by Terry Melanson, Oct. 5th, 2010
Or, how Michael Haupt said, that William Guy Carr said, that Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez of Santiago, Chile said, that The Cause of World Unrest
said, that the confessed hoaxer Gabriel Jogand-Pagès aka Dr. Bataille
aka Leo Taxil said about Albert Pike and Giuseppe Mazzini in Le diable au XIXe siècle, v. II, 1892-1894, p. 605 (but actually pp. 594-606). Got it?
I don’t derive any satisfaction from a debunking. I really don’t. Discovering the truth is a reward in itself.
Having a knack for getting to the bottom of a thing also helps with
maintaining credibility. Historiography is among other things concerned
with source criticism. And while I’m not an academically trained
historian, I am quite aware that one should strive to consult the
primary source as opposed to relying on the word of secondary or even
tertiary accounts.
The matter at hand deals with an alleged “three world war” prediction
from famed Mason, Scottish Rite Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike.
William Guy Carr was the key purveyor of the tale which, to me, was
suspicious to say the least.
Off and on I’ve been working at it. And I’ve finally cracked the case.
The “Three World Wars” website and Carr
Let’s begin with the modern populariser of the Pike/Mazzini, 1871 “letter.”
In 2003, an Englishman by the name of
Michael Haupt [fig 1] launched [fig 2] his website
threeworldwars.com
in response to Jihadist terrorism and the American invasion of Iraq.
Backed by the knowledge gleaned from a conspiratorial view of history
and an obvious impending cataclysm, the words of William Guy Carr,
attributed to Albert Pike, seemed to precisely predict the dire
circumstances unfolding in the Middle East.
One message that Albert Pike received from his “spirit guide,” and
which in reality we know to be a demonic vision, he described in a
letter that he wrote to Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871. This letter
graphically outlined plans for three world wars that were seen as
necessary to bring about the One World Order, and we can marvel at how
accurately it has predicted events that have already taken place. This
is not because the devil has powers of prophecy, but because his agents
have undertaken to manipulate political events to closely follow his
designs. For a short time, this letter was on display in the British
Museum Library in London, and it was copied by William Guy Carr, former
Intelligence Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy.
“The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the
Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making
that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused
by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and
Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war,
Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other
governments and in order to weaken the religions.”
Students of history will recognize that the political alliances of
England on one side and Germany on the other, forged between 1871 and
1898 by Otto von Bismarck, co-conspirator of Albert Pike, were
instrumental in bringing about the First World War.
“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the
differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war
must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political
Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in
Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must
become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be
then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it
for the final social cataclysm.”
After this Second World War, Communism was made strong enough to
begin taking over weaker governments. In 1945, at the Potsdam Conference
between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, a large portion of Europe was
simply handed over to Russia, and on the other side of the world, the
aftermath of the war with Japan helped to sweep the tide of Communism
into China.
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the
differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the
political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be
conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and
political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.
Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be
constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual
and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the
atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in
all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute
atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then
everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world
minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of
civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose
deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction,
anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration,
will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the
pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This
manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which
will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered
and exterminated at the same time.”
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001, world events in the
Middle East show a growing unrest and instability between Jews and
Arabs. This is completely in line with the call for a Third World War to
be fought between the two, and their allies on both sides. This Third
World War is still to come, and recent events show us that it is not far
off.
Notice
the quotes attributed to Carr, who in turn is supposedly citing Pike
verbatim. Although there is no citation from Haupt, e.g. book and page
number, it was pretty easy to track down from where it had originated.
“The First World War must…,” “The Second World War must…,” and “The
Third World War must…,” is a
paraphrased excerpt from William Guy Carr’s book,
Pawns in the Game,
pp. xv-xvi (a reprint of the 1958 edition). Only Carr doesn’t use
quotes to signal a direct quote from the letter, as Haupt had deemed
necessary to insert all by himself. The former does indeed claim that
three world wars was prophesied in the letter, but he doesn’t actually
go so far as to put
quotations around it so as to definitively attribute those specific words as occurring
verbatim in said letter.
Carr maintains a curious middle ground. Observe the following:
Between 1859, and 1871, he worked out the details of a military
blue-print, for three world wars, and three major revolutions which he
considered would further the conspiracy to its final stage during the
twentieth century.
[…] Pike’s plan was as simple as it has proved effective. He required
that Communism, Naziism, Political Zionism, and other International
movements be organized and used to foment the three global wars and
three major revolutions. The first world war was to be fought so as to
enable the Illuminati to overthrow the powers of the Tzars in Russia and
turn that country into the stronghold of Atheistic-Communism. The
differences stirred up by agentur of the Illuminati between the British
and German Empires were to be used to foment this war. After the war
ended, Communism was to be built up and used to destroy other
governments and weaken religions.
World War Two, was to be fomented by using the differences between
Fascists and Political Zionists. This war was to be fought so that
Naziism would be destroyed and the power of Political Zionism increased
so that the sovereign state of Israel could be established in Palestine.
During world war two International Communism was to be built up until
it equalled in strength that of united Christendom. At this point it was
to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social
cataclysm. Can any informed person deny Roosevelt and Churchill did not
put this policy into effect?
World War Three is to be fomented by using the differences the
agentur of the Illuminati stir up between Political Zionists and the
leaders of the Moslem world. The war is to be directed in such a manner
that Islam (the Arab World including Mohammedanism) and Political
Zionism (including the State of Israel) will destroy themselves while at
the same time the remaining nations, once more divided against each
other on this issue, will be forced to fight themselves into a state of
complete exhaustion physically, mentally, spiritually and economically.
Can any unbiased and reasoning person deny that the intrigue now going
on in the Near, Middle, and Far East isn’t designed to accomplish this
devilish purpose?
– William Guy Carr,
Pawns in the Game (CPA Book Publisher reprint n. d.; however Carr signs his introduction Oct. 13, 1958), p. XV
[fig 4]
As is obvious, these are not direct quotes, rather only a claim. And
there is no citation for these revelations, either: When exactly did
Pike supposedly lay out his master conspiracy? And where can one read
the complete unedited original?
On the next page, however, there
is a small quote from the mysterious alleged letter dated August 15, 1871:
On August 15, 1871, Pike told Mazzini that after World War Three is
ended, those who aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the
greatest social cataclysm the world has ever known. We quote his own
written words (taken from the letter catalogued in the British Museum
Library, London, Eng.):
“We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a
formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to
the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of
the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to
defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will
exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude,
disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that
moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without
knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light
through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer
brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will
result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the
destruction of Christianity and Atheism, both conquered and exterminated
at the same time.”
– William Guy Carr,
Pawns in the Game (CPA Book Publisher reprint n.d.), p. XVI
[fig 5]
Here we have a direct quote from the elusive letter, and again, with
no precise citation – only the assertion that it is held in the British
Museum.
Carr, Rodriguez and “The Cause of World Unrest”
Apparently, Carr was called out on this, for in his last book published posthumously in 1959, he finally reveals his source:
Pike explained what is intended to happen in a letter he wrote to his
director (Mazzini) of the W.R.M. August 15, 1871. This letter is quoted
elsewhere. It is catalogued in the Library of the British Museum,
London, England [9] and has been quoted from and
referred to by dozens of authorities and students of the W.R.M.,
including Cardinal Rodriguez of Chile. (See page 118 of The Mysteries of Freemasonry Unveiled, 1925. English translation, 1957.)
[…]
[9] The Keeper of manuscripts recently informed the
author that this letter is NOT catalogued in the British Museum Library.
It seems strange that a man of Cardinal Rodriguez’s knowledge should
have said it WAS in 1925.
– William Guy Carr,
Satan: Prince of this World (
pdf scan by Haupt), p. 22
Let’s consult Cardinal Rodriguez’ book to pin it down further. Here are the relevant passages:
In The Cause, the work of Monseigneur Jouin, concerning
the Protocols, and the work of Witchl, are given the names of all the
Jews who have been in the government of the Soviet and thus it is shown
that the Jews are realizing their plan, for which they counted on
Masonry as a blind and servile instrument.
The other indication of the participation of Masonry in the Revolution and the present upheaval in Russia is a letter in Le Diable au XIXème Siècle
(1896), attributed to Albert Pike, “Sovereign Pontiff of Universal
Masonry”, assisted by ten Ancients of the Grand Lodge of the Supreme
Orient of Charleston to the very illustrious Joseph Mazzini, dated
August 15, 1871. What I have said of the document previously mentioned, The Protocols,
I say of this one: Authentic or not, the letter had been published long
enough before the events, not to be an invention accommodated post factum. Its publication is catalogued in the British Museum of London and the plan attributed to Pike is also in part in Le Palladisme
Of Margiotta, p. 186 published in 1895. It is a plan to destroy
Catholicism, to throw the Pope out of Italy and force him to seek refuge
in Russia; and then, when the autocratic empire had become the citadel
of Papal Christianity, “we,” continues the author of the letter, “shall
unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable
social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the
nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the
most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend
themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will
exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude,
disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that
moment without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where
to render its adoration, will receive the true light through
the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought
finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from
the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of
Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same
time” (The Cause, p. 77 ff).
– The Cardinal of Chile,
The Mysteries of Freemasonry Unveiled (Christian Book Club of America, 2006), pp. 115-6 [
fig 6 and
7]
I was pleased with the discovery that Cardinal Rodriguez provided
adequate citation for further investigation. Some of the new information
gleaned includes the fact, that 1) Carr quoted directly from Rodriguez’
meagre one-paragraph excerpt; 2) the latter mentioned nothing about a
prediction of three world wars; and that 3) Carr was confused about
exactly what was “catalogued” in the British Museum. Furthermore, it
appears that Cardinal Rodriguez was alluding to
Le Diable au XIXème Siècle —
“its publication” — as being catalogued at the Museum, not the letter itself (as our next source confirms).
At any rate,
Le Diable au XIXème Siècle [The Devil in the 19th-century] is
the source of the alleged letter. Unfortunately, however, Rodriguez omits which volume – Bataille (Dr.),
Le Diable au XIXe siècle,
2 volumes (Delhomme & Briguet: Paris-Lyon, 1892-1894), 1800pp – let
alone which page or pages. Therefore, I had no other choice but to
consult the secondary work called “The Cause.”
On p. 8 in the aforementioned edition of
The Mysteries of Freemasonry Unveiled, one encounters a helpful section entitled “References and Abbreviations.” Item number 19, reads:
“The Cause of World Unrest 1920” [fig 8].
Putting it mildly, both Carr and Rodriguez were hardly amicable
toward the Jews, and the next source is no exception to the rule.
The Cause of World Unrest is a compilation of articles that appeared in the
London Morning Post in July of 1920, in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution and the publication of the
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Whoever penned these texts wished to remain anonymous. Certain
researchers, however, conclude that its main authors were Ian Colvin, editor of the paper H. A. Gwynne, and Nesta Webster.
The original 1920 copy of the book, as well as a recent reprint of it
(precise date not specified), reveals that Cardinal Rodriguez was
incorrect about the page numbers. The information on the Pike letter is
found from page 50 to 52, as opposed to “77 ff”:
In the year 1896 there appeared in Paris a curious publication called Le Diable au XIXe Siècle.
It was an attack upon Freemasonry, and came out in parts, illustrated
with grotesque and repulsive engravings. The name on the title-page is
Dr. Bataille, but it is stated in the British Museum Catalogue that the real authors were Gabriel Jogand-Pagès and Charles Hacks [TM: this explains the “catalogued” business].
The book, with evident knowledge and a show of authority, set out to
trace the connection between Freemasonry and revolutions, but its
sensationalism and the extremely doubtful character of some of the
documents produced brought it into disrepute. It is now forgotten, and
yet it contains a good deal that can be verified from other sources, and
some things also which seem to be verified by recent events. In
particular there is a letter – or an alleged letter – said to have been
written by Albert Pike, the “Sovereign Pontiff of Universal
Freemasonry,” assisted by the Ten Ancients of the Grand Lodge of the
Supreme Orient at Charleston, to “the very illustrious brother” Giuseppe
Mazzini. This letter is dated (in Masonic style) August 15, 1871, and
sets forth an anti-clerical policy which Mazzini is to follow in Italy.
The measures proposed, including secular education, the expulsion of the
religious orders, and so forth, need not detain us.
What is to our
purpose occurs towards the end of the letter, on page 605 (vol. ii.).
The writer explains that owing to the working out of this policy the
Pope may be driven at some future time out of Italy, and that
established religion will then find its last refuge in Russia. And the
letter proceeds:
“That is why, when the autocratic Empire of Russia will have become
the citadel of Papal Christianity (adonaïsme papiste), we shall unchain
the revolutionary Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a
formidable social cataclysm, which will demonstrate clearly to the
nations, in all its horror, the effect of absolute unbelief, mother of
savagery and of the most bloody disorder. Then, everywhere, the
citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the mad minority of
revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of civilization, and
the multitude, disillusioned of Christianity, whose deist soul will up
to that moment be without compass, thirsting for an ideal, but not
knowing where to bestow their worship, will receive the True Light, by
the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine, at last
made public, a manifestation which will arise from the general movement
of reaction following the destruction of Atheism and Christianity, both
at the same time vanquished and exterminated.”
Now this letter is at least as old as 1896 (if it is a forgery); if
it is genuine, it is as old as 1871. It must therefore be considered
remarkable, whether as a forgery or as a genuine document. For it
predicts what has happened in Russia, and it claims for its authors that
they were preparing to bring about what has happened.
– H. A. Gwynne (ed.),
The Cause of World Unrest (no date, no publisher, no ISBN specified [cover –
fig 9]), pp. 50-52 [see
fig 10,
11,
12, as well as
13; also, an OCR PDF scan of the
original 1920 edition]
Now we’re getting somewhere. The original book, volume, and page number for the letter has finally been identified.
We’ll look at the actual “letter” below. For now, however, it will
suffice to comment on two things: 1) the confusion over a catalogue in
the British Museum has been solved; and 2) the “Nihilists and Atheists”
quotes are nearly identical translations from Carr to Rodriguez to the
“anonymous” author in
The Cause. (There are a few minor discrepancies, but this is surely due to Rodriguez’s book being translated from Spanish to English.)
“The Cause” (1920) |
Rodriguez (1957 English edition) |
“shall unchain the revolutionary Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall
provoke a formidable social cataclysm, which will demonstrate clearly
to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of absolute unbelief,
mother of savagery and of the most bloody disorder. Then, everywhere,
the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the mad minority of
revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of civilization, and
the multitude, disillusioned of Christianity, whose deist soul will up
to that moment be without compass, thirsting for an ideal, but not
knowing where to bestow their worship, will receive the True Light, by
the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian doctrine, at last
made public, a manifestation which will arise from the general movement
of reaction following the destruction of Atheism and Christianity, both
at the same time vanquished and exterminated.”
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“shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a
formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to
the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of
the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to
defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will
exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude,
disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that
moment without compass , anxious for an ideal, but without knowing
where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the
universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally
out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the
general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of
Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same
time”
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Carr (1958 edition) |
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“shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a
formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to
the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of
the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to
defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will
exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude,
disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that
moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without
knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light
through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer
brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will
result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the
destruction of Christianity and Atheism, both conquered and exterminated
at the same time.”
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“LE PLAN DES CHEFS SECRETS”
It was precisely 2 years ago that I had acquired the last source in
the trail. I don’t usually do the inter-library thing: they give me the
run-around, and endless excuses. I purchase books online, mostly through
second hand dealers, and
Le Diable au XIXème Siècle — any volume; any edition — was a little too rich for my blood.
Google Books has indeed scanned
the volume, searchable though presented only in snippet view. At one point I became aware of Michel Berchmans’
Le Diable au XIXe siècle: La mystification du Dr Bataille
[The Devil in the 19th-century: The Hoax of Dr. Bataille] (Marabout,
1973), which includes lengthy excerpts along with a critical
introduction. After getting the book into my hands, however, I quickly
found that the famed 1871 letter from Pike to Mazzini was unfortunately
overlooked.
Then, a few weeks ago, I had an idea. What if I type in “15 août
1871” in the snippet search just get a semblance of what page 605 of the
volume really contains? Sure enough,
it was there. And from that tiny snippet view, I gleaned an entire sentence: “15 août 1871, ère vulgaire.”
You can probably figure out what my next step was. I googled it in
the hopes that someone, somewhere – surely by now – must have
transcribed and posted portions, or hopefully the entire alleged letter.
Voilà!
Exceeding thanks therefore goes to “Hercule” — at a Rennes-le-Château
research forum of all places! — who, after receiving it in an email,
posted the entire chapter found in
Le Diable, v. II, that pertains to the 1871 Pike/Mazzini exchange.
I quickly snatched up the text, consolidated it, and compared it
sentence by sentence in the search box provided at the Google book scan.
It was a literal transcription.
Let’s proceed then, with a translation of the twelve pages in
question before remarking on the merits or validity of its contents or
lack thereof.
***
The Devil in the 19th-century, by Dr. Bataille, Volume 2, Chapter XXXV, pages 594-606.
[p. 594]
“The Plan of the Secret Chiefs”
At the beginning of August 1871, that is to say less than a year
after the establishment of Palladism (Supreme Rite), the “learned
Luciferian Pontiff” Albert Pike received an important letter from
Mazzini. The political action leader for Universal Freemasonry invited
the supreme dogmatic leader of the sect to draw up a clear plan with a
view toward the destruction of Roman Catholicism.
“The unity of Italy, he said, was never considered a goal, rather a means.”
In the solemn hours, Albert Pike assembles his ten advisers, members
of the Most Serene Grand College of Emerited Masons, and submitted for
their consideration the question raised by the very illustrious brother
Giuseppe Mazzini.
This meeting of the eleven highest lumières of the infernal sect,
this evil cabal which lasted seven days (from August 9th to 15th), after
careful [p. 595] deliberation, inspired no doubt by Satan himself, left
the following document (translated from the original Latin text):
“The Serene Grand College of Emerited Masons, convened under the
chairmanship of the Most Illustrious, Most Powerful and Most Divinely
Enlightened Brother LIMMUD-ENSOPH, Custodial Grand Master of the Sacred
Palladium, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, received with
respect the Noble and Dignified Arch from the most illustrious, Most
Powerful and Most Enlightened Brother EMOUNAH-SHEMED, Head of Political
Action, Great Dictator and President of the Supreme Executive
Directorate, dated the first day of the Moon Ab, eighteenth day of the
fifth month of the year of the True Light 000871, and under the eye of
the Almighty Divine Master EXCELSUS EXCELSIOR, all things considered,
exposed and discussed issues of supreme interest, and after
deliberation, has determined the legitimate requirements that today will
become law.
“Rihab Sabba, Ahta Ahtnanoc Malog Hcsorem, Lucifer. Alleluia!”
“The destruction of feeble Catholicism, cannot be accomplished all at
once, and erecting good Catholicism also requires a lot of labour,
working in tandem, which should be pursued simultaneously, so that, when
the temple of Adonai, undermined on all sides, is ready to collapse in
total ruin, the same impulse that annihilates will discover the temple,
hitherto hidden from our Divine Master, properly prepared in the eyes of
mankind.
“God-King Lucifer will have the whole world consecrated and worshipping him; his religion will therefore truly be Catholic.
“The title of Catholic does not, in fact, belong to Roman
superstition. Through revelation, it is certain that its number will
never reach, at its apogee, a quarter of the world’s population; it is
written in The Book of the Heavens. On the other hand, the religion of
Adonai achieved that domination, and it is obvious that she is
declining.
“It is necessary that we consider the religious situation of
humanity, if we want to safely proceed with the work of twice-over
destroying the temple of Adonai and building the temple of Lucifer. This
preliminary look will give us courage and hope in the realization of
our divine plight; for we show that the future is ours, and the title
Catholics is reserved for ourselves. [p. 596]
“One billion, four hundred million inhabitants, this is the
population of the globe. Of these, Roman Catholicism has only two
hundred and ten million followers.
“However, we must classify religious followers by groups.
“The Christian group is to be subdivided as follows: Roman Catholics,
two hundred and ten million; Protestants, one hundred and twenty
million; Orthodox, whom the pope of superstition called schismatics,
eighty million.
“The Indian group is subdivided as follows: Buddhists, four hundred
and twenty million; Brahmanists, one hundred and sixty million.
“We must put aside for the Mohammedans, two hundred million.
“Observe that the truth is known to the priests of Vedism (Indian
Group), and the Mohammedans, without knowing the truth, have had a large
number of their priests inspired by it.
“Two hundred and thirty-three million idolaters, fetishists or
worshipers of various idols, will disappear along with civilization, not
individually but as religionists. The Roman Catholic missionaries want
to win them over; yet it will be Roman Catholicism itself that
disappears even before it attempts the conquest in a meaningful way.
“The Jewish religion has seven million adherents; this small group
has no tendency toward conversion to Roman Catholicism; revelation has
promised it to us.
“Finally, statisticians estimate that twenty-eight million deistic
freethinkers are scattered throughout the globe, while atheists have two
million. All others are mostly defectors from other Christian groups.
“But it is not appropriate to consider the whole Christian group as
being alienated from true light to the same degree. Protestantism, its
various factions, except a tiny minority, are composed of followers of
reason, who understand and continuously seek truth, and, therefore, find
it; is from them that we find the most numerous followers of the
God-Good. On the other hand, the Orthodox schismatics fell prey to the
promised Evil-God, as written in the Book of the Heavens. But when
Orthodoxy is reunited with Roman Catholicism, they number less than
three hundred million adherents.
“The conversion of Protestants to the Temple of True Light will be
gradual, sayeth the revelation; the fate of the Mohammedans will be
entirely determined by a large and unexpected event occurring under the
sixth sovereign pontificate of good Catholicism. It will follow from
this that – far from being doomed to the cursed darkness of superstition
– three hundred twenty million souls will be enlightened.
“According to the revelation, Roman Catholicism will always be in
decline; [p. 597] either desertions or conquest of souls will increase
the number of free-thinking deists, and we know that they are in a state
of transition while we are finally promised.
“On the other hand, we needn’t worry about transitioning the state of
the Indian group, for its priests already possess true light.
“Therefore, at the appointed hour in the Book of the Heavens, that is
to say, when Roman Catholicism reaches its maximum number of followers
through by uniting with Orthodoxy or schismatics, more than one billion
Luciferian Catholics will be found in opposition.
“Consequently, the issue boils down to this: we must be ready when we
find ourselves a billion or more, finally with our banners flying high,
producing an explosion that will topple the Temple of Adonai; so, in
other words, superstition should be weakened and ruined, so much so that
its followers will themselves merge into our ranks, – we are promised
that dazzling miracles will open their eyes – and that, if at that time
some obstinate priests are left still insisting upon preaching the [word
of the] Evil-God, their extermination can be accomplished without
difficulty.
“How, then, should this unavoidable end-date, be directed and arrived at gradually and peacefully?
“To speak here of the Christian group, tactics will vary as we
maneuver in countries dominated by the Roman Catholic element or in
countries dominated by the Protestant element.
“The main work is one that aims to transform the Roman Catholics into
freethinking Deists. We need to apply all our strength, and with that,
persuade many. Experience has shown that too-few are the privileged
souls who leap from the abyss of obscurantism to take their bold flight
into the ether of divine and invigorating light.
“For this he must conquer the seats of government of his people; this
is everything. Whether in the republics or the monarchist states, we
must enact laws, destroying everywhere the influence of the priests of
the superstition and their auxiliaries, the monks who mingle with the
people and the nuns who maintain the soul in error, by the cloak of
false charity. It will, first, be through the press that we inspire
writers, demonstrating how the almsgiving of the Evil-Catholics is
degrading to human dignity, and this by showing that the individual has
the right to well-being through social reforms and not by routine
charity; and, secondly, that for parliaments or legislatures to disperse
unpopular congregations, to skillfully destroy those prejudices [p.
598] requires still, in a word, first the removal of every monk or nun.
“In the intellectual sphere, especially, the neutrality of the public
schools must be secured so that it is no longer pervaded by priests,
nor any of their agents; then, early in the stages of neutralization, we
divert any thoughts the parents may have to give their children a Roman
Catholic education outside of the neutralized schools. Indeed, keeping
new generations from having their intelligence obliterated by the lies
of evil dogma is crucial. But at the same time we must take serious
steps to ensure that formal education is neutral and does not fall into
atheism; neutrality is sufficient, that is to say the suppression of any
tendency to insinuate young minds into the false dogma of adonaites. In
fact, their exists in the human soul an innate sense that pushes the
individual toward a divine ideal, which makes him instinctively
understand the existence of a Supreme Being, the supernatural factor,
the organizer and driving force of the universe.
We’ll let this
sentiment develop freely, that is to say, without criminally directing
them against superstition, the religion of the Evil-God, but imported
from abroad in the half-light of a vague deism, but uncontaminated by
the pestiferous breath of Roman Catholicism; and when the hour of the
Good-God manifests, truly worthy of humanity’s worship, the children
turned men will address their aspirations to Him; and so, by removing
the childhood and adolescence of Adonai, we devote ourselves to Lucifer,
simply by natural inclination alone, and the maturity of new
generations. It is therefore absolutely necessary that the atheist
teacher clearly be removed from school, lest he try to introduce [his
own dogma] after we have already driven out the adonaite priest, and the
instruction books, placed in the hands of children after being purged
of the lying dogmas of Roman Catholicism, posit, but without precise
definition, the existence of a Supreme Being.
“While the new generations haven’t yet been moulded, adonaism must be
fought intellectually by all sorts of publications demonstrating how
monstrous and ridiculous the idea of the divinity of the priests of
superstition is. In this struggle, we must not overlook the pamphlet,
satire, and mockery, which affect the masses easier than learned
dissertations. We must never forget the good that Voltaire did for our
cause, by covering the ridiculousness of Roman Catholicism. But it is
not for fun and laughs that we’ve adopted this perfect tactic: in
discrediting false doctrines and the cult of the adonaites, we discredit
the ministers of this detestable religion; we arrive gradually to the
desertion of its churches. [p. 599]
“In effect, we should not rely solely on the outcome of enacted laws;
for if we managed to totally deprive the Roman Catholic clergy of
state-granted subsidies, they would obtain financial compensation
extracted directly from the fanatics wallowing in an incurable
credulity. However, by discrediting all the Roman Catholic institutions,
it does decrease the number of these unfortunate exploits; it is
necessary for individuals with any sense to realize that, recourse to
superstition sacraments is ridiculous; in this way, for fear of mockery,
they may break the habit of consorting with impostor priests. It is
therefore good to give latitude to charlatans of the worst sort, the
dregs of false prophets, whose business is an obvious scam; inspired by
us, the press will make comparisons between them and the priests of
Adonai, confounding the two with reprobation and ridicule.
“On the other hand, through legislative means or otherwise,
recruitment of the Roman Catholic priesthood must be restrained. It
would be beneficial to give young priests actual knowledge of social
life, falsely portrayed by their teachers. It will be necessary to have
confident woman who devote themselves to the benefits and initiations of
the Good-God. The results obtained in this way will be fruitful; for
one of two things will happen: either the adonaite priest, once he has
tasted the sweet joys papal barbarism forbade, will resign from the
clergy, thus demonstrating to the public that nature condemns,
absolutely, systematic celibacy; or he will remain in the priestly
caste, secretly with us, not as an ally but entirely ours, rendering the
most valuable service toward undermining the Temple of Adonai.
“In any case and in all circumstances, we must create a vacuum around
the Roman Catholic priest, and it is also necessary that the clergy,
after becoming more and more despised, hated, and scorned, be diminished
in number, and to stop at nothing to obtain this result.
First, we
increase societies, circles, non-religious festivals, etc., for the
pleasure of urban and rural townspeople; and secondly, we advocate
boldly and everywhere, like a doctrine, the anti-Roman Catholic motto:
‘No priest at birth! no priest at marriage! no priest at death!’ while
favouring the creation of any association established in solidarity with
this program.
“Finally, we should point out, scandalously, ready-made facts
authored by a priest of Adonai, which might be liable to discredit the
priesthood; that is, a fact not detrimental by itself, but in as much as
it [p. 600] contradicts the cruel law of chastity so pretentiously
asserted by Papism, who claim their clergy are above nature, and in this
case, it will be advisable not to make a noise about it unless the
offender is considered incapable of becoming our secret agent.
“And that will be the way forward throughout all countries of the Christian group.
“In particular, we must pause a moment and concentrate on Italy.
Here, the Freemasons, while following to the letter the policies we have
outlined, will have a duty to work tirelessly with the greatest zeal,
to repeal the law that passed three months ago on which the Chief of
Political Action has called our attention. We begin by attacking at the
outset the system of two sovereignties in one country, in one capital;
we will highlight the difficulties resulting from a dual diplomatic
corps, half of which is the Italian crown in a state of permanent
conspiracy against their own homeland. This campaign of Italian masonry
should be supported by masons of other countries through an ambassador
to the superstitious Roman Pontiff; to file motions for the removal of
their embassies; and on this point, we would emphasize the fact that the
existence of said papal embassies depends only on the magnanimity of
the Italians who were willing to recognize a cult leader, now without a
land, and the nature and prerogatives of the sovereign. Then we attack
the imprudently granted sanctity of the ecclesiastical congregations
forming the high spiritual administration of the Supreme Headquarters of
the Roman superstition. It will provoke conflicts between the political
authorities and any leaders under papal authority. We will spare no
opportunity to arouse the populace against this person, even of the
occupant of that cursed seat, so that, if he dared leave the Vatican,
there would be unrest. It should become the habitual public opinion of
Italy to regard as a dangerous embarrassment the presence of the Pope in
their country.
“When public opinion is ripe to accept the Pope’s expulsion passed by
a parliament comprised of a Masonic majority, we should propose a bill
akin to something like following:
“Art. 1 – Italy recognizes no state religion.
“Art. 2 – To continue to have the right to exercise its cult, the
Christian Church, formerly known as Catholic, shall be in Italy
exclusively Italian. [p. 601]
“Art. 3 – Its bishops are authorized to meet in the national council
and appoint someone as the Patriarch for the Peninsula, Sardinia and
Sicily.
“Art. 4 – The present pope is eligible for this dignity, provided he
relinquishes all superior authority other than the Church in Italy.
“Art. 5 – The Christian Patriarch of Italy has no sovereign status, and no foreign ambassador can be accredited to him.
“Art. 6 – The Sacred College of Cardinals will cease to exist, and
the Congregations called the Holy Office, the Council, of Propaganda, of
Rites, of the Index, of Indulgences, and, in a word, all
ecclesiastically superior Church committees with a view toward universal
administration, either spiritual or financial.
“Art. 7 – The titles of Cardinal and Archbishop are abolished;
vis-à-vis the civil power, all the Bishops are on an equal footing, with
the exception of the Patriarch, who is the first Italian bishop and
who, in official state ceremonies, takes his place among the Presidents
of Supreme Courts and the President of the Court of Auditors.
“Art. 8 – Each bishop administers his diocese under state control;
[p. 602] the Bishops must refer to the Patriarch in issues purely of a
spiritual or liturgical nature.
“Art. 9 – Any act of the Patriarch, committed in violation of the
present law, will result in immediate dismissal and banishment.
“Art. 10 – Every bishop who is found complicit in violating the law
with the Patriarch, shall incur a penalty of imprisonment in a fortress,
five to ten years, and is also humiliated in the presence of people
assembled on the public square or the courts of the cathedral of his
diocese.
“Art. 11 – The Central Commission of Cults, composed of the secular
members of the diocese, and whose members are appointed by the
Parliament, centralize all reports of the civilian authorities on
administrative actions or other documents related to the dioceses and
form a permanent Superior Council to settle all disputes between the
bishops and their ecclesiastical subordinates, except for spiritual or
liturgical matters which are subject to the exclusive supreme
jurisdiction of the Patriarch.
“Art. 12 – Through secret ballot, Priests will be elected by the
faithful who remain irremovably attached to their parish; current
priests, declared eligible by this Act, though not imposed on the
faithful, will submit within six months from this date a confirmation of
their position and title, voted on freely by their parishioners.
“Art. 13 – The Bishops are appointed by the Patriarch upon
presentation of the government’s chosen three candidates; nevertheless,
the present bishops who accept this religious regulation, will remain in
office; those bishops not accepted will remain simple priests, and will
be provided with a rural parish in the vicariate by his successor as
head of the diocese, but his own vicarage will forever remain out of
reach.
“At the same time the bill is tabled at the Chamber of Deputies of
Italy, a copy, which would have previously been sent to all infected
countries of Roman Catholicism, and to newspapers written by us, will
soon be published everywhere, and accompanied by high praise. A concert
of articles will celebrate the wisdom of Italian liberals, crediting
them for having found a good solution to the religious question. We’ll
attempt to illuminate the absurdity of the situation up until now: how
wrong it is for Italy to have one of its citizens conspiring against the
homeland, while at the same time the holdout is the head of a religion
claiming to be universal and professing to place himself above the
country’s legitimate authorities; how wrong it is for other nations to
have allowed a veritable state within a state, with an entire staff of
priests who are in reality servants of a foreign sovereign. Newspapers
will call upon progressive deputies from other countries to promptly
submit a similar bill, externally emancipating them from the national
clergy of this cult called catholic, to constitute a liberal priesthood
of a religion which the faithful have nothing in common [p. 603] with
those practicing the same creed in another country. Great unrest will
occur in various countries with numerous followers of Roman Catholicism,
and, by legal means, through a general agreement emanating from
Freemasonry, we proceed with the disintegration of the religion of evil.
“These events will not be fulfilled in twenty nor thirty years; we
bring it about when Roman Catholicism has been totally discredited, when
old women and a few incurable fools are its sole supporters, and when
we have secretly acquired a significant portion of its clergy. When
circumstances are favourable, due to increased legal restrictions in one
country or another, having already completely abolished the finances of
the cults and reduced the income of the priests of superstition to mere
offerings of the faithful, in this case, it will be useful in such
country or countries, to restore state funding to members of various
clergy, even to the point of being generous toward the priests of
Adonaism who accept the new situation. We’ll then proclaim loudly that
the State, trying to protect religion at the moment when it ceases to be
an excuse for a foreign conspiracy, only serves to magnify the
sacerdotal body. No means should be overlooked to ensure the
disintegration of the religion of Adonai and to weaken its international
character. This, in effect, is what will empower us to extirpate it
completely and permanently. Thus it is not possible to be overzealous in
the struggle to achieve this important result, without ever being
discouraged by the difficulties of the enterprise.
“Moreover, we must nurture in our hearts not only hope, but even the
certainty that the successful disintegration of adonaism is not a
chimera; for it is promised to us by the revelation in the book On Redemption in the Apadno.
“It is also said that the Pope of superstition, based in Rome at the
time of its disntegration, refused to acquiesce to the new situation in
his Church; and he will launch his now powerless thunderbolts against
governments participating in this great work of social salvation. In
those days a multitude of priests in various countries will abandon the
church, owing to the fact that many have already been won over [to our
cause]; and having been expelled in Italy, the Papacy will be cursed,
wandering, and forced to fall into darkness; because governments will
impose harsh sentences against those who show continued support and who
conspire with her.
“But it is also written that, the Wandering Pope, pastor of a
scattered flock, [p. 604] the helpless vessel of Cephas [Peter], and
sixth successor of human self-pride, which collapsed under the temporal
power of the infamous pontificate, will be saved, after numerous
expulsions, by the Slavic autocrats who will bestow upon him great
honours. Adonaism will then attempt to reconstitute itself; the
Wandering Pope being close to death in Russia, with the imperial
autocrat prostrate at his feet, the nations will convert to orthodoxy,
that is to say, the schismatic Eastern religion, rallying quickly to the
cause of old Roman Catholicism purged from Italy. On his deathbed, the
Wandering Pope will be happy to witness these new believers replace the
Westerners who had only recently separated from his church, and within
the nations who’ve taken part in the disintegration of adonaism, some of
the faithful remain, hidden from view so as to engage in the condemned
practices of superstition; before dying, he will convene an Episcopate
with the bishops of the Eastern schismatics, and establish among them
Greek and Russian Cardinals.
His successor will be a Slav; the seat of
the adonaite Papacy will be established in the northern city of Pierre,
with the intention of reconquering Rome. But it will be in vain that the
imperial autocrat, in the hopes of extending his rule, becomes a
crusader for adonaism; his efforts unsuccessful, the former Roman Church
will remain fragmented in the nations of Western Europe. Thus, Russia
is the last refuge and bastion of adonaism claiming to be catholic.
“In Western nations, once the new religious regime will be legalized,
it will drastically suppress these dangerous propagandists who call
themselves missionaries and preach to our brothers in Asia, and among
the heathen in Africa and Oceania whom we must convert, carrying
falsehoods and poisonous sermons. Governments shall prohibit, under
severe penalties, these detestable emigrations, which are liable to
provoke incessant conflicts with Asian nations, whose faith has become
so perfectly illuminated by the efforts of the wise Tibetan priests,
united with our auxiliary masonry in India and China, and deserving of
respect. And without waiting for the appointed time of these events,
every Mason has a duty to fight, through the pen and the word, the
so-called Catholic missionaries, and trumpet throughout the secular
world contempt and inextinguishable hatred. These missionaries are our
mortal enemies. Any Freemason, who refuses to fight, will be deemed a
traitor; whosoever joins them or supports such action with public
praise, will be beaten to death.
“Finally, it is useful to maintain in the lower classes of any
nation, the ferment of revolutionary ideas, even those socialists prone
to extreme violence. Atheism is bad in itself and to hijack its true
purpose and work toward humane antichristian restoration, [p. 605] we
need to channel it and mix it with the most exaggerated social
doctrines, which are destined for failure, occasioned by a momentary
disruption, immediately followed by an energetic reaction.
“In the last stage, however, first we discredit the superstitious
theory of divinity in such a way that those steeped in adonaisme detach
gradually and eventually no longer believe at all, the last priests of
adonaisme eroded and fragmented will be entirely won in the era of the
new religious regime, which will be a state of transition, like
free-thinking deism; secondly, we’ll take care to not suddenly wrest
from the multitudes the belief in the supernatural God, but, at every
opportunity, we’ll remain content to proclaim the existence of a Supreme
Being, without announcing publicly yet our traditions and our mystic
revelations. So sayeth the God-Good.
“Therefore, when the autocratic Empire of Russia will become the
citadel of papist adonaism, we shall unleash the revolutionary nihilists
and atheists, and provoke a formidable social cataclysm, which will
demonstrate clearly to the nations, in all its horror, the effect of
absolute unbelief, mother of savagery and of the bloodiest disorder.
Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the
mad minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate these destroyers of
civilization; and the countless disillusioned adonaites, whose deist
soul have up until that time remained without a compass, thirsting for
an ideal, but not knowing which God is worthy of tribute, will receive
the True Light, by the universal manifestation of the pure Luciferian
doctrine, at last made public, an event that will arise from a
reactionary movement following the destruction of atheism and adonaism,
together at the same time vanquished and exterminated.
“The birth of the religion of the Good-God Lucifer, established and
unrivalled on the earth, cannot be an instantaneous operation, neither
in one year nor a century. A lasting achievement is that which is
created by slow progression. The nineteenth century saw the conception
of true and good Catholicism; the twentieth century will be the century
of gestation, and climaxing with parturition at a fixed end in the Book
of the Heavens (September 29th, 1996 AD when completed).
“Written and delivered under the Solemn Arch, and signed at the foot
of the Sacred Palladium, by the Sovereign Pontiff of Universal
Freemasonry, and by the ten elders who comprise the Most Serene Grand
College of Emerited Masons, at the Supreme Orient of Charleston, in the
cherished valley of the Divine Master, the 29th and last day of the Moon
Ab, year 000871 of the True Light (August 15th, 1871, era vulgaris
[Vulgar Era])
[p. 606]
This is the secret plan and formula which summarizes the tactics and the aspirations of the Masonic and Luciferian sect.
Is there no better way to conclude than to pronounce the mysterious
response of the sacred word of the Knights of Kadosh? “Pharasch-Chol”
Everything is explained.
Exactly
what William Guy Carr was trying to pull, I’ll never know. If you’ve
bared it until the end, perhaps you’re disappointed to have found
nothing about a prediction of three world wars, Communism, Nazism and
Zionist Illuminati – or anything of the sort. A search through the
entire book, utilizing relevant word combinations, turns up nothing
either. Instead, what it truly represents is the scurrilous fantasies,
and militant anti-Catholicism of its author: the impostor
Leo Taxil aka Dr. Bataille, who profited handsomely while having a million laughs at the
expense of both
Christians and Masons; who
confessed that his
entire corpus of anti-Masonic works – spanning twelve years and representing thousands of pages (including the translated excerpt above) – were a complete and
utter fraud; a colossal yet
ridiculously farcical
hoax.
It is enough having shown that the so-called Pike/Mazzini letter came
from the Taxil hoax and to have provided a full translation of it.
However, if the reader is so inclined, there are plenty of resources to
become familiar with
all facets of the Leo Taxil case in the above embedded links.
Taxil benefited from the atmosphere in France at that time, which was indeed rife with anti-clericalism, occultism, and
outright Satanism.
The poets and authors of Romanticism had also looked upon Satan and
Lucifer as a hero, and became more outspoken as anti-clericalism became
the norm.
“The Devil had a curious rebirth in the nineteenth century,” writes historian Jeffrey Burton Russell.
Conservative Christians of all denominations continued to believe in
him, but he was also revived by Romantic writers, sometimes as a figure
of horror, but more often of sympathy, or even a hero.
Romantics who
supported popular revolutions from 1789 onward made Satan a symbol of
liberty. If revolutions were against kings and priests, Romantics
admired Satan as the enemy of the greatest king and Priest of all,
Christ himself. Permutations were nearly infinite. In one great poem,
Victor Hugo portrays Satan as a lonely hero, cast out from the world,
full of love and longing, thrust out beyond the planets and stars into
the empty coldness of space. At last he can see only three stars; he
strains his wings and courage to reach a refuge, but one by one the
stars die out and he is left in utter darkness. For some Romantics,
Satan was a redeemer who bought human liberty at the cost of his own
ruin.
– in The Satanism Scare, Bromley, Best and Richardson (eds.), Aldine Transaction, 1991, p. 47
The late historian of the occult, James Webb, has a detailed chapter
on the conditions in France during the period, which is highly
recommended:
The Occult Underground,
“Visions of Heaven and Hell,” (Open Court, 1990), pp. 153-190; there’s
also a succinct overview of the Taxil affair, pp. 144-7.
Professor Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann describes Taxil’s fortuitous situation quite well:
It is only possible to understand the hysteria caused by Taxil’s
“revelations” in Germany, France, Italy, and Belgium if we take into
account the contemporary political conflicts between church and the
state. Taxil’s horror stories were well suited for an era in which
people yearned for otherworldly experiences beyond the disenchanted
modern world. During the final third of the nineteenth century, European
societies vacillated between modern occultism and the belief in
miracles, on the one hand, and the belief in Bildung and progress, on
the other. Taxil’s writings initially satisfied the needs of anticlerics
and subsequently those of the clerics. In this way, he popularized the
conflict between liberalism and political Catholicism, appropriating
many ideas that had long circulated among the Catholic population about
“satanic” lodges, as well as ideas about sinister Catholicism held by
the secular and Protestant Bürgertum in Masonic lodges. In occupying
both liberal and Catholic positions, Taxil mobilized and intensified the
prejudices of both sides. Only in this way can we explain his enormous
success, as well as the general popularity of anti-Masonic and
anti-Catholic pamphlet literature between the 1880s and the First World
War.
Taxil, for his part, had
admitted in typical form:
“The public made me what I am; the arch-liar of the period,”
confessed Taxil, “for when I first commenced to write against the Masons
my object was amusement pure and simple. The crimes I laid at their
door were so grotesque, so impossible, so widely exaggerated, I thought
everybody would see the joke and give me credit for originating a new
line of humor. But my readers wouldn’t have it so; they accepted my
fables as gospel truth, and the more I lied for the purpose of showing
that I lied, the more convinced became they that I was a paragon of
veracity.
“Then it dawned upon me that there was lots of money in being a
Munchausen of the right kind, and for twelve years I gave it to them hot
and strong, but never too hot. When inditing such slush as the story of
the devil snake who wrote prophecies on Diana’s back with the end of
his tail, I sometimes said to myself: ‘Hold on, you are going too far,’
but I didn’t. My readers even took kindly to the yarn of the devil who,
in order to marry a Mason, transformed himself into a crocodile, and,
despite the masquerade, played the piano wonderfully well.
“One day when lecturing at Lille, I told my audience that I had just
had an apparition of Nautilus, the most daring affront on human
credulity I had so far risked. But my hearers never turned a hair. ‘Hear
ye, the doctor has seen Nautulius,’ they said with admiring glances. Of
course no one had a clear idea of who Nautilus was I didn’t myself but
they assumed that he was a devil. Ah, the jolly evenings I spent with my
fellow authors hatching out new plots, new, unheard of perversions of
truth and logic, each trying to outdo the other in organized mystification. I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the
things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human
stupidity.”
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