Canseliet, Eugene

Fulcanelli.Le Mystere des cathedrales esoteric interpretation of the hermetic symbols of the Great Work with prefaces by Eugene Canseliet. translated from the French by Mary Sworder introduction by Walter Lang. 2nd ed. Translated by Mary Sworder. 1925 reprint, London Spearman, 1971. 191p. 

Albertus, Frater. An interview with Eugene Canseliet. Parachemy 4, no. 4 (Fall 1976) 366-. 

To this day, his actual identity remains a mystery. The story goes that one day Fulcanelli handed his disciple, Eugene Canseliet, the manuscript of The Mystery oj the Cathedrals, asked him to publish it, and promptly disappeared. In his introduction, Canseliet writes that Fulcanelli is no more , which could either mean his master was dead, or had assumed a new identity. (If this were the case, it recalls the ancient Japanese practice that dictated that once one had achieved mastery in one discipline, one should abandon it, and go off to learn something new in a new town, studying under a new name.)... 

Above Louis Pauwels, the Freneh writer, photographed in 1974. Twenty-one years earlier Pauwels had a strange eneounter with a mysterious alchemist in a Parisian cafe. The alchemist, who seemed to belong to another age, implied that Fuleanelli was not dead, as his student, Eugene Canseliet, apparently suggested in his preface to Fulcanelli s The Mystery of the Cathedrals. Pauwels came to believe that the alchemist he had met was Fuleanelli himself. 

Above Eugene Canseliet, the well-known Freneh alchemist and writer on alchemy. Like many of the contemporary alchemists, he has returned to work in the laboratory. 

Since the war, most alchemical speculation seems to have taken place in France. Eugene Canseliet, who has written many books on alchemy, has been seen on television at work in his laboratory. Others, like the author Roger Caro and the painter Louis Cattiaux, have also established laboratories. But the most famous French alchemist is probably Armand Barbault, author of Gold of a Thousand Mornings. He carries out his work only at times that he has determined by detailed astrological calculation. 

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