The Count de Saint-Germain is an interesting character, along with this 18th c. occult tome.
i arrived via this post and the relevant links are in there along with context, to save re-writing.
BibliOdyssey is well worth a good look around for other little gems like this
This opens up a whole other world I'd love to track from Century's beginning to end-!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if we can find some original texts in English--a 19th Century occult reader would be awesome....
Two other 18th Century occultists occurred to me:
Court de Gébelin (one of the first people to deeply investigate/interpret the Tarot): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Court_de_G%C3%A9belin
and Cagliostro:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagliostro
The 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' appears as a plot or reference really often in the early 19th Century.