1 00:00:00,971 --> 00:00:07,969 This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. 2 00:00:07,969 --> 00:00:17,967 The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones to the mysteries we will examine. 3 00:00:17,967 --> 00:00:37,962 France, 1760. The wonder man of Europe runs for his life. No records exist of his birth, death or true identity. 4 00:00:37,962 --> 00:00:52,959 He was considered a genius in art, music, politics and alchemy. Although he looked 40, many believed he was at least 150 years old. 5 00:00:52,959 --> 00:01:00,957 He called himself the Count of Saint Germain. Others called him the man who would not die. 6 00:01:07,956 --> 00:01:24,952 The court at Versailles in 1757 rides the last great crest of regal splendor before the French Revolution. 7 00:01:24,952 --> 00:01:32,950 And broiled in a bitter war with England, King Louis XV still plays host to the leading thinkers and doers of Europe. 8 00:01:32,950 --> 00:01:37,949 The Count of Saint Germain is welcomed as a man of wealth and obvious breeding. 9 00:01:37,949 --> 00:01:43,947 A brilliant violinist, he conducts entire symphonies without referring to written music. 10 00:01:43,947 --> 00:01:58,944 He is also a talented painter and his descriptions of ancient history cause listeners to believe that he experienced the events himself. 11 00:01:58,944 --> 00:02:09,941 In recreations based on actual memoirs, Saint Germain fascinates the elite of France, including Voltaire, Madame Pompadour and especially King Louis. 12 00:02:09,941 --> 00:02:21,939 I liked and admired the man. In his way he was brilliant, a scientist and a historian. He amused and astounded me. 13 00:02:21,939 --> 00:02:27,937 Why once he removed a large flaw from this very beautiful diamond and tripled it's worth. 14 00:02:27,937 --> 00:02:36,935 I set him up in a laboratory at the Triana. He used to teach me chemistry. He even said I had a natural aptitude for it. 15 00:02:36,935 --> 00:02:46,933 During years spent in India, Saint Germain supposedly learned how to remove flaws from diamonds and change base metals to gold. 16 00:02:46,933 --> 00:02:51,932 It was written that he performed both feats often enough to dissuade doubters. 17 00:02:51,932 --> 00:02:57,930 Skilled as a chemist, it was also rumored that he possessed a magic elixir of life. 18 00:02:57,930 --> 00:03:08,928 Saint Germain neither confirmed nor denied anything said about him. How old was he? 100, 200, 2000 years? 19 00:03:08,928 --> 00:03:19,925 He either smiled or responded with cheerful evasiveness. He spoke at least a dozen languages so fluently that in any country he visited, he was accepted as a native. 20 00:03:19,925 --> 00:03:25,924 But where was he actually from? Portugal, Egypt, Atlantis? 21 00:03:26,924 --> 00:03:38,921 The fog-shrouded Carpathian mountains of Transylvania have hidden many legendary figures. One might have been Saint Germain as a small boy. 22 00:03:38,921 --> 00:03:46,919 When Prince Franz Rokaji lost control of Hungary, his two older sons were placed under house arrest in Vienna. 23 00:03:47,919 --> 00:03:57,917 His third son, possibly Saint Germain, traveled secretly from Transylvania to Florence and the protection of the House of Medici. 24 00:03:57,917 --> 00:04:07,914 If this story, one of so many, is true, it would explain Saint Germain's extraordinary education and appreciation of fine art. 25 00:04:08,914 --> 00:04:19,911 According to memoirs, the count was slim, well proportioned and of medium height. His features were pleasant and his eyes possessed a great fascination. 26 00:04:19,911 --> 00:04:27,910 Those who looked into them were profoundly influenced. His sense of humor and courtly manner made him especially attractive to women. 27 00:04:27,910 --> 00:04:31,909 Among them, King Louis Mistress, Madame Pompadour. 28 00:04:32,908 --> 00:04:41,906 He was a truly delightful person and he knew all of the European languages and he was very entertaining. 29 00:04:41,906 --> 00:04:49,905 The King you know is easily bored but never by Saint Germain. And yet there was a mystery to him. 30 00:04:49,905 --> 00:04:56,903 Nobody knew where he came from or his true identity. And there was a strangeness. 31 00:04:56,903 --> 00:05:05,901 Some of my very elderly friends at court said they had known him for 50 years and yet he never seemed to age. 32 00:05:05,901 --> 00:05:13,899 If he had a magic elixir of life, I wish he had given some to me. 33 00:05:14,899 --> 00:05:19,898 Casanova, the Italian opportunist, resented his rival's success. 34 00:05:19,898 --> 00:05:27,896 Saint Germain is a shalota and an imposter. He thinks he's a prodigy in everything. Oh, he's very clever. 35 00:05:27,896 --> 00:05:35,894 And with his tricks, he has the capability to amuse. He can make the women admire him. 36 00:05:35,894 --> 00:05:43,892 But then I know something of the ladies myself. One very mysterious thing. 37 00:05:43,892 --> 00:05:52,890 In all of the banquets we have attended together, I have never seen him eat one muscle of food. 38 00:05:52,890 --> 00:06:01,888 While his peers gorge that banquets, Saint Germain dined alone on light portions of cereal, vegetables and the white meat of chicken. 39 00:06:01,888 --> 00:06:06,887 Was this his secret for long life? Small, balanced meals? 40 00:06:07,887 --> 00:06:13,885 Voltaire, France's aging intellectual, expressed great admiration for Saint Germain. 41 00:06:13,885 --> 00:06:27,882 He is a very learned man and a freemason. His knowledge of history is so extraordinary, it makes one believe he lived through the events himself. 42 00:06:27,882 --> 00:06:37,880 One could believe it would take more than one lifetime to absorb so much knowledge. Thus, the man must be immortal. 43 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:45,878 He was so knowledgeable in politics and history that I used to send him on secret missions to make peace with Incan Medard. 44 00:06:45,878 --> 00:06:52,876 That was my mistake. I went over the head of my foreign minister who naturally was furious. 45 00:06:52,876 --> 00:07:02,874 Of course, I had to pretend that I knew nothing of the affair. Schwozell was going to arrest him, but he escaped and disappeared. 46 00:07:05,873 --> 00:07:13,871 Envious of Saint Germain's influence on the king, Schwozell, Louis' foreign minister, ordered him arrested and shot as an English spy. 47 00:07:23,869 --> 00:07:38,866 Schwozell circulated vicious rumors throughout Europe claiming that Saint Germain was a Portuguese impressionable parentage who married for money in Mexico and absconded to Turkey with his wife's jewels. 48 00:07:38,866 --> 00:07:49,863 Saint Germain escaped to the English Channel and crossed safely to London. However, Schwozell's ugly stories followed him wherever he wandered, even to Russia. 49 00:07:50,863 --> 00:07:56,862 In St. Petersburg, Saint Germain joined a conspiracy to overthrow Tsar Peter in 1762. 50 00:07:59,861 --> 00:08:09,859 His battlefield strategies brought victory to the forces of Catherine the Great. Once enthroned, the new queen rewarded him with the title General Well done. 51 00:08:12,858 --> 00:08:17,857 A legend of the brilliant count proceeded him to the distinguished courts and drawing rooms of Europe. 52 00:08:20,856 --> 00:08:29,854 Wherever he traveled, Saint Germain was welcomed as a scholar, a scientist and raconteur. 53 00:08:34,853 --> 00:08:48,850 Most of his activities were shrouded in mystery, but it is known that he formed secret societies dealing with the occult and warned the crowned heads of many nations that the collapse of the French monarchy would eventually doom them as well. 54 00:08:50,849 --> 00:09:02,846 His one known manuscript, the most holy Trinosofia, written in a combination of modern languages and ancient hieroglyphics, is considered a classic of occult literature. 55 00:09:05,846 --> 00:09:16,843 The final years of Saint Germain's known life was spent in Heskassel, Germany. He divided his time between experiments in alchemy and meetings of his secret societies. 56 00:09:17,843 --> 00:09:23,842 Few people knew Saint Germain as well as Prince Charles, his last known confidant and benefactor. 57 00:09:24,841 --> 00:09:32,839 In 1784, words spread across Europe that Saint Germain lay mortally ill in the castle of Prince Charles. 58 00:09:33,839 --> 00:09:40,838 I was privileged to be a very good friend of Saint Germain. In fact, he spent his last years here in this very castle. 59 00:09:41,837 --> 00:09:50,835 Some time before he died, he confided in me his true identity. He was the third son of Prince Franz Leopold Rakuci of Transylvania. 60 00:09:51,835 --> 00:10:00,833 When the Austro-Hungarian Empire absorbed his enormous estates, he spirited his own life in the castle. 61 00:10:00,833 --> 00:10:10,831 This, of course, was one of the reasons for his very charming demean, his aristocratic bearing, his wealth and his culture. 62 00:10:11,830 --> 00:10:18,829 He was a very good friend of Saint Germain, and he was a very good friend of Saint Germain. 63 00:10:18,829 --> 00:10:28,827 I was a very good friend of Prince Charles, the first of whom I was a member of the Royal Society of Vienna. 64 00:10:29,826 --> 00:10:37,825 This, of course, was one of the reasons for his very charming demean, his aristocratic bearing, his wealth and his great knowledge. 65 00:10:38,824 --> 00:10:41,824 Unfortunately, he died here in this castle. 66 00:10:42,823 --> 00:10:44,823 Did Prince Charles attend the funeral? 67 00:10:44,823 --> 00:10:45,823 Yes. 68 00:10:50,822 --> 00:10:57,820 There are no records of Saint Germain's burial. Ten years later, he was sighted in Paris at the height of the French Revolution. 69 00:10:58,820 --> 00:11:03,819 Sightings continued well into the 19th century, and for some, continued today. 70 00:11:04,818 --> 00:11:13,816 Elizabeth Claire Prophet, leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant in Pasadena, California, believes that Saint Germain speaks to the world through her. 71 00:11:14,816 --> 00:11:21,814 Saint Germain is really a very important question for America and for freedom-loving peoples in every nation today. 72 00:11:22,814 --> 00:11:26,813 Saint Germain has embodied again and again over many centuries as we all have. 73 00:11:27,813 --> 00:11:33,812 Our souls continue to evolve and to experience on earth until we perfect our own individual calling. 74 00:11:34,811 --> 00:11:40,810 Back in the days of Atlantis, Saint Germain figures as a priest after the order of Melchizedek. 75 00:11:40,810 --> 00:11:43,809 He was tending the flame of freedom in an ancient temple. 76 00:11:44,809 --> 00:11:58,806 Word came to him from his teacher that the continent would sink, and he was told to travel from the continent by ship to go to Europe in what is now the area of Transylvania, 77 00:11:59,806 --> 00:12:02,805 in the Transylvanian foothills, to plant the flame of freedom. 78 00:12:03,805 --> 00:12:06,804 Transylvania was in Hungary and is now in Romania. 79 00:12:06,804 --> 00:12:15,802 Saint Germain did this, and the placing of that flame of freedom there was the beginning of the house of Rikaze, the royal house of Hungary. 80 00:12:16,802 --> 00:12:21,801 According to Mrs. Prophet, this is just the beginning of a series of fantastic lives. 81 00:12:27,799 --> 00:12:32,798 Elizabeth Claire Prophet believes that Saint Germain has appeared on earth at key moments in history. 82 00:12:33,798 --> 00:12:45,795 After the ascension of Jesus Christ, Joseph of Arimathea traveled by ship to the British Isles with the cup used at the Last Supper. 83 00:12:46,795 --> 00:12:53,793 That cup became the spiritual force field for the Knights of the Round Table, the coming of Arthur. 84 00:12:54,793 --> 00:13:05,790 In that episode, Saint Germain incarnated as Merlin the magician, again the alchemist, again the great prophet and seer, the spiritual power behind the throne. 85 00:13:06,790 --> 00:13:15,788 He gives the vision to Camelot, and so that focus in England begins the opportunity for Saint Germain to bring the teachings of Christ to the New World. 86 00:13:16,788 --> 00:13:20,787 And so he incarnates as none other than Christopher Columbus. 87 00:13:21,787 --> 00:13:32,784 The master Saint Germain arrived at the New World at San Salvador, very near the ancient retreat of Atlantis, which had sunk when Atlantis went down 12,000 years earlier. 88 00:13:33,784 --> 00:13:42,782 Saint Germain then ascended, and he went forth as the immortal, very closely connected with the courts of Europe. 89 00:13:43,782 --> 00:14:00,778 A book has been written about him based on the diaries of Madame d'Alemare, and this book contains the record of the wonder man of Europe as he appeared and disappeared throughout the courts of Europe over a period continuously over 200 years. 90 00:14:01,778 --> 00:14:08,776 He astonished those around him. He appeared youthful. He wore diamonds on every finger. He precipitated jewels. 91 00:14:08,776 --> 00:14:15,774 But his main mission was to warn the heads of state of the coming cataclysm that ensued in the French Revolution. 92 00:14:16,774 --> 00:14:25,772 All that he predicted came to pass, still having the desire to form a United States of Europe. He contacted Napoleon to form that unity. 93 00:14:26,772 --> 00:14:34,770 But the power transferred to Napoleon, Napoleon misused. He went power mad, and instead he met his waterloo. 94 00:14:34,770 --> 00:14:40,769 Dr. Peter Ryle, professor of European history at UCLA, holds a different viewpoint. 95 00:14:41,768 --> 00:14:55,765 I think Saint Germain was a typical adventure of the 18th century. He was a man similar to Casanova, similar to Calliastro, similar to a whole slew of men who populated the last half of the 18th century, 96 00:14:55,765 --> 00:15:10,762 plying the trade of mystical religion, pseudo-science in an attempt to milk as much money as they could from the rich to wealthy and the gullible. 97 00:15:11,762 --> 00:15:14,761 Dr. Manuel Odeberg of the Theosophical Society. 98 00:15:15,761 --> 00:15:38,755 I feel personally that Saint Germain was one of a number of highly trained people who seemed to come before mankind or in different countries from time to time to restate certain ethical principles. 99 00:15:38,755 --> 00:15:57,751 He had universal ideas about humanity per se rather than any one particular country. And secondly, that he himself in his own personal life was pitched to what I might call unselfishness. 100 00:15:57,751 --> 00:16:10,748 People like Saint Germain and Calliastro could come in and partly use the scientific ideas that were floating about and partly accept them because they were not totally phonies. I'm not trying to say that. 101 00:16:11,748 --> 00:16:22,745 But they really were, were people who read a little of this and a little of that, took the latest scientific statements and also made a great deal of money out of it or at least as much money as they could. 102 00:16:22,745 --> 00:16:43,740 At that time then he turned his attention to the United States where he had already been working behind the scenes with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin in actually preparing the Constitution of the United States and inspiring that declaration as well as the revolution, the freedom of those independent colonies. 103 00:16:44,740 --> 00:17:04,736 Just at the moment of indecision at precisely five o'clock July 4th 1776, Saint Germain appeared on the balcony. The doors remained locked but he appeared. He gave an impassioned speech to the delegates and he told them to sign that document. 104 00:17:04,736 --> 00:17:15,733 And the energy that he released was so intense that immediately they coalesced and they all signed the document beginning with John Hancock. 105 00:17:20,732 --> 00:17:24,731 As to the length of Saint Germain's life, once again the experts disagree. 106 00:17:25,731 --> 00:17:37,728 Saint Germain's supposed longevity is again a traditional ploy used by people who claim to be magicians or alchemists to prove that they have discovered the magic elixir of life. 107 00:17:38,728 --> 00:17:50,725 The fact of not eating in public I think is a very, very, very intelligent ploy of showing that somehow you ingest different types of foods as normal human beings do. 108 00:17:50,725 --> 00:18:11,720 There was a rumor that he had died in 1784 but there are memoirs by the contestant Deymar, the French lady in waiting to Marie Antoinette, indicating that he was seen after 1784 and in fact for some years afterwards. 109 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,719 So what I really meant was that it wasn't a fact that he had died in 1784. 110 00:18:17,719 --> 00:18:34,715 Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, all hills and light come under all hills, Saint Germain. 111 00:18:34,715 --> 00:18:49,711 During Saturday evening church services in Pasadena, Elizabeth Claire Prophet claims that Saint Germain speaks to his followers through her. 112 00:18:49,711 --> 00:19:19,704 Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint 113 00:19:19,704 --> 00:19:46,798 Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain, Saint Germain.UL mask a 114 00:19:46,798 --> 00:19:50,297 This is my mantra, which I give to you. 115 00:19:50,297 --> 00:19:53,797 I am a being of violet fire. 116 00:19:53,797 --> 00:19:57,796 I am the purity God desires. 117 00:19:57,796 --> 00:19:59,795 Hail Saint Germain! 118 00:19:59,795 --> 00:20:02,795 Hail Saint Germain! 119 00:20:02,795 --> 00:20:05,794 Hail Saint Germain! 120 00:20:05,794 --> 00:20:07,793 Hail Saint Germain! 121 00:20:07,793 --> 00:20:10,793 Hail Saint Germain! 122 00:20:10,793 --> 00:20:12,792 Hail Saint Germain! 123 00:20:12,792 --> 00:20:15,792 Hail Saint Germain! 124 00:20:15,792 --> 00:20:18,791 Hail Saint Germain! 125 00:20:18,791 --> 00:20:20,790 Hail Saint Germain! 126 00:20:20,790 --> 00:20:22,790 Hail Saint Germain! 127 00:20:22,790 --> 00:20:25,789 Evidence recently discovered in the library of the British Museum 128 00:20:25,789 --> 00:20:30,788 indicates that Saint Germain might well have been the lost third son of Prince Rikaji, 129 00:20:30,788 --> 00:20:33,787 born in Transylvania in 1694. 130 00:20:33,787 --> 00:20:38,786 If he died in Germany in 1784, he lived 90 years. 131 00:20:38,786 --> 00:20:43,785 The average life expectancy in the 18th century was 35 years. 132 00:20:43,785 --> 00:20:48,784 50 was a ripe old age. 90 was forever. 133 00:20:48,784 --> 00:20:52,783 We can account for those 90 years with a reasonable amount of confidence. 134 00:20:52,783 --> 00:20:58,782 Saint Germain's lives before and after that, however, are a matter of faith. 135 00:20:58,782 --> 00:21:18,777 Coming up next, in search of continues with a look at cryogenics and other ways of prolonging human life, 136 00:21:18,777 --> 00:21:22,776 then 20th century with Mike Wallace reports on the tragedy of Columbine High School 137 00:21:22,776 --> 00:21:24,776 and other school massacres. 138 00:21:24,776 --> 00:21:27,775 And later tonight, mummies tales from the Egyptian Crips 139 00:21:27,775 --> 00:21:31,774 ventures into the secret life and death world of the Sphinx 140 00:21:31,774 --> 00:21:36,773 at 9 here on the History Channel, where the past comes alive.