St. Germain is a mysterious and enigmatic character whose history has been scorned and, at other times, praised with respect and wonder, making him out to be a master of some kind. Spiritual history is replete with historical anecdotes of St. Germain as a master of music, alchemy, Freemasonry, scien…
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Spiritual history is replete with historical anecdotes of St. Germain as a master of music, alchemy, Freemasonry, science, diplomacy, education, and dozens of other areas of human endeavor. Hundreds of people claim to have met and spoken with St. Germain over the centuries. One of the earliest accounts was given by the Abbe de Villars who met with the mysterious Count of Gabalis in the seventeenth century, long before the more commonly known Comte de St. Germain was born. The tradition of a master coming to visit a philosopher is so common that it has become second nature with modern day New Age channelers who claim to talk with Germain and a host of other so-called masters. St. Germain stories build on the legends of Christian Rosenkreutz who was written about as a world traveler versed in the wisdom of the East and the West. And like Rosenkreutz or Leonardo de Vinci, St. Germain has a reputation for a universal ability to apply his wisdom in practical ways. St. Germain historically was a real person whose birth is cloaked in mystery. He seems to have been some degree of royalty who was too removed by lineage to be able to assume a throne. He was welcomed in every court of Europe and Russia and was a noted diplomat who represented different monarchs in diplomatic missions. This type of intrigue added to his stature. Every court he visited, so the legends indicate, he helped solve the major problem of the day. In one court he purified and enhanced the luster of precious stones; in another he helped create a new way to tan reindeer hide. In France, while a member of the Nine Muses Lodge, he helped rewrite and renew Freemasonry and even wrote a new rite of initiation himself called, The Most Holy Trinosophia. Some courts claimed that he wrote beautiful music and played violin and piano like a master. Others contend that he restructured the education of the country based upon unique pedagogical principles. Whatever the problem, the wisdom insight of St. Germain earned him the right of being called “Master” many times over. Some historians suggest that St. Germain was the motive force of Freemasonry that inspired and directed the American and French Revolutions. Indeed, history shows that St. Germain warned the French monarchy what was about to happen far in advance, but they took no heed. St. Germain was also allegedly at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. St. Germain was attributed with being able to see the future, prolong his life to age 105, write with each hand independently different letters at one time, have “all knowledge” available to him, read the Akashic Records, bi-locate, inspire people at a distance and consciously reincarnate and remember his previous wisdom. Known as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and composer, St. Germain has been attributed with being St. Alban, Proclus, Roger Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel, Hesiod, Plato, Saint Joseph, Merlin, Roger Bacon, Christopher Columbus, and Shakespeare, among others. From these foundations, every imaginable story has been appropriated to St. Germain, and more words have been “attributed” to him from those who say he “appeared” to them than one can read in a lifetime. Certainly a discerning spiritual researcher must ask the question: “What part of St. Germain’s history is true and what part is legend attached to him by devoted admirers?” The author believes researchers find similar streams of wisdom and common ideas more so than the actual incarnations of a being. For this reason, the spiritual researcher must work with clarity and discernment while researching the karma and reincarnation of any individual. This research is important as it can reveal the pathways of the spirit acting with providence, wisdom, and love to create the individual’s personal karmic path. St. Germain Traveled Far and Wide Many of St. Germain’s travels have been documented by others in history. In 1760, King Louis XV of France sent St. Germain on a diplomatic mission to the Netherlands, and from there he went to England. Two years later he was in St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the end of 1763 he met Casanova in Belgium. Count Cobenzl in a letter written in 1763 said that St. Germain had performed “under my own eyes … the transmutation of iron into a metal as beautiful as gold.” From 1764 to 1768 Germain was in Berlin. In 1770, he went to Tunis with the Comte Maximilian de Lamberg and to Leghorn. In 1773, he traveled to Mantua after meeting his pupil Cagliostro in Paris. In 1774, after the death of Louis XV, the Count went to The Hague again as diplomat representing several governments. From there he made a trip to Schwalbach and returned to Holland. In 1779, he was in Hamburg and then he visited the home of Prince Karl of Hesse, who was then the Grand Master of the Rosicrucians in Germany. In 1785 and 1786, he had a conference with the Empress of Russia. In 1788, according to the Comte de Challons, St. Germain conversed with him in St. Mark’s square in Venice. St. Germain as a Spiritual Master St. Germain is most noted as a legendary spiritual master of ancient wisdom of unequaled renown. It has been claimed that he was the inspiration for many Theosophical and post-Theosophical writers, such as H. P. Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, Benjamin Creme, the White Eagle Lodge, Rosicrucianism, the Summit Lighthouse, Guy Ballard (Godfre Ray King), and the Ascended Master Teachings. Some believe that St. Germain is one of the Masters of Wisdom, a group of beings Theosophists call the Great White Brotherhood. There are several "authoritative" biographers who usually do not agree with one another. Probably the two best-known biographies are Isabel Cooper-Oakley's, The Count of St. Germain (1912) and Jean Overton-Fuller's, The Comte de Saint-Germain: Last Scion of the House of Rakoczy (1988). Another work of great importance, The Comte de Gabalis, is said to have come from conversations with Gabalis, who was Saint Germain in a later incarnation. First printed in 1670, the book includes a picture of the Polish Rider by Rembrandt, which is said to be the Comte de Gabalis. As written by Abbe N. De Montfaucon de Villars in The Comte de Gabalis, he was “a nobleman of high rank and a great Cabalist, whose lands lie towards the frontiers of Poland.” The picture of Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Polish Rider is included in the front pages of the book. Tradition has it that this is a portrait of Christian Rosenkreutz. Rembrandt wrote on the back side of the frame: “This is the man who taught me about Light and Darkness.” Some viewers claim to see partial forms of the first and second Goetheanum in the buildings on the hill. Rembrandt, who claimed to be a direct pupil of Rosenkreutz, also painted Rosenkreutz as the Armoured Man in the picture below. Rembrandt van Rijn: Armoured Man. Likely a portrait of Christian Rosenkreutz when Rembrandt met him as his personal student. As a Master, St. Germain is believed to have many magical powers such as the ability to teleport, levitate, walk through walls, and to inspire people by telepathy, among others. Theosophists consider him to be a mahatma or adept. Helena Blavatsky said that he was one of her Masters of Wisdom and hinted that he had given her secret documents. Some esoteric groups credit him with inspiring the Founding Fathers to draft the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as providing the design of the Great Seal of the United States. He is said to telepathically influence people who are seen by him as being instrumental in bringing about the new civilization. Originally presented by Helena P. Blavatsky in the 1870s, the idea of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or Mahatmas was adopted by people who at some point claimed connection with the Theosophical movement, such as Alice Bailey, Helena Roerich, and Manly P. Hall. Later on many other organizations, especially in the United States, developed the concept of Ascended Masters, which departs from the theosophical one in several aspects. The founder of the Theosophical Society, Madame H. P. Blavatsky, in the late 19th century brought attention to the idea of secret initiatory knowledge, by claiming her ideas were based on traditions taught to her by a group of highly enlightened yogis which she called the Mahatmas or Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. These Mahatmas, she claimed, were physical beings living in the Himalayas, usually understood as Tibet. Blavatsky explains that they “Are living men, born as we are born, and doomed to die like every mortal. We call them ‘masters because they are our teachers; and because from them we have derived all the Theosophical truths. They are men of great learning, whom we call Initiates, and still greater holiness of life.” There is considerable difference between the concept of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in Theosophy (as described by Blavatsky, Olcott, Sinnett, and others) and the current concept of Ascended Masters, developed by Guy Ballard and Elizabeth Clare Prophet many years after the Theosophical Society was founded. The Ascended Masters groups added more than 200 new masters that they claimed to receive dictations from, in addition to receiving dictations from the original Masters of the Ancient Wisdom of Theosophy. The Ascended Masters, as their name suggests, are supposed to be Masters who have experienced the miracle of ascension. However, their teaching of ascension is in direct opposition to the Theosophical teachings. Blavatsky also rejects ascension as a fact, calling it “an allegory as old as the world.” In the Theosophical view, the Masters of Ancient Wisdom retain their physical bodies. The Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (Theosophical) are not like the Ascended Masters (New Age) who are Godlike, all-powerful beings beyond the laws of nature. In Theosophical and New Age belief systems, there is a group called the Great White Brotherhood. They are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters. Various people have said they have received messages from these beings, including most notably Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Theosophy), Aleister Crowley (Golden Dawn), Alice A. Bailey (Lucis Trust), Guy Ballard ("I AM" Discourses), Geraldine Innocente (The Bridge to Freedom), Mark L. Prophet (Summit Lighthouse), Elizabeth Clare Prophet (Church Universal and Triumphant) and Benjamin Creme (Share International), Keith Rhinehart (Aquarian Foundation). St. Germain: Incarnation of Christian Rosenkreutz Through the work of Rudolf Steiner we find that St. Germain has a long history of incarnations that explain why he is held in such esteem by so many spiritual researchers. Once the history of St. Germain is explained, the history of human spiritual development becomes much clearer and we can see that the same individuals who were involved in the “Fall”, or Garden of Eden, are also directly involved with the redemption of the Fall through the Mystery of Golgotha, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was the same handful of people who have lead humanity’s spiritual evolution through the millennia. It is the spiritual insight of Rudolf Steiner that tells us that St. Germain was the reincarnated Christian Rosenkreutz, the legendary founder of the Rosicrucians. This insight sheds much light on the spiritual evolution of St. Germain and explains where some of his capabilities originate. Christian Rosenkreutz, like St. Germain, was attributed with having tremendous wisdom and practical knowledge derived from research and a life of travel. Steiner gives great details about the life of Rosenkreutz and the subsequent work of the Rosicrucians. The Temple Legend, The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians, by Rudolf Steiner, Lecture 5, Berlin, November 4, 1904. GA 93 Before the outbreak of the French Revolution a personality appeared to Madame d'Adhemar, the lady-in-waiting of Marie-Antoinette, who prophesied all the important events of the coming strife, in order to warn against them. It was the Count of St. Germain, the same as he who, in a former incarnation, had founded the Rosicrucian Order. He subscribed to the view that mankind at that time must be led in all tranquility from a worldly view of life to a truly Christian culture. Worldly powers, however, desired to gain freedom for themselves by material violent means. Christian Rosenkreutz foresaw the French Revolution as a necessary consequence of this, but warned against it. He, Christian Rosenkreutz, in his incarnation in the eighteenth century, as guardian of the innermost secrets of the Molten Sea and the Golden Triangle, appeared with the warning that mankind should develop slowly. But he also saw what was to happen. Lazarus/St. John: Incarnation of Christian Rosenkreutz Realizing that St. Germain was Christian Rosenkreutz is a particular insight of Steiner’s and one that few spiritual researchers know about. But it is a long tradition among Rosicrucians to consider Christian Rosenkreutz as the same individuality as Lazarus who became St. John the Evangelist. Steiner’s contributed to the old Rosicrucian tradition by providing explanations of how Lazarus was raised by Jesus Christ as the first Christian initiate, who would be named St. John after his resurrection. Lazarus/St. John would lead humanity as an example of an initiate who has taken on the same “I” that Jesus took on: “Not I but Christ in me.” Lazarus/St. John became the ‘one Jesus loved.’ This insight is somewhat shocking to many who have not heard this or read it before, but anthroposophical research has revealed this to be accurate. Lazarus/St. John was told by Jesus Christ, as he hung from the cross at Golgotha, to behold Mary as his own mother and from that day John watched over Mary until her dormition. St. John was given the wisdom legacy of Jesus Christ to carry on and teach to the world through his Gospel of John, Epistles, and Apocalypse. St. John spiritually merged with John the Baptist at the crucifixion, and together, as one being under the cross, St. John was the only apostle able to witness the crucifixion. St. John then became the “group soul” of the apostles and helped lead them from that time forward. Knowing about the secret incarnation of St. Germain as Rosenkreutz is helpful, but knowing that St. Germain/Rosenkreutz was also St. John the Divine (Lazarus raised) opens doors of insight that make a great deal of sense when considering the overall history of humanity. The next few insights of Rudolf Steiner make the picture complete. Lazarus was raised from the dead as a new type of initiation with Christ as the hierophant. Previous “raising from the dead” initiations found in Freemasonry name the master who was raised as Hiram Abif, the master builder who built the Temple of Solomon. This ancient tradition of Hiram being raised from the dead is enacted anew through the raising of Lazarus. Lazarus was Hiram, reincarnated. So this is what we have so far: Cain and Abel under the Cross The next step in our discovery will open the doors of history to show how beings are connected and how they are reincarnated until resolution is completed. According to Steiner, St. Germain/Rosenkreutz/Lazarus-John/Hiram was originally Cain, the child of Adam and Eve. Thus, the original person who brought death into the world, Cain, had to die as the reincarnated Lazarus and be raised again by Jesus Christ to create the redemption for the “Mark of Cain.” Upon Lazarus’ resurrection, he receives the name St. John. One then might assume that if the redeemed Cain as St. John was under the cross that Abel, in his reincarnated form, would also be present for an event that would redeem the original sin of man and heal the wounds that eating the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil created. Steiner tells us that Mary Magdalene was the reincarnated Abel. Mary, who was also called ‘the one the Lord loved’ was held dear in the heart of Jesus. Both St. John and Mary Magdalene are seen as the most intimate and beloved of those around Christ. Ultimately, St. John ends up taking care of all “three Marys” who are under the cross. Cain truly learns to love Abel, and sees that she has special wisdom and insight into the nature of Jesus Christ and his cosmic mission. Cain and Abel in their reincarnated forms stood under the cross which was seen as the New Tree of Life that redeemed the transgression through the Tree of Knowledge. There are other incarnations of St. Germain that are given by Rudolf Steiner, but these few mentioned above are so powerful and insightful for mapping the spiritual evolution of humanity through key individuals that the whole cosmological picture starts to come into focus. You can feel the perfection of karma working through these reincarnations. Two Jesus Boys and Two Marys A spiritual researcher can grasp all of spiritual evolution if he can understand who witnessed the Mystery of Golgotha. To understand the next level of Cain and Abel’s karma we need the insight of Steiner to illuminate who else stood beneath the cross. To do this we must go back to the creation of Adam and Eve. At the time of creation, a copy of Adam and Eve were made and held back in paradise until the time was needed for perfected bodies for Jesus of Nazareth and his mother, Mary of Nazareth. These two paradisical bodies (held back in paradise) were reserved for these perfected beings who had not gone through the Fall. At the same time, Eve was incarnated as the second Mary spoken of the Gospels, the Mary who gave birth to a second Jesus child in Jerusalem. As Bible readers know, but do not pay close attention to, there are two entirely different birth stories in the Bible—the one in the Gospel of Luke and the other in Matthew. There are two Jesus boys, with two separate births and childhood stories up to the event of Jesus at age twelve speaking to the temple priests. It may come as a shock to many to be told that the Bible gives two entirely different genealogies for the “two Jesus boys.” This secret of the “Two Jesus Boys” has been known by many spiritual groups throughout history, but has remained an “open secret.” The Gospel of Matthew gives a genealogy that goes back to Abraham, whereas the Luke Gospel goes back to Adam as the son of God. Matthew lists forty-two generations from Abraham, whereas Luke lists seventy-seven from Adam, with fifty-seven of them being from Abraham. Matthew shows the descent through David’s son Solomon, whereas Luke shows the descent through David’s son, Nathan. These are entirely different and show that two different boys are being described. There are many incongruences in the two accounts we have from Matthew and Luke. If you read them side by side, they simply don’t agree and it is obvious that two different boys and their parents are being described. 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