Freemason ... Shaman ... Prophet ... Seducer ... Swindler ...
Thief ... Heretic
Who was the mysterious Count Cagliostro?
Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a
dangerous charlatan. Internationally acclaimed historian Iain
McCalman documents how Cagliostro crossed paths -- and often swords
-- with the likes of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and
Pope Pius VI. He was a muse to William Blake and the inspiration
for both Mozart's Magic Flute and Goethe's Faust. Louis XVI had him
thrown into the Bastille for his alleged involvement in what would
come to be known as "the affair of the necklace." Yet in London,
Warsaw, and St. Petersburg, he established "healing clinics" for
the poorest of the poor, and his dexterity in the worlds of alchemy
and spiritualism won him acclaim among the nobility across
Europe.
Also the leader of an exotic brand of Freemasonry, Count
Cagliostro was indisputably one of the most influential and
notorious figures of the latter eighteenth century, overcoming
poverty and an ignoble birth to become the darling -- and bane --
of upper-crust Europe.
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