THE COUNT OF SAINT-GERMAIN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

On this matter, Blavatsky wrote an article where she began by saying:

« The Masters avoid meddling in politics, although they have influenced more than one occasion on momentous matters about the history of nations.

However, if any Adept has influenced the great revolutions that have occurred, in any case these have not been the Transhimalayan Masters, because they are not interested in a particular people, but in Humanity in general.

If any Adepts have influenced Washington or brought about the great American Revolution, it was not the “Tibetan Mahatmas” at any rate; for these have never shown much sympathy with the Pelings of whatever Western race, except as forming a part of Humanity in general.

Yet it is as certain, though this conviction is merely a personal one, that several Brothers of the Rosie Cross —or “Rosicrucians,” so called— did take a prominent part in the American struggle for independence, as much as in the French Revolution during the whole of the past century. We have documents to that effect, and the proofs of it are in our possession. But these Rosicrucians were Europeans and American settlers, who acted quite independently of the Indian or Tibetan Initiates.

Neither person acquainted even superficially with the rules of the Adepts would believe for one moment that any of the cruel, blood-thirsty heroes of the regicides and others of English and French history, could have ever been inspired by any Adept — let alone a Hindu or Buddhist Mahatma. But only by dark entities.

President Bradshaw — If such a cold, hard and impassive man can be suspected of having ever been influenced by any power outside of, and foreign to, his own soulless entity — must have been inspired by a lower being from the astral, or the “personal” god of Calvin and those Puritans who burnt to the greater glory of their deity — “ever ready for a bribe of blood to aid the foulest cause” alleged witches and heretics by hundreds of thousands.

Surely it is not the living Mahatmas but “the Biblical one living God,” he who, thousands of years ago, had inspired Jephthah to murder his daughter, and the weak David to hang the seven sons and grandsons of Saul “in the hill before the Lord”; and who again in our own age had moved Guiteau to shoot President Garfield that must have also inspired Danton and Robespierre, Marat and the Russian Nihilists to open eras of Terror and turn Churches into slaughter-houses. »

(CW VI, p.17-19)

Observation

Master Morya explained that just as they try to lift humanity towards more light and wisdom, there is also a counterpart of beings of darkness and black magicians who try to plunge humanity into chaos and darkness. And what he said about that was the following:

« In the universe all is contrast (I cannot translate it better) so the light of the Dhyan Chohans and their pure intelligence is contrasted by the dark Chohans and their destructive intelligence. But we cannot counteract the work of these Dark Chohans, just as we cannot counteract the black magicians who are on Earth, and whose bad results we try to alleviate, but in whose work we do not have the right to interfere as they do not cross our path. »

(CM 134, p.463)

ROLE OF THE COUNT OF SAINT-GERMAIN

And about the role played by the Count of Saint Germain, Blavatsky said the following:

« It is our firm conviction based on historical evidence and direct inferences from many of the Memoirs of those days that the French Revolution is due to one Adept. It is that mysterious personage, now conveniently classed with other “historical charlatans” (i. e. great men whose occult knowledge and powers shoot over the heads of the imbecile majority), namely, the Count de St. Germain — who brought about the just outbreak among the paupers, and put an end to the selfish tyranny of the French kings — the “elect, and the Lord’s anointed.” And we know also that among the Carbonari — the precursors and pioneers of Garibaldi there was more than one Freemason deeply versed in occult sciences and Rosicrucianism. »

(CW VI, p.19)

Observation

In a letter, Master Kuthumi wrote about the Count of Saint-Germain:

« It was a failure, a total failure! »

(ML 49, p.280)

And based on what Blavatsky said, I deduce that Master Kuthumi is probably referring to Saint-Germain's mission as a failure, because the Masters had expected him to avoid more violence and bloodshed than the one that accompanied the transition from feudal society dominated by an ancient monarchy, to the new society characterized by greater personal and political freedom.

THE PROPHECIES OF SAINT-GERMAIN

Blavatsky also mentioned that the Count of Saint-Germain wrote a manuscript where he prophesied what was going to happen, and where it seems that he got it completely right:

«The thorough metamorphosis of nearly the whole of the European map, beginning with the French Revolution of ’93, predicted in every detail by the Count de St.-Germain, in an autograph MS., now in possession of the descendants of the Russian nobleman to whom he gave it, and coming down to the Franco-Prussian War of the latter days. »

(CW I, p.107)