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This is unknown GOLD

RedGrave For Your Files August 5, 2023 Leave a reply

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This is unknown GOLD

In reality, the fictitious "Doctor Bataille" and the publication of Le Diable au XIXe Siècle were key pieces in what one awed journalist described as "the most colossal hoax of modern times".

The grand conductor behind this hoax? Leo Taxil: journalist, prankster, expelled Freemason and founding member of the French Anti-Clerical League.

For 12 years, Taxil weaved an intricate web of deception: publishing self-referencing texts under various identities, hiring his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, faking his own conversion to Catholicism, and even meeting the Pope.

The Vatican played right into Taxil's hands: corroborating his "facts" and announcing that Freemasons were most assuredly guilty of satanic worship and conspiring to bring down the Church.

Which made it a tad awkward when Taxil then convened a press conference and gleefully revealed the entire affair to be a prank.

Originally posted in the Bizarre Magick Facebook group.

5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map

RedGrave For Your Files June 24, 2023 Leave a reply

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5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map
“For over 150 years scientists have tried to solve the mystery of a controversial cuneiform clay tablet that indicates the so-called Köfel’s impact event was observed in ancient times. The circular stone-cast tablet was recovered from the 650 BC underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq in the late 19th century. Long thought to be an Assyrian tablet, computer analysis has matched it with the sky above Mesopotamia in 3300 BC and proves it to be of much more ancient Sumerian origin. The tablet is an “Astrolabe,” the earliest known astronomical instrument. It consists of a segmented, disk-shaped star chart with marked units of angle measure inscribed upon the rim"

Originally posted in the Bizarre Magick Facebook group.