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What are the templar thoughts on St Germain?
Within the esoteric and Neo-Templar traditions, St. Germain is not merely an historical curiosity but an initiated adept carrying forward the hidden lineage of Templar and Rosicrucian gnosis. Manly P. Hall identified him as a master of the Western initiatic chain, linking the suppressed Templar flame to the later Rosicrucian and Masonic revival. Helena Blavatsky went further, classifying him as a 'fifth-rounder' — an evolutionary grade far beyond ordinary humanity — and an operative adept who helped precipitate the French Revolution as a deliberate geopolitical act of initiation.
Evidence
- The Templar connection to St. Germain operates on two tracks: exoteric and esoteric.
- Esoterically, Blavatsky's Collected Writings link St. Germain and Cagliostro as the last operative mages in Europe before the adepts withdrew from public contact — a withdrawal she attributes directly to the persecution and vilification these two suffered.
- The Most Holy Trinosophia — a manuscript attributed to St. Germain and dated to the late 18th century — contains initiatic symbolism drawn from alchemical, Kabbalistic, and what researchers like Manly P. Hall identified as Templar-adjacent ritual frameworks.
- Albert Pike and later Manly P. Hall traced this lineage through the Rosicrucian manifestos, with Christian Rosenkreuz serving as an earlier avatar of the same initiatic current St. Germain embodied.
- She credits St. Germain with predicting the French Revolution 'in every detail' and attributes to him an active role in precipitating it, though she acknowledges this rests partly on period memoirs.