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For six years, starting in 1757, the thirty-two Giacomo Casanova, adventurer, bon vivant, but also joined the Masons, had a unique adventure with the fifty-rich marquise-French Jeanne de Pontcarré Camus (1705-1775), first leg married to Louis-Christophe de Lascaris d'Urfé de la Rochefoucauld (1704-1734), had family that includes two figures in the odor of esotericism, and Claude Honoré d'Urfe, the author of the lengthy novel L'Astrée latter. The Marquise, according to the same Casanova "neutral only through an excess of intelligence", the name of initiation of Egeria, an Honorary fellow of magia1 was a disciple of the alchemist Benoît de Maillet Taliamed said, "Great Alchemist" herself. According to this Taliamed the Marquise, as well as the most alchemists, he died only in appearance but in reality would still be alive in other guises. The d'Urfe had a real laboratory and alchemy in his library he had collected a vast wealth of important manuscripts, especially Paracelsus, other than those already owned the library of the Urfé family, related to the Lascaris family, including on a famous alchemist, "she showed me a small manuscript which explain the great work in French, clearly. He told me that kept him locked up because it was written with a writing encrypted and only you possessed the key to interpreting. " She kept her under lock and key, rather, a commentary on the alchemical work of Ramon Llull. The famous Count of Saint-Germain was often among the guests at her table. Also knew Cagliostro. He claimed to be visited in dream by a genius, Ormesius, and had a singular obsession of wanting to transmigrate in a male, in order to then be able to converse directly with the elemental spirits. Casanova decided to indulge the beliefs of the Marchioness and even contributed his own, preparing rituals and techniques of sexual magic. It 's very interesting to read about him - that by his own admission was very interested in alchemy - magic knowledge of these very singular, derivategli probably from his frequent visits to the Rosicrucian Masonic lodges at that time in half of Europe went mad, "the cabal, the witchcraft, the occult sciences do not have any secrets for him (...) It was known also by a police report, which was a Freemason and abusing the credulity of the good people who mingled with stories of cabals and Rosicrucians "2. The encounter with the Marquise would have been helped by its reputation as a "sorcerer" was presented to her by the nobleman Julie François-Nicolas-de La Tour d'Auvergne that Casanova had recovered from sciatica a pentagram drawn on the leg magic. However, it is sure that things went well. The Samarani suggests that Casanova has known the inside of a circle of students of magic. In fact, the Count de la Tour d'Auvergne seem to participate in searches of treasures and mysterious night attempts to see the devil which soon affected the police. In the group of friends, there was also a certain Jean-Paul Lascaris, challenging the surname, which was later arrested for fraud and deception. Casanova boasted, however, to know 'the magical cycle of the system of Zoroaster, "- perhaps the same astral rituaria character will be given to the press in 1796 by Baron André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat3 - and to have under him the genius paralysis, questioned on any matter that thanks to a combinatorial system and permutations of letters: "My genius is called paralysis. Ponetegli a request in writing, as well as you normally would (...) Madame d'Urfe, trembling with joy, asks the question and poured into numbers, then I make the pyramid, and I pull out the answer then pour in alphabetical letters. It gets only the consonants, but thanks to a second operation that makes the voice, got the answer expressed in clear terms. "
The magic that the Marquise d'Urfe wanted to practice the term is mentioned by Casanova dell'ipostasi decidedly refined construction, but which clearly explains the character of that operation. There are too many factors, terms and references in the story of Giacomo Casanova suspicion to believe that he did not want to hide in practice some form of sexual-magical fable of which he had made of them also had the feeling or experience. However, he declares to be aware of the obscene secret Rosicrucian oath of his contemporaries: "Between men is not indecent exchanging them, but a woman like Madame d'Urfe had to have a reluctance to do so to a man who had met for the first time that day. The oath that we read in our Scriptures is disguised. "I swear, says the Holy Book - putting his hand on his thigh." But this is not the thigh. So it never happens that a man sworn in a woman that way, because the woman does not have a verb. " Here, more than an oath, appears to be a practical initiation sessuale4.
"of his membership in the Masons, of his claims of alchemy and the Cabala, Casanova spoke without hiding. As of the clavicle Solomon, in The Talisman, in The Kabbalah, in well-Zecor in Picatrix, and other books of magic, founded the science of souls to abuse white, do not mind, he says, if they believed they had a little sorcerer, able to obtain at any time, by virtue of their foolproof formula, interviews with the demons "5. The knowledge of magic Casanova emerges in a particular way in a passage that is highly specialized in other documents or hypostatic trasmigratoria magic. Casanova would have had to procure a virgin girl Marchesa daughter of an adept of magic and would become pregnant in the 14th day of a certain moon phase. Once the child from birth to magic, the Marquise would have practice on it a gruesome task, with which he transferred his spirit into the body of the newborn, "dying" to the old body.
After three years would again become conscious of itself, thus depriving the soul and the conscience of the child: "we spent those three weeks entirely devoted to the preparations of the divine operation, preparations for which were to celebrate their particular cults to each of the genes seven planets, in the days that they were consecrated. After finishing these preparations, I had to go get in a place that I would have been revealed by the inspiration of the Genii, a virgin daughter of a follower, I had to make a fruitful son [Horosmadis] thanks a method known only to fellow Rosicrucians. That child would be born alive, but with a soul sensitiva6. The d'Urfe had to take him in her arms the moment when he came to the world and hold it for seven days at his side in his bed. At the end of those seven days, she had to breathe into his mouth glued to that of the child, for that means, he would have received on the intelligent soul "7. But Casanova may have changed the cards on the table, because, different documents, as well as logically, that would have to succumb is the younger subjects. But that Casanova could not write it. The operation, however, does not go in because the port of Venice, realizing the complications inherent in the whole affair - as he asserts, but it is sincere? - Always creates new obstacles. Eventually he is forced to have sex with a magical relationship to the Marchioness became pregnant, weaving the tale of details that are not reflected in the literature of that period for their "honesty." Shortly after the Marchioness leave for no longer see her again, after having thoroughly robbed ("had the delicacy not to ever ask money, but precious stones to form Constellation") 8, spurred by the succession of his adventures throughout Europe. A biography of Casanova, the Samarani suspects that the redressing injuries used by Casanova with d'Urfe could having learned from the knowledge of a certain Jeanne-Marguerite Leblanc, called La Bontemps, guess freeloaders and professional at the time enjoyed great reputation in Paris. The d'Urfe died many years later, not at all pazza9. Where could he have learned this unique teaching the Marquise, as Casanova comes into play in a time when she is already known for his alchemical interests and transmigrating? Is unknown, perhaps reading some secret manuscript after her husband's death (1734) in his private papers. Compigny des Bordes He wrote about the secret doctrine of Urfe.
them Urfe, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were not unaware that the doctrine Secret Honoré, author dell'Astrea. Two documents, signed by the Marquise d'Urfe, preserved in the Municipal Library Montbrison allow you to make the necessary comparisons. The first is dated by Bastie, May 5, 1769, written and signed by Jeanne-de Camus Pontcarré, Marquise de Urfe, "Jeannette asked whether anyone still alive in the House of Urfe, where he is, his name, and how it can do to see it? What became of the powder of projection all'Urfé belonged, and how can I take possession? - There is something to Bastie, and in that place? How can it ?...".
now is the second document. It 's a letter from the Marquise d'Urfe dell'Astrea author, who died in 162511: "I am now entirely sure, Lord, that all my searches have not been useless, because I have the pleasure to hear that you are still among the living. What do I have the pleasure of seeing you and make sure you deserve your friendship to me more precious than life itself. The monuments that you left in the forest always made me hope that maybe one day I had the chance to review the illustrious founder of the castle and the creator Bonlieu of Bastie, or author of the famous novel Astrea. You know, scanning the bottom of our hearts. As I would be happy if you found me in the skills required to belong to the sublime society essays, to which I aspire to be so long. You do not ignore all my misfortunes. You know that attachment and respect that I have always been famous for your blood they have been the major cause, losing everything they had to restrain myself to life. Come, Lord, repaired all my losses by making me his father (may I call you with this sweet name), and deign to enlighten someone who would sacrifice everything for the happiness of spending his days with you. Accept me as a prodigal son. Forget about all my shortcomings, caused solely by the desire to learn the true science. You know the critical situation today in which I struggle. Deign to honor me with your advice and do not be afraid that she which has the honor to bring your name to be deceived and trade black to white, and that should lead to ultimate happiness is getting closer to the Almighty a fatal obstacle to virtue. I hope you do not refuse me this favor and to adopt me as your child is considered as the most docile of your slaves. " From
Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova, now given some steps on the Marquise d'Urfe Jeanne. Note the words of the greeting "Rosicrucian", a clear allusion to the practice of sexual magic that Rosacruciani practiced, as well as a clear reference to "suicide" magic move in the body of another person, the Marchesa Jeanne d'Urfe dell'Ipostasi called Magic. It appears, however, that Casanova wrote alluding (and mentendo12), without going into details with clarity of its reports and esoteric practices of sexual magic. Casanova has planted clues, though: when you say that the Marquise d'Urfe, his genius, by which she became pregnant, was called Ormesius. In reality there is no genius called by that name. Ormesius - when there is a corruption of the aforementioned Oromasis - seems to be a myth "invented" by the Swedish Baron de Westerode, which was part of the Rose Gold Cross, which symbolizes the figure of Casanova Querilinte13, alias Frederick adept Gualdo , in the memory was the painter of holy pictures obscene James lead. The Baron de Westerode, founder of an Order of Filaleti, worked in Paris in those years ... You may think that Casanova, who had moved in his every action by the need to satisfy the sexual desire, was not in contact with experts in the sexual magic?
"I have an aunt, well known for its expertise in all abstract sciences, great alchemist, rich and intelligent woman, only mistress of his possessions, knowledge of which may be helpful. Dying to meet you, because it claims to know you and that you are not as it is believed in Paris. She begged him to take you to lunch with her and I hope that you will have nothing to the contrary. My aunt is the Marquise d'Urfe. I do not know, but the name d'Urfe me into immediate effect, for I knew the story of the famous Anne d'Urfe flowered in the late sixteenth century. That lady was the widow of his grandson, I thought, joining the family, he might have absorbed all the sublime doctrines of a science that interested me much, although the thought was utopian. So I said to La Tour d'Auvergne that I would go with him to his aunt when he wanted to, but not for lunch, unless we were three of us alone. (...) I was punctual to the appointment. Madame d'Urfe who lived on the Quai Theatine next to the palace of Bouillon. It was a beautiful woman though old, received me very decently with the fineness of the ancient court of the time of the Regency. For a couple of hours Talk of trifles, to study each other, as a tacit agreement. Both wanted to talk to each other. I do not duravo hardly the ignorant, as I was. Madame d'Urfe was shown only to be curious, but it was good that he could not wait to show off his knowledge. At two to three of us served the same lunch the other day served to twelve people. After eating at La Tour d'Auvergne greeted us to visit the Prince de Turenne who had left the morning with a fever, then the lady started talking about chemistry, alchemy, magic and all that was the object of his obsession. When the speech came to the great work and I had the ingenuity to ask if he knew the material, not laughed out of politeness, but had a nice smile and told me that he already possesses the so-called philosopher's stone and to be quite an expert in all major operations. He showed me his library, which had belonged to the great d'Urfe and Renata of Savoy, his wife, and had enriched the manuscript that had cost more than a hundred thousand francs. His favorite author was Paracelsus who, in her opinion, was neither man nor woman, who had the misfortune of being poisoned with a dose of medicine too strong universal. He showed me a small manuscript of the great work when the procedure was explained very clearly in French. He told me that was holding him with one hundred locks closed, because it was encrypted and she was the only one knowing the key. "Well, ma'am, do not believe the steganography?" "No, sir, and if you like here's a copy: you the gift." The accepted me and put it in my pocket. From the library we spent in his lab that really impressed me. He showed me a substance held for fifteen years on the fire and had to stay still for four or five years. It was a powder of projection, which was intended to change in a minute any metal into gold. He pointed to a tube through which, by force of gravity, down the coal to keep the fire of the stove at the same temperature, so that sometimes happened that did not enter the laboratory for three months without the risk of finding the fire extinguished. A small tube conveyed under the ashes. For her, the calcination of mercury was a breeze, I showed a little calcined, telling me that when I felt like I was the mo-layer procedure. He showed me the tree of Diana's famous Taliamed of which he was a student. Taliamed, as we know, was wise Maillet, which according to Madame d'Urfe had not died in Marseille as he did believe the Maserier The abbot, but he was still alive, and with a slight smile told me that he received often his letters. If the Regent of France had given him straight, he would be alive. He added that the Regent had been her first friend and that he had to give her the nickname of Egeria and marry it with the Marquis d'Urfe. Also had a comment from Ramon Llull made it clear that all that Arnaldo of Villanova had written after Roger Bacon and Geber, which, according to her, had not died. This precious manuscript was in a bonnet ivory, which she kept the key, even if his lab was closed to everyone. He showed me a barrel full of platinum Pinto that could be converted into gold when wanted. Mr. Wood had given him in 1743. He showed me the same platinum in four different vessels and in three of them had remained intact in sulfuric acid, nitric acid and sodium, but in the fourth, where she poured water director had not resisted and was dissolved. It merged with the burning glass because, he said, was the only metal that could not otherwise merge, and this, according to her, showed that gold was higher. I did see also precipitate with the ammonium salt, with whom he has never managed to precipitate the gold. He had a athanor that worked for fifteen years. I saw it was filled with carbon blacks, and arguii that it had used a couple of days before. Returning to his tree of Diana asked her if respectfully agree with me that it was a game to amuse children. He replied with dignity that she had done for fun with silver, mercury and spirit of nitro crystallized together and regarded him as a vegetation in the metal showed little of what nature could do great, but added that it was able to do from a tree Diana, a real tree in the sun, which would produce golden fruit to be collected and would continue to produce until it was over an ingredient that you would have mixed the six lepers in proportion to their numbers. The observed quietly that did not think possible without the powder of projection. The d'Urfe I simply replied with a gracious smile. He took a bowl of porcelain, where there was nitro, mercury and sulfur and a saucer with a fixed salt. "I suppose," said the marchioness, "you know these ingredients." "I know them," I replied, "If this is fixed salt of urine." "It's like this." "I admire your insight, ma'am. Have well analyzed the mixture with which I painted the pentacle on the thigh of your nephew, but there is no calculus that can reveal the words that give power to the pentacle. "There is a need for this calculus, in a manuscript of an adept that I keep in my room, and you'll see, the formula is written." I did not answer and together we left the laboratory. Upon entering the room, took a book by a black hood placed on a table and turned to look for phosphorus. I opened the book while looking behind her and saw that it was full of pentacles as it turned I found that I had the same sign painted on the thigh of his nephew, surrounded by the names of the genes of the planets, except Saturn and Mars. I closed the book quickly. Genes were the same as Agrippa I knew well. Pretending nothing I approached her she had just found the phosphorus: I was surprised when I saw him, but I will speak later. The lady sat on the couch, sat me down beside her and asked me if I knew the talisman of the Earl of Trèves. "I've never heard of, but I know what Poliphilo. "It seems to be the same." "I do not think." "We'll know right away: write the words you have spoken painting the pentagram on the thigh of my nephew. This will be the same if I find this book the same words the same around the talisman. " "It would be a test, I agree. I'll write the words "And I wrote the names of genes, the lady found the pentacle, I read the names and I tinged surprise, I handed my paper where she read with great satisfaction the same names. "You see," he observed, "that the Earl of Trèves Polifilo and had the same science." "I admit, madam, if your book there is a way to pronounce the ineffable name. You know the theory of planetary hours? "" I think so, but this is not necessary "" Excuse me: I drew the pentacle of Solomon on the thigh of La Tour d'Auvergne at 'hour of Venus, and if I had not started with Anael, the genius of that planet, my operation would not succeed "I did not know. Anael And after? "You have to go to Mercury, from Mercury to the Moon, Moon of Jupiter by Jupiter to the Sun as you can see is the magic cycle according to the system of Zoroaster; jump only Saturn and Mars that science excludes from this" "if, for example, you had the time function the Moon. " "Then I moved to Jupiter, then the Sun, then to Anael, I concluded that Venus and Mercury. "Without this lady, you can not do anything magic, because you do not have time to make calculations, but is not a difficult thing. An exercise in a month is enough to make people practice any aspirant. What is most difficult is the cult, because it is complicated, but in the end it succeeds. (...) ". "Maybe tomorrow I put in a position no more hesitation," The oath was to Rosicrucian, that there are no mistakes never know each other well before. So Madame d'Urfe had and was afraid of committing an indiscretion and I, for my part, I had to show that it has the same fear. I thought it was appropriate to gain time, but I knew how to do that oath. Exchanging them between men is not indecent, but a woman like Madame d'Urfe had to have a reluctance to do so to a man who had met for the first time that day. "The oath that we read in our holy scriptures," he said, "is disguised. "I swear," says the Holy Book, "putting his hand on his thigh." But this is not the thigh. So it never happens that a man sworn in a woman that way, because the woman does not have a verb. (...) In your opinion, not only possessed the philosopher's stone but I could also talk to all the elementary spirits. Therefore he thought I was capable of upsetting the whole world, to make or break in France, and gave my need to keep hidden from the well-founded fear of being arrested and imprisoned; was thought that this would inevitably happen if the Ministry I had learned. These ideas came from the extravagant night revelations of his genius that his exalted imagination made her seem real. Telling me these things with absolute innocence, one day he came to tell me that his genius had convinced her that being a woman I would not have been able to obtain an interview with the genes, but that I could, by a method surely knew, to pass his spirit in the body of a male child, born from the connection of philosophical an immortal with a mortal or a mortal with a female form of God. Complying with the foolish ideas of the lady, did not seem to deceive, because now this was so, and I could not change her opinion. If a man really honest, I had said that all his beliefs were nonsense, would not believe me, so I decided to let go. I could only have fun, still make me believe the greatest of all the Rosicrucians and the most powerful men by a woman linked to the major houses of France and that, among other things, was rich for most its cash for eighty thousand francs a year from his lands and houses he owned in Paris. It was clear that in case of need, I would have refused nothing, and although I had not formulated any plans to take over part or all of his wealth, I did not feel, however, to relinquish power achieved. Madame d'Urfe was stingy. Just spent thirty thousand francs a year, and invested his savings in the stock market that doubled. A stockbroker gave her royal titles when they were at the lowest price, and sell them to him was when they were on the rise. So its cash had increased considerably. Several times I had said it would be willing to give everything he had to become and a man who knew that it depended only on me ...".
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