Early thoughts on Count Cagliostro
I fell into reading about 18th century magician Count Cagliostro while researching Aleister Crowley. Cagliostro’s name came up in a search. A book on him appeared titled “The Masonic Magician The Life and Death of Count Cagliostro and his Egyptian Rite.” I admittedly was drawn to the color of the book, red, and the image on the cover of a dragon and another creature, perhaps, a snake, eating each other’s tails. A role of infinity similar to the numeral 8 is transmitted in the cover and having seen and written about the infinity symbol of the numeral 8, my mind opened to something very vast. Which was the purpose of Cagliostro’s work, and which had landed him in jail and many years of torture, isolation, and death. Despite all that, and the fact that we are reading him now, means that his ideas and messages got through and remain interesting and relevant today.