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Freemasonry

An anonymous gloved hand holds a blood-marked knife above a dark Victorian alley, an editorial interpretation of the Whitechapel murders without identifying a suspect

Case file 028Crime & Mystery

Black Magic in Whitechapel

An occult journalist saw a ritual in the Whitechapel murders, before later writers turned his theory into an accusation against him.

An editorial eye pendant above an imagined eighteenth-century cipher book; abstract page marks are not a facsimile of Copiale

Case file 014Forgotten Histories

Brotherhood of the Eye

A coded German manuscript revealed the Oculists’ initiation rites, secret signals and campaign to expose the Freemasons who shared their world.