Morning of the Magicians

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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.” 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. By day, my friend and I conducted a Grand Tour of the Mozabite Pentapolis (the five towns built on hills above the Valley of the Mzab); at night, after supper, I read to him great chunks of Le Matin, in which we encountered some of the intellectual byways of Western Europe: byways which would lead to a very dark cul-de-sac. By contrast, the Mozabite ‘elsewhere’ I was discovering felt like an oasis of light. Adams, Deborah (2009). "Review of "The Morning of the Magicians "". Curled Up With A Good Book . Retrieved 9 April2010. 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.

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. 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 Lachman, Gary (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 (published 2003). p.27. ISBN 9781934708651 . Retrieved 28 August 2019. Related to von Däniken's thesis is another theme of The Morning of the Magicians that 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.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. 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]

I had mostly just thought to give The Morning of the Magicians a one-star rating and move on. Most of the book is profoundly stupid, and often in factual error. (Piri Reis was NOT a 19th-century admiral, but a 16th-century one thus could have presented the US with anything. And radio waves and gamma rays are both forms of light, so, yeah, you can compare them. Plus, computers are binary - the nigh definition of binary, even - and human-style intelligence is analog. Stuff like that.)

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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. 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. 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. 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. In Julius Evola's intellectual autobiography The Path of Cinnabar, the baron discusses how The Morning of the Magicians, using falsehoods and fantasies, attempted to taint the name of pioneering Radical Traditionalist René Guénon. The authors make the claim that Nazism was "Guénon with tanks." Interestingly enough, The Morning of the Magicians author Louis Pauwels would later became a figure in the French New Right. Co-Author Jacques Bergier was a Russian Jew whose cousin Anatoly was a member of the firing squad that shot Tsar Nicholas II. One can only assume that Mr. Bergier was a little biased when writing The Morning of the Magicians, his butt-love for Albert Einstein is more than obvious.