PhoenixToEmber
Jedi Council Member
A few years ago now I read The Mystery of the Cathedrals, which was no easy feat. And last month I finally bought a hardcover copy of The Dwellings of the Philosophers (it wasn't cheap, considering the English translation is out of print); I finally started reading it last week. In doing so, I've returned to doing some general research about Fulcanelli - my interest in him and alchemy is actually what led me to Laura's research back in 2012.
Anyway, through my online digging I found an interview with Eugène Canseliet from 1978, which was posted on YouTube a few months ago, translated into English. I stumbled upon this interview before, years ago, but it was only in French with no subtitles so I couldn't understand it, so I was happy to find it translated.
Not sure how many have listened to it before, but I figured it was worth sharing here for those who haven't. It's fascinating. It also shows that Canseliet was a very humble man.
Toward the end he talks about how the true Adepts who attain the Stone live on another plane of existence (in the beginning he said the "fourth dimension"). The interviewer asks if it's "close to us" and he says yes, and then they use planets as an analogy. Then, which I found really interesting, Canseliet mentions UFOs (at around 51 minutes): "The famous so-called UFOs. But ultimately it is disturbed waves that cause them," he says. The interviewer asks him if he believes in them and flying saucers, and he says "no", that "they are bright nodes. It is the wave-shocks that cause this. I know this well, because similarly as the moon eclipse, for example, which becomes visible in the surface of the dissolution where also such flashes are present, I'm sure if you look at the sky at the same time that appears such kind of corrugation in the crucible..."
I wonder if perhaps he had not made the connection between such phenomenon and the so-called "Elementals" of alchemical lore? Meaning that other beings besides us inhabit the "spirit realm" and that they're not all nice. He was wise, certainly, but he might not have delved deep enough to see the hyperdimensional control system around us, maybe because he became so immersed in performing manipulations in the laboratory and focusing so much on the microcosm that he neglected the macrocosmos, as well as the aspect of the Work that is internal rather than reflected in the lab. He does admit he never achieved the Stone, and says he doesn't consider himself an Adept (or enlightened) because he never did, though he also claims to have performed advanced alchemical operations, including producing a small amount of gold, which have taught him important lessons.
Anyway, through my online digging I found an interview with Eugène Canseliet from 1978, which was posted on YouTube a few months ago, translated into English. I stumbled upon this interview before, years ago, but it was only in French with no subtitles so I couldn't understand it, so I was happy to find it translated.
Not sure how many have listened to it before, but I figured it was worth sharing here for those who haven't. It's fascinating. It also shows that Canseliet was a very humble man.
Toward the end he talks about how the true Adepts who attain the Stone live on another plane of existence (in the beginning he said the "fourth dimension"). The interviewer asks if it's "close to us" and he says yes, and then they use planets as an analogy. Then, which I found really interesting, Canseliet mentions UFOs (at around 51 minutes): "The famous so-called UFOs. But ultimately it is disturbed waves that cause them," he says. The interviewer asks him if he believes in them and flying saucers, and he says "no", that "they are bright nodes. It is the wave-shocks that cause this. I know this well, because similarly as the moon eclipse, for example, which becomes visible in the surface of the dissolution where also such flashes are present, I'm sure if you look at the sky at the same time that appears such kind of corrugation in the crucible..."
I wonder if perhaps he had not made the connection between such phenomenon and the so-called "Elementals" of alchemical lore? Meaning that other beings besides us inhabit the "spirit realm" and that they're not all nice. He was wise, certainly, but he might not have delved deep enough to see the hyperdimensional control system around us, maybe because he became so immersed in performing manipulations in the laboratory and focusing so much on the microcosm that he neglected the macrocosmos, as well as the aspect of the Work that is internal rather than reflected in the lab. He does admit he never achieved the Stone, and says he doesn't consider himself an Adept (or enlightened) because he never did, though he also claims to have performed advanced alchemical operations, including producing a small amount of gold, which have taught him important lessons.
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The other one will be a surprise, I guess. So I cannot guarantee to the degree of perfection of their translation, as I know very little French, but still, it's something, for me at least, and boy did they warm my heart :)
