• centuries. In his Treatise on Epilepsy, the French 17th century physician Jean Taxil refers to Aristotle's "famous epileptics". This list includes Heracles...
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    Jules Doinel (redirect from Jean Kostka)
    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 wrote a book attacking...
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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 publish...
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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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  • 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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  • 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 occultist...
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    could be outright hoaxes on the part of the author, as in the case of the Taxil hoax. These hoaxes and exposés have often become the basis for criticism...
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    démonologie de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil". Françoise Lavocat, H Kallendorf - Renaissance Quarterly, 2008 - JSTOR "... Finally, Jean Céard examines the lingering...
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  • 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 brother...
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  • the Cassinese reform. In 1519, Augustine commissioned a monk named Don Taxil to construct a village adjacent to the abbey, with the hope of attracting...
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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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  • the international governance after Reuss' death. Charles Detré (Teder), Jean Bricaud, Constant Chevillon, Charles-Henry Dupont, Robert Ambelain and Gérard...
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  • highest degrees of Misraïm. Notable members included Jean-Baptiste Méallet, Etienne-François Bazot and Jean-Marie Ragon, who reached the 90th degree. In 1817...
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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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  • Machine Account of expansion of GLFF, retrieved 8 January 2013 Alain Bauer, Jean-Claude Rochigneux, Les relations internationales de la franc-maçonnerie française...
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    purpose." In the 1860, "Rituel de l'Apprenti Maçon" from French Freemason Jean-Marie Ragon, the Chamber of reflection is thus described; "... It is a dark...
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  • (1833–1898) Jean-Just Roy (1794–1871) Pierre de Sales (1854–1914) Alfred Sirven (1830–1904) Frédéric Soulié (1800–1847) Eugène Sue (1804–1857) Léo Taxil (1854–1907)...
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    founded in 1778 at the Convent of Lyon in France under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, who served as the primary architect and driving force...
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  • 1861 book "Tuileur Général De La Francmaçonnerie Ou Manuel De L'initié", Jean-Marie Ragon lists 52 Masonic Rites and over 1400 degrees. Adonhiramite Rite...
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    abjured his Gnostic faith and converted to Roman Catholicism due to the Taxil hoax. He returned to Gnosticism five years later under the mystical name...
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  • Fleming, Jenilee Harrison, Nannette Hegerty, Vicki Lawrence, Heather Moore, Jean Rabe, Debbie Reynolds, and Aimee Teegarden. Members of Job's Daughters participate...
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    rank of a Scottish master is an entirely new invention..." French writers Jean-Marie Ragon (1781–1862) and Emmanuel Rebold, in their Masonic histories,...
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  • Temple, in Hemmings Row (then off St. Martin's Lane in London) the Master was Jean Theophile Desaguliers, then Deputy Grand Master and effective governor of...
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  • governor of Victoria. Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th century Swiss-French philosopher, writer, and composer...
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    Theater. In April 2022, after performing, White proposed to his partner Olivia Jean at the temple and later married her. The Detroit Masonic Temple has been...
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  • Nationale Française". www.GLNF.fr. Retrieved 24 January 2018. "Interview Jean-Pierre SERVEL, Grand Maître de la GLNF – Le cercle des liberaux". LeCercleDesLiberaux...
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  • actual number of founding members was twenty-one, due to the insistence of Jean-Pierre Rigord [fr] that Henri de Belsunce also be offered membership. This...
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    abbot of Lérins. Augustin de Grimaldi commissioned the worker-monk Don Taxil to construct the village adjacent to the abbey to increase the value of...
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  • 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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    suffered embarrassment and a crisis of credibility in the aftermath of the Taxil affair a few years early, the anti-Masons now had a more credible position...
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