The Masonic Magician

Author : Phillipa Faulks
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780282435
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masonic Magician written by Phillipa Faulks and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philippa Faulks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781038765581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masonic Magician written by Philippa Faulks and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henry R. Evans
Publisher : Cornerstone Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781613422236
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cagliostro and His Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry written by Henry R. Evans and published by Cornerstone Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jacques Chailley
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Flute, Masonic Opera written by Jacques Chailley and published by Orion. This book was released on 1972 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Iain McCalman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061868396
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Alchemist written by Iain McCalman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jacques Henry
Publisher : Inner Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9781594771286
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart the Freemason written by Jacques Henry and published by Inner Traditions. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Mozart’s strong ties to Freemasonry and how its principles profoundly shaped his musical work • Reveals how Mozart structured his music on Masonic ritual and ceremony to provide a musical lexicon of Masonic symbols • Shows that Freemasonry plays the same role in Mozart’s work as Lutheran Christianity plays in that of Bach Thanks to recently discovered documents, we now have a fuller picture of the esoteric influences on the life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Musicologist Jacques Henry shows that the Masonic influence on Mozart goes beyond those pieces, such as The Magic Flute, that fulfilled a ritual purpose for the composer. His works actually provide a complete musical lexicon of Masonic symbols inspired by the principles of the craft and the spirit of the Masonic quest. Mozart constructed his Masonic compositions by creating auditory correspondences to the symbols present in the rituals, choosing keys and tempos that transpose their content into harmony. His understanding of the use of symbol allowed him to create music that would lead the listener into a harmony that transcended earthly existence. A number of musicologists believe that the place of the Masonic spiritual vision in Mozart’s work is comparable to that held by Lutheran Christianity in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Mozart wed his deep understanding of music to the esoteric wisdom he gained as a Freemason. He shows that when we lose ourselves in the expression of pure harmony, it is the same as the symbol being lost in what it symbolizes. Jacques Henry provides a rigorous and original analysis of Mozart’s works that reveals their inner meaning as shaped by the composer’s profound embrace of the spiritual principles of Freemasonry.

Author : Peter Partner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murdered Magicians written by Peter Partner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaime Lamb
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1732621403
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Magick, and Masonry written by Jaime Lamb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In MYTH, MAGICK & MASONRY, Jaime Paul Lamb develops four thought-provoking interpretations of the symbolism and allegorical content of Freemasonry and some of its appendant bodies. By viewing the craft through the interpretive lenses of ceremonial magick, solar and astrological lore and symbolism, classical mythology and the Roman Mystery cult, Mithraism, Lamb establishes four distinct vantage points from which to survey Freemasonry. Thereby, Jaime Paul Lamb enables Masons, new and old, to develop a more nuanced appreciation of the Craft and a deeper understanding of the Fraternity's priceless initiatory heritage.

Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0307741907
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The lost symbol written by Dan Brown and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Langdon, while at the U.S. Capital Building, finds an object encoded with five symbols, which is an ancient invitation to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's belived mentor, Peter Solomon, is kidnapped, he realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.

Author : Lon Milo DuQuette
Publisher : CCC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1888729376
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Key to Solomon's Key written by Lon Milo DuQuette and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketching out a fascinating network of historic figures, cults, and Christendom, this book by an occult-studies expert and respected authority on magic and sorcery takes Western spiritual traditions seriously—but examines them with common sense and self-effacing humor. Working backward from the Freemasons to one of their original orders, the 14th-century Knights Templar, the account considers sorcery, heresy, and intrigues; explores the legend that the Knights possessed a powerful secret dangerous to the Church of Rome; and finds an essential clue to the order's practices in their connection to the biblical Solomon, king of Israel in the 10th century BC. This updated edition features new images, chapters on important symbols, and a new preface.