Freda Boot
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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Spirit rapping, table turning, medium imposture, etc distinguish its adepts in Protestant countries and in Catholic ones.
We have almost incredible stories of the intercourse with the devil and his angels, which men like the Carbonati of Italy maintain.
However, from the very beginning, Freemasonry has had a kind of peculiar dark mysticism connected with it.
It loves to revel in such mysteries as the secret conclaves of the Jews used to practice in the countries in which they were persecuted, and which were common amongst those unclean heretics, the Bulgarians, the Gnostics, the Albigensies, and the Waldensies.
The excesses alleged against the Templars were also accompanied by secret signs and symbols which masonry adopted.
But whatever may have been the extent of this mysticism in Masonry before, a spurious kind of spiritism became part of its very essence since the advent of the celebrated Caliostro, who travelled all over Europe under the instructions of Weish
and founded more lodges than did any individual Freemason then or since.
The real name of this arch imposter was Balsamo.
He was an inveterate sorcerer.
And in his peregrinations in the east.
picked up from every source the secrets of alchemy, astrology, jugglery, ledger domain, and occult science of every kind about which he could get any information.
Like the masonry to which he became affiliated at an early period,
He was an adept at acting and speaking a lie.
He suited Weishhaupt, who, though knowing him to be an imposter, was
Nevertheless employed him for the diffusion of Illuminism.
Accompanied by his no less celebrated wife, Lorenza, he appeared in Venice as the Marquis Pellegrini, and subsequently traversed Italy, Germany, Spain, England, the Netherlands, and Russia.
In the latter country he amassed, at the court of Catherine II, an immense fortune.
In France, assisted by the efforts of the Illuminati, he was received as a kind of demigod and called the divine Caliostro.
He established new lodges in all parts of the country.
At Bordeaux he remained eleven months for this purpose.
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