Abel Clarin de la Rive
[4] In 1883, he had used information he collected while working for the Army to publish a Histoire générale de la Tunisie, depuis l’an 1590 avant Jésus-Christ jusqu’en 1883 (General History of Tunisia from 1590 BCE to 1883).
A former Freemason who said in 1885 that he converted to Catholicism, Taxil revealed in his books and articles that Freemasonry was secretly controlled by Satanists known as Palladists, and that two high priestesses called Diana Vaughan and Sophia Walder were competing for the leadership of Palladism.
[5] Although personally a monarchist, in 1900 Clarin de la Rive campaigned for the republican nationalist League of Patriots and its leader Paul Déroulède in the Paris municipal elections, as he saw them as an obstacle to the political influence of Freemasonry.
[5] In the first decade of the 20th century, while maintaining an antisemitic orientation, La France chrétienne devoted more and more attention to exposing the Theosophical Society, Martinism, Spiritualism, and Christian Science as dangerous cults more or less controlled by Jews and Freemasons.
[4] While some scholars believe that the Swami Narad Mani who wrote The Baptism of Light, which La France antimaçonnique duly published, was in fact the Indian opponent of the Theosophical Society, Hiran Singh, Kreis and fellow French scholar Michel Jarrige believe the story to be entirely fictitious and concluded that The Baptism of Light had been written by Guénon and Clarin de la Rive.
[2] Clarin de la Rive is known in the United States because, together with Taxil, he denounced Albert Pike, who had become the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction of the US in 1859, which is an appendant body of Freemasonry, as the alleged main leader of Satanic Palladism and a practitioner of sex magic.
[2] Clarin’s published works have been quoted and used by several conspiracy theorists, antisemitic and anti-Masonic writers in the US and the United Kingdom, such as Edith Starr Miller and William Guy Carr.
