The Wonderman
He talked his way into the court of Louis XV, unsettled Casanova over dinner, and dabbled in alchemy and diplomatic intrigue. He’s an eighteenth-century con artist, alchemist, spy, and, depending who you ask, an immortal ascended master still hiking Mount Shasta today. This episode brings you the many lives, real and invented, of the Comte de Saint-Germain, the man Voltaire called “one who never dies, and who knows everything.”
Researched, written, and produced by Corinne Wieben with original music by Purple Planet.
Music
Purple Planet - Andromeda
Frédéric Chopin - Waltz in A Minor, B. 150, performed by Aya Higuchi
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 1 in Fm, Op 2, no. 1 - I. Allegro, performed by Paul Pitman
Purple Planet - Deep Space Exploration
Purple Planet - Sense of Loss
Purple Planet - Shadowlands
Sources
Primary
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“Ascended Master Saint Germain.” The Summit Lighthouse.
Ballard, Guy (as Godfré Ray King). Unveiled Mysteries. Chicago: Saint Germain Press, 1934.
Casanova de Seingalt, Jacques. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete, Vol. 3, translated by Arthur Machen. Project Gutenberg.
Cooper-Oakley, Isabel. The Comte de St. Germain: The Secret of Kings. Milan: G. Sulli-Rao, 1912.
Hall, Manly P., ed. The Most Holy Trinosophia of the Comte de St.-Germain. Los Angeles: Philosophers Press, 1949.
Voltaire. “Frédéric II, roi de Prusse.” In Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol. 1, edited by Louis Moland. Garnier, 1883.
Walpole, Horace. “Appendix 6: Walpole’s Accounts of the Count Saint-Germain.” In The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, edited by W. S. Lewis. Vol. 26. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. pp. 20–21.
Walpole, Horace. “Letter to Sir Horace Mann.” In Letters of Sir Horace Walpole, edited by Charles Duke Yonge. New York: Putnam, 1890. Project Gutenberg.
Secondary
Butler, E. M. The Myth of the Magus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948.
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Fuller, Jean Overton. The Comte de Saint Germain: Last Scion of the House of Rákóczy. London: East-West Publications, 1988.
Hall, Manly Palmer. Comte de St. Germain. Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1946.
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Hunter, David. “Monsieur Le Comte de Saint-Germain: The Great Pretender.” The Musical Times 144, no. 1885 (2003): 40–44.
Lavazza, V.H. and P. Wright. “Metaphysics of Saint Germain.” In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions, edited by H. Gooren. Religions of the World. Cham: Springer, 2019.
Patai, Raphael. “The Comte de Saint-Germain.” In The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
