For over a hundred years one claim has clung to the Freemason Albert Pike, that he wrote that Masons worship Lucifer. The quotation traces to one man, the French writer Leo Taxil, who invented it, built a fake Satanic order around it, and then stood up in Paris in 1897 and confessed the whole thing was a hoax. This dossier follows the fabrication from Pike's actual words in Morals and Dogma to Taxil's own confession, marking what the primary text says and what was simply made up.
Documented correction of the fabricated claim that Albert Pike taught Lucifer worship in Morals and Dogma (1871). Full-text primary source analysis with the attributed Taxil hoax origin and 128-year propagation history.