QAA Podcast - The Taxil Hoax and Satanic Freemasonry Part 2 (Premium E246) Sample

Episode Date: June 2, 2024

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 that sent shockwaves among Catholics and Freemason 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 Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Thank you. If you're hearing this, well done. You've found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium Episode 246, The Taxel Hoax and Satanic Freemasonry, Part 2. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Field, and Travis View. So, in the last premium episode,

we covered the beginning of the story of the man known as Leo Taxel. He was a French man who in the late 19th century published a lot of scandalous pamphlet. and books attacking the Catholic Church, which got him in some legal trouble. He was also an effective hoaxer, tricking people into believing that there's a rash of shark attacks in Marseilles, and that there was a lost Roman city at the bottom of Lake Geneva. But shortly after the market for his anti-Catholic riding started to dry up a bit, and the Pope asks people to expose Freemasonry, he claimed to have a change of heart.

He professed conversion to Catholicism, and because he was a very tricky man, convinced priests in higher-level Catholics that he was sincere. And with buy-in from the Catholic press, he started to instead publish books attacking Freemasonry. This was the start of a 12-year-long career spinning an elaborate mythology about Freemasonry that some people still believe is true. He started his career as an anti-Masonic publisher by writing a series of books in the years 1885 and 1886 under the broad title of Complete Revelations on Freemasonry. Taxil promised to reveal sensational facts, using his experience in Freemasonry as a selling point, even though he had only been a low-level apprentice.

In fact, he was only in the first degree of, like, I think usually, like, 33 degrees. But he used this, he said that this was enough to reveal everything that was going on. The Freemasons must have just looked on in absolute horror, like, what the fuck is he doing now? The books were a combination of accurate descriptions of Masonic ceremonies and the lodge systems, but he also added dramatic embellishments plus the occasional outright fabrication. Hmm, the spice of life. Now, this is pretty par for the course as far as like Masonic exposés throughout history goes. It's always like, it's like, oh, it's like lots of lots of real stuff, but also some like, you know, spicy stuff.

But he was different because he had, number one, he was willing to go to places. Other conspiracies weren't willing to go. And he had a really wild imagination. The first book, released in two volumes, was called The Three Point Brothers. It claimed that Freemasonry's true philosophy was, nothing but gross pantheism, to which the adept is gradually brought through a series of ridiculous masquerades, starting with the glorification of the material and ending with the adoration of Satan. The Three Point Brothers, isn't that what you call you and your buddy playing NPA-2K?

I knew that was coming. Yeah. No, I mean, we wish. We wish that's what we were called. But I think we would be the three-point taker brothers. You're the two-point sisters. Did I ever tell you guys about the time I did hard drugs in a Masonic Lodge? Yes.

Good. Okay. All right. No need. Do we remember what episode? I don't. Of course I don't. All right.

I'm sure so many people will be like, come on, let them tell it again. No, no, no. We don't do stories only in my real life. Do I tell stories three, four, five times? On the show, only once. Two or three, I think. Usually I'll let it slide like a couple of times before I harshly bring the hammer down. Taxel said that ordinary masons were unaware of these truths and that the real truth was disclosed to them as they got higher and higher in the order.

Now this was a strategic move because what happens is that most masons would go like, they don't talk about anything about Satan in the lodge that I go to. And then he was like, no, no, you're not high enough. You haven't reached the, you're not quite there yet. You haven't reached the, like, Killers of the Flower Moon level where De Niro belts you. Yeah, yeah, you got to, yeah, you got to pay 200 coffers and pass go. And then you'll be, you know, led into the secrets of Zinu and the bodies and the volcanoes. Coffers, that's the currency. That's what they called.

That's what they called coins, you know, back in that day. Yeah. France. Okay. Yeah. I think the coffers are just the boxes they put them in, but that's fine. Taxel also said that there was a hidden meeting behind the Masonic concept of the great architect of the universe.

Now, Freemasons publicly said that the phrase great architect of the universe is just a neutral way to refer to a deity, whatever deity, and whatever form that any individual Freemason may believe in. But according to Taxel, the great architect. of the universe was none other than Satan. I mean, when they're right, they're right. Yeah, architect doesn't necessarily have a positive connotation to it. You can, you can, it could be an evil architect.

Yeah, I've watched Prometheus. I know what the builders did. Yeah, a hairbringer of, of, yeah, construction doom. Harbinger? Yeah, a hairbringer. Space Harrier. Here they come with the toupees. Will of Leo Taxel's more notorious fabrication.

was the claim that masons who wish to be initiated into the higher degrees had to sacrifice a sheep which they believed to be a human being. Here's one translation of that claim. Before a man is admitted to the higher degrees, he is blindfolded and taken into a room where a live sheep is lying on the floor. The animal's mouth and feet are secured and it is clean-shaven so that its skin feels to the touch like that of a human being. Next to the animal, a man is placed who breathes heavily, feigning to struggle against imaginary enemies. The candidate is given to understand that the sheep's body is that of a disloyal mason who gave away secrets of the order and must die according to some ancient law. The candidate being made executioner as a warning to said disloyal mason.

Then he is given a big knife and after some ceremony is persuaded to, quote, kill the traitor. That is, plunge the knife repeatedly into the body of the sheep, which he imagines to be that of an unknown human being, his brother. Damn, I mean, it's pretty twisted. Sort of reminds me of when I was, uh, I joined a person. fraternity briefly in college and they did all sorts of all sorts of trickery during the initiation no no live animals or anything but they they did this whole rigamaror about how you actually didn't get in you get brought before a panel of guys and they're like sorry you didn't get into the house bro you know and not so many words and then it there are all these brothers that are like pretending to come to your defense I remember during the whole thing I was like oh thank God I'm like I don't even know if I like these guys anyway I don't anyways like maybe this is a maybe this is a blessing and disgusting guys that I didn't get in and at the end they have you stand in a ring and they're like will

everybody who was chosen to be part of the house tonight please take one step backward and you feel and you're blindfolded of course through this whole thing so you feel the two shoulders next to you like take a step back and you're like oh great like I'm the fucking loser like great this is embarrassing but then they take the blindfold off and it's like all set up they're like everybody got in and there was a little bit yeah there was like a little bit of disappointment there for me because I was thinking like, oh, maybe I don't have to pay the $1,500 initiation fee. Take off your blindfold. Jake, this whole time you've been masturbating a sheep.

What other stuff do we have to do? We had to, like, hold a brick out with our straight arm for a really long time until it got very heavy and uncomfortable. Would he eat some very spicy food? All right, let me finish reading this quote. Thus, every Mason is a murder and spirit, at least, if not actually. because sometimes treacherous masons take the place of the animal. Wow.

So, like, sometimes they just do it the way they were tricking people thought to think they were doing it. That's okay. Sometimes they actually just have to get initiated to the brotherhood by murdering a dude blindfolded. Yeah, that's what Jake did too. He killed a guy called like Caleb. Yeah, I thought I was eating like a really spicy chili. But in actuality, it was like the intestine. of like a brother who like you know maybe like wasn't as dope bro we fucking made you do blood libel

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