Count of St. Germain
It happens very seldom, but it does happen. There have been stories about people that disappeared from their time and then reappeared at least once or more throughout history, when they would have been far too old to have lived that long. Furthermore it has been said that they looked the same age as when they disappeared. This seems like one of those folk tales that are told in taverns when some people had a few too many pints, but there are actual people that are said to have accomplished this. Am I saying that there were people in prior centuries that were actually able to achieve time travel? No I am not, I am referring to some very strange happenings however that might have actually happened, or were just the random thoughts of wild imaginations.
Unreliable Image Of St. Germain One of these people was said to be a genius that disappeared without a trace when he was of the ripe age of 74 years. His name was the Count of St. Germain and he was born in 1710 and disappeared in 1784. The man was known as a lot of things including an inventor and musician that could play both the violin and piano. He was also known as an adventurer and composer, but let's not leave out charlatan. These were not his most famous traits however, there was more and there is the one that many people credit with his supposed ability to travel through time, he was an occultist. Supposedly this gave him the ability to also live forever, because it was said that he had access to the ancient wisdom, which made him nearly a god. He was also an alchemist. No one truly knows his family origins, but several different family trees were credited to him. The one that I like the best, is that he came from Transylvania and was a Prince in that land. I say that I like it the best because believing in the occult and coming from Transylvania seems to go so well together. He was described as mad when he was once arrested and released. He actually met with Giacomo Casanova several times and Casanova spoke well of him in his diary. There are some people today that believe that St. Germain was immortal and that he might have discovered the Elixir of Life. Among the famous people of his time that he met were Madam Pompadour, the King of France and Cagliostro. He truly liked to play the game with important people and build himself up by claiming to be able to do feats that were impossible. He was said to have such a pleasant way about him and such a command of speech, that no one ever got offended and he was quite well liked. When people would ask him his age, he was fond of saying that he was 300 years old. Could this have possibly been true at the time? There are those that believe that it was. Some people believe that St. Germain was actually Francis Bacon and that he liked to switch personalities. Some even credit him with writing the Shakespeare plays. If he was Francis Bacon then there is the Saint Germain Foundation in Chicago that states that he was the son of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Dudley and it was kept a secret.
Francis Bacon. Was He St. Germain? There is a strange book that was published in New York in 1886, which resides in the Getty Research Library and the title of it is “America Hereldica”. The author is listed as Saint-Germain, C. de. Could this be the same St. Germain that was born in 1710? There are some who believe that it is. There are even some who claim that St. Germain is what is known as an Ascended Master, a Jesus like figure who was put on earth to help humanity. A church was established in the 1930s by Guy Ballard which revered St. Germain and in its heyday, in 1938, had over 1,000,000 followers. The name of the church was the “I AM”. It is still around today, but has fewer numbers. Others believe that Francis Bacon ascended and returned to earth as St. Germain, also known as Brother Herman. There are those that have claimed to have seen St. Germain. One was a lady named Annie Besant in 1896. In 1926 a man named C.W. Leadbeater said he met St. Germain in Rome. He described him and then said, "the splendor of his Presence impels men to make obeisance". Guy Ballard, the founder of the “I AM Activity” said that he met St. Germain on Mount Shasta in California in 1930. The sleeping prophet Edgar Cayce was asked if St. Germain was present, he stated “when needed”. A lady named Dorothy Leon has said that she has had several meetings with St. Germain. In 1921 a man named Paul Foster Case said that he met St. Germain in a New York Hotel. Why are all these people claiming to have either seen or met St. Germain? Could it be because of his fame? Do they feel that this gives them some sort of legitimate claim to write about him, or form a religion? I don't have the answer to this question, but there is so much more involved when we talk of St. Germain that I haven't told you about, because it is of such a complicated nature and even supposedly goes back to Atlantis. Yes you heard me correctly. Some even believe that he was a person that was reincarnated many times before and that this went back over 70,000 years to a colony in the desert that had originally come from Atlantis. I have to say that I do not believe the St. Germain legend, but it is interesting and if some do believe it, I respect their right to do so. I have never seen any evidence that points to the fact that anyone that was human was ever immortal, although humans tried for thousands of years to become so. I also do not believe that a system for time travel was found in the 18th century, so I have to dismiss that also. I think that the legend of St. Germain is just that, a legend that will be with us forever because it makes a very interesting story and that it is nothing more. |
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