Ep 58: The Count of Saint Germain Part 1
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Photos:
1 & 2 ) What is thought to be an image of the Count of Saint Germain. From Wikipedia: An engraving of the Count of St. Germain by Nicolas Thomas made in 1783, after a painting then owned by the Marquise d’Urfe and now apparently lost. Contained at the Louvre in France; 3 & 4) Isabel Cooper-Oakley 5) Francis II Rakoczy (The Count’s Father?) 6) Horace Walpole 7) Voltaire 8) Louis XV by Maurice Quentin de la Tour 1748 9) Louix XV by Rigaud 1730 10) Madame du Pompadour by Boucher 11) Rosicrucian Symbol 12) Prince Carl Hesse-Cassel 13 & 14) Chateau du Chambord 15) Alchemy
Background:
Who’s the most interesting person you’ve ever met? Can they play a musical instrument? Do they speak a foreign language? Are they a fine art painter? Have they traveled the world? Are they descended from royalty? Sure, maybe only a couple of those. But what if they were a concert level violinist who could also compose music? What if they could speak ten languages or more? What if it seemed they could produce precious gemstones and on top of that, were a military tactician who brokered diplomacy between nations? Impossible you say, for all of these talents and accomplishments to be contained within one individual? And yet all of these are the qualities and accomplishments claimed to be witnessed by the contemporaries of the man known mostly as the Count of Saint Germain. He was known by many names and for his many remarkable feats, but perhaps his most astounding accomplishment, as more than a few would claim, was to remain alive for several generations from the 18th century or earlier, into the 19th century and maybe even to this day.
Tonight’s Quote:
“He is a man who never dies, and who knows everything.”
— Voltaire, speaking about the Count of St Germain
Show Links:
We’ve found that some sites are not showing these links as clickable unless they are URLs, so until those outlets improve their show notes section, we are providing actual URLs next to the clickable description of each link to make things easier for our listeners!
- PDF of The Count of Saint Germain by Isabel Cooper-Oakley (beware of typos) http://bit.ly/2imh7OD
- Finding Count St. Germain, a great blog by Jessie Desmond http://bit.ly/2j9GX5p
- Writer and mystic Manley P. Hall http://bit.ly/2jGssW5
- Sanctus Germanus http://bit.ly/2jOa6Gy
- In Search Of episode, S2-E2 “The Man Who Would Not Die” http://bit.ly/1E4GzvT
- Louis XV, Friend to the Count http://bit.ly/2jGxlhK
- The Count of St Germain on Wikipedia (Decent Entry) http://bit.ly/2jtpbK6
- Isabel Cooper-Oakley http://bit.ly/2jGnfNM
- Madame Du Pompadour http://bit.ly/2jgVQ8L
- The Great White Brotherhood (not rascist!) http://bit.ly/2jh3GPH
- Ascended Masters http://bit.ly/2imoeXb
- Alchemy http://bit.ly/2j9Bdc3
- Chateau du Chambord http://bit.ly/1UNWiVv
- Rosicrucianism http://bit.ly/2jOiTbp
- Dreadcast – Hosted by our friend Shezhar Shah who guested on the show as Jude Law
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Credits:
Episode 058 – “The Count of Saint Germain” Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Edited by Sarah Vorhees, Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a,k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or “A.R.C.” for short. Copyright 2017 Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess. All Rights Reserved.