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Once famous mystic and adventurer Caliostro

I received the letter from the physiognomist

Lafater, who I won to myself fame the fact that on

the person, on appearance the person, I could

predict his future unmistakably.

His authority was very high, before him trembled

kings and important persons. For Caliostro it not

nothing good indicated, and it evaded from

meetings, having written the response: – «Sir! If

your knowledge- more deeply than mine, I am not

necessary to you. If on the contrary, then you

aren’t necessary to me. Thus, the meeting doesn’t

make sense».

Lafater wrote: «In what you get the knowledge?»

Caliostro answered: «In herbus, in verbus, in

lapidibus…»

«In a grass, in the word, in a stone…»