Cagliostro. Morozova E.

Mason, the Prophet and the Calling Spirit, this Sicilian, whose real name Giuseppe Balzamo, had truly inexhaustible ingenuity and outstanding hypnotic abilities that allowed him to confuse his head almost all enlightened Europe. But, having believed in his star, Cagliostro did not notice how he became a bargaining coin in the political games of the powerful of this world, frightened by the French revolution. The magnificent train of rumors, accompanying every step of Cagliostro, already in his lifetime turned him into a mysterious person, which became an inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers, poets, mystic and occultists. In this book, based on vast documentary material, Balzamo-Caliostro is represented by a person of his time, not only talentedly exploited eternal human passions, but also managed to catch the spiritual searches of their contemporaries. And to believe or not to believe in the immortality of the divine sorcerer Cagliostro is the case of the reader himself...