Hermétisme

The twelve keys of Philosophy by Basile Valentin  appear in 1600 in Germany.   The book receive an illustration in 1618. The legend says the author is a Benedictine monk of the 16th century and his work was found in a hollow stone of the Erfurt abbey, hidden for two centuries... Truth is less poetic, since it is probable that the editor and alchemist Johann Thölde is the true author, and he tried a media-staged event...

The intervention of Philippe Buchelot follows the revelation given by the Portuguese researcher Walter Grosse. Since he couldn't be here, he sent an email which is read as an introduction to Philippe Buchelot's lecture.  He talks about the elements discovered by Walter Grosse and adds his presentation of documents which were given to him by his initiator in Alchemy, a certain Filostène. In accordance with the alchemical Tradition, two persons are involved in the book which shows the exhibit: Fulcanelli exhumed, published by la Pierre Philosophale in 2011.

Some researchers just give their point of view.  René Lachaud prefers demonstration. According to him, the origins of alchemy are in Egypt and thanks to his huge erudition (and a huge sense of humor) he is going to demonstrate that his affirmation is true.  In a simple and direct speech, he is going to depict the symbolical sphere of pharaonic Egypt... and its operative magic.

"Alchemy is a  massive construction weapon !" says Jean Artero.
 The successive re editions of the works of  Fulcanelli, Le Mystères des Cathédrales (1924) and Les Demeures Philosophales (1930), thus the many translations throughout the world attest the timeless alchemical work and its universality.

"What are the alchemists looking for?"  asks Patrick Burensteinas. Immortality ? The transmutation of lead into gold ? Power ? Happiness ? Like the planet Mercury (Hermes, gods' messenger) who does its solar revolution four time quicker than the Earth: Patrick Burensteinas travels between our everyday language and the the language of the birds  to tell us what operative alchemy is not (especially the four questions above) and more specifically in what consists this art.

From Christians to Jewish including Arabs and Druses, from Paracelsus to Leonard da Vinci, Rabelais, Rimbaud... since the Hellenistic Greece to modern times : scholars, esotericists, scientists, philosophers, poets, musicians, doctors haven't stopped to draw from the hermetic knowledge's abundance.

Philosophy? Gnosis? Mystic? Religion? Ancient hermeticism is a doctrinal corpus extremely rich and heterogeneous. Its name is a derivation from Hermes, both a Greek God and an Egyptian divinity (Thoth), he is a mediator between sky and earth, young and old,

“In the company of … " is a collection of reports in which an author takes us along to see a place in a new light. Richard Khaitzine presents the “Jardin de Bagatalle” (Bagatelle Gardens) and discovers the history and hermetic symbols of this location close to Paris.