Saint-Germain
Friday, March 7th, 2008I've come to the conclusion that the Comte de Saint-Germain was/is a time traveler. As far-fetched as that sounds, it strikes me as the only reasonable (or at least the most interesting) answer.
It satisfies all the criteria of the Saint-Germain mythology:
- Disappears and reappears throughout history.
- Appears alive after his recorded date of death.
- Never appears to age.
- Has knowledge of the future.
- Appears to know everything.
1 and 4 are the most obvious. For 2: his relationship with time is nonlinear - his past can be our future. For 3: again, nonlinear time - 1707 and 1750 can be minutes apart to the traveler. For 5: a good con man can appear to know everything if he knows exactly which subjects will come up for discussion, and which questions will be asked. You might be able to discern those things by going to the "future" and reading up on yourself.
We might even be able to narrow down his time of origin - the most recent sighting of him that I could find (not counting that French nutjob who went on TV) is about 1930. Perhaps he limits himself to years before then for fear of encountering himself. Let's give some leeway and assume there are unreported encounters - arbitrarily, let's assign a cutoff date of 1950. Saint-Germain always appears as a man in his mid-40s; that means the "time base" he's traveling from is the 1990s. Give or take, of course - totally unfounded time travel theory isn't an exact science. Heck, he could be among us right now - he could even be reading this (hi!).
Yeah, this is what I think about on a Thursday night. Maybe I should get a life, or maybe I should just be a time traveler - I think I could run a heck of a racket as a money changer for other time travelers (you're in 1950 with bills printed in 1995? No problem - my rates are reasonable).
