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Chapter 2
The Chemistry of Alchemy
The Language of the Gods
Here I must give a warning: gathering false knowledge is worse than gathering
no knowledge at all.
Why is this?
You see: it is the PROCESS of the Quest for the Holy Grail that is the
FUNCTION of “distilling the Philosopher’s Stone”. Fulcanelli writes:
…Puns, plays on words associated or not with the rebus, were used by the initiates
as subterfuges for their verbal conversations. In achromatic works, anagrams were
reserved, sometimes to mask the identity of the author, sometimes to disguise the
title, removing from the layman the directing thought of the work. It is the case in
particular of a small and very curious book so cleverly closed that it is impossible
to know what the subject of it is. It is attributed to Tiphaigne de la Roche, and it
bears the unusual title of “Amilec ou la graine d’hommes”. It is an assemblage of
anagrams and puns. One should read instead, Alcimie, ou la crème d’Aum
(Alchemy, the Cream of Aum). Neophytes will learn that it is an authentic
alchemical treatise, since in the 13 th century alchemy was written alkimie, alkemie,
or alkmie; that the point of [the] science … pertains to the extraction of the spirit
enclosed in the material prima, a philosophical virgin, which bears the same sign as
the celestial Virgin, the monogram AUM; and that finally this extraction must be
accomplished using a process analogous to that which allows us to separate cream
from milk. […] By removing the veil from the title, one can see how suggestive this
one is, since it announces the revelation of the secret means suitable to obtain this
cream of the milk from the Virgin which few researchers have had the fortune of
possessing. 35
What this rather convoluted discussion reveals to us is the CRUCIAL necessity
for discerning between what one “accepts” as a piece of the puzzle and what one
does not accept, and that this determines whether or not the “separation of the
35 Fulcanelli, op. cit., p. 68.