The Masonic Magician Count Alessandro Cagliostro was a cult figure in European society in the tumultuous years leading to the French Revolution. As an alchemist, healer, and Freemason, he inspired both wild devotion and savage ridicule, becoming the subject of novels by Alexander Dumas, a drama by Goethe, and Mozart"s opera "The Magic Flute." But Cagliostro"s sincere belief in the magical powers, even the immortality,... Full description