These particulars in part correspond with the documents of the "Sister-Masons," but offer also significant variations even along the lines of correspondence.
Having established, in any case, that Leo Taxil knew nothing of the Reformed Palladium in the year 1886, we may pass over his next work, which reproduces a considerable though selected proportion of some of his previous volumes, because precisely the same observation applies to "The Mysteries of Freemasonry," and we may come at once to the year 1891.

Some time subsequently to the third of August, our witness published a volume entitled "Are there Women in Freemasonry ?" which, so far as one can see, bears the marks of hurried production.

It is, in fact, "The Sister Masons" almost _in extenso_--that work being still in circulation--with the addition of important fresh material.

The bulk of the new matter is concerned with the rituals of the New and Reformed Palladium, consisting of five degrees, conformable, as regards the first three, with the somewhat banal but innocent grades of the Modern Rite of Adoption, and passing, as regards the two final, into pure Luciferian doctrine.

How did Leo Taxil become possessed of these rituals?
He informs us quite frankly that by means of arguments _sonnants et trebuchants_, that is to say, by a bribe, he persuaded an officer of a certain Palladian Grand Council located at Paris to forget his pledges for the time required in transcribing them.