his Masonic initiates, as may be seen in a genuine letter addressed
to him from Lyons, and which describes in enthusiastic language
the consecration in that town of the Egyptian lodge called Wisdom
Triumphant. This letter fell into the hands of the Inquisition.
It relates that at the moment when the assembly had entreated of
the Eternal some explicit sign of his approval of their temple and
their offerings, “and whilst our master was in mid air,” the first
philosopher of the New Testament appeared uninvoked, blessed them after
prostration before the cloud, by means of which they had obtained the
apparition, and was carried upwards upon it, the splendour being so
great that the young pupil or dove was unable to sustain it.
The same letter affirms that the two great prophets and the legislator
of Israel had given them palpable signs of their goodwill and of their
obedience to the commands of the august founder, the sieur Cagliostro.
A similar communication testifies that the great Copt, though absent,
had appeared in their lodge between Enoch and Elias.[AP]
CONCLUSION.
It has now been made plain beyond all reasonable doubt by the certain
and abundant evidence of the lives and labours of the alchemists,
that they were in search of a physical process for the transmutation
of the so-called baser metals into silver and gold. The methods and
processes by which they endeavoured to attain this _désir désiré_, and
the secrets which they are supposed to have discovered, are embodied
in allegorical writings, and their curious symbolism in the hands
of ingenious interpreters is capable of several explanations, but
the facts in their arduous and generally chequered careers are not
allegorical, and are not capable of any mystical interpretations;
consequently, the attempt to enthrone them upon the loftiest pinnacles
of achievement in the psychic world, however attractive and dazzling
to a romantic imagination, and however spiritually suggestive, must
be regretfully abandoned. Their less splendid but substantial and
permanent reputation is based on their physical discoveries and on
their persistent enunciation of a theory of Universal Development,
which true and far-sighted adepts well perceived, had an equal
application to the triune man as to those metals which in their
conception had also a triune nature.
As stated in the Introduction to this work, I have little personal
doubt, after a careful and unbiassed appreciation of all the evidence,
that the _Magnum Opus_ has been performed, at least occasionally,
in the past, and that, therefore, the alchemists, while laying
the foundations of modern chemistry, had already transcended its
highest results in the metallic kingdom. Now, the Hermetic doctrine
of correspondences which is, at any rate, entitled to the sincere
respect of all esoteric thinkers, will teach us that the fact of
their success in the physical subject is analogically a substantial
guarantee of the successful issue of parallel methods when applied
in the psychic world with the subject man. But the revelations of
mesmerism, and the phenomena called spiritualism, have discovered
thaumaturgic possibilities for humanity, which in a wholly independent
manner contribute to the verification of the alchemical hypothesis
of development in its extension to the plane of intelligence. These
possibilities I believe to be realizable exclusively along the lines
indicated in Hermetic parables. I am not prepared to explain how the
alchemical theory of Universal Development came to be evolved in the
scientific and psychological twilight of the middle ages, but the
fact remains. Nor am I prepared to explain how and why the method of
a discredited science which is not commonly supposed to have attained
its end, should not only be consistent within its own sphere, but
should have a vast field of application without it; yet, again, the
fact remains. I have brought a wide acquaintance with the history of
modern supernaturalism to bear on the serious study of alchemy, and
have found the old theories illustrated by the novel facts, while novel
facts coincided with old theories. As all this has occurred, in the
words of the alchemists, “by a natural process, devoid of haste or
violence,” I may trust that it is no illusory discovery, and that its
future enunciation may give a new impulse to the study of the Hermetic
writings among the occultists of England and America.
FOOTNOTES:
[AJ] In the Memoir written by Joseph Balsamo during his imprisonment
in the Bastille, he surrounds his origin and infancy with romantic
and glamorous mystery. “I am ignorant,” he asserts, “not only of my
birthplace, but even of the parents who bore me. All my researches on
these points have afforded me nothing but vague and uncertain, though,
in truth, exalted, notions. My earliest infancy was passed in the
town of Medina, in Arabia, where I was brought up under the name of
Acharat--a name which I afterwards used during my Asiatic and African
travels--and was lodged in the palace of the muphti. I distinctly
recollect having four persons continually about me--a tutor, between
fifty-five and sixty years of age, named Altotas, and three slaves, one
of whom was white, while the others were black. My tutor invariably
told me that I had been left an orphan at the age of three months, and
that my parents were noble, and Christians as well, but he preserved
the most absolute silence as to their name and as to the place where I
was born, though certain chance words led me to suspect that I first
saw the light at Malta. Altotas took pleasure in cultivating my natural
taste for the sciences; he himself was proficient in all, from the most
profound even to the most trivial. It was in botany and physics that I
made most progress. Like my instructor I wore the dress of a Mussulman,
and outwardly we professed the Mohammedan law. The principles of the
true religion were, however, engraven in our hearts. I was frequently
visited by the muphti, who treated me with much kindness and had great
respect for my instructor, through whom I became early proficient in
most oriental languages.”
[AK] “Life of the Count Cagliostro, compiled from the original
Proceedings published at Rome by order of the Apostolic Chamber. With
an engraved Portrait.” London, 1791.
[AL] _L’Histoire du Merveilleux dans les Temps Modernes_, tom. iv.
[AM] “At a later period, when Cagliostro, uplifted by notoriety
and fortune, returned in state to Paris with a sumptuous equipage,
he strenuously denied his first sojourn in our capital, and the
disgraceful episode of Sainte-Pélagie. He maintained that his wife,
to whom he now gave the name of Seraphina, had no connection with the
imprisoned Lorenza Feliciani, nor he, the Count Cagliostro, with the
quack who at this epoch was prohibited from continuing his rogueries.
But certain legal documents of irrefutable authenticity substantiate
the contrary assertion of his enemies. It is interesting to know that,
as a fact, during the incarceration of Lorenza, depositions were made
before the tribunal of police by M. Duplaisir, who stated that, in
addition to supporting Balsamo and his wife for the space of three
months, they had contracted debts to the amount of two hundred crowns,
chiefly for clothes, for the perruquier, and the dancing-master.” These
depositions, with others, will be found in a pamphlet entitled, _Ma
Correspondence avec le Comte de Cagliostro_. Figuier. _Histoire du
Merveilleux dans les Temps Modernes_, t. iv. pp. 83, 84.
[AN] “It was his ambition to inaugurate a mother-lodge at Paris,
to which the rest should be entirely subordinate. He proclaimed
himself as the bearer of the mysteries of Isis and Anubis from the
far East. Though he threatened common masonry with a radical reform,
his innovations triumphed over all obstacles. He obtained numerous
and distinguished followers, who on one occasion assembled in great
force to hear Joseph Balsamo expound to them the doctrines of Egyptian
freemasonry. At this solemn convention he is said to have spoken
with overpowering eloquence, and such was his signal success that
his auditors departed in amazement and completely converted to his
regenerated and purified masonry. None of them doubted that he was an
initiate of the arcana of Nature, as preserved in the temple of Apis
at the epoch when Cambyses belaboured that capricious divinity. From
this moment the initiations into the new masonry were numerous, albeit
they were limited to the aristocracy of society. There are reasons
to believe that the grandees who were deemed worthy of admission
paid exceedingly extravagantly for the honour.”--Figuier, _Hist. du
Merveilleux_, t. iv. pp. 23, 24.
[AO] These projects included a determination to force the royal
government to recognise the new order, and to obtain its recognition
in Rome as an institution constituted on the same basis, and therefore
to be endowed with the same great privileges which had belonged to the
order of St John of Jerusalem.
[AP] See Appendix II.
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