Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, better known by the pen name Léo Taxil (French: [leo taksil]; March 21, 1854 – March 31, 1907), was a French writer...
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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,...
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birth of Christ. Léo Taxil (1854–1907) claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer. In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he alleged...
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up Léo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Léo is a proper noun in French, meaning "lion". Its etymological root lies in the Latin word Leo. Léo is used...
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History of Freemasonry (section Taxil hoax)
presented to him by the Viceroy of Egypt. Between the years 1885 and 1897, Léo Taxil maintained a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church...
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birth of Christ. Léo Taxil (1854–1907) claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer. In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he alleged...
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friend of Léo Taxil and one of the many victims of the Taxil hoax. A former Freemason who said in 1885 that he converted to Catholicism, Taxil revealed...
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not even written by Pike. It was included in a letter which con artist Leo Taxil claimed was from Pike, and was later demonstrated to be a forgery. The...
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to Roman Catholicism and began a collaboration with Léo Taxil, being one of many taken in by Taxil's anti-masonic hoax. Under the name Jean Kostka, Doinel...
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originated with the Taxil hoax. Lévi's Baphomet was depicted on the cover of Les Mystères de la franc-maçonnerie dévoilés, Léo Taxil's lurid paperback "exposé"...
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Temple of Satan. A reaction to this was the Taxil hoax in 1890s France, where an anti-clerical writer Léo Taxil (aka Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès)...
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Rachkovsky, Diana Vaughan and one of the greatest hoaxers of the 19th century, Léo Taxil. The peak of Simonini's career is composing what would become The Protocols...
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influenced by the writings of Nesta Webster and the French hoaxer Léo Taxil (see Taxil hoax). He also referred to the theories of Augustin Barruel and John...
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the United States during the 19th century. In the 1890s, French writer Léo Taxil wrote a series of pamphlets and books denouncing Freemasonry and charging...
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"Fictions du diable: Littérature et démonologie de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil". Françoise Lavocat, H Kallendorf - Renaissance Quarterly, 2008 - JSTOR...
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enfants (The Amusing Bible for Grown-ups and Children) was a book by Léo Taxil with illustrations by Frid'rick published in 1882 by Libraire anticléricale...
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by William Boyd intended to temporarily fool the art world. The Taxil hoax by Léo Taxil, poking fun at the Roman Catholic Church's attitude toward Freemasonry...
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A chain of Union represented by Léo Taxil in his book; Mystères de la Franc-Maçonnerie...
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showed a woman tortured in the presence of the Pope, advertising a book by Léo Taxil and Karl Milo, Les Maîtresses du Pape (The Pope's Mistresses) (1884)....
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"as self-consciously venerating the devil" by Catholic writers prior to Léo Taxil, the perpetrator of an anti-Masonic hoax. The Index of prohibited books...
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Sultan Malikshah's envoy that his men embrace death. 19th-century drawing by Pierre Méjanel, from Les Mystères de la Franc-Maçonnerie (1886) of Léo Taxil....
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OCLC 27381296. de Hoyos, Arturo; S. Brent Morris (18 August 2002). "Leo Taxil Hoax –Bibliography". Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. Retrieved...
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accuse the fraternity of worshipping Satan, by quoting the writings of Leo Taxil and Abel Clarin de la Rive. Since 1738, the Roman Catholic Church has...
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as its motto. The newspaper was skeptical of Léo Taxil's anti-Catholic Diana Vaughan hoax before Taxil admitted it in 1897. It was the first paper to...
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Sirven (1830–1904) Frédéric Soulié (1800–1847) Eugène Sue (1804–1857) Léo Taxil (1854–1907), alias Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès) Louis-Adolphe Turpin...
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the figure of Léo Taxil, a former Freemason and perpetrator of a long-running and lucrative hoax, assumes a prominent role. Taxil's activities, centered...
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Moriscos of Spain; their Conversion and Expulsion, Lea Brothers & Co., 1901. Léo Taxil, Diana Vaughan et l'Église Romaine: Histoire d'une mystification, Paris...
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converted to Roman Catholicism in 1895, one of many duped by Léo Taxil's anti-masonic hoax. Taxil unveiled the hoax in 1897. Doinel was readmitted to the Gnostic...
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Broche, La IIIe République de Thiers à Casimir-Perier Pygmalion 2001 p.511 Léo Taxil, La France maçonnique, liste alphabétique des francs-maçons, 16,000 noms...
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as a Satanic society. Leo Taxil, a Parisian journalist, was eventually revealed as the perpetrator of what is now called the Taxil hoax. "[Henry's] twin...
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