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Mackey, Albert Gallatin (1807–1881)
American authority on Freemasonry and editor of numerous books on the subject, including Encyclopedia of Freemasonry (1874). Mackey was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 12, 1807. He was a disciple of the great nineteenthcentury Masonic leader Albert Pike (1809–1891), one of those falsely charged by fictitious Satanic priestess Diana Vaughan and others with the practice of devil worship and sorcery. The whole campaign proved to be a conspiracy on the part of journalist Gabriel Jogand-Pagés to discredit and embarrass both the Roman Catholic Church and Freemasonry. One of the earliest writers to throw doubt on the revelations of Jogand-Pagès was British occultist and mystic Arthur E. Waite in his book Devil-Worship in France (1896).
American authority on Freemasonry and editor of numerous books on the subject, including Encyclopedia of Freemasonry (1874). Mackey was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 12, 1807. He was a disciple of the great nineteenthcentury Masonic leader Albert Pike (1809–1891), one of those falsely charged by fictitious Satanic priestess Diana Vaughan and others with the practice of devil worship and sorcery. The whole campaign proved to be a conspiracy on the part of journalist Gabriel Jogand-Pagés to discredit and embarrass both the Roman Catholic Church and Freemasonry. One of the earliest writers to throw doubt on the revelations of Jogand-Pagès was British occultist and mystic Arthur E. Waite in his book Devil-Worship in France (1896).
He died on June 20, 1881, in Virginia.
Sources:
Mackey, Albert Gallatin. Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. 1874. Reprint, Chicago: Masonic History, 1927.
Stein, Gordon. Encyclopedia of Hoaxes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.
Mackey, Albert Gallatin. Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. 1874. Reprint, Chicago: Masonic History, 1927.
Stein, Gordon. Encyclopedia of Hoaxes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.
