The Count of St Germain Part 3

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2017

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

There seems to be no doubt that the Count of Saint Germain existed, but how did he exist and for how long? There are levels to the incredulity of his story. It seems unlikely that one individual could possess so many varied talents, but the Count's most unlikely talent was living into his 80s while still looking to be in his 50s. If you're willing to go even further and believe the accounts of some of his contemporaries, then the Count was over 100 years old and lived well into the 19th century. Impossible you say? Then you might have even more trouble believing what many of those who had studied under him and some that continue to study his life believe, that the Count may have been hundreds or even thousands of years old, knew the ancient wisdom and secrets of life, and practiced the lost arts known only to the most enlightened beings. Whatever you choose to believe, a strong argument could be made that in his time and long after, he was actually the real 'most interesting man in the world'.

Tonight's Quote:

“He was, perhaps, one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. The friend of humanity, wishing for money only that he might give to the poor, a friend to animals, his heart was concerned only with the happiness of others.”

— Prince Charles of Hesse-Cassel on the Count of Saint Germain from his book, Mémoires de Mon Temps

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Jessie Desmond's Finding Count St. Germain blog http://bit.ly/2j9GX5p Direct to: Travis J. Dow & Pete Collman's History of Alchemy podcast http://bit.ly/2jym9Fe Travis J. Dow's collection of podcasts on Podcastnik, with Pete Collman http://www.podcastnik.com/ Get Kevin Pollak's/The Count's book, How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets And Stories From Stage, Screen, And Interwebs http://a.co/cz6ZQNZ Is the fantastic American actor and comedian Kevin Pollak The Count? Now we know! http://bit.ly/2iLrbRq Petter Amundsen and Erlend Loe: The Seven Steps to Mercy: with Shakespeare's Key to the Oak Island Templum http://a.co/5Z5XHQQ "The Real Doctor Who" excerpt from Tom Sleman's Mysteries of History and other works http://bit.ly/2kDewfO Thomas Sleman's book, Strange but True: Mysterious and Bizarre People, Who Were They and Where Did They Go http://a.co/d8ZQoBz Other books by Thomas Sleman http://amzn.to/2kbPqZi The Wandering Jew http://bit.ly/1WroKB4 Rabbi Isaac Luria, the father of contemporary Kabbalah http://bit.ly/2jz3Zob Kabbalah http://bit.ly/2jfBBZH The Tree of Life or the 10 Sephirot in Jewish Kabbalah http://bit.ly/2jzbHyx Theosophy http://bit.ly/2hgNZEE PDF of St. Germain's Most Holy Trinosophia http://bit.ly/2kcef6w PDF of St. Germain's Triangle Book http://bit.ly/2kcnJi3 Grimoire http://bit.ly/2joGWt0 Staff of Moses http://bit.ly/2kDuIOf The Invisibles: A History of Rosicrucians and How Elites Gained Knowledge... http://bit.ly/2kcoYxL Francis Bacon, The Count, the Supernova of 1604 and the 800 year spiritual cycle http://bit.ly/2kDLQrj Theosophy and Saint Germain on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/2kdfp28 The Alchemy Web Bookshop http://bit.ly/2jfqqQK Ascended Master http://bit.ly/2imoeXb Rosicrucianism http://bit.ly/2jOiTbp Rosicrucian Trilogy: Modern Translations of the Three Founding Documents http://a.co/8PFlqR2 The alchemy website on levity.com http://bit.ly/2kbMCvs Alchemy on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/2j9Bdc3 Prince Charles "Karl" of Hesse-Kassel http://bit.ly/2iLJ9Dh Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer http://bit.ly/2jeO93t Paracelsus http://bit.ly/1dcj74e Giacomo Casanova http://bit.ly/2kDnZng Count Alessandro di Cagliostro http://bit.ly/2kCEUKS Affair of the Diamond Necklace http://bit.ly/2kcxn4p Madame Helena Blavatsky http://bit.ly/2ctFtmq Sirhan Sirhan http://bit.ly/2kDWpuc Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy http://bit.ly/2jfF4aK The Woman in the Polka Dot Dress http://bit.ly/2kwLEXl The Manchurian Candidate http://bit.ly/1Q5k39J Manly Palmer Hall http://bit.ly/2jGssW5 Edgar Cayce http://bit.ly/2k2DTbT Henry Steel Olcott http://bit.ly/2kdk7g9 Christian Rosenkreuz http://bit.ly/2kwQmVh Rudolph Steiner http://bit.ly/2957tHK Guy Ballard http://bit.ly/2kcPdUP Jiddu Krishnamurti http://bit.ly/1XbVhsP Elizabeth Clare Prophet http://bit.ly/2kdnlQW Frank Abagnale http://bit.ly/2kDS8qG Six Degrees of Separation http://bit.ly/1dtXYlJ David Hampton http://bit.ly/2jfCpOh Alan Conway - Colour Me Kubrick http://bit.ly/2joKTxD The Dread Pirate Roberts http://bit.ly/2kcJRci Age of Aquarius http://bit.ly/2jzfAUa Age of Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In from the musical, HAIR http://bit.ly/2k2va9r "Monatomic Gold" or "White Powder Gold" http://bit.ly/2kcoRT8 Some more claims of White Powder Gold http://bit.ly/2jyXP7H Discussion Group on David Hudson and White Powder Gold http://bit.ly/2jfD7eD The website for writer, researcher and "Alternative Historian" Laurence Gardner http://www.graal.co.uk/ Laurence Gardner on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/2jGXH3F The Elixir of Life http://bit.ly/2ka0Cle The Philosopher's Stone http://bit.ly/2iLkr5U The Count of St. Germain, on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/2jtpbK6 Saint Germain at the Theosophy Trust Memorial Library http://bit.ly/2kD1fUo The Polish Rider - did the Count sit for this possible Rembrandt? http://bit.ly/2kDBQ11 Iona Miller's website: The Triangle Book of St. Germain http://trianglebook.weebly.com/ The Count: The Adventures of St. Germain (fictional movie draft based on his lore) http://bit.ly/2kDF4Sg

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Episode 60 - "The Count of Saint Germain, Part 3" Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Edited by Sarah Vorhees, Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a,k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2017 Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess. All Rights Reserved.

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0:00.0	This week's episode of Estonishing Legends is supported by Harry's dot com,
0:03.3	movement watches, and the great courses plus.
0:06.2	And we're back with the last part of this series on the count, which has a few surprises in it.
0:12.0	Let me tell you. But first we have a quick announcement to make. I'm going to be in New York City
0:15.9	briefly on Estonishing Legends Business at the end of February. And I was thinking if we had
0:20.4	any listeners in the city who would like to meet up to just hang out or have a few drinks and chat
0:24.8	in person, I would set something up for Sunday, February 26th, 2017. Sunday, because everyone wants to
0:32.4	have a few drinks on Sunday night, you know, start the work week off right. I know it's the only
0:36.4	that I can do. Give me a break. I'm only there a few nights. Yeah, you wouldn't want to miss out on
0:40.4	this. I'll gunk when round table. Well, I don't really know if it can be a round table with just one
0:44.9	person. But anyway, I'm staying in Midtown and trying to sort out a good location for this, which
0:50.3	doesn't have to be Midtown because I know Midtown's kind of square. But first, I need to get an idea
0:54.9	how many people might show up. What's Scott saying is that he doesn't want to drink his two
0:59.5	sand beers by himself. And I say to because you order one beer for when you first sit down and then
1:04.8	you order a second one because you're giving it some time for people to show up. And then you close
1:09.0	out when you realize no one's coming. So the two or three of you that might actually show up,
1:14.3	need to let them know that you're interested. Exactly. So if you live in New York City and you think
1:18.6	you could make it to an informal meetup on February 26th of 2017 around 8 p.m., send us an email
1:25.5	at astonishing legends at gmail.com. But please be sure and type New York in the subject line so we
1:32.8	don't miss it in the inbox. And again, that's astonishing legends at gmail.com. Cut to Scott having
1:38.8	his two lonely beers and fade out. Wouldn't be the first time.
1:56.0	Welcome back to astonishing legends. I'm Scott Philbrook and this is Forest Burgess.
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