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...