L'ALCHIMIE ET SON LIVRE MUET - ALCHEMY AND ITS MUTE BOOK

L'ALCHIMIE ET SON LIVRE MUET - ALCHEMY AND ITS MUTE BOOK

L'Alchimia e il suo Libro Muto 

Ristampa italiana prima e integrale

dell'edizione originale de La Rochelle, 1677 

completata dalle tavole di Jean-Jacques Manget, 1702 

Introduzione e commento di Eugene Canseliet F.C.H. 

discepolo di Fulcanelli 

ΜUTUS LIBER.

The silent book! Such is the surprising and abbreviated title of the alchemy treaty that and exclusively composed of images and which we present to the curiosity, if not to the interest, of all the amateurs. Here is the explanation that immediately follows these two first words on the initial table (p.53), which we translate and which shows itself very promising of fruits to be collected:

... in which, however, all the Hermetic Philosophy is represented in hieroglyphic figures, which is consecrated to the merciful God, three times very good and very great, and dedicated only to the sons of art by the author whose name is Altus.

The double cabalistic sense does not escape us, that is to say the game that allows the Latin between the plural dative of solus and the genitive singular of sol whose spelling is identical, which makes it possible to be intended for the sons of art and the sun, both and dedicated only to the children of art: solisque filiis artis dedicatus - art dedicated to the sun.

Then, in the work we find nothing but the few words of the two penultimate and last pages: the second and the fifteenth and the first bring the number 14, with the sentence in Latin words that repeats to race and whose  imperative advice seems rather amusing in one book where ordinary reading can not be exercised at all:

NOW, LEGO, LEGE, LEGE, RELEGE, LABORA ET INVENIES

Pray, read, read, read, read, work and find