Secret_History

Afterword 631
openly in one of the figures, illustrating the present work. And this key consists
quite simply in a colour revealed to the artisan right from the first work.
In his introduction to the Second Edition, Canseliet tells us that Basil Valentine
was Fulcanelli’s initiator - and makes the point of distinction between “first
initiator”, and “true initiator”. That could certainly indicate the difference between
a “human” teacher” and a “hyperdimensional” teacher. He then discusses a letter
that was left by Fulcanelli after he “died”, and which he says was obviously
received by Fulcanelli’s master from some unknown individual, and which
Canseliet said was the “written proof of the triumph of his true initiator”, which
provides a “powerful and correct idea of the sublime level at which the Great
Work takes place”. This letter has a number of remarkable references which
suggest to me that it may not be a letter to Fulcanelli’s master, but was to
Fulcanelli himself, and may have referred to his attempts to communicate with
Basil Valentine directly via techniques learned from Kardec via Flammarion. The
references that suggest this to me are:
This time you have really had the Gift of God; it is a great blessing and, for the first
time, I understand how rare this favour is.[…]
When my wife told me the good news… I was only briefly informed about the
matter…[…]
You have extended generosity to the point of associating us with this high and
occult knowledge, to which you have full right and which is entirely personal to
you. […]
My wife, with the inexplicable intuition of sensitives…
One can almost say that he, who has greeted the morning star, has forever lost the
use of his sight and his reason, because he is fascinated by this false light and cast
into the abyss… Unless, as in your case, a great stroke of fate comes to pull him
unexpectedly from the edge of the precipice.
For me, this “great stroke of luck” that pulled me from the precipice 418 was the
Cassiopaean Transmissions. They have done it more than once! I would like to
point out that the “familiarity” of the remark, “You have extended generosity to
the point of associating us with this high and occult knowledge, to which you have
full right and which is entirely personal to you”, struck me in a profound way in
regard to this. The reader might wish to read Ark’s comments on “Reductio ad
Absurdum” 419 to understand exactly what this phrase can refer to, not to mention
418 http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/mirror.htm
419 http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/swerdlow.htm