What is the common point between death and theosophy, the phoenix and alchemy, Dracula and the Fathers of the Church, the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons, the Second Coming and reincarnation? For brevity, what links the imagination, hope and poetry in the three kingdoms? Palingenesis. This term rarely used with the theme, at least in some aspects, however, is known to all as it is an indispensable key to understanding the history of ideas, ésoté-cal and religious currents. This is only a poetic concept, a philosophical or spiritual idea for centuries, until the revelation of his de-monstrabilité in the late sixteenth. Theosophist or theologian, he fal-milk then choose his party in a universe where homunculi, gen-eration spontaneous and universal rule matches up matter and the ordinary course of reflection. Following the Christianization of palingenesis, transformation of the solar symbol of the phoenix in a representation of the Resur-rection for the edification of man, the survey runs between his finest dreams, his best thoughts on survi-vance of the soul and its demonstration by chymie.
