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Originally published in French under the title
Le Matin des Magiciens
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pauwels, Louis, 1 9 2 0 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 9 7 8 - 1 - 5 9 4 7 7 - 2 3 1 - 3 (pbk.)
1. Occultism. I. Bergier, Jacques, 1 9 1 2 - II. Title.
BF1412.P3813 2009
001.9—dc22
2008041767
Printed and bound in Canada by Transcontinental Printing
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CONTENTS
Preface
PART O N E
xv
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!
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
III.
Brief reflections on the backwardness of sociology—Talking
cross-purposes—Planetary versus provincial—Crusader in the
modern world—The poetry of science
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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"
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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which a nameless American major seeks a Fulcanelli now definitely
vanished—In which Oppenheimer echoes a Chinese sage of a
thousand years ago
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
V. There is time for everything—There is even a time for the times
to come together
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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!
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
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
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