I noticed an important reader comment, a challenge to a fact I had reported, and also based all my recent analysis of things on:
“That too-good-to-be-true, amazing letter from Confederate General Albert Pike to Freemason Mazzini which describes 3 world wars w/ remarkable prescience has turned out to be a fake. It was concocted by charlatan Leo Taxil and picked up and promoted by sincere but lazy conspiracy researchers like William Guy Carr and David Icke. No record of it exists at its purported repository, the British Museum. Read all about it.
So: The anti-conspiracy theorists claimed to expose the anti-Masons, in identical tones with identical sources.
I knew there was one person only I wanted to “talk to” about this—the Estonian historian Jüri Lina, the world’s best historian (as far as I can tell) about the forensic true history of the Masons.
I came upon a PDF of Lina’s 2004 book Architects of Deception and started speed-reading it. I had to get all the way to page 197 before I found the beginnings of detailed histories of—yes—correspondences between Pike and Mazzini. Turns out they did correspond, first of all—enough that a small book could be written about this relationship alone.
Lina leaves no stone unturned: He even knew their illuminati aliases.
And yes, the contents of the letter is borne out by their correspondences. But here’s the real “hoax:”
It wasn’t in the Taxil book, it was in a book by the historian Domenico Margiotta.
Enough?
The entire, detailed, fully sourced history is in the Jüri Lina PDF linked above.
Nothing is what it seems.
And now that I think about it, I have always had a bad reaction to the word “hoax.”
It’s a punch, an accusation—somehow aggressive, and shaming.
It snaps closed like a Venus fly trap when you touch it.
And there’s usually a reason for that.