Albert Pike, a Confederate general turned Masonic philosopher, is said to have written to the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini predicting three world wars, the first culminating in what we now know as World War I, the second unfolding as World War II , both dismantling empires and reshaping global political ideologies, and a third still yet to come, a final global conflict that would transform religion and reorder the world as we know it.The letter, believers say, was once displayed in the British Museum. In contemporary terms, believers often point to ongoing tensions between Israel and Iran, the broader Israel–Palestine conflict, Western military alliances in the Middle East, and periodic flare-ups involving armed groups across the region as early signs of the kind of confrontation the prophecy describes, a widening struggle between Western-backed Israeli interests and parts of the Islamic world.The letter did not surface in 1871, nor in Pike’s lifetime, nor even during the First World War. Such vocabulary makes it difficult to sustain the claim that the document was composed in the early 1870s.The British Museum and the British Library have both stated that they have no record of ever holding the alleged letter.For believers, the fact that no copy of the letter exists is part of the story.
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Published at: 2026-02-12 00:00:00
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