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Eugène Léon Canseliet (December 18, 1899,
Sarcelles
Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles.
In the south of the commune ...
– April 12, 1982,
Savignies
Savignies () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
Notable people
* Philippe Adrien (1939-), stage director
See also
* Communes of the Oise department
The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of F ...
), was a French writer and
alchemist. He was a student of the mysterious alchemist known as
Fulcanelli
Fulcanelli (fl. 1920s) was the name used by a French alchemist and esoteric author, whose identity is still debated. The name Fulcanelli seems to be a play on words: Vulcan, the ancient Roman god of fire, plus El, a Canaanite name for God and so ...
. 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
Frater Albertus Spagyricus (Albert Richard Riedel) born May 5,(1911–1984); founder of the Paracelsus Research Society in Salt Lake City, which later evolved into the Paracelsus College. Based on the Paracelsian concept of three essentials, Bo ...
, a German-American alchemist who practiced 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.
Selected works
* ''Deux logis alchimiques, en marge de la science et de l'histoire''. Paris, Jean Schemit, 1945, in-8, 157 p. Nouvelle édition augmentée à Paris, chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1979, 344 p.
* ''Alchimie, études diverses de symbolisme hermétique et de pratique philosophale'', Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1964, in-8, 285 p. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1978, 401 p.
* ''L'Alchimie et son ″Livre muet"'' (″
Mutus Liber
The ''Mutus Liber'', or ''Mute Book'' (from la, Silent Book), is a Hermetic philosophical work published in La Rochelle in 1677. It ranks amongst the major books on alchemy in Early Modern literature, just as much as does '' Atalanta Fugiens'' ...
″). ''Introduction et commentaires par Eugène Canseliet'', Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1967, in-4, 140 p.
* ''L'Alchimie expliquée sur ses textes classiques'', Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972, 312 p.
Bibliography
* ''La Tourbe des Philosophes'', "Hommage aux 80 ans de Eugène CANSELIET", n°10, Grenoble, Editions de la Tourbe.
External links
Eugène Canseliet interviewed by Jacques Chancel at Radioscopie, on 23rd June 1978
''other articles on Canseliet and Champagne''
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French alchemists
French occult writers
1982 deaths
1899 births
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century alchemists
20th-century French male writers