Alchimie

In our modern societies,  demythologized, searching for a new breath that industrialization,  comfort and consumption doesn't give anymore: alchemists still exist. Paule di Puccio is living proof.
Born in 1917 in Burgundy, communist resistant during World War II, Paule di Puccio discovers alchemy in the 60's and especially through an esotericist learning from the United States, BOTA (Builders of the Addendum). For two decades she explores speculative alchemy, then in a day of Whit sun, when she decides to give up on everything, she receives the name of the Materia Prima : the operative alchemy's door opens to her.

Those who practice spiritual alchemy call themselves philosophers, and operative alchemists philosophers by fire. For Fulcanelli and Eugène Canseliet, you can't be a philosopher and not be a philosopher by fire.    alchemy goes through labor and praying, labor et ora... through the laboratory!
According to Jean Artero, Eugène Canseliet (1899-1982) was the greatest alchemist of the 20th century. There is no biography about him, so we asked this author  to try fill in this gap. 
Eugène Canseliet was the friend and the disciple of an other great figure of alchemy:    Fulcanelli (1839- ?). Author of many  reference works about alchemy  that Canseliet prefaced, Fulcanelli would have made the Philosopher's Stone.  

What means the epitaph "I seek the gold of time" that André Breton had engraved on his tombstone? What are the relations between alchemy, esotericism and time? In this 40-minutes presentation, Léon Gineste tries to unveil what is Alchemy: its origins, its first manuscripts (-200 BC in Alexandria); its great historical figures, and its relation with mystic and current neurosciences.

In this presentation, Christine Tournier talks about the inner alchemical work of man ; she talks about different phases of the process through the blackening, the whitening and reddening.

Alchemy (audio) If for some, alchemy is the study of matter and its transformation, for others, it is a philosophical, mystical and spiritual discipline. Is it about the transmutation of metals or finding the Philosopher’s Stone? Roger Delmas looks for answers in his talk, discussing the transformation of lead into gold and equally, the importance of alchemy’s symbolic work.