Morning of the Magicians

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Second, and a broader audience can appreciate this, I found the author's description of Nazi mysticism utterly chilling. Hitler as a medium for dark, subterranean powers, Himmler as a high priest, Nazism as an alien society focused on global war and mass murder as part of a magic ritual to create the ubermensch is one of the best horror stories written. I found it to be honestly terrifying. p. 196 He then talks about the Thule Group. I cannot tell from this section precisely how the Golden Dawn, Thule Group and Hitler are related as he says: "The Golden Dawn is not enough to explain the thule Group or the Luminouse Lodge, the Alenenberbe." This is part of why I find this whole chapter disjointed. It reads like a naming exercise and then concludes, since I can name all of these private clubs existing at the same time and they all had secrets it means that they are related to Hitler. Uhm... how precisely? I don't understand. I need another book that doesn't require so much cleverness of association from me, the reader. 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. 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.) If you're an atheist it's also the same. It's a bit to me like saying this is a piece of salt in a salt shaker full of salt, which we do not differentiate from. So when I shake it onto my food, what does sweet taste like. It makes no sense as a question. That's how I read this. especially in the context of a forth dimension time. 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. 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. 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.

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p. 228 He talks about the idea that the society in Germany that was created existed there for years and did not exist in the same reality as we do. I'm kinda down with that, but it's unclear whether he means it figuratively, mentally, or if he all out believes these people are aliens from another place. At different times, it's unclear if he means the third option I just listed. Jason Colavito (2004). "Charioteer of the Gods: An investigation into H.P. Lovecraft and the invention of ancient astronauts". Skeptic (10.4).

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. First, Pauwels suggests that a being of superhuman intelligence wouldn't need to hide. Neither would an organization of such intelligences. What they said to each other would be incomprehensible to ordinary humans, much in the same way that dogs don't understand what humans say. It would simply be lost on us. Quentin Coldwater, a grad student at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, has been fascinated by the magical fantasy world since he was young. But as he has gotten older, Quentin and his 20-something friends have discovered that the magical world they read about as children is not only real, but poses dangers to humanity. While studying at the secret upstate New York school, the friends struggle to cope with the aftermath of a catastrophe that befalls the institution. The fantasy series is based on a series of novels by Lev Grossman.

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The groundbreaking and classic study that first popularized occultism, alchemy, and paranormal phenomena in the 1960s Preface XXI - 'This book sums up five years of questing, through all the regions of consciousness to the frontiers of science and tradition." This was what he was trying to do and each chapter therefore reads a bit like that stream of consciousness versus any point or driver of what might have started the journey to begin with. p. 160 "If God is higher than all reality, we shall find God when we know everything that is reality. And if man possesses powers which enable him to understand the whole Universe, God is perhaps the whole Universe, plus something else." This is what always makes me troubled by this approach to thinking about it. If God is everything and you are a part of that everything, then you are a part of God, not separate. Under such a framework, the whole sentence doesn't even make sense. Hence, this idea and concept of truth next is ... to me, under the wrong framework all together. Adams, Deborah (2009). "Review of "The Morning of the Magicians" ". Curled Up with a Good Book . Retrieved 9 April 2010. Un saggio del 1960 che è entrato nella storia, anche della fantascienza. Ampi rimandi a fonti storiche, letterarie, dissertazioni filosofiche, matematiche ecc. Contiene addirittura stralci di alcune opere letterarie (ad es. "I nove miliardi di nomi di Dio" di Arthur Clarke, "Un cantico per Leibowitz" di Walter Miller).

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]. What is the alchemist’s working material? The same as that used for high temperature mineral chemistry: furnaces, crucibles, scales, measuring instruments with, in addition, modern apparatus for detecting nuclear radiation--Geiger counters, scintillometers, etc.

La seconda parte è dedicata al dilagare dell'occultismo nel XX, al ritorno in pompa magna dell'irrazionale, dell'antiscientifico, all'influsso dell'esoterismo, anche orientale, nella vita culturale, dapprima, e nelle ideologie politiche, poi. Il nocciolo sta nell'analisi delle tendenze occulte del partito nazista e nei deliri messianici del suo leader. Come il grande apparato scientifico tedesco si è piegato al servizio di tesi che negano le fondamenta della scienza (la teoria del ghiaccio e del fuoco, la teoria della terra concava ecc.).