Yeah, modern architecture can be pretty sweet and we can engineer some pretty amazing structures but even the cool stuff we make seems to pale in comparison to the highest architectural achievements of the past.
Our modern buildings are often devoid of bas reliefs and sculpture and gargoyles and flying buttresses, etc.
Something Fulcanelli doesn't mention, as far as I'm aware, is that the French slang for Gothic art like what we would see decorating the old Gothic Cathedrals, is phonetically assonant with the word "architect". In French, Gothic art is "art Gotique" and the slang version is "argotique". Say argotique and architect a few times back to back and the assonance is fairly obvious.
Interestingly, Fulcanelli does point out that "argotique" is related to "argot" and Jason and the Argonauts. His study of Gothic art at Gothic Cathedrals demonstrates how esoterically informed the builders of these buildings were.
Something else he doesn't point out is that, even more closely related than argotique and architect are the words argot and the psychedelic fungus from which LSD is derived: ergot. Ergot is what the Eleusinian mystery initiates were consuming in the kukeon mint beer concoction that, as far as my research suggests, allowed the initiates to see the aura, the chakras, and the kundalini serpent which they would have understood as the serpent wrapped around the Orphic egg.
This rant is why I struggle sometimes to speak about my research extemporaneously. So many dots connect. This is why I had to start writing it all down to organize it all in a way that allows me to present things in a logical, lucid, cohesive way instead of coming off as unhinged and insane.
