THE SECRET BOOK OF ST. GERMAIN
by Iona Miller, (c) 2015
by Iona Miller, (c) 2015
THE MOST OCCULT BOOK
THE MOST ENIGMATIC CHARACTER
THE MOST ENIGMATIC CHARACTER
“Like dragons of old / Archivists guard their gold.”
THE CYPHER BOOK OF AN INDECIPHERABLE MAN
Helena P. Blavatsky writes: ‘Count St. Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen during the last centuries. Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in St. Germain's possession. The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The Triangular Book is just such a cypher manuscript, which opens with a Dragon emblem.
http://davidpratt.info/st-germain1.htm
Make a round circle of man and woman, extract therefrom a quadrangle and from it a triangle. Make the circle round, and you will have the Philosophers’ Stone. --Carl Jung, "Psychology and Religion," CW 11, par. 92
THE CYPHER BOOK OF AN INDECIPHERABLE MAN
Helena P. Blavatsky writes: ‘Count St. Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen during the last centuries. Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in St. Germain's possession. The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The Triangular Book is just such a cypher manuscript, which opens with a Dragon emblem.
http://davidpratt.info/st-germain1.htm
Make a round circle of man and woman, extract therefrom a quadrangle and from it a triangle. Make the circle round, and you will have the Philosophers’ Stone. --Carl Jung, "Psychology and Religion," CW 11, par. 92
Scholar, Painter, Linguist, Scientist, Gemologist,
Raconteur, Composer, Musician, Spy, Rosicrucian, Mage
Raconteur, Composer, Musician, Spy, Rosicrucian, Mage
GERMAIN REMAINS GERMANE
Germane is derived from the Middle English germain, which literally means, "akin." It is often used in meetings and hearings to keep topics pertinent to the discussion. It is a more sophisticated term for "relevant." Germane is more specific than relevant, as it usually refers to a close connection, "akin." If you say something is germane to your discussion, it has a close relationship to what you are discussing. Think, "a kin," as in, "of the same family," highly related and appropriate. Germane is related to relevant, apposite, and pertinent. See relevant for additional analysis. For a memory trick, note how germane sounds a little like "your name." Think how germane (relevant, appropriate) your name is to the conversation upon first meeting someone. First Known Use: 14th century
Middle English germain, literally, having the same parents, from Anglo-French
MYTH, METAPHOR, MUSIC, MAGIC & MEDIA
We enter a world of myth, metaphor, subtle forces and anomalous states of awareness.
That’s where the nature of the true temple exists, the invisible temple.
Eventually you realize there is a library of knowledge being shared.
Its contents are boundless and timeless, the sum of all there is: Universal codes of energy, ancient systems of knowledge, rhythm, measure and proportion, and how these are applied at any given moment.
Germane is derived from the Middle English germain, which literally means, "akin." It is often used in meetings and hearings to keep topics pertinent to the discussion. It is a more sophisticated term for "relevant." Germane is more specific than relevant, as it usually refers to a close connection, "akin." If you say something is germane to your discussion, it has a close relationship to what you are discussing. Think, "a kin," as in, "of the same family," highly related and appropriate. Germane is related to relevant, apposite, and pertinent. See relevant for additional analysis. For a memory trick, note how germane sounds a little like "your name." Think how germane (relevant, appropriate) your name is to the conversation upon first meeting someone. First Known Use: 14th century
Middle English germain, literally, having the same parents, from Anglo-French
MYTH, METAPHOR, MUSIC, MAGIC & MEDIA
We enter a world of myth, metaphor, subtle forces and anomalous states of awareness.
That’s where the nature of the true temple exists, the invisible temple.
Eventually you realize there is a library of knowledge being shared.
Its contents are boundless and timeless, the sum of all there is: Universal codes of energy, ancient systems of knowledge, rhythm, measure and proportion, and how these are applied at any given moment.
"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." --Pushkin (trans. by T. Keane)
Alchemist, Mage, Composer, Agent Provocateur
Count St. Germain
The Count left us his most secret Magic Book,
the Most Occult Book in the World.
THE TRIANGLE BOOK OF
ST. GERMAIN
http://trianglebook.weebly.com/
https://vimeo.com/10965378
“My Cipher Manuscripts were cryptograms concerning the state of
Self, World & Cosmos, which were presented to me anew each day…
I guarded them like precious pearls….
The path to the Center is the exponent of all paths."
Count St. Germain
The Count left us his most secret Magic Book,
the Most Occult Book in the World.
THE TRIANGLE BOOK OF
ST. GERMAIN
http://trianglebook.weebly.com/
https://vimeo.com/10965378
“My Cipher Manuscripts were cryptograms concerning the state of
Self, World & Cosmos, which were presented to me anew each day…
I guarded them like precious pearls….
The path to the Center is the exponent of all paths."
http://ouroboros-press.bookarts.org/portfolio/triangular-book-of-st-germain/
St. Germain in a New Vein
All the Time in the World Flows From Me
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. Your spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to high in the sky.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The triangle itself upright is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form could also suggest a triple meaning for the contents of the book: alchemy, qabbalism and Hermeticism.
All the Time in the World Flows From Me
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. Your spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to high in the sky.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The triangle itself upright is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form could also suggest a triple meaning for the contents of the book: alchemy, qabbalism and Hermeticism.
St. Germain Is Not Your Imaginary Friend
Modern Cultish Beliefs
So-called New Age practices and popular culture phenomena have virtually inundated the postmodern world, giving rise to numerous critical responses as well as welcome investments in their presumed significance. Sometimes dubbed a “religion”, New Age ideas and their various cultural manifestations have provoked sectarian and at times vituperative responses from significant critics of various ideological persuasions. Umberto Eco indicts the New Age movement for its lack of critical thinking, chastising the odd preference for a multiplicity of mystical truths, ranging from Dan Brown’s novels to faith in psychics. His position echoes the sentiments of a number of scholars who view New Age adherents as self-centered and gullible. Slavoj [Zcaron]i[zcaron]ek, from his Marxist/Lacanian position, excoriates New Agers as deluded because of their withdrawal from political commitment, and he also views them as merely another symptom reproducing the mystified logic of consumer capitalism. Given the range of critical responses to New Age beliefs, it is particularly important to understand their historical antecedents. Some of these, such as the Saint Germain phenomenon, can be mined for what they disclose about the deeper motivations underlying the present willingness to grasp at arcane and ephemeral beliefs and dubious cultural practices. Some fall within the purview of “spiritualism”, including the search for a confirmation of immortality, which Saint Germain has symbolized for many, including certain of the nobility of pre-revolutionary France. St. Germain provides an ideological and psychoanalytic test case for what drives the alternative quests of New Age occultism. By reading Isabel Cooper-Oakley’s work on
St. Germain, in conjunction with other representations, the objective is to launch a dialogue with both Eco and [Zcaron]i[zcaron]ek that builds a critical response to the New Age from a more informed historical and cultural studies approach. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14797585.2011.567031
HUNGER FOR MYSTERIES
In his essay “Those Who Don’t Believe in God Believe in Everything”, Umberto Eco (2008) voices concerns about why people invest in the illogic of various occult attractions such as alchemy, Dan Brown’s novels, Hermes Trismegistus, the Templars, psychics, etc. His conclusion is that in the apparent absence of a conventional faith in God, people resort to “syncretism”, which Eco (2008, p. 290) defines as “believing not in some things but in all things, even when they contradict one another”. Evidently, this New Age cultural bricolage supplements some lack in the devotee’s psychic nexus, enabling a hermetic guide for the perplexed that informs the ineffable meaning of life, or at least functions as a plausible hermeneutic for an increasingly troubling world. Eco believes that those given to such pursuits are following ephemera that lead nowhere in terms of providing real critical, social or philosophical insights. For him, believing in outright falsehoods and superstitions discloses a myopic intellectual poverty in the face of an increasingly alienating society of conflict, materialism and technocracy. New Age beliefs inevitably supply a way for those inclined to look beyond existing social realities by projecting an alternative consciousness that seemingly transcends politics in favor of a constellation of personal avatars. These are thought to supersede the ideological analysis of social disorder in favor of some ultimate quasi-spiritual truth. In short, they promote an odd form of psychic escapism, leading to false consciousness and mystified thinking. These are never incidental or abstract realities, but impinge on all facets of everyday life, politics and cultural practice. (Argiro)
A peculiar phenomenon of our time is that those invested in New Age otherworldly pursuits often gravitate toward figures that appear larger than life, such as Saint Germain. Widely heralded as an actual amazing person, likely of noble birth, who frequented various eighteenth-century European royal courts, Saint Germain was without doubt a very mysterious personage (Franco 1950). His lingering attraction becomes evident even in more recent times, giving rise to charlatans and self-styled mystics purporting some secret or supernatural tie to the unfathomable Comte. Manifestations of Saint Germain have come to inform surreal notions of his lingering presence, including surprising claims about his spectral visitations and influences on history and individuals. Certain manifestations of Saint Germain are sobering, others run to the ridiculous.
Modern Cultish Beliefs
So-called New Age practices and popular culture phenomena have virtually inundated the postmodern world, giving rise to numerous critical responses as well as welcome investments in their presumed significance. Sometimes dubbed a “religion”, New Age ideas and their various cultural manifestations have provoked sectarian and at times vituperative responses from significant critics of various ideological persuasions. Umberto Eco indicts the New Age movement for its lack of critical thinking, chastising the odd preference for a multiplicity of mystical truths, ranging from Dan Brown’s novels to faith in psychics. His position echoes the sentiments of a number of scholars who view New Age adherents as self-centered and gullible. Slavoj [Zcaron]i[zcaron]ek, from his Marxist/Lacanian position, excoriates New Agers as deluded because of their withdrawal from political commitment, and he also views them as merely another symptom reproducing the mystified logic of consumer capitalism. Given the range of critical responses to New Age beliefs, it is particularly important to understand their historical antecedents. Some of these, such as the Saint Germain phenomenon, can be mined for what they disclose about the deeper motivations underlying the present willingness to grasp at arcane and ephemeral beliefs and dubious cultural practices. Some fall within the purview of “spiritualism”, including the search for a confirmation of immortality, which Saint Germain has symbolized for many, including certain of the nobility of pre-revolutionary France. St. Germain provides an ideological and psychoanalytic test case for what drives the alternative quests of New Age occultism. By reading Isabel Cooper-Oakley’s work on
St. Germain, in conjunction with other representations, the objective is to launch a dialogue with both Eco and [Zcaron]i[zcaron]ek that builds a critical response to the New Age from a more informed historical and cultural studies approach. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14797585.2011.567031
HUNGER FOR MYSTERIES
In his essay “Those Who Don’t Believe in God Believe in Everything”, Umberto Eco (2008) voices concerns about why people invest in the illogic of various occult attractions such as alchemy, Dan Brown’s novels, Hermes Trismegistus, the Templars, psychics, etc. His conclusion is that in the apparent absence of a conventional faith in God, people resort to “syncretism”, which Eco (2008, p. 290) defines as “believing not in some things but in all things, even when they contradict one another”. Evidently, this New Age cultural bricolage supplements some lack in the devotee’s psychic nexus, enabling a hermetic guide for the perplexed that informs the ineffable meaning of life, or at least functions as a plausible hermeneutic for an increasingly troubling world. Eco believes that those given to such pursuits are following ephemera that lead nowhere in terms of providing real critical, social or philosophical insights. For him, believing in outright falsehoods and superstitions discloses a myopic intellectual poverty in the face of an increasingly alienating society of conflict, materialism and technocracy. New Age beliefs inevitably supply a way for those inclined to look beyond existing social realities by projecting an alternative consciousness that seemingly transcends politics in favor of a constellation of personal avatars. These are thought to supersede the ideological analysis of social disorder in favor of some ultimate quasi-spiritual truth. In short, they promote an odd form of psychic escapism, leading to false consciousness and mystified thinking. These are never incidental or abstract realities, but impinge on all facets of everyday life, politics and cultural practice. (Argiro)
A peculiar phenomenon of our time is that those invested in New Age otherworldly pursuits often gravitate toward figures that appear larger than life, such as Saint Germain. Widely heralded as an actual amazing person, likely of noble birth, who frequented various eighteenth-century European royal courts, Saint Germain was without doubt a very mysterious personage (Franco 1950). His lingering attraction becomes evident even in more recent times, giving rise to charlatans and self-styled mystics purporting some secret or supernatural tie to the unfathomable Comte. Manifestations of Saint Germain have come to inform surreal notions of his lingering presence, including surprising claims about his spectral visitations and influences on history and individuals. Certain manifestations of Saint Germain are sobering, others run to the ridiculous.
Saint Germain abounds in a surplus of such capital, the bizarre twist being that his mystique seems to spring from a fund of dubious origin, strongly enlivening the fantastic mythos that surrounds him while suffusing every scene he attends with an uncommonly captivating resonance. Ironically, his magnified presence has everything to do with reproducing an allegory of the “death drive”, which, according to [Zcaron]i[zcaron]ek, is a name for an unaccountable life force that agitates the relationship between the symbolic order and the force of the Real by circling the attracting objet petit a. Indeed, what-ever mysterious Thing informs the social cathexis of Saint Germain’s popularity, he electrifies precisely the objet petit a for courtiers who sought his audience,and likewise does the same for those who attempt to locate him today in some astral realm through seances and the like. He becomes a secular saint, one who“occupies the place of the objet petit a, of pure object, of somebody undergoing radical subjective destitution. He enacts nothing, he conjures nothing, he just persists in his inert presence” ([Zcaron]i[zcaron]ek 1989, p. 116). His destitution is verified by his being reduced to a fantasy object, since the very Thing that Saint Germain supposedly possesses is nothing more or less than his immortality. This fantastic claim and those who believe in it reinforce the evidence of the death drive, since they are grasping at a kind of “sublimation". Saint Germain remains an irresistible attractor by virtue of some unnamable, undying essence that exceeds the boundaries of everyday experience and reminds unceasingly of the power that both moves outside of the subject’s ability to assimilate it, yet never stops. This immortality is the death drive itself. (Argiro)
http://www.youtube.com/user/thomasschoenberger?feature=watch
Armillary Sphere
TALES FROM THE CRYPTOGRAM
The Most Occult Book on Earth
TRIANGLE BOOK
OF ST. GERMAIN
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The upside down triangle is called the Dragon's Eye and is related to all of the OTHER Eye symbols, i.e... the eye of Ra/Horus, the Illuminati Eye in the Triangle, Third Eye
The light and darkness can be represented in the form of two intersecting triangles, as suggested by the uhove diuKrnm Triangle of Light Triangle of Darkness The upper triangle is the triangle of light; the base of this triangle ( at the top of the diagram ) is the light which is very close to the primordial Will; at one point it is touched by one of the apexes of the triangle of darkness. The base of the lower triangle -which is this triangle of darkness -- is at the maximum distance from the primordial Will; it is touched at one point by the apex of the triangle of light. Therefore, everything is light very close to the primordial Will; there is just a trace of an atom of darkness. But, with the downward movement, the light gradually diminishes while the darkness increases, until, at the end, the darkness prevails; there remains only a trace of an atom of light. On the other hand, with the upward movement the darkness wanes, while the light waxes, until it reaches the point nearest to the primordial Will . . . half-way between the two limits, light and darkness are equal. From this it can be under- stood that in case a "handful of matter" is taken upwards from the center, and if a creature is formed O'Ut of this matter, light will prevail in this creature over darkness. But if the "handful of matter" is taken downwards from the center, and a creature is molded out of it then, on the contrary, darkness will prevail in this creature and light will be overcome. --Henry Corbin, Spiritual Body, Celestial Earth
TETRAKTIS
DRAGON TRIANGLE BOOK OF SAINT GERMAIN
A Treasurehouse of Lore
by Iona Miller, ©2010-2014
DRAGON TRIANGLE BOOK OF SAINT GERMAIN
A Treasurehouse of Lore
by Iona Miller, ©2010-2014
The music system of Pythagoras was based on the Tetraktys
The Quadrivium was first formulated and taught by Pythagoras as the Tetraktys around 500 BC…it arises out of the most revered of all subjects. Number. The first of these disciplines we call Arithmetic. The second is Geometry or the order of space as Number in Space. The third is Harmony which for Plato meant Number in Time. The fourth is Astronomy or Number in Space and Time.
The Quadrivium was first formulated and taught by Pythagoras as the Tetraktys around 500 BC…it arises out of the most revered of all subjects. Number. The first of these disciplines we call Arithmetic. The second is Geometry or the order of space as Number in Space. The third is Harmony which for Plato meant Number in Time. The fourth is Astronomy or Number in Space and Time.
"THE WELL-TEMPERED OCCULTIST"
Leaving No Philosopher's Stone Unturned
ONE MAN * ONE LIFE * ONE MISSION
"You get the St. Germain you deserve"
This winged dragon is the symbolic superstar of The Triangle Book. In The Book of Lambspring. It represents the Anima Mundi, or Soul of the World, which is the sum total of planetary existence -- the holographic blueprint on which form is based, the informational level or primal source of being - Zero Point. It is said that medicine providing the gift of youth can be made from its venom. Pineal secretions are analogous to the Elixir of Life or Philosopher's Stone, bestowing increased brain capacity, magical ability, and prolonged life.
"The Dragon" is a term I use generally to mean the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragons who have gone before. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", which is an aorist of the word "derkesthai", which means "to see clearly". "The Dragon" therefore is the inherited Dragon archetype and that archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which racial knowledge flows. Clear sight also and principally refers to transcendent consciousness. Roughly ten percent of Europeans have Dragon blood, and stem from families whose physical attributes clearly point to a genetic inheritance over 100,000 years old. This figure is calculated from research deriving from studies by Oxford University and matched to historical accounts. The greatest magic of all is to be able to naturally still one's mind to the point where one sees that "all acts are magical acts." " -- Nicholas de Vere
"The Dragon" is a term I use generally to mean the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragons who have gone before. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", which is an aorist of the word "derkesthai", which means "to see clearly". "The Dragon" therefore is the inherited Dragon archetype and that archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which racial knowledge flows. Clear sight also and principally refers to transcendent consciousness. Roughly ten percent of Europeans have Dragon blood, and stem from families whose physical attributes clearly point to a genetic inheritance over 100,000 years old. This figure is calculated from research deriving from studies by Oxford University and matched to historical accounts. The greatest magic of all is to be able to naturally still one's mind to the point where one sees that "all acts are magical acts." " -- Nicholas de Vere
Worms, City of the Dragon
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Altered Egos
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. Rumored to be (at various times) Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew),
immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who."
He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy,
gem hunter, painter, historian, dye merchant, a visionary -- and romantic hero.
Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in his possession.
The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. Most grimoires or books of solomonic magic trace to the orginal Book of Abramelin the Mage. It tells the story of an Egyptian seer named Abramelin, or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a German Jew presumed to have lived from c.1362–c.1458. The alchemist Flamel called it the book that transformed his life. Later grimoires
synthesize older works on magic and astrology, as handbooks of talismanic magic.
The ceremonial diary of Abraham of Worms is a book of "the true practice of the ancient divine magic and of remarkable things revealed through the holy kabbalah and through Elohim together with the authority over spirits and miracles learned by Moses at the Burning Bush, containing all secrets of the Kabbalah". The third book of writings by Abraham of Worms contains the first extant complete rite to tame familiar spirits under the protection of the guardian angel. His writings also contain his magical career, something approximating an autobiography and a history of his travels. The ethical aspirations of his work are those of magia naturalis.
The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The word for dragon in Germanic mythology is worm (Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr), meaning snake or serpent. In Old English wyrm means "serpent", draca means "dragon". The dragon is the heraldic symbol of the city, because everything in Worms revolves around the famous saga of dragon-slayer Siegfried. The small city in Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate region bordering the state of Hesse is rightfully proud of its long and colorful past, which can be traced back to the early Stone Age.
The dragon dynasties likewise trace back into the mists of history to myth. The dragon icon unites the occult books, the ancient city, and the royal bloodlines. Symbols such as snakes and dragons often have dual interpretations, for either good or evil. Dragon-like winged serpents are carved around the base of the Apprentice Pillar in Rosslyn Chapel. The serpent is a symbol for the coil of spiritual light energy which spirals up the spinal column. This spiral is evident in the Apprentice Pillar as an important aspect of our spiritual journey upward in consciousness to wisdom or Gnosis.
Mystery Magus
According to Cadet de Gassicourt, St. Germain was a travelling member for the "Templars," going from Lodge to Lodge to establish communication between them. He did so for the Paris Chapter of the "Knights Templar." Investigation connects him to the "Asiatische Brüder," or the "Knights of St. John the Evangelist from the East in Europe," also with the "Ritter des Lichts," or "Knights of Light," and with various other Rosicrucian bodies in Austria and Hungary; and also with the "Martinists" in Paris and Jacobites in Britain. He instructed his Rosicrucian brethren in the sciences of Solomon.
An alleged letter of his to the Graf Görtz at Weimar says that he had "promised a visit to Hanau to meet the Landgraf Karl at his brother's house in order to work out with him the system of 'Strict Observance'-- the regeneration of the Order of Freemasons in the aristocratic mind." He and Karl conducted such rituals and science experiments in the Hermetic Garden at Louisenlund. It is entirely plausible that the Brothers who assembled there received a copy of what has come to be known as The Triangular Book. It is likely that oral instructions and initiation rites accompanied the text.
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. Rumored to be (at various times) Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew),
immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who."
He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy,
gem hunter, painter, historian, dye merchant, a visionary -- and romantic hero.
Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in his possession.
The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. Most grimoires or books of solomonic magic trace to the orginal Book of Abramelin the Mage. It tells the story of an Egyptian seer named Abramelin, or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a German Jew presumed to have lived from c.1362–c.1458. The alchemist Flamel called it the book that transformed his life. Later grimoires
synthesize older works on magic and astrology, as handbooks of talismanic magic.
The ceremonial diary of Abraham of Worms is a book of "the true practice of the ancient divine magic and of remarkable things revealed through the holy kabbalah and through Elohim together with the authority over spirits and miracles learned by Moses at the Burning Bush, containing all secrets of the Kabbalah". The third book of writings by Abraham of Worms contains the first extant complete rite to tame familiar spirits under the protection of the guardian angel. His writings also contain his magical career, something approximating an autobiography and a history of his travels. The ethical aspirations of his work are those of magia naturalis.
The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The word for dragon in Germanic mythology is worm (Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr), meaning snake or serpent. In Old English wyrm means "serpent", draca means "dragon". The dragon is the heraldic symbol of the city, because everything in Worms revolves around the famous saga of dragon-slayer Siegfried. The small city in Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate region bordering the state of Hesse is rightfully proud of its long and colorful past, which can be traced back to the early Stone Age.
The dragon dynasties likewise trace back into the mists of history to myth. The dragon icon unites the occult books, the ancient city, and the royal bloodlines. Symbols such as snakes and dragons often have dual interpretations, for either good or evil. Dragon-like winged serpents are carved around the base of the Apprentice Pillar in Rosslyn Chapel. The serpent is a symbol for the coil of spiritual light energy which spirals up the spinal column. This spiral is evident in the Apprentice Pillar as an important aspect of our spiritual journey upward in consciousness to wisdom or Gnosis.
Mystery Magus
According to Cadet de Gassicourt, St. Germain was a travelling member for the "Templars," going from Lodge to Lodge to establish communication between them. He did so for the Paris Chapter of the "Knights Templar." Investigation connects him to the "Asiatische Brüder," or the "Knights of St. John the Evangelist from the East in Europe," also with the "Ritter des Lichts," or "Knights of Light," and with various other Rosicrucian bodies in Austria and Hungary; and also with the "Martinists" in Paris and Jacobites in Britain. He instructed his Rosicrucian brethren in the sciences of Solomon.
An alleged letter of his to the Graf Görtz at Weimar says that he had "promised a visit to Hanau to meet the Landgraf Karl at his brother's house in order to work out with him the system of 'Strict Observance'-- the regeneration of the Order of Freemasons in the aristocratic mind." He and Karl conducted such rituals and science experiments in the Hermetic Garden at Louisenlund. It is entirely plausible that the Brothers who assembled there received a copy of what has come to be known as The Triangular Book. It is likely that oral instructions and initiation rites accompanied the text.
The Triangle Craft of St. Germain
Secrets of the Most Occult Book on Earth
Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qui Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit.
From the gift of great wisdom of Count St. Germain,
who ran the world through.
who ran the world through.
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"Whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known,
for knowledge is the image of existence." --Francis Bacon
for knowledge is the image of existence." --Francis Bacon
Decoding the Triangular Book of St. Germain
This is the story of a singular man, and his influence on the spirit of his times and our time. It is not an old legend of a reincarnating genius, a body-jumping avatar, nor a new age "ascended master." It isn't about parlor tricks or youth serums.
It is the story of St. Germain's book of magic, why he may have written it, what secrets of pre-history it may hold, and its clues to St. Germain's family origins and mystic-political agenda within European royalty and Masonry, particularly at the purported end of his life.
It is intriguing no matter what your viewpoints about St. Germain's longevity and spiritual attainments. In many ways, he is still with us today, as the issues suggested in his Triangular Book still haunt us. It leads us back to the mysteries of Egypt and Sumeria, back to the time of the great Flood. What we can extract from it is a mirror of our own soul.
We are still concerned with the hunt for universal medicines, longevity, the Precession of time and its relation to epochs and cultures, as well as the "treasures" hard to attain that are hidden in the very depths of our being -- our souls. To the extent that we each contain a universe within, we are in that sense immortal.
It is the story of St. Germain's book of magic, why he may have written it, what secrets of pre-history it may hold, and its clues to St. Germain's family origins and mystic-political agenda within European royalty and Masonry, particularly at the purported end of his life.
It is intriguing no matter what your viewpoints about St. Germain's longevity and spiritual attainments. In many ways, he is still with us today, as the issues suggested in his Triangular Book still haunt us. It leads us back to the mysteries of Egypt and Sumeria, back to the time of the great Flood. What we can extract from it is a mirror of our own soul.
We are still concerned with the hunt for universal medicines, longevity, the Precession of time and its relation to epochs and cultures, as well as the "treasures" hard to attain that are hidden in the very depths of our being -- our souls. To the extent that we each contain a universe within, we are in that sense immortal.
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Written on the wall of a church in Germany,
attributed to St. Germain Ye call me Master and obey me not. Ye call me Light and see me not. Ye call me the Way and walk it not. Ye call me Right and desire it not. Ye call me Wise and follow me not. Ye call me Fair and love me not. Ye call me Eternal and seek me not. Ye call me Gracious and trust me not. Ye call me Just and fear me not. We give you Love, 'tis all we've got. For Love unties the Gordian Knot. |
PHILOSOPHICAL SONNET
by St. Germain "Curious scrutator of all nature, I have seen gold thick in the depths of the double mercury. I have seized its substance and surprised its changing. I explain by that art the soul with the womb of a mother, Make its home, take it away, and as a kernel Placed against a grain of wheat, under the humid pollen; The one plant and the other vine-stock, are the bread and wine. NOTHING was, God willing, NOTHING became something, I doubted it, I sought that on which the universe rests, NOTHING preserves the equilibrium and serves to sustain. Then, with the weight of praise and of blame. I weighed the eternal, it called my soul, I died, I adored, I knew NOTHING more." |
In Freemasonry, the Triangle expresses the number Three and the Three-In-One in geometric form. The Triangle stands not only for the Doctrine of Duality, but also the Third power that balances duality. Note the Triangle on Giordano Bruno’s Grand Master Certificate. The twin points form the Triangle’s base are actually the tops of a male sun pillar (Jachin) and female moon pillar (Boaz): The male pillar is crowned with the sun, the female pillar is crowned with the moon.
The Triangle represents the idea of “balancing” our opposites (balancing our duality) is the great and age-old “Secret of Three” and the “Lost Secret of the Freemasons”. As the triangle’s apex transcends its two lower points, so your soul transcends your two lower animal halves, your sun half and moon half. Whereas duality (Two) signifies your physical body, the greater triangle (Three) signifies your soul (a.k.a. your higher Self in the center that rests eternal behind your temporary bodily right / left self.) Your soul is older than the twin dualities of your physical body. You find your apex—your “soul within”—by putting your two bodily halves in balance. Perfectly balancing your opposites, you become illuminated or awakened. When this happens, a mysterious, hidden Eye opens in you.
Plato called it the “Eye of the Soul”. Our two eyes see outward at physical things, but our Mind’s Eye looks inward to spiritual things. When our Third Eye opens, we are able to “see” our soul within. It’s then that you discover a conscious “deity” held captive within you--your true Self. We term this deity our “soul,” but it’s really a fallen god, fallen because we don’t realize we are eternal gods who are only temporarily clothed as animals. Thus, whereas the Masonic Triangle (below left) symbolizes the union or balancing of opposites, the Masonic “Eye in the Triangle” (below right) symbolizes the awakening of our Mind’s Eye that occurs when these opposites are united or balanced.
The Triangle represents the idea of “balancing” our opposites (balancing our duality) is the great and age-old “Secret of Three” and the “Lost Secret of the Freemasons”. As the triangle’s apex transcends its two lower points, so your soul transcends your two lower animal halves, your sun half and moon half. Whereas duality (Two) signifies your physical body, the greater triangle (Three) signifies your soul (a.k.a. your higher Self in the center that rests eternal behind your temporary bodily right / left self.) Your soul is older than the twin dualities of your physical body. You find your apex—your “soul within”—by putting your two bodily halves in balance. Perfectly balancing your opposites, you become illuminated or awakened. When this happens, a mysterious, hidden Eye opens in you.
Plato called it the “Eye of the Soul”. Our two eyes see outward at physical things, but our Mind’s Eye looks inward to spiritual things. When our Third Eye opens, we are able to “see” our soul within. It’s then that you discover a conscious “deity” held captive within you--your true Self. We term this deity our “soul,” but it’s really a fallen god, fallen because we don’t realize we are eternal gods who are only temporarily clothed as animals. Thus, whereas the Masonic Triangle (below left) symbolizes the union or balancing of opposites, the Masonic “Eye in the Triangle” (below right) symbolizes the awakening of our Mind’s Eye that occurs when these opposites are united or balanced.
The word “Abracadabra” may derive from an Aramaic phrase meaning “I create (A’bra) what (ca) I speak (dab’ra).”
This etymology is rather dubious, however, as אברא כדברא in Aramaic is more reasonably translated "I create like the word."
Abracadabra may be abbreviated from the Hebrew words Ab (Father), Ben (Son) and Ruach A Cadsch (Holy Spirit),
an alternative derivation relates the word to Abraxas, a god with snakes for feet.
This etymology is rather dubious, however, as אברא כדברא in Aramaic is more reasonably translated "I create like the word."
Abracadabra may be abbreviated from the Hebrew words Ab (Father), Ben (Son) and Ruach A Cadsch (Holy Spirit),
an alternative derivation relates the word to Abraxas, a god with snakes for feet.
A NEW TRIANGLE IN PHYSICS
With his concept of Active Information, Bohm introduced what could be thought of a new triad into physics in place of the old duality of Energy-Matter. In Energy-Matter duality, energy acts on matter to transform it. For example it may melt a piece of metal, or it may cause a stone to move. Now add in information to form Energy-Matter-Information. Active information observes the disposition of Matter and now acts on Energy to redirect it. This redirected Energy makes a new transformation of Matter and in turn this is observed by Information which acts back on Energy. -F. David Peat
- See more at: http://thebohmdocumentary.org/a-new-triangle-in-physics/#sthash.wieCeQHO.dpuf
With his concept of Active Information, Bohm introduced what could be thought of a new triad into physics in place of the old duality of Energy-Matter. In Energy-Matter duality, energy acts on matter to transform it. For example it may melt a piece of metal, or it may cause a stone to move. Now add in information to form Energy-Matter-Information. Active information observes the disposition of Matter and now acts on Energy to redirect it. This redirected Energy makes a new transformation of Matter and in turn this is observed by Information which acts back on Energy. -F. David Peat
- See more at: http://thebohmdocumentary.org/a-new-triangle-in-physics/#sthash.wieCeQHO.dpuf
Triangle of Light
Triangle of Light
The triangle is one of most common occult or alchemical symbols. First and foremost, in Masonry, the triangle represents the three degrees of Initiation. LIGHT is the True Center of the mystic Triangle. The "triple unity" is that of first principle or the beginning; regenerativity or life in perpetuity; and the absolute synthesis of the end. The triangle is a fusion of the qualities of the Demiurge: Power, Wisdom & Love.
A triangle with its point downward represents the deity and is called the Deity's Triangle, or the Water Triangle. It also echoes The Goddess, or Divine Feminine, being an ancient symbol of her generative and regenerative power.
With one point up, it is called the Earthly Triangle, Pyramid Triangle, or the Fire Triangle. Joined they are the hexagonal Star of David, centered on the Heart. Adding another dimension yields two interpenetrating tetrahedra - the star tetrahedra or Merkabah Field. The ultimate goal of Alchemy is to obtain special wisdom, self-renewal and even immortality.
The inverted triangle as a symbol of The Feminine - Delta of Venus - suggests the deepest of meditative brainwave states - Delta (1-4 hz) where psychophysical regeneration and recalibration takes place. The delta state rejuvenates your mind, body, and spirit. Delta range of deep dreamless sleep also triggers the release of anti-aging Human Growth Hormone so beneficial for renewing energy, healing and regeneration. Scientifically proven benefits of delta brainwaves include:
1. Speeding up regeneration of new cells and hormone production
2. White blood cells multiply greatly killing invading germs and bacteria
3. Restore unbalanced sodium and potassium in the body which causes fatigue
4. Keep blood circulation flowing freely.
St. Germain's triangular text might rightly be called THE DRAGON BOOK. Find out about the Dragon lineage, Deep Time, Dragon Precession and 2012, and the nature of Immortality. The Dragon is the symbolic superstar of Saint Germain's secret grimoire. Find out why and what it means.
St. Germain had The Secret, a legacy of Manly Palmer Hall and his Philosophical Research Society (PRS). It was the supreme treasure of his vault. It now resides in the Getty Research Institute, likewise deep in their library vaults. Revealed here are previously unseen photos of the sigils, emblems and ciphers of the book, hidden since 1750.
Dimensional Shift
This master adept, called the wisest in Europe, reserved his greatest gift -- the two books he wrote -- for his wisest companions. One of them was a magical rite for alchemical Immortality. The Magnum Opus, the Great Work of alchemy, is the utter transformation of oneself into a being of light, an energy body. Saint Germain's great secret was the Art of Rejuvenation and Spiritual Rebirth. Immortality is the occult alternative to Christian salvation. Post-modern views include ideas of holographic pattern or field survival from advanced physics. There is a clear message to realize the immortality that rests within us.
High ritual magic can be traced to Hellenistic Egypt, from there to Arab Spain and Jewish practitioners of Kabbala, then to late medieval magicians. Magic was a fundamental element in the rituals of the Greek mysteries. There are three basic ‘paths’ in Ritual Magic: the ‘left’ and ‘right.’ These refer to the goal of the magician’s spiritual work.
A “Left hand path” magician usually seeks physical and/or spiritual immortality and magnification of the Higher Self. A "Right hand path" magician seeks union with divine energy and dissolution of the ego/personality. The Middle Way annihilates each thought against its opposite, opening the most direct path to transcendence or primordial awareness of the eternal. Is it a choice to pursue individual glory or immortality rather than union or absorption, or are they in fact different facets of the same paradoxical state?
St. Germain recorded his version of "The Secret" to health, wealth and long life in his legendary TRIANGLE BOOK, and apparently made copies for his closest circle of initiates. But, perhaps even then, the entire secret was never entrusted to a single individual, as the copies of the book are not identical, containing different illustrations. It includes angelic invocations, sigils and ritual timing. Ameretat is one of the Archangels of Zoroastrianism, considered the angel of immortality and ruler over plants. Myrtle is a symbol of immortality. Fir is the evergreen of immortality.
We might deduce that to properly work the formulas in the book requires the Emblems and Sigils it described. Is this why Manly Palmer Hall possessed two copies of the book, each with different glyphs? It begs the point, were there other copies with even more illustrations required to initiate the whole current -- to attain magical immortality?
The TRIANGLE BOOK (or Triangular Book) differs from many alchemical texts in its language, being more of a ritual invocation than a recipe. Naturally, St. Germain made marvelous plant and herbal medicines (spagyrics) but this book is not about that but about the qualitative Universal Medicine. Meditation facilitates spiritual pursuits, including alchemy, qabalah and magic.
What we know is that both St. Germain and Manly Palmer Hall lived to a ripe old age and remained mentally vibrant, each a great adept of his own era. Can this obscure arcane text -- one of the rarest occult manuscripts -- be the secret of their longevity? The book is alleged to be Egyptian in origin. MPH, himself, can be seen with the book (shown here) in the frontpiece portrait in his FREEMASONRY OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
Here, for possibly the first time ever, the text translation appears publically with the withheld 5 illustrations of the two copies. Even in the originals, it is difficult to make out the precise glyphs of the sigils, but arguably their magical potency is intact. Sigils and emblems often contain hidden meanings, since they are a visual shorthand which can be "read" for their symbolism. Carl Jung used this method as the traditional basis of his alchemically inspired psychology.
The triangle is one of most common occult or alchemical symbols. First and foremost, in Masonry, the triangle represents the three degrees of Initiation. LIGHT is the True Center of the mystic Triangle. The "triple unity" is that of first principle or the beginning; regenerativity or life in perpetuity; and the absolute synthesis of the end. The triangle is a fusion of the qualities of the Demiurge: Power, Wisdom & Love.
A triangle with its point downward represents the deity and is called the Deity's Triangle, or the Water Triangle. It also echoes The Goddess, or Divine Feminine, being an ancient symbol of her generative and regenerative power.
With one point up, it is called the Earthly Triangle, Pyramid Triangle, or the Fire Triangle. Joined they are the hexagonal Star of David, centered on the Heart. Adding another dimension yields two interpenetrating tetrahedra - the star tetrahedra or Merkabah Field. The ultimate goal of Alchemy is to obtain special wisdom, self-renewal and even immortality.
The inverted triangle as a symbol of The Feminine - Delta of Venus - suggests the deepest of meditative brainwave states - Delta (1-4 hz) where psychophysical regeneration and recalibration takes place. The delta state rejuvenates your mind, body, and spirit. Delta range of deep dreamless sleep also triggers the release of anti-aging Human Growth Hormone so beneficial for renewing energy, healing and regeneration. Scientifically proven benefits of delta brainwaves include:
1. Speeding up regeneration of new cells and hormone production
2. White blood cells multiply greatly killing invading germs and bacteria
3. Restore unbalanced sodium and potassium in the body which causes fatigue
4. Keep blood circulation flowing freely.
St. Germain's triangular text might rightly be called THE DRAGON BOOK. Find out about the Dragon lineage, Deep Time, Dragon Precession and 2012, and the nature of Immortality. The Dragon is the symbolic superstar of Saint Germain's secret grimoire. Find out why and what it means.
St. Germain had The Secret, a legacy of Manly Palmer Hall and his Philosophical Research Society (PRS). It was the supreme treasure of his vault. It now resides in the Getty Research Institute, likewise deep in their library vaults. Revealed here are previously unseen photos of the sigils, emblems and ciphers of the book, hidden since 1750.
Dimensional Shift
This master adept, called the wisest in Europe, reserved his greatest gift -- the two books he wrote -- for his wisest companions. One of them was a magical rite for alchemical Immortality. The Magnum Opus, the Great Work of alchemy, is the utter transformation of oneself into a being of light, an energy body. Saint Germain's great secret was the Art of Rejuvenation and Spiritual Rebirth. Immortality is the occult alternative to Christian salvation. Post-modern views include ideas of holographic pattern or field survival from advanced physics. There is a clear message to realize the immortality that rests within us.
High ritual magic can be traced to Hellenistic Egypt, from there to Arab Spain and Jewish practitioners of Kabbala, then to late medieval magicians. Magic was a fundamental element in the rituals of the Greek mysteries. There are three basic ‘paths’ in Ritual Magic: the ‘left’ and ‘right.’ These refer to the goal of the magician’s spiritual work.
A “Left hand path” magician usually seeks physical and/or spiritual immortality and magnification of the Higher Self. A "Right hand path" magician seeks union with divine energy and dissolution of the ego/personality. The Middle Way annihilates each thought against its opposite, opening the most direct path to transcendence or primordial awareness of the eternal. Is it a choice to pursue individual glory or immortality rather than union or absorption, or are they in fact different facets of the same paradoxical state?
St. Germain recorded his version of "The Secret" to health, wealth and long life in his legendary TRIANGLE BOOK, and apparently made copies for his closest circle of initiates. But, perhaps even then, the entire secret was never entrusted to a single individual, as the copies of the book are not identical, containing different illustrations. It includes angelic invocations, sigils and ritual timing. Ameretat is one of the Archangels of Zoroastrianism, considered the angel of immortality and ruler over plants. Myrtle is a symbol of immortality. Fir is the evergreen of immortality.
We might deduce that to properly work the formulas in the book requires the Emblems and Sigils it described. Is this why Manly Palmer Hall possessed two copies of the book, each with different glyphs? It begs the point, were there other copies with even more illustrations required to initiate the whole current -- to attain magical immortality?
The TRIANGLE BOOK (or Triangular Book) differs from many alchemical texts in its language, being more of a ritual invocation than a recipe. Naturally, St. Germain made marvelous plant and herbal medicines (spagyrics) but this book is not about that but about the qualitative Universal Medicine. Meditation facilitates spiritual pursuits, including alchemy, qabalah and magic.
What we know is that both St. Germain and Manly Palmer Hall lived to a ripe old age and remained mentally vibrant, each a great adept of his own era. Can this obscure arcane text -- one of the rarest occult manuscripts -- be the secret of their longevity? The book is alleged to be Egyptian in origin. MPH, himself, can be seen with the book (shown here) in the frontpiece portrait in his FREEMASONRY OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
Here, for possibly the first time ever, the text translation appears publically with the withheld 5 illustrations of the two copies. Even in the originals, it is difficult to make out the precise glyphs of the sigils, but arguably their magical potency is intact. Sigils and emblems often contain hidden meanings, since they are a visual shorthand which can be "read" for their symbolism. Carl Jung used this method as the traditional basis of his alchemically inspired psychology.
Why do people create gods of certain people, so they can imagine they watch over them.
"St. Germain Decoded", by Iona Miller
Saint Germain had a secret that became a legacy of Manly Palmer Hall (MPH) and his Philosophical Research Society. It was his supreme treasure, which he kept safely hidden in his PRS vault. The two parchment cipher texts now reside in the Getty Research Institute, likewise deep in their library vaults.
This wisest adept in Europe reserved his greatest gift for his wisest companions. St. Germain recorded his version of "The Secret" for health, wealth and long life in his legendary TRIANGLE BOOK, and apparently made copies for his closest circle of initiates. But it seems the entire secret was never entrusted to a single individual, as the copies of the book are curiously not identical, containing different illustrations.
Since it is an Abramelin-style (Solomonic magic) magical text, we might deduce that to properly work the ritual formulae in the book, the Emblems and Sigils it described are required. Is this why Manly Palmer Hall possessed two copies of the book, each with different glyphs? It begs the point, were there other copies with even more illustrations required to initiate the whole current -- to attain magical immortality?
What we know is that both St. Germain and Manly Palmer Hall lived to a ripe old age and remained mentally vibrant. Can this obscure arcane text -- one of the rarest occult manuscripts -- be the secret of their longevity? The book is allegedly Egyptian in origin. Hall can be seen with the book in a portrait, which appears as frontpiece in his Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians.
This wisest adept in Europe reserved his greatest gift for his wisest companions. St. Germain recorded his version of "The Secret" for health, wealth and long life in his legendary TRIANGLE BOOK, and apparently made copies for his closest circle of initiates. But it seems the entire secret was never entrusted to a single individual, as the copies of the book are curiously not identical, containing different illustrations.
Since it is an Abramelin-style (Solomonic magic) magical text, we might deduce that to properly work the ritual formulae in the book, the Emblems and Sigils it described are required. Is this why Manly Palmer Hall possessed two copies of the book, each with different glyphs? It begs the point, were there other copies with even more illustrations required to initiate the whole current -- to attain magical immortality?
What we know is that both St. Germain and Manly Palmer Hall lived to a ripe old age and remained mentally vibrant. Can this obscure arcane text -- one of the rarest occult manuscripts -- be the secret of their longevity? The book is allegedly Egyptian in origin. Hall can be seen with the book in a portrait, which appears as frontpiece in his Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians.
Who Was St. Germain?
IMMORTALITY, LONGEVITY & TRANSCENDENCE
Here There Be Dragons
WHO WAS ST. GERMAIN?
Iona Miller, (c)2010
NO copying without explicit, written permission
The following is offered as suggestion rather than proof:
Among the legends of his origins is that he was a "wandering Jew" or an exiled Transylvanian Prince. His "dragon book" implies that his lineage is secretly identified with the Dragon. All those threads weave together once we realize that Royal Ashina Khazars, a dynasty of converted Jews ruled Khazaria (ancient Scythia) from about 650 to 1016. Two royal clans merged: in Hebrew Ha-Shechina, and Turkic Ashina.
They were preceded by proto-Scythian kings who initiated a custodial tradition of seership and wisdom that migrated with them from Transylvania and Central Asia throughout Europe. Thus, the Scythian dynasties permeated European royalty as individual Dragon lineages fused.
The (Central Asian) Khazar name is derived from Turkic *qaz-, meaning "to wander." The Ashina was considered a sacred clan of quasi-divine status. The Ashina clan, a noble caste, carry the 16q24.3 "red gene" inherited from the Sumerian Annunaki, the root of the Dragon seed that permeates royal lines: Merovingian, Carolingian, Tudor, Plantagenet, Stuart, Hapsburg, Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Guelph, Bowes-Lyon, Battenberg (Mountbatten), Guise, and Savoy families - and Transylvanian lineages. The Davidic House of Judah married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. They are connected by a shared bloodline. The dragon archetype rests within the Dragon blood, passed on through the genes.
According to Nicholas de Vere, "Briefly, the Dragon lineage starts in the Caucasus with the Annunaki, descending through migrating proto-Scythians to the Sumerians while branching off also into the early Egyptians, Phoenicians and Mittani. A marriage bridge back to Scythia infused the Elvin line of “Tuatha de Danaan” and the Fir Bolg, which branched into the Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely family to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the ring kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada, through the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today."
The Royal Court of the Dragon was founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC and was subsequently ratified by the 12th dynasty Queen Sobeknefru. This sovereign and priestly Order passed from Egypt to the Kings of Jerusalem; to the Black Sea Princes of Scythia (Princess Milouziana of the Scythians) and into the Balkans - notably to the Royal House of Hungary, whose King Sigismund reconstituted the Court just 600 years ago. Sigismund’s assumed descent from Melusine. Her ancestry actually can be traced back to the Scythian Dragon Princess Scota, Queen Sobekh Nefru and the Egyptian Cult of the Dragon. Vlad Dracul was a minion of Sigismund of Luxembourg, and was educated at the Emperor's court in Nuremberg. Dracul was invested into Societas Draconis.
The Byzantine Emperor Constantine was a Dragon King. The Byzantine emperor Leo III married his son Constantine (V) to the Khazar princess as part of the alliance between the two empires. Princess Tzitzak was baptized as Irene. Their son Leo (Leo IV) was known as "Leo the Khazar", emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from 775 to 780.
The "secret of immortality" of the "Wandering Jew" is the in-bred dynasty. For the ancient Egyptians, it lay partly in historical remembrance of one's name. Some say the nomadic Khazars derived from both the Edomites and the so-called “Lost Tribes”. Like their Edomite ancestors, the Khazars were also red-headed, and came to be known as “Red Jews”. Transylvania was part of the Khazarian Empire (with roots from Mongolia to Transylvania).The Khazar ruling class was strikingly handsome with reddish hair, white skin and blue eyes.
Perhaps these concealed symbolic hints were a private joke to himself and perhaps the familial European royalty of St. Germain's unrealized ruler identity. Comte de St. Germain has been plausibly identified as the younger son (b. 1690) of the Prince Franz-Leopold Rakoczy and the Princess Charlotte Amalia of Hesse-Wahnfried. He was concealed from the Hapsburgs and lived incognito. The Hesse blood would invest St. Germain with dragon genes, and provide a familial link to the royal patron of his later years, Landgrave Karl von Hessen.
Transylvanian royalty belonged to the Dragon Court. So, St. Germain might represent himself authentically as a "Wandering Jew" with the secret of immortality, while being Transylvanian (the royal House of Rakoczy) and carrying the Dragon legacy with which he emblazoned his singular book.
Whether it was genetically accurate or not, he had plausible reasons to believe so in his day. In fact, this Dragon connection may explain why he was itinerant, not merely a wandering magician, scholar and businessman -- but a man with a mission. Was this dragon emblem the symbol of his natural family? As a Hungarian or Transylvanian prince, was he either part of or in a struggle to restore a bloodline, bred for rulership and magic?
Transylvania is the earliest known homeland of the Dragon Kings. But, according to de Vere, the House of Dracul descended from sons of Attila the Hun with no bloodline connection to Egypt. So it claimed an apostolic succession. There is no definable bloodline link or marriage bridge. If there was indeed dynastic [self-]deception, Saint Germain was unlikely to be any but an unwitting part, and would probably have identified strongly with this legacy. It is a legacy of seership through the genetic root – clear seeing, clairvoyance, transcendent consciousness.
The Dragon Tradition was alive and well during the time of Saint Germain and he was certainly part of it as a Transylvanian prince, whether he could pass a “Dragon DNA test” or not. It is no accident one of his only two original works carried the Dragon emblem. No wonder the book has been held closely ever since.
Presto Chango Manifesto
THE TRIANGULAR BOOK OF SAINT-GERMAIN consists of 24 triangular leaves of parchment, 44 manuscript pages, nine inches on each side in a hog-skin cover. A plush-lined case with the figure of a dragon has kept it in pristine shape. The cypher consists of twenty-six arbitrary characters, translatable by frequency.
The Dragon lineage holds the secret to longevity and transcendence. St. Germain was an alchemist renown for his longevity and youthful appearance. Alchemy begins and ends in the quest for eternal life. It is a spiritual technology of rebirth using natural methods that in their effect transcend nature by amplifying that which is immortal within us. It does not exist in nature but must be prepared by Art. Art is a form of manifesting, making and objectifying the world - spiritual physics.
Artists and mystics are aware of their own internal space and thus able to enter it, playing the mindbody like a musical instrument. Looking inside, they see the true nature of reality and can express that literally and symbolically. We all possess the creative potential. All creative acts are a marriage of spirit and matter, reaching down into the body as the source of our essential being and becoming.
Today, we might describe this resonance as accessing energy that regenerates the mindbody. Healing is an aspect of creativity; nature is within and without us. The Magus does not dominate reality but develops embodied psychophysical equilibrium, clarity, wisdom and compassion.
Creative work originates in the body and is projected out into the world. The projections are then internalized into awareness. The bodymind of the artist is an alchemical vessel containing the creative flux during the process of transformation. Awareness and consciousness form a continuous alchemical movement. The creative gold is generated and embodied in the alembic of the mindbody. The mindbody is the same substance as the Cosmos and contains and reveals its mysteries.
Alchemy reduces all to the first state, the ground state of being - original experience that is timeless, infinite. The classical Void, the quantum vacuum is a carrier of information. The energy body or the field body connects us with the negentropic potential of the zero-point field. Radiant light literally emerges from this mystic void. Primordial structuring processes are common to both psyche and matter, working in the gap or empty interval between intention and action.
So, alchemy refines the way the mindbody generates and processes inherent light as medicine. It refines the aspirant's ability for tapping and amplifying Medicine Light. This primordial state is the luminous ground of our being, hidden deep in the heart of things.
All other goals are subordinate to this prime directive which includes meditative techniques for continuing consciousness after death. This Philosopher's Stone is also the Universal Medicine, the regenerative Elixir of Life. The greatest mystery is the LIFE IN DEATH: we don't die but continue in transcendent form. This is the virtual secret of man and nature.
Philosopher's Stone: Man is a microcosm holding the keys to all three kingdoms within himself as the “Thrice Great Hermes.” The athenor of the human body contains within it all that is needed to produce the great circulation. The fire, the First and Last Matter, and the vessel are “One.” Nothing needs to be added to the Stone, except the removal of the impurities that surround and drown it. Raise the fire, evaporate the superfluidities and burn off the dross which inhibits its energy to liberate the Light in its fullest expression. This is the secret of Eternal Life. Light is the root of life in death.
Here There Be Dragons
WHO WAS ST. GERMAIN?
Iona Miller, (c)2010
NO copying without explicit, written permission
The following is offered as suggestion rather than proof:
Among the legends of his origins is that he was a "wandering Jew" or an exiled Transylvanian Prince. His "dragon book" implies that his lineage is secretly identified with the Dragon. All those threads weave together once we realize that Royal Ashina Khazars, a dynasty of converted Jews ruled Khazaria (ancient Scythia) from about 650 to 1016. Two royal clans merged: in Hebrew Ha-Shechina, and Turkic Ashina.
They were preceded by proto-Scythian kings who initiated a custodial tradition of seership and wisdom that migrated with them from Transylvania and Central Asia throughout Europe. Thus, the Scythian dynasties permeated European royalty as individual Dragon lineages fused.
The (Central Asian) Khazar name is derived from Turkic *qaz-, meaning "to wander." The Ashina was considered a sacred clan of quasi-divine status. The Ashina clan, a noble caste, carry the 16q24.3 "red gene" inherited from the Sumerian Annunaki, the root of the Dragon seed that permeates royal lines: Merovingian, Carolingian, Tudor, Plantagenet, Stuart, Hapsburg, Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Guelph, Bowes-Lyon, Battenberg (Mountbatten), Guise, and Savoy families - and Transylvanian lineages. The Davidic House of Judah married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. They are connected by a shared bloodline. The dragon archetype rests within the Dragon blood, passed on through the genes.
According to Nicholas de Vere, "Briefly, the Dragon lineage starts in the Caucasus with the Annunaki, descending through migrating proto-Scythians to the Sumerians while branching off also into the early Egyptians, Phoenicians and Mittani. A marriage bridge back to Scythia infused the Elvin line of “Tuatha de Danaan” and the Fir Bolg, which branched into the Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely family to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the ring kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada, through the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today."
The Royal Court of the Dragon was founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC and was subsequently ratified by the 12th dynasty Queen Sobeknefru. This sovereign and priestly Order passed from Egypt to the Kings of Jerusalem; to the Black Sea Princes of Scythia (Princess Milouziana of the Scythians) and into the Balkans - notably to the Royal House of Hungary, whose King Sigismund reconstituted the Court just 600 years ago. Sigismund’s assumed descent from Melusine. Her ancestry actually can be traced back to the Scythian Dragon Princess Scota, Queen Sobekh Nefru and the Egyptian Cult of the Dragon. Vlad Dracul was a minion of Sigismund of Luxembourg, and was educated at the Emperor's court in Nuremberg. Dracul was invested into Societas Draconis.
The Byzantine Emperor Constantine was a Dragon King. The Byzantine emperor Leo III married his son Constantine (V) to the Khazar princess as part of the alliance between the two empires. Princess Tzitzak was baptized as Irene. Their son Leo (Leo IV) was known as "Leo the Khazar", emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from 775 to 780.
The "secret of immortality" of the "Wandering Jew" is the in-bred dynasty. For the ancient Egyptians, it lay partly in historical remembrance of one's name. Some say the nomadic Khazars derived from both the Edomites and the so-called “Lost Tribes”. Like their Edomite ancestors, the Khazars were also red-headed, and came to be known as “Red Jews”. Transylvania was part of the Khazarian Empire (with roots from Mongolia to Transylvania).The Khazar ruling class was strikingly handsome with reddish hair, white skin and blue eyes.
Perhaps these concealed symbolic hints were a private joke to himself and perhaps the familial European royalty of St. Germain's unrealized ruler identity. Comte de St. Germain has been plausibly identified as the younger son (b. 1690) of the Prince Franz-Leopold Rakoczy and the Princess Charlotte Amalia of Hesse-Wahnfried. He was concealed from the Hapsburgs and lived incognito. The Hesse blood would invest St. Germain with dragon genes, and provide a familial link to the royal patron of his later years, Landgrave Karl von Hessen.
Transylvanian royalty belonged to the Dragon Court. So, St. Germain might represent himself authentically as a "Wandering Jew" with the secret of immortality, while being Transylvanian (the royal House of Rakoczy) and carrying the Dragon legacy with which he emblazoned his singular book.
Whether it was genetically accurate or not, he had plausible reasons to believe so in his day. In fact, this Dragon connection may explain why he was itinerant, not merely a wandering magician, scholar and businessman -- but a man with a mission. Was this dragon emblem the symbol of his natural family? As a Hungarian or Transylvanian prince, was he either part of or in a struggle to restore a bloodline, bred for rulership and magic?
Transylvania is the earliest known homeland of the Dragon Kings. But, according to de Vere, the House of Dracul descended from sons of Attila the Hun with no bloodline connection to Egypt. So it claimed an apostolic succession. There is no definable bloodline link or marriage bridge. If there was indeed dynastic [self-]deception, Saint Germain was unlikely to be any but an unwitting part, and would probably have identified strongly with this legacy. It is a legacy of seership through the genetic root – clear seeing, clairvoyance, transcendent consciousness.
The Dragon Tradition was alive and well during the time of Saint Germain and he was certainly part of it as a Transylvanian prince, whether he could pass a “Dragon DNA test” or not. It is no accident one of his only two original works carried the Dragon emblem. No wonder the book has been held closely ever since.
Presto Chango Manifesto
THE TRIANGULAR BOOK OF SAINT-GERMAIN consists of 24 triangular leaves of parchment, 44 manuscript pages, nine inches on each side in a hog-skin cover. A plush-lined case with the figure of a dragon has kept it in pristine shape. The cypher consists of twenty-six arbitrary characters, translatable by frequency.
The Dragon lineage holds the secret to longevity and transcendence. St. Germain was an alchemist renown for his longevity and youthful appearance. Alchemy begins and ends in the quest for eternal life. It is a spiritual technology of rebirth using natural methods that in their effect transcend nature by amplifying that which is immortal within us. It does not exist in nature but must be prepared by Art. Art is a form of manifesting, making and objectifying the world - spiritual physics.
Artists and mystics are aware of their own internal space and thus able to enter it, playing the mindbody like a musical instrument. Looking inside, they see the true nature of reality and can express that literally and symbolically. We all possess the creative potential. All creative acts are a marriage of spirit and matter, reaching down into the body as the source of our essential being and becoming.
Today, we might describe this resonance as accessing energy that regenerates the mindbody. Healing is an aspect of creativity; nature is within and without us. The Magus does not dominate reality but develops embodied psychophysical equilibrium, clarity, wisdom and compassion.
Creative work originates in the body and is projected out into the world. The projections are then internalized into awareness. The bodymind of the artist is an alchemical vessel containing the creative flux during the process of transformation. Awareness and consciousness form a continuous alchemical movement. The creative gold is generated and embodied in the alembic of the mindbody. The mindbody is the same substance as the Cosmos and contains and reveals its mysteries.
Alchemy reduces all to the first state, the ground state of being - original experience that is timeless, infinite. The classical Void, the quantum vacuum is a carrier of information. The energy body or the field body connects us with the negentropic potential of the zero-point field. Radiant light literally emerges from this mystic void. Primordial structuring processes are common to both psyche and matter, working in the gap or empty interval between intention and action.
So, alchemy refines the way the mindbody generates and processes inherent light as medicine. It refines the aspirant's ability for tapping and amplifying Medicine Light. This primordial state is the luminous ground of our being, hidden deep in the heart of things.
All other goals are subordinate to this prime directive which includes meditative techniques for continuing consciousness after death. This Philosopher's Stone is also the Universal Medicine, the regenerative Elixir of Life. The greatest mystery is the LIFE IN DEATH: we don't die but continue in transcendent form. This is the virtual secret of man and nature.
Philosopher's Stone: Man is a microcosm holding the keys to all three kingdoms within himself as the “Thrice Great Hermes.” The athenor of the human body contains within it all that is needed to produce the great circulation. The fire, the First and Last Matter, and the vessel are “One.” Nothing needs to be added to the Stone, except the removal of the impurities that surround and drown it. Raise the fire, evaporate the superfluidities and burn off the dross which inhibits its energy to liberate the Light in its fullest expression. This is the secret of Eternal Life. Light is the root of life in death.
The great initiate who termed himself the Comte de St.-Germain must not be confused with the French general of the same name, for the "Wonderman," as M. de St.-Germain was often called, was not a scion of the French family. The theory long held that he was a Portuguese Jew has now been discarded as untenable. The most reasonable conclusion regarding his birth is that he was the legitimate son of Franz-Leopold, Prince Ragoczy of Transylvania: in fact the Comte de St.-Germain appeared in Leipzig in 1777 as Prince Ragoczy. He also admitted to Prince Karl of Hesse that he was the son of Prince Ragoczy and that he was reared and educated by the last Duc de Medici.
The contradictory nature of the data regarding the Comte de St.-Germain is strikingly evidenced by several chronological inconsistencies. It is generally supposed that this mysterious adept was born in 1710, but the Countess v. Gergy declared that she had seen him during that year in Venice and that he appeared to be between forty-five and fifty years of age at that time. While the church register at Eckernforde contains a record of his death in 1784, he was allegedly seen on several occasions subsequent to that date, having attended a Masonic conference in 1785 and having been recognized in Venice in 1788. The last historical mention of the Comte de St.-Germain was in 1822, at which time he was presumably on the eve of embarking for India.
The contradictory nature of the data regarding the Comte de St.-Germain is strikingly evidenced by several chronological inconsistencies. It is generally supposed that this mysterious adept was born in 1710, but the Countess v. Gergy declared that she had seen him during that year in Venice and that he appeared to be between forty-five and fifty years of age at that time. While the church register at Eckernforde contains a record of his death in 1784, he was allegedly seen on several occasions subsequent to that date, having attended a Masonic conference in 1785 and having been recognized in Venice in 1788. The last historical mention of the Comte de St.-Germain was in 1822, at which time he was presumably on the eve of embarking for India.
St. Germain's Purple Secret
Iona Miller, c2013
Though not widely reported, descendants of St. Germain suggest that he suffered from porphyria, a genetic blood disease with symptoms linked to eastern European bloodlines. They know because they share the same inherited health challenges today. Only a DNA analysis could confirm this hypothesis about the mage, but it connects certain dots within his plausible ancestry and biography.
Even without a hypothetical genetic disorder, lead poisoning inhibits porphyrin synthesis and St. Germain's lifelong practice of alchemy and chemistry in dank basements made him prone in old age to pneumonia and poisoning from noxious vapors of mercury and lead. Heavy metals and maybe asbestos can trigger porphyria even without genetic predisposition. He engaged in such activity in his alleged last years at Louisenlund. Latency is common, and some carriers only become symptomatic after exposure to precipitating factors such as alcohol or certain drugs. Is this why St. Germain didn't drink?
Porphyria began at the beginning of time and has continued to mutate throughout ensuing generations. Porphyrins exist abundantly in plants, animals and rocks and have even been found in lunar dust. They existed by the time the first chlorophyll-containing photosynthetic organisms appeared some 3 billion years ago to initiate the creation of a new atmosphere, rich with life-supporting oxygen. Our present ecosystem relies extensively on porphyrins for various vital roles ranging from photosynthesis to oxygen transport, in the form of chlorophyll and heme.
Iron, which is chelated in the center of the heme group, may have been selected instead of another metal for evolutionary reasons, due to its abundance in the crust of earth. Hemoglobin and myoglobin are believed to have emerged more than 600 million years ago. Structurally, hemoglobin consists of four protein subunits, with each subunit associated with a heme group chelated with an iron atom in the center. Its evolution permitted animals to develop complex circulatory systems, which in turn permitted larger organism sizes and higher functions.
The porphyrias are a classification of at least 8 different diseases which are caused by abnormalities in heme production. Heme is part of the hemoglobin in blood that has the ability to carry oxygen. It is a porphyrin molecule which contains iron and gives blood its red color. Also it functions in the liver to break down chemicals so that they can be excreted in the form of urine or in feces.
These are life-long diseases and the symptoms may come and go. Porphyria is not one condition, but a group of diseases. While most of them are inherited, some can be picked up later in life. Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is the most common of the forms. Abdominal pain occurs in 90-95% of the attacks. Some patients develop psychiatric symptoms such as psychosis similar to schizophrenia. The diagnostic difficulty may lead to under-diagnosis of patients who present with strictly psychiatric symptoms.
Porphyrias are detected in all 'races.' Jewish ethnicity is linked to Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria. Cavalli-Sforza in The History and Geography of Human Genes groups people into geographic and evolutionary clusters--but, he writes, ''At no level can clusters be identified with races.'' Types include ALA Dehydratase Porphyria, Porphyria Cutanea Tarda, Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria, Hepatic Coproporphyria, Erythropoietic Protoporphyria, and Variegate Porphyria. Four of these can sometimes cause sensitivity to light: Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) or Protoporphyria, Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria (C.E.P.), Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT) and Variegate Porphyria.
Porphyrias are caused by a build up of particles called porphyrins. These exist in all living things, but in porphyria, the enzyme that processes them breaks down. This causes illness because the porphyrins act as a toxin. Porphyrias have been linked to several diseases including autoimmune diseases, a predisposition to type 2 diabetes and cancers. For fifty years the damage from dominantly inherited porphyrias (PCT, AIP, HCP, VP, EPP) has been noted to trigger transient or sustained autoantibodies evolving to conditions such as lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma or Sjogren's disease.
Common triggers include:
The porphyrias: The 8 forms of the disease are caused by an incomplete heme enzyme deficiency at some step in the chemical pathway.. Acute intermittent and its variants feature neurotoxicity from delta-amino levulininc acid and porphobilinogen; stomach aches and insanity. Enzyme deficiency is exacerrbated by further inhibiting it with barbiturates or opiates. Cutanea tarda and its worse relatives feature photosensitivity, with scarring, extra hair, and blistering, from buildup of porphyrins themselves. A clinically similar form of porphyria, known as X-Linked dominant protoporphyria, was identified in 2008 and is passed through the maternal line.
Porphyria was more common than elsewhere in small Transylvanian villages roughly 1000 years ago when inbreeding probably occurred. Ironically, it arose in ancient Sun worshipping cultures. The haem group, found in every blood cell in the human body, is excited by electrons, but in a controlled fashion. However, the haem groups in porphyria sufferers causes uncontrollable tissue, bone and skin damage, made worse when the person comes into contact with sunlight.
Porphyria sufferers can have very pallid skin color, with teeth that appear larger than normal, due to the porphyria damaging the gum tissue and causing it to recede. These people would have been very anemic, and drinking (animal) blood was a traditional treatment for anemia. Certain forms of porphyria are also associated with neurological symptoms, which can create psychiatric disorders. However, suggestions that porphyria sufferers crave the heme in human blood, or that the consumption of blood might ease the symptoms of porphyria, are based on misunderstanding and medically-ignorant superstition. Phlebotomy or bloodletting was the treatment of choice for many disorders.
In 1985 David Dolphin, a biochemist, suggested that the mythical vampires might have been people suffering with porphyria. He made his case by pointing out that porphyria victims are exceedingly sensitive to sunlight. Exposure can cause burning of the skin and disfigurements such as scarring, their noses and fingers may wither up and fall off and the lips and gums may tighten up so much that the teeth project like fangs. To avoid sunlight, the sufferers may only go outside after dark and they may install heavy drapes on the windows to keep sunlight out. Also hundreds of years ago, victims might have tried to medicate themselves by drinking blood, and they might have sought out garlic as an herbal remedy but it only makes the porphyria symptoms worse. http://suite101.com/a/porphyria-the-disease-that-created-dracula-a162008
Royal Malady
Vampire legends trace back at least 4000 years to ancient Mesopotamia, the root of all royal lines. The Greeks and Celts had similar creatures in their folklore, and Indian mythology featured shape-shifter vampires who took over dead bodies for their own use. Wandering nomads carried the vampire legends to the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Hemophilia and porphyria are known throughout the royal bloodlines as the scourge of inbreeding, particularly in the lines of Queen Victoria. The episodic disease is difficult to understand, moreso in past centuries. It can be somewhat controlled by avoiding triggers. It may be that the disease, which can manifest as acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), lay dormant until late life onset.
An attack of acute intermittent porphyria is manifested by a wide range of symptoms. The actual cause of the attack is the absence of an enzyme, porphobilinogen deaminase, that converts a chemical called a porphyrin into heme, a component of hemoglobin, the iron-based chemical in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body. Porphyrins are toxic to the body in high doses and attacks occur when stress, diet, or something else causes the body to not be able to filter the excess porphyrins. Pain is severe and most often located in the abdomen and the hands and feet (peripheral neuropathy). Often pain needs to be treated with IV morphine or other equally strong narcotics. Insomnia is common. Nausea, vomiting, constipation, and diarrhea all can occur. Muscle weakness, seizures, headaches, forgetfulness and confusion are often the neurological symptoms. The heart races and tachycardia (high heart rate) and hypertension (high blood pressure) are not uncommon even when an attack is not occurring. Psychiatric problems can occur and can sometimes be the only manifestation of the disease. Often individuals afflicted with porphyria are simply depressed and have anxiety issues but in more severe attacks serious cases of paranoia and psychosis can occur. http://oneminutehistory.blogspot.com/
The origins of the disease in the royal family is often attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots and her son, James VI of Scotland and I of England. However, there are indications the condition may have been present as far back as Edward I and may have been introduced into the House of Stuart via Henry VIII’s sister, Margaret Tudor, who married James IV of Scotland. The Stuarts and Hanoverians carried the disorder into Europe through various alliances, and subsequent intermarriages increased the likelihood of the disease being passed down through the generations. http://www.painted-veil.net/the-curse-of-royal-blood/
Porphyria can be traced through the Stuarts, Tudors, Hanovers, and Katherine of Valois probably brought it from France, where he father Charles VI was a "typical porph" according to some. Some Scots families were followers of the Stuarts before they were Stewards, went from Brittany to England to Scotland with them, and somehow picked up the porphyria gene.
Queen Elizabeth's cousin Duke of Gloucester had it but died without children. Many Stewart monarchs had it, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I/VI probably took it to Germany. It came back with the Hanovers and really got going. Victoria or Albert had it, or both of them, because DNA has been done on bones of Victoria's daughter Vicki and Vicki's Charlotte (see The Purple Secret).
Three academics got permission to open Charlotte's grave. Initially they were told that her remains had been burned by the communists. Then they found her grave, but the German authorities were reluctant to give permission to exhume her. Finally, in 1997, they were allowed to remove the three-tonne slab from her coffin. "There she lay," says John, "with flowers still clutched in her hand." Scraping some bone marrow from her femur, they tested it for porphyria. "She had the disease, beyond a shadow of a doubt," says John, "and the chances of her having it independently from George III are almost impossible." There is a one-in-two chance of any member of the Royal family with the faulty gene passing it on to each offspring. Of that number, around 10% will suffer symptoms. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/bulletin/archive/25jun99/article1.html
It is a dominant gene and affects 50% of children, but is recessive in very rare forms. So there are no "carriers" except that some men are able to not "show" it--because not triggered, and thus could pass it on. It is dominant, so that 50% of children get it on one parent's line, and if two parents have it, 75% (on average). The only way a person can be thought to be a carrier (unlike hemophilia) is if that person has the gene but it is not triggered into disease, which happens frequently.
The disease affected the royals before the Hanover arrival. James I/VI is thought to have gotten it from Mary Queen of Scots and/or Lord Darnley. Lord Darnley had both Stewart and Tudor genes but also the Tudor genes. It is suggested that the Tudors became active with porphyria through Katherine of Valois, who married first Henry V and then Owen Tudor. Katherine is not written up as "mad", but her father Charles VI of France was actually more often "mad" than George III. He did terrible things such as kill his aides, and then fall into sorrow over what he'd done when he recovered his right mind. He thought he was made of glass and could break. He came from a very inbred line, and his wife Isabeau may have had it as well. Thus Katherine had a very high chance of having it. However, in these old cases, there are no "lab tests" as there are now since the 21th century.
Porphyria is "a group of inherited disorders involving abnormalities in the production of heme pigments (the base material responsible for hemoglobin (red blood cell pigment), myoglobin (reddish muscle cell pigment) and another group of materials called cytochromes." (From http://health.allrefer.com/health/porphyria-info.html#definition)
It may account for some of St. Germain's enigmatic behaviors, such as never eating in the company of others. Even today, those with the condition are often reduced to eating only the most benign of foods, such as organic oatmeal or porridge. So, naturally he may have had to pass up gluttonous royal feasts. They can be highly sensitive to the sun, erupting in skin lesions with overexposure, and prone to seizures and even deep comas, which might in the past have been mistaken for death. Severity varies with each individual; not everyone will display the whole range of symptoms, which depend also on the type of porphyria.
There is no escape from light when outside for those with the rare light intolerance disorder Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP). It demands a shadowy existence. Facial skin lesions can lead to a monstrous appearance. The gums pull back exaggerating a fang-like grimace. https://vimeo.com/8302697
Such disorders are often hidden because they were enmeshed with legends of vampiric behavior. Vampire legends are most closely associated with Transylvanian royal lines. Symptoms became overlaid with myth. A quick scan of the symptoms and behaviors reveals why this might be so. It may even be that medieval family remedies included the drinking of animal blood. Perhaps it motivated the mage's search for healing elixirs. Video: https://vimeo.com/23267877
Iona Miller, c2013
Though not widely reported, descendants of St. Germain suggest that he suffered from porphyria, a genetic blood disease with symptoms linked to eastern European bloodlines. They know because they share the same inherited health challenges today. Only a DNA analysis could confirm this hypothesis about the mage, but it connects certain dots within his plausible ancestry and biography.
Even without a hypothetical genetic disorder, lead poisoning inhibits porphyrin synthesis and St. Germain's lifelong practice of alchemy and chemistry in dank basements made him prone in old age to pneumonia and poisoning from noxious vapors of mercury and lead. Heavy metals and maybe asbestos can trigger porphyria even without genetic predisposition. He engaged in such activity in his alleged last years at Louisenlund. Latency is common, and some carriers only become symptomatic after exposure to precipitating factors such as alcohol or certain drugs. Is this why St. Germain didn't drink?
- Latency is common and there can be asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic carriers. Some carriers only
become symptomatic after exposure to an additional agent or factor capable of inducing disease expression.
Porphyria began at the beginning of time and has continued to mutate throughout ensuing generations. Porphyrins exist abundantly in plants, animals and rocks and have even been found in lunar dust. They existed by the time the first chlorophyll-containing photosynthetic organisms appeared some 3 billion years ago to initiate the creation of a new atmosphere, rich with life-supporting oxygen. Our present ecosystem relies extensively on porphyrins for various vital roles ranging from photosynthesis to oxygen transport, in the form of chlorophyll and heme.
Iron, which is chelated in the center of the heme group, may have been selected instead of another metal for evolutionary reasons, due to its abundance in the crust of earth. Hemoglobin and myoglobin are believed to have emerged more than 600 million years ago. Structurally, hemoglobin consists of four protein subunits, with each subunit associated with a heme group chelated with an iron atom in the center. Its evolution permitted animals to develop complex circulatory systems, which in turn permitted larger organism sizes and higher functions.
The porphyrias are a classification of at least 8 different diseases which are caused by abnormalities in heme production. Heme is part of the hemoglobin in blood that has the ability to carry oxygen. It is a porphyrin molecule which contains iron and gives blood its red color. Also it functions in the liver to break down chemicals so that they can be excreted in the form of urine or in feces.
These are life-long diseases and the symptoms may come and go. Porphyria is not one condition, but a group of diseases. While most of them are inherited, some can be picked up later in life. Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is the most common of the forms. Abdominal pain occurs in 90-95% of the attacks. Some patients develop psychiatric symptoms such as psychosis similar to schizophrenia. The diagnostic difficulty may lead to under-diagnosis of patients who present with strictly psychiatric symptoms.
Porphyrias are detected in all 'races.' Jewish ethnicity is linked to Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria. Cavalli-Sforza in The History and Geography of Human Genes groups people into geographic and evolutionary clusters--but, he writes, ''At no level can clusters be identified with races.'' Types include ALA Dehydratase Porphyria, Porphyria Cutanea Tarda, Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria, Hepatic Coproporphyria, Erythropoietic Protoporphyria, and Variegate Porphyria. Four of these can sometimes cause sensitivity to light: Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) or Protoporphyria, Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria (C.E.P.), Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT) and Variegate Porphyria.
Porphyrias are caused by a build up of particles called porphyrins. These exist in all living things, but in porphyria, the enzyme that processes them breaks down. This causes illness because the porphyrins act as a toxin. Porphyrias have been linked to several diseases including autoimmune diseases, a predisposition to type 2 diabetes and cancers. For fifty years the damage from dominantly inherited porphyrias (PCT, AIP, HCP, VP, EPP) has been noted to trigger transient or sustained autoantibodies evolving to conditions such as lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma or Sjogren's disease.
Common triggers include:
- Drugs (barbiturates and sulfonamide antibiotics, but tranquilizers, birth control pills and sedatives also may cause symptoms; or drug reaction to cancer treatment)
- Dieting or fasting
- Smoking
- Infections or other physical stress
- Stress
- Alcohol use
- Menstrual hormones
- Sun exposure
- Excess iron in your body
The porphyrias: The 8 forms of the disease are caused by an incomplete heme enzyme deficiency at some step in the chemical pathway.. Acute intermittent and its variants feature neurotoxicity from delta-amino levulininc acid and porphobilinogen; stomach aches and insanity. Enzyme deficiency is exacerrbated by further inhibiting it with barbiturates or opiates. Cutanea tarda and its worse relatives feature photosensitivity, with scarring, extra hair, and blistering, from buildup of porphyrins themselves. A clinically similar form of porphyria, known as X-Linked dominant protoporphyria, was identified in 2008 and is passed through the maternal line.
Porphyria was more common than elsewhere in small Transylvanian villages roughly 1000 years ago when inbreeding probably occurred. Ironically, it arose in ancient Sun worshipping cultures. The haem group, found in every blood cell in the human body, is excited by electrons, but in a controlled fashion. However, the haem groups in porphyria sufferers causes uncontrollable tissue, bone and skin damage, made worse when the person comes into contact with sunlight.
Porphyria sufferers can have very pallid skin color, with teeth that appear larger than normal, due to the porphyria damaging the gum tissue and causing it to recede. These people would have been very anemic, and drinking (animal) blood was a traditional treatment for anemia. Certain forms of porphyria are also associated with neurological symptoms, which can create psychiatric disorders. However, suggestions that porphyria sufferers crave the heme in human blood, or that the consumption of blood might ease the symptoms of porphyria, are based on misunderstanding and medically-ignorant superstition. Phlebotomy or bloodletting was the treatment of choice for many disorders.
In 1985 David Dolphin, a biochemist, suggested that the mythical vampires might have been people suffering with porphyria. He made his case by pointing out that porphyria victims are exceedingly sensitive to sunlight. Exposure can cause burning of the skin and disfigurements such as scarring, their noses and fingers may wither up and fall off and the lips and gums may tighten up so much that the teeth project like fangs. To avoid sunlight, the sufferers may only go outside after dark and they may install heavy drapes on the windows to keep sunlight out. Also hundreds of years ago, victims might have tried to medicate themselves by drinking blood, and they might have sought out garlic as an herbal remedy but it only makes the porphyria symptoms worse. http://suite101.com/a/porphyria-the-disease-that-created-dracula-a162008
Royal Malady
Vampire legends trace back at least 4000 years to ancient Mesopotamia, the root of all royal lines. The Greeks and Celts had similar creatures in their folklore, and Indian mythology featured shape-shifter vampires who took over dead bodies for their own use. Wandering nomads carried the vampire legends to the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Hemophilia and porphyria are known throughout the royal bloodlines as the scourge of inbreeding, particularly in the lines of Queen Victoria. The episodic disease is difficult to understand, moreso in past centuries. It can be somewhat controlled by avoiding triggers. It may be that the disease, which can manifest as acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), lay dormant until late life onset.
An attack of acute intermittent porphyria is manifested by a wide range of symptoms. The actual cause of the attack is the absence of an enzyme, porphobilinogen deaminase, that converts a chemical called a porphyrin into heme, a component of hemoglobin, the iron-based chemical in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body. Porphyrins are toxic to the body in high doses and attacks occur when stress, diet, or something else causes the body to not be able to filter the excess porphyrins. Pain is severe and most often located in the abdomen and the hands and feet (peripheral neuropathy). Often pain needs to be treated with IV morphine or other equally strong narcotics. Insomnia is common. Nausea, vomiting, constipation, and diarrhea all can occur. Muscle weakness, seizures, headaches, forgetfulness and confusion are often the neurological symptoms. The heart races and tachycardia (high heart rate) and hypertension (high blood pressure) are not uncommon even when an attack is not occurring. Psychiatric problems can occur and can sometimes be the only manifestation of the disease. Often individuals afflicted with porphyria are simply depressed and have anxiety issues but in more severe attacks serious cases of paranoia and psychosis can occur. http://oneminutehistory.blogspot.com/
The origins of the disease in the royal family is often attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots and her son, James VI of Scotland and I of England. However, there are indications the condition may have been present as far back as Edward I and may have been introduced into the House of Stuart via Henry VIII’s sister, Margaret Tudor, who married James IV of Scotland. The Stuarts and Hanoverians carried the disorder into Europe through various alliances, and subsequent intermarriages increased the likelihood of the disease being passed down through the generations. http://www.painted-veil.net/the-curse-of-royal-blood/
Porphyria can be traced through the Stuarts, Tudors, Hanovers, and Katherine of Valois probably brought it from France, where he father Charles VI was a "typical porph" according to some. Some Scots families were followers of the Stuarts before they were Stewards, went from Brittany to England to Scotland with them, and somehow picked up the porphyria gene.
Queen Elizabeth's cousin Duke of Gloucester had it but died without children. Many Stewart monarchs had it, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I/VI probably took it to Germany. It came back with the Hanovers and really got going. Victoria or Albert had it, or both of them, because DNA has been done on bones of Victoria's daughter Vicki and Vicki's Charlotte (see The Purple Secret).
Three academics got permission to open Charlotte's grave. Initially they were told that her remains had been burned by the communists. Then they found her grave, but the German authorities were reluctant to give permission to exhume her. Finally, in 1997, they were allowed to remove the three-tonne slab from her coffin. "There she lay," says John, "with flowers still clutched in her hand." Scraping some bone marrow from her femur, they tested it for porphyria. "She had the disease, beyond a shadow of a doubt," says John, "and the chances of her having it independently from George III are almost impossible." There is a one-in-two chance of any member of the Royal family with the faulty gene passing it on to each offspring. Of that number, around 10% will suffer symptoms. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/bulletin/archive/25jun99/article1.html
It is a dominant gene and affects 50% of children, but is recessive in very rare forms. So there are no "carriers" except that some men are able to not "show" it--because not triggered, and thus could pass it on. It is dominant, so that 50% of children get it on one parent's line, and if two parents have it, 75% (on average). The only way a person can be thought to be a carrier (unlike hemophilia) is if that person has the gene but it is not triggered into disease, which happens frequently.
The disease affected the royals before the Hanover arrival. James I/VI is thought to have gotten it from Mary Queen of Scots and/or Lord Darnley. Lord Darnley had both Stewart and Tudor genes but also the Tudor genes. It is suggested that the Tudors became active with porphyria through Katherine of Valois, who married first Henry V and then Owen Tudor. Katherine is not written up as "mad", but her father Charles VI of France was actually more often "mad" than George III. He did terrible things such as kill his aides, and then fall into sorrow over what he'd done when he recovered his right mind. He thought he was made of glass and could break. He came from a very inbred line, and his wife Isabeau may have had it as well. Thus Katherine had a very high chance of having it. However, in these old cases, there are no "lab tests" as there are now since the 21th century.
Porphyria is "a group of inherited disorders involving abnormalities in the production of heme pigments (the base material responsible for hemoglobin (red blood cell pigment), myoglobin (reddish muscle cell pigment) and another group of materials called cytochromes." (From http://health.allrefer.com/health/porphyria-info.html#definition)
It may account for some of St. Germain's enigmatic behaviors, such as never eating in the company of others. Even today, those with the condition are often reduced to eating only the most benign of foods, such as organic oatmeal or porridge. So, naturally he may have had to pass up gluttonous royal feasts. They can be highly sensitive to the sun, erupting in skin lesions with overexposure, and prone to seizures and even deep comas, which might in the past have been mistaken for death. Severity varies with each individual; not everyone will display the whole range of symptoms, which depend also on the type of porphyria.
There is no escape from light when outside for those with the rare light intolerance disorder Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP). It demands a shadowy existence. Facial skin lesions can lead to a monstrous appearance. The gums pull back exaggerating a fang-like grimace. https://vimeo.com/8302697
Such disorders are often hidden because they were enmeshed with legends of vampiric behavior. Vampire legends are most closely associated with Transylvanian royal lines. Symptoms became overlaid with myth. A quick scan of the symptoms and behaviors reveals why this might be so. It may even be that medieval family remedies included the drinking of animal blood. Perhaps it motivated the mage's search for healing elixirs. Video: https://vimeo.com/23267877
Porphyria symptoms and signs include:
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Red urine (sometimes called purple)
Sensitivity to sunlight Blister formation on exposure to sunlight Skin swelling on exposure to sunlight Photodermatitis Edema Crampy abdominal pain (may be severe) Constipation; diaharrea Vomiting, Dry Heaves Pain in the limbs; neuropathy High blood pressure &Tachycardia Electrolyte imbalances, low blood pressure & shock Bone hypomineralization, dental enamel defects missing adult teeth |
Personality change
Numbness or tingling Muscle pain Muscle weakness or paralysis "Hypertrichosis": increased fine hair growth Scarring; disfigurement Chronic Pain Celiac disease Blindness Insomnia Depression, Anxiety, Paranoia, Psychosis Chemical Sensitivity Coma Catatonia |
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Having formed the nucleus of the Dacian (Getic) kingdom (flourished 1st century bce–1st century ce) and (after the end of Daco-Roman wars 101- 102, 105- 106 ce) the Roman province of Dacia , Transylvania was overrun by a succession of barbarian tribes after the Roman legions withdrew about 270 ce. Thereafter the Romanized Dacian inhabitants moved into the mountains and woods and preserved their culture.
The Magyars (Hungarians) conquered the area at the end of the 9th century and firmly established their control over it in 1003 when their king Stephen I, according to legend, defeated the native prince Gyula(Iulianus). Administration was consolidated by the settlement, probably as frontier guards, of the Székely (Szeklers, a people akin to the Magyars) and the Saxons (Germans). Transylvania (while remaining part of the Hungarian kingdom) evolved during the following centuries into a distinctive autonomous unit, with its special voivode (governor), its united, although heterogenous, leadership, and its own constitution.
When the Turks decisively defeated Hungary at the Battle of Mohács (1526), Transylvania effectively became independent. Afterward Hungary was divided between the Habsburgs and the Turks, and Transylvania was transformed into an autonomous principality that was subject to Turkish suzerainty (1566).
For a few years Transilvania was united in a single independent state along with Vallachia and Moldavia by the Vallachian voivode Mihai Viteazul.
During the next century Transylvania —ruled by the Báthory dynasty, István Bocskay), Gábor Bethlen, and György Rákóczi I—played off the Turkish sultan against the Habsburg emperor to retain its independent status.
After the Turks were defeated before Vienna in 1683, the Transylvanian land was overrun by the troops of the Habsburg emperor, then recognized the suzerainty of the emperor Leopold I; Transylvania was officially attached to Habsburg-controlled Hungary and subjected to the direct rule of the emperor’s governors.
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Magyars of Transylvania identified with the insurgents. The majoritary population formed by Romanian peasantry, which had been developing their own national consciousness and agitating for equal political and religious liberties, took a stand against the Magyars and swore allegiance to the Habsburgs. When the Habsburgs reasserted their control over Hungary, Transylvania was separated from Hungary and transformed into a Habsburg crown land, subject to strict absolutist rule. Subsequently it was reabsorbed into Hungary (1867).
The Magyars (Hungarians) conquered the area at the end of the 9th century and firmly established their control over it in 1003 when their king Stephen I, according to legend, defeated the native prince Gyula(Iulianus). Administration was consolidated by the settlement, probably as frontier guards, of the Székely (Szeklers, a people akin to the Magyars) and the Saxons (Germans). Transylvania (while remaining part of the Hungarian kingdom) evolved during the following centuries into a distinctive autonomous unit, with its special voivode (governor), its united, although heterogenous, leadership, and its own constitution.
When the Turks decisively defeated Hungary at the Battle of Mohács (1526), Transylvania effectively became independent. Afterward Hungary was divided between the Habsburgs and the Turks, and Transylvania was transformed into an autonomous principality that was subject to Turkish suzerainty (1566).
For a few years Transilvania was united in a single independent state along with Vallachia and Moldavia by the Vallachian voivode Mihai Viteazul.
During the next century Transylvania —ruled by the Báthory dynasty, István Bocskay), Gábor Bethlen, and György Rákóczi I—played off the Turkish sultan against the Habsburg emperor to retain its independent status.
After the Turks were defeated before Vienna in 1683, the Transylvanian land was overrun by the troops of the Habsburg emperor, then recognized the suzerainty of the emperor Leopold I; Transylvania was officially attached to Habsburg-controlled Hungary and subjected to the direct rule of the emperor’s governors.
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Magyars of Transylvania identified with the insurgents. The majoritary population formed by Romanian peasantry, which had been developing their own national consciousness and agitating for equal political and religious liberties, took a stand against the Magyars and swore allegiance to the Habsburgs. When the Habsburgs reasserted their control over Hungary, Transylvania was separated from Hungary and transformed into a Habsburg crown land, subject to strict absolutist rule. Subsequently it was reabsorbed into Hungary (1867).
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Royal Seal
Seal of Ferenc Rákóczi II. The legend reads:
Franc[iscus] secund[us] Rakoczi D[ei] g[ratia] Transilv[aniae] Princeps Part[is] Reg[ni] Hung[ariae] Dom[inus] et Sicul[] comes Dux Munkacs[ie]
ac Makovic[sie] dom[inus] perp[etuus] de Saros Patak Tokai Regecz Ecsed Somlyo Lednic Szer[encs] Onod etc
Seal of Ferenc Rákóczi. The legend reads:
Franciscus Dei gratia princ[eps] Rakoczi comes de Saaros dux Munkacsie et Makovicsie Dominus perpetuus de Saros Patak Tokai Regecz Ecsed Somlio Lednitze Szerencs Onod.
Seal of Ferenc Rákóczi II. The legend reads:
Franc[iscus] secund[us] Rakoczi D[ei] g[ratia] Transilv[aniae] Princeps Part[is] Reg[ni] Hung[ariae] Dom[inus] et Sicul[] comes Dux Munkacs[ie]
ac Makovic[sie] dom[inus] perp[etuus] de Saros Patak Tokai Regecz Ecsed Somlyo Lednic Szer[encs] Onod etc
Seal of Ferenc Rákóczi. The legend reads:
Franciscus Dei gratia princ[eps] Rakoczi comes de Saaros dux Munkacsie et Makovicsie Dominus perpetuus de Saros Patak Tokai Regecz Ecsed Somlio Lednitze Szerencs Onod.
Transylvania
Franz Rakoczi gold Ducat 1705-KV, Klausenburg mint. KM530, Fr-478, AU55 NGC. Minted at Kolovar. Obv. Crowned cartouche with coat of arms of Transylvania with Rakoczi arms atop. Rev. Palm tree surrounded by three hills, K-V and date divided. Struck during the revolt against Austria by Franz Rakoczi, and it was affectionately termed a "Palm Ducat" because of the focal design. One of the more impressive types of this period. The latin legend, "TANDEM OPPRESSA RESVRGET", loosely translated, "though pressed, he rises", confirms this symbolism. The present example, one of only three or four to appear publicly in the past decade, is particularly choice for the assigned grade, with even orange-gold surfaces, no visible abrasive contact and barely a wisp of slight friction on the highpoints. The strike, while not completely full, doesn't obscure intended detail and naturally gives a semi-undulating appearance in the design-free areas. All in all, a rare example of this impressive type that yields a wonderfully story and visually leaves little to be desired. Franz Rakoczi was born in 1676 into a Hungarian aristocrat family and in time would become an accomplished military leader for Hungary, leading an uprising against the Habsburgs that began in 1703 and lasted until 1711. During this period, Rakoczi, with the French-Bavarian armies as allies, led the cause for Hungarian independence from Austria. In 1704, Rakoczi began his reign as Prince of Transylvania and in September of 1705, he was elected Ruling Prince of Hungary. Peace talks began in 1705, with the sovereignty of Transylvania being a primary stumbling block on an agreement. While he saw numerous military successes up until 1706, the financial burdens of war eventually began to catch up and his military presence began to dwindle. At the Battle of Trencsén in 1708, Rakoczi fell from his horse and was thought dead. As a result much of his army defected and took an oath of allegiance to the Emperor. With a diminished army, Rakoczi's held territory became increasingly limited and in 1711, he fled to Poland. Because of his noble actions, Rakoczi is today considered a national hero in Hungary.Ex: "Colonel" E.H.R. Green; Green Estate' Partnership of Eric P Newman / B.G. Johnson.
below - Francis II. Rakoczi (1703 - 1711)
Ducat 1705, Kremnitz, Quality: UNC, Obv.:Crowned large shield with coat of arms of Hungary. Flowers decoration around the shield., Rv.:Madonna and Child seated on crescent and clouds, on either side mintmark., 3.5 g, 23.2 mm, Ref.: H.: 1521, U.II.: 1124, RR! Veľmi vzácny! Výnimočný kus. (RR! Very rare! Extraordinary piece.)
Franz Rakoczi gold Ducat 1705-KV, Klausenburg mint. KM530, Fr-478, AU55 NGC. Minted at Kolovar. Obv. Crowned cartouche with coat of arms of Transylvania with Rakoczi arms atop. Rev. Palm tree surrounded by three hills, K-V and date divided. Struck during the revolt against Austria by Franz Rakoczi, and it was affectionately termed a "Palm Ducat" because of the focal design. One of the more impressive types of this period. The latin legend, "TANDEM OPPRESSA RESVRGET", loosely translated, "though pressed, he rises", confirms this symbolism. The present example, one of only three or four to appear publicly in the past decade, is particularly choice for the assigned grade, with even orange-gold surfaces, no visible abrasive contact and barely a wisp of slight friction on the highpoints. The strike, while not completely full, doesn't obscure intended detail and naturally gives a semi-undulating appearance in the design-free areas. All in all, a rare example of this impressive type that yields a wonderfully story and visually leaves little to be desired. Franz Rakoczi was born in 1676 into a Hungarian aristocrat family and in time would become an accomplished military leader for Hungary, leading an uprising against the Habsburgs that began in 1703 and lasted until 1711. During this period, Rakoczi, with the French-Bavarian armies as allies, led the cause for Hungarian independence from Austria. In 1704, Rakoczi began his reign as Prince of Transylvania and in September of 1705, he was elected Ruling Prince of Hungary. Peace talks began in 1705, with the sovereignty of Transylvania being a primary stumbling block on an agreement. While he saw numerous military successes up until 1706, the financial burdens of war eventually began to catch up and his military presence began to dwindle. At the Battle of Trencsén in 1708, Rakoczi fell from his horse and was thought dead. As a result much of his army defected and took an oath of allegiance to the Emperor. With a diminished army, Rakoczi's held territory became increasingly limited and in 1711, he fled to Poland. Because of his noble actions, Rakoczi is today considered a national hero in Hungary.Ex: "Colonel" E.H.R. Green; Green Estate' Partnership of Eric P Newman / B.G. Johnson.
below - Francis II. Rakoczi (1703 - 1711)
Ducat 1705, Kremnitz, Quality: UNC, Obv.:Crowned large shield with coat of arms of Hungary. Flowers decoration around the shield., Rv.:Madonna and Child seated on crescent and clouds, on either side mintmark., 3.5 g, 23.2 mm, Ref.: H.: 1521, U.II.: 1124, RR! Veľmi vzácny! Výnimočný kus. (RR! Very rare! Extraordinary piece.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_Draco The Dacian Draco was the standard and ensign of troops of the ancient Eastern European Dacian people, which can be seen in the hands of the soldiers of Decebalus in several scenes depicted on Trajan's Column in Rome, Italy. It has the form of a dragon with open wolf-like jaws containing several metal tongues. The hollow dragon’s head was mounted on a pole with a fabric tube affixed at the rear. In use, the draco was held up into the wind, or above the head of a horseman, where it filled with air and gave the impression it was alive while making a shrill sound as the wind passed through its strips of material. Draco (Latin) and Drakon (Greek) mean "serpent", "dragon". The root of these words means “to watch” or “to guard with a sharp eye”.[6] Apparently, it is a derivative of Greek drakōn "gazing".
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Dacian Dragon Symbol
The draco shows a religious syncretism between the wolf and the dragon as well as the serpent. Dacian draco stems from the art of Asia Minor where the religious-military symbology of dragon extended both eastward to the Indo-Iranians and westward to the Thraco-Cimmeriano-Getians/Dacians. In the La Tène Period (3thBC–1st century AD), it served as a standard for the Dacians. The body of the standard, depicting a dragon-like balaur or a large snake, was seen by the Dacians as a manifestation of the sky demon or "heavenly dragon". This relates to their supreme god Zalmoxis who was a sky god (cf. also Tomaschek[15]).[16] while the Dacians also had a winged serpent or Dragon cult going back to the post-migrational Ubaid culture of Transylvania in 3000 BC.
The draco shows a religious syncretism between the wolf and the dragon as well as the serpent. Dacian draco stems from the art of Asia Minor where the religious-military symbology of dragon extended both eastward to the Indo-Iranians and westward to the Thraco-Cimmeriano-Getians/Dacians. In the La Tène Period (3thBC–1st century AD), it served as a standard for the Dacians. The body of the standard, depicting a dragon-like balaur or a large snake, was seen by the Dacians as a manifestation of the sky demon or "heavenly dragon". This relates to their supreme god Zalmoxis who was a sky god (cf. also Tomaschek[15]).[16] while the Dacians also had a winged serpent or Dragon cult going back to the post-migrational Ubaid culture of Transylvania in 3000 BC.
He was a brilliant alchemist who allegedly discovered the secret of eternal life. He courted Europe's rich and famous for hundreds of years... and some believe he still lives.
Is it possible that a man can achieve immortality - to live forever? That is the startling claim of a historical figure known as Count Saint-Germain.
Records date his birth to the late 1600s, although some believe that his longevity reaches back to the time of Christ.
He has appeared many times throughout history - even as recently as the 1970s - always appearing to be about 45 years old.
He was known by many of the most famous figures of European history, including Casanova, Madame de Pampadour, Voltaire, King Louis XV, Catherine the Great, Anton Mesmer and others.
Who was this mysterious man? Are the stories of his immortality mere legend and folklore? Or is it possible that he really did discover the secret of defeating death?
Origins
When the man who first became known as Saint-Germain was born is unknown, although most accounts say he was born in the 1690s.
A genealogy compiled by Annie Besant for her co-authored book, The Comte De St. Germain: The Secret of Kings, asserts that he was born the son of Francis Racoczi II, Prince of Transylvania in 1690.
Other accounts, taken less seriously by most, say he was alive in the time of Jesus and attended the wedding at Cana, where the young Jesus turned water into wine.
He was also said to be present at the council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.
What is almost unanimously agreed on, however, is that Saint-Germain became accomplished in the art of alchemy, the mystical "science" that strives to control the elements.
The foremost goal of this practice was the creation of "projection powder" or the elusive "philosopher's stone," which, it was claimed, when added to the molten form of such base metals as lead could turn them into pure silver or gold.
Furthermore, this magical power could be used in an elixir that would impart immortality on those who drank it.
Count St. Germain, it is believed, discovered this secret of alchemy.
Ever Present, Never Aging
St. Germain traveled extensively throughout Europe over the next 40 years - and in all that time never seemed to age.
Those who met him were impressed by his many abilities and peculiarities:
* He could play the violin like a virtuoso.
* He was an accomplished painter.
* Wherever he traveled, he set up an elaborate laboratory, presumably for his alchemy work.
* He seemed to be a man of great wealth, but was not known to have any bank accounts. (If it was due to his ability to transmute base metals into gold, he never performed the feat for observers.)
* He dined often with friends because he enjoyed their company, but was rarely seen to eat food in public. He subsisted, it was said, on a diet of oatmeal.
* He prescribed recipes for the removal of facial wrinkles and for dyeing hair.
* He loved jewels, and much of his clothing - including his shoes - were studded with them.
* He had perfected a technique for painting jewels.
* He claimed to be able to fuse several small diamonds into one large one. He also said he could make pearls grow to incredible sizes.
* He has been linked to several secret societies, including the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Society of Asiatic Brothers, the Knights of Light, the Illuminati and Order of the Templars.
Is it possible that a man can achieve immortality - to live forever? That is the startling claim of a historical figure known as Count Saint-Germain.
Records date his birth to the late 1600s, although some believe that his longevity reaches back to the time of Christ.
He has appeared many times throughout history - even as recently as the 1970s - always appearing to be about 45 years old.
He was known by many of the most famous figures of European history, including Casanova, Madame de Pampadour, Voltaire, King Louis XV, Catherine the Great, Anton Mesmer and others.
Who was this mysterious man? Are the stories of his immortality mere legend and folklore? Or is it possible that he really did discover the secret of defeating death?
Origins
When the man who first became known as Saint-Germain was born is unknown, although most accounts say he was born in the 1690s.
A genealogy compiled by Annie Besant for her co-authored book, The Comte De St. Germain: The Secret of Kings, asserts that he was born the son of Francis Racoczi II, Prince of Transylvania in 1690.
Other accounts, taken less seriously by most, say he was alive in the time of Jesus and attended the wedding at Cana, where the young Jesus turned water into wine.
He was also said to be present at the council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.
What is almost unanimously agreed on, however, is that Saint-Germain became accomplished in the art of alchemy, the mystical "science" that strives to control the elements.
The foremost goal of this practice was the creation of "projection powder" or the elusive "philosopher's stone," which, it was claimed, when added to the molten form of such base metals as lead could turn them into pure silver or gold.
Furthermore, this magical power could be used in an elixir that would impart immortality on those who drank it.
Count St. Germain, it is believed, discovered this secret of alchemy.
Ever Present, Never Aging
St. Germain traveled extensively throughout Europe over the next 40 years - and in all that time never seemed to age.
Those who met him were impressed by his many abilities and peculiarities:
* He could play the violin like a virtuoso.
* He was an accomplished painter.
* Wherever he traveled, he set up an elaborate laboratory, presumably for his alchemy work.
* He seemed to be a man of great wealth, but was not known to have any bank accounts. (If it was due to his ability to transmute base metals into gold, he never performed the feat for observers.)
* He dined often with friends because he enjoyed their company, but was rarely seen to eat food in public. He subsisted, it was said, on a diet of oatmeal.
* He prescribed recipes for the removal of facial wrinkles and for dyeing hair.
* He loved jewels, and much of his clothing - including his shoes - were studded with them.
* He had perfected a technique for painting jewels.
* He claimed to be able to fuse several small diamonds into one large one. He also said he could make pearls grow to incredible sizes.
* He has been linked to several secret societies, including the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Society of Asiatic Brothers, the Knights of Light, the Illuminati and Order of the Templars.
The Secret: To Dare, To Will, To Know, To Keep Silent
DRAGONS OF CREATION, DESTRUCTION, REGENERATION, WISDOM, GNOSIS & ENLIGHTENMENT
Dragons are real and the basis of scientific priesthood and royal lineage. The sacred past is a story of sacred dragon or serpent worship. The triangular Dragon Book is essentially a magical astronomical text. Civilization was originally rooted in ancient prehistoric observations of the order of the stars. It tracked time and created calendars, and most importantly allowed predictions of eclipses rooted in the GREAT CYCLE of PRECESSION of the Zodiac, the serpentine ring of the Ecliptic.
Dragons that 'fought with the Sun' probably described the celestial upheaval of large fearsome comets that streaked across the sky with their long tails. They appeared cyclically and broke up upon nearing the sun, some of which collided with Earth. Eclipses were also considered celestial battles between the dark and light. In ancient times the cataclysmic forces of nature were personified as a great cosmic dragon or serpent.
Many ancient mythologies, and many god-like characters who appear in world myth, owe their existence to cosmic disasters that occurred in our solar system and which were witnessed by the inhabitants of the Earth. The cataclysmic events (involving comets and exploding planets) were permanently archived in what we nowadays refer to as the "collective unconscious." They were deeply etched in the racial memory of all mankind.
Decoding the sky meant connecting the dots of the starry constellations, making star maps, reproducing that heaven on earth in the form of sacred sites, and embodying it in sacred royal lineage. The most ancient lines are symbolically related to the circumpolar constellation Draco, the great Dragon or Serpent. The winged serpent was a symbol of the Gods of Egypt, Phoenicia, China, Persia, and Hindustan.
The serpent is set in the symbol of the "Chalice," or downward pointing triangle, that has long been a womb symbol. In the Far East, this symbol is known as the Yoni. The word "one" derives from this word denoting the female womb. The title-page of THE DRAGON BOOK mimics this Dragon in the downward-pointing triangle and describes magic, treasures and immortality. Ritual swallowing by the snake in the underworld led to the symbolic return to the embryonic state, rejuvenation and rebirth in the mystery schools.
Roughly 3000 BC, the heavens revolved around the Great Dragon, and so did earthly civilization. Dragons became synonymous with immortality because the celestial dragon was exempt from the cycle of time and because the dragon lineage did not die but was preserved in the noble bloodline. The point of circumpolar rotation, inhabited by the star Thuban or not, became the "Eye of the Dragon". Egyptian rulers wore the Uraeus serpent (Wadjet) as their crown symbol of sovereignty (serpent of life), a link to the celestial Oroborous.
The serpent cult worshipped the esoteric or inner sun, manifested as the biophotonic energy body. This inner light is the realization of our own hyperdimensional connection to the greater universe, of our own inner balance and our own growth toward attune to or resonance with the world around us. It is also the part of ourselves and our outer world, which gives life, sustains and gives growth. The dragon and serpent cults inspired megalithic monuments, global dragon and serpent mounds. The most ancient initiatory and healing symbols, the circumpunct, a dot within a circle and/or a cross within a circle symbolize this inner sun.
DRAGON CODE
Dragon history is extensive and wide-spread, as almost every mythology has unique styles of dragon. The Sumerian word for dragon is "ushum". Chinese dragons date back to around 5,000 BCE. The Chinese believed that they were the "descendants of the dragons," too. Like comets, they could rise to the heavens or go to the bottom of the seas. Like Mesopotamian and Egyptian rulers, Chinese emperors were said to be sons of the dragons and wore special robes. The sign of the celestial dragon could only be worn by the emperor, and it was the sign of the ultimate power.
The venom of the snake was used as an Elixir to help prevent disease through boosting the immune system with high levels of protein. And secondly mixing the neurotoxic venom with the blood of the snake or mammalian host such as a horse brings on altered states of consciousness much akin to certain drugs used by shaman across the world from ancient times. Visions of ‘otherworlds’ seen in such trances are often depicted as tombs, wombs or caves, within which sometimes benevolent, sometimes terrible, serpents are encountered.
In any discussion of serpent wisdom we cannot fail to also mention the ancient Hindu Kundalini practice. Kundalini means simply "coiled serpent" and in the Indian system the ida and pingala energy (through serpent channels) are raised up and down the spine to raise the consciousness of the adept. The dual serpentine caduceus is known to all health practitioners the world over.
Adam McLean reprint facsimile http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/mohs41.html
[Carl Jung on Secret Societies and the member who fails to differentiate themselves.]
The secret society is an intermediary stage on the way to individuation. The individual is still relying on a collective organization to effect his differentiation for him; that is, he has not yet recognized that it is really the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet.
All collective identities, such as membership in organizations, support of "isms," and so on, interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible; but they are equally shelters for the poor and weak, a home port for the shipwrecked, the bosom of a family for orphans, a land of promise for disillusioned vagrants and weary pilgrims, a herd and a safe fold for lost sheep, and a mother providing nourishment and growth.
It would therefore be wrong to regard this intermediary stage as a trap; on the contrary, for a long time to come it will represent the only possible form of existence for the individual, who nowadays seems more than ever threatened by anonymity. Collective organization is still so essential today that many consider it, with some justification, to be the final goal; whereas to call for further steps along the road to autonomy appears like arrogance or hubris, fantasticality, or simply folly. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 342.
The secret society is an intermediary stage on the way to individuation. The individual is still relying on a collective organization to effect his differentiation for him; that is, he has not yet recognized that it is really the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet.
All collective identities, such as membership in organizations, support of "isms," and so on, interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible; but they are equally shelters for the poor and weak, a home port for the shipwrecked, the bosom of a family for orphans, a land of promise for disillusioned vagrants and weary pilgrims, a herd and a safe fold for lost sheep, and a mother providing nourishment and growth.
It would therefore be wrong to regard this intermediary stage as a trap; on the contrary, for a long time to come it will represent the only possible form of existence for the individual, who nowadays seems more than ever threatened by anonymity. Collective organization is still so essential today that many consider it, with some justification, to be the final goal; whereas to call for further steps along the road to autonomy appears like arrogance or hubris, fantasticality, or simply folly. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 342.
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Hungary / Transylvania Rakoczi II 10 Poltura 1705 - nice green patina - Rare From Romania
