Langlet du Fresnoy, HisCOire de }a philosophic hermeciquc(The Hague, 1742), 1:371-72.
515
M, Haven text (Cagltostrn: Lc maicre inconnu, 282-84), reproduced in Ignis, no. 8-9(192'?). Of course it remains to be seen, without prejudging, whether it js the right of Cagliostro or not, to attribute to himself his own eligibility for initiation.
516
Metallic transmutations have been attributed to Raymond Lully, to Nicholas Flame!, to Philalethes (which seems to have been the pseudonym of Thomas Vaughn [sic]), to John Dee. who would have also worked with the Hapsburg Emperor Rudolph II in Prague, to the Cosmopolite (Alexander Seton), to those unknowns who executed the work on their visits to Van Hclmont, ro Helvetius, and to Poisson, to the enigmatic Lascaris and Delisle, to Richthausen who had connections with the emperor Ferdinand HI, himselt very versed in the Art, to the Swede Paykull (of whom the chemist Hierse gave notice), to the enigmatic Aymar, also known as the Marquis of Bethunar, to Bom (who seems to have been the personage whose transmutations gave origin to the Porta Frmetica of the Piazza Vittorio in Rome), to Count Manuel Gaetano. It can be seen in regard (although the references contained in it are in need of revision) ro the work of N Fbce. ASchinm e nkhimisd (Rome, 1928).
