tornapart wrote:
"For those interested, who have the time, this is well researched, well thought out, well presented and well worth a look...http://youtube.com/v/IFfdOkwyuL0&feature"
It may have been well presented. Well thought out only on the merits of what the author researched; but definitely not well researched.
Pike's predictions of three world wars has been well debunked for quite some time:
See here...
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Articles/Pike-Mazzini_Three-World-Wars.htm
In part...
"Exactly what William Guy Carr was trying to pull, I’ll never know. If you’ve bared it until the end, perhaps you’re disappointed to have found nothing about a prediction of three world wars, Communism, Nazism and Zionist Illuminati – or anything of the sort. A search through the entire book, utilizing relevant word combinations, turns up nothing either. Instead, what it truly represents is the scurrilous fantasies, and militant anti-Catholicism of its author: the impostor Leo Taxil aka Dr. Bataille, who profited handsomely while having a million laughs at the expense of both Christians and Masons; who confessed that his entire corpus of anti-Masonic works – spanning twelve years and representing thousands of pages (including the translated excerpt above) – were a complete and utter fraud; a colossal yet ridiculously farcical hoax.
It is enough having shown that the so-called Pike/Mazzini letter came from the Taxil hoax and to have provided a full translation of it. However, if the reader is so inclined, there are plenty of resources to become familiar with all facets of the Leo Taxil case in the above embedded links.
Taxil benefited from the atmosphere in France at that time, which was indeed rife with anti-clericalism, occultism, and outright Satanism. The poets and authors of Romanticism had also looked upon Satan and Lucifer as a hero, and became more outspoken as anti-clericalism became the norm."
The author of the video is presenting Pike's three world war prediction as fact when it is not. Therefore, it places everything and anything else in the video as questionable to state the very least.