Alexandre Lachance Alchimiste
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Alexandre Lachance
Born on March 8th 1903 in Quebec city, Quebec, his mother was a descendant of the Sioux tribe. While his grand father was in the importation of cognac and armagnac, his father became a chemist in the brewing industry . Alexandre made his classical studies in the Quebec Seminary. In 1926 he went to Jacksonville, Florida, to follow a special course in psychology (mostly experiments in parapsychology) with the Judge Troward.
Married in 1936, he had 10 children. He worked as a teacher all his life. Teaching to the teenagers Latin, Greek, English, chemistry and mathematics. He also worked as a cook at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec city. He was first violin in the Symphony of Quebec, and also taught the violin. Then he became director of a secondary school, the "Evangelique Institute".
Then, the war begin. Alexandre was a well educated man so he became "correspondant of war" and staff sergent In 1950, after the war, he founded the "Institut de psychologie appliquee". He wrote a course of applied psychology and he was giving this course by correspondance. It was to help in the re-education of war veterans.
BEGINNING IN ALCHEMY
He was very young at the Seminary when his Latin teacher asked him to translate a part of the "Mysterium Magnum" of Jacob Boehme. That was it! Alexandre began to read esoterical and alchemical texts. Also he had some "paranormal" experiences (one during an operation under anesthesia) that made him realise that there was more than the physical matter. First he studied with AMORC, then with the "Fraternite rosicrucienne de Max Heindel" in California. He was extensively influenced by Parcival, Powell, Leadbeater, Bracton. Then he went on to study Basile Valentin (his mentor, he said), Flamel, Cyliani, Philalethe, Le Trevisan, Maier. He often quoted Fulcanelli, Canseliet (which whom he correspond some times) and Roger Caro.
In the laboratory, he worked with a man called Skelton in the 50's. In the 70's he worked with Camille Coudary and after that with a good friend of his (anonyme). Alexandre was working on the cinnabar in the humid way in the athanor, with dew salt and KOH.
In the 80's Alex gave dozens of conferences mostly in Montreal and Quebec city. Some of them were on practical alchemy where he was talking a lot on the preparation of the materia prima, how to collect the dew and get a salt from it and how to prepare KOH. Theoricaly, he was talking a lot about the three principles, salt, sulfur and mercury and of the SECRET FIRE.
He was so pleased to talk of this FIRE that comes from within, the FIRE from the sacrum, and of the great privilege to be two persons in the laboratory - husband and wife - so that they can communicate the bipolar energy to the matter.
Alexandre described so well the philosophy and the goal of alchemy that a lot of people began their quest after meeting him.
Some other conferences were on differents subjects: kabbalah, astrology, yoga, respiration, Upanishad, Avatars, philosophy, physics, chemistry, Bible, Christ, Tesla, Steiner, history, Egypt, Tantra yoga, etc, etc. The conferences organisors called him the "living encyclopedia". He had a way to explain things and facts so that everybody understand but without losing the "grandeur" and the magnificence of the subject.
He also taught in almost all of his conferences some respiratory exercices so that people can see and feel their magnetic field and know that they were more than a body.
Most of all of these conferences still exist on audio and video cassette, all in French, of course. Also, CBC made a half-hour TV program on in (Man Alive). The ONF made a small documentary and he made somme short apparitions in different TV show. The magazine "7 Jours" in Montreal made a good article on him and also VSD in France.
At the end of his life, Alexandre translated the monumental work of Howard John Zitco of the Worl University Roundtable, Arizona: "The Lemurian theo-christic Conception". He published in French (Fiat Lux ed.) this series of 13 fascicules of about 85 pages each. He was giving a lot of time on teaching and distributing this translation, giving conferences on it.
ALEXANDRE LACHANCE was a great "erudit". We can say for sure, that there would be no alchemy in Quebec without him. He gave the opportunity to a lot of us to begin on the path, having the certainty this was not an illusion.
Always kind, with a great sense of humour, talking about his "ALEXIR", he left to everybody who saw him or knew him a sense of dignity of the human race and a desire to go better and higher.
Alexandre died on november the 3rd 1987 at the respectable age of 84.
Durée Total : 120 minutes