Morning of the Magicians

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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.

Reveals the occult influences on the Nazis and introduces the alchemist Fulcanelli and the work of Charles Fort and Gurdjieff 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.

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p. 121 He talks about the "intermediateness" of real and not real that we live in (inbetween these two). I'm down with this, but the concept is poorly developed throughout this book. For example, what one might say now in modern times is that many concepts of real and not real are static in nature vs accounting for time. What is true this minute is not true next and we are in a state of motion that is unknowable from this dimension. If he would have said that, I would be down, but he doesn't get that far. 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. p. 160 "If God is higher than all reality, we shall find God when we know everything that is reality. And if man possesses powers which enable him to understand the whole Universe, God is perhaps the whole Universe, plus something else." This is what always makes me troubled by this approach to thinking about it. If God is everything and you are a part of that everything, then you are a part of God, not separate. Under such a framework, the whole sentence doesn't even make sense. Hence, this idea and concept of truth next is ... to me, under the wrong framework all together.

A few lines traced with special ink on specially prepared paper serve as a receiver for electro-magnetic waves. Adams, Deborah (2009). "Review of "The Morning of the Magicians" ". Curled Up with a Good Book . Retrieved 9 April 2010. What is the alchemist’s working material? The same as that used for high temperature mineral chemistry: furnaces, crucibles, scales, measuring instruments with, in addition, modern apparatus for detecting nuclear radiation--Geiger counters, scintillometers, etc. 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. 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.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. Lachman, Gary (2003) [2001]. "Spawn of the magicians". Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius. New York: Red Wheel Weiser. p. 27. ISBN 9781934708651 . Retrieved 28 August 2019. Related to von Däniken's thesis is another theme of The Morning of the Magiciansthat impacted on the sixties: the idea of some great leap in human consciousness, an evolutionary mutation that was about to take place, if it hadn't already begun, and which would result in the new man. La seconda parte è dedicata al dilagare dell'occultismo nel XX, al ritorno in pompa magna dell'irrazionale, dell'antiscientifico, all'influsso dell'esoterismo, anche orientale, nella vita culturale, dapprima, e nelle ideologie politiche, poi. Il nocciolo sta nell'analisi delle tendenze occulte del partito nazista e nei deliri messianici del suo leader. Come il grande apparato scientifico tedesco si è piegato al servizio di tesi che negano le fondamenta della scienza (la teoria del ghiaccio e del fuoco, la teoria della terra concava ecc.).