CHAPTER IV.
EX ORE LEONIS For over ten years past Leo Taxil, that is to say, M.Gabriel Jogand-Pages, has been the great accuser of Masonry, and he possesses an indistinct reputation in England as a man whose hostility is formidable, having strong points in his brief.

During the entire period of his impeachment, which is represented by many volumes, he has uniformly sought to identify the Fraternity with the general purposes of Lucifer, but until the year 1891, it was merely along the broad and general lines mentioned in the last chapter.

Now, in presence of such attributions as, for example, the Satanic character of tolerance in matters of religion, I, for one, would unconditionally lay down my pen, as there is no common ground upon which a discussion could take place.
From the vague imputation Leo Taxil passed, however, to an exceedingly definite charge--and it is beyond all dispute that by his work entitled "Are there Women in Freemasonry ?"--he has created the Question of Lucifer in its connection with the Palladian Order.

He is the original source of information as to the existence of that association; no one had heard of it previously, and it is therefore of the first importance that we should know something of the discoverer himself, and everything as to the particulars of his discovery, including the date thereof.
Previously to the year 1891 Leo Taxil knew nothing of the Reformed Palladium.

He is the one Anti-Masonic writer named in the last chapter as preceding Paul Rosen with information about Albert Pike.