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occultisti watch to Saint-Germain like to one
of the more interesting and intriguers figures
of the history of the occultismo, to the point
that someone thinks quite that it is still alive.
All those who have written of he, arrive you to
the term of their search, they have not never
been able to make less than to ask itself if Saint-Germain
"the immortale" constitutes really a
mystery or other is not that one swindle, a colossal
deceit. Since the collected voluminoso dossier
on he to the time of Napoleone came destroyed
during the Common one, goes without saying that
the continuous question mark to persist. The thing
has made to exclaim to an adept person: "and
therefore, once again, simple" an accident
"has thrown again the ancient law that imposes
that the life of begun rests buried in the oblivion
and the mystery". Before the time that conte
of Saint-Germain (without doubt a false name)
appeared in France in 1756, could have and not
one cinquantina of years. Shining entertainer,
spoke some foreign languages well, knew of medicine
and belonged to the formation of first, enterprising
alchemists. High of stature, he did not dress
a dress viola dark and a necktie of satin white
man (a sign of modestia in those years he passes
you to the History for the faraonicità
of the apparels) and had elegant ways is in saying
that in managing. It was sure rich, he showed
not little diamonds and a continuation of numerous
servitori. Once that one skeptical had mormorato
on purpose of theirs landladies: "They are
sure that draft of a mentitore", one of they
had endured answered: "Sure, I know it better
than you. Thoughts that go telling in turn that
it lives from more than four thousand years. But,
for hour, I am to its service only from hundreds
and when they have arrived, the conte he said
me of having shakes it years. As it has made to
join nine hundred, if for error or because it
is emerito bugiardo, I guarantee to you that I
do not know it ". An other, personal its
valletto, when it had been interrogated from the
same one conte, its landladies, on purpose of
an ancient history event, had answered: "Perhaps,
the Mr. conte does not remind that I am to its
service only from five hundred years". Obviously
a similar type could not be that a ciarlatano,
but, in affirmative case, is not understood which
scope. The appearances had to be rich, were made
to accompany from a violinista, a skillful painter
and showed just in these two limbs, music and
painting, a deepened acquaintance, recognized
a picture without hesitations from the first moment.
In a its book, it shades the hypothesis to be
a matter of the son of one former Spanish Queen,
Maria of Neuberg, withdrawn to living to Bayonne
after the dead women of the husband Carl II. Its
lover was the minister of finances, conte the
Andanero, according to presumable Lang father
of the mysterious one conte. Before landing in
France, Saint-Germain had been to Vienna. Here
the Belle-Isle marshal had met, which she had
contracted some ailments during the war in Germany.
The conte he had reorganized it and, like gratefulness
action, the marshal had invited it to follow it
to Paris. As soon as arrived, it had been called
to the bedside of one checkers of court, poisoned
from not eatable fungi. Recovered it, he had entered
in thanks of the favorite of the king Luigi XV,
Madame de Pompadour. All the court women found
it fascinating. Contessa the Von Gergy, whose
husband had been ambassador to Venice in 1710,
supported to remind its name clearly and a day
had asked to it if, for case, its father or it
or qualcun other of the family never had been
in that city. Saint-Germain had answered in its
intriguing usual way having said that it had been
more resumptions. The checkers had then exclaimed:
"Impossible, getlteman. The person from me
known already to the age must have approximately
your age ". To that the conte, sorridendo
in ironico way, it had controbattuto: "But
I am much old one". Therefore he had added
an incredible particular series on its veneziano
stay to convince the checkers that he had be a
matter himself just of he. Nearly scared, the
woman had added: "But then you are the devil!".
To that esclamazione, Saint-Germain was impallidito,
had begun to shake considerably and, hurriedly,
it had abandoned knows it it. A ten of years first
Saint-Germain was found to London. In 1745 it
came arrested like spy of the expecting young
person, that it was just in that surf marching
on Derby. In a Walpole letter it annotates:
... the other day me has been introduced a singular
individual that says to call itself conte of Saint-Germain.
It was found here from two years and it had not
never revealed its identity neither from where
it reached... It sings, sound violino in sublime
way, composes; excessive sensitive person could
be a matter itself of crowds or one. An Italian,
how much one Spanish or a Pole think as well as;
someone says has made fortune in far away Mexico
and therefore has caught up Costantinopoli; others
say a imbroglione to it, a priest, a nobiluomo.
The prince of Wales has tried to satisfy the own
curiosity on its account, but a spider from the
hole has not cavato...
Nobody knows that what has never made neither
where has been between 1745 and 1755. But on ending
of years Fifty of the 1700's we know that it was
to Paris. Madame de Hausset, bridesmaid of room
of the Pompadour, wrote: A man came sovente who
was an extraordinary wizard... It made themselves
to call conte of Saint-Germain and he tried to
make to believe to people of having hundred of
years. While it was to the toilette, a Madame
day had asked to it: "That man kind was Francisco
I" "Indeed a beautiful type - it had
answered - but a po' too much proud. I would have
intentional dargli a pair of useful councils,
but it did not give to me never straight ".
Then he had described, even though in generic
terms, the beauty of Stuarda Maria and Queen Margot.
"one would say that you have known them all...",
the checkers had sentenziato playfully. And the
conte it had answered: "there are times in
which I amuse a lot not to convince people to
believe to me, but to leave to believe it that
I am to the for a long time immemorabile world".
Then, Madame de Pompadour had asked to it for
Madame de Gergy, that one that had said to remember
to have met it before cinquant' years to Venice.
The conte it had answered: "It can are given,
but I hold to emphasize that still now His Excellency
is more than ever an attractive man". To
this kind of answers it is comprised as Saint-Germain
loved than other more to joke on purpose of its
age, without never to try to impose to nobody
to believe that that it was telling. Its soon
enormous reputation divenne. To the point that
the annoyed minister of the foreign countries
French, thinking it a impostore and playing on
its pretension eternity, had hired controfigura
rising that went in turn in the halls Parisians
to motteggiarlo in order covering it of discredits,
saying of being therefore old to have known sant'
Anna, the mother of Maria, mother of Jesus, and
to have "always known that that Jesus would
not have made one beautiful end". Therefore,
that we know truly of Saint-Germain? In an autograph
letter dated 1735 to November we find it to the
Aia, in Holland, but of it we do not know the
reason. To the age it must have approximately
venticinque years. From 1743 to 1745 it was in
England, where it had been arrested like spy.
From the history that tells Cooper-Oakley to us
in its biography on the conte, they had embedded
it unjustly. Perhaps someone geloso of its reputation
(but also of its happened with the women) it had
put in pocket a compromising letter and it had
made it to arrest. But the conte it was successful
to demonstrate its innocence. To leave from the
1755 it had been moved to Vienna, where it lived
in wealth and from where, on I invite of marshal
de Belle-Isle, newly had been moved in order to
catch up Paris. Here, thanks to its qualities
of world man, had become one of the attractions
more interesting than all the salotti of the understood
one them. It said of living thanks to a miraculous
one elisir from patented same he and was usual
starsene to table between the commensali without
to touch food. But its greater interest was chemistry
and said to have invented a system in order to
dye silk and leather. It declared of being able
to clean up the diamonds from every impurità.
A day if it were made some to deliver one of the
value of seimila franchi. When it was returned
had delivered it perfectly cleaned up and pure,
a lot that its value was endured salted to diecimila
franchi. Probably, Saint-Germain had replaced
the stone with an other. It had thought that the
pain would be been worth earning the single confidence
of the king for four thousand franchi. It was
achieved some like result that the king had decided
to open a laboratory equipped to the Trianon and
had granted to Saint-Germain to settle itself
in the apartments of the castle of Chambord, for
being able to work to the putting to point of
the processes of coloration in the hope, in the
case had had happened, of being able in some way
to rimpinguare the cases of the state, that they
made water from all the parts. To a sure Saint-Germain
moment it had become therefore intimate of the
king who duca de the Choiseul was sbottato, writing:
"It seems strange that the king compiaccia
of starsene therefore sovente indeed alone in
company of costui, even if when if he exits some
always comes escorted from I manipulate of soldiers".
Speaking with an obvious tip of depreciation,
the duca it reports the second voice which Saint-Germain
would have been the son of a Hebrew Portuguese.
In the 1760 king, to insaputa of all the its ministers,
it sendes to Saint-Germain in Holland for one
diplomatic mission. _ scope of the the contact
sondare the possibility of a alliance with the
England, call to detach from the pact that it
tie to the Prussia, and stipulate the peace. For
pure combination in those days Saint-Germain it
had been found to share the same hotel of an other
amazing adventurer, Giacomo Casanova, also he
in Holland to name and then account of the French
government. The two had acknowledged and Casanova
had been convinced more than ever that the conte
it could not that to be a cialtrone. Here as of
it it speaks in its Memories: an extraordinary
man, been born on purpose in order to make the
king of the impostori and the imbroglioni, species
when, speaking in all tranquillity, like if nothing
he were, he says ago of being been born three
hundred years, to know the secrets of the universal
medicine, of being able to padroneggiare the forces
of the Nature, to know to work and to fuse the
diamonds... Nevertheless, although its pomposity,
its brazenness, its incallito face from bugiardo,
its evident eccentric way to make, nevertheless,
I said, I cannot just assert that features of
a maleducato or offensive man. In spite of these
final assertions, Casanova had but the same one
found the way to denigrate the conte, making circular
rising of oracolo cabalistic that put in guard
from Saint-Germain. Frattanto in France also the
duca of Choiseul - that it was contrary to stipulates
of the peace - had tramato against of he to the
point to give the order to arrest it and to lock
up it in the Bastille. But, for its fortune, the
Dutch ambassador, come to acquaintance of the
conspiracy, had made a "tip it" and
it was successful to embark itself on the first
ship for London. The matter had created not little
embarrassment to court, where Luigi and de Belle-Isle
sending of Saint-Germain for the Dutch mission
had been forced to admit of to have been they.
But the numerous enemies succeeded to prepare
its fall, even if not there is doubt that some
times was same he, perhaps for tactics or perhaps
for naivete, lend the flank to the attacks. In
the fattispecie, it had gone to tell to all of
being an agent in intelligence mission. In England
Saint-Germain it had been met with the ambassador
of Germany, perhaps with the hope of being able
to be received to the court of Sassonia di Federico
the Large one. Terrorizzato, l’ambasciatore
one had hurried to write to the secretary of prussiano
state in order to put it on who lives, praying
it to make of its best in order to hinder the
come one of the conte, because with its affabulatoria
ability and its ipnotico fascination he would
have been able to bewitch the king being induced
it to adopt which "disastrous measures goodness
knows". The ambassador did not have some
doubt on the power of fascinazione of Saint-Germain.
To this point the conte it had been forced to
make return in Holland secretly, where property
had acquired one dealing itself for conte the
Surmount; evidently short of moneies, he had only
anticipated a part of the cost of the house. The
French ambassador described it like a man "completely
discredited". But, for its good fate, Saint-Germain
had found an other protecting one in Coblenz,
minister of Holland Austrian, yearning of being
able in some way to take advantage of the chemical
processes invents to you from the conte in the
plants of Tournai. Coblenz, completely charmed,
had reported to Kaunitz, the Austrian, every chancellor
risen of wonder, like, as an example, the transformation
of the vile metal in gold, the dye of the silk
and other materials in whichever extraordinary
color, the synthesis of one species of colorful
skin similar to the softest leather. For how much
infatuato, Coblenz equally succeeded to say: "the
only thing that sopporto of he is those to continue
to maintain the secret on its identity and its
origins". Even if then, with passing of the
time, Coblenz it will have in part to ricredersi
on purpose of the character of the "genius",
of sure had intuito which potentialities trades
them hid behind the industrial processes from
he invents to you. The plants to Tournai came
however it implants to you and Saint-Germain was
successful is made to scucire the beauty of one
hundred thousand fiorini for of the secrets that
at first it had promised free of charge. That
in spite of, had the same one found the way to
disappear without to deliver to all the licences
and the pattuiti secrets. In any case, from that
of it we know, the enterprises of Tournai worked
and well, from that, it deduces that the inventions
of Saint-Germain had however to be concrete and
productive. The movements completed from conte
in the successes to you the ten years are not
famous, although same it declared of to have been
in India at least two times and to have taken
to part like combatant to the war Russian-Turk
in Mediterranean sea (1768-74). Sure friend of
conte the Alexei Orlov had gone to Saint Pietroburgo
becoming, commander of the Russian shipment in
the archipelago. Its preferred drink, the té
gained from the infusion of the leaves of cassia
(an light laxative), divenne famous like té
Russian and adopted in mass from Navy. For reasons
ignoti, Saint-Germain arrived to being name general
of the Russian army. In 1774 we find it to Schwabach,
in the Anspach, where a new one had been found
mecenate, Carl Alexander, margravio of the Brandeburgo.
These were remained exceptionally hit from the
figure of the conte when, oed with he to greeting
Orlov for the last time, it had seen it to embrace
with great heat its beloved friend. Saint-Germain
therefore had become the host of the margravio
in the castle of Triersdorf, continuing serenely
to lead its experiments. Now it was made to call
conte Tzarogy. But a day, probably in the anxiety
to astonish and to amaze as it was its usual,
the conte had confessed that one that was its
true identity: it was prince Rakoczy di Transilvania.
The margravio he had believed to us, but when
the nearby year had been in visit in Italy telling
in salotti the history of its exceptional host,
he had fallen from clouds when it it had been
reported that the three eredi to the throne of
the Transilvania they were all dead men and that
its mysterious and bugiardo host others was not
that ovunque a already very famous man like conte
of Saint-Germain, son of a tax collector Saint
Germano. Gemmingen, the minister of the sended
Anspach in order to be confronted with the conte,
reported that "prince Rakoczy" to precise
question had not denied of being the conte of
Saint-Germain. It had been forced of time in time
to resort to of the pseudonyms in order avoiding
the many enemies, but it had not never disonorato
some of the names under whose protection had been
covered. After all, the truth. The same one margravio
had recognized the serenity and the modestia of
its host, which it had not never been useful for
the situation for chiedergli of the money. That
although, Carl Alexander was strongly remained
disappointed and from that moment it had refused
to still receive like host the conte from the
many names. Therefore in 1776, to sessant’anni
completed, Saint-Germain house had been found
again once again without one. Resumed to travel,
it had visited Lipsia, Dresda, Berlin and Amburgo.
To Berlin it had burning hoped of being able itself
to make to receive from Federico the Large one,
but these it did not have intentional to have
null to that making with a personage that reputava
a ciarlatano adventurer. Finally, the conte it
had found a new master, prince Carl di Hesse-Cassel,
dapprincipio little inclined and opened to the
dialogue, but then gradually more and more available.
Fascinated from Saint-Germain, the prince accepted
without to discuss all that that the conte told
to it, comprised the history that it was prince
Rakoczy, that it had been raised in the house
of the last one of the Doctors and that, at the
moment, had ottantotto years. Carl arranged it
in a laboratory to Eckenforde, in the region of
the Schleswig-Holstein, where the adventurer had
passed in Saint peace the last years of its life,
suffering periodically from depression and reumatismi
in order to extinguish itself serenely in the
February of 1784, with serious displeasure of
prince Carl who never remembered it like "one
of the greatest tests appearances to the world".
Saint-Germain hardly was died that already the
voices on its person were not available. In a
newspaper exited the year after its next return
was announced. Madame de Genlis was convinced
to have seen it to Vienna in 1821. In 1836, in
an entitled book Souvenirs, the author, the contessa
of Adhémar, than it was boasted of to have
been of house to the court of Versailles in the
last days of the monarchy, said to have met it
in 1793 remembering as the dead women imminent
of Queen Maria Antonietta had preannounced them.
Then it had said them that, from lì to
1820, still five times would have been looked
at for others, but that us it would not have been
one sixth; and therefore it had happened. But
G.B. Volz, than in years twenty lead a deepened
search on Saint-Germain, supports that the conte
never it would not have existed and that Souvenirs
was a false one. In the 1845 Franz Graffer it
declared in its Memories to have seen the conte
of Saint-Germain, to which it had announced it
that it would be ricomparso on himalayani mounts
towards the end of the century, a declaration
of which Madame Blavatsky was felt authorized
to insert conte in the short list of its "masters
tibetani secrets" and to cite it with great
reverenza in its book “La doctrine segreta”.
But once again one discovered that also the Memories
of Graffer were a false one. However, when in
the 1885 Blavatsky it had made visit to the contessa
of Adhémar and mrs. Cooper-Oakley, whose
volume on the life of Saint-Germain was appeared
in 1912, it had had way to become account that
near arches it to you private of the family still
was conserved relative documents you to the mysterious
adventurer. In order to close the saga, there
is finally from remembering that in 1972, a young
person of name Richard Chanfray appeared to the
French television declaring of being Saint-Germain,
giving demonstration to know to transform the
lead in gold, using simply a fornellino from camping.
Hour that we have examined all as far as our acquaintance,
that we can conclude on purpose of this incredible
"man of the mystery"?
First - and dispiace a po' to even say it - that
cannot as an example sure be taken like figure
of wizard or secret master. If we give straight
to how much had expressed the prussiano ambassador
to Dresda, when it said: "rising of disordinata
vanity seems to constitute the mechanism of its
way to be", they cannot it are to us doubts
on the fact that Saint-Germain was a vanesio that
it spoke too much, even if does not lack attestations
contemporary witnesses who assert the contrary.
Also admitting all this, it can be same the brilliant
vanesi and chiacchieroni but. (the first example
that comes to us in mind is that extraordinary
one of George Bernard Shaw). Equally clearly it
is that Saint-Germain was large an enthusiastic
one, equipped of a formidable talent. From part
its, never had not defined neither a wizard neither
one studious of occultismo, indeed always a convinced
materialista had been declared, whose only scope
was that one to contribute to the well-being of
the humanity. Diderot and Of Alembert a collaborating
ideal for their Encyclopedia would not have had
hesitations in recognizing in this man from the
open spirit. The true, deep mystery legacy to
Saint-Germain, is that it was at the same time
a genius and a ciarlatano. It possessed in lofty
measure which we today call one detached sense
of the mondanità, desire to intrigue and
to fascinate. And they are just these characteristics
of its personality that they make us to think
that it was not who supported of being. It was
not, as an example, of sure the last heir of the
regale dynasty of the Transilvania, whose last
prìncipi they had been very famous personages.
Then those its nearly visceral desire to appear
like a monarch in exile, betrayed one birth near
a humble family and one fanciullezza passed to
fantasticare to open eyes reputation and Gloria.
The reports on imbroglioni and ciarlatani are
available in great number, but it is improbable
much, in order not to say impossible, to find
of one born in one only well-off rich family or
also. From we can here desumere that Saint-Germain
was not therefore the rampollo, for how much bastard,
of the Queen of Spain. We know that in the course
of its life it always tried to learn and to learn
and that chemistry was the passion of its life.
In other circumstances it could very well have
become a Lavoisier, a Robert Boyle or Michael
Faraday. Its natural brilliance rendered it unpleasant
sovente, from the high of its intelligent irony,
granting little consideration to those who it
was round, as well as that it comes to think that
when declared of having three hundred years or
of to have been intimate friend of the king Francisco
I, it made it provocatively on purpose in order
to demonstrate to if same and its intelligence
how much it were easy to demonstrate the human
stupidity. Perhaps the only, true, concrete enigma,
is in the knowledge where it reached the money
that concurred to it to pose to prince. Since,
in bottom, he was an honest man (if we only make
exception for the transaction of the enterprise
of Tournoi) the answer is that evidently it was
in a position to making to yield in the best one
of the ways under the aspect trades them its discoveries
in chemical field. Perhaps it will be able to
seem little banal after all these words to succeed
in to conclude that one of the more alarming men
of the mystery, a secret master, others was not
that a diamond, brilliant chemical “ante
litteram”. It will be also therefore, someone
will also be felt disappointed, but this seems
to be the only theory in a position to explaining
the facts therefore like knows them.
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