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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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    Marie 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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    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 that...
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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 that...
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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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    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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    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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    theories Christian attitudes towards Freemasonry Papal ban of Freemasonry Taxil hoax People and places Masonic Temple James Anderson Prince Hall William...
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    theories Christian attitudes towards Freemasonry Papal ban of Freemasonry Taxil hoax People and places Masonic Temple James Anderson Prince Hall William...
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  • 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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    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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    Palladists Problem of evil Problem of Hell Satanic panic Satanic ritual abuse Taxil hoax Worship of angels "By desiring to be equal to God in his arrogance...
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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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    theories Christian attitudes towards Freemasonry Papal ban of Freemasonry Taxil hoax People and places Masonic Temple James Anderson Prince Hall William...
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    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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    "Fictions du diable: Littérature et démonologie de saint Augustin à Léo Taxil". Françoise Lavocat, H Kallendorf - Renaissance Quarterly, 2008 - JSTOR...
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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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  • 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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  • theories Christian attitudes towards Freemasonry Papal ban of Freemasonry Taxil hoax People and places Masonic Temple James Anderson Prince Hall William...
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