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.
Preface to Mystery of the Cathedrals
For a disciple it is an ungrateful and difficult task to introduce a work written by his own Master. It is, therefore, not my intention to analyse here Le Mystere des Cathedrales, nor to underline its high tone and its profound teaching. I most humbly acknowledge my incapacity and prefer to give the reader the task of evaluating it and the Brothers of Heliopolis the pleasure of receiving this synthesis made so superbly by one themselves. Time and truth will do the rest.
For a long time now the author of this book has not been among us. The man has disappeared and I cannot without sorrow recall the image of this industrious and wise Master, to whom I owe all while lamenting that he should so soon have departed. His numerous friends, those unknown brothers who hoped to obtain from him the solution to the mysterious Verbum dimissium (missing Word), will join me in lamenting his loss.
Having reached the pinnacle of knowledge, could he refuse to obey the demands of Destiny? No man is a prophet in his own country. Perhaps the old saying gives the occult reason for the convulsion produced in the solitary and studious life of the philosopher by the flash of Revelation. Under the influence of that divine flame, the former man is entirely consumed. Name, family, native land, and all the illusions, all the errors, all the vanities fall to dust. And, like the phoenix of the poets, a new personality is reborn from the ashes. That, at least, is how the philosophic Tradition would have it.
My Master knew this. He disappeared when the fatal hour struck, when the Sign was accomplished. Who, then, would dare to set himself above the Law? As for me, in spite of the anguish of a painful but inevitable separation, I would act no differently myself if I were to experience today that joyful event, which forces the Adept to flee from the homage of the world.
Fulcanelli is no more. But we have at least this consolation, that his thought remains, warm and vital, enshrined forever in these pages.
Thanks to him, the Gothic cathedral has yielded up its secret. And it is not without surprise and emotion that we learn how our ancestors fashioned the first stone of its foundations, that dazzling gem, more precious than gold itself, on which Jesus built his Church. All Truth, all Philosophy and all Religion rest on this unique and sacred Stone. Many people, inflated with presumption, believe themselves capable of fashioning it; yet how rare are the elect, those who are sufficiently simple, learned and skilful to the complete the task!
But that is of little importance. It is enough for us to know that the wonders of the Middle Ages hold the same positive truth, the same scientific basis as the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Greece, the Roman catacombs and the Byzantine basilicas.
This is the overall theme of Fulcanelli’s book.
O Mistério das Catedrais
As construções das catedrais góticas marcaram a hegemonia do Catolicismo nos países europeus na Idade Média, porém, por ser um período em que o Ocultismo era latente, os sinais herméticos ficaram registrados por toda sua estrutura arquitetônica, desde as altas colunas até os arcos e altares. Em O Mistério das Catedrais, Fulcanelli interpreta toda a simbologia enigmática que envolve esses verdadeiros templos de adoração por meio da Alquimia, contribuindo para que o leitor entenda toda a ambivalência que circunda essas grandiosas catedrais, pois, de acordo com o autor, “pode-se discernir ali, além da inspiração intensa nascida de uma fé inabalável, as mil preocupações da grande alma popular, a afirmação de sua consciência, de sua vontade própria, a imagem de seu pensamento naquilo que ele tem de complexo, de essencial, de soberano”. Conheça a Alquimia e desvende os símbolos de um outro mundo no mundo das catedrais.
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Preface to Mystery of the Cathedrals
For a disciple it is an ungrateful and difficult task to introduce a work written by his own Master. It is, therefore, not my intention to analyse here Le Mystere des Cathedrales, nor to underline its high tone and its profound teaching. I most humbly acknowledge my incapacity and prefer to give the reader the task of evaluating it and the Brothers of Heliopolis the pleasure of receiving this synthesis made so superbly by one themselves. Time and truth will do the rest.
For a long time now the author of this book has not been among us. The man has disappeared and I cannot without sorrow recall the image of this industrious and wise Master, to whom I owe all while lamenting that he should so soon have departed. His numerous friends, those unknown brothers who hoped to obtain from him the solution to the mysterious Verbum dimissium (missing Word), will join me in lamenting his loss.
Having reached the pinnacle of knowledge, could he refuse to obey the demands of Destiny? No man is a prophet in his own country. Perhaps the old saying gives the occult reason for the convulsion produced in the solitary and studious life of the philosopher by the flash of Revelation. Under the influence of that divine flame, the former man is entirely consumed. Name, family, native land, and all the illusions, all the errors, all the vanities fall to dust. And, like the phoenix of the poets, a new personality is reborn from the ashes. That, at least, is how the philosophic Tradition would have it.
My Master knew this. He disappeared when the fatal hour struck, when the Sign was accomplished. Who, then, would dare to set himself above the Law? As for me, in spite of the anguish of a painful but inevitable separation, I would act no differently myself if I were to experience today that joyful event, which forces the Adept to flee from the homage of the world.
Fulcanelli is no more. But we have at least this consolation, that his thought remains, warm and vital, enshrined forever in these pages.
Thanks to him, the Gothic cathedral has yielded up its secret. And it is not without surprise and emotion that we learn how our ancestors fashioned the first stone of its foundations, that dazzling gem, more precious than gold itself, on which Jesus built his Church. All Truth, all Philosophy and all Religion rest on this unique and sacred Stone. Many people, inflated with presumption, believe themselves capable of fashioning it; yet how rare are the elect, those who are sufficiently simple, learned and skilful to the complete the task!
But that is of little importance. It is enough for us to know that the wonders of the Middle Ages hold the same positive truth, the same scientific basis as the pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Greece, the Roman catacombs and the Byzantine basilicas.
This is the overall theme of Fulcanelli’s book.
O Mistério das Catedrais
As construções das catedrais góticas marcaram a hegemonia do Catolicismo nos países europeus na Idade Média, porém, por ser um período em que o Ocultismo era latente, os sinais herméticos ficaram registrados por toda sua estrutura arquitetônica, desde as altas colunas até os arcos e altares. Em O Mistério das Catedrais, Fulcanelli interpreta toda a simbologia enigmática que envolve esses verdadeiros templos de adoração por meio da Alquimia, contribuindo para que o leitor entenda toda a ambivalência que circunda essas grandiosas catedrais, pois, de acordo com o autor, “pode-se discernir ali, além da inspiração intensa nascida de uma fé inabalável, as mil preocupações da grande alma popular, a afirmação de sua consciência, de sua vontade própria, a imagem de seu pensamento naquilo que ele tem de complexo, de essencial, de soberano”. Conheça a Alquimia e desvende os símbolos de um outro mundo no mundo das catedrais.
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