A CHILLING letter that predicted the First and Second World Wars also claimed a third global battle will be fought between the West and Islamic war leaders.

The prophecy was penned by US army captain Albert Pike, a Freemason, almost 150 years ago and sent to Italian politician Giuseppe Mazzini.

However, some have declared the letter a hoax, claiming there are no primary sources to prove the document’s authenticity

Dated August 15, 1871, the mysterious letter pinpoints how and why the First and Second World Wars raged in the 1900s, reports The Sun.

It then claims a third and final battle against Islamic war leaders will have our nation fighting “to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion”.

He said Christianity would be “destroyed” and a one world government established.

The letter features heavily in former naval officer William Guy Carr’s book Satan, Prince of this World.

According to the book, Pike’s letter suggested World War I would take place to overthrow the Tsars in Russia and make the country a “fortress” of communism.

It then told how World War II would “destroy Nazism” so communism could overthrow weaker governments.

He also predicted a sovereign state of Israel would be instilled in Palestine.

It allegedly stated: “The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism.

“The divergences caused by the ‘agentur’ (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.

“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine.

“During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.”

Chillingly, Pike then predicted a third world war which he said “must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the ‘agentur’ of the ‘Illuminati’ between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World.”

He continued: “The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Muslim Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.

“Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion.

“We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.

“Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilisation, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.

“This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

It was claimed the text was once on show at the British Museum’s Library but mysteriously removed in the 1970s and never seen again.

However, the British Museum and the British Library state there is no record of the letter being in the establishment’s possession.

IS IT ALL JUST A HOAX?

So if the letter is a hoax, where did it come from? Mystery surrounds the authenticity of the bizarre letter.

Those with a critical eye will recognise that if the letter was true, Albert Pike had an uncanny ability to use phrases long before they made it into the public vernacular.

Terms such as fascism, Nazism and Zionism were never used in Pike’s lifetime.

Historian and conspiracy theorist William Guy Carr, who died in 1959, claimed the mythical letter was catalogued at the British Museum.

He later backtracked, writing in Satan: Prince of This World, “The Keeper of Manuscripts recently informed the author that this letter is NOT catalogued in the British Museum Library.”

There is no primary source for the letter — the mystery continues.

This story originally appeared in The Sun.