clergy for their support through their advertising for his wild claims.

To date, the vertigo of various groups is held to be true and used against Freemasonry. So publishes the fundamentalist Protestant publishing Chick Publications tracts such as The Curse of Baphomet.