Le lapsit exillis des Preuses est le lapis exilis des Sages.
“The Grail-stone guarded by the Virgins is none other than the Philosopher’s Stone of the true Alchemists.”
Fulcanelli. It appears in Le Mystère des Cathédrales in the chapter on Notre-Dame de Paris, right after he decodes the famous “Smaragdine Table” bas-relief on the cathedral’s west porch.
Exact Translation
French | Literal | Natural English |
Le | The | The |
lapsit exillis | lapsit exillis (Wolfram’s Grail-stone) | lapsit exillis |
des | of the | of the |
Preuses | Valiant Women / Heroines (medieval French for the Grail maidens) | Preuses (Grail virgins) |
est | is | is |
le | the | the |
lapis exilis | thin/meagre stone | lapis exilis |
des | of the | of the |
Sages | Wise (i.e. the Adepts) | Sages (Alchemists) |
“The lapsit exillis of the Grail maidens is the lapis exilis of the Sages.”
or more fluidly: “The Grail-stone guarded by the Virgins is none other than the Philosopher’s Stone of the true Alchemists.”