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The Three World Wars LieThere are MANY parts to this fantasy (yes, Virginia: it IS a fantasy!) but we'll start with the primary charges:
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1. Pike was NOT the head of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. He was the head of ONE Supreme Council (the Southern United States') while there were dozens of other Supreme Councils who cared little about Pike's position and were not subservient to him in any way. (Note the word "SUPREME" in the title, folks! It's there in EVERY Scottish Rite body in every country. If there are 10 Supreme Councils, which one is the 'supreme, supreme' do you suppose?) In fact, all one has to do is view the correspondence between Pike and the head of the SUPREME Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction at the time (Josiah Hayden Drummond) and one can easily see that even on US soil, there were those who vehemently disagreed with Pike over many, many issues. There were (and are) TWO Supreme Councils in the United States, one of which didn't recognize Pike as a leader and which, at the time, had the larger Scottish Rite membership. 2. Mazzini was more than likely NOT a Mason! Biographers mention Freemasonry in conjunction with Mazzini only because another 'Giuseppe' (Garibaldi) was. They were both Italian freedom fighters so - hey, it's easy enough to just switch names around. Who'll notice it, anyway? And besides, Garibaldi was wrapped up in the Franco-Prussian war at the time and wasn't very sympathetic to the type of Marxist concepts that this supposed letter was supporting. Garibaldi was a Freemason but remember, this is a letter from MAZZINI! Everyone says so.... In what is considered the defining biography of Mazzini, author Denis Mack Smith in his seminal work Mazzini writes "Mazzini was also less friendly than Garibaldi to the anticlerical Freemasons. When invited to become a mason he refused and was sometimes overtly critical."1 3. Occult Theocrasy, written by Edith Starr Miller a/k/a Lady Queenborough, is a notoriously anti-Semitic screed which Masonic detractors often cite as their source for the 'Lucifer is God' quote. This is commonly known as the Taxil Hoax. The author decries the "Jesuit-Judaic-Masonic-Gnostic-Brahmin-Illuminati" conspiracy and buys directly into the concept of "Palladian Masonry" which was a further part of the Taxil Hoax. And the "letter" referred to in the quote above was NOT published OK. So are three strikes enough? Naw.... But here things get a little more complicated since the fantasy then uses this quote:
each retelling of this story seems to take on certain additional flourishes. It's almost as if the various writers felt the need to embellish it with their own additions since it couldn't stand on its own.
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