The names of many famous foreign prophets, soothsayers and other sorcerers are associated with Russia. These include the Count Saint-Germain - one of the most mysterious figures in the history of the 18th century. To this day, the name of the count is shrouded in impenetrable mystery, the mystery of his personality remains unsolved. Contemporaries called him a magician and sorcerer, prophet and teacher of wisdom. It was believed that he knew the secret of longevity, in other words, the preservation of youth, and the recipe for the elixir of immortality. Theosophists, following H.P. Blavatsky, were convinced that he "was undoubtedly the greatest adherent of the East that Europe had seen in recent centuries," who came into the world as a messenger of the Great Brotherhood of Mahatmas, that is, the Masters of wisdom, and appeared to mankind " hoping to improve it, make it wiser and happier. "

The biography of Saint-Germain, despite the efforts of researchers who are not tired of looking for new facts of his life, looks like a patchwork quilt with many holes. Rather, he has many biographies, and one is more incredible than the other. He was considered almost incarnate God, the bearer of secret wisdom, a great prophet who equally saw both the future and the past. In his memoirs, he narrated in detail about the events of the past centuries, as if he was their contemporary and saw everything with his own eyes. And Saint-Germain was also famous as an alchemist, able to transform base metals into gold. They also thought that he was a Mason, almost their head, and even supposedly belonged to the ancient order of the Templars and was initiated into their secrets.

The count often disappeared from the field of vision of his contemporaries, and when he reappeared, he did not explain either his disappearances or even stranger returns. Usually he appeared suddenly, say, in Paris, London, The Hague or Rome, lived there under different names. And if it were not for the testimony of those who knew him well, one would really think that Count Tsarogi (an anagram from Rakoczi), the Marquis of Montfer, Count Bellamard, Count Weldon, Count Saltykov and Count Saint-Germain are different people. About a dozen pseudonyms are known under which this person appeared and acted in different places and at different times. Some thought that he was a Spaniard, the illegitimate son of the widow of the Spanish king Charles II and the Madrid banker, others considered him the bastard son of the Portuguese king. They also accepted him for the son of a Savoyard tax collector named Rotondo. In short, there were a lot of guesses and assumptions.

But all unanimously agreed that it was impossible to determine the age of the count. Hence, probably, the legend about his longevity, that he supposedly knows the path leading to immortality. He himself loved to accidentally mention that he personally was once familiar with Christ himself and predicted to him that he would end badly. He knew Cleopatra, Plato, and Seneca, and "easily chatted with the Queen of Sheba." Speaking about this, the count suddenly recalled himself, like a man who had said too much, and mysteriously fell silent.

Once in Dresden, someone asked the coachman Saint-Germain if it was true that his master was four hundred years old? He replied: “I don’t know for sure. But in those one hundred and thirty years that I have served him, his lordship has not changed at all ... "

This at least strange admission was confirmed by some elderly aristocrats. They suddenly recalled that long ago in childhood they had already seen this man in the salons of their grandmothers. And since then, they were amazed, he has not changed outwardly at all. For example, Countess d "Ademar wondered how Saint-Germain manages to live so long without growing old. After all, she knew, according to her, elderly people who saw him forty-fifty at the very beginning of the 18th century. He looked the same as and half a century later ...

What did this strange graph look like? This is how contemporaries describe his appearance. He was of average height, about forty-five years old, with a dark complexion, spiritualized, marked with unmistakable signs of deep intelligence. The features are correct, the eyes are penetrating, the hair is black, the posture is majestic. The count dressed simply, but tastefully. The only thing I allowed myself were dazzling diamonds on my fingers, snuff box, watch and shoe buckles. In all his appearance, a noble origin was felt.

He himself hinted that he belongs to the old Hungarian family of Rákóczi. The most famous are two of his ancestors: Gyorgy Rakoczi (1593–1648) - the prince of Transylvania, a participant in the Thirty Years War on the side of the anti-Habsburg coalition, and Ferenc Rakoczi II, the leader of the Hungarian liberation war in 1703–1711.

So, according to one of the versions, he could well have been the son of Ferenc Rakoczi I (1645-1676). His mother, Ilona Zrigny, was the daughter of parents executed by the Austrians. Ilona managed to escape thanks to the mediation of the Jesuits and with the help of a huge ransom. Ferenc and Ilona had three children: Gyorgy, who was born in 1667 and lived only a few months; Juliana, born in 1672 and died in 1717; Ferenc, born in 1676 and died in 1735. Their father, Ferenc Rakoczi I, died in 1676, a few months after the birth of Ferenc the Younger.

At the age of eighteen, Ferenc Rakoczi II married Charlotte-Amalia of Hesse (from the Rheinfald line). This happened in 1694. From this marriage there were four children: Lipot-Gyorgy (1696-1700), Jozsef (1700-1738), Gyorgy (1701-1756) and Charlotte (1706 -?).

Some believe that it was Lipot-Gyorgy, the eldest son of Ferenc Rakoczi II, who became Count Saint-Germain. However, it is reliably known that the boy died four years old. And here a rather strange version arises. Ferenc's birth year coincides with the death of his father Ferenc Rakoczi II. Hence, it is concluded that this death was staged and that the son and father are one and the same person.

There is another version about the origin, if not of the Count of Saint-Germain himself, then of his name: allegedly, someone bought the estate of Saint-Germain in the Italian Tyrol, paid the Pope for the title and became Count Saint-Germain.

The count himself said that the evidence of his origin "is in the hands of the person on whom he depends (that is, on the Austrian emperor), and this dependence weighs on him all his life in the form of constant surveillance ...". However, revealing to everyone his personal secrets, he said, was not in his rules.

One way or another, it is reliably known that the count appeared in various European capitals, everywhere causing amazement and admiration for the variety of his amazing talents. Saint Germain played many instruments, especially the violin. It happened that I even conducted an entire orchestra, and without a score. Some were inclined to consider his skill equal to that of Paganini.

Saint-Germain was also known as an artist. He possessed a special secret of paints that glowed in the dark with an extraordinary light. Alas, not a single picture of him has reached us.

His memory was phenomenal, and he could repeat several pages of printed text after reading them only once. He contrived to write with both hands at the same time, and often with one hand he scribbled a love letter, and the other - poetry.

And, of course, the Count's knowledge in physics and chemistry was amazing. He was especially favored by the ladies of the French court as an unsurpassed master in the preparation of dyes and cosmetics. In Italy, the count conducted experiments to improve the production of flax, developed a new way of refining olive oil - the bad turned into refined of the highest quality. Using the latest technology, he was engaged in the manufacture of hats at the request of Count Kobenzl, the Austrian ambassador to Belgium. It was in the Belgian city of Tournai.

The famous adventurer Casanova once passed through the same place. Helena Blavatsky wrote that during their meeting “Saint-Germain decided to show his strength as an alchemist. Taking a 2 sous coin, put it on red-hot charcoal and worked with a blowpipe; the coin melted and remained to cool. "Now," says Saint-Germain, "take your money." - "But she's made of gold!" - "From the pure." Casanova does not believe in transformation and sees the whole operation as a trick, but nevertheless puts a coin in his pocket ... "

Saint Germain would spend hours telling all sorts of funny stories about precious stones, especially about diamonds. Moreover, using his knowledge and skill of a chemist, he, as contemporaries claimed, managed to "cure" diamonds, to eliminate cracks or any other flaw in them.

It is not surprising that many believed in his miraculous abilities, in the fact that stones of relatively small value turned into jewels of the purest water after they were in the hands of Saint-Germain. And no one was surprised that at the table at his dinner parties, guests found, next to a name card indicating their place, some kind of jewel.

The count's contemporaries also noted that as a historian he possessed an almost supernatural knowledge of everything that had happened over the past two thousand years, and in his oral stories he described the events of previous centuries to the smallest detail. At dinner parties in the homes of aristocrats, where he was gladly invited, he regaled those present with stories about his incredible adventures in distant countries or stories from the personal, intimate lives of great people, French and other kings, with whom, as he stated, he had met and at the court of which he himself was. And once he even mentioned that he owned a staff or a rod, with the help of which Moses extracted water from a rock. At the same time, he added with no hesitation that the staff was presented to him in Babylon.

The authors of the memoirs, telling about all this, are at a loss as to what kind of testimony of the count can be trusted. On reflection, they came to the conclusion that most of Saint-Germain's stories were taken from some sources, for example, from the memoirs of Brantome, Saint-Simon and other memoirs, then already quite accessible. But, on the other hand, the information he gave was so accurate, and the knowledge so extraordinary, excellent in all respects, that his words had a special power of persuasion. And they believed him.

Information about the reasons and circumstances of the visit of Count Saint-Germain to distant Russia is contradictory: there are even disputes about the dates of this trip. Most likely, the count arrived in St. Petersburg at the invitation of his old acquaintance and friend, the famous Italian artist Count Pietro Rotari, who was then working in the Russian capital as a court painter. There is, however, reason to believe that even then Saint-Germain knew Grigory Orlov and came to Northern Palmyra at his invitation.

In St. Petersburg, Saint-Germain, accompanied by the artist, visited the most famous families - the Razumovskys, Yusupovs, Golitsyns ... As usual, he charmed his listeners with his virtuoso violin playing. And he even dedicated a piece of music for the harp written by him to Countess A. I. Osterman, nee Talyzina. He also communicated with the merchant Magnan, who was engaged in the purchase and sale of precious stones. This merchant laid the defective stones and gave them to the count, so that he would give them their original shine. Saint-Germain also visited Princess Golitsyna, however, it is not known which one.

But it is known for sure that Saint-Germain lived in Grafsky Lane near Anichkov Bridge on Nevsky. The count did not stay in St. Petersburg for long. When a coup took place in early July 1762 and Peter III was overthrown by his wife Ekaterina Alekseevna, the Count of Saint-Germain was no longer in the capital. Nevertheless, there were persistent rumors that he took part in the preparation of the coup and was almost one of the active conspirators, although "his name is not quoted anywhere among others."

However, F. Tastevin in his book "History of the French Colony in Moscow" bluntly declares that the famous Saint Germain "organized the coup in 1762, as a result of which Emperor Peter III lost first the throne, then his life." And the researcher of the life of Saint-Germain, the Englishwoman I. Cooper-Oakley writes that “Count Saint-Germain was in these parts in the era of Peter III and left Russia after Catherine II ascended the throne ...”. As if he was even awarded the title of general of the Russian army. In any case, our Russian researcher O. Volodarskaya says in her work "Following the Mysterious Count": who, on June 28, 1762, elevated a new empress to the Russian throne. "

... The Grand Duchess Catherine was distinguished by her thin waist, beautiful skin and lips calling for kisses. At fifteen, still very young, when she was called Sophia-Frederica-Augusta and was an Anhaltzerb princess, she was married to a cousin - Peter, the son of the Duke of Holstein and his wife Anna, daughter of Peter I, and nephew of Queen Elizabeth Petrovna. He was also German and became the heir to the Russian throne at the behest of Elizabeth's aunt. He had a bad reputation: a vile jester who looked like a little monkey, an insidious deceiver and a coward. He was insufferable.

And the future empress already at that time began to surround herself with admirers.

At first, she turned a favorable glance at the young and handsome officer Sergei Saltykov. He courted her in 1752. A year and a half after their rapprochement, Catherine gave birth to a son, the future Tsar Paul I. The Grand Duchess loved Sergei Saltykov, but once she waited in vain for him all night.

"My pride did not allow me to forgive treason!" - wrote Ekaterina.

She broke up with him and replaced her unfaithful lover with the young and inexperienced Stanislav-August Poniatovsky, who gave her his innocence and gave her a child. Peter III recognized him as his own.

In 1760, Catherine parted with Ponyatovsky. He returned to Poland, and she quickly consoled herself - the future queen was still very young. In 1761 she dreamed and sighed about the irresistible lieutenant Grigory Orlov, about this "giant with the face of an angel." He served in the regiment that guarded the palace, along with four brothers. Soon, in July 1762, Grigory Orlov and his brothers helped Catherine to ascend the throne, overthrowing her husband, Peter III.

Was Saint-Germain involved in the events at the royal court?

In support of the fact that Saint-Germain was nevertheless involved in them, the testimony of the collector of the last century Pyliaev is cited. He managed to acquire in St. Petersburg at an auction a sheet of music with a melody for the harp, marked in 1760 - a work of Count Saint-Germain in a beautiful binding of red morocco. The scores were dedicated to the Countess Ostermann and signed by Saint-Germain.

If this is so, then it turns out that the count stayed in the Russian capital for about a year and a half and left it on the eve of the coup. However, there is no absolutely reliable information about his stay here. The investigation of P. Shakornak, who established only that Saint-Germain “had no relations with Catherine II” and that in the official documents of that time, according to the certificate obtained by Shakornak in 1932 in the Leningrad archive, “the name of Saint- Germain is not mentioned anywhere among others. "

It was assumed that in Petersburg Saint-Germain acted under the name of Odar, who played a famous role at that time. He was a lawyer at the city chamber of commerce, but his lack of knowledge of the Russian language prevented him from fulfilling this position. Then, with the support of Princess Dashkova, one of the inspirers of the coup, the Italian tried to become Catherine's secretary, but this attempt also failed. In the end, he received the post of intendant in the country house of Peter III in Oranienbaum. Shortly before the coup, Dashkova saw him there, as she writes about in her memoirs.

It is tempting, of course, to imagine that Saint-Germain, under the name of Odar, entered the confidence of Peter III and helped the conspirators. Yet there is hardly any good reason to identify Odard with Saint Germain.

The testimony of I. Cooper-Oakley served as the basis for the writer Nikolai Dubov in our time to deduce Saint-Germain in his historical novel "The Wheel of Fortune", where the count is the most significant and most mysterious hero. On the pages of N. Dubov's book, Count Saint-Germain participates in the overthrow of Peter III, he is initiated into the secret-secret of the Russian empress and this becomes in the end dangerous. She decides to get rid of the unwanted witness and sends a killer to him ...

In St. Petersburg, Count Saint-Germain met with Prince Grigory Orlov and, according to him, quoted by the same I. Cooper-Oakley, really "played an important role in the Russian coup." Saint-Germain was also acquainted with another participant in this event, with one of the conspirators, Alexei Orlov, the brother of the previous one. Later, as if together with him - the commander-in-chief of the Russian fleet - was on the flagship "Three Hierarchs" during the Battle of Chesme with the Turks in 1770. And in 1773 Saint-Germain again met with his old acquaintance Grigory Orlov and acted as his adviser in Amsterdam. He helped the prince buy the famous diamond.

By that time, the once all-powerful favorite, Prince Grigory Orlov, had been pushed aside by the empress's new favorites - Vasilchikov and Potemkin. And either hoping to improve his position at court, or from old memory - as they say, old love does not rust - he decided to present a precious stone for the day of the angel Catherine. It was an 189 carat blue-green diamond, shaped like a half of a pigeon's egg, and cut by the Venetian master Borgio, who worked at the Mughal court. There are several versions of the history of this stone and how it ended up in Russia through the mediation of Saint Germain.

According to one version, the diamond was deceived by the Armenian merchant Grigory Safras, who killed an Afghan soldier for the sake of this.

Soon the rumor about the unprecedented beauty of the diamond spread throughout Europe. Catherine II also learned about this. She invited Safras to St. Petersburg (in Russia they called him "the millionaire Shafrasov"), where she brought him to her jeweler Ivan

Lazarevich Lazarev, an Armenian merchant from Astrakhan. But Safras flatly refused to sell his treasure, or rather, he beat an incredible price for it.

However, in his will, written on the eve of his departure from Russia in 1771, Safras appointed Johann Aghazar as his executor - this is the German spelling of the name of Ivan Lazarev.

The testament says that "on October 1, 1767, in an Amsterdam bank, he put a package with three seals on red wax, in which a diamond stone weighing 779 Dutch grams is located ...".

From that moment on, the stone began to be called "Amsterdam". And in 1773 Lazarev testified that "Grigory Safras sold me half of his one hundred and ninety-five carat diamond for 125,000 rubles ...". That, in turn, "sold the aforementioned diamond to the Most Serene Prince Orlov." The prince specially arrived in Amsterdam, met here with the Count Saint-Germain and, possibly, through his mediation, acquired the coveted diamond that the Russian empress dreamed of.

Orlov paid for the stone one and a half million florins, that is, four hundred thousand rubles, and on the day of the angel Catherine presented her with a diamond. In November 1773, the Prussian envoy reported to King Frederick: “Today, Prince G. Orlov in Tsarskoe Selo presented the empress with a diamond instead of a bouquet, which he bought for 400,000 rubles from banker Lazarev. This stone was exhibited at the court that day. " The Empress ordered to insert the diamond, henceforth called "Orlov", into the sovereign scepter of the Russian Empire.

There is, however, another version of the purchase of this diamond. Allegedly, there is a document signed by Orlov and Lazarev, which paints a completely different picture of the acquisition of this stone. According to this version, Orlov allegedly performed only the role of an intermediary in the transaction and Catherine II herself bought this diamond.

As for the role of Saint-Germain in this story, then, we repeat, there is only indirect evidence of this. But the fact remains that the count "was a friend and confidant of Orlov", helped him in St. Petersburg on the eve of the coup of 1762 and even Orlov paid large sums of money to his "dear father" for predicting the future victories of Catherine II and for helping her ascend to the throne in Russia. throne. The friendship between Orlov and Saint-Germain survived for years and continued in Amsterdam, where the famous diamond was bought.

Another story is connected with the influence of Saint-Germain in Russia. Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" tells about the French queen's card game, during which one Russian countess lost to the ground. And this was a genuine case. The grandson of this "Moscow Venus" told Pushkin about him. Her name was Princess Natalia Petrovna Golitsyna. In her youth, she visited the French court. So, having lost then in Paris, she, according to the princess's grandson, decided to resort to the help of the mysterious and wealthy Count Saint-Germain. It is not known exactly what happened between him and the Russian princess, although the grandson claimed that his grandmother loved the count without memory and was angry if they spoke of him with disrespect. One way or another, she found it possible to turn to the count, knowing that he had a lot of money. I wrote him a note and asked him to come to her immediately. The Comte Saint-Germain appeared at once, and she said that she hoped for his friendship and kindness and that he would help her with the necessary amount. “I can serve you with this sum,” he said, “but I know that you will not be calm until you pay me off, and I would not want to introduce you to new troubles. There is another remedy: you can win back. " "But, my dear count," answered the grandmother, "I tell you that we have no money at all." “Money is not needed here,” said Saint-Germain. "Please listen to me." Then he revealed to her a secret, for which everyone would give dearly ... ”Saint-Germain named the princess three cards, betting on which she would certainly win back.

Many years later, the grandson of the princess, Golitsyn, told Pushkin that since he lost and came to his grandmother to ask for money. She did not give him money, but said three cards assigned to her in Paris by Saint-Germain.

Try it, ”Grandma said.

The grandson bet his cards and won back.

The further development of Pushkin's story is all fictitious. So, under the pen of Pushkin, the family tradition turned into a brilliant literary work.

All researchers agree that Pushkin used the story of a true case. Saint-Germain was indeed in Paris from the beginning of 1770 to 1774 and could well have met the Russian princess who was there. He is also accurate in describing the appearance of the Count Saint-Germain and the princess herself, who served as the prototype for his heroine with her amazing story.

Little is known about the death of Count Saint-Germain. Landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel, with whom Saint-Germain lived in the last years before his death, testified that the count died in his palace on February 27, 1784. There is an entry about this in the church book of the city of Eckernförd, as well as that on March 2 he was buried here without publicity.

However, contemporaries doubted that it was so and that the mysterious magician and wizard died as a mere mortal. MP Hall writes: "The strange circumstances surrounding his departure lead us to suspect that his funeral was fictitious," that "absolute obscurity surrounded his last days, and that the announcement of his death can never be trusted."

HP Blavatsky was even more definite. She notes: “Isn't it ridiculous to suppose that if he really died at the specified time in the specified place, then he was laid in the ground without the pomp and ceremony, official supervision and police registration that accompany the funeral of people of his rank and fame? Where is this information? Not a single memoir contains them, although he left the public eye more than a hundred years ago. A person living in the bright light of full public illumination could not disappear, unless he really died there and then, and leave no trace behind. Moreover, to this negative, we have reliable positive evidence that he lived for several more years after 1784. They say that in 1785 or 1786 he had the most important confidential meeting with the Russian empress ... "In one of his prophecies, which is believed to date back to 1789-1790, Saint Germain predicted:" I am leaving. We'll see each other someday. I am very much needed now in Constantinople. Then I will go to England, where I have to prepare two inventions that you will hear about in the next century. We are talking about trains and steamers. They will be needed in Germany. Later, there will be successive shifts in the seasons, especially bright changes await first spring, and then summer. All these are signs of the approaching end of time, the completion of the cycle. I can see it all. Trust me, astrologers and meteorologists know nothing. In order to have true knowledge, one must learn from the Pyramids. By the end of this century, I will disappear from Europe and go to the Himalayas. I need to rest. And I must find peace. Exactly 85 years later, I will again appear before people. Farewell. May my love be with you. "

In 1785, that is, a year after the official death of Saint-Germain, he was seen at the Masonic Assembly in Wilhelmsbad among such famous personalities as Cagliostro, Saint-Martin and Mesmer. We saw him in subsequent years. An anonymous author wrote: “I strongly believe that the Comte Saint-Germain is not dead. His enemies must have spread this rumor, and the old man wanders somewhere among the shadows, that is, among us. I would not even venture to bet - ten to one, that at this time the esteemed count is not imprisoned in some Bastille. "

In a word, contemporaries were convinced that the Comte Saint-Germain had not died, and that the message about his death was false. And back in the 1790s, there was news that the real Count Saint-Germain "is now alive and well."

One hundred years later, books about Saint-Germain began to appear, in particular the famous "Cases from the Life of the Count of Saint-Germain" by Mrs. Cooper-Oakley. She wrote: “The Comte Saint-Germain was the messenger of the higher beings ruling humanity in order to try to change the state of society in the 18th century and to give what was lacking for the encyclopedists and their school: a basis on which ideas and the laws. Saint-Germain tried in vain to influence the representatives of the privileged classes and monarchical power, in order to get them to make concessions and reforms that would not allow popular passions to explode. He failed to fulfill his mission, and he disappeared without a trace ... This attempt failed, but Count Saint-Germain nevertheless continues his work, and he will speak openly as soon as he deems it necessary, namely, in our era ... "

It was written a hundred years ago, at the very end of the 19th century. Interest in the mysterious count was reawakened. The Theosophical Society, which emerged in those years, and its founder, H.P. Blavatsky, proclaimed Saint Germain as their predecessor. (About Blavatsky herself they said that "she was Saint-Germain of the XIX century.") And more and more often they recalled the words of Voltaire about Saint-Germain that "this man is immortal." His unprecedented longevity already in our century was explained by the fact that "his powerful abilities allowed him to save the most natural prana."

He appeared in various incarnations, he was seen here and there. Thus, theosophist CW Leadbeater claimed to have seen this Eastern adept in 1926: “I met him under the most ordinary circumstances, without prior agreement, as if by accident, walking down Boulevard Corso in Rome. He was dressed like any Italian gentleman he saw. He took me to the garden on the Pincio hill, we sat down and talked for more than an hour about society and its future, or rather, he talked, and I listened to him and answered only when he asked questions. "

In 1935, in Chicago, Saint-Germain Press published a book by C. W. Ballard, "Mysteries Unveiled." In the preface, the author claims that the book was published under the direction of the Comte Saint-Germain, who has been in America since 1930. The graph is spoken of as a supposedly real person, with whom the author allegedly visited several temples in the Sahara. Journalist G. Smith conducted an investigation of everything the author writes about, and found that "this whole story is just fiction and deception." Despite this, in the USA in the 30s of the XX century, a sect of ballardists emerged, who revere Saint Germain on an equal basis with Jesus Christ.

According to the historian EB Chernyak, contemporaries who witnessed many seemingly inexplicable actions and deeds of Saint-Germain laid the first foundations of the fairy tale into which the stories about his life turned. Back in the middle of the 19th century, Emperor Napoleon III ordered to collect everything that was preserved in the state archives about Saint Germain. But then the Franco-Prussian war broke out, the siege of Paris began, and the building where the documents were kept burned down. The mystery became even more impenetrable, and the personality of the count even more mysterious. In addition to Ballard, many writers have used this. Books and articles about Saint-Germain came out one after another.

It seems that the legend has bewitched everyone who in one way or another touched the secret of Saint-Germain's life, giving rise to many of the most incredible fictions. But there is no doubt that legends do not arise from scratch. There were, therefore, reasons, says P. Shakornak, to consider the count a great mystic and magician. “We must assume,” he writes, “that contemporaries knew things that we do not know and that are precisely of such a nature that they do not leave traces perceptible to the historian.”

Count Saint Germain. No one knew exactly where and when the radiant count was born, which made it easy for him to talk about his meetings with celebrities who died hundreds, if not thousands of years ago. The count was fluent in German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and knew oriental languages, so it was completely impossible to establish which one was native to him.

His colorful stories about exotic countries simply amazed the listeners. It is not surprising that the count aroused extreme curiosity and many tried to find out his ins and outs by bribing the servants.

The old servant took the offered money, but said that he knew nothing about the count's pedigree and his past, since he had been serving with him for only… 300 years!

After such an answer, those around him decided that the Comte Saint Germain knew the secret of making the elixir of immortality. And soon there were witnesses who claimed that they had seen the count decades ago, and since then he has not changed at all.

In historical documents, the name of the Comte de Saint-Germain was first mentioned in 1745, when he, who had already lived in England for two years, was arrested for bringing letters in support of the Stuarts. After the suppression of the Jacobin rebellion in this country, foreigners were mistrustful, especially those who poked their noses into its internal affairs. The Count Saint Germain spent several weeks under house arrest; he was interrogated, but only two circumstances were found out:

he lives under a false name and does not want to have any dealings with women.

In 1746 the Count Saint Germain left London and disappeared for twelve years. There is no mention of where he spent these years; presumably studied alchemy in Germany or traveled to India and Tibet.

In France, they did not really know anything about the Count Saint Germain, there were only rumors that he was very rich and had phenomenal abilities. And soon Louis XV received a mysterious letter from the Count. Count Saint Germain wrote that "the king may need him and for some reason - about which there is no time to talk about - he could help him."

The all-powerful monarch was extremely intrigued by how this strange man, whom many called an adventurer and a crook, could help him. Despite the negative attitude of his entourage towards Saint Germain, Louis XV invited the count to France and even provided him with the Chambord castle, and in return the Count Saint Germain promised Louis to do everything for his prosperity.

In early 1758, Count Saint Germain arrived in France. At Chambord Castle, he housed a laboratory, assistants and workers.

True, he himself preferred to spend time not at smelting furnaces and chemical retorts, but in the salons of the French nobility. The count dressed beautifully, large diamonds glittered on the buttons of his camisole and on the buckles of his shoes, and his little finger was adorned with a diamond ring, which he used to rotate.

He looked forty or fifty years old, exactly the same as twelve years ago in England: time seemed to have stopped for him ...

The old Countess de Cergy recognized him as a man whom she had met in Venice fifty years ago ... The lady swore that since then he has not changed at all!

Count Saint Germain did not refute the rumors of his immortality and even skillfully fueled them. He played the violin superbly, understood the intricacies of political intrigue and owned a rich collection of precious stones. His influence and popularity grew day by day.

The most beautiful socialites dreamed of an affair with him, but he skillfully avoided the traps they had set, remaining unattainable.

In May 1758, at a dinner with the Marquise of Durfe, Saint-Germain met with Casanova, about which the latter wrote in his Memoirs:

« Count Saint Germain wanted to seem extraordinary, to amaze everyone, and often he succeeded. His tone was very confident, but so thoughtful that it did not cause irritation. "

The king of France dreamed of using the count's knowledge for his own purposes, for example, to learn the secret of turning various metals into gold. In addition, Louis, constantly afraid of being poisoned, was extremely interested in whether there was a universal antidote.

Count Saint Germain did not give direct answers to the king's questions, but encouraged him, promising to do everything possible for the welfare of his royal patron.

Soon, Louis XV was actually convinced of the talents of Saint-Germain. He complained to the count that his diamond had a noticeable defect - a large stain. A few days later Saint-Germain returned it completely transparent. It is unknown how he managed to fix the defect. Experts are sure that he simply cut the exact same diamond.

After that, Louis finally believed in the ability of Saint-Germain, and he became his man at court. Of course, not everyone liked it. The first minister of the king, the powerful Duke of Choiseul, especially disliked the count. He constantly repeated to the monarch that Saint-Germain was a rogue and he should either be put in the Bastille or expelled from the country.

Once Louis drank a goblet of wine on a falconry and lay down with severe cuts in his stomach. He ordered to call the count to him. He came to Louis' chambers immediately, recalled that at one time he wrote that he would definitely come in handy to the king.

Comte Saint Germain examined the palate and tongue of the patient and demanded goat's milk. After stirring the powders in it, he gave the potion to the weakening Louis to drink, and soon he calmly fell asleep.

The count not only saved the king, but also pointed to the poisoner - the Duke of Choiseul, although Louis did not believe him. Saint Germain reassured the king that there would be no more assassination attempts and he would die a natural death. The French monarch was delighted at this news, but refused to know the day and hour of his death.

By the way, Count Saint Germain could actually name the day and hour of the death of the French king: he became famous for very accurate predictions. It was rumored that he owed this phenomenal ability to a magic mirror, in which one could supposedly see future events, the fate of people and states.

If you believe the legends, the magic mirror once belonged to Nostradamus and it was with its help that he was known as the greatest predictor. Catherine de Medici also wrote about its existence in her diary. When Nostradamus showed her this magic item, she saw in it the bloody events of St. Bartholomew's Night and the death of Henry III.

Whether Comte Saint Germain possessed a mysterious mirror or was simply a talented clairvoyant is unknown, but his prophecies did come true.

The ability of the mysterious count to predict events, his knowledge of poisons and antidotes attracted the close attention of the king's favorite, the Marquise de Pompadour. Deciding that such a knowledgeable person would be extremely useful to her, the Marquise decided to "tame" him.

Realizing that he does not need money and positions, and that nothing can be intimidated him, she decided to use her spell. Pompadour knew that all the attempts of secular beauties to seduce the count ended in failure, so she was driven by excitement - to do what others had failed.

The favorite invited the count to her place, citing illness. However, Saint-Germain seemed to read her thoughts and behaved with a coquette rather impudently. To begin with, he stated that the cause of the malaise was in overeating, then he reproached him with senseless hatred of Queen Mary, and in the end he named the exact date of her death.

Needless to say, after such a "sincere" communication, the Marquis de Pompadour became Saint-Germain's worst enemy.

She even tried to plant him in the Bastille, but Louis defended his savior, refusing to comply with the insistent request of the favorite. Then Pompadour, together with Choiseul, developed an insidious plan, advising the king to send Saint-Germain to negotiations in The Hague.

He skillfully defended the interests of France, but was soon arrested on charges of plotting the assassination of Queen Mary, wife of Louis XV. The reason was a letter that Saint-Germain allegedly dropped, in which he outlined this insidious plan.

The letter, no doubt, was a fake, but before the circumstances were clarified, the count was thrown into a Dutch prison, from where he, of course, fled.

But how did Count Saint Germain, who was able to foresee events, let himself be lured into a trap? Most likely, he knew that everything would end happily, and used this story to simply leave France, where he had stayed for too long.

After that, Saint Germain was seen in England, Italy, Saxony, Prussia and even in Russia on the eve of the coup of 1762, when Catherine II came to power. It is possible that the count was directly related to this.

In any case, there are references to Saint-Germain's meeting with Alexei Orlov. And one German, who was serving in Russia at that time, wrote in his memoirs that one day a drunken Grigory Orlov told him about the true spring of the coup:

"If it weren't for Count Saint Germain, nothing would have happened ..."

In 1766, Saint-Germain took refuge with the Prussian king Frederick II, but the next year he moved to the Prince of Hesse, in Gottorp in the Baltic. According to the prince, Saint-Germain died in 1784, he was ninety-three years old, although he did not look older than sixty. Rumors soon spread that the "deceased" was at a Masonic congress in 1785, and Marie-Antoinette claimed that Count Saint Germain had warned her several months in advance of the imminent revolution.

The Count was seen in 1788, 1793, 1814. Then everyone who knew him from the turbulent 18th century left this world. True, sometimes crooks appeared who tried to use the count's name for personal purposes, but they had nothing to do with Saint-Germain.

Who was the mysterious count really? Helena Blavatsky wrote:

“Saint Germain was certainly the greatest Eastern Adept that Europe has seen in recent centuries. But Europe did not recognize him. "

Who knows, maybe Saint-Germain still wanders the world incognito, secretly influencing the course of history?

Cagliostro was a braggart, but Count Saint-Germain was not a braggart, and when he claimed to have learned the chemical secrets of the Egyptians, he was not exaggerating. But when he mentioned such episodes, no one believed him, and he, out of politeness to his interlocutors, pretended to be joking.

Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"

Almost every person who has left a mark on history is surrounded by some kind of mystery. And one of the most mysterious people of all time was the person whom contemporaries knew under the name of Count Saint-Germain.

The 18th century is an era of great events and dramatic plots, which has remained in the memory of mankind as the "Age of Enlightenment". Newton, Harvey and Leeuwenhoek, Swedenborg and Chastagnier, d'Alembert, Diderot and Voltaire - naturalists, mystics and philosophers - by their actions shattered the usual ideas about God and the world around man. European society was seized by a powerful desire to learn the secrets of physical and spiritual life.

The ferment of minds has become a breeding ground for adventurers. Self-styled prophets and healers, political crooks, greedy criminals, cunning swindlers, sexual perverts, mystics, freemasons and revolutionaries ... Potemkin and Pugachev, Princess Tarakanova and Cartouche, Marquis de Sade and Casanova, and many, many others. Finally, two of the most illustrious personalities, whose names have become the trademark of the century - two falsegraffs, "great wizards" who supposedly comprehend all the secrets of the Universe, Cagliostro and Saint Germain. The secret of the latter remained unsolved. Still…

Cagliostro: an imaginary magician and an exposed con man

Cagliostro is Saint-Germain's most famous plagiarist.

With Cagliostro everything is clear. His real name is Giuseppe Balsamo, he was born around 1743 in Palermo in the family of a cloth merchant. From an early age, he was distinguished by an addiction to fraud. After spending his youth in the East, where he mastered the art of a healer, gained knowledge in chemistry and picked up magic-alchemical jargon, Balsamo, under the name of Count Cagliostro, began to demonstrate his talents in high European society.

He had particular success in Paris, successfully huddled London, the German principalities, even visited Russia, where, however, he was not too lucky. According to legend, the imaginary count possessed the secret of the philosopher's stone, a substance with which it was possible to turn base metals into gold and prepare an elixir of immortality.

However, the clever adventurer constantly needed gold, and his activity ended with participation in the theft of the royal necklace. And he also failed to gain immortality. Falling into the clutches of the Inquisition, Balsamo died in 1795 in the dungeon of the castle of Saint Leo, where he was imprisoned as a heretic and a deceiver.

Saint Germain is another matter entirely.

Saint-Germain: the international man of mystery

You have heard of the Comte Saint-Germain, about whom so many wonderful things are told. You know that he posed as an eternal Jew, the inventor of the life elixir and the philosopher's stone, and so on. They laughed at him as if he were a charlatan, and Casanova in his Notes says that he was a spy; however, Saint-Germain, in spite of his secrecy, had a very respectable appearance and was very amiable in society.

So it is written in Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" - after all, it was Saint-Germain who told Natalya Golitsyna, who served as a prototype for the old countess, the fatal secret of the three cards.

Lifetime portrait of Saint-Germain.

He showed up suddenly, with no past, it seemed. When asked direct questions about his origin, he usually silently and mysteriously smiled. He traveled under different names, but most often called himself Comte de Saint-Germain, although he did not have any legal rights to this title, under which he was known in Berlin, London, The Hague, St. Petersburg and Paris. Despite his dark origins and mysterious past, he quickly became his man in high society in Paris and at the court of King Louis XV. However, this is not so surprising - it was very fashionable to travel incognito in those days (remember, for example, the scorer “Pyotr Mikhailov” or Pavel Petrovich, “Count of the North”).

In appearance, he was a rather graceful man of average height and age, somewhere between 40 and 50 years, and for several decades, while he traveled around Europe, his appearance did not change. Swarthy, with regular features, his face bore the imprint of extraordinary intelligence.
Saint-Germain did not at all resemble the typical adventurer of the time that Cagliostro was.

First, Saint-Germain did not need money and led a luxurious lifestyle. He had an obvious weakness for precious stones and, although he dressed very simply, in everything dark, his closet was always adorned with a lot of diamonds. In addition, the count carried with him a small box, chock-full of fine jewelry, which he willingly displayed (although it may have been skillfully crafted rhinestones). The source of his wealth remained unknown.

Secondly, Saint-Germain was distinguished by excellent manners and was impeccably brought up. Cagliostro, posing as an aristocrat, behaved rudely in society and looked like an upstart. And Saint-Germain was clearly a man of the world. He behaved with the same dignity both with kings, and with representatives of the aristocracy, and with people of science, and, finally, with the common people.

Thirdly, Saint-Germain was brilliantly educated and fluent in all major European languages. With the French, English, Italians, Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, he spoke in their dialects, and so that they took him for a compatriot. Cagliostro, in all the languages ​​that he spoke, spoke equally badly, with a monstrous Sicilian accent. And Saint-Germain, in addition to the aforementioned, knew perfectly well the Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian languages.

He was an excellent musician, played excellent violin, harp and guitar, sang very well. He is known to have written several small operas and pieces of music. In general, he was a fan of many arts, especially painting, painted pretty decently (and his paintings glowed in the dark).

Louis XV loved women and other people's secrets.

Saint-Germain was also interested in natural sciences, for example, chemistry. However, the alchemists have always had a good understanding of it. It was rumored that Saint-Germain possessed the secret of "growing" precious stones. So, in 1757, the count took from Louis XV a large diamond with a crack that significantly reduced its value, and after a couple of days he returned the stone without any flaw, which doubled its value. However, it is possible that Saint-Germain simply replaced the diamond with a similar stone in order to enter into the mercy of the French monarch. Although he repeated this trick several times and with different people, you cannot save enough for all the diamonds ...

History was Saint-Germain's true hobbyhorse. He told about the reign of some Francis I or Louis XIV, scrupulously describing the appearance of kings and courtiers, imitating voices, accents, manners, treating those present with vivid descriptions of actions, places and persons. He never claimed to be an eyewitness to long-standing events, but that was the impression he had on his listeners.

Although the count preferred not to talk about himself, sometimes, as if by chance, he "let slip" that he allegedly had to talk with ancient philosophers or rulers. “I always told Christ that he would end badly,” is the most famous of these slips of the tongue. Having said something like that, he then recalled himself as a person who blurted out too much.

Sometimes the appearance of the count confused the elderly aristocrats, who suddenly remembered that they had already met this person - a long time ago, in childhood or adolescence, in the secular salons of the times of the Sun King. And since then he has not changed at all.

Legends of Saint Germain

All sorts of fables circulated about him. It was rumored that he was 500 years old, that he had learned the secret of the philosopher's stone. A popular definition has become "the mirror of Saint-Germain" - a kind of magical artifact in which you can see the events of the future. In it, the count allegedly showed Louis XV the fate of his offspring, and the king almost fainted from horror when he saw the Dauphin's grandson beheaded.

In the archives of the Inquisition, the story of his visit to Saint Germain, recorded from the words of Cagliostro, has been preserved. The adventurer met with Saint-Germain in Holstein, where he was allegedly initiated by the count into the highest mystical degrees of the Knights Templar. During the dedication, the guest noticed the notorious mirror. He also claimed to have seen the vessel in which the count kept his elixir of immortality.

Casanova, in his memoirs, describes a meeting with Saint-Germain, whom he attended on the French Tour. According to him, the count looked like a true sorcerer - in a strange oriental dress, with a long, waist-length beard and an ivory wand in his hand, surrounded by a battery of crucibles and vessels of a mysterious appearance. Taking a copper 12 sous coin from Casanova, Saint-Germain put it in a special hearth and performed some manipulations on it. The coin melted, and after it cooled down, the count returned it to the guest.

"But this is the purest gold!" - Casanova exclaimed in amazement, who, nevertheless, suspected some trick in this action. However, he put the coin in his pocket and subsequently presented it to the Dutch Marshal Keith.

The story about the servant of Saint-Germain became widespread, who was asked whether it was true that his master had met with Julius Caesar (option - Christ), to which the lackey allegedly replied: “Excuse me, but I am in the service of the lord of the Count of all only three hundred years. " Subsequently, Cagliostro chipped off the same jokes.

True, a number of incredible stories associated with the name of Saint-Germain may be the fruit of "collective creativity", since there are known cases of the existence of several counterparts of the count, apparently - ordinary swindlers. The most celebrated of these was the type who called himself Lord Gower in Paris in the 1760s. This adventurer was very fond of talking about his encounters with various Christian saints.

Figaro is here, Figaro is there

Often Saint-Germain left France, which became his headquarters, and flickered in various European capitals under different names. Italy, Holland, England, Germanic principalities - here and there appeared and disappeared the Italian Marquis of Montferra, the Spaniard Count Bellamar, the Portuguese Marquis d'Aymar, the German cavalier von Schoening, the Englishman Lord Weldon, the Russian Count Soltykov, the Hungarian Count Tsaroki, the French de Saint-Noel ... If there were no testimonies of those who personally knew this man, one would really think that this entire aristocratic crowd is separate people.

Many considered Saint-Germain a spy, more precisely, a "free agent" who carried out delicate orders of European monarchs for money. The count could be an unofficial diplomatic courier or an intermediary in secret negotiations - hence, they say, and incomprehensible, but clearly solid income. Well, this version is quite reasonable, although it does not explain many of the mysteries associated with the name of Saint-Germain. Sometimes the count was arrested (for example, in 1743 in England as a Jacobite spy), but he was always released with an apology.

In 1755 Saint Germain appears to have traveled to India, where he accompanied another famous adventurer, General Robert Clive, who laid the foundation for British hegemony in the region. Then the count returns to Paris, where he is so into the mercy of Louis XV that he gives his new favorite the castle of Chambord for engaging in alchemical experiments.

However, in 1760 the count left France for a long time, having quarreled with the king. They even wanted to throw him into the Bastille, either because of the story with the royal diamond, which Saint-Germain supposedly had to sell in The Hague, and that turned out to be fake, or because of intrigues associated with secret diplomacy (the Seven Years' War was going on and, perhaps our hero was an intermediary in secret negotiations with Prussia). In the spring of the same year, Saint-Germain was announced in the English capital, as reported by the London Chronicle in extremely respectful terms.

After a while, the graph disappears from sight again. According to one version, Saint-Germain visited Russia, where he took an active part in preparing the coup of 1762, which brought Catherine II to power. True, the participants in these events did not leave any documentary evidence of the Count's Russian voyage - there is only indirect evidence.

Thus, the story of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, with whom Saint-Germain stayed for some time, has been preserved. The German witnessed a very warm meeting of his guest with Count Alexei Orlov-Chesmensky in Nuremberg in 1774. Moreover, Orlov warmly embraced Saint-Germain, who arrived at the meeting dressed in the uniform of a Russian general (!), Called him caro padre ("dear father") , and after a joint dinner he retired for a long time in his office for an important conversation.

There is also evidence of another German who served for some time in the Russian Guard, and then wrote his memoirs (at that time there was such a useful fashion for modern historians - to sprinkle memories on any occasion). Once this landsknecht played billiards with another Orlov, the tsar's favorite Gregory, who, talking about the coup of 1762, allegedly mentioned the role of Saint Germain in the following expressions: "If it weren't for him, then nothing would have happened."

Catherine II was enthroned by the Orlov brothers. Maybe Saint-Germain?

Saint-Germain circled Europe for a long time, and around 1770 again found himself in Paris, but four years later, after the death of Louis XV, the count leaves France and leaves for Germany.

But then he seemed to split in two. One Saint-Germain lives with the Landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel, a passionate admirer of alchemy and the secret sciences, who has become a devoted admirer of our hero since the time they met in Italy. Then he travels to Eckernforn, in Holstein, where he dies, according to an entry in the church book, on February 27, 1784. The funeral took place on March 2, however, the place of burial is unknown.

And the other Saint-Germain first retired to Schleswig-Holstein, spent several years there all alone in the castle that belonged to him, and only then went to Kassel, where he also died, but allegedly already in 1795 (the grave also does not exist). Or maybe he didn't die at all?

The posthumous life of Saint Germain

The strange death of this curious subject could not but arouse rumors. 1784 is often referred to as the year of Saint-Germain's death. However, there is evidence of people who met Saint-Germain after his official death. True, a significant confusion in the dates of death can play a certain role here: more than 10 years is a considerable period ... And if a person who personally knew Saint-Germain found out from the newspapers about his death, and then met the count healthy, this could not but give rise to new legends ...

So, in 1785, a meeting of the Freemasons took place in Paris. A list of participants has survived, among which is the name of Saint-Germain. There are indirect rumors that he allegedly saw Catherine II in St. Petersburg in 1785 or 1786. In 1788, the French envoy to Venice, Comte de Chalon, encountered an alleged dead man in the square of St. Mark and had a short conversation with him. In 1793, in Paris, shortly before his death, the Count was allegedly seen by Princess de Lamballe and Jeanne Dubarry (however, these "testimonies" are especially doubtful - any nonsense can be attributed to the victims brutally killed during the Jacobin terror).

In 1814, an elderly aristocrat Madame de Jeanlisse, who knew Saint-Germain well in her youth, met him in the Austrian capital, where the famous Congress of Vienna was taking place at that time (according to another version, this meeting happened there even later - in 1821). The count, as usual, did not change at all, but when the elderly lady rushed to him with hugs and questions, he, keeping the same courtesy, retired after a few minutes. Of course, it could just be a Saint-Germain-like person who, out of politeness, did not want to upset the decrepit lady.

When no one of the witnesses of Saint-Germain's deeds survived, the mysterious Count was allegedly met in Paris by the Briton Albert Vandam - this time under the name of the English Major Fraser (he, they say, was very similar to the surviving portraits of our hero and was also distinguished by many talents ). There is "evidence" of the appearance of Saint-Germain in the French capital in 1934 and 1939. True, these statements are already difficult to take seriously.

Investigation into the Saint-Germain case

Assessments of Saint-Germain's personality are polar opposite. Most historians consider him a fraud - a kind of talented Ostap Bender of the 18th century, who successfully speculated on human ignorance and gullibility. The other extreme is the point of view of adherents of Theosophy, as well as mystical Masons and Rosicrucians. Some of them call Saint Germain the owner of the elixir of immortality, a sage who has learned the secret of the philosopher's stone. Others consider him the Great Teacher, the founder of the Theosophical movement, who was reborn many times.

Echoes of the Paris Commune

There are many books devoted to Saint-Germain, both enthusiastic-idealistic eulogies and relatively objective studies. A lot of memoir literature has survived, the authors of which either personally met with Saint-Germain, or contacted other people who knew him. However, very few original documents that belonged to the mysterious man or are directly related to his name have survived to this day. The events of turbulent French history played their dark role.

In 1871, during the days of the Paris Commune, a fire broke out in the building of the city police prefecture. The saddest thing is that the library burned down, in which a whole room was set aside for things and documents associated with the name of Saint-Germain. For more than 20 years, this collection was collected on the personal instructions of the Emperor Napoleon III; a number of unique sources were kept there, which were available in a single copy: documentary evidence and diaries of the contemporaries of the pseudo-graph, his letters and personal belongings. Most of them, alas, never fell into the hands of historians.

Extremely "reliable" sources

But there are still different memoirs? Unfortunately, many of them look more like science fiction novels than eyewitness accounts.

One of the main sources about the French period is the "Memoirs" of the Countess d'Ademar, who was for a long time the maid of honor of Queen Marie Antoinette. After the revolution, she emigrated and, wandering around Europe, ended up in Russia. There, in Odessa, in the summer of 1822, she died, already at a very old age. Among the few things of the deceased was the greasy manuscript of her memoirs, which were published in 1836 under the editorship of Baron de Lamotte-Langon.

This book contains a lot of interesting information about Saint-Germain, and there is information that does not find confirmation in any other sources. For example, about Saint-Germain's secret meeting with Marie-Antunetta, during which the count allegedly warned about the dangers of the coming revolution 12 years before the taking of the Bastille! D'Ademar also writes about his meeting with Saint-Germain in 1788, 4 years after his official death.

One could admire such a unique document, if not for a significant "but" ... In the later entries of the diary, there are passages that are practically impossible to explain otherwise than the senile marasmus of a poor emigrant. So, d'Ademar claims that she saw Saint-Germain at various dramatic moments in French history - on the day of the execution of Marie-Antoinette, on the eve of the coup of 18 Brumaire, the day after the execution of the Duke of Enghien and on the eve of the assassination of the Duke of Berry (and this, by the way , already 1820). Such mysticism smells too much of a Gothic novel ... In addition, a number of historians generally doubt the authenticity of the Countess d'Ademar's diaries, attributing their authorship to the book's editor Lamotte-Langon.

Listen to Marie-Antoinette to Saint-Germain's advice, you see, and you would have kept her head on her shoulders ...

The story of Madame de Jeanlisse can easily be ranked as baseless fantasies - you never know what the old woman could have imagined! I'm not talking about the stories about the appearance of Saint Germain in the middle of the 19th or in the 30s of the last century ... Besides, why not assume that we are talking simply about regular adventurers who decided to warm their hands on the glory of their great predecessor ?

Masks show

One of the most important mysteries associated with Saint Germain is the secret of his true name and origin. The imaginary count changed his guises so often that historians still cannot conclusively determine who was hiding under numerous masks, which can be divided into two groups - fantastic and realistic.

The first mask. Great teacher

Theosophists and mystics of all stripes consider Saint Germain to be a kind of prophet - a sage from Shambhala, the Great Eastern Adept, the founder of the Temple of the New Age. For example, Helena Blavatsky called the count "the secret ruler of Tibet." And Helena Roerich asserted: "Saint-Germain led the revolution in order to renew minds through it and create the unity of Europe." Theosophists sincerely believe that Saint Germain, along with two other Great Himalayan Masters, is at the forefront of the International Theosophical Society. There is a famous painting by American Paul Kogan, in which Blavatsky is depicted surrounded by these same Teachers.

The famous theosophist Charles Leadbeater, in his book Life Hidden in Freemasonry, claims that Saint Germain was reborn many times. For the first time he was allegedly born in the 3rd century in British Verulam under the name of Albanus, who was executed during the persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian and subsequently canonized. Among the reincarnations of Albanus are the scientist-monk Roger Bacon, the founder of the secret order Christian Rosenkreuz, the great Hungarian commander Janos Hunyadi, the scientist and statesman Francis Bacon, and, finally, the Transylvanian prince Ferenc II Rakoczi. And there it is already a stone's throw to Saint-Germain.

Be that as it may, Saint-Germain may have attained the highest Masonic degrees of initiation in a number of lodges in France, England, Germany and Russia. Perhaps it was from the Masonic bins that the restless count drew his financial reserves? However, there were also other opinions. So, the great master of the Prussian lodge, Prince Friedrich-August of Braunschweig, like another prominent free mason, the Prussian king Frederick II, did not recognize Saint-Germain as a Freemason, calling him a charlatan and impostor.

Heirs of Saint Germain

Theosophists regard Saint Germain as their mentor. Theosophy (from the Greek theos, "god", and sophia, "wisdom"), a cross between science and religious teaching, tries to find an explanation of the origins and meaning of life. Theosophical ideas can be found in the writings of ancient philosophers (for example, Plato), among Christian Gnostics, and in the sacred literature of Egypt, China and India.

The revival of ancient Theosophical ideas in our time was associated with the establishment in 1875 of the Theosophical Society. At first small, the society today has tens of thousands of members in more than 50 countries around the world, headquartered in Adyar (Madras State, India). The main theosophical work is considered the "Secret Doctrine" by Helena Blavatsky (1888). The declared goals of the society: to create the nucleus of a worldwide brotherhood of people without distinction of race, faith, sex, caste or skin color; to encourage research in comparative religion, philosophy and natural science; study the unknown laws of nature and the hidden abilities of man.

The second mask. Eternal Jew

In a pamphlet published in 1602 in Leiden, the Bishop of Schleswig Paul von Eisen stated that he had met a Jew named Agasfer, who considered himself the Eternal Jew. This mysterious man revealed his mission to the bishop: he must remind people of their sins before the second coming of Christ. History is firmly entrenched in European folklore.

The centuries passed, and the myth of the Eternal Jew acquired new details. Allegedly, Ahasuerus rudely reviled Christ when he dragged his cross to Golgotha, for which, they say, the Son of God and doomed the revolting Jew to eternal wanderings in search of repentance. And many quite seriously considered Saint-Germain to be either Ahasuerus himself or his incarnation.

It is clear that the fantastic explanations for Saint-Germain's mystery have no real evidence. Yes, they, in principle, are not needed. It's all about faith ... However, the so-called realistic versions, as a rule, cannot boast of documentary evidence.

The third mask. Hungarian prince

The most serious version of Saint-Germain's origin is based on his personal confession, made in a conversation with Karl of Hesse-Kassel, Saint-Germain allegedly declared that he was the firstborn of the Transylvanian prince Ferenc II Rákóczi and his wife Countess Tekeli. As an infant, he was allegedly placed in the care of the last of the Medici family. And when he grew up and learned that his two brothers received titles with the prefix "Saint-", he decided to take the name Saint-Germain (from the name of the Italian town of San Germano, where he grew up).

The "Hungarian" version explains many of Saint-Germain's mysteries - his secular gloss, education, wealth. However, when studying the genealogical tree of the Rakoczi family, it turns out that Ferenc II was never married to Countess Tekeli, and his eldest son from the Princess of Hesse-Rheinfeld Leopold-Georg, born May 16, 1696, died at the age of four.

Although the death of the baby could be imaginary. For example, a child, a potential heir to the family, was specially taken abroad for dynastic reasons (and not in vain, because two other sons of Ferenc II ended up being hostages of the Habsburgs).

Perhaps the Landgrave simply mixed up the names or misunderstood Saint-Germain. It is unlikely that he was running on the heels of Hesse-Kassel, every minute saying: "And you know, I am the son of Ferenc Rakoczi!" There was only one conversation, and the German could easily get confused in the complex Hungarian names. But this is just an assumption ... There are other versions of the origin of Saint-Germain, but they all do not rise above the fortune-telling on the coffee grounds.

Saint Germain is a vampire

Surprisingly, the personality of the exposed con man Cagliostro turned out to be much more tempting for writers than the figure of Saint-Germain. However, there was an author who clothed with a violent imagination the avaricious flesh of historical facts. This is the American Chelsea Quinn Yarbrough, the creator of the multivolume cycle The Chronicles of Saint Germain, who turned the mysterious Count ... into a vampire, though quite peculiar. He is not afraid of sunlight and silver, not to mention garlic. And he doesn't need human blood too much - he feeds more on energy, some psychic emanations of other people. And all his free time Saint-Germain devotes to the fight against evil in all its manifestations. According to the genre of the book, Yarbrough is a hybrid of historical adventure, fantasy, mystical detective and love story.

To date, there are 16 novels and 1 collection in the cycle, the first three of which (Hotel Transylvania, The Bonfires of Tuscany and Bloody Games) have also been published in Russian (Mystica series, EKSMO publishing house).

The action takes place in different eras: in Paris in 1743, Saint-Germain fights with a sect of Satanists, in Renaissance Florence he confronts the fanatical Savonarola; tries to prevent World War I, wanders around 14th-century France during the plague epidemic, or travels to Ivan the Terrible's Russia as part of the Polish embassy. The stories about Saint-Germain are joined by the trilogy about his beloved Olivia Clemens.

Chelsea Queen Yarbrough turned Saint Germain into a vampire.

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Centuries have passed, and Saint-Germain is still more alive than many of the living. In the 30s of the last century, the ballardist sect, which still exists today, arose in the United States, who revere him on a par with Christ. And many mystics sincerely believe that the immortal count still wanders the sinful Earth, among us. Look around, maybe he is somewhere nearby ...

May 1 is known as Saint Germain Ascension Day. On this day, Saint Germain and the Violet Flame Legions unleash streams of Violet Flame on the Earth.

The Violet Flame is a perfect balance of the blue Flame of the Divine Will of our Father God and the pink Flame of the Divine Love of our Mother God.

Through the incredible work of the past few years, this year May 1st and the entire month of May, Saint Germain and his Legions of Light are blessing the Earth with unprecedented 5D frequencies of the Violet Flame.

In order for people to use this gift to manifest the Violet Flame on the physical plane, it must first pass through the Divinity of the Heart Flame of one who dwells on Earth.

Summon the violet flame

By the Beloved Presence of God, I AM, burning in my heart now, I invoke Beloved Saint Germain and ALL Legions of Light in all infinity interacting with the fifth dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame of God's Infinite Perfection.
Blessed ones, with my Heart Flame I invoke the most saturated frequencies of the Violet Flame, which the Cosmic Law will allow me, my Beloved and all Humanity.

Beloved I Am, shine, shine, shine with the full power of the Sacred Violet Flame in, through and around every electron of the priceless energy of Life that I have ever misjudged in any time or dimension, known or unknown. Transform the patterns of imperfection of cause, core, effect, recollection and memory into God's Infinite Perfection.
Beloved I Am, burn the fifth dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame in every thought, word, action or feeling I have ever expressed that reflect less than a Flawless Concept of my full Divine Potential.

Beloved I AM, look into my life now and see what else I need to balance about any person, place, condition or thing that I could harm at any time, in any way, for any reason.

Beloved I Am, stretch out your huge loving hands of Light to all positively definite energies that I have released during my Earth journey and manifest a thousand times as much perfection as I did wrong.

Create from this substance of perfection the Gift of Divine Love if you need to balance every debt that I have created and which still remains unpaid in any part of Life.

Beloved I AM, I ask you to forgive with the power of the Violet Flame every person, place, condition or thing that could harm me in any way, and to balance all the debts attributed to me by Life everywhere.

I accept that this Victoriously completed right here and right now by the Power of God I AM. And so it is.

More than 50 thousand years ago, fertile lands with a subtropical climate were located on the site of the Sahara desert, which became the cradle of the civilization of the golden age. Peace, happiness and prosperity reigned in that country, and it was ruled, wisely and justly, by none other than Saint Germain.

Most of his subjects could consciously and fully utilize the wisdom and power of God. The abilities they possessed would seem supernatural, magical today. People realized that they are an extension of the Central Sun - streams of Life emanating from the great Center of the spiritual-material cosmos.

On a huge fresco located in the center of the capital - the City of the Sun, at the direction of the wise ruler, the cosmic history of the people was symbolically depicted so that people would not forget either their Source or the purpose of their existence - to become solar centers in this distant galaxy, which they now called their home , become a continuation of the Law of One. For they were part of an expanding universe. And their sense of commensurability with the One supported the enduring awareness of I AM THAT I AM.

Saint Germain perfectly mastered the ancient wisdom and knowledge of the spheres of Matter. With the help of the Light, he ruled all aspects of life, leading the empire to heights of beauty, proportion and perfection, unsurpassed in the physical octave. Truly, in the crystal bowl of the Earth, heavenly patterns were embodied. And elemental life helped to maintain the purity of the Matter quadrants.

People treated their hierarch as the highest expression of God, an example to follow, and their love for him was great. For the duration of that dispensation, he embodied the archetype of the universal Christ, which served for them as the standard of their own nascent Godhood.

Guy Ballard, whose literary pseudonym was Godfrey Rae King, in his book Mysteries Revealed, describes how, accompanied by Saint Germain, his soul became acquainted with the akashic records of the rise and fall of this civilization.

Saint-Germain explained to him that, “as in all times, some people, more and more carried away by transient sensual pleasures, ceased to be interested in the creative plan of the Great Divine Self. As a result, almost everywhere (except perhaps the capital itself) people lost the consciousness of God Power Then the leaders of the country came to the conclusion that they must leave and give people the opportunity to learn from their own bitter experience that the source of their happiness and well-being was the worship of God who lives in them, and that in order to regain happiness, they need to return to the Light ".

So, the cosmic council instructed the ruler (the embodied representative of the spiritual Hierarchy of the Earth, headed by Sanat Kumara) to leave his empire and his beloved people. From now on, their own karma was to become a guru and legislator for his subjects, and their free will was to determine what part of the ruler's heritage of Light they would retain (and whether they would at all).

In accordance with the plan, the ruler gave a large dinner party in the Treasure Hall of the palace, inviting his advisers and statesmen to it. At the end of the dinner, which was entirely the result of precipitation, a crystal glass filled with "pure electronic substance" appeared to the right of each of the 576 guests. It was the chalice of the sacrament of Saint Germain, who, dressed in the mantle of ancient priests and kings, with a scepter in his hands, endowed those who honestly and for the glory of God served the state with his own light substance.

Raising this glass to the "Flame of the Greatest Living", each of them realized that they could never forget about the divine spark of their inner Divine Self. This protection, given to them forever by the grateful heart of Saint Germain, will keep their souls for centuries. until the cosmic cycles complete a full revolution and they find themselves again in civilization, in which they can acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve the Divine Union, in order to now forever remain in the Golden City of the Sun.

And now the Cosmic Lord, who came from the depths of the Great Silence, took the floor. From the banquet hall, his message was transmitted throughout the country. This Vladyka, full of brilliance and greatness, did not introduce himself, only the word "Victory" was inscribed on his forehead. He warned people about the impending crisis and reproached them for ingratitude and neglect in relation to the Great Divine Source. He reminded them of the ancient commandment - "Obey the Law of One - Love", and then predicted their karma:

"A certain prince is approaching your borders. He will enter the city, looking for the hand of your king's daughter. He will become your ruler, and the realization of your mistake will be in vain. Nothing will return, for the whole family of your current ruler will be taken under the protection and care of those who whose power and authority are from God and against whom human desire is powerless. These are the great Ascended Masters of Light from the golden etheric city that is above your country. There your ruler and his beloved children will remain until the cycle of times is over. "

Seven days later, the ruler and his children disappeared; and a day later a new ruler appeared and freely took the throne.

If we analyze the history of the lives of Saint Germain, we can see that people over and over again rejected the Lord himself and his God-mastery, and it was precisely those of them whom he sought to help. At the same time, they willingly accepted all the gifts of Light, Life and Love, all the generously distributed fruits of the adept's knowledge (alchemical transformations, the elixir of youth, inventions and predictions).

The goal of all his incarnations, starting from the times of the civilization of the golden age that existed in the place where the Sahara desert is now located, and up to the last hours of his life by Francis Bacon, was the liberation of the children of the Light and especially those who, due to careless handling of fire the principles of the Law were left alone with their own karma, often unable to escape from its clutches. He sought to fulfill the words of the prayer he uttered at that dinner party at the end of his reign:

"If they are destined to go through a test that will absorb and burn off the slags and scale of the external" I ", give them Your support and bring them, finally, to Your Great Perfection.

High Priest of Atlantis

13 thousand years ago, Saint Germain, being the high priest of the Temple of the Violet Flame in Atlantis, supported by calls and his own causal body a pillar of fire - a fountain of singing violet flame, which, like a magnet, attracted the inhabitants of near and distant environs who were striving to free themselves from everything that fettered body, mind and soul. To achieve liberation, one had to make one's own efforts: to make calls to the sacred fire and perform the rituals of the Seventh Ray.

Behind a circular fence made of elaborately hewn marble, there was a sanctuary, before which the supplicants bowed their knees in token of worship of the Divine Flame. Some could see it as a physical flame of violet color, to others it seemed to be "ultraviolet" light, while others did not see anything at all, but everyone clearly felt the powerful healing radiation.

The temple was built of magnificent marble, a variety of colors that ranged from pure white with violet and purple veins to the darker shades of the Seventh Ray spectrum. In the very center of the temple was a large circular hall, trimmed with icy purple marble, with a dark purple marble floor. With a height of a three-story building, this hall was surrounded by a whole complex of adjacent rooms intended for worship and other activities of priests and priestesses who served the Flame and conveyed its voice to people - the voice of Light and prophecies. All who performed divine services in front of the altar of this Temple were preliminary prepared for receiving the dignity of a priest of the Ecumenical Order of Melchizedek in the abode of Lord Zadkiel - the Temple of Purification, which is located above one of the islands of the West Indies.

During the brightest and darkest periods of the past centuries, Saint-Germain continued to skillfully use the momentum of the Seventh Ray of his causal body, defending the freedom of those keepers of the flame, in whom the "ember" glowed at the altar of violet fire in his temple in Atlantis. He elevated the freedom of mind and spirit, himself being an example of such freedom. Recognizing the four sacred freedoms as an inalienable right of everyone, he protects our freedom from the encroachments of the state, from unjust judgment, from incompetent interference in areas such as scientific research, the art of healing, and spiritual quest.

Confessing the principle of granting basic human rights to every responsible and sensible people raised on the principles of freedom and equal opportunity, he always teaches us to uphold our inalienable and sacred right to live in accordance with our highest perception of God. This is what the Master said: no rights, no matter how simple they are, can be secured for a long period of time if they are not backed up by spiritual virtue and Divine Law, which instills compassionate righteousness in the performers.

Samuel is a prophet of the Lord

Saint Germain again returned to his people, who were reaping the fruits of their own karma, as Samuel - the prophet of the Lord and the judge of the twelve tribes of Israel (about 1050 BC), as the messenger of God who announced the release of the descendants of Abraham from the yoke of dishonest priests - the sons of Eli and the Philistine invaders. Samuel, whose heart was marked with the special sign of the blue rose of Sirius, in his prophecies transmitted to the rebellious Israelites, raised the same issues that are present in the discussions of the twentieth century - both are inextricably linked with God's commandments regarding karma, free will and mercy:

"If you turn to the Lord with all your heart, then remove from among you the foreign gods and Astarte, and set your heart to the Lord, and serve Him alone; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."

Later, when King Saul turned away from God, Samuel freed the people from his tyranny by anointing David to be king.

True to the prophetic line running through all his life, Saint Germain was incarnated as Saint Joseph from the line of King David, the son of Jesse. Joseph was destined to become the chosen vessel of the Holy Spirit, the father of Jesus in fulfillment of the Lord's word to Isaiah:

"And a branch will come from the root of Jesse, and a branch will grow from his root ..."

We see that in each of the incarnations of Saint Germain, alchemy was present in one way or another - the transmission of Divine Power. Thus, Samuel, the chosen instrument of the Lord, transferred His sacred fire to David, having performed the rite of anointing on him, and with the same truly scientific accuracy took this fire from King Saul when the Lord tore away the kingdom of Israel from him. This hallmark of the seventh ray adept, often hiding under a modest guise, was also present in his incarnation by Saint Alban, the first martyr in the British Isles (3rd century AD), as the ability to convert souls and control the forces of nature with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Alban, Roman soldier

Alban, being a Roman soldier, gave shelter to a priest who was hiding from persecution, was converted by him to Christianity and sentenced to death for allowing this priest to escape, changing clothes with him. His execution drew a crowd of onlookers, and the narrow bridge could not accommodate everyone who wanted to cross to the other side. Then, heeding Alban's plea, the waters of the river parted. Seeing this, the shocked executioner, having converted to Christ's faith, begged to be allowed to die instead of Alban. However, he could not help the saint. He himself was executed on the same day, after the martyr.

Ruler - Teacher of the Neoplatonists

But Saint-Germain was not always in the ranks of the supporters of the Christian church. He fought tyranny wherever he could; false Christian teaching was no exception. As the Master - Teacher of the Neoplatonists, Saint Germain was the inspiration for the Greek philosopher Proclus (circa 410-480). He revealed to his disciple that in a previous life he was a Pythagorean philosopher, and also explained to him all the feigned adherence to Christianity of the Emperor Constantine and the value of the path of individualism, which Christians called "paganism."

Proclus, who headed the Academy of Plato in Athens and enjoyed universal respect, chose the principle of the existence of the only true reality - the One, which is God, the Divine Principle, the ultimate goal of all earthly aspirations - as the main thesis of his philosophy. The philosopher stated: "Behind the body is the soul, behind the soul is the thinking nature, and behind all rational beings is the One." In his incarnations, Saint Germain demonstrated an extremely extensive knowledge of God's Mind. And it is not surprising that his student also had a great breadth of knowledge: Proclus's works cover almost all areas of knowledge.

Proclus realized that enlightenment and philosophy were given to him from above, and ranked himself among those through whom Divine revelation is transmitted to humanity. Here is what his disciple Marinus wrote about this: "Divine inspiration was clearly felt in him, for from the wise lips of his words poured like thick snow, his eyes shone, and his whole appearance testified to divine enlightenment."

So, dressed in white robes, Saint Germain, whose shoes and belt are adorned with precious stones, shining with reflections of the stars of distant worlds, was that mysterious Master, smiling from behind the veil, who put the images of his mind into the soul of the last great philosopher-neoplatonist.

Merlin

One of the incarnations of Saint-Germain was Merlin - an unforgettable and somewhat unique personality. He often visits the shores of foggy Albion to suddenly appear and offer you a glass of sparkling elixir. He is an "old man" who comprehended the secrets of youth and alchemy, who studied the stars at Stonehenge and, as the legend says, with the help of his magical abilities could move stones, who even now costs nothing to suddenly appear on the stage of Broadway or in the forests of Yellowstone, or next to you on one of the highways.

For Saint Germain is Merlin.

On January 1, 1987, Merlin addressed his final prophecy to the heroes, knights, ladies, madmen and villains of Aquarian Camelot.

Merlin, dear Merlin never left us: enchanted by his spirit, we feel as extraordinary and unique as his diamond and amethyst jewelry was. Merlin is an irreplaceable Presence, it is a noisy whirlpool in which science, tradition and fatal love are intertwined for Western civilization.

Time of action - the fifth century. Amid the chaos of the slowly dying Roman Empire, a king emerged, determined to unite a country torn apart by warring clans and plundered by the Saxon conquerors. An elder became his companion - half druid, half Christian saint, seer, magician, advisor, friend, who inspired the king to fight twelve battles, the purpose of which was to unite the country and establish peace.

At some point, the spirit of Merlin went through catharsis. It happened, as the legend says, during a fierce battle. From the spectacle of the bloody massacre, Merlin found insanity: he simultaneously saw the past, present and future (a feature characteristic of seers). Having retired into the forest, he lived there like a savage, and one day, sitting under a tree, began to utter prophecies about the future of Wells.

Here's how he talks about it:

"I left my habitual self. I became like a spirit, comprehended the depths of the past of my people and could predict the future. I knew the secrets of nature, the flight of birds, the wanderings of the stars, the sliding of fish." His prophecies, as well as magical abilities, served solely to unite the tribes of the ancient Britons into a single kingdom. How great his influence was, recalls the ancient Celtic name of Britain - "Clas Myrddin", which means "Land of Merlin".

Acting as Arthur's advisor and assistant in the unification of the country, Merlin tried to turn Britain into a fortress impregnable for ignorance and superstition, where the achievements of Christ would flourish and where devotion to the One would grow in search of the Holy Grail. His labors in this field bore fruit in the nineteenth century, when the British Isles became the site of an unprecedented flourishing of private enterprise and industry in the last twelve thousand years.

Camelot - the rose of England - grew and blossomed, but at the same time, bad growth began to appear at its roots. Black magic, intrigue, treachery - this is what ruined Camelot, and not at all the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, as Thomas Mallory believes in his misogyny-filled story. Alas, because of the myth that he gave rise to, the true culprits have remained in the shadows for all these long centuries.

And they were Modred, the illegitimate son of Margot - the king's half-sister, Morgan le Fay and a bunch of the same sorcerers and black knights who managed to steal the crown, imprison the queen and break the bonds of Love for a while. Such love, which like them (who have sworn to the left-hand path) will never know and before which, in reality, with all their desire, intrigues and sorcery, they are powerless.

It was hard on the heart and soul of Merlin, the prophet who foresaw misfortune and desolation, the departure of joy and the acute pain of endlessly continuing karmic retribution, when he approached the denouement of his own life, allowing the close and insidious Vivienne to entangle himself with his own spell and put him to sleep. Alas, it is common for a person to make mistakes, but longing to be separated from his twin flame is the fate of many itinerant knights, kings, or a lone prophet who, perhaps, preferred to plunge into the pool of oblivion, just to get rid of the bitter sense of shame for the dishonor with which he covered himself people.

Roger Bacon

Some say that he is still asleep now, but they clearly underestimate the restless spirit of this sage, who returned to life again, this time in thirteenth-century England by Roger Bacon (circa 1214-1294). Returning Merlin - a scientist, philosopher, monk, alchemist and seer, fulfilling his mission, contributed to the creation of the scientific foundations of the Aquarian age, the patroness of which his soul was to become one day.

The expiation of this life was to be his voice crying in the intellectual and scientific wilderness of medieval Britain. In an era when theology or logic (or both) defined the scientific approach, he proposed to take the experimental method as a basis, openly declaring his conviction that the earth is round, and harshly criticizing the limitations of his contemporary scientists and researchers. Thus, he is rightfully considered the forerunner of modern science.

He also predicted the emergence of the current technology. He foresaw the following inventions: hot air balloon, aircraft, spectacles, telescope, microscope, elevator, power-driven ships and crews. And although in order to determine the possibility of implementing these inventions, the seer hardly resorted to experiments, he wrote about them as if he had seen with his own eyes! Bacon was also the first person in the West to correctly describe the method of making gunpowder, but to keep his discovery secret for security reasons. No wonder people considered him a wizard!

And like Saint Germain, who today claims in his "Course of Alchemy" that "miracles" are a consequence of the precise application of the laws of the universe, Roger Bacon, through his prophecies, tried to show people that flying vehicles and "magic" machines are the natural fruits of the application of the laws of nature, which eventually will be comprehended by people.

Where did Bacon himself think he got his amazing insights from? "The source of true knowledge is not someone else's authorities, not blind faith in established dogmas," he argued. According to his two biographers, Bacon believed that knowledge is "a deeply personal experience - a light that enters into dialogue only with the innermost parts of a person's soul through objective channels of knowledge and thought."

Bacon, a professor at the Universities of Oxford and Paris, decided to take a different path than the dogmatically minded members of the academy. He searched for his own path in science and found it in his faith. As a member of the Franciscan Minorite monastic order, he said: "In studying the magnetic properties of the ore, I want to conduct my experiments at the same shrine where my fellow scientist St. Francis was experimenting with the magnetic properties of love."

However, the scientific and philosophical outlook of this monk, his bold attacks against contemporary theologians, his studies in alchemy, astrology and magic became the reason that his own fellow Franciscans accused him of "heresy and harmful innovation" and in 1278 he was imprisoned ... His solitary confinement lasted fourteen long years, and he was released only before his death. Despite the fact that his health was undermined, and he did not have long to live, he realized that his labors were not in vain and would have an impact on the future.

The prophetic words with which he addressed his students testify to the great, revolutionary ideals of the indomitable spirit of this living flame of freedom - the immortal champion of our scientific, religious and political freedoms. This is the prophecy:

"I believe that humanity should accept as an axiom the principle of action for which I laid down my life. This is the right to research. The symbol of faith of a free person is the ability to test by experience, this is the right to make mistakes, this is the courage to start an experiment from scratch. We, the researchers of the human spirit, must experiment, experiment and experiment again. Through centuries of trial and error, through the agony of searching ... let's experiment with laws and customs, with monetary systems and forms of government. Experiment until we set the only correct course, until we find our orbit, just as the planet found its orbits ... And then, finally, obeying the great impulse of a single creation, we will begin to move all together in the harmony of our spheres: a single community, a single system, a single design ".

Christopher Columbus

For the sake of the establishment of this freedom on Earth, the lifestream of Saint Germain returned again - this time by Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). But two centuries before the trip of the three caravels of Columbus, Roger Bacon laid the prerequisites for the discovery of the New World, writing in his work "Opus Majus" that "with a favorable wind the sea between the western tip of Spain and the shores of India can be overcome in just a few days."

And although this statement was erroneous in its part, where it was argued that the country to the west of Spain is India, it served as the starting point for Columbus's discovery. Cardinal Pierre d'Aille quoted this statement by Bacon (without reference to the source) in his treatise Imago Mundi. Columbus was familiar with this work and quoted this passage in 1498 in a letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, noting that he had made his journey 1492 was largely impressed by this visionary statement.

Columbus believed that it was for him that God intended to become "the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, about which He spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John and which he had predicted even earlier through the mouth of Isaiah."

The vision took him back to the time of ancient Israel, and, perhaps, even further into the depths of time. For, going in search of the New World, Columbus believed that he was the instrument of God, who, as he testified in 732 BC. NS. Isaiah, will return "for himself the remnant of his people ... and he will gather the exiles of Israel, and the scattered Jews he will call from the four corners of the earth."

22 centuries have passed, and during all this time nothing has happened that could be considered a clear fulfillment of this prophecy. But at the end of the fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus calmly prepared to begin its fulfillment, being firmly convinced that God had chosen to fulfill this mission. As he studied Bible prophecy, he wrote down everything related to his mission. The result was a separate book, which he titled "Las Proficias" (Prophecies), and its entire title was: "A Book of Prophecies Indicating the Discovery of India and the Return of Jerusalem." This fact, although not often remembered, is nevertheless considered so certain among historians that even the Encyclopedia Britannica directly states that "Columbus discovered America through prophecy rather than astronomy."

In 1502, he wrote to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella: "It was not reason, mathematics or maps that helped me to carry out this venture connected with India: it was Isaiah's words that came true." Columbus was referring to the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, verses ten to twelve.

So, we see that, perhaps without even realizing it with his outer mind, Saint Germain, life after life, recreated the golden path leading to the Sun - a destiny that made a full circle in order to glorify God's Presence and restore the lost golden age.

Francis Bacon

Incarnated by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the greatest mind of Western civilization, Saint Germain, with various achievements, rapidly propelled the world towards the state prepared for the children of Aquarius. In this life, he was given the opportunity to complete the work begun during his incarnation by Roger Bacon.

Scientists note the similarity of the thoughts of these two philosophers and even the similarity between the treatises of Roger "Opus Majus" and Francis "On the dignity and augmentation of sciences" and "New Organon". This will seem even more surprising if we note that the treatise "Opus Majus", which was not published during Roger's life, was forgotten and appeared in print only 113 years after the publication of Francis's treatise "The New Organon" and 110 years after "On the dignity and augmentation sciences "!

The unsurpassed wit of this immortal soul, this philosopher king, priest and scientist, allowed him to never lose his sense of humor, unswervingly guided by a motto that became a reaction to tyranny, torment and adversity: if they defeated you in this life, come back and defeat them in the next!

Francis Bacon is known as the pioneer of inductive and scientific methods of knowledge, which made a decisive contribution to the process of creating modern technology. Saint Germain foresaw that only applied science could save humanity from poverty, from hard labor for a piece of bread and give people the opportunity to turn to the search for the highest spirituality that they once possessed. Thus, science and technology were the most important component of his plan for the liberation of the light-bearers, and through them, of all mankind.

His next step was to be enlightenment on a universal scale, no more, no less!

"Great renewal", rebirth after decline, apostasy, ruin - this is the formula that Bacon proposed to use as a tool for changing "the whole world." This idea, which first occurred to him at the age of 12-13, and later, in 1607, which took on clear forms in a book of the same name, truly gave rise to the English Renaissance thanks to Francis's sensitive and active nature. Over the years, a group of intellectuals rallied around him, among whom were the entire bloom of writers of the Elizabethan era: Ben Johnson, John Davis, George Herbert, John Selden, Edmund Spencer, Sir Walter Rayleigh, Gabriel Harvey, Robert Green, Sir Philip Sydney, Christopher Marlowe, John Lily, George Peel and Lancelot Andrews.

Some of them were members of a secret society created by Francis with his brother Anthony while studying at one of the court schools in London. This group of young men called themselves "Knights of the Helmet" and set out to improve education by spreading the English language and creating new literature, written not in Latin, but in a language understandable to any Englishman.

In addition, Francis initiated the translation of the Bible into English (the King James Bible), as he was convinced that independent reading of the Word of God should be accessible to the common man. Moreover, in the 1890s, two ciphers were found - one using a verbal cipher, the other an alphabetic one, placed in the original edition of Shakespeare's tomes. From what I have read, it follows that the plays attributed to an actor from the squalid village of Stradford-upon-Avon were actually written by Francis Bacon. It was he who was the greatest literary genius in the Western world.

He was also the inspirer of many political ideas that formed the basis of Western civilization. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham saw Bacon's legacy as a starting point for the development of their own concepts. His revolutionary principles became the mechanism that ensured the progressive development of our world. They, like no others, represent the quintessence of the spirit of "to be done." "People are not two-legged animals," Bacon argued, "but immortal Gods. The Creator endowed us with a soul that corresponds to the whole world, but at the same time is not even content with the whole world."

Francis Bacon continued the work that he began when he was Christopher Columbus, contributing to the colonization of the New World, because he knew that it was there that his ideas could take deep roots and receive the fullest development. He persuaded James I to grant privileges to Newfoundland, and he himself served on the board of the Virginia Company, which provided material support to Jamestown, the first English settlement in America. He was also the founder of Freemasonry, an organization whose goal was the liberation and enlightenment of mankind, whose members made a significant contribution to the creation of a new state.

However, he could bring England and the whole world even more benefit if he was allowed to fulfill his destiny to the end. Ciphers, similar to those found in the texts of Shakespeare's plays, were contained in the writings of Bacon himself, as well as in the works of many of his friends. With their help, Bacon told the true story of his life, told the thoughts of his soul, everything that he would like to bequeath to future generations, but could not openly publish because of fear of the queen.

In them, he revealed the secret of his life: he should have become Francis I, King of England, since he was the son of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley - Lord Leicester, born four months after their secret wedding. However, the queen, wishing to preserve her status as a "virgin queen" and fearing that if the fact of marriage was made public, she would have to share power with the ambitious Leicester and that the people might prefer the heir to her and demand to cede the throne to him, ordered Francis to keep secretly their true origin.

Throughout his life, the queen kept him "in limbo": she did not appoint him to government posts, she never publicly recognized him as her son, did not allow plans that could benefit England to be carried out. Yes, she never allowed her son to lead Britain into the golden age that could have been the result of his reign, but did not take place. What a bitter lot: the unyielding, arrogant queen mother confronts her son - the prince of the golden age!

Francis grew up as an adopted son in the Bacon family (Sir Nicholas and Lady Anne) and only at the age of fifteen he learned from his real mother the truth about his origin and that he was deprived of any hope of inheriting the throne. Overnight, his world fell into ruins. Like young Hamlet, he pondered over and over again the question: "To be or not to be?" That was his question.

In the end, he decided not to rebel against his mother, and later against her useless heir James I. He did so, although he realized what a great service he could serve England, seeing this country as it "could become under prudent government. " He felt the strength to become such a monarch, such as the country had not yet known, to become the true father of the nation. He wrote that he felt "the impulses of godlike patriarchal concern for his people" - this made itself felt in the memory of the emperor of the golden age.

Fortunately for the world, Francis decided to follow the goal of universal enlightenment along the path of literature and science, acting as an adviser to the throne, a supporter of colonization and the founder of secret societies, thereby restoring contact with the mystery schools of antiquity. His wounded soul was looking for a way out; he was writing cipher programs, addressed to future generations, in which he told his aspirations.

Towards the end of his life (he died in 1626), Francis Bacon, despite persecution, that his many talents remained unrecognized, came victorious over circumstances that could overcome any ordinary person, and this is evidence of the formation of a true Ascended Master.

Wonder man of Europe

May 1, 1684 is the day of the ascension of Saint Germain. And to this day, from the heights of his well-deserved power, which is above this world, he prevents all attempts to interfere with the execution here, below, of his plan of the "Great Renewal".

Most of all, Saint Germain wanted to free God's people and therefore sought permission from the Lords of Karma to return to Earth in a physical body. Such mercy was bestowed on him, and now he appears in the form of the Comte de Saint-Germain, an "amazing" aristocrat who shone in the courts of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and became famous as a "miracle man". He set himself the following goals: to prevent the French Revolution and ensure a smooth transition from monarchy to a republican form of government, to create the United States of Europe, to keep the lily of the threefold flame of God identity in every heart.

He could eliminate the vices of diamonds, disappear without a trace, as if dissolving in the air, write the same poem with both hands at the same time, he knew many languages, could speak freely on any topic, in his presentation the stories came to life, as if he was their eyewitness - and although his extraordinary ability won him favor in the courts of all of Europe, Saint-Germain was unable to achieve the desired response. Members of the royal families were, of course, not averse to having fun, but it was not easy to convince them to give up their power and set sails to the wind of democratic change. They and their envious ministers defied Saint-Germain's advice and the French Revolution broke out.

In his last attempt to unite Europe, Saint Germain supported Napoleon, who, however, abused the power of the Master and doomed himself to death. The opportunity to ward off the vengeance of the century was thus lost, and Saint Germain was once again forced to leave people alone with their own karma. And this time the Master, openly acting as a divine mediator, performing miracles in front of everyone and giving self-fulfilling prophecies, was still ignored! How else can you reach out to human hearts?

Mantra:

I AM a being
violet flame

I AM purity
Desired by God!

I am a being of violet fire -
I am the purity God desires