The Taxil Hoax and Satanic Freemasonry Part 2 (Premium E246)
In the late 19th century a Frenchman pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes of all time and inspired countless conspiracy theories about Freemasonry that still circulate today. The man, who went by the pseudonym Leo Taxil, started his career by publishing several texts smearing the Pope and the Catholic Church. But then he switched sides. He claimed he converted to Catholicism and to prove his devotion he started publishing anti-Masonic texts.These new works included wild stories about a secret satanic sect with freemasonry called Palladism. Despite the fact that these stories are far beyond the limits of believability, they were taken seriously by the Catholic Church. Taxil finally admitted that his multiple books about satanism in Freemasonry were all part of an elaborate, 12-year-long-hoax.
In the second part of the two-part series, we discuss Leo Taxil’s multiple books which supposedly exposed Satanism in Freemasonry, why he called Charleston, South Carolina the “Luciferian Rome,” and the dramatic public confession of the hoax that sent shockwaves among Catholics and Freemasons alike.
REFERENCES
Dickie, John. The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World. Public Affairs, 2020
Ziegler, Robert. Satanism, magic and mysticism in fin-de-siècle France. Springer, 2012.
Van Luijk, Ruben. Children of Lucifer: The origins of modern religious Satanism. Oxford University Press, 2016
Introvigne, Massimo. "Satanism: a social history.". Brill, 2016.
The Confession of Leo Taxil
https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/taxil_confessed.html
Mellor, Alec. A Hoaxer of Genius
https://skirret.com/papers/ahoaxerofgenius-leotaxil.html
Wikisource: The Works of Leo Taxil
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:L%C3%A9o_Taxil
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Comments (42)
Upon relistening, how did no one say "LuciFriday?" It was right there.
Just galiduses being paliduses
I know that I am a little late to this episode, but I thought I would just note that the Freemasons do indeed have a mixed order, The Order of the Eastern Star. Although it is sold as a ostensibly a "women's" lodge, every chapter is *required* to have at least one Mason in it's membership and in attendance at all formal meetings. I have been a member of the order for a couple of decades now and personally, I think the purpose of having a Mason in attendance is the same as any other old school organization that has those requirements -- women can't be trusted to organize without male supervision. There are a couple of procedural roles the Masons have, but the tasks don't feel like a Mason is necessary to perform them, it feels more like a justification for having men around. I was very interested to hear about the French organization and wonder if their creation is related in any way. O.E.S. was established in 1850 and became formally appended in the Masonic order in 1875 so the timing is in the ballpark. The same general rules of heritage apply -- one must be a spouse, relative or descendant of a Mason in good standing and present a formal application with proof of relations. The initiation ceremony is... absolutely breathtaking (and interestingly, does indeed have 5 symbolic stations).
So that's what the song "Crocodile Rock" by known Masonic Satanist Elton John, is about.
Honestly if Taxil had a podcast, he would 100% announce he would do the hoax before proceeding to do it anyway.
He would have two podcasts: one to perpetrate the hoax, and another to expose the hoax (as a different host). Maybe later, there would be a third podcast to make fun of the other two.
This was super good
I am Rigamaroar the Hair Bringer
During my daily coffee talk with God this morning she mentioned how much she enjoys this podcast. "It's a nice break from listening to all those MAGA prayers for revenge. Crikey, they are a miserable lot!"
I want all of you to be my forever friends.
This guy is my hero
happy pride month to lesbian icon Sophia Sappho
Can’t BELIEVE nobody has commented about the fact that we actually invented the Piano Playing Crocodile Who Fucks in 2022: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLc9Xwv1/
I’m so glad to have an excuse to think about this clip again it makes me laugh every single time
The speed Julian and Travis jumped to remind Jake had told us about his hard drug taking in a masonic lodge made me laugh, as did much of this two parter. Brilliant work - as always.
Would love to know an episode number with this story 😆
I hope u do at least 4 more episodes talking about the origins of these classic conspiracies… humans… gotta love em
There has to be a pornographic comix of that initiation somewhere.
Julien dropping Bataille’s birth and death years at the drop of a hat 🫡
Please see my pamphlet "Crocodile Rock: Is Elton John a Freemason?"
Glad you skipped the yeast infection joke when discussing bread in the (beep). But alas I could not.
"The Crying Game" was playing in my head when y'all shared Taxil gloriously disclosing the hoax to the room full of people
I would purchase QAA merch featuring art of a satanic alligator playing a piano. Obviously. Perfect intersection of good taste and common sense.
It needs to be winking suggestively at those witnessing the shirt as well.
At 23mins you're talking about how he created House of Leaves for catholics (which I think is pretty close to what it is anyways)
House of leaves is heavily inspired by the Talmud and Judaism iirc. The house is a metaphor for the Jewish perception of God, and the book is written in a way inspired by the way the Talmud is written
I live in Charleston. Clearly I have been missing all the fun
Also anyone doing anything underground here would need scuba gear. The city is at (and some of it below) sea level
Hearing Travis gasp at the Frexy jokes was hilarious. This was a good one, boys! 👍🏽👍🏽
This one episode was worth 6 whole months of patreon money
Yup most of us are quite gullible.
I like this new historical approach you’re doing now. This was a wild episode that shows there’s nothing new under the conspiracist sun. Q played their marks in the MAGA movement in a very similar way to Taxil,as you implied.
Nice to hear that Julian uses Reddit for the same thing as I do.
YEEEEESSSS🔥
I almost spit my coffee out at the “Jake this whole time you’ve been masturbating a sheep”
Let's go Leooo! *👏, 👏, 👏 👏 👏* The boys were in great moods and in perfect form for this ep! 🤌 Peak QAA. A splendid delicacy where I come from..
I was on alt.conspiracy in the ‘90s when at least every other post was something about the Clandestine Luciferian Masons, or CLuMs.
Waiting for someone to say which ep the Masonic Lodge drug story happened in
I also am curious
NGL, makes Freemasonry sound pretty rad.
Fo real. Some voyeuristic sexual necro-play theater... Don't threaten me with a good time!
Excited for the conclusion!
