Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier

The Morning of the Magicians: Secret Societies, Conspiracies, and Vanished Civilizations

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Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking, international bestseller popularized occultism, alchemy, and paranormal phenomena in the 1960s. It provides insights into our perceptions of reality, telepathy, mutants, and parallel universes, reveals occult influences on the Nazis and introduces the alchemist Fulcanelli.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Edition, New
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781594772313
• ISBN-10: 1594772312
• Artikelnr.: 23599320

Autorenporträt

Louis Pauwels (1920-1997) was a French journalist who founded the magazine Planète, an outgrowth of this book. Jacques Bergier (1912-1978) was a nuclear physicist and chemical engineer who was active in the French Resistance in World War II and helped destroy the German atomic plant at Peenemünde.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE Part One The Future Perfect I. Salute to the reader in a hurry
A resignation in 1875
Birds of ill omen
How the nineteenth century closed the doors
The end of science and the repression of fantasy
Poincaré's despair
We are our own grandfathers
Youth, Youth! II. Bourgeois delights
A crisis for the intelligence, or the hurricane of unrealism
Glimpses of another reality
Beyond logic and literary philosophies
The idea of an Eternal Present
Science without conscience or conscience without science?
Hope III. Brief reflections on the backwardness of sociology
Talking cross
purposes
Planetary versus provincial
Crusader in the modern world
The poetry of science An Open Conspiracy I. The generation of the "workers of the Earth"
Are you a behind
the
times modern, or a contemporary of the future?
A poster on the walls of Paris 1622
The esoteric language is the technical language
A new conception of a secret society
A new aspect of the "religious spirit" II. The prophets of the Apocalypse
A Committee of Despair
A Louis XVI machine
gun
Science is not a Sacred Cow
Monsieur Despotopoulos would like to arrest progress
The legend of the Nine Unknown Men III. Fantastic realism again
Past techniques
Further consideration on the necessity for secrecy
We take a voyage through time
The spirit's continuity
The engineer and the magician once again
Past and future
The present is lagging in both directions
Gold from ancient books
A new vision of the ancient world IV. The concealment of knowledge and power
The meaning of revolutionary war
Technology brings back the guilds
A return to the age of the Adepts
A fiction writer's prediction, "The Power
House"
From monarchy to cryptocracy
The secret society as the government of the future
Intelligence itself a secret society
A knocking at the door The Example of Alchemy I. An alchemist in the Café Procope in 1953
A conversation about Gurdjieff
A believer in the reality of the philosopher's stone
I change my ideas about the value of progress
What we really think about alchemy: neither a revelation nor a groping in the dark
Some reflections on the "spiral" and on hope II. A hundred thousand books that no one reads
Wanted: a scientific expedition to the land of the alchemists
The inventors
Madness from mercury
A code language
Was there another atomic civilization?
The electric batteries of the museum of Baghdad
Newton and the great Initiates
Helvetius and Spinoza and the philosopher's stone
Alchemy and modern physics
A hydrogen bomb in an oven
Transformation of matter, men, and spirits III. In which a little Jew is seen to prefer honey to sugar
In which an alchemist who might be the mysterious Fulcanelli speaks of the atomic danger in 1937, describes the atomic pile and evokes civilization now extinct
In which Bergier breaks a safe with a blow
lamp and carries off a bottle of uranium under his arm
In which a nameless American major seeks a Fulcanelli now definitely vanished
In which Oppenheimer echoes a Chinese sage of a thousand years ago IV. The modern alchemist and the spirit of research
Description of what an alchemist does in his laboratory
Experiments repeated indefinitely
What is he waiting for?
The preparation of darkness
Electronic gas
Water that dissolves
Is the philosopher's stone energy in suspension?
The transmutation of the alchemist himself
This is where true metaphysics begin V. There is time for everything
There is even a time for the times to come together The Vanished Civilizations I. In which the authors introduce a fantastic personage
Mr. Fort
The fire at the "sanatorium of overworked coincidences"
Mr. Fort and universal knowledge
40,000 notes on a gush of periwinkles, a downpour of frogs and showers of blood
The Book of the Damned
A certain Professor Kreyssler
In praise of "intermediarism" with some examples
The Hermit of Bronx, or the cosmic Rabelais
Visit of the author to the Cathedral of Saint Elsewhere
Au revoir, Mr. Fort! II. An hypothesis condemned to the stake
Where a clergyman and a biologist become comic figures
Wanted: a Copernicus in anthropology
Many blank spaces on all the maps
Dr. Fortune's lack of curiosity
The mystery of the melted platinum
Cords used as books
The tree and the telephone
Cultural relativity III. In which the authors speculate about the Great Pyramid
Possibility of "other" techniques
The example of Hitler
The Empire of Almanzar
Recurrence of "ends of the world"
The impossible Easter Island
The legend of the white man
The civilization of America
The mystery of maya
From the "bridge of light" to the strange plain of Nazca IV. Memory older than us
Metallic birds
A strange map of the world
Atomic bombardments and interplanetary vessels in "sacred texts"
A new view of machines
The cult of the "cargo"
Another vision of esoterism
The rites of the intelligence Part Two A Few Years in the Absolute Elsewhere I. All the marbles in the same bag
The historian's despair
Two amateurs of the unusual
At the bottom of the Devil's Lake
An empty antifascism
The authors in the presence of the Infinitely Strange
Troy, too, was only a legend
History lags behind
From visible banality to invisible fantasy
The fable of the golden beetle
Undercurrents of the future
There are other things besides soulless machinery II. In the Tribune des Nations the Devil and madness are refused recognition
Yet there are rivalries between deities
The Germans and Atlantis
Magic socialism
A secret religion and a secret Order
An expedition to hidden regions
The first guide will be a poet III. P. J. Toulet and Arthur Machen
A great neglected genius
A Robinson Crusoe of the soul
The story of the angels at Mons
The life, adventures, and misfortunes of Arthur Machen
How we discovered an English secret society
A Nobel Prize winner in a black mask
The Golden Dawn and its members IV. A hollow Earth, a frozen world, a New Man
"We are the enemies of the mind and spirit"
Against Nature and against God
The Vril Society
The race which will supplant us
Haushofer and the Vril
The idea of the mutation of man
The "Unknown Superman"
Mathers, chief of the Golden Dawn meets the "Great Terrorists"
Hitler claims to have met them too
An hallucination or a real presence?
A door opening on to something other
A prophecy of René Guénon
The Nazis' enemy No. 1: Steiner V. An ultimatum for the scientists
The prophet Horbiger, a twentieth
century Copernicus
The theory of the frozen world
History of the solar system
The end of the world
The Earth and its four Moons
Apparition of the giants
Moons, giants, and men
The civilization of Atlantis
The five cities 300,000 years old
From Tiahuanaco to Tibet
The second Atlantis
The Deluge
Degeneration and Christianity
We are approaching another era
The law of ice and fire VI. Horbiger still has a million followers
Waiting for the Messiah
Hitler and political esoterism
Nordic science and magic thinking
A civilization utterly different from our own
Gurdjieff, Horbiger, Hitler, and the man responsible for the Cosmos
The cycle of fire
Hitler speaks
The basis of Nazi anti
Semitism
Martians at Nuremberg
The antipact
The rockets' summer
Stalingrad, or the fall of the Magi
The prayer on Mount Elbruz
The little man victorious over the superman
The little man opens the gates of Heaven
The Twilight of the Gods
The flooding of the Berlin Underground and the myth of the Deluge
A Chorus by Shelley VII. A hollow Earth
We are living inside it
The Sun and Moon are in the center of the Earth
Radar in the service of the Wise Men
Birth of a new religion in America?Its prophet was a German airman
Anti
Einstein
The work of a madman
A hollow Earth, Artificial Satellites and the notion of Infinity
Hitler as arbiter
Beyond coherence VIII. Grist for our horrible mill
The last prayer of Dietrich Eckardt
The legend of Thule
A nursery for mediums
Haushofer the magician
Hess's silence
The swastika
The seven men who wanted to change life
A Tibetan colony
Exterminations and ritual
It is darker than you thought IX. Himmler and the other side of the problem
1934 a turning point
The Black Order in power
The death's
head warrior monks
Initiation in the Burgs
Sievers' last prayer
The strange doings of the Ahnenerbe
The High Priest Frederick Hielscher
A forgotten note of Jünger's
Impressions of war and victory Part Three That Infinity Called Man . . . I. A New Kind of Intuition: The Fantastic in fire and blood
The barriers of incredulity
The first rocket
Bourgeois and "Workers of the Earth"
False facts and true fiction
Inhabited worlds
Visitors from Beyond
The great lines of communication
Modern myths
Fantastic realism in psychology
Toward an exploration of the fantastic within
The method described
Another conception of liberty II. The Fantastic Within: Some pioneers: Balzac, Hugo, Flammarion
Jules Romains and the "Great Question"
The end of positivism
What is parapsychology?
Some extraordinary facts and experiences
The example of the Titanic
Clairvoyance
Precognition and dreams
Parapsychology and psychoanalysis
We reject occultism and the pseudosciences
In quest of machinery for sounding the depths III. Toward a Psychological Revolution: The mind's "second wind"
Wanted: an Einstein for psychology
A renaissance of religion
Our society is at death's door
Jaurès and the "tree buzzing with flies"
We see little because we are little IV. The Magic Mind Rediscovered: The green eye of the Vatican
The "other" intelligence
The story of the "relavote"
Is Nature playing a double game?
The starting
handle of the supermachine
New cathedrals and new slang
The last door
Existence as an instrument
A new view of symbols
All is not everything V. The Notion of an "Awakened State": After the fashion of theologians, scientists, magicians, and children
Salute to an expert at putting spokes in wheels
The conflict between spiritualism and materialism: the story of an allergy
The legend of tea
Could it be a natural faculty?
Thought as a means of travel on the ground or in the air
A supplement to the Rights of Man
Some reflections on the "awakened" Man
Ourselves as honest savages VI. Three True Stories as Illustration: The story of a great mathematician "in the raw"
The story of the most wonderful clairvoyant
The story of a scientist of the future who lived in 1750 VII. The "Awakened" Man: Some Paradoxes and Hypotheses: Why our three stories may have disappointed some readers
We know very little about levitation, immortality, etc.
Yet Man has the gift of ubiquity, has long sight, etc.
How do you define a machine?
How the first "awakened" Man could have been born
A fabulous, yet reasonable dream about vanished civilizations
The fable of the panther
The writing of God VIII. Some Documents on the "Awakened State": Wanted: an anthology
The sayings of Gurdjieff
When I was at the school for "awakening"
Raymond Abellio's story
A striking extract from the works of Gustav Meyrinck, a neglected genius IX. The Point Beyond Infinity: From Surrealism to Fantastic Realism
The Supreme Point
Beware of images
The madness of Georg Cantor
The Yogi and the mathematician
A fundamental aspiration of the human spirit
An extract from a story by Jorge Luis Borges X. Some Reflections on the Mutants: The child astronomer
A sudden access of intelligence
The theory of mutation
The myth of the great Superior Ones
The Mutants among us
From Horla to Leonard Euler
An invisible society of Mutants?
The birth of the collective being
Love of the living INDEX