Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00663)

	H P B  



It is of importance that we ask ourselves: WHO WAS / IS H P B ?

Here are some statements to be thought over:



1	On HPB's "position" as an ADEPT."

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"[H. P. B.] Those who cannot understand her had best not try to explain
her...she knew...that high and wise servants of the Lodge have remained
with the West since many centuries for the purpose of helping it on its
mission and destiny. That work it would be well for members of the T.
Mvt. to continue without deviating, without excitement, without running
to extremes...the truth of the soul's life is in no special quarter of
the compass..." W Q J LETTERS 76


"...They say that the Ego of that body she uses was and is a great and
brave servant of the Lodge, sent to the West with a mission with full
knowledge of the insult and obloquy to be surely heaped upon that
devoted head; and they add: 'Those who cannot understand her had best
not try to explain her; those who do not find themselves strong enough
for the task she outlined from the very first had best not attempt it.'"
WQJ ART II 18


"H.P.B. was the Messenger from the Great Lodge to the western world.
W.Q.J. was a co-founder and co-worker with H.P.B. from the beginning.
It will be well to remember that HPB and WQJ were not accorded the
positions They held through any authority, but through recognition of
Their knowledge and power. They were sui generis; all others are but
students. Those who belittle Judge will also be found belittling HPB."
F P 5


"HPB was the Direct Agent of the Lodge--and this is explicitly stated to
be the fact by the Master K.H. ...then we must go to the records left by
Her and Her Colleague, W.Q.J., for direction in all matters pertaining
to the Theosophical Movement."	F P 34


"In the introduction to the SECRET DOCTRINE, H.P.Blavatsky boldly
affirms the existence of a great Fraternity of Men, Adepts, who preserve
the true philosophy through all changes, now revealing it, and again, at
certain eras, withdrawing it from a degraded age; and emphatically she
says that the doctrine is never a new one, but only a handing on again
of what was always the system... [Further she adds] in the twentieth
century of our era scholars will begin to recognize that the S.D. has
neither been invented nor exaggerated, but, on the contrary, simply
outlined; and finally, that its teachings antedate the Vedas."

"...the Messenger from the great Fraternity--she herself being the one
for this Century--she observes significantly: that "In Century the 20th
some disciple more informed, and far better fitted, may be sent by the
Masters of Wisdom to give final and irrefutable proof that there exists
a science called Gupta-Vidya; and that, [it] the source of all
religions and philosophies now known to the world...is at last found."
WQJ ART II 81-2

	
"[ According to HPB ]...there are certain persons on this earth, living
and working as ordinary human beings and members of society, whose
informing divine part is so immeasurably high in development that they
as such high beings have a definite status and function in the
"supersensuous regions."...she herself was such a case, and that "H P B"
whether hourly in the day or at night when all around was still, had a
"status and function" in other spheres where she consciously carried on
the work of that high station, whatever it was...[She wrote in one
place] " I am conscious day and night, and have much to do and to
endure in both these existences from which you, being half-conscious,
are happily saved."	WQJ ART I 616

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AUTHORSHIP OF SECRET DOCTRINE


A good deal has been said about the writing of Isis Unveiled, and later
of the Secret Doctrine, both by H. P. Blavatsky. 

A writer in the spiritualistic journals took great pains to show how
many books the first work seems to quote from, and the conclusion to be
arrived at after reading his diatribes is that H.P.B. had an enormous
library at her disposal, and of course in her house, for she never went
out, or that she had agents at great expense copying books, or, lastly,
that by some process or power not known to the world was able to read
books at a distance, as, for instance, in the Vatican at Rome and the
British Museum. The last is the fact. 

She lived in a small flat when writing the first book and had very few
works on hand, all she had being of the ordinary common sort. She
herself very often told how she gained her information as to modern
books. 

No secret was made of it, for those who were with her saw day after day
that she could gaze with ease into the astral light and glean whatever
she wanted. But in the early days she did not say precisely to the
public that she was in fact helped in that work by the Masters, who gave
from time to time certain facts she could not get otherwise. 

The Secret Doctrine, however, makes no disguise of the real help, and
she asserts, as also many of us believe, that the Masters had a hand in
that great production. 

The letters sent to Mr. Sinnett formed the ground for Esoteric Buddhism,
as was intended, but as time went on it was seen that some more of the
veil had to be lifted and certain misconceptions cleared up; hence the
Secret Doctrine was written, and mostly by the Masters themselves,
except that she did the arranging of it.

For some time it was too much the custom of those who had received at
the hands of H.P.B. words and letters from her Masters to please
themselves with the imagination that she was no more in touch with the
original fount, and that, forsooth, these people could decide for
themselves what was from her brain and what from the Masters. But it is
now time to give out a certificate given when the Secret Doctrine was
being written, a certificate signed by the Masters who have given out
all that is new in our theosophical books. It was sent to one who had
then a few doubts, and at the same time copies were given from the same
source to others for use in the future, which is now. 

The first certificate runs thus:

"I wonder if this note of mine is worthy of occupying a select spot with
the documents reproduced, and which of the peculiarities of the
"Blavatskian" style of writing it will be found to most resemble? The
present is simply to satisfy the Doctor that "the more proof given the
less believed." Let him take my advice and not make these two documents
public. It is for his own satisfaction the undersigned is happy to
assure him that the Secret Doctrine, when ready, will be the triple
production of [here are the names of one of the Masters and of H.P.B.]
and _______ most humble servant, [signed by the other.]"

On the back of this was the following, signed by the Master who is
mentioned in the above:

"If this can be of any use or help to _____, though I doubt it, I, the
humble undersigned Faquir, certify that the Secret Doctrine is dictated
to [name of H.P.B.], partly by myself and partly by my brother ______."


A year after this, certain doubts having arisen in the minds of
individuals, another letter from one of the signers of the foregoing was
sent and reads as follows. As the prophecy in it has come true, it is
now the time to publish it for the benefit of those who know something
of how to take and understand such letters. For the outside it will all
be so much nonsense.

The certificate given last year saying the Secret Doctrine would be when
finished the triple production of [H.P.B.'s name],

" ________, and myself was and is correct, although some have doubted
not only the facts given in it but also the authenticity of the message
in which it was contained. Copy this and also keep the copy of the
aforesaid certificate. You will find them both of use on the day when
you shall, as will happen without your asking, receive from the hands of
the very person to whom the certificate was given, the original for the
purpose of allowing you to copy it; and then you can verify the
correctness of this presently forwarded copy. And it may then be well to
indicate to those wishing to know what portions in the Secret Doctrine
have been copied by the pen of [H.P.B.'s name] into its pages, though
without quotation marks, from my own manuscript and perhaps from ______,
though the last is more difficult from the rarity of his known writing
and greater ignorance of his style. All this and more will be found
necessary as time goes on, but for which you are well qualified to
wait."

ONE OF THE STAFF	[WQJ]	Path, April, 1893
 

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It may also be of interest to give a survey of the PREDECESSORS
who came every century from the era of Tsong-Ka-Pa 
prior to HPB's mission	DTB

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THE 100 YEAR CYCLE OF ADEPT WORK IN THE "WEST."	
H.P.B. Articles, II p. 308


PREDECESSORS OF H.P.B.


"But there are some cases in which we can judge with a degree of
certainty that such adepts were incarnated and what they were named.
Take Thomas Vaughn, Raymond Lully, Sir Thomas More, Jacob Boehme,
Paracelsus, and others like them...These souls were as witnesses to the
truth, leaving through the centuries in their own natures, evidence for
those who followed, and suggestions for keeping spirituality
bright--seed-thoughts, as it were, ready for the new mental soil. And
as well as these historical characters, there are countless numbers of
men and women now living who have passed through certain initiations
during their past lives upon earth, and who produce effects in many
directions quite unknown to themselves now. They are, in fact, old
friends of "the sacred tribe of heroes," and can therefore be more
easily used for the spreading of influences and the carrying out of
effects necessary for the preservation of spirituality in this age of
darkness."	WQJ Art I pp. 192-4


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Dates	Chief Figures	Others	Notes & References
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14th Century


1358-1419	TSON-KA-PA	
[ TM 7-p. 25; TM 8-p. 141; HPB Art. 3-331;
[ TM 11-140; 15-105; 25-200; 5 Yr. T 113;
[ THY 16-179; 26-118; 43-126; Is II 609;
[ Glos. 305 ] HPB Art 331-3; SD I 108;
5 Yrs. Thy. 113; TM 7-p.25; 8-p.140; 
A Lamrin Compendium T M v.20-122; 14-1
Is II 609 616;	TM	25-7; [ Glos. 186 ]

Of Importance:

1304-1374	Francesco Petrarch (poet & Platonist)
1328-1384	John Wyclif (reformer, Trans. Bible in English)

forerunner of Reformation
1369-1415	John Huss (Reformer, precursor of Reformation)
1379-1421	Thomas a'Kempis (Imitation of Christ)

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15th Century


1493-1541	PARACELSUS (Theophrastus Bombastus)
Glos 248 T v.8-344, 376; T 197, 242, v.26
T v. 10 series; T 97, 151	v.24 
[Bio. G. West] .	T M 152, 193, v.59
TM v.49 -412, 455; TM 34, v.11


1463-1494	G. PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA  
(Platonic Academy, Florence)
IS I 226 Glos. 254, 253, 80
Is II 20 SD II 200 600
The Greatness of Man TM 250 v. 25
T. Mvt. in Renaissance TM 252, 305 v. 39

Of Importance:

Gemistus Pletho (Platonic MSS to Florence)
1433-1499	M. Ficino (Library - Florentine Platonist)
1389-1464	Cosimo de Medici (Library & Platonic Academy)
1449-1492	Lorenzo de Medici (Library & Platonic Academy)
[Patron of: Boticelli, Michelangelo, Lippi]
1401-1464	Nicholas de Cusa (Renaissance reformer)
[ mystic & Neo-Platonist ]
1455-1522	John Reuchlin (Reformation)
1462-1516	Trithemius
1466-1536	D. Erasmus (Reformation)
1473-1543	N. Copernicus
1478-1535	Sir. Thomas More (Platonist)
1486-1535	Cornelius Agrippa
1483-1546	Martin Luther

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16th Century


1575-1624	  
JAKOB BOEHME	T v.4-366; v.5-433; v.6-127; T 26-386
Glos. 60; T. v.31-497; series v. 31
J. Boehme & Secret Doctrine	WQJ Art 270 v. 1
J. Boehme - Life - F. Hartmann TM v.44- 92, 59
On Boehme . .. TM v.11-27; v.36-270

1574-1637	ROBERT FLUDD Glos. 120; IS II 309-10; TM v.60-17

1548-1600	GIORDANO BRUNO T v .6-385; v.67-341; 
T v.73-170; T v. 26-330
Theos. of Bruno T v. 26-74; TM 51, 76-v.14
Is I xxxiii 93-8 338-9 431 582 II 528 531

Of Importance:

1509-1564	John Calvin
Van Helmont [pupil of Paracelsus]
1501-1576	Jerome Cardan
1502-1598	Henry Khunrath
1586-1654	C. Rosenkreuz (Rosenkranz) [Rosicrucians]
Johan Valentin Andrea 
1515-	George Postel
Joseph Borri
Bragadini
1564-1616	Shakespeare

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17th Century


1622-1666	E. PHILALETHES (THOMAS VAUGHN) 
[ Glos. 252 ]
Mod. Pan. 42-4; CWB 4-575; Glos. 14, 168
HPB Art I-40, 3-155; Is I xxv 51 67 167
Is I 191 193 226 255-7 306-9 504

Of Importance:

1605-1682	Thomas Brown (Religio Medici)
1614-1687	Henry More (Cambridge Platonist)
1617-1688	Henry Cudsworth (Cambridge Platonist)
1617-1692	Elias Ashmole (1st Mason)
1632-1677	Baruch Spinoza
1688-1772	E. Swedenborg (mystic)
1628-1688	John Bunyan
1646-1716	Baron C. W. Leibnitz
Thomas Taylor

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18th Century


?	COUNT DE ST. GERMAIN
T v.4-241, 321; v.24-155; T 3, v. 27
Glos. 308-9, TM v.13-33; 33-416; 390, v. 21
Lucifer 10-246-7, CWB v.3-523; HPB Art 149, v. 3 
Mod. Panarion 371; TM 416-33; T M 190 v. 50
Is I 575 II 403

1743-1803	

COUNT DE ST. MARTIN  
T v.27-p.9; T 482	26
Glos. 284; Lucifer 19-324; T 368, 2


1743-1795 COUNT CAGLIOSTRO (Henri Balsamo)
[ Glos. 72 ] T v.2-110; T	530, v.26
Was Cagliostro a Charlatan ?	HPB Art 152 v. 3
HPB on Cagliostro	.	T M 153, v. 8
Prince Talleyrand--Cagliostro	WQJ Art 472 v. 1
Is I xxxiii 100 128 509; II 403


1733-1815	ANTON MESMER	[Glos. 214 ]
Thy. V.26-434; WQJ Art I-524, 541, 545
[ see Index, back of WQJ Art. v. 2;
see Index, back of HPB Art. v. 3;
HPB Art. II 477, 355;

Of Importance:

1700-	Martinez Paschalis
1706-1790	Benjamin Franklin
1707-1809	Thomas Paine
1787-1854	J. Ennemoser (Hypnotism)
1724-1804	I. Kant (philosopher)
1749-1832	J. W. Goethe
1758-1835	Thomas Taylor (Platonist)
Ragon (Masonry)
Eliphas Levi [Abbe Louis Constant]
1788-1860	A. Schopenhauer
1799-1850	Henri Balzac
1799-1888	Bronson Alcott (Educationist)

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19th Century


1831-1891	H. P. BLAVATSKY	Theosophy
1851-1896	W.Q.JUDGE	Theosophy
1832-1907	H.S.Olcott
1851-1919	R. Crosbie

Of Importance:

1803-1882	Ralph W. Emerson (Transcendentalist)
1805-1872	G. Mazzini
1807-1882	G. Garibaldi
1809-1865	A. Lincoln
1812-1870	Charles Dickens
1817-1862	Henry D. Thoreau (Transcendentalist)
1819-1892	Walt Whitman
1828-1910	Leo. Tolstoy
1823-1913	A. R. Wallace
1832-1919	Prof. Wm. Crookes
1840-1902	Emile Zola
1842-1925	C. Flammarion
1850-1898	Edward Bellamy
T. A. Edison


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Articles and References


The 100 year cycle .. Secret Doctrine I xxxvii-iii Key, pp. 306-7
The Hundred Year Cycle	Theosophy Vol. 19 - p. 449
The Theos. Movement in Other Ages . T. Mvt. V. 35, p. 93
The Precursors of H.P.Blavatsky Theosophy, V. 23, p. 529
Precursors of H.P.B.	.	.series Theosophy, Vol. 24
Footsteps of the Predecessors	Theos. Mvt. V. 2, p. 49
Future and past Incarnations of HPB C. Wachtmeister	
Reminiscences p. 127
Previous Incarnation of HPB	WQJ Forum Answers p. 66

WQJ on the Nature of HPB	.	Pract. Occultism, p. 162-4
On HPB, Her Work and Position Theosophy 54 - p. 161-2
The next "Messenger"	.	W .Q. J. Art. II 153
HPB an Occultist	.	.	Theosophy 6 - p. 111
RC on HPB	.	.	Theosophy 8 - p. 8
Landmarks in Theosophical History	T. Mvt. V. 39, p. 30
A History of Theosophy Down the Ages T. Mvt. V. 33, p. 421
A History of the Theosophical Movement T. Mvt. V. 38, p. 107
Plain Theosophical Traces	.	WQJ Articles I p. 244
Years of Preparation in America T. Mvt. V. 25, p. 232
The Adepts in America in 1776 WQJ. Art. II, p. 70;

On Tson-Ka-Pa	.	T. Mvt. Vol. 7 - p. 25
T. Mvt. Vol. 8 - p. 141
Aryan Path, March 1945

HPB 6th Mission since Tson-Ka-Pa Theosophy 26, p. 118
Theosophy 15, p. 1  
Seven Centuries Culminating	T. Mvt. Vol. 19, p. 73

Spiritual Yeast in 14th Cent. Europe T. Mvt. V. 25, p. 200
The Theosophical Renaissance	Theosophy, V. 26, p. 98
The T. Movement the Renaissance T. Mvt. V. 39, p. 252, 305
Italian Renaissance & Ancient Wisdom	T. Mvt. V. 25, p. 223

Jacob Boehme and the Secret Doctrine	WQJ Art. I, p. 270;
Was Cagliostro a Charlatan?	HPB Art. III p. 152;

W.Q.J. on Cycles	.WQJ Art. I 58, 183, 159, II 127. 152,
The Theosophical Movement	WQJ Art. II, p. 124;
Our Cycle and the Next	.	HPB Art. I p. 367;
HPB on Cycles	.	.	HPB Art. I 355, 397;
The Cycle Moves on	.	T. Mvt. Vol. 18, p. 145
The Cycle Moveth	(Series)	Theosophy 13 - 1 -
481

Obscured Adepts	.	T Mvt. Vol. 16, p. 9; III 69;
Chelas and Lay Chelas	.	HPB Art. II 308 (bot.)

Plato and his Successors	Theosophy, V. 84, p. 144

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H P B wrote about some of her predecessors  

CAGLIOSTRO was one of them.

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CAGLIOSTRO. 

A famous Adept, whose real name is claimed (by his enemies)
to have been Joseph Balsamo. He was a native of Palermo, and studied
under some mysterious foreigner of whom little has been ascertained. His
accepted history is too well known to need repetition, and his real
history has never been told. His fate was that of every human being who
proves that he knows more than do his fellow- creatures; he was “ stoned
to death ‘ by persecutions, lies, and infamous accusations, and yet he
was the friend and adviser of the highest and mightiest of every land he
visited. He was finally tried and sentenced in Rome as a heretic, and
was said to have died during his confinement in a State prison. (See “
Mesmer”.) Yet his end was not utterly undeserved, as he had been untrue
to his vows in some respects, had fallen from his state of chastity and
yielded to ambition and selfishness." T Glos 72


LIGHT, BROTHERS OF. 	

This is what the great authority on secret
societies, Brother Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie IX., says of this
Brotherhood. “A mystic order, Fratres Lucis, established in Florence in
1498. Among the members of this order were Pasqualis, Cagliostro,
Swedenborg, St. Martin, Eliphaz Lévi, and many other eminent mystics.
Its members were very much persecuted by the Inquisition. It is a small
but compact body, the members being spread all over the world.”	
T. the THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY p. 188


LUXOR, BROTHERHOOD OF. 

A certain Brotherhood of mystics. ...
The name is derived from the ancient Lookshur in Beloochistan, lying 
between Bela and Kedjee. The order is very ancient and the most 
secret of all."	T Glos 193


MESMER, Friedrich Anton. 	

The famous physician who 
Rediscovered and applied practically that magnetic fluid in man 
which was called animal magnetism and since then Mesmerism. 
He was born in Schwaben, in 1734 and died in 1815. He was an 
initiated member of the BROTHERHOODS OF THE FRATRES 
LUCIS AND OF LUKSHOOR (OR LUXOR), or the Egyptian 
Branch of’ the latter. 

It was the Council of “Luxor” which selected him—according to the 
Orders of the “Great Brotherhood”—to act in the XVIIIth century as 
their usual pioneer, sent in the last quarter of every century to
enlighten 
a small portion of the Western nations in occult lore. 

It was St. Germain who supervised the development of events in this
case; and later Cagliostro was commissioned to help, but having made a
series of mistakes, more or less fatal, he was recalled. Of these three
men who were at first regarded as quacks, Mesmer is already vindicated.
The justification of the two others will follow in the next century.
Mesmer founded the “Order of Universal Harmony” in 1783, in which
presumably only animal magnetism was taught, but which in reality
expounded the tenets of Hippocrates, the methods of the ancient
Asclepieia, the Temples of Healing, and many other occult sciences."
T Glos 213-4


OCCULT SCIENCES. 	

The science of the secrets of
nature—physical and psychic, mental and spiritual; called Hermetic and
Esoteric Sciences. In the West, the Kabbalah may be named; in the East,
mysticism, magic, and Yoga philosophy, which latter is often referred to
by the Chelas in India as the seventh “Darshana” (school of
philosophy), there being only six Darshanas in India known to the world
of the profane. 

These sciences are, and have been for ages, hidden from the vulgar for
the very good reason that they would never be appreciated by the selfish
educated classes, nor understood by the uneducated; whilst the former
might misuse them for their own profit, and thus turn the divine science
into black magic. 

It is often brought forward as an accusation against the Esoteric
philosophy and the Kabbalah that their literature is full of “a
barbarous and meaningless jargon” unintelligible to the ordinary mind.
But do not exact Sciences—medicine, physiology, chemistry, and the
rest—do the same? 

Do not official Scientists equally veil their facts and discoveries with
a newly coined and most barbarous Græco-Latin terminology? As justly
remarked by our late brother, Kenneth Mackenzie—“To juggle thus with
words, when the facts are so simple, is the art of the Scientists of the
present time, in striking contrast to those of the XVIIth century, who
called spades spades, and not ‘agricultural implements ‘.“ 

Moreover, whilst their facts would be as simple and as comprehensible if
rendered in ordinary language, the facts of Occult Science are of so
abstruse a nature, that in most cases no words exist in European
languages to express them; in addition to which our “jargon” is a double
necessity—(a) for the purpose of describing clearly these facts to him
who is versed in the Occult terminology; and (b) to conceal them from
the profane.


ST. GERMAIN, THE COUNT OF. 

Referred to as an enigmatical personage by modern writers. Frederic II.,
King of Prussia, used to say of him that he was a man whom no one had
ever been able make out. Many are his “ biographies “, and each is
wilder than the other. By some he was regarded as an incarnate god, by
others as a clever Alsatian Jew. 

One thing is certain, Count de St. Germain—whatever his real patronymic
may have been—had a right to his name and title, for he had bought a
property called San Germano, in the Italian Tyrol, and paid the Pope for
the title. He was uncommonly handsome, and his enormous erudition and
linguistic capacities are undeniable, for he spoke English, Italian,
French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Swedish, Danish, and many
Slavonian and Oriental languages, with equal facility with a native. He
was extremely wealthy, never received a sou from anyone—in fact never
accepted a glass of water or broke bread with anyone, made most
extravagant presents of superb jewellery to all his friends, even to the
royal families of Europe. His proficiency in music was marvellous; he
played on every instrument, the violin being his favourite. “St. Germain
rivalled Paganini himself”, was said of him by an octogenarian Belgian
in 1835, after hearing the “Genoese maestro”. “It is St. Germain
resurrected who plays the violin in the body of an Italian skeleton ”,
exclaimed a Lithuanian baron who had heard both.

He never laid claim to spiritual powers, but proved to have a right to
such claim. He used to pass into a dead trance from thirty-seven to
forty-nine hours without awakening, and then knew all he had to know,
and demonstrated the fact by prophesying futurity and never making a
mistake. 

It is he who prophesied before the Kings Louis XV. and XVI., and the
unfortunate Marie Antoinette. Many were the still living witnesses in
the first quarter of this century who testified to his marvellous
memory; he could read a paper in the morning and, though hardly glancing
at it, could repeat its contents without missing one word days
afterwards; he could write with two hands at once, the right hand
writing a piece of poetry, the left a diplomatic paper of the greatest
importance. 

He read sealed letters without touching them, while still in the hand of
those who brought them to him. He was the greatest adept in transmuting
metals, making gold and the most marvellous diamonds, an art, he said,
he had learned from certain Brahmans in India, who taught him the
artificial crystallisation (“quickening “) of pure carbon. As our
Brother Kenneth Mackenzie has it :—

“ In 1780, when on a visit to the French Ambassador to the Hague, he
broke to pieces with a hammer a superb diamond of his own manufacture,
the counterpart of which, also manufactured by himself, he had just
before sold to a jeweller for 5500 louis d’or”. 

He was the friend and confidant of Count Orloff in 1772 at Vienna, whom
he had helped and saved in St. Petersburg in 1762, when concerned in the
famous political conspiracies of that time; he also became intimate with
Frederick the Great of Prussia. 

As a matter of course, he had numerous enemies, and therefore it is not
to be wondered at if all the gossip invented about him is now attributed
to his own confessions: e.g., that he was over five hundred years old;
also, that he claimed personal intimacy “with the Saviour and his twelve
Apostles, and that he had reproved Peter for his bad temper ”— the
latter clashing somewhat in point of time with the former, if he had
really claimed to be only five hundred years old. if he said that “he
had been born in Chaldea and professed to possess the secrets of the
Egyptian magicians and sages ”, he may have spoken truth without making
any miraculous claim. There are Initiates, and not the highest either,
who are placed in a condition to remember more than one of their past
lives. But we have good reason to know that St. Germain could never have
claimed “personal intimacy ” with the Saviour. 

How ever that may be, Count St. Germain was certainly the greatest
Oriental Adept Europe has seen during the last centuries. But Europe
knew him not. 

Perchance some may recognise him at the next Terreur which
will affect all Europe when it comes, and not one country alone."
T. Glos p. 308-9