Secret_History

50 The Secret History of the World
It was said that Saint-Germain appeared in Wilhelmsbad in 1785, a year after he
was supposed to have died, and he was accompanied by the magician Cagliostro,
the hypnotist Anton Mesmer, and the “unknown philosopher”, Louis Claude de St.
Martin. But that is hearsay also.
Next he was alleged to have gone to Sweden in 1789 to warn King Gustavus III
of danger. After that, he visited his friend, diarist Mademoiselle d’Adhemar, who
said he still looked like he was only 46 years old! Apparently, he told her that she
would see him five more times, and she claimed this was, in fact, the case.
Supposedly the last visit was the night before the murder of the Duc de Berri in
1820. Again, we find this to be unsupported by evidence.
Napoleon III ordered a commission to investigate the life and actvities of Saint-
Germain, but the findings were destroyed in a fire at the Hotel de Ville in Paris in
1871 - which many people think is beyond coincidence. My thought would be that
the only reason to destroy such a report would be if it had proved the Count to be a
fraud. The result of this fire is that the legend is enabled to live on; it is likely that
the report would have made some difference in the legend, such as putting it to
rest as a fraud. Had it been helpful to the legend, it would not have changed what
is already the case, which is that people believe that Saint-Germain was something
of a supernatural being. Thus, its destruction, if engineered, must only have been
to protect the status quo.
One of the next threads of the legend was gathered into the hands of Helena
Blavatsky who claimed that Saint-Germain was one of the “hidden masters” along
with Christ, Buddha, Appollonius of Tyana, Christian Rosencreutz, Francis Bacon
and others. In my opinion, Blavatsky’s credibility becomes highly questionable by
merely making this claim. A group of Theosophists traveled to Paris after WW II
where they were told they would meet the Count; he never showed up.
In 1972, a Frenchman named Richard Chanfray was interviewed on French
television. He claimed to be Saint-Germain and, supposedly, in front of television
cameras, transmuted lead into gold on a camp stove! And, lest we forget the more
recent “communications” of the count to the head of the Church Universal and
Triumphant, Elizabeth Clare Prophet.
In the end, on the subject of Saint-Germain, we find lies and confusion. Get used
to it. And, if Saint-Germain was a fraud we have to think somewhat carefully
about those who claim him as their “connection” to things esoteric!
During the 19th and 20th centuries, alchemy lost favor with the rise of
experimental science. The time was that of such stellar names as Lavoisier,
Priestley and Davy. Dalton’s atomic theory and a host of discoveries in chemistry
and physics made it clear to all “legitimate” scientists that alchemy was only a
“mystical” and, at best, harmless pastime of no scientific value.
Organizations such as the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis devised
corrupted mixtures of snippets of alchemy and oriental philosophy, stirred in with
the western European magical traditions, but these were clearly distorted
imitations composed mostly of wishful thinking, romantic nonsense, and
monstrous egos. When one deeply studies the so-called “adepts” of these
“systems”, one is confronted again and again with the archetype of the “failed
magician” so that one can only shake the head and remember the warning of the
great alchemists, that those who do not develop within themselves the “special