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Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data Pauwels, Louis, 1920 Aug Destiny Books One Park Street Rochester, Vermont 05767 www.DestinyBooks.com Destiny Books is a division of Inner Traditions International Copyright © 1960 by Ed itions Gallimard Originally published in French under the title Le Matin des Magiciens by Editions Gallimard, Paris This edition published in 2009 by Destiny Books All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pauwels, Louis, 1920 Aug. 2- [Matin des magiciens. English] The morning of the magicians : secret societies, conspiracies, and vanished civilizations / Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier ; translated from the French by Rollo Myers, p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-59477-231-3 (pbk.) 1. Occultism. I. Bergier, Jacques, 1912- II. Title. BF1412.P3813 2009 001.9—dc22 2008041767 Printed and bound in Canada by Transcontinental Printing 10 987654321 Text design and layout by Priscilla Baker This book was typeset in Garamond Premier Pro, with Trajan and Throhand used as display typefaces To the fine soul, to the warm heart of Gustave Bouju, a worker, a realfather to me. In memoriam. L. P. CONTENTS Preface xv 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—Poincares despair— We are our own grandfathers—Youth, Youth! 2 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 10 III. Brief reflections on the backwardness of sociology—Talking cross-purposes—Planetary versus provincial—Crusader in the modern world—The poetry of science 17 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" 23 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 3 3 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 41 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 60 The Example of Alchemy I. An alchemist in the Cafe 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 73 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 79 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 90 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 99 V. There is time for everything—There is even a time for the times to come together 110 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! 113 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 131 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 139 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 150 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 164 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 179 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 182 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 Rene Guenon—The Nazis' enemy No. 1: Steiner 190 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 199 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 223 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 243 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 251 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 Jiinger's—Impressions of war and victory 263 PART THREE That Infinity Called Man .
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