Editing Taxil hoax (section)

==The Luciferian quote==
A series of paragraphs about Lucifer are frequently associated with the Taxil hoax. They read:

{{quote|That which we must say to the world is that we worship a god, but it is the god that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: The masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the Purity of the Luciferian doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would [[Adonay]] and his priests calumniate him?

Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods; darkness being necessary for light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive....

Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy, and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.}}

While this quotation was published by [[Abel Clarin de la Rive]] in his ''Woman and Child in Universal Freemasonry'', it does not appear in Taxil's writings proper, though it is sourced in a footnote to Diana Vaughan, Taxil's creation.<ref>{{cite book |last= de Hoyos |first= Arturo |author2= Morris, S. Brent |title= Is It True What They Say About Freemasonry? |chapter= Albert Pike and Lucifer |year= 1998 |publisher= Masonic Information Center |location= [[Silver Spring, Maryland]] |edition= 2nd edition (revised) |url= http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/SRpublications/DeHoyos.htm#i11 |access-date= 2007-10-25 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060815093041/http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/SRpublications/DeHoyos.htm#i11 |archive-date= 2006-08-15 }}</ref>