Kiesewetter, descendant of the last imperator of the Society of the Rose-Cross in one of his articles writes: "From the papers of my great-grandfather it follows that [...] the last true Rosicrucians shut themselves up in a contemplative peace, living in an enthusiastic Christian theosophy. It seems that the intrusion of illuminated and Masonic elements had disjoined the previous structure of the Order; this is why, as a memorandum from my great-grandfather is still learning, it was decided in 1792 to relieve the brothers of the oath (Juramenti and Silenti) and to cancel the library and archives. "
As just pointed out; with the "Orden der Gold- und Rosenkeuzer", its nine degrees and its neo-Masonic tendency we are before a degeneration announcing the dissolution of the hermetic current due to the materialism of the Enlightenment. The original course was defined by the teaching from master to disciple, and the status of Rose-Croix was obtained only by the knowledge of the modus operandi, and the obtaining of the philosopher's stone. The Count of Chazal, little known in France, and made famous in the Anglo-Saxon world by two works by A. E. Waite on the history of the Rosicrucian movements, was undoubtedly a member of one of the last filiations resulting from this original current. I hope that soon will be revealed part of the documents and correspondence of the Count of Chazal currently held in private archives, thus clarifying the history of this French filiation.
The famous alchemist Fulcanelli in a note from his book The Philosophical Mansions designates the Count of Chazal as adept that is to say, possessor of the philosopher's stone, as well as the initiator of Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom.
Fulcanelli seems to have had less information than the brilliant surrealist writer Malcom de Chazal, descendant of the adept, who gives us some of his research on his ancestor in his admirable book Pétrusmok, even if the assertions of René Guénon on a filiation with the Count of St. Germain are without foundation. Most of the documents we have on the Comte de Chazal come from the origin of his disciple; doctor, naturalist, traveler, painter and alchemist, Sigismund Bacstrom, whose biography has not yet been made and whose life is very poorly known, while he was one of the most active alchemists of his time and probably a 18th century translators of the most prolific alchemical texts in English.
Despite some inaccurate dates, and the use of the name of Louis de Chazal or Chazel that seems to be the errors of copyists or can be a means to divert attention from the real Chazal, copies of Bacstrom documents have their validity. Like the great Fulcanelli, it seems that "the state of adeptat" makes historically elusive, the biographical.
It was Frederick Hockley, an occultist and owner of a rich library of many rare manuscripts and books, who acquired the original text of Bacstrom's admission to the Society of the Rosicrucians; we find in this respect an entry in the list of books Frederick Hockley (1887); 1833 Diary of a Rosicrusian Philosopher ... [as 1829], [and] Admission copy of Dr. Bacstrom in the Society of the Rose Cross by Count de Chazal in Mauritius 1794.
In a letter dated August 12, 1874 to his friend Irwin, he also wrote the manuscript Anecdotes on the Count of Chazal FRC. These original documents were unfortunately destroyed at the end of the 19th century during a fire at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society, but we still have copies.
Dr. Bacstrom tells us in the manuscript "Anecdotes on the Count of Chazal FRC" the circumstances of his meeting with the count. It is through the doctor Philippe Petit-Radel, French surgeon famous author of the time, fleeing the revolution, born in Paris in 1749, died in 1815, that it is presented in 1793 in Mauritius in François de Chazal de la Genesté (August 25, 1731 in Montbrison - died at Long Mountain on October 13, 1795).
After having conversed many times of the theory of the Great Work, in view of the hermetic knowledge of Bacstrom the count initiates, and receives it in the society of the Rosicrucian September 12, 1794 and means that he was himself received in Paris. François de Chazal demonstrates his status as a follower of Bacstrom by making his laboratory demonstration of its power of transmutation; at first it produces 30 carats of excessively brittle gold, twenty-four carats of even more resplendent and ductile gold, gold of an even more radiant color somewhat heavier than the last. In a letter dated March 16, 1804 to his disciple Alexander Tilloch, Bacstrom reveals that the library of Chazal included more than a thousand volumes, in all languages and the adept also had a laboratory and a set of devices, including instruments of astronomy and mathematics.
In a work published by the family of Chazal including the correspondence of the main members of this family, are the instructions of the widow of Régis de Chazal to his children, March 15, 1787 it gives them the command not to forget the books, the news, and all that will be curious and extraordinary in the new discoveries of science, chemistry, magnetism, & c. for their uncle François. In another letter he subscribes to the commission of a series of works by the alchemist and cartomancer Aliette, but also he seeks travel stories, books of naturalism, botany, mineralogy ... At these readings, you feel a man who is curious about everything, universal in his quest for knowledge, using his knowledge for the benefit of the community, he also introduces useful plants on his island, and changes agriculture. Bacstrom confirms that he kept track of his magical experiences and the care he had achieved through animal magnetism, electricity, galvanism, ... all things that were confirmed by the most respectable people of the island. He was admitted to the Superior Council of the Isle of France, Mayor and Elector of Port Louis. In 1772 he is second counselor.
In 1789 he received from the king a certificate of honorary councilor. His name is inscribed on the column raised by Mr. Lienard in the Garden of Pamplemousse, as a benefactor of the colony. Bacstrom lends him the power to observe events from a distance (with the eye of the mind), the Count kept in a diary a record of everything that was going on in Paris at the time of the French Revolution, even though all physical communication was interrupted between Mauritius and France at that time. It is said that he educated a hundred orphans and gave them a sum of one million piastres, and his other less visible charitable acts were also numerous. His family's correspondence shows a loving, generous and protective parent. He does not use his position to enrich himself to the detriment of the community, Adrien d'Epinay in his book "Information to serve the history of the Ile de France (1890)" says in speaking of François de Chazal; "Monsieur de Chazal is one of the few advisers who has remained outside the financial coteries of his time. He leaves to the colonial archives the purest name.” He seems to follow the ideal of the ancient Rosicrucians to help the most vulnerable, notified in the rules transcribed in the certificate of admission of the order; "I will devote a large part of my fortune (obtained by the great work) to private charitable works, to old and needy people, to children and above all to all who love God and act honestly. “
This man was undoubtedly one of the last Brother of the Rose-Cross, the eighteenth century saw the last true filiations of this order. François de Chazal was not an "adventurer" in the manner of a Saint-Germain or a Cagliostro, but a sincere and honest man humbly seeking the secrets of nature, seeking a way to God, using his knowledge to to evolve society, saving one's neighbor from the pitfalls of fate.
Frédéric Garnier © juillet 2008
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As just pointed out; with the "Orden der Gold- und Rosenkeuzer", its nine degrees and its neo-Masonic tendency we are before a degeneration announcing the dissolution of the hermetic current due to the materialism of the Enlightenment. The original course was defined by the teaching from master to disciple, and the status of Rose-Croix was obtained only by the knowledge of the modus operandi, and the obtaining of the philosopher's stone. The Count of Chazal, little known in France, and made famous in the Anglo-Saxon world by two works by A. E. Waite on the history of the Rosicrucian movements, was undoubtedly a member of one of the last filiations resulting from this original current. I hope that soon will be revealed part of the documents and correspondence of the Count of Chazal currently held in private archives, thus clarifying the history of this French filiation.
The famous alchemist Fulcanelli in a note from his book The Philosophical Mansions designates the Count of Chazal as adept that is to say, possessor of the philosopher's stone, as well as the initiator of Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom.
Fulcanelli seems to have had less information than the brilliant surrealist writer Malcom de Chazal, descendant of the adept, who gives us some of his research on his ancestor in his admirable book Pétrusmok, even if the assertions of René Guénon on a filiation with the Count of St. Germain are without foundation. Most of the documents we have on the Comte de Chazal come from the origin of his disciple; doctor, naturalist, traveler, painter and alchemist, Sigismund Bacstrom, whose biography has not yet been made and whose life is very poorly known, while he was one of the most active alchemists of his time and probably a 18th century translators of the most prolific alchemical texts in English.
Despite some inaccurate dates, and the use of the name of Louis de Chazal or Chazel that seems to be the errors of copyists or can be a means to divert attention from the real Chazal, copies of Bacstrom documents have their validity. Like the great Fulcanelli, it seems that "the state of adeptat" makes historically elusive, the biographical.
It was Frederick Hockley, an occultist and owner of a rich library of many rare manuscripts and books, who acquired the original text of Bacstrom's admission to the Society of the Rosicrucians; we find in this respect an entry in the list of books Frederick Hockley (1887); 1833 Diary of a Rosicrusian Philosopher ... [as 1829], [and] Admission copy of Dr. Bacstrom in the Society of the Rose Cross by Count de Chazal in Mauritius 1794.
In a letter dated August 12, 1874 to his friend Irwin, he also wrote the manuscript Anecdotes on the Count of Chazal FRC. These original documents were unfortunately destroyed at the end of the 19th century during a fire at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society, but we still have copies.
Dr. Bacstrom tells us in the manuscript "Anecdotes on the Count of Chazal FRC" the circumstances of his meeting with the count. It is through the doctor Philippe Petit-Radel, French surgeon famous author of the time, fleeing the revolution, born in Paris in 1749, died in 1815, that it is presented in 1793 in Mauritius in François de Chazal de la Genesté (August 25, 1731 in Montbrison - died at Long Mountain on October 13, 1795).
After having conversed many times of the theory of the Great Work, in view of the hermetic knowledge of Bacstrom the count initiates, and receives it in the society of the Rosicrucian September 12, 1794 and means that he was himself received in Paris. François de Chazal demonstrates his status as a follower of Bacstrom by making his laboratory demonstration of its power of transmutation; at first it produces 30 carats of excessively brittle gold, twenty-four carats of even more resplendent and ductile gold, gold of an even more radiant color somewhat heavier than the last. In a letter dated March 16, 1804 to his disciple Alexander Tilloch, Bacstrom reveals that the library of Chazal included more than a thousand volumes, in all languages and the adept also had a laboratory and a set of devices, including instruments of astronomy and mathematics.
In a work published by the family of Chazal including the correspondence of the main members of this family, are the instructions of the widow of Régis de Chazal to his children, March 15, 1787 it gives them the command not to forget the books, the news, and all that will be curious and extraordinary in the new discoveries of science, chemistry, magnetism, & c. for their uncle François. In another letter he subscribes to the commission of a series of works by the alchemist and cartomancer Aliette, but also he seeks travel stories, books of naturalism, botany, mineralogy ... At these readings, you feel a man who is curious about everything, universal in his quest for knowledge, using his knowledge for the benefit of the community, he also introduces useful plants on his island, and changes agriculture. Bacstrom confirms that he kept track of his magical experiences and the care he had achieved through animal magnetism, electricity, galvanism, ... all things that were confirmed by the most respectable people of the island. He was admitted to the Superior Council of the Isle of France, Mayor and Elector of Port Louis. In 1772 he is second counselor.
In 1789 he received from the king a certificate of honorary councilor. His name is inscribed on the column raised by Mr. Lienard in the Garden of Pamplemousse, as a benefactor of the colony. Bacstrom lends him the power to observe events from a distance (with the eye of the mind), the Count kept in a diary a record of everything that was going on in Paris at the time of the French Revolution, even though all physical communication was interrupted between Mauritius and France at that time. It is said that he educated a hundred orphans and gave them a sum of one million piastres, and his other less visible charitable acts were also numerous. His family's correspondence shows a loving, generous and protective parent. He does not use his position to enrich himself to the detriment of the community, Adrien d'Epinay in his book "Information to serve the history of the Ile de France (1890)" says in speaking of François de Chazal; "Monsieur de Chazal is one of the few advisers who has remained outside the financial coteries of his time. He leaves to the colonial archives the purest name.” He seems to follow the ideal of the ancient Rosicrucians to help the most vulnerable, notified in the rules transcribed in the certificate of admission of the order; "I will devote a large part of my fortune (obtained by the great work) to private charitable works, to old and needy people, to children and above all to all who love God and act honestly. “
This man was undoubtedly one of the last Brother of the Rose-Cross, the eighteenth century saw the last true filiations of this order. François de Chazal was not an "adventurer" in the manner of a Saint-Germain or a Cagliostro, but a sincere and honest man humbly seeking the secrets of nature, seeking a way to God, using his knowledge to to evolve society, saving one's neighbor from the pitfalls of fate.
Frédéric Garnier © juillet 2008
http://www.editions-arqa.com/editions-arqa/spip.php?article1215
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