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Occultist Giuseppe Balsamo/Joseph Balsamo/Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (1743 – 1795)

Cagliostro connects to:

various cardinals

freemasonry (founded Egyptian freemasonry)

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Benjamin Franklin (was rec'd as a dr.)

He was trained to forge in exchange for sex with his wife

Arrested under suspicion of being involved with the Affair of the Diamond Necklace (big scandal four years before French Revolution)

sentenced to death by the church for being a freemason, until the pope reduces his sentence

Cagliostro himself stated during the trial following the Affair of the Diamond Necklace that he had been born of Christians of noble birth but abandoned as an orphan upon the island of Malta. He claimed to have travelled as a child to Medina, Mecca, and Cairo and upon return to Malta to have been admitted to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, with whom he studied alchemy, the Kabbalah, and magic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Cagliostro