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Mutus Liber - Alchemy and its Mute Book: Introduction and comments by Eugène Canseliet F.C.H., disciple of Fulcanelli
In 2010 Inner Garden published Br. Magaphon’s commentary on the Mutus Liber – the Book Without Words. This year we offer a commentary on the Mutus Liber from a close successor in the art: Eugène Canseliet. Canseliet had a most pivotal role in the transmission of the alchemical tradition in Europe in the 20th century. Canseliet may perhaps only brush upon the innermost secrets of the book but still this book still offers a most formidable insight into the Visual Language of the Alchemists of old.
- GenresAlchemy
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 27, 2015
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About the author
Eugène Canseliet
26 books4 followersFrere Chevalier D'heliopolis (F.C.H.); French writer and alchemist, he was a student of the mysterious alchemist known as Fulcanelli. He wrote the preface for each of his master's books (Le mystère des cathédrales and Les demeures philosophales). Later in his life, after his master departed from this world, he took a quiet life in France and continued to study and practice what Fulcanelli taught him, even taking on students.
Though Canseliet took on students and chose to pass on much of the alchemical knowledge imparted to him by the adept granted to the 20th century, Fulcanelli, Canseliet chose universities and less esoteric intellectual circles than his master, and simply passed on knowledge relating to the Opus Minor choosing to keep the discretion so customary of the great Hermetic Initiates, the “Unknown Brothers of the mysterious City of the Sun,” as Fulcanelli would have called them.
Canseliet met with the late Frater Albertus, a German-American alchemist who practised in Salt Lake City, Utah. According to Albertus, it was Canseliet who taught him the principle secret needed to perform the Magnum Opus. Canseliet believed by way of Fulcanelli’s teaching, that the only true method was the Dry Way, particularly the Star Regulus of Antimony, the path that Fulcanelli himself likely used. Some believe that Eugene Canseliet was actually Fulcanelli, but this is unlikely considering Canseliet’s exceedingly young age at the time of the publishing of Mystery of the Cathedrals and Dwellings of the Philosophers. This is further expounded by the vast historical, chemical, hermetic, and architectural knowledge possessed by the Initiate, Fulcanelli. Patrick Rivière wrote a book purportedly revealing the true identity of Fulcanelli to be a well-to-do Parisian physicist who was good friends with Pierre Curie. Canseliet supported this claim of acquaintance, saying that Fulcanelli had many well-to-do aristocratic colleagues and acquaintances.
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Though Canseliet took on students and chose to pass on much of the alchemical knowledge imparted to him by the adept granted to the 20th century, Fulcanelli, Canseliet chose universities and less esoteric intellectual circles than his master, and simply passed on knowledge relating to the Opus Minor choosing to keep the discretion so customary of the great Hermetic Initiates, the “Unknown Brothers of the mysterious City of the Sun,” as Fulcanelli would have called them.
Canseliet met with the late Frater Albertus, a German-American alchemist who practised in Salt Lake City, Utah. According to Albertus, it was Canseliet who taught him the principle secret needed to perform the Magnum Opus. Canseliet believed by way of Fulcanelli’s teaching, that the only true method was the Dry Way, particularly the Star Regulus of Antimony, the path that Fulcanelli himself likely used. Some believe that Eugene Canseliet was actually Fulcanelli, but this is unlikely considering Canseliet’s exceedingly young age at the time of the publishing of Mystery of the Cathedrals and Dwellings of the Philosophers. This is further expounded by the vast historical, chemical, hermetic, and architectural knowledge possessed by the Initiate, Fulcanelli. Patrick Rivière wrote a book purportedly revealing the true identity of Fulcanelli to be a well-to-do Parisian physicist who was good friends with Pierre Curie. Canseliet supported this claim of acquaintance, saying that Fulcanelli had many well-to-do aristocratic colleagues and acquaintances.
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November 28, 2019
The power of images
In the spirit of "images are digested faster than words" I approached this book to see how an earlier age used images to nest ideas, to transmit information, to use art to communicate many concepts simultaneously, and in revisiting sequences, and parsing differences, training the eye to notice variance to get understanding. It has been helpful to reflect on the process.
In the spirit of "images are digested faster than words" I approached this book to see how an earlier age used images to nest ideas, to transmit information, to use art to communicate many concepts simultaneously, and in revisiting sequences, and parsing differences, training the eye to notice variance to get understanding. It has been helpful to reflect on the process.
June 29, 2023
Worth it!
This is an excellent book on alchemy, and I had a wonderful review already written that was completely deleted and I don't understand why.
There are two things wrong with this book.
The first thing is that even though the author constantly talks about the colors, the book is in black and white.
That doesn't make any sense
Number two the pictures that the author is referencing throughout the book or only at the beginning of the book. This is extremely hard to flip back and forth from the chapter that the individual is reading to the picture that the author is referencing. It would be extremely simple due to the fact that this is a Kindle book. It is not a physical hard copy, to go back in and reprogram all of those pictures to be at the beginning of each chapter as well. That way the person can flip back and forth very easily as opposed to flipping through the entire freaking book just to see the picture that the author is referencing in that chapter.
This is an excellent book on alchemy, and I had a wonderful review already written that was completely deleted and I don't understand why.
There are two things wrong with this book.
The first thing is that even though the author constantly talks about the colors, the book is in black and white.
That doesn't make any sense
Number two the pictures that the author is referencing throughout the book or only at the beginning of the book. This is extremely hard to flip back and forth from the chapter that the individual is reading to the picture that the author is referencing. It would be extremely simple due to the fact that this is a Kindle book. It is not a physical hard copy, to go back in and reprogram all of those pictures to be at the beginning of each chapter as well. That way the person can flip back and forth very easily as opposed to flipping through the entire freaking book just to see the picture that the author is referencing in that chapter.
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