The curious legend of the occultist and spy the Comte St Germain and his alchemical tome the Great Holy Trinosophie, featuring the music of Erik Satie's Gnossienne III (himself a Rosicrucian adept).
Pictures include plates from the Trinosophie.
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There are five different thesis of who he was (by law of course :) )
1) The Hermetic Thesis : He was who he said he was, an Alchemist who discovered the secret elixir of immortality and initiated Cagliostro (though it was possibly the other ...way around, he also claimed to have taught Mesmer mesmerism, which was certainly false). The Trinosophie is very Cagliostro in at least one image (below) and its authorship is contested. Few believed the Comte's claims in his lifetime.
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2) The Gnostic Thesis : He was a Gnostic supernatural being, or rather a man who became one (like Enoch, Elijah, John the Baptist etc) who opposed the Church. A view adopted by Theosophists, who regard him as a Western Bodhisattva or Ascended Master / Secret Chief who heralds the Aqaurian Age. He made no claims of this in his life though.
3) The Satanic Thesis : He was an Anti-Christ figure in opposition to the Church, or a man who became one, most popularly as an immortal vampire (via his descent from the Transylvanian prince, Madame Bathori and Vlad Dracula). One origin of the Count Dracula myth. But there if no evidence of vampirism in his life.
4) The Dr Who Thesis : He was a time traveller, possibly from another world or civilisation. The modernist sci fi reworking of the above, and the inspiration for 'the Doctor' as opposed to 'the Professor'. No evidence for this of course (unless his tomb was his Tardis!)
5) The Prosaic Thesis : He was a fiction of a French Royalist Intelligence service (and of the Weimar Illuminati after the Revolution), whose role was adopted by Dubois Flamel, the son of Maria of Neuburg and the Strict Observance Mason Saint-Germain in turn, as an early Psi-Op.
His activities consistently support French Royalist political agendas and later Illuminati projects so this has more plausibility. However many witnesses contest to his agelessness and identity of appearance (though others do not).
