“The Third World War 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. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem 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 civilization, 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.”
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For those interested, this is a hoax originally dating to 1896, and has a very interesting history as it's been handed down, added to, and translated from English to French to Spanish back to English again, over the last hundred and twenty-seven years.
In 1896, a publication appeared in Paris called Le Diable au XIXe Siècle (English: The Devil in the 19th Century), an attack on Freemasonry by an anti-Masonic and anti-Catholic writer named Leo Taxil a.k.a. Dr. Bataille. In it, among other things, was claimed to be the full transcription of a letter from August 15th, 1871, from General Albert Pike to Joseph Mazzini, both prominent (and real) Masons who lived at that time, outlining the plan for Masonic domination of the world via the destruction of the Catholic Church. Translated directly from French, it reads:
We know this to be a hoax, largely because Taxil himself admitted to it being a hoax some years later, along with dozens of other anti-Masonic and anti-Catholic pieces he'd written. But, what's noteworthy is that it has nothing about a "Third World War", or about Islam, or Zionism, all of which would have been astonishing predictions for 1871. The first three sentences of the quote OP provided are not present in the original, nor anything like it. To find out where the rest came from, we have to trace it down.
This letter was first translated into English in 1920, in the book The Cause of World Unrest, and the paragraph above was included verbatim. Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez of Santiago translated it into Spanish in his 1925 book The Mystery of Freemasonry Revealed; the book was later translated back into English in the 1950s. So far - aside from the fact that it was made up to begin with - so good. But then, William Guy Carr, in his 1956 book Pawns in the Game, paraphrased it by saying that the original letter was about the first, second, and third world wars, saying:
The bit about World War Three was commentary about the letter by Carr - he included the rest of the quote a couple pages later - and was not at all accurate to what the letter actually said, given that the letter was all about how to destroy the Catholic Church through an elaborate plan involving kicking the Pope out of Vatican City (disregarding, of course, the fact that the 'letter' was made up to begin with). His source was the English translation of Cardinal Rodriguez's The Mystery of Freemasonry Revealed, which also didn't have anything about World War Three, so he just made those parts up.
And then it lay dormant for another fifty years, re-emerging on the website http://threeworldwars.com/ in 2003 by Michael Haput, shortly after the Iraq war started. And it was Michael Haput who joined Carr's 'paraphrasing' with the original letter to create the quote OP provided, to make it seem as though a Freemason in 1871 had accurately predicted the first two world wars perfectly. You can see Michael Haput's original article on Albert Pike here, including the 'predictions' for all three world wars. You'll also notice that the current version of that page does not have any of those quotes on it.
You other commenters might scoff at OP's flippant responses, but with a quote whose origin is this disingenous, can you blame him for not wanting to answer?