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The Count of St. Germain (fl. 1710–1784) has been variously described as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and amateur composer, but is best known as a recurring figure in the stories of several strands of occultism -- particularly those connected to Theosophy, where he is also referred to as the Master Rakoczi or the Master R. Year 1710 ( MDCCX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year Year 1784 ( MDCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year A courtier is a person who attends the court of a Monarch or other powerful person. An adventurer or adventuress is a term that usually takes one of three meanings One whose travels are unusual and often exotic though not so unique as to qualify A charlatan (also called swindler) is a person practicing Quackery or some similar Confidence trick in order to obtain money or advantage via some form An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means Alchemy a part of the Occult Tradition is both a philosophy and a practice with an ultimately unknown aim involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of A pianist (/'piənɪst/ is a Musician who plays the Piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces play with an ensemble or Orchestra The following lists of violinists are available List of classical violinists, names of great violinist from baroque era till 20th century A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (clandestine hidden secret referring to "knowledge of the hidden" This article is about the philosophy introduced by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Some sources write that his name is not familial, but was invented by him as a French version of the Latin Sanctus Germanus, meaning "Holy Brother". The Diocese of Sanctus Germanus is a Titular See of the Roman Catholic Church that is located in England [1][2][3]

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Life

The scarcity of contemporary biographical detail about St Germain (alongside his own apparent self-mythologising) has supported the construction of many versions of his origins and ancestry, including that he was:

In a letter of 1745 Horace Walpole mentions a Count St. Ferenc (Francis II Rákóczi ( March 27, 1676 – April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs List of rulers of Transylvania, from the first mention of a ruler in the tenth century until 1918. Transylvania (Ardeal or ro ''Transilvania'' Erdély, see also other denominations) is a Central European region located in the eastern half of the Carpathian Maria Anna of Neuburg (Mariana de Neoburgo Maria Anna von der Pfalz-Neuburg ( 28 October, 1667 &ndash 16 July, 1740) was Queen consort Charles II ( November 6 1661, Madrid – November 1 1700, Madrid was the last Habsburg King of Spain and the Ancestry Marriages and descendants John married Mary Anne of Austria, daughter of Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor in 1708 Horace Walpole 4th Earl of Orford ( 24 September, 1717 &ndash 2 March, 1797) more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a politician Germain as being arrested in London on suspicion of espionage (this was during the Jacobite rebellion) but released without charge:

. The Jacobite Risings were a series of uprisings rebellions and wars in the kingdoms of England, Kingdom of Scotland (later the United Kingdom of Great Britain . . the other day they seized an odd man, who goes by the name of Count St. Germain. He has been here these two years, and will not tell who he is, or whence, but professes that he does not go by his right name. He sings, plays on the violin wonderfully, composes, is mad, and not very sensible. He is called an Italian, a Spaniard, a Pole; a somebody that married a great fortune in Mexico, and ran away with her jewels to Constantinople; a priest, a fiddler, a vast nobleman. The Prince of Wales has had unsatiated curiosity about him, but in vain. The Prince Frederick Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis 1 February 1707 &ndash 31 March 1751) was a member of the Hanoverian and However, nothing has been made out against him; he is released; and, what convinces me that he is not a gentleman, stays here, and talks of his being taken up for a spy. [5]

A M. de Saint-Germain was Governor of Chengalaput, in India, in 1752. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country [6]

Giacomo Casanova describes in his memoirs several meetings with the "celebrated and learned impostor". Of his first meeting, in Paris in 1757, he writes:

The most enjoyable dinner I had was with Madame de Gergi, who came with the famous adventurer, known by the name of the Count de St. Germain. This individual, instead of eating, talked from the beginning of the meal to the end, and I followed his example in one respect as I did not eat, but listened to him with the greatest attention. It may safely be said that as a conversationalist he was unequalled.

St. Germain gave himself out for a marvel and always aimed at exciting amazement, which he often succeeded in doing. He was scholar, linguist, musician, and chemist, good-looking, and a perfect ladies' man. For awhile he gave them paints and cosmetics; he flattered them, not that he would make them young again (which he modestly confessed was beyond him) but that their beauty would be preserved by means of a wash which, he said, cost him a lot of money, but which he gave away freely.

He had contrived to gain the favour of Madame de Pompadour, who had spoken about him to the king, for whom he had made a laboratory, in which the monarch - a martyr to boredom - tried to find a little pleasure or distraction, at all events, by making dyes. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour ( December 29, 1721 &ndash April 15, 1764 Louis XV (15 February 1710 &ndash 10 May 1774 ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774 The king had given him a suite of rooms at Chambord, and a hundred thousand francs for the construction of a laboratory, and according to St. Germain the dyes discovered by the king would have a materially beneficial influence on the quality of French fabrics.

This extraordinary man, intended by nature to be the king of impostors and quacks, would say in an easy, assured manner that he was three hundred years old, that he knew the secret of the Universal Medicine, that he possessed a mastery over nature, that he could melt diamonds, professing himself capable of forming, out of ten or twelve small diamonds, one large one of the finest water without any loss of weight. All this, he said, was a mere trifle to him. Notwithstanding his boastings, his bare-faced lies, and his manifold eccentricities, I cannot say I thought him offensive. In spite of my knowledge of what he was and in spite of my own feelings, I thought him an astonishing man as he was always astonishing me. [7]

Myths, legends and speculations about St. Germain began to be widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and continue today. They include beliefs that he is immortal, the Wandering Jew, an alchemist with the "Elixir of Life", a Rosicrucian, and that he prophesied the French Revolution. Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of living in physical or spiritual form for an Infinite length of Time. Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the thirteenth century and became a fixture of Christian mythology The elixir of life, from Arabic الإكسير also known as the elixir of immortality or Dancing Water or Persian: Aab-e-Hayaat آب حیات The term Rosicrucian (symbol the Rose Cross) describes a secret society of mystics allegedly formed in late mediaeval Germany, holding a doctrine "built on The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an He is said to have met the forger Giuseppe Balsamo (alias Cagliostro) in London. Count Alessandro di Cagliostro ( 2 June, 1743 – 26 August, 1795) was the alias for the Occultist Giuseppe Balsamo

Literature about St. Germain

Biographies

There are several "authoritative" biographers who usually do not agree with one another. Probably the two best-known biographies are Isabel Cooper-Oakley's The Count of St. Germain (1912) and Jean Overton-Fuller's The Comte de Saint-Germain: Last Scion of the House of Rakoczy (1988). The former is a compilation of letters, diaries and private records written about the Count by members of the French aristocracy who knew him in the 18th century. Dr. Raymond Bernard's book "The Great Secret -- St. Germain" is biographical and covers the many aspects of the Counts life including his connection or being Sir Francis Bacon and the author of the Shakespeare Plays. Manley P. Hall in his "Secret Teachings of All Ages", describes some of the same attributes as Dr. Bernard, including the writings of Shakespeare being from a great adept like Francis Bacon. This would be the latters tool or vehicle to express wisdom of psychology, history, nature, the Elementals, tradition, literature, society, government, music and art.

There have also been numerous French and German biographies, among them Der Wiedergänger: Das zeitlose Leben des Grafen von Saint-Germain by Peter Krassa, Le Comte de Saint-Germain by Marie-Raymonde Delorme and L'énigmatique Comte De Saint-Germain by Pierre Ceria and François Ethuin.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has written more than 20 fiction novels about the Count (casting him as a vampire), included in her short story collection The St. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is a professional writer Germain Chronicles (1983). In it she provides her opinion as to his actual identity (the son of a wealthy, probably Jewish, diamond merchant).

Occult biography

A book titled "The Great Secret, Count St. Germain," by Dr. Raymond Bernard purports that St. Germain was actually Francis Bacon by birth, and who later authored the complete Plays attributed to Shakespeare. He also contends, as does the Saint Germain Foundation in Chicago, IL. , that Francis Bacon was the child of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Dudley but that it was kept quiet. Francis was raised by the Bacon family; yet, throughout the Shakespeare Plays, there are numerous hints that he knows of his true birth as revealed in the plays itself, the numerous explicit hints in the text, pictures as well as the cipher code he employed.

Book attributed to St. Germain

One book attributed to Saint Germain himself is "The Most Holy Trinosophia of the Comte de St. The Most Holy Trinosophia is a French esoteric book written by the Count of St Germain. Germain. " There are also two triangular books in the Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts at the Getty Research Library which are attributed to Saint Germain. [1]

Books dictated by Saint Germain to Guy Ballard

Saint Germain is the central figure in the Saint Germain Series of Books published by the Saint Germain Press. The first two volumes, Unveiled Mysteries and The Magic Presence, written by Godfre Ray King, describe Saint Germain as an Ascended Master, like Jesus, who is assisting humanity and the Earth at present. Guy Warren Ballard ( July 28, 1878 - December 29, 1939) was an American Mining engineer who became with his wife Ascended Masters, in the Ascended Master Teachings is derived from the Theosophical concept of Masters of Wisdom or "Mahatmas". The Master Jesus is Jesus as understood by the metaphysical system of Theosophy as opposed to the Jesus Christ of the Christian religion EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 Godfre Ray King is the pen-name for Guy Warren Ballard. Guy Warren Ballard ( July 28, 1878 - December 29, 1939) was an American Mining engineer who became with his wife In these first two books, he discusses his personal experiences with Saint Germain and reveals many teachings that are in harmony with Theosophy and the other works referenced above. The third volume, "The 'I AM' Discourses" contains Material that is not to be found in any other corpus of Teachings or Doctrines. These three books are the foundational sacred scriptures of the I AM Activity. The "I AM" Activity is a religious movement founded in the early 1930s by Guy Ballard (1878&ndash1939 and his wife Edna (1886-1971 in Chicago Illinois

There are 20 Volumes that make up the Saint Germain Series of Books which are also referred to as the "Green Books" published by the Saint Germain Press. Another work of great import which is said to be from the hand of Sir Francis Bacon (author of the Shakespeare Plays); before he Ascended and returned as Sanctus Germanus which means the "Holy Brother" or Saint Germain, is the book known as the "Comte de Gabalis". First printed in 1670, the book includes a picture of the Polish Rider (a famous painting at the Frick Collection in New York City), which is said to be of Sir Francis Bacon a. k. a the Comte de Gabalis (the Count of the Cabala). Lotus Ray King (Edna Ballard's pen name) and wife of Guy Ballard, talked about this book having been authored by the now known and familiar Ascended Master Saint Germain (RoundTable Talks).

Claimed encounters with Saint Germain

Several Theosophists claimed to have met Saint Germain in the late 19th or early 20th centuries:

Esoteric activities

Many groups honor Saint Germain as an Ascended Master. Ascended Masters, in the Ascended Master Teachings is derived from the Theosophical concept of Masters of Wisdom or "Mahatmas". He is referred to in Theosophy as the Master Rakoczy or the Master R. ; in the Ascended Master Teachings he is referred to simply as Saint Germain or as the Ascended Master Saint Germain [2] [11]. Students of Ascended Master Teachings organizations (also known as " Ascended Master Activities " believe that the Presence of Life - God - Individualizes as the "I As an Ascended Master, he is believed to have many magical powers such as the ability to teleport, levitate, walk through walls, inspire people telepathically, etc. Magic, sometimes known as sorcery, is a Conceptual system that asserts human ability to control the natural world (including events objects people and Teleportation is the movement of objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously either by Paranormal means or through technological artifice Levitation is a name given to the claimed Paranormal phenomenon of Levitation occurring without any scientific explanation (such as Electromagnetism or Telepathy ( Greek τηλε tele meaning "distant" and πάθεια patheia meaning "to be affected by" describes the purported transfer

Theosophists consider him to be a Mahatma, Master or Adept. Mahatma is Sanskrit for "Great Soul" (महात्मा mahātmā: महा mahā (great + आत्मं or आत्मन Ascended Masters, in the Ascended Master Teachings is derived from the Theosophical concept of Masters of Wisdom or "Mahatmas". Helena Blavatsky said he was one of her Masters of Wisdom and hinted at secret documents. Elena Petrovna Gan (Елена Петровна Ган also Hélène, Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire — May 8 1891 London) better Some esoteric groups credit him with inspiring the Founding Fathers to draft the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as providing the design of the Great Seal of the United States. Founding Fathers are persons instrumental in the establishment of an Institution, usually a political institution especially those connected to the origination of its Ideals The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 announcing that the thirteen American colonies then The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme Law of the United States. The Great Seal of the United States is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the United States federal government. (See P. Manly Hall's "Secret Teachings of All Ages. Manly Palmer Hall ( March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian -born Author and mystic. ") [12] In the New Age beliefs regarding him, Saint Germain is always associated with the color violet, the jewel amethyst, and the Maltese cross rendered in violet (usually the iron cross style cross patee version); he is also regarded as the "Chohan of the Seventh Ray"[13] — according to Theosophy, the Seven Rays are seven metaphysical principles that govern both individual souls and the unfolding of each 2,158 year long Astrological Age. New Age ( New Age Movement and New Age Spirituality) is a Social Collective Phenomenon and a Spiritual Nature As the name of a color violet (named after the flower violet) is used in two senses first referring to the color of Light at the short- Wavelength Amethyst is a violet variety of Quartz often used as an Ornamental stone in Jewelry. The Maltese cross or Amalfi cross is identified as the symbol of an order of Christian warriors known as the Knights Hospitaller or Knights of Malta This article is about the philosophy introduced by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky The Seven Rays is a metaphysical concept that has appeared in several religions and Esoteric philosophies since at least the sixth century BCE in both Western culture For the song see Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In. For the album see The Age of Aquarius (album. Since according to Theosophy the next Astrological Age, the Age of Aquarius, will be governed by the Seventh (Violet) Ray (the Ray of Ceremonial Order), Saint Germain is sometimes called "The Hierarch of the Age of Aquarius". For the song see Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In. For the album see The Age of Aquarius (album. For the song see Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In. For the album see The Age of Aquarius (album. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, Saint Germain is "The God of Freedom for the Earth". Students of Ascended Master Teachings organizations (also known as " Ascended Master Activities " believe that the Presence of Life - God - Individualizes as the "I

In Theosophist Alice A. Bailey's books, Saint Germain is referred to as the Master Rakoczi or the Master R. Alice Ann Bailey ( June 16, 1880 &ndash December 15, 1949) known as Alice A Alice A. Bailey's book The Externalisation of the Hierarchy (a compilation of earlier revelations published posthumously in 1957) gives the most information about his reputed role as a spiritual Master. His title is said to be the Lord of Civilization and his task is the establishment of the new civilization of the Age of Aquarius. [14]. He is said to telepathically influence people who are seen by him as being instrumental in bringing about the new civilization of the Age of Aquarius. Alice A. Bailey stated that "sometime after AD 2025" Master Jesus, the Master Rakoczi (Saint Germain), Kuthumi, and the others in the Spiritual Hierarchy would "externalise", i. The Master Jesus is Jesus as understood by the metaphysical system of Theosophy as opposed to the Jesus Christ of the Christian religion The Master Kuthumi, in the teachings of Theosophy is one of the "Masters of Wisdom" and in the Ascended Master Teachings is one of the Ascended Spiritual Hierarchy is a term used often in Theosophy, Neo-Theosophy, and the Ascended Master Teachings. e. , descend from the spiritual worlds, and interact in visible tangible bodies on the Earth in ashrams surrounded by their disciples. An Ashram in ancient India was a Hindu hermitage where sages lived in Peace and tranquility amidst Nature. [15]

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According to Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, Saint Germain was incarnated as: (see notes 1, 2, and 3 for sources)

Ascension into masterhood

These organizations believe that Francis Bacon made it appear that he died on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1626, and that he even attended his own "funeral" in disguise. Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year. He then supposedly traveled secretly to Transylvania (then part of Hungary, now part of Romania) to the Rakoczy Mansion of the royal family of Hungary. Transylvania (Ardeal or ro ''Transilvania'' Erdély, see also other denominations) is a Central European region located in the eastern half of the Carpathian Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania Finally on May 1, 1684 he is believed to have attained (by his knowledge of alchemy) his physical Ascension (attaining immortality and eternal youth at which time Francis Bacon adopted the name "Saint Germain. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Alchemy a part of the Occult Tradition is both a philosophy and a practice with an ultimately unknown aim involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of living in physical or spiritual form for an Infinite length of Time. "

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Notes

  1. ^ Schroeder, Werner Ascended Masters and Their Retreats Ascended Master Teaching Foundation 2004, pages 250 - 255
  2. ^ Luk, A. D. K. . Law of Life — Book II. Pueblo, Colorado: A. D. K. Luk Publications 1989, pages 254 - 267
  3. ^ Booth, Annice The Masters and Their Retreats Summit Lighthouse Library June 2003, pages 312 - 322
  4. ^ The Comte de St. Germain by Isabel Cooper-Oakley. Milan, Italy: Ars Regia, 1912
  5. ^ Letter to Sir Horace Mann, Dec. 9, 1745, available on Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12073/12073.txt
  6. ^ Butler, E. M. : The Myth of the Magus; Cambridge University Press, 1948; p. 189
  7. ^ The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Memoires of Casanova, Complete, by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2981/2981.txt
  8. ^ Leadbeater, C. W. The Masters and the Path. Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1927 (Revised from 1925 edition) (Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 1997) Page 32
  9. ^ Leadbeater, C. W. The Masters and the Path. Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1927 (Revised from 1925 edition) (Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 1997) Page 240
  10. ^ King, Godfre Ray. Unveiled Mysteries. Chicago, Illinois: Saint Germain Press 1934
  11. ^ Source of Image of St. Germain (based on the description of him given by C.W. Leadbeater when he claimed to have met him in Rome in 1926) shown above distributed by ZakaiRan and painted by New Age Artist Peter Fich Christiansen
  12. ^ Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages "An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of all Ages" H. Manly Palmer Hall ( March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian -born Author and mystic. S. Crocker Company, Inc. 1928
  13. ^ "Saint Germain" (claimed to have been dictated to Mark Prophet) Studies in Alchemy Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA:1974 Summit Lighthouse . See biolographical sketch of Saint Germain, pages 80-90,
  14. ^ Bailey, Alice A. The Externalisation of the Hierarchy New York:1957--Lucis Press (Compilation of earlier revelations by Alice A. Revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing (see etymology or in the theological perception making something obvious and clearly understood through active or passive communication Bailey) Page 667
  15. ^ Bailey, Alice A. The Externalisation of the Hierarchy New York:1957--Lucis Press (Compilation of earlier revelations by Alice A. Bailey) Page 530
  16. ^ I'm So Free song lyrics | Lou Reed | Transformer | GoldLyrics.com

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