The Mystery of the Cathedrals

This edition of The Mystery of the Cathedrals offers an English translation of the original 1926 edition of Le Mystre des Cathdrales, retaining the original drawings from that edition.

The first edition of Le Mystre des Cathdrales fills an important place in the history of Alchemy. Newer editions added more material, but they couldn't replace the first one. Eugne Canseliet, said, in the preface for the 1926 edition: "the key to the major arcane is given, without any fiction, by one of the figures that adorn this work". It is up to the reader to extract the symbolic meanings of the original drawings, aided by the masterful exposition of Fulcanelli, which is shown in this translation as originally presented in its first edition, including the dedication to the brothers of Heliopolis and the strange coat of arms at the end of the text.