by Jay Weidner
Saint Augustine, 171, 251
Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, 218
Saint Bernard, 192, 197, 199–201, 211, 212
Saint Christopher, 270, 271, 276, 277
Saint Denis, 192–95, 197, 201, 214, 216, 217
Saint Denis of Alexandria, 37, 184
Saint Genevieve, 270
Saint Honore, 48, 52, 164, 165, 252
Saint Jean, 263
Saint Jerome, 37
Saint John, 56, 167, 310
Saint John’s Day, 56
Saint Marcel, 227, 237, 240
Saint Maurice, 54
Saint Paul, 164
Saint Remy, 125, 153, 194
Saint Thomas, 219
Saint Trophime, 158, 161, 164–65, 201, 277–80, 309, 327
Saint Victor, 268
Saint Vincent and the Holy Cross, 215
Saint Vincent’s Church, 289
Saint-Chapelle, 262, 273, 274
Saint-Denis, 280
Saint-Etienne, 193, 215
Saint-Germain-des-Pres, 215
Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie, 216
Saint-Jean-de-Luz, 32–33, 288
Saint-Michael, 271
Saint-Remy-de-Provence, 126, 153, 156–57
Saint’s Pillar, 161
Sais, 369
Sakarya, 204
Sakya, 409
Saladin, 197
Samothrace, 210
Samothracian, 218
samyana, 41
Samye, 414, 415, 422
Sangarius River, 204–7
Sanskrit, 290, 294, 298
Santa Domingo, 385
Santa Maria de Ripoll, 123
Santaraksita, 412
Santiago de Compostela, 313, 405
Sapa Inca, 382, 406
Sarah the Egyptian (Sarah of the Gypsies), 160–63
Satan, 79
Satanic Verses, 109
Saturnalia, 231
Saudi Arabia, 99
Schemit, Jean, 13, 14, 21, 426
Schlem, Gershom, 178, 182
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A., 32, 61, 426
Sea of Marmara, 204, 207
Sea of Wisdom, 97, 98
Sea Peoples, 368
Seal of Alchemy, 224
Second Crusade, 169, 176, 197
secretum secretorum, 283
Sefer ha-Chaim, 235
Sefer Yetzirah, 88–89, 93, 100–102, 104, 110, 114, 179, 234, 235, 240, 245, 247, 248, 272
Sefer Zohar, 93
sefirot, 60, 89–92, 101, 213
Seine, 193, 197
Sekhmet, 208, 209, 355
Seljuk Turks, 121, 133, 197
serpent, 69, 71, 94–95
serpent of wisdom, 81
Serpent’s Path, 273
Seth, 2, 44, 101, 204, 397, 403
Seyfert galaxies, 353
Seyfert, Carl, 353
Shachar, Shulamit Professor, 182
Shakespeare, William, 186, 397
Shambhala, 335, 406, 416–20, 422
Shangri-la, 416
Shear, Dr. Jonathan, 243
Sheba, 237
Sheba, Queen of, 180–81
Shekinah, 173–74, 182, 213, 203
Sheldrake, Rupert, 63
Shem, 98, 101
Shi’ites, 112, 114, 145, 191
Shlomo, Rabbi, 180, 234
Shrovetide Carnival, 231, 232
Shu, 402
Siddhartha, 410
Sidonius, 160
Silberman, Neil Asher, 182
Silk Road, 419
Sirius, 312, 323, 324, 336
skhamba, 406, 422
Skylab, 314
Solomon, King, 140, 174, 179–181, 237, 262, 234
Solomon’s Temple, 86. See also Jerusalem, Temple at
Solon, 44, 47, 369, 371
Somantha, 420
Song of Songs, 174
Sophia, 173, 213, 214
South Ecliptic Pole, 97
Southern Cross, 388, 389, 391, 392
Spain, 121, 122, 152
Sphinx, 44, 330, 362, 363, 406, 408, 415, 417
Spiritualism, 41–42, 57
Sri Aurobindo, 298, 299
Sri Yukteswar, Swami, 296–98
St. Andrew’s cross, 294, 304, 335, 417
St. George’s cross, 294, 336, 417
St. Germaine, 1, 13
Star of Bethlehem, 75, 263, 311
Star of Destiny, 265
Star of Jacob, 265
Stenay, 137
Stephan, Count of Blois, 138
Stephanus of Alexandria, 120, 80
Stirling, William, 245, 247
Stone of the Wise, 63, 188, 232, 263, 341
Stonehenge, 400
Strabo, 209
Stream of Arcadia, 186
Stuart, Prince Charles Edward, 57
subquantum kinetics, 354
Sufis, 19, 52, 112–113, 119, 174, 185, 191
Sullivan, William, 5, 366
Sully-sur-Loire, 214
Sun King, 406
sura 24, 111
surrealism, 12, 17–19, 29
Surrealist Manifesto (Andre Breton), 12
swastika, 408
Swayambunath, 409
Sworder, Mary, 31
Sydney, Philip, 186
Sylvester II, Pope, 52, 121–33, 137, 139, 141, 149, 154, 192, 222, 334, 338, 392
Symbols of the Incas, 365
Talmud, The, 99
Tamujin, 185
Tancred, 138
Tantra, 174, 266, 416
Tara, 187
Tara, 410
Tarim, 417
Tarot, 18, 305, 306, 320, 322, 323, 326, 328, 331, 333, 335, 429
Last Judgment, The, 320
Moon, The, 324, 326, 331, 365
Star, The, 323, 331
Sun, The, 324, 328, 365
World, The, 326, 331, 332
Tehuti, 61, 70. See also Hermes
Teli, 93–97, 102, 103, 106, 178, 237, 238, 240, 323, 341
Templar cross, 49, 336
Templars, 52–53, 56, 114, 115, 131–32, 140–44, 146–50, 152–54, 167–68, 173, 181, 187–88, 192, 198, 199, 200, 201, 216, 222, 234, 241, 222, 334
Temple Mount, 142, 145, 181
Temple of Reason, 218
Temple of Solomon, 257, 260
Temple of the Grail, 206
Temple of the Moon, 385
Tengboche, 413
termas, 412, 415
tetrahedron, 50
Thakuris, 410
Theban Legion 54
Thebes, 44, 60, 66, 80, 208
Theodosius, 81
Theom, Max, 300, 311
Theophano, 124
Theosophy, 57
theotokos, 203, 211
Thera, 369, 373, 377
Third Crusade, 167, 199, 216
Thoth, 61, 70. See also Tehuti, Hermes
Thoth/Hermes, 269
Throne of Creation, 97
Throne of Gold and Garnet, 413
Throne Verse, 110
Tiahuanaco, 371–74, 379, 399
Tiber, 82–83, 87
Tibet, 73, 408, 410, 412, 421
Tibetan Buddhism, 398
Tiferet, 89–92, 104–5, 261, 279–81, 339–41
Timbuktu, 113
Timms, Moira, 347
Tiresias, 15
Titans, 208
Toledo, 153
Toulouse, 171, 181, 186, 187
Tours, 119
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, 81, 86, 95, 98, 320, 327
Tree of Life, 50–51, 60, 79, 86, 88–98, 100, 104–5, 153, 186, 240, 241, 242, 245, 247, 250, 252, 253, 260, 262, 269, 272–74, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 284, 292, 321, 327, 331, 332, 339, 340, 342, 383, 396, 398, 401, 425
Tristan and Iseult, 177
Tristan and Isolde, 276
Troubadours, 169, 174–77, 186–87
Troyes, 142, 143, 144, 147, 181, 198
Tsogyal, Yeshe, 411, 412
Tsrongtsong Gompo, 410
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T-Tauri stars, 355
Tulunid, 113
Turks, 136
Urban II, Pope, 121, 133–36, 138, 139, 211
Urcos, 365, 388
Urcos cross, 392
Utse Rigsum, 414
Uttar Pradesh, 409
Uttarakutru, 417
Vajk, 127
Vajra Yogini, 408
Valencia, 148
Valentine, Basil, 70, 284
Valentinus, 70
Valkyries, 61
Van Buren, Elizabeth. See Refuge of the Apocalypse
van Gogh, Vincent, 155
VandenBroeck, Andre, 32
Varro, 263
Venetians, 170
Venus, 259
verbum dismissum, 247
Vercingetorix, 193
Vichy, 268
Victor Hugo, 219
Vienne, Council of, 168
Vienne, France, 166, 207
Vikings, 367
Vilcanota, 381
Villoldo, Alberto, 5, 392, 406, 421
Vinland, 367
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel, 34, 219, 220, 225, 428, 430
Viracocha, 371, 377, 379, 380, 383, 399, 400, 401
Virtues and Vices, 225
Vishnunabhi, 295, 297, 298
von Dechend, Hertha. See Hamlet’s Mill
von Hund und Alten-Grotkau, Baron, 57
von Scharffenberg, Albrecht, 185
von Scharffenberg, Walter, 213
Vulcan, 209, 218, 255, 405
Vulcan’s children, 431
Wari-Tiawanku, 379
Wayland the Smith, 405
Wayna Qhapaq, 383, 384
Wells, H.G., 32, 288
Westcott, Dr. Wynn, 53, 56
Western Church, 135, 153
Western Empire, 123
Wheel of Time, 335, 416
White Himalayas, 411
White Man’s Land, 367
William II, 147
Wilson, Colin, 1, 4
Wise Men, 75–76
Witkowski, 263, 268
Woodruffe, Mary Christine, 300
Woodruffe, Sir John, 300
World Axis, 321
World Tree, 71, 243, 244, 254, 404, 405, 410
World War I, 9–11, 25
World War II, 27
Yahweh, 102
Yalambar, 409, 417
Yathrib, 109
Yesod, 89–92, 104–5, 248, 272, 340
Yetsirah, 274
Yogananda, 297
yuga, 297
Yunus, Ali ibn, 114, 128, 131
Yupa, 295
Zacharias, 202, 203
Zarathustra, 73
Zebedee, 254
Zeira, Rabbi, 179
Zep Tepi, 43, 46
Zeus, 209, 218
Zoroaster, 73
Zosimos, 70, 118
FOOTNOTES
THREE: GNOSTIC ESCHATOLOGY
a. Dee’s Enochian workings combine both alchemical images and apocalyptic content. See Geoffrey James’s The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee (St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn, 1998). For a look at Dee’s alchemical writings, see Gordon James’s The Secrets of John Dee (Edmonds, Wash.: Holmes Publishing Group, 1995.)
SIX: GRAIL KNIGHTS, PERFECTI, AND THE ILLUMINATED SAGES OF PROVENCE
b. The area around Glanum and Nostradamus’s hometown, Saint-Remy-de-Provence, is mentioned in six quatrains, all related to the discovery of a treasure or a “mystery.”
TEN: THE MYSTERY OF THE GREAT CROSS AT HENDAYE
c. Tropical refers to the zodiac as canonized in the second century B.C.E.; sidereal refers to the actual location of the signs as they are at the present.
APPENDIX A: FULCANELLI ON THE GREEN LANGUAGE
d. From Fulcanelli, Le Mystère des cathédrales, trans. Mary Sworder (London: Neville Spearman, 1971), pp. 41–44.
e. The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais is an esoteric work, a five-volume novel in cant. The good curé of Meudon reveals himself in it as a great initiate, as well as a first-class cabalist.
f. It is said that Tiresias was deprived of his sight for revealing to mortals the secrets of Olympus. However, he lived “for seven, eight or nine ages of man” and is supposed to have been successively man and woman.
g. Philosopher, whose life, crammed full of legends, miracles and prodigious deeds, seems to be extremely hypothetical. The name of this semi-fabulous personage seems to me to be just a mytho-hermetic image of the compost or philosophic rebis, realized by the union of brother and sister, of Gabritius and Beya, of Apollo and Diana. In that case, the marvels recounted by Philostratus, being chemical in character, should not surprise us.
APPENDIX E: THE CYCLIC CROSS OF HENDAYE
h. Text of this appendix is from Fulcanelli, Le Mystère des cathédrales, trans. Mary Sworder (London: Neville Spearman, 1971), pp. 165–71.
i. Translator’s note: millenarism, chiliasm, doctrine of belief in the millennium.
j. Latin spatium, with the meaning of place, situation, given to it by Tacitus. It corresponds to the Greek Xωρίον, root Xωρα, country, territory.
k. The first three are emperors, the fourth is only a king, the Sun King, thus indicating the decline of the star and its last radiation. This is dusk, the forerunner of the long cyclic night, full of horror and terror, “the abomination of desolation.”
l. Revelation, ch.l v, v. 6 and 7.
m. Ezekiel, ch. I, v. 4, 5, 10 and 11.
NOTES
CHAPTER 1
1. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965).
2. For the world before the Great War, see Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower (New York: Macmillan and Company, 1966). John Keegan’s The First World War (London: Random House, 1998) is the best single-volume work on the actual course of the war, while Robert H. Ziegler’s America’s Great War (London: Rowan and Littlefield, 2000) describes America’s role in winning the war and losing the peace. Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975) charts the importance of the war as metaphor for the modern world. Modris Ekstein’s Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (New York: Doubleday, 1989) describes in absorbing detail the postwar intellectual ferment; see in particular chapter 7, “Night Dancer,” pp. 241–74.
3. Other transformative firsts for 1926 include the first television broadcast, the first solid-fuel rocket launch, publication of The Theory of the Gene, the beginning of modern genetic research, the first motion picture with sound, and the founding of the first science fiction magazine, Astounding Stories. The year also saw the rise of two of the century’s most prominent dictators, Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini, while Adolf Hitler worked on Mein Kampf in prison and Father Coughlin begin his radio career as a racist and right-wing propagandist.
4. Le Mystère des cathédrales (Paris: Éditions des Champs-Elysées, Omnium littéraire, 1957). Strangely enough, the English edition translated by Mary Sworder (London: Neville Spearman, 1971) is also entitled Le Mystère des cathédrales. In this work, we shall use both the French and English titles interchangeably, and the citations in the notes will refer to the English edition of Le Mystère.
5. André Breton, Manifestos of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1969). For an excellent overview of surrealism’s esoteric roots, see Nadia Choucha, Surrealism and the Occult: Shamanism, Magic, Alchemy, and the Birth of an Artistic Movement (Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 1992).
6. Fulcanelli, Le Mystère des cathédrales (London: Neville Spearman, 1971), pp. 41–44. There is also an American edition (Albuquerque: Brotherhood of Life, 1984).
7. Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Herefordshire: Wordsworth Classics Edition, 1993), p. 138.
8. André Breton, “Manifesto of Surrealism 1924,” in Manifestos of Surrealism.
9. Octavio Paz, Marcel Duchamp, trans. Rachel Phillips and Donald Gardner (New York: Seaver Books, 1978). See al
so Maurice Tuchman et al., The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), pp. 261–67 for a discussion of Duchamp’s alchemical symbolism.
10. Arpad Merzei, “Liberty of Language,” in Surréalisme en 1947, exhibition catalogue (Paris: Galerie Maeght, 1947).
11. André Breton, Arcana 17 (New York: Brentano, 1944) and L’Art magique (Paris: Club Français du Livre, 1957).
12. One might not consider Joyce to be a metaphysical or esoteric writer until one looks at his original and personal creation of a “green language” in Ulysses and in Finnegan’s Wake.
13. Preface, Le Mystère des cathédrales, pp. 5–6.
14. Guy Bechtel, “Entretien avec Eugène Canseliet sur Fulcanelli suivi du Mystère Fulcanelli” (Conversation with Eugène Canseliet on Fulcanelli Concerning the Fulcanelli Mystery), privately printed; two copies are on deposit at the Library of Hermetic Philosophy, Amsterdam, dated January 4, 1974.
15. Fulcanelli, Les Demeures philosophales, 2 vols. (Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1959, 1964); first American edition (Colorado: Archive Press, 1999).
16. Colin Wilson and Christopher Evans, eds., The Book of Great Mysteries (New York: Dorset Books, 1990), pp. 358–61.
17. Geneviève Dubois, Fulcanelli dévoilé (Paris: Dervy, 1993).
18. “La Croix d’Hendaye,” in Consolation 26 (February 13, 1936) and Consolation 27 (April 30, 1936).
19. Consolation 26.
20. Le Mystère des Cathédrales, p. 168.
21. Kenneth R. Johnson, The Fulcanelli Phenomenon (London: Neville Spearman, 1980), pp. 246–48.
22. Ibid.; and Robert Amadou, “L’Affaire Fulcanelli,” in L’Autre Monde 74, 75, 76, (Sept.–Nov. 1983).
23. Johnson, The Fulcanelli Phenomenon, pp. 161–65.
24. Ibid., p. 163.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., p. 165; also Pauwels and Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians (London: Neville Spearman, 1963).
27. Ibid., p. 248.
28. Walter Lang, introduction to Le Mystère des cathédrales (London: Neville Spearman, 1971), p. 29.
29. Johnson, The Fulcanelli Phenomenon, pp. 246–48.
30. Eugène Canseliet, Alchimie (Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1964), p. xiv.
31. Eugène Canseliet, “Alchimiques mémoires,” serialized in the catalogue La Tourbe des Philosophes, in La Table Emeraude, n.d.
32. Eugène Canseliet, preface to Les Demeures philosophales, p. xxii.
33. Pauwels and Bergier, Le Matin des magiciens (Paris: Gallimard, 1960); English edition, The Morning of the Magicians (London: Neville Spearman, 1963).
34. Johnson, The Fulcanelli Phenomenon, pp. 277–99.
35. Elizabeth Van Buren, Refuge of the Apocalypse (Essex, England: C. W. Daniel Co. Ltd, 1986).
36. André VandenBroeck, Al-Kemi: A Memoir—Hermetic, Occult, Political and Private Aspects of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 1987).