Freda Boot
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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In Paris he established lodges for women of a peculiarly cabalistic and impure kind, with inner departments horribly mysterious.
At the reception of members, he used rites and ceremonies exactly resembling the absurd practices of spirit mediums who see and speak to spirits, etc., and introduced all that nonsense with which we are made now familiar by his modern followers.
He claimed the power of conferring immortal youth, health, and beauty, and what he called moral and physical regeneration by the aid of drugs and illuminated masonry.
He was the father and the founder of the existing rite of Misraim, the Egyptian rite in masonry.
The scoundrel became involved in the celebrated case of the diamond necklace and was sent to the Bastille, from which he managed to pass to England, where in seventeen eighty-seven he undertook to foretell the destruction of the Bastille.
and of the monarchy of France, the revolution, and but here he miscalculated, the advent of a prince who would abolish Letre de Cachet, convoke the States General, and establish the worship of reason.
All these measures were resolved on at Wilhelmsbad, and Calliostro, of course, knew that well.
His only miscalculation was regarding the prince's grandmaster.
The revolution went on a little too far for the wretched Egalite, who ended his treason to his house by losing his head at the Guillotine.
As to Caliostro, he made his way to Rome, where the Inquisition put an end to his exploits on detecting his attempts at Illuminism.
His secret powers could not deliver him from prison.
He died there miserably in seventeen ninety five, after attempting to strangle a poor Capuchin, whom he asked for as confessor.
and in whose habit he had hoped to escape.
This imposter is of course made a martyr to the Inquisition accordingly.
Masonry does much to disown Caliostro.
But with a strange inconsistency.
It keeps the Egyptian rite founded by him, and clings to mysticism of the debased kind he introduced.
It is wonderful how extremes thus meet, how men who make it a sign of intellectual strength to deny the existence of the god that made them
Bow down stupidly and superstitiously before devils, real or imaginary.
Necromancy is a characteristic of Antichrist, of whom we read that he will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect.
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