A letter from Albert Pike (33rd degree Freemason, Grand Master and creator of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite Masonic Order) to Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian revolutionary leader, nationalist and liberal) from a century and a half ago, which accurately predicted World Wars I, II and III, is circulated today:
“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 the 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.”
“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.”
“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 the 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, citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilisation, 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.”
The British Daily Mail published an article a few years ago, “Letter ‘written by US Confederate officer 150 years ago predicted first two World Wars and said the third would be between Islamic leaders and the West’… but is it just a hoax?” in which the Daily Mail does not draw definite conclusions about the authenticity of the letter, specifying that some believe the letter to be a hoax. Some sources claim that “Albert Pike Letter to Mazzini: The Illuminati Plan for 3 World Wars, August 15, 1871” was kept until a certain time in the library of the British Museum in London, which denies the letter exists.
In any case, these quotes from the letter first appeared 15 years ago, either on the relevant page of rense.com or, more likely, in the book “Phoenix Rising: The Rise and Fall of the American Republic” by Donald G. Lett, Jr.
It is noteworthy that in English this letter was mentioned about a century ago in the book “The Cause of World Unrest” of anonymous authorship, attributed to Nesta Helen Webster – an English writer who revived interest in the Illuminati in English-speaking countries. In this version, it did not mention the world wars, but only asserted the similarity of the described plan with the recent events in Russia at that time and declared doubts about the authenticity of the letter.
“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-Pages and Charles Hacks. 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 (adonaisme 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 187 1. 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.”
Today in the network published and the original source of this letter in French from the book “The Devil in the 19th century or the mysteries of spiritualism” by a certain Dr. Bataille, from the content of which, we can conclude that in the original context, the prediction was different from that in the “Causes of World Unrest”, and the passage about nihilistic atheism in Russia was only an episodic stage in the aspect of the plan of struggle against Catholicism, in the course of which it was supposed that the Pope, after his expulsion from Rome, would settle in St. Petersburg.
“But it is also written that the Wandering-Pope, shepherd of a scattered flock, pilot of the bewildered boat of Cephas, and sixth successor of the man of pride under whom the temporal power of the infamous pontificate collapsed, will be taken in, after expulsion after expulsion, by the Slavic autocrat, who will affect to pay him great honours. Adonaism would then attempt to reconstitute itself as it had before the expulsion from Rome; with the Pope-Wandering close to death in Russia, the imperial autocrat would prostrate himself at his feet, and the nations that had hitherto practised Orthodoxy, i.e. the schismatic religion of the East, would fairly quickly rally to the old Roman Catholicism that had been vomited out of Italy. The Wandering-Pope, on his deathbed, will be happy to see these new followers replace the Westerners recently separated from his Church, and, within the nations that will have carried out the fragmentation of Adonaism, he will still have followers, these hiding to indulge in the practices of the reprobated superstition; before expiring, he will have maintained the episcopate to the bishops of the Eastern schism, and he will have instituted, among them, Greek and Russian cardinals. His successor would be a Slav; the seat of the Adonait papacy would be established in the northern city of Peter, with the proviso that Rome would have to be reconquered. But it was in vain that the imperial autocrat, in the hope of extending his domination, made himself a crusader of Adonaism; his efforts came to nothing, and the formerly Roman Church remained fragmented among the nations of Western Europe. Thus, Russia will be the last refuge and the last bulwark of Adonaism claiming to be Catholic.
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This is why, when the autocratic empire of Russia has become the citadel of papist adonaïsm, we will unleash the nihilist and atheist revolutionaries, and we will provoke a formidable social cataclysm, which will clearly show the nations, and in all its horror, the effect of absolute unbelief, the mother of savagery and the bloodiest disorder. Then, everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the insane minority of rebels, will exterminate these destroyers of civilisation ; and the innumerable disillusioned Adonaïsms, whose deistic souls have remained without a compass until now, thirsting for the ideal but not knowing to which god to pay their homage, will receive the True Light, through the universal manifestation of pure Luciferian doctrine, made public at last, a manifestation which will arise from the general movement of reaction, following the crushing of atheism and Adonaïsm, both defeated and exterminated around the same time.”
A full electronic translation of Albert Pike’s letter to Giuseppe Mazzini from the French is available here. In this context, there is indeed a partial quotation of the original into the modern version of his quotes about the 3 world wars, although no world wars were mentioned in the original version. Also, a year after the book was published, it turned out that Dr. Bataille was the pseudonym of Leo Taxil, a writer known for a massive 12-year-long “anti-Masonic” hoax to discredit the Roman Catholic Church:
In 1885, Leo Taxil declared his conversion to Catholicism, was received into the fold of the Catholic Church, and renounced his previous writings for the Anticlerical Union. This was the reason for his expulsion from the union three months later. In the 1890s he wrote a number of works exposing Freemasonry, describing the secret links between Freemasons and Satan, and the hidden flourishing of Satanism among the Templar followers. The largest work of Taxil in this period was written in co-authorship with Carl Haxom book “The Devil in the XIX century”, which described the revelations of Miss Diana Vaughan, repentant high priestess of the Masonic secret society “Palladium”, whose members indulged in satanic rituals and hatching plans for world domination. The book was written under the pseudonym “Dr. Bateil” and was a great success. He also published the book “Antichrist, or the Origin of Freemasonry”. These books were translated into many languages. In 1896 he was one of the organizers of the Anti-Masonic Church Congress in Trento. Some delegates to this congress expressed doubts about the existence of Diana Vaughan and the credibility of her book. In response, Taxil promised to present Miss Vaughan to the public at a meeting in the Great Hall of the Geographical Society in Paris on April 19, 1897. In his speech at this meeting he stated that for the past twelve years he had been playing a trick on the Catholic Church with the help of two of his friends, Dr. Karl Hax and a professional typist, Diana Vaughan, who played the role of a repentant “Palladian”. The speech was subsequently reprinted in its entirety by leading French newspapers.
Thus, most likely, the original Pike’s letter is as much fiction and fantasy as Dr Bataille himself, in whose book it was first published. Well, the modern version of the quotations of this letter predicting world wars is a modified version of a distorted translation of the forgery, probably appearing 15 years ago, in a publication in the name of a certain “Donald G. Lett Jr”.