Morning of the Magicians

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p. 115 "Scientific knowledge is not objective. Like civilization, it is a conspiracy. Quantities of facts are rejected because they would upset preconceived ideas. We live under an inquisitional regime where the weapon most frequently employed against nonconformist reality is derision. Under such conditions, then, what can our knowledge amount to?" Here, he's introducing Charles Fort. I feel (hope)like this might be an imperfect translation of what Fort is saying taken out of temporal context. I might need to just read Fort. I think it depends on the type of science and in what way. I'm not convinced it's a conspiracy though nor does he provide any sort of additional support or expansion of this idea before moving from it. Adams, Deborah (2009). "Review of "The Morning of the Magicians "". Curled Up With A Good Book . Retrieved 9 April2010. Unfortunately now long out of print [Note: The book was reprinted after this article was first published.], the book Morning of the Magicians laid the foundation for all the lost civilizations books to follow, including Chariots of the Gods. As R.T. Gault comments, "It's all here, from the Piri Reis map to pyramidology. The authors are frankly fascinated by the idea that ancient peoples may have been more advanced in some of their technologies than we generally believe" [5]. A few lines traced with special ink on specially prepared paper serve as a receiver for electro-magnetic waves.

So, how do I rate this book? About eighty percent of it is altogether stupid. Between outright errors and ludicrous overstatements, it layers on this banal vision of possibilities that is quite frankly the origin story of the X-Men - that nuclear waste created by atomic explosions is creating mutants with strange powers. Combined with a long section on alchemy, it's very much like the Marvel Universe - where magicians, psychics, and mutants fight Nazi evildoers and dark powers. But presented as non-fiction? It is to laugh. Plus, when not talking about Nazi mysticism, Pauwels repeats himself ad nauseum. This was actually suggested to me because of a conversation I was having about the incredibleness of the human mind to manifest thought into reality. I think the person was trying to use this book to tell me I am on a dangerous path associated with conspiracy theories. Problem is, this book is big on references, loose on a real thread of discussion. It reads like an underdeveloped academic that regurgitates lots of names, books, references and quotes but isn't actually going anywhere with it.

Jason Colavito (2004). "Charioteer of the Gods: An investigation into H.P. Lovecraft and the invention of ancient astronauts". Skeptic (10.4).

FULL text of The Morning of Magicians by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier, 1960, originally in French. The book has several very important themes: science and its origins and history, contemporary threats of total destruction by nuclear wars. Among secondary themes important are: history of Alchemy, Esoterica, ESP and military research on ESP and MANY MANY MANY other exciting and profound subjects of research also are present in this Magnificent work by a nuclear physicist from Odessa, Ukraine and very talented French author and science researcher What's Great: The reason it doesn't have 1 star is because it does a fantastic job of providing details on things that are actually quite hard to find. I did not know the history of Golden Dawn and its relationship with other brotherhoods that led to Hitler and the Natzi's. That said. I wish he would have gone into more about these different brotherhoods and why they split. The book has a bit of the wrong mix on this for me personally. But it's hard to get any of this info, so I can't give it less than 2 stars. Additionally, it references several books that must have been quite common at the time. I do think that the science or other theories of these books are probably now dated some 70 years later. That said, if they were common enough in his time, I'd like to read it so I can understand the history of knowledge better.

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The book is the origin of the claims of a fictional Maria Orsic, a Vienna-born Croatian woman who was supposedly involved with the Vril Society ( Vril Gesellschaft) and vanished in 1945, going to " Aldebaran". The mythology of Maria Orsic has spread in the internet age, particularly among those inclined to Esoteric Nazism. [ citation needed] Quentin Coldwater, a grad student at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, has been fascinated by the magical fantasy world since he was young. But as he has gotten older, Quentin and his 20-something friends have discovered that the magical world they read about as children is not only real, but poses dangers to humanity. While studying at the secret upstate New York school, the friends struggle to cope with the aftermath of a catastrophe that befalls the institution. The fantasy series is based on a series of novels by Lev Grossman. Second, and a broader audience can appreciate this, I found the author's description of Nazi mysticism utterly chilling. Hitler as a medium for dark, subterranean powers, Himmler as a high priest, Nazism as an alien society focused on global war and mass murder as part of a magic ritual to create the ubermensch is one of the best horror stories written. I found it to be honestly terrifying.

p. 230 He talks about the soul, but then he talks about the psychic powers of it in the weirdest way that I might be too dim to follow. "Men, then, are endowed with a special organ for transmitting the psychic forces needed to preserve the equilibrium of the Cosmos. This is what we call, vaguely, the soul, and all our religions according to this theory, are merely a relic of this forgotten primordial function, namely to play a part in maintaining the equilibrium of the cosmic force." ... but then he goes on to talk about the Nuremberg trials as being not necessary b/c the cosmic force that led these people was not of this world. It's really odd... and this is on p. 234 where he talks about how Hitler believed the Natzis, Jews, and non-whites were not human. Oh man.... it's all so weird. And then... When he set about writing his own works, he began to blend the modern world of science fiction with his favorite tales of Gothic gloom. Lovecraft tried to bring the Gothic tale into the twentieth century, modernizing the trappings of ancient horror for a new century of science. Lovecraft published his work in pulp fiction magazines, notably Weird Tales, though many of his works were not published until after his death in 1937. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, science fiction and horror magazines reprinted Lovecraft's tales numerous times, and he became one of the most popular pulp authors. p. 228 He talks about the idea that the society in Germany that was created existed there for years and did not exist in the same reality as we do. I'm kinda down with that, but it's unclear whether he means it figuratively, mentally, or if he all out believes these people are aliens from another place. At different times, it's unclear if he means the third option I just listed. Additionally, they would have no desire to brag about their accomplishments or explain their thoughts to us - for the same reason, we don't try to teach our dogs algebra. We simply could not understand anything meaningful they had to say. We travelled then by bus into the desert, sharing the experience, immortalised by Simone de Beauvoir, of the view of Ghardaïa, with its pastel-coloured buildings, as a beautifully constructed Cubist painting! We spent the next two weeks as guests of the uncle. My friend himself was working on a study of the local architecture, so I followed him on his field trips, or explored on my own when he was researching and writing.Preface XXI - 'This book sums up five years of questing, through all the regions of consciousness to the frontiers of science and tradition." This was what he was trying to do and each chapter therefore reads a bit like that stream of consciousness versus any point or driver of what might have started the journey to begin with. No, we do not use 10% of the brain, we use 100% percent of it. The brain is just like an engine of a car... we don't use only 10% of the engine when going slow and 100% when going at max speed. The engine works 100% at all time, only that its parts are working faster at faster speed. If one part breaks, the brain, as the car engine, will work badly or not work at all.

The groundbreaking and classic study that first popularized occultism, alchemy, and paranormal phenomena in the 1960s P. 189 I did not know the Golden Dawn's history. Nice. It was founded in 1887 as an offshoot of the Rosicrucian Society by Robert Wentworth Little and consisted of Freemasons and I did not realize that Yeats was a member of the Golden Dawn. On the other hand, damn, that part about Hitler and Himmler is smoking hot horror goodness. It got to me. Pauwels and Bergier went on to pursue their interest in the paranormal in the magazine Planète, dedicated to what they termed réalisme fantastique (fantastic realism). Both The Morning of the Magicians and the Planète magazine had considerable influence on the esotericism of the 1960s–1970s counterculture, heralding the popularization of certain New Age ideas. [3] We do not know all the laws of matter. If alchemy is a more advanced form of knowledge than our own science, it employs simpler methods.

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On writing style: This is written in 1960 and a lot of people writing at that time had an approach that is no longer used. They would quote lots of scholars with little context surrounding it and provide large citations without then stating why that particular citation. You'll notice this if you listen to boomers talk. They tend to do the same thing. That just doesn't work in 2020 because the audience is far broader and there are just far more people with the same name. As a result of this style, you really have to work to make sure you understood the author's point. In some cases, this technique is simply to just say "A-ha! I've quoted you into submission," at the end of a series of unconnected points. I mean in some cases, I literally had to re-read the entire section or even chapter but with the intention of diagramming out the main idea. We are now going to give, for what we believe to be the first time, a description of what an alchemist actually does in his laboratory. We do not claim to reveal every detail of the methods employed, but we believe we can throw some light which will not be without interest. Nor do we forget that alchemy’s ultimate aim is the transmutation, of the alchemist himself, and that his operations are only steps in his slow progress toward “spiritual liberation.” We are now going to try to give some fresh information about these operations. First, Pauwels suggests that a being of superhuman intelligence wouldn't need to hide. Neither would an organization of such intelligences. What they said to each other would be incomprehensible to ordinary humans, much in the same way that dogs don't understand what humans say. It would simply be lost on us. Where to watch The Magicians Buy Seasons 1-5 Subscription Seasons 1-5 Buy Seasons 1-5 Buy Seasons 1-5 The alchemist in the first place spends many years deciphering old texts that, deprived of any guiding Ariadne’s thread, are like a labyrinth where everything has been done deliberately and systematically to throw the uninitiated into a state of inextricable mental confusion. With the help of patience, humility, and faith he gradually begins to understand these texts. Having got so far, he is ready to begin actual alchemic operations. These we are going to describe, but there is one thing of which we have no knowledge. We know what happens in an alchemist’s laboratory, but we do not know what happens in the alchemist himself, in his mind and heart. It may be that spiritual energy plays a part in the physical and chemical operations of the alchemist. It may be that a certain method of acquiring, concentrating, and directing this spiritual energy is essential to the success of the alchemists’ work. This is not certain, but in this rare context it is impossible not to recall Dante’s saying: “I see that you believe these things because I tell you them; but you do not know the reason for them, and therefore, in spite of being believed, their meaning is still hidden.”