Madame Blavatsky on the Count de Saint-Germain

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 19 pages

Nineteen pages on the eighteenth century's most durable mystery, and the claim is made without hedging: that the Count de Saint-Germain was the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen in the last centuries of the last millennium. The distinction she draws in his favour is a careful one — he never laid claim to spiritual powers, but proved to have a right to such a claim, which is the reverse of the pattern she attacks elsewhere in this library.

The biography assembled around that is unusually concrete. He is described as a pupil of Indian and Egyptian hierophants, proficient in the secret wisdom of the East, and a member with Mesmer of the Lodge of the Philalethes — the body from which this website takes its name. He was sent by Louis XV to England in 1760 to negotiate peace between the two countries. Before and during the French Revolution he puzzled and almost terrified every capital in Europe and several crowned heads, and is credited here with predicting in detail the upheaval that ran from 1789 to 1799. The doctrinal label she attaches is the one students of the Secret Doctrine will recognise: a fifth rounder, a rare case of abnormally precocious individual evolution.

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