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The Comte De Gabalis is a text for Rosicrucians and spiritual adepts. It is composed of five discourses given by a spiritual master to the student or aspirant. It was anonymously published in 1670 under the title Comte De Gabalis. The title's meaning is the Count of the Cabala as the text is cabalistic in nature. The "Holy Cabala" is mentioned explicitly throughout. The first English translation was rendered in 1680. Only in later publishings did the name Abbé N. de Montfaucon de Villars become attached to this work as being its author. In English editions published by The Brothers, an extensive commentary by Lotus Dudley was included.

C.H. Bjerregaard says,

To a reader who cannot or will not believe that the Comte de Gabalis was a real person, but merely a fiction...., the advice is that he leave the question open and attend to the teachings of the book.... All this has meaning to those only of the Inner Life... .....the man and the book...leave a subtle influence upon the mind and prepare it for a flight upwards.

The identity of the great master -- the Comte -- though hidden initially, has become known and is evident in the later publication by "The Brothers" -- which included a painting of him. At the beginning of the text is a painting by Rembrandt titled The Polish Rider. This painting can be viewed at the Frick Collection, New York City. However, those there who attend to this painting are not aware of who the 'Polish Rider' is.

Adepts and members of certain spiritual organizations confirm that it is Sir Francis Bacon — who also wrote the Shakespeare plays, employing the pen name "William Shakespeare" — earlier in his illustrious career. Therefore, Francis Bacon at a later date, and just prior to 1670, would have given five discourses under another another pen name 'Comte De Gabalis'. This personage, it is held, disappeared for a time before returning again -- in the Ascended State -- with a new name: Saint Germain -- 'Sanctus Germanus' which means "Germain to" or "Pertaining to the Saints". The Ascended Master Saint Germain is thoroughly presented in all the Books of the Saint Germain Foundation with lengthy information on His writing the Shakespeare Plays (see "I AM" Fundamentals, Series 1, Saint Germain Press). Saint Germain.

The book consists of five Discourses that center on the topic:

1. Nature of the Divine Principle in Man: The Student meets the Comte
2. Evolution of the Divine Principle in Man: The People of the Elements
3. Man's Place in Nature: The Oracles
4. Children of the Sun: Children of the Philosophers
5. The Life of the True Light is Radiation: Charity of the Philosophers

Lord Francis Bacon's (Shakespeare's) plays abound in elemental beings: Puck and Ariel. Alexander Pope was influenced by the Comte De Gabalis in his Rosicrucian poem The Rape of the Lock. Sylphs have been the favorites of the bards. The Mahabharata is full of stories about Beings of the Four Elements and their heroic offspring with their human partners. Similar themes and references are found in Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey in which the elemental beings as noted by the Comte appear as gods and goddesses such as the mighty Zeus, Hera, Aprodite, Athena, Apollo, and Achilles, son of a mortal man and the goddess Nymph Thetis. La Motte Fouqué wrote about a beautiful water-nymph in his novella Undine, and Sir Walter Scott endowed the White Lady of Avenel with many of the attributes of the Nymphs. See Lord Lytton's Zanoni, James Barrie's Tinker Bell; and the bowlers Rip Van Winkle encountered in the Catskill Mountains. The story of Melusina is based on the historical marriage of a gentleman and a water Nymph. Charles Mackay, father of Marie Corelli, wrote "Salamandrine", a poem about a great love between a man and a female Salamander.]

Text

• The text of the Comte De Gabalis at sacred.texts.com
• The text of the Comte De Gabalis at archive.org
• Comte De Gabalis, 1914 or 1922 English edition, The Brothers: Macoy & Masonic Supply Co.
• Comte De Gabalis, 1992 English edition, Kessinger Publishing ISBN 1-56459-201-4

References

1. Comte De Gabalis, 1914 or 1922 English edition, The Brothers: Macoy & Masonic Supply Co.
2. Theosophic journal The World xix 1914 pp 116–121
3. The Iliad by Robert Fagles, Penguin Classics, 1990

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