This is a short rendering of a tale about a man named Albert Pike (1809-1891)who wrote in detail about a dream/vision he had in a letter to his friend, Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872).
A little bit about the correspondents before we get to the vision: Pike was a renowned genius in his day and Harvard educated. He was a 33rd Degree Mason and grand master of a Luciferian organization called the Order of Palladium. Pike had a strongly philosophical nature and seemed to like biting the hand that fed him—hence, this Bostonian became a Confederate Brigadier General in the …