Born in 1919 in the Oise, Jean Dubuis was a unique man amongst the small cadre of "truth seekers". He is both a scientist and a true "follower", an alchemist and a Qabalist.
Jean Dubuis was an electronics engineer and scientist. When his studies were interrupted by the German occupation, he worked for several months in the laboratory of atomic synthesis of Ivry led by Frédéric Joliot-Curie. After the French Liberation, Dubuis’ career took him from radio-electricity companies (so called at the time), to working for over thirty years as an engineer at IBM company. He was not only a witness, but a participant in the evolution of computers from electronic tubes through the transistors to today’s integrated circuits.
When he was 8 years old, Jean Dubuis visited Mont Saint-Michel. At this young age he had an enlightening experience there which revealed to him the existence of an invisible world. Gradually, he became convinced the invisible world is the visible world’s support. Dubuis spent his life exploring texts of the ancients and submitting them to his own experimentation in order to learn more about the invisible world. Toward this end, he studied symbolism, Qabala, Alchemy, and many other traditional sciences. He conducted these experiments with rigorous methodology, free of prejudice.
As a member of philosophical groups, Dubuis facilitated numerous presentations, forums and conferences on Qabala, including the structure of Man and the Universe. From the early 1960's he published many articles on these subjects both at home in France and abroad in American journals.
During these public events, audience questioning led him to believe that an esoteric discipline would be more appropriate and measurable, in view of the appearance of our highly technological current culture. Dubuis then sought to develop the alchemical laboratory practice which he had initially only studied in theory. His writings published in the US put him in contact with various US esoteric researchers, particularly with the "Paracelsus Research Society" led by the German chemist/alchemist Albert Riedel ("Frater Albertus"). From this relationship and the exchange of correspondence following, Dubuis had the idea to create a course of plant alchemy. In 1979 he decided, following courses organized with the Italian alchemist Augusto Pancaldi, to create an association called "Les Philosophes de la Nature" over which he presided and led for 12 years.
Both a scientist in the modern sense, and an experimenter in "traditional sciences", Jean Dubuis was a true Initiate and an extraordinary teacher. His works combine depth of concept with remarkable clarity of formulation.

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