The Morning of the Magicians

I consider this one of the most profound titles that I've read in the last fifty years. I wish I'd found it sooner. I am a bit overwhelmed by the depth of the content and I intend to begin re-reading it immediately. The questions posed and the ideas expressed are right where many of our better esoteric philosophers are today -- 60 years after its initial publication. Finally some of the current thinking as well as the science is catching up to them! I'd recommend this for both Futurists and Historians....to say nothing of individuals in the arts and sciences.

One of the crazier books I've read - a veritable compendium of conspiracy in the first half of the 20th century. It's all here: Nazi's, the Holy Grail, UFO's, hollow earth, vril, etc., etc. I'm sure that Spielberg, von Daniken and Wilson definitely read this. In my younger days I'd have said "Smoke this, it'll really get you out there!", but I'm too old for that now. The biggest gripe I have is the translation - this book would pretty obviously have read better in French. But oh well, read it anyway and fall down the rabbit hole for yourself.

This hilarious mish-mash was one of the first books to link National Socialism with The Occult. ("The Occult" explains everything and nothing.) Lots of interesting bits and pieces which don't add up. Inspired the song of the same title by The Flaming Lips on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

An interesting book. The section on alchemy was questionable but who knows. The section though which held my interest the most concerned the nazis. I have always felt that there was an extremely mystical side to the 3rd Reich and the second section of this book went through a great deal of the ideas which permeated it. The rest of the book concerning lost civilizations and mutations is something for me to think about later and didn't leave a strong impression on me at the time of reading. The only problem I have is the lack of bibliography although they do name some sources within the work there is much that is surely not there.

Read a good part of it some ten years ago - time to finish.

Adquirido em Outubro/2010

I have this in xerox form only