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Hello, I'm looking for a photography of the statue of Diana Vaughan. I know that it is located somewhere in America. Can anyone help me?  It is for the cover of a book. Thank you. 

There were those who knew or suspected Diana Vaughan did exist and was a member of an ‘Androgynous Lodge,’ one that admitted women members. In his investigation for example, Craig Heimbichner questions Leo Taxil’s assertion that he invented Diana Vaughan and all those revelations of the highly guarded inner sanctum of the Scottish Rite of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ.

‘Masons claim that Taxil was simply a disgruntled expelled Entered Apprentice (First Degree) mason who turned on them for base motives. If that is the case, how did Taxil manage to publish accurate details from numerous advanced secret rituals in the higher degrees? This writer can attest to this truth because I possess in my personal archive both Taxil’s original descriptions and the secret rituals themselves. How would a low-level, ex mason have gained these explosive secrets?’ (Craig Heimbichner: Blood on the Altar, Independent History & Research, USA, 2005, p.68.)

Heimbichner then goes on to rebuff Taxil’s other assertion, that only males were freemasons. He quotes the respected masonic historian Robert Macoy, to prove ‘the rules admitted both sexes to membership, the male members were called the “Companions of Ulysses,” and the females the “Sisters of Penelope.” Heimbichner also quotes freemason and Golden Dawn leader A. E. Waite admitting that the Order of the Palladium existed. We are then told of the discovery of the Palladium Temple in May 1895 wherein the owners of rented buildings found a room inscribed with the words Templum Palladicuм. A large tapestry was found in this room upon which was woven a larger-than-life figure of Lucifer. Heimbichner tells of a modern writer, William Schnoebelen (formally OTO IX˚) who said he was inducted into a Palladium Lodge in the late 1970s by a David DePaul. DePaul restarted the Palladium after supposedly invoking the spirit of Diana Vaughan. ‘If Leo Taxil was a hoaxer, then this invocation is difficult to understand since “Diana Vaughan” had been “Priestess of Lucifer” in the freemasonic Palladium rite described by Taxil. If Vaughan was a figment of Taxil’s fevered imagination, why would she be invoked by an OTO (Order of Oriental Templars) faction in the 1970s?’

The idea that Taxil could have been fed fiction by freemasons is not ruled out by Heimbichner, nor that he might have been a double or even a triple agent. He ends his chapter on Diana Vaughan with ‘Is not the OTO the continuation of the Palladium of Diana Vaughan, the “Graduate School” for salivating and serious masons?’ Others however, closer to the woman at the time of her disappearance had their own story. Evidence of her existence was found in a church in Loigny in Northern France that Diana Vaughan had visited in secret in March 1897, one month before her set date for a public appearance.
   
To make a long story short, the parish priest of Loigny confirmed Diana Vaughan’s visit by means of a visual reproduction and also the signature she had left in his church’s log. It was not the name Diana Vaughan that she had signed, for anybody could have forged her name, but Juvana Petroff, a mysterious signature known only to her and the priest to whom it made sense. It was later revealed as her baptismal nom de plume that she took when taking her confession of faith in the church, a name unknown to all but herself and the priest who baptised her.

 I will record some of her writings soon.

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This whole narrative really doesn't make a lot of sense, nor does any of it offer any evidence for the existence of Diana Vaughan. If we only know of her existence from one person, and that person later tells us he made the whole story about her up as a hoax or some sort of practical joke, then I don't see how anyone can deny that. (The photographs of the person you see as Diana Vaughan are just pictures of his secretary-with-benefits that he hired from some temp agency, to whom he dictated all this garbage.)

I don't understand the argument about the secret masonic rituals that Taxil published. If Heimbichner could vouch that Taxil published accurate details about super-secret masonic rituals because Heimbichner himself had copies of these rituals, then they don't actually sound all that secret to me.

And some landlord found some weird satanic words in his building after some of his tenants moved out? So what? Maybe it was a frat house and they thought it was funny to put satanic writing on the wall. Maybe the tenants used the place as a crackhouse and people wrote that stuff on there while they were high. I mean, seriously, graffiti on the wall of an abandoned house really doesn't get us very far.

And even if it did, how does the name of Diana Vaughan on the wall of this place prove she exists? Even if we assumed that this was truly a masonic lodge and so on. Even if we accepted it as proved that she was invoked in some sort of ritual. There are several steps between saying someone's name is mentioned in some ritual, and saying such a person exists. Maybe they invoke the goddess Athena too for all we know. Maybe they thought she existed. Who knows.

The last story about the church that she supposedly visited is probably the most amusing. Let me get this straight -- she visited this church and signed her name in the visitors register, but used a fake name because she was being hunted by masonic ninjas? And the name Juvana Petroff is offered to us as evidence that someone named Diana Vaughan visited this church? Um, not to belabor the obvious, but if she were in hiding somehow, why would she sign the visitor's book at all?! And this priest who supposedly tells us all this ... does he have a name? Or let me guess, he didn't reveal his name because the masonic ninjas would take him out too on their way home after killing Diana. Then why would he tell any of this story at all? And he recognized her from a photograph? Which photograph, the one of Taxil's secretary-with-benefits? And do you know how difficult it is to recognize someone who is basically a stranger from a photograph?

And there still isn't any testimony of anyone who knew this woman personally who could say yes, I knew her and she existed. It really shouldn't be hard to find dozens of people that knew someone, as well as census records, a grave site, yearbook photos, birth or death records, an obituary, mention in some newspaper article, marriage announcement, something, anything. All we have is a photograph of some woman who could be literally anyone.

This thread has been one of the strangest I've ever seen on this forum.

Decrees defining formal heresy are not issued to one person, that is nonsense.
My belief is in the official teaching of the Catholic Church, not conjured up by the heliocentric apologists who must try to make the decree of 1616 non-binding, non infallible. God promised He would prevent OFFICIAL corruption in His Church. In 1633 Pope Urban VIII said it was defined as formal heresy and there was no doubt about that. So, when the U-turn of 1820 began, Pius VII did not deny the 1616 decree was irreformable. He went along with Fr Anfossi who said the 1616 decree remains untouched and irreversible. How they got their cake and still left it intact is another story.

Let's hear this other story. So heliocentrism is a condemned heresy? So are most modern Catholics condemned for this heretical belief?