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Was schwaller de lubicz part of fulcanells developmental group?
Schwaller de Lubicz was not merely adjacent to Fulcanelli's milieu — he was an active participant in the Brothers of Heliopolis, the alchemical fraternity gathered around Fulcanelli between roughly 1918 and 1920 in Montparnasse. The two men collaborated on a practical alchemical opus in Grasse, reportedly reconstructing the formula for medieval stained glass. Some researchers go further, arguing the relationship was so close that Schwaller himself has been proposed as a candidate for the Fulcanelli pseudonym, though this remains disputed.
Evidence
- According to Gary Lachman's research, sometime between 1918 and 1920 Schwaller de Lubicz encountered Fulcanelli in Montparnasse, where Fulcanelli had assembled a fraternity known as the Brothers of Heliopolis — a name resonant with Schwaller's later thesis that 'alchemy' derived from 'out of Egypt.'
- Geneviève Dubois, as referenced in Aeternum's October 2026 overview, documents connections between Schwaller and Jean-Julien Champagne — the artist most often named as Fulcanelli's physical identity — tracing the circulation of ideas through this shared esoteric culture.
- Wikipedia's current Schwaller entry confirms he was simultaneously operating in the same Parisian occult underground, founding the group Les Affranchis in 1919 and then Les Veilleurs — placing his organizational activity in exact chronological parallel with the Fulcanelli circle.
- This was not a casual acquaintance but a working alchemical cell studying Flamel, Basil Valentinus, and cathedral symbolism.
- Dubois stops short of collapsing Schwaller into Fulcanelli, but the overlapping research interests are hard to dismiss.