Cagliostro and His Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry
Cagliostro and His Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry

Author: Henry R. Evans

Publisher: Cornerstone Book Publishers

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781613422236

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Few Individuals are surrounded in as much mystery as the Comte de Cagliostro. Was he a Masonic fraud or an innocent victim of the times? This reproduction of Henry R. Evans' inspiring work gives us reason to rethink any negative images of this Masonic wonderman. Originally published in 1919 as a multi-part series in "The New Age Magazine," this is a work sure to spark interest in not only Cagliostro, but also in a beautiful but near lost form of Masonry.

Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography

Author: Albert A. Hopkins

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography" by Albert A. Hopkins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A Civil Society
A Civil Society

Author: James Smith Allen

Publisher:

Published: 2022-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781496227782

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A Civil Society explores the struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France's civil society and its "civic morality" on behalf of women's rights. As a vital component of the third sector during France's modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture. James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society and its "civic morality," including the promotion of women's rights in the late nineteenth century. Pulling together the many gendered facets of masonry, Allen draws from periodicals, memoirs, and archival material to account for the rise of women within the masonic brotherhood in the context of rapid historical change. Thanks to women's social networks and their attendant social capital, masonry came to play a leading role in French civil society and the rethinking of gender relations in the public sphere.

The Masonic Magician
The Masonic Magician

Author: Phillipa Faulks

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1780282435

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Miracle-worker or man of straw? Count Alessandro Cagliostro was a cult figure of European society in the tumultuous years leading to the French Revolution. An alchemist, healer and Freemason, he inspired both wild devotion and savage ridicule – as well as novels by Alexandre Dumas, a drama by Goethe and Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. Count Alessandro Cagliostro’s sincere belief in the magical powers, including immortality, conferred by his Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry won him fame, but made him dangerous enemies, too. His celebrated travels through the Middle East and the capitals of Europe ended abruptly in Rome in 1789, where he was arrested by the Inquisition and condemned to death for heresy.The Masonic Magician tells Cagliostro’s extraordinary story, complete with the first English translation of his Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry ever published. The authors examine the case made against him, that he was an impostor as well as a heretic, and find that the Roman Church, and history itself, have done him a terrible injustice. This engaging account, drawing on remarkable new documentary evidence, shows that the man condemned was a genuine visionary and true champion of Freemasonry. His teachings have much to reveal to us today, not just of the secrets of the movement, but of the mysterious hostility it continues to attract.