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Masonry. Two works of TAXIL. TAXIL, Léo. Le culte du grand architecte. Paris, Letouzey et Ané, 1886 8vo, 185x124 mm; Orange brochure; pp. IV, 412, [4]. Foxing, uncut specimen. First edition. The work is part of Taxil's anti-Masonic program, and boasts the heading, before the title, "Révélations complètes sur la Franc-Maçonnerie". An ambiguous and sinister character, Taxil initially published scurrilous and anti-Catholic books, which portrayed the ecclesiastical hierarchies as hedonistic and sadistic. On February 28, 1881 he was initiated into Masonry in the lodge of the Grand Orient of France Le Temple des amis de l'honneur français but was excluded on September 17 of the same year. On April 14, 1884 he professed to have converted from Judaism to Catholicism, was solemnly received into the Catholic Church and repudiated his previous works.] In the last decade of the century he wrote a series of books and pamphlets in which he denounced Freemasonry and accused the lodges. to worship the devil: he even published a newspaper entitled La France chrétienne anti-maçonnique. In 1887 he was received in audience by Pope Leo XIII. Fesch Col. 779; Caillet, 5559; Dorbon 4781 Bound with: TAXIL, Léo. Les frères trois-points. Paris, Letouzey et Ané, 1885 Two 8vo volumes, 185x124 mm; pp. IV, 423, [1]; pp. 456, [4]. Foxing, uncut specimen. First edition. The work is part of Taxil's anti-Masonic program, and boasts the heading, before the title, "Révélations complètes sur la Franc-Maçonnerie". In this book he states that the Masons are, like Satanists, devil worshipers, whom they worship in their orgies. Caillet 5563