In 1972, on vacation, GRATALOUP went to the surroundings of Nice, to the Domaine de l'Étoile where he met the one he called "Tante Marthe". She will make him discover theosophy and theosophists with spiritual encounters like that of Jean Klein, disciple of Krishnamurti, Blavatsky and many others like Alexandra David Neel.

He then became a member of the Theosophical Society. Theosophy emphasizes the fact that matter and spirit communicate, while proceeding, according to this doctrine, of a circulation of energies in a cosmic communion of the mineral, the vegetable, the animal and human universe.

It is from this theosophical research that he will realize the first series "Awakenings of the Mineral" which will be followed by the series "Awakenings of the Vegetable".

"Starting from the theosophical principle where all the forces of nature tend towards the light, I wanted, as Hölderlin said, "to put back the principle of the effort of matter towards the light and vice versa". As an indefinite reflection, it had no end. It starts symbolically from the dark to the clear."