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. In a 2004 article for Skeptic, the author Jason Colavito wrote that the book's tales of ancient astronauts predated Erich von Däniken's works on the topic, and that the ideas are so close to the fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft such as " The Call of Cthulhu" or At the Mountains of Madness (published in 1928 and 1931, respectively) that, according to Colavito, it is probable that Lovecraft's fiction directly inspired the book. [5] Jason Colavito (2004). "Charioteer of the Gods: An investigation into H.P. Lovecraft and the invention of ancient astronauts". Skeptic. 10 (4). 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.

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. In fact, only one of von Daniken's major claims is missing from the "Cthulhu" story, that the ancient gods created mankind in their own image. Lovecraft has an answer for that, too. In his 1931 story "At the Mountains of Madness," explorers find an incomparably old city in Antarctica, and the sculptures on the walls tell a horrifying story of how the Old Ones created Earth’s lifeforms: "It was under the sea, at first for food and later for other purposes, that they first created earth life—using available substances according to long-known methods… It interested us to see in some of the very last and most decadent sculptures a shambling, primitive mammal, used sometimes for food and sometimes as an amusing buffoon by the land dwellers, whose vaguely simian and human foreshadowings were unmistakable" [3].The last word on Le Matin should, I think, go to Jeffrey J. Kripal who, in his book Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal, writes: “Read literally, the book is perfectly outrageous. Read fantastically, that is, as an act of imagination in touch with some deeper stream of physical and cultural reality, the book is perfectly prescient.” 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. Reveals the occult influences on the Nazis and introduces the alchemist Fulcanelli and the work of Charles Fort and Gurdjieff

On the other hand, damn, that part about Hitler and Himmler is smoking hot horror goodness. It got to me. Lovecraftian fiction became increasingly popular in Europe, where the French embraced him as a bent genius, much as they embraced Edgar Allan Poe and would soon embrace Jerry Lewis. Lovecraft became especially popular with the French magazine Planète, which throughout the 1960s reprinted Lovecraft’s stories in French translation. The names of Lovecraft's alien gods, like Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, and Shub-Niggurath, began to crop up in other stories during Lovecraft's lifetime. Lovecraft himself started this practice by inserting these names, or variants on them, into stories he ghostwrote or revised for other authors. In his revision of Zelia Bishop’s "The Mound," for example, Lovecraft slipped his alien god Cthulhu into the story under the variant name Tulu, giving magazine readers what they thought were independent stories featuring references to the same ancient gods. By the 1960s, several dozen authors were using elements of what came to be called "The Cthulhu Mythos" in stories they wrote for science fiction and horror magazines.Lovecraft's works banished the supernatural by recasting it in materialist terms. He took the idea of a pantheon of ancient gods and made them a group of aliens who descended to earth in the distant past. 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 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. 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. 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.