With Fulcanelli popping up twice for me in the last week -
once while listening to this podcast episode, and then a few days later behind glass in a locked bookcase in a used book shop, the first American edition, with a hefty price tag - I figured it was finally time to delve into that mystery. This ought to be fun.
"The secret of alchemy is this: there is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force.' The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call 'The Great Work'."
"...the vital thing is not the transmutation of metals but that of the experimenter himself."
