Writing attributed and written about the mysterious figure known as:
Count Saint-Germain, Der Wundermann (the wonder-man), etc.
Sonnet attributed to Count Saint Germain
CURIOUS tellers of all nature,
I knew all the great principle and purpose.
I saw the gold potential at the bottom of its mining
I grabbed her and surprised her with bread
I explained by what art the soul to the side of a mother
Made his home wins, and how a glitch
Set against a grain of wheat under wet dust
One plant and one vine, are the bread and wine.
There was, God wanted nothing became something,
I doubted I looked at what the world asks,
Nothing kept his balance and used to support.
Finally, with the weight of praise and blame,
I weighed the eternal, he called my soul
I died, I adored, I did not know anything.
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"A man who knows everything and who never dies,"
said Voltaire of the Comte de Saint-Germain.
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Countess de Georgy upon meeting him in
Madame Pompadour's house in the 1760's asked him if his father
had been in Venice in 1710. "No, Madame,"
the Count replied, "but I myself was living in
Venice at the end of the last and the beginning
of this century. I had the honor to pay you
court then, and you were kind enough to admire
a little Barcarolle of my composing." The
Countess could not believe her ears. "But if that
is true," she gasped, "you must be at least a
hundred years old!" The Count smiled. "That,
Madame, is not impossible!"
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"You have heard of Count St. Germain, about
whom so many marvelous stories are told. You know
that he represented himself as the Wandering
Jew, as the discoverer of the elixir of life, of
the philosopher's stone, and so forth. Some laughed
at him as a charlatan; but Casanova, in his
memoirs, says that he was a spy. But be that as
it may, St. Germain, in spite of the
mystery surrounding him, was a very
fascinating person, and was much sought after
in the best circles of society. Even to this day
my grandmother retains an affectionate recollection
of him, and becomes quite angry if anyone
speaks disrespectfully of him."
Quote by Aleksandr Pushkin-1834
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“ The other day they seized an odd man, the
Count Saint-Germain. He has been here these two
years and will not tell who he is or whence, but professes . . .
that he does not go by his right
name. . . . He sings and plays on the violin wonderfully, composes,
is mad, and not very
sensible. He is called an Italian, a Spaniard, a
Pole ; a somebody that married a great fortune
in Mexico and ran away with her jewels
to Constantinople ; a priest, a fiddler, a
vast nobleman. The Prince of Wales has had an
unsated curiosity about him, but in vain.
However nothing has been made out against him ; he
is released ; and what convinces me that he is
not a gentleman, stays here, and talks of his
being taken up for a spy.
Quote by Horace Walpole
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"The time is fast approaching when imprudent France,
Surrounded by misfortune she might have spared herself,
Will call to mind such hell as Dante painted.
Falling shall we see sceptre, censor, scales,
Towers and escutcheons, even the white flag.
Great streams of blood are flowing in each town ;
Sobs only do I hear, and exiles see.
On all sides civil discord loudly roars
And uttering cries, on all sides virtue flees
As from the Assembly votes of death arise.
Great God, who can reply to murderous judges ?
And on what brows august I see the swords descend !"
Lines from a letter from Saint-Germain quoted by Madame d’Adhémar
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"The most enjoyable dinner I had was with
Madame de Gergi, who came with the famous
adventurer, known by the name of the Count de
St. Germain. This individual, instead of
eating, talked from the beginning of the meal to
the end, and I followed his example in one respect
as I did not eat, but listened to him with
the greatest attention. It may safely be said
that as a conversationalist he was unequalled.
St. Germain gave himself out for a marvel
and always aimed at exciting amazement, which he
often succeeded in doing. He was scholar,
linguist, musician, and chemist, good-looking, and
a perfect ladies' man. For awhile he gave them
paints and cosmetics; he flattered them, not that
he would make them young again (which he
modestly confessed was beyond him) but that
their beauty would be preserved by means of a
wash which, he said, cost him a lot of money,
but which he gave away freely.
He had contrived to gain the favour of Madame
de Pompadour, who had spoken about him to the
king, for whom he had made a laboratory, in which
the monarch - a martyr to boredom - tried to find
a little pleasure or distraction, at all events,
by making dyes. The king had given him a suite of rooms at Chambord,
and a hundred thousand francs
for the construction of a laboratory, and according
to St. Germain the dyes discovered by the king
would have a materially beneficial influence on
the quality of French fabrics.
This extraordinary man, intended by nature to
be the king of impostors and quacks, would say in
an easy, assured manner that he was three
hundred years old, that he knew the secret of the Universal Medicine,
that he possessed a mastery
over nature, that he could melt diamonds,
professing himself capable of forming, out of ten
or twelve small diamonds, one large one of the
finest water without any loss of weight. All this,
he said, was a mere trifle to him. Notwithstanding
his boastings, his bare-faced lies, and his
manifold eccentricities, I cannot say I thought
him offensive. In spite of my knowledge of what he
was and in spite of my own feelings, I thought
him an astonishing man as he was always
astonishing me"
lines from Cassanova's memoirs.
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"He called himself Major Fraser, lived alone and
never alluded to his family. Moreover he was
lavish with money, though the source of his
fortune remained a mystery to everyone. He possessed
a marvelous knowledge of all the countries in
Europe at all periods. His memory was
absolutely incredible and, curiously enough, he
often gave his hearers to understand that he had acquired his learning elsewhere than from books.
Many is the time he has told me, with a strange
smile, that he was certain he had known Nero,
had spoken with Dante, and so on."
Albert Vandam speaking of Maj. Fraser who some
believe to be a 'post-death' alias the Count used in the early 1800's.
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Madame Helena Blavatsky was photographed around 1850 with 3 men one of which was identified as Count Saint Germain (far right)
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On Feb. 14th, 1935 Edgar Cayce was asked if Saint Germain was present. He replied 'when needed.'
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On a 'purely fictional' note C.Q. Yarbro has a series of books about a vampire based on this historical figure that are quite good.
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