Albert Pike, a 33rd-degree Freemason, and a historical Masonic figure, allegedly wrote a letter to Giuseppe Mazzini, the Director of the Illuminati, in 1871, detailing a conspiracy plan involving three world wars to take over the world. The letter claimed that the first world war was necessary to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and create a fortress of atheistic communism. The second world war was to destroy Nazism and create a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine, while International Communism would become strong enough to balance Christendom. The third world war was to take advantage of the differences between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic world, leading to their mutual destruction. Afterward, a social cataclysm would occur, and Christianity and atheism would be destroyed, making way for the pure doctrine of Lucifer. The letter has been the subject of much speculation and is said to have been on display at the British Museum Library in Londo