St. Germain: An alchemist used the Philosopher's Stone – TV Series Warehouse
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Just in case you think sightings of the "walking
dead" are purely a modern phenomenon, consider this: In 1742, a curious
man appeared in Europe. He claimed he had just arrived from Persia, and he
seemed to be well acquainted with the customs of the East. He also claimed to
be an alchemist, who'd learned the art of fusing jewels like diamonds to make
larger stones. To all who met him, he looked to be in his 40s, and he was
fluent in the major European languages, as well as Sanskrit, Latin, Arabic, and
Chinese. He was a virtuoso violinist, a painter, and he seemed to possess
incredible wealth, with no real source for his endless funds. He was known in
social circles as the Count de Saint- Germain, and many believe that he
discovered the secret elixir to eternal life.
Many sources claim that St. Germain was hundreds, if not
thousands, of years old. Voltaire said he was "a man who never dies and
who knows everything," and the legendary Casanova overheard the Count say
that he was more than 300 years old. Variously, he's been identified as a high
priest of Atlantis; the biblical character Samuel; the Greek philosopher Plato;
Joseph, husband of Mary and father of Jesus; St. Alban, fourth-century English
martyr; Merlin the Magician; Christen Rosenkreuz, legendary founder of
Rosicrucianism; Christopher Columbus; and Francis Bacon.
During the Enlightenment period of the 18th and 19th
centuries, he became a world-famous alchemist. Some have claimed that he was a
secret advisor to Freemasons George Washington and Benjamin Franklin during the
formative years of the founding of the United States, and it's been said that he
tended to Franklin's painful gout while the aging diplomat was in Paris. Today,
he's a regular figure in fantasy novels, frequently appearing as a vampire.
In the 1740s, St. Germain became a diplomat to France's King
Louis XV. In the 1760s, he was in Russia as part of a plot to install Catherine
the Great on the throne. And after warning France's Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette of the impending French Revolution nearly 15 years before it
occurred, he managed to traipse in and out of Paris during the Terror in the
1790s without losing his head.
Some records claim that he died in Germany in 1784. Yet,
France's Comtesse d'Adhémar saw him many times between 1789 and the 1820s, and
he never looked older than his 40s. Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky claimed to
know him in the 1870s, and French singer Emma Calve said she knew him as late
as 1897.
A French magician named Richard Chanfray appeared in Paris
in 1972, claiming to be the ageless Count, and briefly made a name for himself
on television by transmuting lead into gold. Money troubles led him and his
girlfriend to take massive amounts of drugs and lock themselves into a garage
with their car running in 1983, so questions about this suicidal final
appearance of the Count throw questions on his immortality.
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