[UA] Occult Personages (was: Outdated Archetypes)

[Edward Parsons]

Regarding the Comte, he was apparently descended from just about every noble
family in Europe. He was also well known for making diamonds, which he lost
in bets. Then I presume he made some more, and lost them.

He owned at least one large dyeing plant, which later became a international
company (a long time after his "Death").

He was an accomplished mucisian, and you can still buy books of his violin
pieces.

Apparently, he was immortal. Or so he claimed. Probably. No one is quite
sure on that one.

I do have a copy of his biography on order at my local book store, but will
probably be waiting a loooooonnnng time.



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Subject: Re: [UA] Occult Personages (was: Outdated Archetypes)


>
> --- WingedCoyote at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I've been hearing a lot of Cagliostro references,
> > but never knew who he was.
> > Can anybody help me out here? For that matter, I'd
> > also like to know a little
> > bit more about the historical Comte, and/or any
> > other somewhat relevant
> > "occult" historical figures you happen to know
> > about.
> >
> HaHa! A glorious excuse to post!
>
> As a matter of fact, I'm a big fan of Cagliostro (his
> real name was probably Giusseppe Balsamo, although the
> Theosophical dictionary disagrees at:
> www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/ca-ce.htm
>
> He also shows up as a master magician with freemasonic
> overtones at:
>
> www.freemasonwatch.freepress-freespeech.com/frenchrevolution.html
>
>
>
> Regardless, the fat bastard's one of my favorite
> historical rogues.
>
> He's kind of a cut-rate St. Germaine (and may even
> have pretended to such an office once or twice.)
>
> You can find lots and lots of information on him
> scattered around the web, but some odd places he pops
> up are as the heroic knight version of Todd
> McFarlane's Spawn (played by Nicol "Seven Percent
> Solution" Williamson in the excreble) and as a Dr.
> Strange villain.
>
> Here's a quick and dirty bio which I like:
>
> www.sigma.net/ozbot/marvelhandbook/abcd/cagliostro.htm
>
> (I'm just kidding. It's really the Marvel superheroes
> write up for Cagliostro as Dr. Strange's enemy.)
>
> Seriously, here's a bust of him:
> www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg56/gg56-41445.0.html
>
> He was probably a charlatan and he definitely had a
> lovely wife and he was most certainly put to death.
>
> The most shocking view of Cagliostro I've come across
> is in the on-line Catholic encyclopedia:
>
> www.newadvent.org/cathen/07698b.htm
>
> which says some things Freemasons hope are true and
> the more lunatic fringe demands are true.
>
> Anyway, Cagliostro is one of the big names of what UA
> refers to as old style occultism.  I'd figure most
> people in the Occult Underground to have at least
> heard of Cagliostro (along with Dr. John Dee, maybe
> "Earless Ed" Kelly, Eliphas "inconstant" Levi, Albert
> "Hey! Hey! Hey!" Magnus, The Mighty Agrippa -God of
> the Aqueduct- and the quite possibly imaginary
> Abra-Melin.)
>
> Oh, here, just look at this Very Serious list:
>
> http://www.themystica.com/mystica/pages/people.htm
>
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