....ada yang kenal dengan Fulcanelli ngga? seorang master alchemist perancis dan penulis misterius. Menurut kabarnya Fulcanelli ini memberikan jumlah kecil dari "Proyeksi Powder" pada muridnya Eugene Canseliet dan berhasil melakukan transmutasi 100 gr timah menjadi emas di laboratorium gas karya Sarcelles...
Fulcanelli ini pun sempat diburu Nazi karena dugaan punya pengetahuan tentang senjata nuklir pada ambang perang dunia II....
  Menurut Canseliet, pertemuan terakhir dengan Fulcanelli terjadi pada tahun 1953(tahun setelah menghilang) ketika dia pergi ke spanyol dan dibawa kesebuah istana yang tinggi di pegunungan untuk bertemu dengan bekas majikannya. Canseliet menganggap Fulcanelli bagai orang tuanya berumur 80an, tetapi ternyata tidak sang master ternyata pria berusia 50an. Reuni itu terjadi singkat dan Fulcanelli kembali menghilang tanpa meninggalkan jejak...

Fulcanelli is almost certainly a pseudonym  assumed, in the early XXth century, by a French alchemist  and esoteric author, whose identity is still debated.[1]  The name Fulcanelli seems to be a play on words: Vulcan the ancient Roman god of fire plus El, a Canaanite name for God and so the Sacred Fire.[2]  He is also called the Master Alchemist. The appeal of Fulcanelli as a cultural phenomenon is partly due to the mystery that surrounds most aspects of his life and works; one of the anecdotes pertaining to his life retells, in particular, how his most devoted pupil Eugène Canseliet performed a successful transmutation  of 100 grams of lead into gold in a laboratory of the gas works of Sarcelles at the Georgi company with the use of a small quantity of the "Projection Powder" given to him by his teacher, in the presence of Julien Champagne and Gaston Sauvage.
Fulcanelli was undoubtedly a Frenchman, widely and profoundly educated, and learned in the ways of alchemical lore, architecture, art, science, and languages. Fulcanelli wrote two books that were published after his disappearance in 1926, having left his magnum opus with his only student, Eugène Canseliet. Le Mystere des Cathedrales first edition consisted of 300 copies and was published by Jean Schemit at 52 Rue Laffitte, Paris, France.[3]

Theories about Fulcanelli speculate that he was one or another famous French occultist of the time: perhaps a member of the former Royal Family (the Valois), or another member of the Frères d'Heliopolis (Brotherhood of Heliopolis, a society centred around Fulcanelli which included Eugène Canseliet, Jean-Julien Champagne and Jules Boucher). Canseliet's only student, Patrick Rivière, believes that Fulcanelli's true identity was Jules Violle, famous French physicist.[4] In a 1996 book, samples of writing by Jean-Julien Hubert Champagne (born January 23, 1877) and Fulcanelli are compared, and show considerable similarity.[5] In any event, by 1916, Fulcanelli had accepted Canseliet, who was then only sixteen, as his first student. In 1921, he accepted the sons of Ferdinand de Leseps as students and in 1922, two more students, Jules Boucher and Gaston Sauvage. In 1925, Fulcanelli moved to 59 rue Rochechouart where he allegedly was successful in transmuting base metals into gold.[6]

In the book Beyond Painting, published in 1936, surrealist Max Ernst hints at the existence of Fulcanelli as many surrealist painters were influenced by Alchemical lore but then, even the great American occult historian Manly Palmer Hall fails to mention the Master Alchemist.[7]

In 1960, with the publication of the international bestseller The Morning of the Magicians, Pauwels and Bergier brought the mystery of the Master Alchemist into the limelight of the public eye.[8]

Fulcanelli's Master

Without overlooking the belief of some researchers that Canseliet himself could have been Fulcanelli, Canseliet believed Fulcanelli's Master was Basil Valentine, the theoretical Master in any case, for Fulcanelli's true initiator was his own wife. As Fulcanelli describes in a strange letter he practically kept as a talisman about the completion of the Great Work by someone who is presumably Basil Valentine, he also mentions his own wife: "...When my wife told me the good news" and "...my wife, with the inexplicable intuition of sensitives, had a really strange dream." In other words, when referring to something as important as the Great Work, he mentions his wife as someone important to the Magnum Opus.[9] [10] Canseliet points out the mistake made by the Abbé Villain spelling Flamel's wife's name as "Pernelle". Nicolas Flamel himself knows her as "Perrenelle" or the eternal almighty Lady of the Great Work, Mother Nature herself. According to Canseliet, she is "... La Dame par excellence."[11]

Nazi interest in Alchemy

In the 1920s Franz Tausend, the German alchemist, was involved in a gold-making project at the same time as General Erich von Ludendorff was involved in the same project presumably to help finance the Nazi Party. [12].

It is believed that on the verge of World War II, the Abwehr was in active (but fruitless) pursuit of Fulcanelli because of his alleged knowledge of the technology of nuclear weapons.

Conclusion

According to Louis Pauwels, Fulcanelli survived World War II and disappeared completely after the Liberation of Paris. Every attempt to find him failed. In August 1945, G-2 Army Intelligence asked Bergier to contact a certain Army major who was in charge of the operation of searching and discovering German research reports on atomic energy. The anonymous U. S. Army major wanted to know the whereabouts of Fulcanelli. Bergier could not say and the army major seemed satisfied Fulcanelli could not be found.[13]

Alchemy in modern times

In 1980, Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His experimental technique, using nuclear physics, was able to remove protons and neutrons from the bismuth atoms. Seaborg's technique would have been far too expensive to enable routine manufacturing of gold, but his work is the closest achievement, so far, to the mythical Philosopher's Stone of the ancient Alchemists. Alchemy is very much alive today. [14]

Rendez-vous à Paris

Walter Lang reports that Fulcanelli contacted Jacques Bergier (Яков Михайлович Бергёр) to warn French atomic physicist André Hellbronner of man's impending use of nuclear weapons. According to Fulcanelli, nuclear weapons had been used before against humanity, being the Abyss pandemonium as noted much later by Dr. Albert Einstein on the front page of the New York Post after the detonation of the first Hydrogen bomb in the early 50s (October 31, 1952). Dr. Hellbronner and Chevillon among others were assassinated by the Gestapo towards the end of World War II.[15]

The meeting between Jacques Bergier and Fulcanelli took place in June 1937 in a laboratory of the Gas Board in Paris. According to Neil Powell, the following is a translation of the original verbatim transcript of the rendezvous. Fulcanelli told Bergier:

"You're on the brink of success, as indeed are several other of our scientists today. Please, allow me, be very very careful. I warn you... The liberation of nuclear power is easier than you think and the radioactivity artificially produced can poison the atmosphere of our planet in a very short time, a few years. Moreover, atomic explosives can be produced from a few grains of metal powerful enough to destroy whole cities. I'm telling you this for a fact: the alchemists have known it for a very long time... "I shall not attempt to prove to you what I'm now going to say but I ask you to repeat it to M. Hellbronner: certain geometrical arrangements of highly purified materials are enough to release atomic forces without having recourse to either electricity or vacuum techniques... 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." [16]

When Bergier asked Fulcanelli about the Philosopher's Stone, the alchemist answered: "...the vital thing is not the transmutation of metals but that of the experimenter himself. It is an ancient secret that a few people rediscover each century. Unfortunately, only a handful are successful..."[17]

Aftermath

In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons.[18] Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission.[19]

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...kabarnya sih  begitu, ilmuwan yang penuh tanda tanya(?) ...rumor yang bilang tentang transmutasi itu yang membingungkan, secara Alkimia mungkin bisa berhasil, tetapi itu teori (contohnya benda padatnya saat kita mengosokkan penggaris kerambut maka elektron bisa pindah), tetapi kalo unsur yang tetap itu bagaimana ya, bagaimana bisa mengambil seberapa elektron dari suatu unsur semau kita ya?

Apakah Alkimia hanya membahas tentang mengubah suatu benda menjadi emas??

Adakah hubungannya dengan Dark Scientist (seseorang yang mencoba menggabungkan ilmu pengetahuan dengan ilmu sihir, seperti yang dilakukan NAZI)!?

Lalu bagaimana dengan pertanyaanku yang pertama?

..oke, nih dikasih sumber lain yang masih dilingkup ForSa
http://www.forumsains.com/kimia/bedanya-kimia-dan-alkimia/
http://www.forumsains.com/pseudo-science-dan-science-fiction/mungkin-ini-yg-dimaksud-karno-obat-abadi-alchemist/
http://www.forumsains.com/kimia/mengubah-besi-menjadi-emas/
..asik juga baca2 nya...

Apakah Alkimia hanya membahas tentang mengubah suatu benda menjadi emas??

Sepertinya tidak, malah mengubah jadi emas cuma sedikit disinggung di text2 yg saya baca (kebanyakan tentang resep/medicine dan teori2 alam), ada banyak literatur alkimia (abad 16 s/d modern) tersebar di internet

..elixir of life sering di aplikasikan dalam dunia game...
  apa lagi pemikiran tentang ini kan dimulai dari mitos, seperti Henokh, Toth, dan Hermes trismegistus, dan cerita lain ada juga dalam kisah Nabi Khidir, menurutku sih bukan elixirnya yang menghidupkan tetapi, yang Maha Penciptalah yang menghidupkan...

Kasus agak serupa ada pada pedang exaliburnya Arthur kayaknya ya..

kalo disitu Arthur ngga bisa mati selama memegang pedangnya dalam perang...