Fulcanelli

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Fulcanelli (exact life dates unknown) is the pseudonym of a French author of alchemical writings in the 1920s.

Life

The identity of Fulcanelli is shrouded in legend and not reliable clarified. The information in his books indicates that he was a physical chemist and laboratory metallurgist who had to give up all of his academic knowledge in order to work in the world of alchemy. Most of the information goes back to Eugène Canseliet (1899-1982), who met Fulcanelli in 1915 in Marseille as a bookbinder named Ch. Violette, who was his only real student and claims to have received his written estate from him before Fulcanelli disappeared in 1926. Jean Laplace, a student of Canseliet, reports in La Tourbe des Philosophes about an application of the Philosopher's Stone by Fulcanelli. Fulcanelli was born in 1839, according to Canseliet. His date of death is sometimes set after 1953 because Canseliet claims to have met Fulcanelli again near Seville that year, when he would have been 114 years old.

Fulcanelli has been exposed as a fiction of Canseliet, but also with numerous other people of the time such as Jean Julien Champagne (1877–1932), the illustrator of his writings, who occasionally posed as Fulcanelli, or with scientists such as the physicist Jules Violle (1841– 1923) or the astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842–1925). According to a more recent theory, Fulcanelli is said to have been the civil engineer, chemist and industrialist Hilaire de Chardonnet , who was also born in 1839, whose professional career corresponds to Canseliet's information and who died around the time that Fulcanelli disappeared, according to Canseliet. A connection between Chardonnet and the people around Fulcanelli (Canseliet, Champagne etc.) is not yet known.

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Fulcanelli's fame as one of the most learned and original authors in the field of (neo) alchemical esoteric literature is based on two works that he is said to have given Canseliet for publication before his disappearance in 1926: Le Mystère des Cathédrales (from 1922 ?, by Canseliet 1926 published, German: Mysterium der Kathedralen , at Edition Oriflamme, Basel, 2004) and Les Demeures Philosophales (published by Canseliet 1930, German: Wohnstätten der Adepten , at Edition Oriflamme, Basel, 2008). In it he interprets sacred buildings of the Gothic and, in his second script, profane buildings of the Renaissance with kabbalistic methods in the broadest sense as manifestations of a secret language, also referred to by him as the "language of birds", which is also expressed in architecture and visual arts linguistically based and then primarily to be inferred using phonetic similarities between words and equivocal word meanings.

Fulcanelli is also said to have left a collection of records to Canseliet under the title Finis Gloriae Mundi , but they were not intended for publication but for destruction. An overview of related documents from the Canseliet estate was published anonymously by Jean Laplace in 1988 in the revue La tourbe des philosophes . An allegedly authentic work of this title that is now intended for publication has recently been e-mailed to the Adept Jacques d'Arès with a cover letter from Fulcanelli and was then published by Jean Marc Savary with a foreword by Jacques d'Arès in 1999 in London .

Fonts

  • Le Mystère des cathédrales et l'interprétation ésotérique des 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
  • Les Demeures Philosophales et le Symbolisme hermétique dans les rapports avec l'art sacré et l'ésotérisme du Grand-oeuvre. Préface de Eugène Canseliet. FCH Imprimerie P. Daupeley-Governor, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Jean Schemit, Paris, (Nov. 22) 1930; German: Dwellings of the Adepts (translated by Martin P. Steiner) Edition Oriflamme, Basel 2008, ISBN 3-9520787-7-8
  • Aperçu vitriolique (anonymous article by Jean Laplace on Finis Gloriae Mundi ). In: La Tourbe des Philosophes. Volume 31, 1988
  • Finis gloriae mundi. Préface de Jacques d'Arès. Liber Mirabilis, London 1999
  • The mystery of the cathedrals and the esoteric interpretation of the hermetic symbols of the Great Work , Edition Oriflamme, Basel, 2004,
  • Dwellings of the adepts - the hermetic symbolism in the concrete reality of the sacred art of the great work , Edition Oriflamme, Basel, 2008

literature

  • Bernard Allieu, Bernard Lonzième: Index général de l'oeuvre de Fulcanelli: répertoriant approximately 30,000 groupes de vocables avec un lexique des termes grecs, une bibliographie et les tables de correspondance pour toutes les éditions. Self-published, LeMesnil-Saint-Denis 1992
  • Axel Brücker: Fulcanelli et le mystère de la croix d'Hendaye. Imprimerie Séguier, Biarritz 2005, ISBN 2-84049-421-3
  • Frédéric Courjeaud: Fulcanelli, une identité révélée. C. Vigne, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84193-050-5
  • Geneviève Dubois: Fulcanelli dévoilé . Ed. Dervy, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85076-513-9
  • Kenneth Rayner Johnson: The Fulcanelli phenomenon: the story of a Twentieth-Century alchemist in the light of a new examination of the hermetic tradition. Neville Spearman, Jersey 1980, ISBN 0-85978-051-1
  • Richard Khaitzine: Fulcanelli et le cabaret du Chat noir: histoire artistique, politique et secrète de Montmartre. Ed. Ramuel, Villeselve 1997, ISBN 2-910401-72-3
  • Jean Laplace: Le poêle alchimique de Winterthur et le feu des sages: étude analogique du symbolisme hermétique par la pratique philosophale selon l'enseignement de Fulcanelli et d'Eugène Canseliet. Savary, Carcassonne 1992, ISBN 2-909704-00-9
  • Luis Miguel Martínez Otero: Apuntes para una biografía imposible de Fulcanelli , Obelisco, Barcelona 1986; French Fulcanelli: une biography impossible. Editions Arista, Plazac, 1989, ISBN 2-904616-30-6
  • Patrick Rivière: Fulcanelli: sa véritable identité enfin révélée, la lumière sur son oeuvre. De Vecchi, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7328-3313-4
  • Jay Weidner: A monument to the end of time: the cross at Hendaye: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross. 2nd ed. Aethyrea Books, Mount Gilead (NC) 2000
  • Johan Dreue: "En Héliopolis: Portrait d'un alchimiste du XXème siècle." Le Lys rouge, 2015, ISBN 979-1-09-459200-7
  • Johan Dreue Fulcanelli, l'Alchimiste de la République Le lys Rouge, 260 pages, 2016, ISBN 979-1-09-459201-4

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Based on a tradition developed especially in the mystical and esoteric literature of Islam, which there is linked to Sura 27 , 16 of the Koran .
  2. ↑ Le Mystère des Cathédrales , chap. III; see. Les Demeures Philosophales , chap. VI
personal data
SURNAME Fulcanelli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French alchemist and esoteric writer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century