Secret_History

644 The Secret History of the World
Auscii. For the rest, it seems to us that we can discover the truth by the meaning of
Climberris, which should apply to the entire country, the city of Auch as well as
that of Eluse. All of this country produces berries and grain - clime, region,
country, -- berry, berry, grain, -- Climeberry --.
Why would they have attributed to one city the production of grain and grapes,
when it is the production of the entire region? And we shouldn’t be surprised to see
the berries of the vine, grapes, enter into the composition of Climberris because
vines existed in the Gauls in a wild state. A considerable time may have passed
without thinking of its cultivation, and history seems to honour the Greeks with
having taught the Celts how to make wine, a fact that seems highly dubious to us,
as the Celts were as advanced as the Greeks in material civilization, and superior to
the sons of Javan in philosophical and religious sciences.
We have already said that Auch took its name from the Auscii and was their main
city. In looking to give Auch a Celtic pronunciation, we are forced to say Aouch,
and it is probably the real name of this town, written in Anglo-Saxon as Ouch, et
pronounced Aoutch.
Ouch signifies a golden necklace, a setting for a precious stone, and Auscii
designates skillful workers, applied to working with precious metals and making
these magnificent golden necklaces with which the warriors decorated their breasts
on the joyous days which were, for them, the days of combat - ouch (aoutch),
necklace of gold, - hew (hiou), to cut.
The Auscii easily became skillful in working in gold; this metal was almost like a
weed in their region, and diverse historians say that the avid Greek and Phoenician
merchants, coming back to their countries, used the gold gathered in the Pyrénées
for ballast in their vessels. [...] 424
“We be berry, berry goood to Lawra” indeed!
Varro, in his Antiquitates rerum humanorum, recalls the legend of Aeneas saving
his father and his household gods from the flames of Troy and, after long
wanderings, arriving at the fields of Laurentum, the goal of his journey. [...]
“Laurente (Laurentium) is cabalistically l’or enté (grafted gold)”.
I will let this passage along with the other clues I have revealed stand here for
the reader to contemplate Auch Cathedral as the Cathedral of the Mysteries of
Fulcanelli.
This brings us back to the subject of the Sibyls. (Fulcanelli warned his readers
that having a good classical education was essential to read his subtextual
meaning.) As already noted, the Cumaean sibyl was made famous by Virgil to
foretell the birth of a saviour and as Aeneas’ guide to the underworld. As we
continue to read chapter seven, we see that Fulcanelli is discussing this very matter
and we note again his particular reference to Varro.
424 Translation, Henry See