Le Mystere des Cathedrales: Esoteric Interpretation of the Hermetic Symbols of the Great Work.

Le Mystere des Cathedrales: Esoteric Interpretation of the Hermetic Symbols of the Great Work

FULCANELLI

Neville Spearman

In 1926 the fabled alchemist Fulcanelli left his remarkable manuscript concerning the Hermetic Study of Gothic Cathedral Construction with a student. He than disappeared. The book decodes the symbology found upon and within the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe which have openly displayed the secrets of alchemy for 700 years.

Fulcanelli: Master Alchemist: Le Mystere des Cathedrales, Esoteric Intrepretation of the Hermetic Symbols of The Great Work- English version

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Brotherhood of Life

Black softcover, 550 + 4 pages, footnotes, 3 appendixes, 43 b/w illustrations with captions. *** Topics include: History and monuments of alchemy. Medieval alchemy. Alchemical laboratory. Hermetic cabala. Spagyrics. Salamander of Lisieux. Alchemical myth of Adam and Eve. Louis d'Estissac. Spells and wonders of castle of Dampierre. More. *** Originally published 1929. This edition 1999 (based on 1965 edition). First English language and first American edition stated. *** Complete Title: Les Demeures Philosophales, et le symbolisme hermetique dans ses rapports avec l'art sacre et l'esoterisme du grand-oeuvre, with thirty-nine illustrations by Julien Champagne. Translated by Brigitte Donvez and Lionel Perrin.

Fulcanelli Master Alchemist - The Dwellings of the Philosophers

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Archive Pr & Communications

The Dwellings of the Philosophers is perhaps the most important alchemical work of the past two centuries. This first translation into English brings us a wealth of alchemical philosophy that has hitherto been unavailable. Fulcanelli's sentinel masterpiece takes the attentive reader through the alchemical labyrinth, decoding the monuments and architectural decoration built by those who have actively engaged in the Great Work. Fulcanelli instructs us by showing that history must be interpreted by the monuments that have been left and not by the historians who construct a worldview exclusively through documents, which method gives us an often jaded and unrepresentative view of what transpired. 
Not only does Fulcanelli decode and interpret the various alchemical symbols of the houses of the alchemist and philosophers, he goes to great lengths to lay bare and explicate the alchemical worldview of past centuries. Fulcanelli presents us with the deep mysteries of the Great Work.

The Dwellings of the Philosophers

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

This is the second and last book written by the mysterious Fulcanelli, published in 1929 in France, as two volumes in a short-run edition. This translation follows faithfully that edition. It is believed that Fulcanelli was able to discover the philosopher’s stone shortly before 1930, and it is thought that this discovery had much to do with his disappearance. Although many speculate that Fulcanelli may have been the artist Julien Champagne, or Eugene Canseliet (who wrote several introductions to Dwellings of the Philosophers), no one knows for sure who Fulcanelli was. Dwellings of the Philosophers is a fundamental work for alchemy scholars. It is a general treatise on alchemy, enriched by many explanations and comments on the main traditional authors texts. Also, analyzing the hermetic symbolism applied to civil constructions, Fulcanelli sheds light on many alchemical riddles. This book analyses in depth the architectural elements and motifs of different buildings, from a modest house built in the 16th century in Lisieux (a small Norman town), the Dampierre Castle, the Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, and several other chosen examples. Fulcanelli clearly explains, at the beginning of his work (in History and Monument), that carvings and statues offer a truer message than the always distorted written accounts. He said: “It will therefore be explained why we prefer to see the Middle Ages, as the Gothic buildings reveal to us, rather than believing the description of historians”. Likewise, Fulcanelli offers much information about the operations and procedures of the alchemical work, analyzing and unveiling the allegories used by many writers of hermetic art to veil the knowledge from those who are not deserving of it.

Dwellings of the Philosophers

Occult & Paranormal

Daniel Bernardo

"Cien años de soledad", de García Márquez, es, entre otras cosas, una alegoría alquímica. Uno de los personajes de "Abadón el exterminador", de Ernesto Sábato, pregunta a otro: "¿no has leído a Fulcanelli? Pues tienes que hacerlo". Y considerando que tal vez estuviera hablando por boca de ganso en nombre de una autoridad textual más elevada, me lancé yo mismo a la lectura de ese misterioso escritor, personaje o entidad, autor de obras publicadas tan espaciadamente que no pueden ser abarcadas por la vida de una persona y cuya identidad real ha sido atribuida a diversos personajes relevantes del siglo XIX. La primera de las cuales que cayó en mis manos, "El misterio de las catedrales", va indagando y poniendo de manifiesto el modo particular en que Occidente asimiló el corpus de saber arcaico que constituye el fundamento del pensamiento constructor de todas las sociedades humanas, forjadas a lo largo del espacio y de la historia, acumulado en edades primitivas. Todo ello plasmado en esas fabulosas biblias de piedra. Fulcanelli, como todo buen ocultista, no revela todo en cada una de las partes de la estructura cambiante y movible de sus trabajos, pero lo que vela en una, lo desvela en otra, continuando así en una suerte de espectáculo de sombras chinescas, hecho de luz y oscuridad alternadas, debiendo el lector recolectar con paciencia y discernimiento, aquí y allá, la brizna de hierba destinada a esclarecer su mente, reveladora de una entera cosmogonía, dejando de lado el montón de heno cuya única vocación es la de pudrirse.

El misterio de las catedrales (Spanish Edition)

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Tanto « El misterio de las catedrales » (1926), como « Las moradas filosofales » (1930), pretenden leer el lenguaje simbólico plasmado en diversos monumentos con vocación de eternidad, entre los cuales cabe mencionar la catedral de Nôtre-Dame de Paris, la de Amiens y el Hotel Lallemant de Bourges. La tesis que se desprende de ambas obras es que tales monumentos no son sino libros (biblia, en griego) de alquimia, que trazan la vía (o más bien vías, porque hay dos, la seca y la húmeda) hacia la consecución de la Gran Obra. La cual parece apuntar hacia la transmutación de la materia, basándose en el supuesto de que todos los elementos se reducen, en última instancia, a uno solo, si bien implica, sobre todo, transformación del operario. Fulcanelli es, manifiestamente, un pseudónimo, tras el cual, hoy por hoy, se oculta el más espeso misterio. Eugène Canseliet se declara su discípulo y afirma haber asistido a una transmutación operada por su maestro en 1922, a Sarcelles. Se han lanzado varias hipótesis respecto a la verdadera identidad de Fulcanelli. Se ha dicho que no era preciso ir muy lejos para encontrarla, pues se trataba del propio Canseliet, o también que, tras el anonimato de esa etiqueta, se refugiaban científicos, con un prestigio oficial que preservar, como el astrónomo Camille Flammarion, Claude Sosthène Grasset d´Orcet, criptógrafo, el físico Jules Violle, académico, o el escritor Rosny-Aîné. Se ha llegado incluso a afirmar que Fulcanelli es nada menos que el Conde de Saint-Germain en persona, a quien se le atribuye la inmortalidad. Otros, en cambio, sostienen que fue Pierre de Lesseps, hijo del constructor del canal de Suez.

Las moradas filosofales (Esoterismo) (Spanish Edition)

2012 Reprint of 1930 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fulcanelli is almost certainly a pseudonym assumed during the early 20th century, by a French alchemist and esoteric author whose identity is still debated. Fulcanelli was undoubtedly a Frenchman, educated profoundly, and learned in the ways of alchemical lore, architecture, art, science, and languages. Fulcanelli wrote two books that were published after his disappearance during 1926, having left his magnum opus with his only student, Eugène Canseliet. These two works-- "Le Mystere des Cathedrals," and "Les Demeures philosophales" -propose to decipher the symbols and alchemy represented in such French monuments as Notre-Dame, Amiens Cathedrals and others.

Les Demeures Philosophales

Martino Fine Books

Description de l'ouvrage 
Sous le nom de Fulcanelli parurent Le Mystère des cathédrales en 1926. Cet ouvrage se propose de décrypter la symbolique alchimique de plusieurs monuments, comme la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, la cathédrale d’Amiens, l’Hôtel Lallemant de Bourges, l’Obélisque de Villeneuve-le-Comte... 
Le Mystère des Cathédrales et l’interprétation ésotérique des symboles hermétiques du Grand-Œuvre. Préface de E. Canseliet, F. C. H. Ouvrage illustré de 36 planches d’après les dessins de Julien Champagne, suivi de La croix cyclique d’Hendaye et de 3 planches d’après les dessins de Julien Champagne. 
Le Mystère des cathédrales a pris, avec Les Demeures philosophales qui le suivront, une importance majeure dans l’histoire de l’alchimie. Il pose un autre regard sur l’art gothique français, en s’intéressant à l’interprétation de la symbolique assurément laissée par les alchimistes dans la pierre. 
Note de l'éditeur pour la version imprimée : Afin d'être plus agréable lors de la lecture, cet ouvrage est en format Beau Livre. Toutes nos publications font l'objet d'un travail soigné tant au niveau typographique qu'au niveau du design. 
Note de l'éditeur pour la version Kindle : Nos publications Kindle sont soigneusement conçues, avec une table des matières, un index, des notes de bas de page et références, là où cela est applicable. Un accent a été mis sur la typographie ainsi que le design. 
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Le Mystère des cathédrales et l’interprétation ésotérique des symboles hermétiques du Grand-Œuvre: ouvrage illustré des planches de Julien Champagne ... La croix cyclique d’Hendaye (French Edition)

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This edition of The Mystery of the Cathedrals offers an English translation of the original 1926 edition of Le Mystère des Cathédrales, retaining the original drawings from that edition. In 1957, long after Fulcanelli's disappearance, a second edition of Le Mystère des Cathédrales was published in France, with important changes. Most of the drawings were replaced by photographs. The 2nd edition also added a new preface and a new chapter, "The Cyclic Cross of Hendaye", with more images. Eugène Canseliet, a disciple of Fulcanelli and in charge of his manuscripts, wrote the preface to the 2nd edition and to many other editions of Fulcanelli's works, but he never explained why the original drawings were replaced by photographs. Most of the photographs in the 2nd edition are similar to the original drawings, although they are not the same, and in three different images the differences are noticeable. The current English edition of Le Mystère des Cathédrales, translated by Mary Sworder, is based on the second edition of 1957, and shows photographs instead the original drawings. This new translation faithfully preserves the drawings of Julien Champagne and the original numbering of the images, from 1 to 35. The text of the original edition was also translated anew, without introducing any of the changes found in most recent editions. The first edition of Le Mystère des Cathédrales fills an important place in the history of Alchemy. Newer editions added more material, but they couldn't replace the first one. Eugène Canseliet, said, in the preface for the 1926 edition: "the key to the major arcane is given, without any fiction, by one of the figures that adorn this work". Photographs and drawings are not the same and serve different purposes; photographs only show the same things that the naked eye can perceive, but drawings offer the illustrator a way to accentuate different aspects of the images, and thus add more symbolic depth to the scenes depicted. There are also many small details that differ between the drawings and the photographs, but we will say no more, it is up to the reader to extract the symbolic meanings of the original drawings, aided by the masterful exposition of Fulcanelli, which is shown in this translation as originally presented in its first edition, including the dedication to the brothers of Heliopolis and the strange coat of arms at the end of the text.

The Mystery of the Cathedrals

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