Beyond the discrete elixir and the regeneration retreat, Cagliostro attached to his Egyptian system a general promise of greatly extended life: the regenerated adept was said (in Eliphas Levi’s later account, reproduced by Henry Ridgely Evans in 1919) to enter “that perfect repose which is the beginning of immortality”, and the elixirs he sold were marketed, in Trowbridge’s account, as an “Elixir Vitae” and an “elixir of life”. Cagliostro reinforced the promise by implying a great personal age and arcane longevity for himself. The claim is classified at a testimonial endpoint (it rested on assertion and the prestige of the rite, never on a recorded lifespan outcome) and as refuted: the man behind the title was Giuseppe Balsamo, born about 1743 and dead in the fortress of San Leo on 26 August 1795 at roughly fifty-two, and the 1791 Inquisition record presents his life-prolonging arcana as impostures rather than as anything that lengthened a life.