There were however, those who either knew or suspected Diana Vaughan did exist and was a member of an ‘Androgynous Lodge,’ one that admitted women. 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 actual secret rituals themselves. How would low-level, ex Mason have gained these explosive secrets?’[1] 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 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 faction in the 1970s?’
‘It would seem that some of Taxil’s revelations do in fact reflect some highly unusual but actual Masonic events. Masons revel in gadgetry, techno-wizardry and Scientism (as distinct from God-ordained natural science), as part of their obsession with Alchemy and occult symbolism. Inventions, dazzling effects, and the pseudo-miraculous are part and parcel of the stagecraft of the Craft, which has among its spiritual ancestors the magicians of Pharaonic Egypt who tried to imitate Moses by conjuring snakes (and did so, at least in credible appearance). To put spice into this sizzling stew, Aleister Crowley’s secretary Isreal Regardie, testifies in his book The Eye in the Triangle to having seen a Palladium charter signed by Leo Taxil and Diana Vaughan.’ --- Craig Heimbichner: Blood on the Altar, p.73.
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 closer to the woman at the time of her disappearance have 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 that signature, but Juvana Petroff, a mysterious name known only to her and the priest to whom it made sense. It was later revealed as her baptismal name that she took when taking her confession of faith in the Catholic Church.
But more, as only God can arrange from eternity, this fateful day at Loigny happened to coincide with the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Joan of Arc, sworn enemy of the Devil and made a saint in 1933.
[1] Craig Heimbichner: Blood on the Altar, Independent History & Research, USA, 2005, p.68. 
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