This article was contributed by Dr. Marsha E. Covington, Executive Director for New Wisdom University. Marsha has known Saint Germain since she was just a teen. She has been learning from him and studying his spiritual techniques for over twenty-five years. She is the author of two books on Saint Germain as well as a chapter in the book Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves with Deepak Chopra and The Dali Lama.

Saint Germain is one of the most precious people who has ever lived on this earth. Just ask anyone who knows him and they will tell you the same thing. What makes Saint Germain so special? His love for us. He loves the lightbearers of this planet with a love that is very personal and deep. And he expresses his love whenever he can, however he can. His love for us personally has kept him focused for centuries on making our lives more beautiful, peaceful and free.

If you are just learning about Saint Germain, there are a few good resources on this site that you might want to read. I have been studying, writing and teaching about Saint Germain for a quarter of a century; we have attempted to draw together everything credible that has been written about him along with some pictures of him and other masters and other products that help us engage in the spiritual alchemy he teaches. I have drawn on many of these resources in writing this article. Of particular interest is the book by Isabel Cooper-Oakley entitled The Count Saint Germain. Mrs. Oakley did tremendous research throughout Europe collecting comments about Saint Germain from those who knew him. She was devoted to Saint Germain and he assisted her with her research through Annie Basant, then President of the Theosophical Society. Though some of her research has been called into question in recent years, Saint Germain personally told me that he stands behind the content of this book.

I also drew from another book by a brilliant Theosophical researcher. In writing The Count de Saint Germain, Last Scion of the House of Rakoczy, Theosophical researcher Jean Overton Fuller did extensive research into the history of Saint Germain and those who knew him. In particular she studied his contribution to the field of music in his time, and I have drawn heavily on her studies for my review of the master’s musical career. Unfortunately Ms. Fuller is not a devotee of the master and I can tell that she does not know him personally. She is not inclined toward the mystical side of Saint Germain and therefore she doesn’t tune into or believe in certain facts about him that are clear to one initiated into the mystery teachings.

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Saint Germain is a member of a group of highly evolved individuals who have mastered their minds and emotions—and their karma—to the point where they no longer have to live at the level at which we live. In the process of mastering their personal energies, they have learned to master the natural laws of this universe until they are able to see and know and act in ways that to us seem miraculous. Saint Germain and others he works with have purified their consciousness until every thought is pure and they no longer hold negative emotions in their bodies. Their motives are pure to the point that they no longer focus on themselves and their personal progress. These spiritual adepts have come to know themselves as one with us; with this perspective, they have determined that their own salvation means nothing unless they bring the rest of us to the same place of mastery to which they have attained.

These individuals have become known as “ascended masters” because they have each qualified themselves to return to oneness with their Source and now live in the etheric (heaven) world in the ascended state such as the Buddha and Jesus achieved. These ascended masters would teach us how to do the same. Saint Germain, in particular, spends much of his time teaching classes and mentoring those who are interested in a path that leads to the mastery of the laws of this three-dimensional world.

Alchemist Extraordinaire

Saint Germain made a name for himself as an alchemist during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. He was famous for his mastery in using an alchemical formula he had learned from adepts in the Himalayas that gave him the power to transmute negatively qualified electrons within the body, and even in material objects, returning them to their original purity.

Because of his remarkable—and seemingly miraculous—talents in this area, Saint Germain was infamous throughout Europe during this time. Frederick the Great called him “A man whom no one has been able to understand.” And speaking of him in a letter to Fredrick II of Prussia, Voltaire coined the phrase “the man who never dies and who knows everything.” During the eighteenth century the whole of Europe knew of the reputation of Comte de Saint-Germain. There is overwhelming testimony that he was intimate with many high persons in countries throughout Europe. They speak in their diaries, letters and in news reports of how marvelously he retained his youthful appearance decade after decade, his rare knowledge of chemistry and natural sciences, his abilities in the arts of the adepts, and his possession of the secret key to the universal medicine.

Saint Germain is probably best known for practicing alchemy with King Louis XV and Madame Pompadour, favorite and mistress of the king. The Marshal de Belle-Isle introduced the Comte de Saint Germain to the king in 1749 during a period when the King suffered from boredom. Upon hearing of Saint Germain’s experiences all over the world, his study of the Eastern mystical wisdom and his practice of the secret alchemical arts, Louis became fascinated. He gave the adept one of his palaces—the magnificent Chateau de Chambord with 440 rooms—for his residence. Together the King and Saint Germain conducted many experiments and entered into some manufacturing projects that were intended to expand the deeply distressed French bank account.

Madame Pompadour describes Saint Germain as having “a through knowledge of all languages, ancient and modern; a prodigious memory; erudition, of which glimpses could be caught between the caprices of his conversation, which was always amusing and occasionally very engaging; an inexhaustible skill in varying the tone and subjects of his converse; in being always fresh and in infusing the unexpected into the most trivial discourses which made him a superb talker. . . . He had traveled the whole world over and the king lent a willing ear to the narratives of his voyages over Asia and Africa and to his tales about the courts of Russia, Turkey and Austria. He appeared to be more intimately acquainted with the secrets of each court than the charge de’affaires of the King.

Madame Pompadour’s Memoirs recounts a story about one evening she and the King spent with Saint Germain at Versailles. On this occasion Saint Germain was discoursing with the King and Madame about some of his secrets for removing flaws from diamonds. The king sent for a diamond of moderate size that had a flaw in it. “This diamond is worth 6,000 livres to me in this condition,” said the king, “but it would be worth 10,000 without the flaw. Will you undertake to enable me to make a profit of 4,000?” Our adept examined it carefully, finally replying, “I may be able to accomplish this. I shall return it to our Majesty in a month’s time.”

A month later the count returned the flawless diamond to the king. Louis XV sent it to his jeweler, who became quite excited and proclaimed that it was now worth 9,600 livres. Ultimately the king decided to keep the jewel as a curiosity. Madame Pompadour commented that Louis never got over his astonishment, and used to say that M. de Saint Germain must be a millionaire, especially if he had the secret of making big diamonds from little ones.

Master of Abundance

It is true that Saint Germain always had whatever he needed to meet any situation. Though no one could ever discover a source for his money, he always stayed in fine hotels or apartments and had immediate cash to pay for whatever he needed. Yet he never received any deposits, was selling nothing and had no known bank accounts. One curious minister of the French Court decided to keep tabs on the flow of the count’s money. The story was told in The London Chronicle in 1760: “He ordered an enquiry to be made whence the remittances he received came. . . . But the fact is that in the space of two years, while he was thus watched, he lived as usual, paid for everything in ready money, and yet no remittance came into the kingdom for him.”

The only explanation our adept ever offered for his continual abundance was in a conversation with Von Alvensleben, to whom he explained, “I hold the whole of nature in my hands, and as God created the world, I can draw what I want out of nothing.”

The London Chronicle of May 31–June 3, 1760 celebrated Saint Germain’s reputation: “From Germany he carried into France the reputation of a high and sovereign alchemist, who possessed the secret powder and in consequence the universal medicine. The whisper ran that the stranger could make gold. The expense at which he lived seemed to confirm that account.”

Saint Germain’s reputation as an alchemist was enhanced by the collection of diamonds and precious stones he carried with him. The diaries of several notables from that time contain stories of his ability to transmute metals and to remove flaws from diamonds. Saint Germain credited his abilities in this area with his sojourn in the Far East, which he confirmed in a letter to the Graf von Lamberg, “I am indebted for my knowledge of melting jewels to my second journey to India, in the year 1755, with General Clive, who was under Vice Admiral Watson.”

In 1773 the Graf Karl Cobenzl of Brussels recorded his eye-witness account of the alchemical skills of our adept: “Possessing great wealth, he lives in the greatest simplicity; he knows everything and shows an uprightness, a goodness of soul, worthy of admiration. Among a number of his accomplishments, he made, under my own eyes, some experiments of which the most important were the transmutation of iron into a metal as beautiful as gold, and at least as good for all goldsmith’s work.”

The Power to Heal and Restore

It was also well known that Saint Germain was in possession of an elixir that could extend a person’s life. An article in The London Chronicle reported that the count possessed “a grand secret, a remedy for all diseases, and even for the iY5{h time triumphs over the human fabric.” Madame Pompadour tried to coax the adept into giving his elixir to the King to extend his life but Saint Germain refused. He did, however, give Pompadour some special cosmetics that had enhanced her beauty.

Some of Saint Germain’s recipes are still available today. One that he used to cure sore eyes was dubbed “Queen of Hungry Water;” the recipe was printed in the Pharmacopoeia as late as 1850. A modern herbalist has commented that Saint Germain’s personal recipe was “a marked improvement on most of the treatments then available.”

There are those who believe that Saint Germain was reared by the famous Medici family in Italy, who possessed the highest knowledge of their day. He did speak Italian, French, German and English and was refined and highly educated. The Medici’s were patrons of artisans and musicians, and also of the scientists of the day (they sponsored the construction of some instruments like the telescope and thermometer). However, Saint Germain neither confirmed nor denied this connection and said that what he knew he learned from his own application and research. His own science included a thorough knowledge of herbs and plants based on experiments with nature; from this base he invented several medicines and natural formulas for healing.

Composer of Popular Music

An associate of Handel and also the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, Saint Germain was praised for his ability to compose and perform exquisite musical pieces. At Versailles he gave concerts on the violin (it was said that he played the violin “like an orchestra”) and on one occasion he conducted a symphony without use of a score.

Saint Germain’s compositions were quite popular in London as well. The newspaper of London said of Saint Germain, “With regard to music, he not only played but composed; and both in high taste. Nay, his very ideas were accommodated to the art; and in those occurrences which had no relation to music, he found means to express himself in figurative terms deduced from this science.”

Charles Burney, the composer of “God Save the King,” writes in his History of Music about a time when one of the several songs Saint Germain had composed was used every night of the Opera season as the encore performance of the “first woman” of the opera—Farsi, Handel’s prema donna and the one who sang all of his oratorios for him including his Messiah. So popular was Saint Germain’s song—“Per pieta bel idol mio” (For pity’s sake, beautiful idol of mine) that the manager of the opera house had the first few lines of the song, including both staves and words, painted as a huge mural on the wall of his home in London.

Another beloved piece by our adept was “That Maid That’s Made for Love and Me.” Another called simply “A New Song,” was also known by its first line, “O wouldst thou know what sacred charms.” This song was sung by a famous tenor of the time who performed only the best musical compositions. The piece was printed in New Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians as well as The London Magazine in 1747 and The Gentleman’s Magazine in that same year. The music is in 3/4-waltz time, which is the rhythm Saint Germain has always promoted as being healing for the heart, as it is its natural rhythm.

Some of Saint Germain’s compositions were meant for the amateur singer to perform in local salons. Others were formal works intended for the large orchestras of the day. He also provided new arrangements for several popular songs.

Most of Saint Germain’s musical compositions were published by Walsh, a well-known music publisher in London, who was given exclusive rights to publish a set of Italian Arias by Saint Germain through a note signed by the Secretary of State on November 27, 1749. This publication consisted of 42 arias and was 135 pages long! Saint Germain also wrote art songs in English, which Walsh published around 1747.

Many of Saint Germain’s most well liked songs were reprinted in popular magazines of the day. At one time Peter Tchaikovsky held one of Saint Germain’s compositions in his private collection. Today most of these collections are in the British Museum or in private collections. In our “Products that Transform” section we sell a few of Saint Germain’s compositions as sheet music and also offer a cassette tape of a piano version of his some of his music.

After doing extensive research to round up all the above information on Saint Germain’s musical career in eighteenth-century London, Theosophist Jean Overton-Street concluded: “Clearly Saint Germain was a composer of considerable competence and merit.”

“The Wonderman of Europe” was an Ascended Master

Saint Germain’s abilities and accomplishments in many fields were the wonder of his time, whence came the term, “The Wonderman of Europe.” He was also a devoted student of yogic and tantric disciplines, which he learned during his long retreats into the heart of Asia. A student of the Eastern system of concentration, he was seen on several occasions sitting with his legs crossed and his hands folded in the posture of a Buddha. His intimate friends knew him to be a messenger to the West from the group of adepts who lived near Shigatse in Tibet whom I described earlier.

What was the secret of his success? Saint Germain had passed through the highest initiations—including the ascension. When most adepts accomplish this, they move on to learn and serve in other dimensions. But upon his ascension Saint Germain decided to join the group of ascended adepts, called “The Celestial Hierarchy” or “The Great White Brotherhood.” These masters make a vow to stick with the earth, acting as teachers and guides for those who want to follow in their footsteps. But even these masters rarely interact directly with people. In the case of Saint Germain, he was granted a unique opportunity to take on a flesh body again and walk among the people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the free use of the mastery he had earned which allowed him the freedom to overcome the laws of this plane.

This explains so many of the mysteries about his life, like the fact that he lived in the same body and looked the same age for well over a hundred years, and his ability to perform miracles. And it explains why no one ever saw him eat a speck of food in over one hundred years!

Saint Germain acted as a teacher to many of the mystics, members of the secrete societies such as the Rosicrucians and Masons, and scientists of his time including Franz Mesmer. Only one manuscript remains containing any of his teachings to his numerous disciples and students. This work, which is in the possession of the Bibliotheque de Troyes in France is, is called La Tres Sainte Trinosophie (Most Holy Threefold Wisdom); it is a cipher manuscript (meaning that if you tried to read it to discover its mystical secrets you would be sorely disappointed, as it is written in an obscure code that only one who has been initiated in use of this symbolism will understand) that teaches what Manly P. Hall calls “soul-chemistry,” or Cabalistic alchemy. It tells the story of the approach of a new age and the introduction of a new humanity with new cycles of opportunity: “Behold I make a new heaven and a new earth.” This work is considered the most precious known manuscript of occultism in the Western tradition.

Saint Germain left the continent of Europe in the nineteenth century promising to return in eighty-five years—and he did return in precisely that timeframe which coincided with the formation of the Theosophical Society in 1875. Later, in the early 1930s, Saint Germain began to lead a few devotees connected with the original Theosophy movement to continue to promote the secret teachings of the Eastern adepts but in a new movement, focused in the United States, called the “I AM Activity.” Saint Germain provided new interpretations of the sacred eastern teachings but couched them in terms that Americans could readily relate to. He renamed the “ultimate atom” the “Mighty I AM Presence,” a reference to the God of Israel who called himself “I AM THAT I AM” when he addressed Moses and lead the Israelites into the Promised Land. Several subsequent organizations have continued to teach his ideas including the Bridge to Freedom and The Summit Lighthouse.

Today Saint Germain is a popular figure in several spiritual and new age organizations. He is known as a master of the quality of freedom. Freedom to Saint Germain is more that just political freedom. He is concerned with soul freedom—the freedom of the soul to think what one will think, to act on what one thinks, to experiment with truth, ultimately to know truth.

Saint Germain has a special dispensation that allows him to work with and to communicate with several people and organizations. My personal experience with Saint Germain began when I was fifteen. We met while I was standing on the now defunct Berlin Wall. Though I was just a teen, this adept spoke to me of the awesome responsibility we each have to help bring the gifts that come with freedom to every part of the world. He told me of his mission to help transmute the density from the earth and asked me to help him. Without knowing where this would take me in life, I agreed. It was only two years later that I began my work in media and Saint Germain became my personal tutor.

When he was performing miracles in Europe, Saint Germain used a formula for freeing the negative energies that get tied up in our creations. The formula was a secret he had learned during a long sojourn in Asia. In the 1930s he began teaching about this through Guy Ballard and the I AM activity. He refers to this formula as the “violet flame.” It uses the quality of freedom inherent in the color violet to free electrons of their negative patterns so the energy can be used again for another round of experimentation. Saint Germain teaches the use of the ancient art of alchemy to transmute—electron by electron, cell by cell—the denser aspects of life here on earth, cleaning up the “gook” (as he calls it) that seems to permeate our bodies and minds and the earth itself, cleaning it up so that the dense particles can be once again filled with light.

To learn more about Saint Germain’s use of the technology of the violet flame for spiritual alchemy, click here.

Friendship with Saint Germain

Saint Germain has spiritual gifts and the presence of the Holy Spirit which all who encounter him feel. A true spiritual being, his name reflects his countenance: Saint Germain means “Holy Brother.” To him it signifies that he is the brother and servant of all he meets and the bringer of all good things as well as good counsel to those who would accept his gifts.

Saint Germain is a friend like no other. He is almost “human” in his ability to care for those who have welcomed him and acknowledged him. He cares deeply for his friends and would do anything to protect and comfort them. Saint Germain is the best friend a person could have. He is selfless, giving comfort and precious love so freely that it’s easily taken for granted.

He has been this kind of friend to me.
And he is still offering to be this kind of friend
to anyone who will apply himself to this friendship.

It’s hard to imagine a greater, sweeter love than his. Love Is Saint Germain’s middle name and his keynote.

Take advantage of Saint Germain and ask him to come into your world. He will reveal himself in his own special way. Follow him up the mountain; he will save and secure your steps and make your journey a joyous one.

A Prayer to Saint Germain

Recently Saint Germain said to me of himself,

“I never died, and I never was born. I had no beginning and I have no end. My lifestream—the stream of electrons which I have used—continually moves on in the cosmic stream so that my mind and consciousness continue to grow and influence life.

“Give me your tired, your poor—those electrons that are worn out and calling out for release—and I will return them to you all cleaned up for you to use again in a better creation next time. This is what I can do for you if you will ask me by saying:

Saint Germain, I know you’re out there!
Come to me now and make me whole.
Free me from my dark substance and make it white
as the snowy Himalayan heights.
Bring me your pure joy as I release to you my lead.
May your violet ray liberate my dross
And leave me with a crown of gold.