“The Prophesying Spirits: A Complete and Unabridged Account of the Alchemical Homunculi Created by the Count of Kufstein in the 1770s” by Marios Koutsoukos

"In 1873, an obscure masonic handbook was published in Vienna. Amongst other essays, it contained one about a previously unknown manuscript from the 1770s.

This was the private travel journal of one Josef Kammerer, servant and personal assistant to Johan Ferdinand, Count of Kufstein. Kammerer describes in vivid and minute detail how his master, when travelling abroad in Italy, with the aid of a Carmelite monk and mystic created ten alchemical homunculi, which he calls "Spirits". These small human-like creatures were kept in jars of water and possessed the ability to prophesy about past, present and future events. The Count brought them back with him to Vienna, where he experimented with their powers in a masonic Lodge attended by many prominent Austrian aristocrats of the time.

Although Kammerer’s narrative reads like a gothic tale, in truth, it is the most fascinating historical account of alchemical experiments in the creation of artificial life that survives to us from the early modern period.

The present work is the first English translation of the complete and unabridged German text of the 1873 publication, including the author’s footnotes.

It is one of the rarest and most baffling documents that the student of western esotericism, alchemy, or the history of Freemasonry can ever hope to come across."

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