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American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason
The widely circulated “Albert Pike letter to Mazzini” that supposedly predicts three world wars has no verifiable primary-source trail in major institutional collections; searches and Freedom of Infor...
The widely circulated claim that 19th‑century Mason Albert Pike wrote a letter in 1871 predicting three world wars is championed by conspiracy sites but lacks credible historical support: several sour...
Albert Pike’s connection to the Ku Klux Klan remains contested: contemporary biographical research and several scholarly accounts find that Pike was a Klan leader or founder, while a minority of sourc...
A letter widely attributed to 19th‑century Freemason Albert Pike that allegedly predicts three world wars — including a future clash between “political Zionism” and Islam — is a modern forgery in the ...
The claim that Albert Pike authored a prophetic letter outlining “three world wars” is widely contested and lacks contemporaneous documentary support; critical analyses trace the story to later public...
Freemasons consistently deny allegations of satanic rituals, characterizing their practices as , and they attribute persistent accusations to historical hoaxes, misinterpreted symbolism, and secrecy t...
The documentary trail for Albert Pike’s 1870s correspondence is scattered across university special collections, state archives and historical societies that hold dated letters and finding aids; sever...
Albert Pike’s single most influential Masonic work is Morals and Dogma (first published 1871), an 861‑page compilation of lectures and esoteric commentary that shaped Scottish Rite thought in the U.S....
Albert Pike remains a contested historical figure whose career combined literary prominence in Freemasonry with active support for the Confederacy and documented racist positions; modern controversies...
Albert Pike (1809–1891) was a multifaceted figure: a Northern-born lawyer, editor, and poet who became a Confederate brigadier general and the long‑time Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite,...
Albert Pike was a 19th-century American lawyer, Confederate officer, and long-serving leader of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry who materially shaped the ritual and literature of modern American Rite...
Accusations that Freemasonry practices involve Satanism have been driven not by a single event but by a chain of historical moments: the emergence of a secretive, ritualized fraternity in the Enlighte...
Albert Pike (1809–1891) served as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891 and is widely credited with revising the Scottish Rite degree rituals and prod...
The story that Albert Pike predicted three world wars traces back to an alleged letter from Pike to Giuseppe Mazzini dated August 15, 1871, which conspiracy sites reproduce as the primary source of th...
Albert Pike served as the Confederate commissioner to several Native American nations and was commissioned a brigadier general who led Indian Territory forces early in the Civil War; his command fough...
Albert Pike (1809–1891) was a Massachusetts-born teacher, poet, lawyer, newspaperman, and prominent Freemason who settled in the trans‑Mississippi West and Arkansas before the Civil War; he published ...
President Donald Trump ordered the reinstallation of the Confederate statue of General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., which had been torn down during the 2020 racial-justice protests; federal agenci...
The widely circulated “Albert Pike three world wars” letter appears to be a modern concoction built from earlier anti‑Masonic hoaxes and mid‑20th century conspiracy amplification rather than a verifia...
The overwhelming judgment among historians and archivists is that the so‑called Albert Pike letter forecasting “three world wars” lacks credible provenance and is almost certainly a modern hoax rather...
Albert Pike’s racial and political views have drawn sustained criticism from historians and civil-rights commentators who portray him as a Confederate leader, a white supremacist and, according to som...