Reveals the occult influences on the Nazis and introduces the alchemist Fulcanelli and the work of Charles Fort and Gurdjieff We do not know all the laws of matter. If alchemy is a more advanced form of knowledge than our own science, it employs simpler methods.

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.

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When he set about writing his own works, he began to blend the modern world of science fiction with his favorite tales of Gothic gloom. Lovecraft tried to bring the Gothic tale into the twentieth century, modernizing the trappings of ancient horror for a new century of science. Lovecraft published his work in pulp fiction magazines, notably Weird Tales, though many of his works were not published until after his death in 1937. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, science fiction and horror magazines reprinted Lovecraft's tales numerous times, and he became one of the most popular pulp authors. 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.).

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] p. 230 He talks about the soul, but then he talks about the psychic powers of it in the weirdest way that I might be too dim to follow. "Men, then, are endowed with a special organ for transmitting the psychic forces needed to preserve the equilibrium of the Cosmos. This is what we call, vaguely, the soul, and all our religions according to this theory, are merely a relic of this forgotten primordial function, namely to play a part in maintaining the equilibrium of the cosmic force." ... but then he goes on to talk about the Nuremberg trials as being not necessary b/c the cosmic force that led these people was not of this world. It's really odd... and this is on p. 234 where he talks about how Hitler believed the Natzis, Jews, and non-whites were not human. Oh man.... it's all so weird. And then... Lachman, Gary (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 (published 2003). p.27. ISBN 9781934708651 . Retrieved 28 August 2019. Related to von Däniken's thesis is another theme of The Morning of the Magicians that 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.

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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. 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.