Many legends are there about the count de St.Germain, in which he mostly is portrayed as somebody, who, through all centuries would appear out of thin air to lend a helping hand in times of need and sorrow.
The theosofe Madame Blavatsky for example states to have had a personnal conversation with our count after he was long since dead. In certain theosophical circles even today the members believe, that the count still lives somewhere hidden away, to come to the rescue of us when the need is at its highest.
Let’s start with forgetting all those legends!
The Count de St.Germain was, just like us, a mortal human being, a man of flesh and blood. But he surely was a very remarkable man, without doubt a great scholar and furthermore also a man with enormous gifts of spirit and body, a man who not only was a guest in most royal courts of Europe , but who also was asked for help by several leaders of governments, a man driven by high ideals, who has carried through many dangerous tasks, in order to save peace and wellfare for humanity in his time.
The father of the count de St.Germain was the monarch Rakoczy, Franz II, Fuerst von Siebenburgen, and the leader of the Hungarian freedomfighters, the Kuruczs, whome fought Austrian occupation in their country.Franz II succeeded actually to drive away the Austrians from his country, and he could so conquer the Stefanscrown, and proclaimed himself King of Hungary in 1705.
Franz II was married to the Princes Charlotte Amelie, the daughter of the very powerfull ruler over Rheinfeld St. Goar Hessen, one of the wealthiest kingdoms in Germany.
During the battles for liberation of Hungary, leaded by Franz II, on may 28, 1696, his son LEOPOLD GEORG was born, Prince of Transsylvania. Not untill much later he will be entered in the registers of the church as Count de St.Germain.
Unfortunately for him, the rule of Franz II over Hungary is only a brief one. As you can imagine, the Austrians did not resign in the independence of Hungary, and eventually, they succeeded in getting the country back again under Austrian rule. The only thing that remembers us today of the Fuerst Franz II is the Rakoczy march, the national march of Hungary.
Without any doubt Franz II had foreseen these unhappy events, because he had already smuggled his both sons out of the country much earlier. That is why his son Leopold Georg came under the care of the Grandduke of Toscany, Giovanni Gaston de Medici, the last scion from this famous, yet also often very infamous Italian family.
The Grandduke de Medici treats Leopold Georg as his own son. He gives him the best thinkable education and he also stimulates the religious feelings of the young man with lots of pleasure. The Grandduke de Medici is a confirmed and very devout Roman Catholic, and it is the Grandduke de Medici, who has the young Leopold Georg entered in the churchregister of Toscany as the count de St.Germain.
At the university of Siena the young count de St.Germain is a briliant person, and he often leaves his fellow-students amazed with his ‘paintings’ about the future of Europe. He tells these views often so rosey, that hegot himself the nickname "Belle Mare" just because of thatSt.Germain is extraordinary eager to learn and when things are under discussion, which fascinates him, he is able to ask a thousand questions. Sometimes small things influence him, for example the mosaiek of Hermes Trismogestos, under the statue of Madonna in the kathedral of Sienna, a mosaik that is original from the ancient Roman times. This forces him to dig into history.
He also contemplates long about the lost treasures of King Salomon, about the gold of Ophir , the alchemistic stone of the wise, and all sorts of things, which has to do with a far past.
This all leads to the fact, that he gets very absorbed into the filosophical teachings of Hermes Trismegistos. Obvious he knows that Hermes Trismegistos is the Greek name for the Egypt God Thot, the God, who once-according to the legend- gave the Mysteries to the Egyptian people and together with that a wisdom and a knowledge, that can be summed up in the well-known pronouncement "above is as beneath".He is getting convinced of the existance of a deep primal wisdom, and he finally comes to the conclusion, that there are forces at work in the human being, whome, even if mankind is dressed with a material clothing, can uplift the same mankind above the prophane earthlyness. Through this attitude he immidiately differs himself from most people of his time, who dont occupy themselves with these thoughts.
The hermetical wisdom "above is as beneath" is translated by him into the principle "what is inside exists also from the outside".
He starts to understand that the gold of king Salomo only could ment Wisdom, and that he needs to start using the hermetic basic assumptions to get understandings into the intrinsical values of the alchemy in his time.
The Duke de Medici, very pleased with the sharp wits and inquisivitness of his foster son, makes it possible for the young de St.Germain to carry on his studies in other countries.
