Fulcanelli

Fulcanelli (precise dates unknown ) is the pseudonym of a French author alleged alchemical writings in the 20s of the 20th century.

Life

The identity of Fulcanelli is shrouded in legend and not clarified reliable. The information in his books indicate that he was a physical chemist and lab metallurgist, who had to give up his entire academic knowledge to work in the mental world of alchemy can. Most of the records date back to Eugène Canseliet (1899-1982), the Fulcanelli 1915 in Marseille to know as a bookbinder named Ch Violette, have been his only real students and wants to have received from him his literary estate, before Fulcanelli disappeared in 1926. Jean Laplace, a student of Canseliet, reported in La Tourbe des Philosophes on an application of the Philosopher's Stone by Fulcanelli. Fulcanelli was born according Canseliet 1839. His date of death is recognized sometimes after 1953, because Canseliet Fulcanelli want to have near Sevilla hit this year, in which he would have been 114 years old, therefore, once again.

It has Fulcanelli revealed as a fiction Canseliet, but also with many other people of the time such as Jean Julien Champagne (1877-1932), the illustrator of his writings, which occasionally posed as Fulcanelli, or with scientists such as the physicist Jules Violle (1841 - want to identify 1923) or the astronomer Camille Flammarion ( 1842-1925 ). According to a recent theory, it is said to have acted in Fulcanelli to the civil engineer, chemist and industrialist Hilaire de Chardonnet, who was also born in 1839, matches in his professional career with information Canseliet and about died at that time, as Fulcanelli disappeared loud Canseliet. However, a connection between Chardonnet and the people around Fulcanelli ( Canseliet, Champagne, etc.) is not yet known.

Work

Fulcanelli's fame as one of the most learned and most original authors of alchemical in the field (neo - ) esoteric literature is based on two works which he is said to have passed in 1926 Canseliet for publication before his disappearance: Le Mystère of Cathédrales ( from 1922, by Canseliet 1926 edited, German: issued mystery of the cathedrals in Edition Oriflamme, Basel, 2004) and Les Demeures Philosophales (of Canseliet 1930 German: abodes of adepts at Edition Oriflamme, Basel, 2008). He interprets it sacred buildings of the Gothic and, in its second Scripture secular buildings of the Renaissance in the broadest sense Kabbalistic methods as manifestations of a secret language of him as the " language of the birds " means that even in its manifestations in architecture and fine arts linguistically based, and then mainly by using phonetic similarities between words and equivocal word meanings is to open up.

Fulcanelli is Canseliet also left a collection of recordings under the title Finis Mundi Gloriae, but you can not have intended for publication, but for destruction. An overview of this related documents from the estate Canseliet founded in 1988 by Jean Laplace anonymously in the revue La tourbe the philosophes published. A supposedly authentic and particular now works for publication of this title will have received in recent times, the Adept Jacques d' Ares with a covering letter by e -mail and Fulcanelli was then published by Jean Marc Savary with a preface by Jacques d' Ares in London in 1999.

Writings

• Le Mystère et l' interprétation of cathédrales ésotérique of symboles hermétiques du Grand- Oeuvre. Préface de E. Canseliet. FCH Imprimerie P. Daupeley Governor, Nogent -le- Rotrou; Jean schemit, Paris, ( Sept. 25 ) 1930; German: Mystery of the Cathedrals. (Translated by Martin P. Steiner) Edition Oriflamme, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-9520787-2-7
• Demeures Philosophales et le dans les rapports avec Symbolisme hermétique l'art et l' ésotérisme sacre du Grand- oeuvre. Préface Eugène de Canseliet. F.C.H. Imprimerie P. Daupeley Governor, Nogent -le- Rotrou, Jean schemit, Paris, ( November 22 ) 1930; German: abodes of the adepts (Translated by Martin P. Steiner) Edition Oriflamme, Basel 2008, ISBN 3-9520787-7-8
• Aperçu vitriolique ( Anonymous Article by Jean Laplace to Finis Mundi Gloriae ). In: La Tourbe des Philosophes. Volume 31, 1988
• Finis gloriae mundi. Préface de Jacques d' Ares. Liber Mirabilis, London 1999