Decodes the message inscribed on the Great Cross of Hendaye in France. PREFACE Hendaye: A Monument to the Cosmos xi INTRODUCTION The Politics of Secrecy: Fulcanelli and the Secret of the End of Time 1(8) PART ONE Fulcanelli and the Secret of Alchemy ONE The Fulcanelli Mystery 9(32) The Apocalypse, the Lost Generation, and the Rediscovery of Alchemy 9(4) Le Mystère des cathédrales, Alchemy, and Surrealism 13(8) A New Chapter 21(8) The Fulcanelli Legend 29(3) The Cross at Hendaye 32(6) A Lodestone of Pure Weirdness 38(3) TWO The Secret of Alchemy 41(25) The Alchemical Meme and Secret Societies 41(1) Egypt: Isis and Horus 42(4) The Underground Stream: From Egypt to the Middle Ages 46(7) The Underground Stream: From the Black Death to Fulcanelli 53(5) The Threefold Transformation 58(4) Transformations and Transcendence 62(4) PART TWO Eschatology and Astronomy THREE Gnostic Eschatology 66(20) The Gnostic Return: Isis and Mary the Alchemist 66(5) The Alchemical Eschatology of Christianity 71(6) Revelation, the Antichrist, and Chiliasm 77(5) Constantine and the Orthodox Apocalypse 82(4) FOUR The Ancient Illuminated Astronomy 86(32) Hebrew Illuminism 86(2) The Teli, the Cycle, and the Heart: Serpents in the Sky 88(10) The Kaaba, the El Most High, and the Covenant of Abraham 98(9) Islam: Sanctuary of Sacred Science 107(11) PART THREE The Gothic Renaissance and the Holy Grail FIVE The Hermetic Pope and the Knights Templar 118(33) The Alchemical Transmission and the Recovery of the West 118(4) The Alchemical Pope and the Creation of the Millennium 122(10) Peter the Hermit, the First Crusade, and the Rock of Zion 132(8) The Secret of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon 140(11) SIX Grail Knights, Perfecti, and the Illuminated Sages of Provence 151(38) The Hermetic Grail 151(4) The Grail in Provence 155(13) The Perfecti 168(10) The Stone of the Wise 178(5) Elijah, Eschatology, and the Underground Stream 183(6) SEVEN Temples of the Cosmos, Cathedrals of the Goddess 189(33) The Hermetic Cathedrals 189(4) "Bright Is the Noble Work . . . " 193(6) The Gothic Cathedrals of Our Lady 199(5) The Stone That Fell from Heaven, Black Virgins, and the Temple of the Grail 204(10) The Philosophers' Church 214(8) PART FOUR The Mystery of the Cathedrals EIGHT The Grand Hermetic Theme and the Tree of Life 222(26) Fulcanelli's Notre-Dame-de-Paris 222(7) Our Hermetic Tour Guide Poses a Conundrum 229(8) Solving the Conundrum 232 Saint Marcel's Dragon 237(4) The World Tree and Astro-Alchemy 241(7) NINE Fulcanelli's Tree of Life and the Mystery of the Cathedrals 248(40) Le Mystère as the Tree of Life 248(24) The Alchemy of Light: Fulcanelli's Kabbalah 272(16) PART FIVE Hendaye's Message: The Season of Catastrophe and the Place of Refuge TEN The Mystery of the Great Cross at Hendaye 288(16) A Forgotten Cross 288(2) Precessional Mythmaking and an Enigmatic Altar to the God of Time 290(5) Vishnunabhi, the Mother, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor 295(5) The Mystery of the Stone Altar 300(4) ELEVEN The Message of the Great Cross at Hendaye 304(41) Triangulating the Myth and the Message 304(11) Deciphering the Code 315(12) The Monument Speaks: The Season of the Apocalypse 327(11) The Philosopher's Stone and the Quality of Time 338(7) TWELVE Catastrophe and Refuge 345(51) Cosmic Superimposition: Wilhelm Reich, Orgone, and the Center of the Galaxy 345(2) Messages from Many Sources 347(3) Earth under Fire: The Double Catastrophe Revealed 350(8) The Inscription's Message and the Place of Refuge 358(5) A Sign Pointing toward Peru 363(3) Atlantis in the Andes 366(12) The Navel of the World 378(5) Incan Caves and the Cross at Urcos 383(13) PART SIX The Great Mystery: Illuminated Masters, Apocalyptic Refuges, and Mythic Time THIRTEEN From Atlantis to Shambhala 396(25) The Cross and the Myth of Time 396(10) Looking East: A Refuge in the Himalayas 406(5) Padmasambhava and the Temple of the Cosmos 411(5) Shambhala and the Wheel of Time 416(5) FOURTEEN Alchemy and Transcendence 421(3) EPILOGUE Fulcanelli Revealed 424(8) APPENDICES APPENDIX A Fulcanelli on the Green Language 432(4) APPENDIX B The Emerald Tablet 436(2) APPENDIX C Notes on Mount Zion 438(4) APPENDIX D Tree of Life Symbology in Le Mystère des cathédrales 442(9) APPENDIX E The Cyclic Cross of Hendaye 451(6) Notes 457(16) Bibliography 473(17) Acknowledgments 490(2) Index 492