"It was the order of the General which united you in marriage to your beloved Lorenza Feliciana, who initiated you in the secret sciences and the secrets of Nature, that you might employ them for the well-being of humanity." "It is so, master." "You implored also, as you were about to separate, to see the face of your benefactor, to engrave it upon your heart.

Would you now be able to recognize it ?" "I could in an instant, among thousands." The General slowly raised the mask; a pale, emaciated face was visible, with great black eyes in sunken sockets, thin bloodless lips, and a high, bony brow.

"Do you recognize me ?" "No!" sadly answered Cagliostro, "it is not the same face." "You see, my son, man changes, but knowledge not.

I am another, and yet the same, for the outward human form is only the vessel of the eternal band into which everlasting truth and the holy doctrines are poured.
If the vessel breaks, it is replaced by another, and an inexhaustible spring.

Thought and holy knowledge flow into the renewed vessel.