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Chapter XXXThe 3-5 Code:
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Now
it is time to return to an important series of clues given by the Cassiopaeans
regarding what we call the "3-5 Code." It is so complicated a
story that I have despaired of ever being able to convey it without confusing
the reader, but I am going to try. I do ask that you please understand that
there were so many "threads" being followed at any given time
that in all that has been written thus far, I have been separating them
out and following them one at a time even though much was either happening
simultaneously or at the very least, overlapped in time. But, at least we
are now getting into some really fun things. As the reader already knows,
the subject of the 3-5 Code was first brought up on 11-11-95. There have
been a lot of people asking about this strange occurrence of these double
11's and I hope to be able to provide some clues to solving that mystery
as we go along. But, we will be diverting on several lateral themes as we
go along before coming back to the Code, proper, and we start with this
frequent need to divert right at the very beginning here. You see, the whole
problem really started with the issue of Jesus. Even though I already had
experience with the fact that invoking the "name of Jesus" really
had little (if any) effect whatsoever on the occasions that I had worked
with exorcism type activities, (and this was troubling, to say the least!),
I was still in the mode of the standard Fundamentalist New Age belief that
determining the attitude or teachings about Jesus from any given channeled
source would be helpful in determining the "orientation" of that
source and could save you from a lot of problems further down the road.
Like most "New Age Elders," I was still measuring everything by
the standard of Edgar Cayce. So, we were asking our "Jesus Questions"
as a sort of "test" for the Cassiopaeans.
Q: (L) Who was Jesus of Nazareth?On the one hand, what the Cassiopaeans were saying about Jesus was "comforting" in that it explained a certain template "availability" that seemed to many to be very real, while at the same time returning the responsibility for soul evolution, or Free Will, to the individual; on the other hand, they were saying clearly and unequivocally that there was NO CRUCIFIXION upon which "salvation by grace" was predicated! Was Jesus crucified? Well, it is on this point that millions of people believe that they are "saved." So, it is a pretty big issue! The thing is, the "fruits" of this doctrine tend to demonstrate an "exclusionary" Us against Them mode of thinking that brings us back to the issue of Free Will - are we choosing because the choice is weighted, or the ONLY "good" choice, or do we actually have FREE will? As we have already noted, the idea of any "only way a man can be saved" is Nazi Spirituality.Nevertheless, the explanation seemed to be that there certainly was an awesome event of SOME sort that followed a period of mysterious initiation and that this was the event that was later "mythicized" into the Crucifixion story that followed the general lines of all the "suffering savior" religions of history. I didn't know what to think about this. It was not too long afterward that I came across the following passage in Manly Hall's exhaustive compendium, The Secret Teachings of All Ages:
Well, obviously, this "Gospel" that Irenaeus refers to as testifying that Jesus did not suffer and die has disappeared! But, commenting on the foregoing passage of Irenaeus, theologian Godfrey Higgins remarks that it has fortunately escaped the hands of those destroyers who have attempted to render the Gospel narratives consistent by deleting all such statements. He also notes that the doctrine of the crucifixion was a vexata questio among Christians even during the second century. "The evidence of Irenaeus, " he says, "cannot be touched. On every principle of sound criticism, and of the doctrine of probabilities, it is unimpeachable." [Anacalypsis , Godfrey Higgins, London, 1836, quoted by Manly P. Hall]Aside from the issues of what the Cassiopaeans had said about Jeuse, here is one of our mysteries, the number 33, making an appearance right in the Bible. But that was only the first of many. We read again in Manly Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages: The use of ciphers has long been recognized as indispensable in military and diplomatic circles, but the modern world has overlooked the important role played by cryptography in literature and philosophy. If the are of deciphering cryptograms could be made popular, it would result in the discovery of much hitherto unsuspected wisdom possessed by both ancient and medieval philosophers. It would prove that many apparently verbose and rambling authors were wordy for the sake of concealing words. Ciphers are hidden in the most subtle manner: they may be concealed in the watermark of the paper upon which a book is printed; they may be bound into the covers of ancient books; they may be hidden under imperfect pagination; they may be extracted from the first letters of words or the first words of sentences; they may be artfully concealed in mathematical equations or in apparently unintelligible characters; they may be extracted from the jargon of clowns or revealed by heat as having been written in sympathetic ink; they may be word ciphers, letter ciphers, or apparently ambiguous statements whose meaning could be understood only by repeated careful readings; they may be discovered in the elaborately illuminated initial letters of early books or they may be revealed by a process of counting words or letters. If those interested in Freemasonic research would give serious consideration to this subject, they might find in books and manuscripts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the information necessary to bridge the gap in Masonic history that now exists between the Mysteries of the ancient world and the Craft Masonry of the last three centuries. The arcana of the ancient Mysteries were never revealed to the profane except through the media of symbols. Symbolism fulfilled the dual office of concealing the sacred truths from the uninitiated and revealing them to those qualified to understand the symbols. Forms are the symbols of formless divine principles; symbolism is the language of Nature. With reverence the wise pierce the veil and with clearer vision contemplate the reality; but the ignorant, unable to distinguish between the false and the true, behold a universe of symbols. It may well be said of Nature - the Great Mother - that she is ever tracing strange characters upon the surface of things, but only to her eldest and wisest sons as a reward for their faith and devotion does she reveal the cryptic alphabet which is the key to the import of these tracings. ...Only recently an intricate cipher of Roger Bacon's has been unraveled, revealing the fact that this early scientist was well versed in the cellular theory. Lecturing before the American Philosophical Society, Dr. William Romaine Newbold, who translated the cipher manuscript of the friar, declared: "There are drawings which so accurately portray the actual appearance of certain objects that it is difficult to resist the inference the Bacon had seen them with the microscope. ...These are spermatozoa, the body cells and the seminiferous tubes, the ova, with their nuclei distinctly indicated. There are nine large drawings of which one at least bears considerable resemblance to a certain stage of development of a fertilized cell." [See Review of Reviews, July, 1921] ...The most famous of all literal cryptograms is the famous biliteral cipher described by Sir Francis Bacon in his De Augmentis Scientiarum. Lord Bacon originated the system while still a youg man residing in Paris. The biliteral cipher requires the use of two styles of type, one an ordinary face and the other specially cut. The differences between the two fonts are in many cases so minute that it requires a poerful magnifying glass to detect them. ...Lord Bacon is believed to have had two Roman alphabets specially prepared in which the differences were so trivial that it is almost impossible for experts to distinguish them. A careful inspection of the first four "Shakespeare" folios discloses the use throughout the volumes of several styles of type differing in minute but distinguishable details. It is possible that all the "Shakespeare" folios contain ciphers running through the text. These ciphers may have been added to the original plays, which are much longer in the folios than in the original quartos, full scenes having been added in some instances. The biliteral cipher was not confined to the writings of Bacon and "Shakespeare," however, but appears in many books published during Lord Bacon's lifetime and for nearly a century after his death. In referring to the biliteral cipher, Lord Bacon terms it omnia per omnia. The cipher may run through an entire book and be placed therein at the time of printing without the knowledge of the original author, for it does not necessitate the changing of either words or punctuation. It is possible that this cipher was inserted for political purposes into many documents and volumes published during the seventeenth century. It is well known that ciphers were used for the same reason as early as the Council of Nicea. ...Many cryptograms have been produced in which numbers in various sequences are substituted for letters, words, or even complete thoughts. The reading of numerical ciphers usually depends upon the possession of specially arranged tables of correspondences. The numerical cryptograms of the Old Testament are so complicated that only a few scholars versed in rabbinical lore have ever sought to unravel their mysteries. ...The most simple numerical cipher is that in which the letters of the alphabet are exchanged for numbers in ordinary sequence... ...Authors sometimes based their cryptograms upon the numerical value of their own names; for example, Sir Francis Bacon repeatedly used the cryptic number 33 - the numerical equivalent of his name. [Hall, Jubilee Edition,1988]Somewhere along the way I read that all of the manuscripts of the different books of the Bible that were being translated under the patronage of King James, were deposited into the care of Sir Francis Bacon by the many translators involved in the project. Apparently he had them in his possession for a year, but there are no reports as to what he was doing with them. It was suggested that the fact that Jesus went from age 30, when he began his ministry of one year, to the age of 33 at his crucifixion at the end of this one year, was a "signature" of Lord Bacon. But, it would sure be interesting to have an original copy of the first King James Version of the Bible to peruse for possible coded information!Later I came across the suggestion that the "coded signature" of Lord Bacon in the New Testament was evidence that there was a Masonic conspiracy involved in the production of the Jesus myth. Bacon was also thought to have been in on the formation of the Rosicrucians, and others suggested that he had died the "philosopher's death." That is to say that he achieved the "great work" of alchemy which bestows upon its successful students the gift of immortality, and that a log or box of rocks was buried in his place. Supposedly, those who "fake their deaths" in this manner leave some sort of "clue" as to what really happened, and the clue that Lord Bacon had achieved the great work was in the fact that he died from eating a spoiled rooster - the rooster being an ancient symbol of alchemy. After the "funeral," the new Master Alchemist, who now has supernatural powers, takes his place among the order of those who have already "ascended" into this "new state of being," and can thereafter appear and disappear at will to those who are ready to receive deeper instruction, having proved themselves worthy by their labor, will and intent.All of this was very interesting to me, and I read and re-read books on alchemy, theories about the supposed ciphers encoded in the works of Shakespeare, purported to be a pseudonym for either Lord Bacon himself, or a cabal of alchemists whose project was to preserve their secrets for subsequent generations to decode.In the meantime, I read many works, both pro and con, about the Masonic "conspiracies" to take over the world and how the number 33 repeatedly appears whenever they have a "hand" in something. It was suggested that even the death of JFK was part of the Masonic plan to rule the world - or, at the very least, control it from behind the scenes - and everywhere I looked there were folks making this or that wild claim or conjecture about the repeated appearance of the number 33.In the present time we have the claims of the followers of David Icke that the death of Princess Diana was a "Masonic Sacrifice," and that all of the members of European nobility are secret Masons, shape-shifting Reptilian beings with bloody appetites. Meanwhile, the Masons and Shriners build children's hospitals, do good works in general, and there are few people who don't have a Mason or two in the family tree. Well, with all the confusion, with all the "proofs" going one way and another, it was difficult to sort it all out and decide just "who was on first" here! No sooner would I become convinced that the Masons were the most evil bunch on the planet, with designs on the freedoms of everyone, than I would come across an article or book that claimed exactly the opposite with exactly as much "proof." Somewhere along the way I came across a pamphlet that claimed that the New Testament was written by a "rich and powerful aristocratic Roman family, the Calpunius Pisos," and that all the books therein were written between the years 70 and 140 A.D. This pamphlet claimed that there was an "inner circle" of those who knew this and that the group included "Boccaccio, Bacon/Shakespeare, Cervantes, Rabelais, Tolstoy, Milton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Kipling, Stevenson, Poe, Oleson, Browning, Noyes, Lewis Carroll, A. Conan Doyle, Verne, Baum, Tolkien, ad infinitum." I have to admit that their evidence was very compelling! One thing that this pamphlet demonstrated was that the number 22 was the code for "Christos" and the number 19 was the "code" for "Piso." The number 24, by their interpretation, was the code for "Jesus." Whoever these folks were, they were seeing coded messages in everything from steamship ads to Dick Tracy cartoon strips! Around this point in time, a friend had picked up a book in a used book stall at a flea market and, knowing of my interests in anything that was about ancient mysteries, especially the Flood of Noah, brought the book over to me. It was entitled Lost Survivors of the Deluge, by Gerd von Hassler and translated from the German by Martin Ebon. You sure wouldn't expect to find anything about Jesus in there, now would you? But, we need to remember the reputed remark of Jesus that the "end of the age" would be "as in the days of Noah," so somehow, the two things were intertwined in my mind. As I was just reading along, I came to the following passage and the hair on my head began to stand on end: "In the Bible it says: "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be but a hundred and twenty years. "With this Divine dictum, the golden times, when gods and their direct offspring lived to be 900 years old, and more, came to an end. "For hundreds of years, these lines have troubled religious scholars, because direct and literal translations specifically yields the term "Sons of God," as pursuing human maidens. Accordingly, some 2,000 years were devoted to many an inspired and convoluted explanation, in order to come to terms with a notion that fits neither the concepts of the Bible, nor that of a heavenly Divine Creator, but had to be given an appropriate interpretation. "This is a fact [since the Deluge] we have lost godlike Near-Immortality and all the efforts to intensify the quality of the divine blood through incest - as both the Inca Emperors and the Pharaohs attempted - had to fail. [...] The Divine Blood had been diluted. "But God had desired the equality of the divine with the human. The Bible tells us: And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness... "Let us make man in our image' is but one of the somewhat dictatorial decisions of democratic majorities within a family of gods, to be found in all the world's myths. "This brings us to the crucial question. It is, indeed, so vital and controversial that St. Boniface, when he presented it to the Frisians during his missionary journey on June 5, 754, was put to death by the sword! Today, we may ask such a question without facing the sword; it is: Just what is the name of the God-Creator? What is the name of the god who governed the earth even before the Deluge; this God of Gods, rightly called Father of the Gods, and thus Father of all Mankind? To put it even more simply: If a highly developed civilization existed more than 10,000 year ago, governing the world's then populated regions, and if the God-King was able to aid his contemporaries in surviving the Deluge catastrophe, surely the name of this ruler must have been handed down to later generations of survivors; who was he? "We know from the Epic of Gilgamesh, of the horrible Enlil, who was responsible for the Deluge. The other gods did not think highly of him, but feared him a good deal. His influence never extended beyond Mesopotamia. His antagonist, Shamash, the Sun God, enjoyed greater prestige. He remains, notably in Asia even today, a figure of magical power, the epitome of the shaman. But even the early Egyptians called their Sun God by a different name, Ra. This need not mean much, because Plato tells us that the Egyptians had even then developed a unique and high level of civilization hostile toward the unknown earlier culture. "The Egyptian term 'Ra' was integrated into the language of early Peru, where we encounter the annual sun festival Rami or Raymi. But this adaptation undoubtedly dates back only to the period following the Deluge, as does the word 'Wotan.' This enables us to draw a firm dividing line: we are able to eliminate all gods who emerged from the post-Deluge civilizations as creators of cultures, builders of cities, magicians or agronomists. The ONE God for whom we search has to be the father - or even ancestor - of this post-Deluge generation of gods. Just as Tuisto, father of Mannus, was the ancestor of Germanic culture. "Tuisto? Can that be accurate? Or did Tacitus fail to understand the name correctly? The curious linking of the darkest and lightest vowel in our language brings back a curious association. Of course! It is Tiu, the god whom the early Germans recalled when they made up the calendar and named one day of the week after him: Tuesday. Otherwise he has been overshadowed by the ever-present Wotan-Odin, as the highest Ruler of the Heavens. This replacement took place, at the latest, during the Volkerwanderung, the Great Migration that caused a gigantic upheaval of populations on the Eurasian land mass. We may even assume that, just because Tiu (or Ziu) was removed heavenward, the very vigorous Wotan managed to take his place in human imagination and thought. It was a fate that Wotan experienced himself later on, when missionaries cut down the very oaks that had been dedicated to his divine presence. "Tiu-Ziu was just as much one of the Aesir as Wotan had been. And the Aesir had even managed to infiltrate the antagonist worlds of Egypt and Mesopotamia, representing the sun and divine wisdom. [...] I do think, however, that our search for the original name of the primal Creator-God should not get bogged down in such minute details. The survivors of the Deluge of whom we learn from the Bible and the earlier Gilgamesh Epic and other traditions, were themselves survivors of the earlier world of gods. [...] Over thousands of years, they passed on a handful of names. No doubt, precisely how much and what one name or another had originally meant may simply have been forgotten over the long, long years.Well, considering that I was contemplating the evidence as to whether or not alchemists were able to actually achieve the "Great Work" and "immortality," the question that arose in my mind was not whether or not this was the name of a Divine Ruler in primeval times, but whether or not the Cassiopeans had given us a clue to an actual Sect that had members who might be thousands of years old - and by giving us this name, were they telling us that such an immortal was the actual biological father of Jesus?So, what this amounted to was an interesting thread relating to the "bloodline" of Jesus. Where will it ultimately lead? Who and what was this "Tonatha" who bears one of the oldest names of God? The interesting thing about this particular bit of information from the Cassiopaeans was the fact that this name, of which we were completely ignorant at the time, later connected to information that went back into the mists before recorded history. Yes, it is true that this was information that was known in some circles before we received it, (or Von Hassler wouldn't have been writing about it), but it was definitely unknown to us in any way. Does this prove that the Cassiopaeans are, actually, who they say they are? No. But, if nothing else, it demonstrates a "connnection" to SOME source, even if only the universal consciousness or "akashic records." Meanwhile, we were given some clues in another direction that ended up connecting to all of this in a bizarre way, so we have to pause and go in another direction for a moment. (I warned you this was going to be complicated!)I first heard about Oak Island when I was just a kid. My grandfather subscribed to several magazines, one of which, (I think it was "Argosy,") printed an article on the "Oak Island Mystery." I was completely fascinated by this account and it stayed in the back of my mind for many years. After the Cassiopaeans came along, as I have described before, I was like a kid in a candy store. It was fun to go through my many books and just ask question after question about all the things that were mysterious in our world. In a sense, it was a sort of "test" just to see WHAT they would say about these things, and I had no particular attachment to their remarks because, in many cases, there was no way to validate them. In terms of "Mysteries," one theory was about as good as another. I was initally just curious to get a LOT of material to analyze later, so I was jumping through things in a quick and haphazard way. I didn't know what an editing headache I was creating for myself. Heck, I had no idea what an impact the Cassiopaeans were going to have on my life! We didn't even record the first half dozen or so sessions because we didn't think it was that important! Before
we get to the Cassiopaean comments on the Oak Island Mystery, I believe
it would be useful to briefly recapitualate what is presently known
about it.
Oak
Island is situated off the coast of Nova Scotia, and it is thought
that the name of the island relates to the many oak trees that formerly
dotted the small speck of land. There are a couple of residents who
have built homes there, and in recent times, a causeway was built
which effectively makes it no longer an island, but a peninsula.
As
is the case with other "Legends," there are a number of
apoclyptic versions of the "discovery" on Oak Island. One
version of the story tells us that, in 1795, a few young lads rowed
over to the island to explore as part of an "adventure game"
or on a dare. They were attracted to the "mystery" of the
island because it was claimed by the local Indians to be haunted due
to the fact that strange lights had reportedly been seen there. Knowing
how such stories get told and retold, it is likely that the island
was considered to be haunted by the locals, and dangerously so.A Chester
woman whose mother had been one of the earliest settlers reported
that once when the fires and lights had been observed, a boatload
of men who had gone to investigate had disappeared without a trace.
Whatever
version of the story is told, the names of the three boys were Daniel
McGinnis, John Smith, and Anthony Vaughn.As to what the boys "discovered,"
again there are some variations. It was a large oak tree with either
a "large ship's pulley" hanging from an overhanging branch,
or the "burn marks" on the branch that looked as though
a heavy load had been suspended from a rope at that point. Details
about the vegetation either being cleared away, or new growth in an
area under and around the tree occur in different versions.
The
boys apparently decided that they had discovered a place where pirates
had buried treasure, so they went off to fetch digging tools to recover
whatever must be buried there.They dug a circular shaft 13 feet in
diameter and, according to the basic story found strange things -
barriers - at various levels: at 4 feet, flagstones; at 10 feet, a
platform of solid oak; at 20 feet another oak platform, and at 30
feet, still another oak platform.
Obviously,
three boys weren't going to dig that much. Apparently, after the initial
discoveries that something mysterious was indeed indicated, they had
sought help from some men of the community. But it was all in vain
because the hole suddenly filled with water just at the point when
they thought they were going to get to the treasure.Nine years went
by. In 1804, Simeon Lynds formed a "treasure hunting syndicate
and digging resumed. At 40 feet, another layer of Oak covered with
putty was found. Then there was a layer of charcoal. At 50 feet there
was another oak platform sealed with coconut fiber. At 60, 70 and
80 feet, oak platforms; at 90 feet, a flat stone was reportedly found
that measured 3 x 1 feet. The stone was said to not be native to the
areas and had "strange markings" on it.
The
story about the stone is rather confusing. It was said to have been
installed at the back of a fireplace for a number of years. It was
later "recovered" and exhibited to raise money for more
digging. A Professor of languages claimed to have "cracked the
code" and translated the markings to say "10 feet below,
2 million pounds."Someone else who saw the stone in the early
years of this century remembered that whe he saw it, there were no
"strange markings." It seems to have disappeared.
At
98 feet, water began to pour in, apparently channeled to the pit through
a series of stone-lined, coconut fiber filled conduits that act as
"wicks."In 1849, a new syndicate was formed that bored 5
holes. They found that at the 98 foot level, there was a spruce platform
5 inches thick. This was followed by a 12 inch space, then 4 inches
of oak, and then 22 inches of drilling brought up bits of metal. Also
retrieved were 3 metal links of a chain.
Following
that event, which excited the drillers because it was claimed that
the chain was gold and "looked ancient," (though I have
never read an account by anyone who had actually SEEN it - it was
always hearsay), the drillers kept going and encountered 8 inches
of oak, another 22 inches of metal; 4 inches of oak; 6 inches of spruce;
then 7 feet of clay and nothing else.At one point, it was reported
that a James Pitblado found and pocketed something off the drill,
but there is no firm idea as to whether this really happened, and
if so, what the item was.
In
1859, another attempt was made. This was when the conduits were discovered
that repeatedly filled the pit with water. The discovery of the flood
tunnels convinced this horde of idiots that there was a fabulous treasure.
They reasoned that it was inconceivable that anyone would go to that
much trouble to conceal ordinary treasure! Of course, the more logical
reason would be to think that it was never meant to be dug up and
therefore, could NOT be treasure!In 1865, still another attempt. This
gang tunneled beside the original shaft, into it sideways, built a
dam against the water, and so forth. Failure.
In
1894, a new gang dynamited the flood tunnel! They lowered a pipe into
the pit and at 126 feet, they struck iron. They drilled past the obstruction
and, at 151 feet, hit CEMENT! Drilling futher, after 2 more inches,
they encountered 5 inches of oak and then "large metal objects,"
then "loose metal," and then more "large metal objects."
Sounds
to me like there was some kind of big machine buried down there and
they were just tearing it apart with their drills!There were attempts
in 1931, and in 1963, a hole 80 feet wide and 130 feet deep was dug.
Nothing.
In
the 1990s, a submarine TV camera revealed what looked like three chests
and a severed hand. Divers were lowered to a depth of 235 feet, but
found nothing. A good question to ask here is: what would a severed
hand be doing down there? The bodies of the several people who have
died during the 200 years of attempts to excavate this pit were all
completely recovered. In any event, the lighting of the film was bad,
there was nothing to provide scale. What was seen as a "chest"
could have been a piece of wood a few inches square.Now, what seems
to me to be the obvious questions are: why would someone who buries
a "treasure" leave such things as a "marker stone,"
or a depression in the ground, marks on a tree, and other obvious
signs of concealing said treasure? Doesn't make a lot of sense, does
it?
All
the stories, legends, assumptions, beliefs and "wishful thinking"
have been generated by treasure hunters who have an agenda: to get
money to dig to get more money!Then, there are the folks who have
linked this mystery to the Legends of the Holy Grail, the Ark of the
Covenant, and so on.There are no artifacts in existence that have
been validated reliably, and the site itself has been so obliterated
by greed that no self-respecting archaeologist would even dream of
attempting to sort out the mess!
Despite
all the books and articles and supposed investigations, there is a
dark shadow of greed and avarice hiding the facts of the matter. We
can wishfully think all we want, but that doesn't make a story true
- as it is told, that is. And that is the crux of the matter. Where
there is smoke, there is likely to be some fire, even if only a little!
And, there are real questions about Oak Island that beg answers. Was
the pit dug by humans? If so, what humans would have the capabilities
of excavating such a pit? Was it a storage chamber? If so, WHAT was
stored in it? If it was not a storage chamber, what other explanations
can there be for the apparent original disturbance of the landscape?
How, at this late date, would it be possible to sort through all the
lies and confusion?
How
do we explain the burn marks/pulley on the tree and the cannon shot
reportedly found during the original dig? Is this evidence of pirates
and treasure? Or an ammo dump? But, if it was that, why go to such
extreme measures to make the materials almost impossible to access
in a rapid manner? That doesn't make sense.And, if it was a practical
joke perpetrated by some young boys, it is certainly one of the most
elaborate and long lived pranks in history!
"Hidden deep within a Czech mountain is an ancient shaft and tower seemigly built by advanced technology but older than the bones of extinct beasts..."The author, Antonin T. Horak, wrote down the cave exploration adventure of a member of the Czech resistance which occurred in October of 1944, during WW II. Mr. Horak stated that the account was confirmed by friends of his in Czechoslovakia in 1965. The story was first printed in the March, 1965 issue of National Speleological Society in an attempt to interest other speleologists in mounting an expedition. The captain of the Slovak Resistance who told the story for the speleology magazine, was apparently hidden in this cave, along with a companion who was wounded, by a farmer near the villages of Plavince and Lubocna at 49.2 N 20.7 degrees E. The farmer's name was Slavek. Slavek moved rocks in the cranny and opened a low cleft, the entrance to this roomy grotto. Placing Martin (the wounded companion) in a niche, we were astonished to see Slavek become ceremonious: he crossed himself, each of us, the grotto, and with a deep bow, its back wall where a hole came to my attention. ...Slavek begged me not to go further into his cave. ...He told me that only once, with his father and grandfather, had he been in this cave; that it was a huge maze, full of pits which they never wanted to fathom, pockets of poisonous air and 'certainly haunted.'Well, needless to say, our captain was very curious and decided to investigate the cave that could make an illiterate farmer/shepherd so superstitious. I started my cave tour with rifle, lantern, torches, pick. After a not too devious nor dangerous walk and some squeezings, always taking the easiest and marking side passages, I came, after about one and one-half hours into a long level passage, and at is end a barrel sized hole. Crawling through and still kneeling, I froze in amazement. There stood something like a large, black silo, framed in white. ...I thought that this is a bizarre natural wall or curtain of black salt, or ice, or lava. But I became perplexed, then awestruck, when I saw that it was a seemingly manmade structure which reaches into the rocks on all sides. Beautifully, cylindrically curved, it indicated a huge body with a diameter of about 25 meters. Where this structure and the rocks meet, large stalagmites and stalactites formed that glittering white frame. The wall is uniformly blue-blackish, its material seems to combine properties of steel, flint, rubber. The pick made no marks and bounced off vigorously. Even the thought of a tower-sized artifiact embedded in rock in the middle of an obscure mountain, in a wild region where not even legend knows about ruins or mining industry, overgrown with age-old cave deposits, is bewildering. The fact is appalling. Not immediately discernible, a crack in the wall appears from below about 20 to 25 cm wide, tapers off and disappears into the cave's ceiling two to five cm wide. Its insides, right and left, are pitch black and have fist-sized, sharp valleys and crests. The crack's bottom is a rather smooth trough of yellow sandstone and drops very steeply into the wall. I threw a lighted torch through; it fell and extinguished with loud cracklings and hissings as if a white hot ploughshare were dropped into a bucket. Driven to explore and believing myself thin enough to get through this upside down keyhole, I went in."He got stuck and had to get himself unstuck, and so he gave up and went back to his companion. He went back in on Oct 24, 1944... (the notes are from a journal) and tried to get through again. He took off all his clothes and covered himself with "sheep fat" and managed, after some difficulty, to get inside the tower. He found himself in a curved black shaft. He had come with plenty of lights - torches, lanterns etc - and said that all the light together did not reach the ceiling. He leaves and comes back the next day, smears himself with sheep fat again, and goes back through the crack. At this visit, he starts shooting his gun upward which nearly blew his eardrums out because of the acoustics, but he didn't hear an impact. Then, he fired at the walls themselves, somewhat above, and noted blue-green sparks and dancing flames. He started digging in the floor and found fossilized animal teeth. He went back in again on October 26 and took a pole to make the lantern go higher, but still was not able to see the ceiling. At this point, his companion dies, and he is free to rejoin his unit and that was the end of the story. But, I was certainly curious about an obviously artificial shaft made of some unknown material, buried in a mountain so long that it was being overtaken by stalagmites and stalactites! So, I asked: Q: (L) In one of my Fate magazines over there I read a story about a fellow who discovered an enormous structure in a cave when he was hiding there during WW II. A shaft in the Tatra mountains in Czechoslovakia. What was this thing this man found in this cave?Well, that answered that! Couldn't be verified, for sure, but, the word "buried" triggered a thought about my recent reading about Oak Island, so why not just settle this whole Oak Island thing at once!? I didn't know that I was getting ready to open a can of worms! Q: (L) What is buried on Oak Island?As you can see, it was late and we were all getting a little silly. Little did we know that this was going to get serious! A few months later, I was reading over the above text and decided I wanted to ask a bit more about it. The C's had already talked about Transdimensional Atomic Remolecularization as the mode of time travel as well as the technology used for moving between densities and dimensions. They had mentioned that "remolecularization" was the mode of assembly of 3rd density matter from 4th density and higher "thought" transduced via the effects of supernovae, so, I just assumed that TDARM was also what was buried at Oak Island: Q: (L) When I was reading our little bit about Oak Island the other day, I noticed that we never followed up on certain things. Could we ask on that now?So, we were, for the first time, facing questions that we had to investigate on our own. As time has gone by, I have learned that this type of question - ones that we have to figure out - seem to have some significance in terms of some sort of "destined" mission of figuring out some great secret - or implications of such. That may be only my own assumption and may have no basis in fact. So, I did some more reading on the subject of Oak Island in order to see if there was any way that what the Cassiopaean's were saying could be true. The more I read from different sources, the more confused I got. There were lies, manipulations, corruption of information and artifacts, and evidence of incredible greed on all sides of this story. Seems that everybody who had anything to do with it was SURE that there was a ton of money buried there and they would do about anything to be the one to dig it up. The result was a complete MESS. I decided that I was NEVER going to make any sense out of this Oak Island business! Q: (L) Okay. What I read about Oak Island was that there were legends of lights being seen there prior to 1703. [Remember that 1795 is when the boys rowed to the island and discovered the rope marks on the sawed off tree limb and the depression in the ground.]Well, I had to admit that I was drawing a blank.. I just couldn't think of any "sect" that was wandering around in North America in the 1500's that would have that kind of "conscious communion" with higher powers. Q: (F) Was there a sect from that era that claimed communion?Well, aside from the fact that I was asking a dumb question, considering that they had already told us that the Reptoids had built it and put it there originally, I guess you can see from our attempts to begin to learn to think - to REALLY think - that it was a definite struggle. Working to get rid of assumptions and allow the creative thinking process to flow was a lot of WORK. But, not nearly as much work as I had ahead of me based on just a few clues. In the end, the clues about "sect," "Arcadia" and "alchemy" and the time period of the 1500's that had been given were all I had to go on. So I hit the books again. I realized that just the normally available resources were not going to get me where I wanted to go, so I began to look for links to alchemy, and links to links. I made lists of names and dates and obscure references and began to follow them. There was a LOT of material. I obtained obscure alchemical texts full of strange coded messages and bizarre pictures that were supposed to "reveal" something to those who had the insight to understand. It apparently wasn't me, and I struggled day after day to try to divine some meaning from these lunatic descriptions of experiments with sexual overtones, most of which proclaimed at the beginning that the truth was going to be given plainly! Nowadays, our materialistic science derides alchemists as misguided mystics who followed a dream of discovering a substance that could transform base metals into gold. Yes, they admit that much scientific discovery was accomplished in these pursuits, but they toss out the objective of the alchemists as just a pipe dream. Nevertheless, there are interesting stories there, some so deeply curious that the mind cannot grapple with the implications, and they are immediately discarded as too fantastic for serious consideration. I want to recount a few of them here so that the reader who is not familiar with the literature might be sufficiently intrigued to do research on his/her own. But first, a short discussion of the "Philosopher's Stone." This is the goal of the Alchemist; a fabled substance that can not only transmute metals into gold, but can heal any illness, banish all sickness from a person's life, and confer an extended lifespan, if not immortality, on the body. At least, that is how it is described. That may or may not be a "cover story." It may, in fact, describe the 4th density state of existence.It was thought that, by a lengthy process of purification, one could extract from various minerals the "natural principle" that supposedly caused gold to "grow" in the earth. In an anonymous 17th Century alchemical text, The Sophic Hydrolith, this process is described as "purging [the mineral] of all that is thick, nebulous, opaque and dark," and what would be left would be a mercurial "water of the Sun," which had a pleasant, penetrating odor, and was very volatile. Part of this liquid is put aside, and the rest is then mixed with a twelfth of its weight of "the divinely endowed body of gold," (ordinary gold won't do because it is defiled by daily use). This mixture then forms a solid amalgam which is heated for a week. It is then dissolved in some of the mercurial water in an egg-shaped phial.Then, the remaining mercurial water is added gradually, in seven portions; the phial is sealed, and kept at such a temperature as will hatch an egg. After 40 days, the phial's contents will be black; after seven more days small grainy bodies like fish eyes are supposed to appear. Then the "Philosopher's Stone" begins to make its appearance: first reddish in color; then white, green and yellow like a peacock's tail then dazzling white; and later a deep glowing red. Finally, "the revivified body is quickened, perfected and glorified" and appears in a beautiful purple.This and many similarly obscure and crazy sounding texts are the bulk of Alchemical Literature. But, we have to remember one thing: these texts were written in CODE! "The next day he came not, nor ever since. Only he sent an excuse at half an hour past nine that morning, by reason of his great business, and promised to come at three in the afternoon, but never came, nor have I heard of him since; whereupon I began to doubt of the whole matter. Nevertheless late that night my wife... came soliciting and vexing me to make experiment... saying to me, unless this be done, I shall have no rest nor sleep all this night... She being so earnest, I commanded a fire to be made - thinking, alas, now is this man (though so divine in discourse) found guilty of falsehood... My wife wrapped the said matter in wax, and I cut half an ounce of six drams of old lead, and put into a crucible in the fire, which being melted, my wife put in the said Medicine made up in a small pill or button, which presently made such a hissing and bubbling in its perfect operation, that within a quarter of an hour all the mass of lead was transmuted into the ... finest gold."Baruch Spinoza, who lived nearby, came the next day to examine this gold and was convinced that Schweitzer was telling the truth. The Assay Master of the province, a Mr. Porelius, tested the metal and pronounced it genuine; and Mr. Buectel, the silversmith, subjected it to further test that confirmed that it was gold. The testimony of these men survives to this day.Now, either ALL of them are lying, or Dr. Schweitzer really did have a strange experience exactly as he describes it. The interesting thing is that other people have described similar visitations by strange men who proclaim to them the truth of the alchemical process, demonstrate it, and then mysteriously disappear. It has happened sufficiently often, in widely enough separated places and times to suggest that it is not a collusive fraud nor a delusion. Twenty years before Schweitzer's meeting with the mysterious stranger, Jan Baptiste van Helmont, who was responsible for several important scientific discoveries, and was the first man to realize that there were other gases than air; and who invented the term "gas," wrote: "For truly I have divers times seen it [The Philosopher's Stone], and handled it with my hands, but it was of colour such as is in Saffron in its powder, yet weighty, and shining like unto powdered glass. There was once given unto me on fourth part of one grain [16 milligrams]... I projected [it] upon eighty ounces [227 grams] of quicksilver [mercury] made hot in a crucible; and straightaway all the quicksilver, with a certain degree of noise, stood still from flowing, and being congealed, settled like unto a yellow lump; but after pouring it out, the bellows blowing, there were found eight ounces and a little less than eleven grains of the purest gold."Sir Isaac Newton studied alchemy until his death, remaining convinced that the possiblity of transmutation existed. The great philosophers and mathematicians, Descartes and Leibnitz, both were convinced that transmutation was a reality. Even Robert Boyle who wrote a book entitled The Sceptical Chymist, was sure until the end of his life, that transmutation was possible!Why? These men were scientists. And, the argument that their ideas or observations were less scientific that those of the present day simply does not stand up to scrutiny. And now we come to our possible Oak Island protagonists. As noted, alchemists were rumored at various times to have gained immortality, and one of these was Nicolas Flamel. Flamel was a poor scribe, or scrivener and copyist. The story goes that, in 1357 he bought an old illuminated book... "The cover of it was of brass, well bound, all engraven with letters of strange figures... This I know that I could not read them nor were they either Latin of French letters... As to the matter that was written within, it was engraved (as I suppose) with an iron pencil or graver upon... bark leaves, and curiously coloured..."Reportedly, the first page was written in golden letters that said Abraham the Jew, Priest, Prince, Levite, Astrologer and Philosopher, to the Nation of the Jews dispersed by the Wrath of God in France, wisheth Health. So, quite rightly Flamel referred to the manuscript as the Book of Abraham the Jew. The dedication was followed by curses upon anyone who was not either a priest or a Jew reading the book. But, Flamel was a scribe, which he must have imagined exempted him from these curses, so he read the book. The purpose of the book was avowedly to give assistance to the dispersed Jews by teaching them to transmute lead into gold so that they could pay their taxes to the hated Roman government. The instructions were clear and easy, but only described the latter part of the process. The instructions for the beginning were said to be in the illustrations given on the 4th and 5th leaves of the book. Flamel remarked that, although these were well executed, "...yet by that could no man ever have been able to understand it without being well skilled in their Qabalah, which is a series of old traditions, and also to have been well studied in their books."As the story goes, Flamel tried for 21 years to find someone who could explain these pictures to him. Finally, his wife urged him to go to Spain and seek out a rabbi or other learned Jew who might assist him. So, he made the famous pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James at Compostela, carrying with him carefully made copies of the book.After his devotions at the shrine, he went to the city of Leon in northern Spain where he met a certain "Master Canches," a Jewish physician. When this man saw the illustrations, he was "ravished with great astonishment and joy," upon recognizing them as parts of a book that had long been believed to have been destroyed. He declared his intention to return with Flamel to France, but he died on the trip at Orleans. Flamel returned to Paris alone. But, apparently, the old Jew must have told him something for he wrote: "I had now the prima materia, the first principles, yet not their first preparation, which is a thing most difficult, above all things in the world... Finally, I found that which I desired, which I also knew by the strong scent and odour thereof. Having this, I easily accomplished the Mastery... The fist time that I made projection [transmutation] was upon Mercury, whereof I turned half a pound, or thereabouts, into pure silver, better than that of the Mine, as I myself assayed, and made others assay many times. This was upon a Monday, the 17th of January about noon, in my home, Perrenelle [his wife] only being present, in the year of the restoring of mankind 1382."Note this date of January 17th, as it will come up numerous times! Several months later Flamel did his first transmutation into gold. Is this just a story? Well, what IS true and can be verified is that Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel endowed "fourteen hospitals, three chapels and seven churches, in the city of Paris, all which we had new built from the ground, and enriched with great gifts and revenues, with many reparations in their churchyards. We also have done at Boulogne about as much as we have done at Paris, not to speak of the charitable acts which we both did to particular poor people, principally widows and orphans." After Flamel's death in 1419 the rumours began. Hoping that they could find something hidden in one of his houses, people searched them again and again until one of them was completely destroyed. There were stories that Nicolas and Perenelle were still alive. Supposedly, she had gone to Switzerland and he buried a log in her grave, and then another log was buried at his own funeral. In the intervening centuries, the stories persist that Flamel and Perenelle defeated death. The 17th century traveller, Paul Lucas, while travelling in Asia Minor, met a Turkish philosopher who told him that "true philosophers had had the secret of prolonging life for anything up to a thousand years..." Lucas said "At last I took the liberty of naming the celebrated Flamel, who, it was said, possessed the Philosopher's Stone, yet was certainly dead. He smiled at my simplicity, and asked with an air of mirth: Do you really believe this? No, no, my friend, Flamel is still living; neither he nor his wife has yet tasted death. It is not above three years since I left both... in India; he is one of my best friends." In 1761, Flamel and his wife were reported to have been seen attending the opera in Paris. Well, there is an issue here regarding the supposed clue about "Abraham the Jew" which SEEMS to point us in the direction of a Jewish fraternity of alchemists or keepers of secrets. I don't want to go off on that thread here and now because it would add so much complexity to the issues that we might never find our way through the maze. But, to ease the mind of the reader, I will make a few remarks about this here. It's curious that Eugene Canseliet, in his preface to the Second Edition of Fulcanelli's Le Mystere des Cathedrales, apparently upon the instruction of the master alchemist, emphasized so dramatically the difference between kabbala and Cabala saying: "...this book has restored to light the phonetic cabala, whose principles and application had been completely lost. After this detailed and precise elucidation and after the brief treatment of it, which I gave in connection with the centaur, the man-horse of Plessis-Bourre, in Deux Logis Alchimiques, this mother tongue need never be confused with the Jewish Kabbala. Though never spoken, the phonetic cabala, this forceful idiom, is easily understood and it is the instinct or voice of nature. "By contrast, the Jewish Kabbala is full of transpositions, inversions, substitutions and calculations, as arbitrary as they are abstruse. This is why it is important to distinguish between the two words, CABALA and KABBALA in order to use them knowledgeably. Cabala derives from cadallhz or from the Latin caballus, a horse; kabbala is from the Hebrew Kabbalah, which means tradition. Finally, figurative meanings like coterie, underhand dealing or intrigue, developed in modern usage by analogy, should be ignored so as to reserve for the noun cabala the only significance which can be assured for it."Now, the curious bringing in of the terms "coterie," and "underhand dealing" and "intrigue" in conjunction with what he has just remarked about Kabbalah meaning "tradition," and Cabala being "horse," is a most curious juxtaposition of words. It almost seems that Fuacanelli is telling us that the Kaballah, or the tradition is a red herring. Fulcanelli himself makes a curious remark in The Dwellings of the Philosophers: "Alchemy is obscure, only because it is hidden. The philosophers who wanted to transmit the exposition of their doctrine and the fruit of their labors to posterity took great care not to divulge the art by presenting it under a common form, so that the layman could not misuse it. ...that the philosophers had no other means at their disposal to steal from the ones what they wanted to expose to the others, but this confusion of metaphors, of diverse symbols, this prolixity of terms, of capricious formulas traced by the flow of the pen, expressed in clear language for the use of the greedy or the foolish..."The point of this short aside is this: don't assume anything about Jews, Masons, or any other group when trying to solve the mystery. Nearly everything we come across will be obscured. And, when it is right out in plain view, it will be even more difficult to see!Getting back to our purported alchemists, we come now to the year 1745 in which Prince Charles Edward Stuart, known as the "Young Pretender," staged his Jacobite rebellion in an attempt to regain the British throne for his father the "Old Pretender." The Jacobite cause, for all intents and purposes, had been crushed at the battle of Culloden in April of that year, yet there was a constant fear by the British government that the Jacobites were still plotting with their French sympathizers, and being French and in London was, at that time, a liability. This "spy fever" resulted in the arrest of many Frenchmen on trumped up charges, and most of them were later released, but it was a dangerous time for Gallic visitors!In November of that year, one Frenchman was arrested and accused of having pro-Jacobite letters in his possession. He became very indignant and claimed that the correspondence had been "planted" on him. Considering the mood of the time, it is quite surprising that he was believed and released! Horace Walpole, English author and Member of Parliament, wrote a letter about this incident to Sir Horace Mann on December 9, 1745 saying: "The other day they seized an odd man who goes by the name of Count Saint-Germain. He has been here these two years, and will not tell who he is or whence, but professes that he does not go by his right name. He sings and plays on the violin wonderfully, is mad and not very sensible."This is one of the few "authentic," on the scene comments about one of the most mysterious characters of the 18th century. Another acquaintance of the "Count Saint-Germain, Count Warnstedt, described Saint-Germain as "The completest charlatan, fool, rattle-pate, windbag and swindler."Yet, his last patron said that Saint-Germain was "perhaps one of the greatest sages who ever lived."Clearly this was one of those people you either love or hate! Saint-Germain first comes to our attention in the fashionable circles of Vienna in about 1740, where he made a stir by flaunting the fashion of the day by wearing black all the time! Everybody else was into bright colors, satins and laces, ornate patterns and designs; and along comes Saint-Germain with his somber black outfits set off by glittering diamonds on his fingers, shoe buckles, and snuff box! What an attention getter! If you want to stand out in a roomful of robins, cardinals and bluejays, just be a blackbird! He also had the habit of carrying handfuls of loose diamonds in his pockets instead of cash! So, there he is, garnering attention to himself in this bizarre way, and naturally he makes the acquaintance of the local leaders of fashion, Counts Zabor and Lobkowitz who introduce him to the French Marshal de Belle Isle. Well, it seems that the Marshal was seriously under-the-weather, but his illness is not recorded so we can't evaluate the claims that Saint-Germain cured him, but nevertheless, the Marshal was so gratefull he took Saint-Germain to Paris with him and set him up with apartments and a laboratory.The details of the Count's life in Paris are pretty well known, and it is there that the rumors began. There is an account by a "Countess de B___" (a nom de plume, it seems, so we have to hold the information somewhat suspect), who wrote in her memoirs, Chroniques de l'oeil de boeuf, that, when she met the Count at a soiree given by the aged Countess von Georgy, whose late husband had been Ambassador to Venice in the 1670's, that the old Countess remembered Saint-Germain from her days in Venice. So, the old girl asked the Count if his father had been there at the time. He replied no, but HE had! Well, the man that Countess von Georgy had known was at least 45 years old THEN, at least 50 years ago, which appeared to be the age of the man standing before her! The Count smiled and said: "I am very old.""But then you must be nearly 100 years old," the Countess exclaimed."That is not impossible," the Count replied. He then related some details that convinced the old lady that it was really him she knew in Venice.The Countess exclaimed: "I am already convinced. You are a most extraordinary man, a devil!""For pity's sake!" cried Saint-Germain in a loud voice heard all around the room. "No such names!" And he began to tremble all over and left the room immediately.A pretty dramatic introduction to society, don't you think? But, was it real, or the ploy of a very clever con artist? Did he deliberately choose to adopt the name of someone long dead, about whom he may have already known a great deal, and then did he set out to deceive and con in a manner well known to us in the present time? Was he a snake oil salesman or a true man of mystery? In any event, that was the beginning of the "legend," and many more stories of a similar nature spread through society like wildfire. Saint-Germain apparently fed the fires with hints that he had known the "Holy Family" intimately and had been invited to the marriage feast at Cana where Jesus turned water into wine, and dropped casually the remark that he "had always known that Christ would meet a bad end." According to him, he had been very fond of Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, and had even proposed her canonization at the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325! What a guy! A line for every occasion! Pretty soon the Count had Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, eating out of his hand, and it certainly COULD be true that he was a French spy in England when he was arrested there, because he later did handle some sticky business for the credulous king of France.In 1760, Louis sent Saint-Germain to the Hague as his personal representative to arrange a loan with Austria that was supposed to help finance the SevenYears' war against England. But, while in Holland, the Count had a falling out with his friend Casanova, who was also a diplomat at the Hague. Casanova tried hard to discredit Saint-Germain in public, but without success. One has to wonder just what it was that Casanova discovered or came to think about Saint-Germain at this time.In any even, Saint-Germain was making other enemies. One of these enemies was the Duc de Choiseul, King Louis' Foreign Minister. The Duc discovered that Saint-Germain had been scoping out the possibilities of arranging a peace between England and France. Now, that doesn't sound like a bad plan at all, but the Duc managed to convince the King that this was a dire betrayal, and the Count had to flee to England and then back to Holland.In Holland, the Count lived under the name Count Surmont, and he worked to raise money to set up laboratories in which he made paint and dyes and engaged in his alchemical experiments. By all accounts, he was successful in SOME sense, because he disappeared from Holland with 100,000 guilders! He next shows up in Belgium as the "Marquis de Monferrat. He set up another laboratory with "other people's money" before disappearing again. (Are we beginning to see a pattern here?)For a number of years, Saint-Germain's activities continued to be reported from various parts of Europe and, in 1768 he popped up in the court of Catherine the Great. Turkey had just declared war on Russia, and Saint-Germain promoted himself as a valuable diplomat because of his status as an "insider" in French politics. Pretty soon he was the adviser of Count Alexei Orlov, head of the Russian Imperial Forces. Orlov made him a high-ranking officer of the Russian Army and Saint-Germain acquired an English alias, "General Welldone."His successes in Russia could have enabled him to retire on his laurels, but he didn't. In 1774 he appeared in Nuremberg seeking money from the Margrave of Brandenburg, Charles Alexander. His ostensible alias at this point (apparently he was no longer satisfied with being either a Count or a Marquis) was Prince Rakoczy of Transylvania! Naturally, the Margrave of Brandenburg was impressed when Count Orlov visited Nuremburg on a state visit and embraced "the Prince" warmly. But later, when the Margrave did a little investigating, he discovered that the REAL Prince Rakoczy was indubitably dead and that this counterfeit Prince was, in fact, only Count Saint-Germain! Saint-Germain did not deny the charges, but apparently he felt that it was now time to move on. The Duc de Choiseul, Saint-Germain's old enemy, had claimed that the Count was in the employ of Frederick the Great. But, that was probably not true because, at this point, Saint-Germain wrote to Frederick begging for patronage. Frederick ignored him which is peculiar if he HAD been in the employ of Prussian king as de Choiseul thought. But, never to be discouraged as many con men who can never quite figure out when to quit, Saint-Germain went to Leipzig and presented himself to Prince Frederick Augustus of Brunswick as a Freemason of the fourth grade! Now, Frederick Augustus just happened to be the Grand Master of the Prussian Masonic Lodges, so this was REALLY a stupid move on the part of Saint-Germain since it turned out that he was NOT a Mason! But, it is true of the pattern of all con men... their egos eventually prove to be their downfall! The Prince challenged Saint-Germain because he did not know the secret signals and sent him away as a fraud.In 1779, Saint-Germain was an old man in his 60's who continued to claim to be vastly older. He must have learned to subdue his ego somewhat because, at Eckenforde in Schleswig, Germany, he was able to charm Prince Charles of Hesse-Cassel. At this point, part of his scam included being a mystic, for he is recorded as having told Prince Charles: "Be the torch of the world. If your light is that only of a planet, you will be as nothing in the sight of God. I reserve for you a splendour, of which the solar glory is a shadow. You shall guide the course of the stars, and those who rule Empires shall be guided by you."Sounds rather like the build-up to another con job! Nothing like feeding the ego of the "mark" before slipping away with all his money! On February 27, 1784, Saint-Germain died at Prince Charles' home on Eckenforde. He was buried locally and the Prince erected a stone that said: He who called himself the Comte de Saint-Germain and Welldone of whom there is no other information, has been buried in this church.And then, the Prince burned all of the Count's papers "lest they be misinterpreted." Supposedly there is evidence that the Count did NOT die, and many occultists claim he is still alive for these past two centuries! The mystery of Saint-Germain is mostly due to the uncertainty surrounding his origins. One source says that he was born in 1710 in San Germano, son of a tax collector. Eliphas Levi, the 19th century occultist said that Saint-Germain was born in Lentmeritz |
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