Secret_History

182 The Secret History of the World
Philosopher’s Stone, which never appears to be what it is. […] There are deeper
secrets in stone than in iron.” 97
The reader will be far more aware of what it means to “think with a hammer,
rather than with a brain” by the time they are finished with this discussion. But for
the moment, suffice it to say that the old master is pointing out that until a certain
“initiation” has occurred in terms of achieving mental mastery over the tracks of
emotional thinking (and nearly all thinking is emotional, no matter how logical it
may seem), there is no possibility of understanding Fulcanelli. Further, this
process of “rewiring” the brain by deliberate hammer blows of the will against the
programmed circuits is the “heating of the crucible” of the alchemical
transformation — the thing that produces the “stone”, a particular “state” that
comes to exist in the brain of the individual who has repeatedly “hammered” their
thinking, producing what the ancients called the “magnetic center”.
The Double Catastrophe: The Brothers Heliopolis
Fulcanelli did not write about architecture, or even this particular monument at
Hendaye, with the intent that the reader would find it necessary to go and see the
items in question, to puzzle over them, to dissect them to extract a secret. That is
the method of puffers. He wrote about the chosen subjects simply because it was
the platform of exposition of ideas. Canseliet wrote in his introduction to Le
Mystere, obviously written under instruction from Fulcanelli:
Thanks to [Fulcanelli], the Gothic cathedral has yielded up its secret. And it is not
without surprise and emotion that we learn how our ancestors fashioned the first
stone of its foundations, that dazzling gem, more precious than gold itself, on which
Jesus built his Church. All Truth, all Philosophy and all Religion rest on this unique
and sacred Stone. Many people, inflated with presumption, believe themselves
capable of fashioning it; yet how rare are the elect, those who are sufficiently
simple, learned and skilful to complete the task!
The hermeticists - those at least who are worthy of the name - will discover other
things here. From the clash of ideas, it is said, light bursts forth; they will
recognize here that is from the confrontation of the Book and the Building that the
Spirit is released and the Letter dies. 98
The “clash” of ideas is an expression of “thinking with a hammer”. The
cathedral, the “building” is the “temple”; in other words, the temporal lobes of the
brain - the ability to think and later to see. The “Book” is what is accepted fact and
history, not to mention the “book of our DNA”, or programmed limitations.
97 Mark Hedsel, The Zelator – A Modern Initiate Explores The Ancient Mysteries (York Beach:
Samuel Weiser, Inc. 2000) p. 306
98 Fulcanelli, Mystery of the Cathedrals, Introduction p. 6-7.