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. Provides profound insights into our perceptions of reality, telepathy, mutants, and parallel universes 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.

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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.

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. 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.) 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.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. 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]. This was actually suggested to me because of a conversation I was having about the incredibleness of the human mind to manifest thought into reality. I think the person was trying to use this book to tell me I am on a dangerous path associated with conspiracy theories. Problem is, this book is big on references, loose on a real thread of discussion. It reads like an underdeveloped academic that regurgitates lots of names, books, references and quotes but isn't actually going anywhere with it. 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. Our alchemist begins by preparing a mixture of three ingredients. The first, in a proportion of 95 percent, is some sort of ore: arsenopyrites, for example, an iron ore containing among its impurities arsenic and antimony. The second is a metal: iron, lead, silver, or mercury. The third is an acid of organic origin, such as tartaric or citric acid. He will continue to grind and mix by hand these ingredients for five or six months. He will then proceed to heat the mixture in a crucible, increasing the temperature by degrees and continuing this operation for ten days or so. He must take precautions, for toxic gases are released: mercury vapor and especially arsenohydrogen, which has killed many an alchemist at the beginning of his experiment.

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. 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]

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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). The groundbreaking and classic study that first popularized occultism, alchemy, and paranormal phenomena in the 1960sNo, 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. What's Great: The reason it doesn't have 1 star is because it does a fantastic job of providing details on things that are actually quite hard to find. I did not know the history of Golden Dawn and its relationship with other brotherhoods that led to Hitler and the Natzi's. That said. I wish he would have gone into more about these different brotherhoods and why they split. The book has a bit of the wrong mix on this for me personally. But it's hard to get any of this info, so I can't give it less than 2 stars. Additionally, it references several books that must have been quite common at the time. I do think that the science or other theories of these books are probably now dated some 70 years later. That said, if they were common enough in his time, I'd like to read it so I can understand the history of knowledge better.