In the history of Hitlerism, or rather in certain aspects of
this history, everything happens as if the whole conception on
which it was based has baffled the ordinary historian so that,
if we want to understand, we shall have to abandon our positive
way of looking at things and try to enter a Universe where
Cartesian reason and reality are no longer valid.
We have been concerned to describe these aspects of Hitlerism
because, as M. Marcel Ray pointed out in I939, the war that
Hitler imposed on the world was a "Manichaean war," or as the
Bible says, "a struggle between gods." It is not, of course, a
question of a struggle between Fascism and Democracy, or between
a liberal and an authoritarian conception of society. That is
the exoteric side of the conflict; but there is an esoteric side
as well. This struggle between gods, which has been going on
behind visible events, is not yet over on this planet, but the
formidable progress in human knowledge made in the last few
years is about to give it another form. Now that the gates of
knowledge are beginning to open on to the infinite, it is
important to understand what this struggle is about. If we
consciously want to be men of today, that is to say, the
contemporaries of tomorrow, we must have an exact and clear
picture of the moment when the fantastic first invaded the realm
of reality. This is what we are now going to examine.
And Rauschning in an attempt to explain the rise to power of
this "high priest of a secret religion," tried to convince
himself that several times in history "whole nations have fallen
into a state of inexplicable agitation. They follow the
flagellants' procession, or are seized by St. Vitus's Dance....
National-Socialism is the St. Vitus's Dance of the twentieth
century."
But where does this strange malady come from? To this question
he failed to find a satisfactory answer. "Its deepest roots are
hidden in secret places."
It is these secret places that we feel we ought to explore. And
it is not a historian, but a poet who will be our guide.
After some study, we discovered that Machen's works (there are
some thirty volumes in all) are, from a "spiritual" point of
view, more important than those of H.G. Wells.
Pursuing our researches on Machen, we discovered an English
Society of Initiates with a very distinguished membership. This
society, to which Machen was indebted for an experience that had
a decisive influence on his inner development and which was a
great source of inspiration, is unknown even to specialists.
Finally, some of Machen's writings, in particular the text we
shall be quoting, throw into clear relief an uncommon notion of
the nature of Evil, which is quite indispensable for an
understanding of those aspects of contemporary history we are
examining in this part of our book. Before entering into the
heart of our subject we would therefore like to say a few words
about this curious man, beginning with a little literary
digression concerning a minor Parisian author, P.J. Toulet,
and ending with a vision of a great subterranean gateway behind
which lie, still smoking, the remains of the martyrs and the
ruins of the Nazi tragedy which disrupted the whole world. The
paths of "fantastic realism," as we shall see once again, do not
resemble the ordinary paths of knowledge.
Monsieur du Paur was published towards the end of 1898, and met
with no success. It is not an important work, and might never
have been heard of had not M. Henri Martineau, a great
Stendhalian and a friend of Toulet, taken it upon himself,
twenty years later, to republish the book at his own expense in
the Editions du Divan. M. Martineau was determined to show
that Monsieur du Paur was inspired by Machen's book, but was
nevertheless an original work, so that it was through him that
the attention of a few literary people was drawn to Arthur
Machen and his Great God Pan and some correspondence between
Toulet and Machen was brought to light.
[...]
For Machen, as is apparent in all his works, "man is made of
mystery and exists for mysteries and visions." Reality is the
supernatural. The external world can teach us little, unless we
look upon it as a reservoir of symbols and hidden meanings. The
only works which have some chance of being real and serving some
useful. purpose are works of imagination produced by a mind in
search of eternal verities. As the critic Philip van Doren
Stern has pointed out: "The fantastic stories of Arthur Machen
perhaps contain more essential truths than all the graphs and
statistics in the world."
It was a strange adventure that brought Machen back to
literature. It made his name famous in a few weeks, and the
shock this gave him decided him to devote the rest of his life
to writing.
He found journalism irksome, and no longer wanted to write for
his own satisfaction. War had just broken out. There was a
demand for "heroic" literature. This was hardly his line. The
Evening News, however, asked him for a story. He wrote it
straight off, but in his own individual style, calling it The
Bowmen. The newspaper published this story on 29th September,
1914, the day after the retreat from Mons. Machen had imagined an
incident in this battle: St. George in shining armour, at the
head of his angels in the guise of the old archers of the battle
of Agincourt, comes to the rescue of the British Army.
The next thing that happened was that scores of soldiers wrote
into the newspaper to say that this Mr. Machen had invented
nothing. They had seen with their own eyes on the Mons front
the angels of St. George mingling in their ranks. This they
could swear to on their honour. Many of these letters were
published. England, anxious for a miracle in her hour of peril,
was profoundly stirred. Machen had been hurt when no notice was
taken of him when he had tried to reveal the secrets of reality.
Now, with a cheap kind of fantasy, he had aroused the whole
country. Or could it be that hidden forces rose up, in one form
or another, summoned by his imagination that had so often been
concerned with essential truths and was now, perhaps
unconsciously, at work deep down within him? Dozens of times
Machen insisted in the Press that his story was pure invention.
No one ever believed it. Right up to his death, thirty years
later, Machen, now an old man, often reverted in conversation to
this fantastic story of the Angels of Mons.
In two letters written by Arthur Machen to Toulet we find the
following remarkable passages. In the first, written in 1899,
he says: "When I was writing Pan and The White Powder I did not
believe that such strange things had ever happened in real life,
or could ever have happened. Since then, and quite recently, I
have had certain experiences in my own life which have entirely
changed my point of view in these matters....Henceforward I am
quite convinced that nothing is impossible on this Earth. I
need scarcely add, I suppose, that none of the experiences I
have had has any connection whatever with such impostures as
spiritualism or theosophy. But I believe that we are living in
a world of the greatest mystery full of unsuspected and quite
astonishing things."
In 1900 he wrote as follows: "It may amuse you to know that I
sent a copy of my Great God Pan to an adept, an advanced
'occultist' whom I met in secret, and this is what he wrote me:
'The book amply proves that by thought and meditation rather than
through reading, you have attained a certain degree of
initiation independently of orders or organizations.'"
Who was this "adept?" And what were Machen's "experiences?"
In another letter, after Toulet had been to London, he wrote:
"Mr. Waite, who likes you very much, asks me to send you his
best regards."
We were interested to learn the name of this friend of Machen
and to discover that he was one of the best authorities on
alchemy and a Rosicrucian specialist.
We had reached this point in our researches into the
intellectual interests of Arthur Machen, when a friend revealed
to us the existence in England, at the end of the nineteenth and
beginning of the twentieth century, of a secret "initiatory"
society of Rosicrucian inspiration. [See Nos. 2 and 3 of the
review La Tour Saint-Jacques, 1956: 'L'ordre hermetique de la
Golden Dawn' by Pierre Victor.]
The Golden Dawn, founded in 1887, was an offshoot of the English
Rosicrucian Society created twenty years earlier by Robert
Wentworth Little, and consisted largely of leading Freemasons.
The latter society had about 144 members, including Bulwer
Lytton, author of The Last Days of Pompeii.
The Golden Dawn, with a smaller membership, was formed for the
practice of ceremonial magic and the acquisition of initiatory
knowledge and powers. Its leaders were Woodman, Mathers and
Wynn Westcott (the "occultist" mentioned by Toulet in his letter
of 1900).
It was in contact with similar German societies, some of whose
members were later associated with Rudolf Steiner's famous
anthroposophical movement and other influential sects during the
pre-Nazi period. Later on it came under the leadership of
Aleister Crowley, an altogether extraordinary man who was
certainly one of the greatest exponents of the neo-paganism
whose development in Germany we have noted.
S.L. Mathers, after the death of Woodman and the resignation
of Westcott, was the Grand Master of the Golden Dawn, which he
directed for some time from Paris, where he had just married
Henri Bergson's daughter.
Yeats took the name of "Frere Demon est Deus Inversus." He used
to preside over the meetings dressed in a kilt, wearing a black
mask and a golden dagger in his belt.
Arthur Machen took the name of "Filus Aquarti." The Golden Dawn
had one woman member [no mention of Fraulien Sprengel...? -B:.B:.]:
Florence Farr, Director of the Abbey Theatre and an intimate
friend of Bernard Shaw. Other members included: Algernon
Blackwood, Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), Sax Rohmer, Peck,
the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, the celebrated engineer Allan
Bennett, and Sir Gerald Kelly, President of the Royal Academy.
It seems that on these exceptional people the Golden Dawn
exercised a lasting influence, and they themselves admitted that
their outlook on the world was changed, while the activities
they indulged in never failed to prove both efficacious and
uplifting.
Man is not finished. He is on the brink of a formidable
mutation ["alien hybridisation" -B:.B:.]
which will confer on him the powers the ancients attributed to
the gods. A few specimens of the New Man exist in the world,
who have perhaps come here from beyond the frontiers of time
and space.
Alliances could be formed with the Master of the World or the
King of Fear who reigns over a city hidden somewhere in the East.
Those who conclude a pact will change the surface of the Earth
and endow the human adventure with a new meaning for many
thousands of years.
Such are the "scientific" theories and "religious" conceptions
on which Nazism was originally based and in which Hitler and the
members of his group believed -- theories which, to a large
extent, have dominated social and political trends in recent
history. This may seem extravagant. Any explanation, even
partial, of contemporary history based on ideas and beliefs of
this kind may seem repugnant. In our view, nothing is repugnant
that is in the interests of the truth.
Hitler used to say: "We are often abused for being the enemies
of the mind and spirit. Well, that is what we are, but in a far
deeper sense than bourgeois science, in its idiotic pride, could
ever imagine." This is very like what Gurdjieff said to his
disciple Ouspensky after having condemned science: "My way is to
develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against
Nature and against God." This idea of the hidden potentialities
of Man is fundamental. It often leads to the rejection of
science and a disdain for ordinary human beings. On this level
very few men really exist. To be, means to be something
different. The ordinary man, "natural" man is nothing but a
worm, and the Christians' God nothing but a guardian for worms.
Dr. Willy Ley, one of the world's greatest rocket experts, fled
from Germany in 1933. It was from him that we learned of the
existence in Berlin shortly before the Nazis came to power, of a
little spiritual community that is of great interest to us.
This appears to be as much as Dr. Ley could tell us. He added
with a smile that the disciples believed they had secret
knowledge that would enable them to change their race and become
the equals of the men hidden in the bowels of the Earth.
Methods of concentration, a whole system of internal gymnastics
by which they would be transformed. They began their exercises
by staring fixedly at an apple cut in half.... We continued our
researches.
This Berlin group called itself The Luminous Lodge, or The Vril
Society. The vril [the notion of the 'vril' is mentioned for
the first time in the works of the French writer Jacolliot,
French Consul in Calcutta under the Second Empire. ] is the
enormous energy of which we only use a minute proportion in our
daily life, the nerve-centre of our potential divinity. Whoever
becomes master of the vril will be the master of himself, of
others round him and of the world. [Reich's
"orgone"...? -B:.B:.]
This should be the only object of our desires, and all our
efforts should be directed to that end. All the rest belongs to
official psychology, morality, and religions and is worthless.
The world will change: the Lords will emerge from the centre of
the Earth. Unless we have made an alliance with them and become
Lords ourselves, we shall find ourselves among the slaves, on
the dung-heap that will nourish the roots of the New Cities that
will arise. [shades of Crowley's Liber AL?
-B:.B:.]
The Luminous Lodge [Silver Star, Argon Astron,
L.V.X. and latter-day "Lightworkers" woven together in this
Luciferian tapestry? -B:.B:.] had associations with
the theosophical and Rosicrucian groups. According to Jack Fishman,
author of a curious book entitled The Seven Men of Spandau, Karl
Haushofer was a member of this lodge. We shall have more to say
about him later, when it will be seen that his association with
this Vril Society helps to explain certain things.
Bulwer Lytton, a learned man of genius, celebrated throughout
the world for his novel The Last Days of Pompeii, little thought
that one of his books, in some ten years' time, would inspire a
mystical pre-Nazi group in Germany. Yet in works like The
Coming Race or Zanoni, he set out to emphasize the realities of
the spiritual world, and more especially, the infernal world.
He considered himself an Initiate. Through his romantic works
of fiction he expressed the conviction that there are beings
endowed with superhuman powers. These beings will supplant us
and bring about a formidable mutation in the elect of the human
race.
We must beware of this notion of a mutation. It crops up again
with Hitler, and is not yet extinct today.
Hitler's aim was neither the founding of a race of supermen, nor
the conquest of the world; these were only means towards the
realization of the great work he dreamed of. His real aim was
to perform an act of creation, a divine operation, the goal of
a biological mutation which would result in an unprecedented
exaltation of the human race and the "apparition of a new race
of heroes and demigods and god-men." (Dr. Achille Delmas.)
[perhaps these same neo-Nephilim Nazi "ubermen"
are today clothed in the time and culture-appropriate sci-fi
regalia of "alien"/human "hybrids" a la Whit Strieber, Harvard's
Dr. John Mack, and a veritable cornucopia of other associated --
often Rockefeller-financed -- socio-cultural metaprogrammers. -B:.B:.]
We must also beware of the notion of the "Unknown Supermen." It
is found in all the "black" mystical writings both in the West
and in the East. Whether they live under the Earth or came from
other planets, whether in the form of giants like those which
are said to lie encased in cloth of gold in the crypts of
Thibetan monasteries, or of shapeless and terrifying beings such
as Lovecraft describes, do these "Unknown Supermen," evoked in
pagan and Satanic rites, actually exist? When Machen speaks of
the World of Evil, "full of caverns and crepuscular beings
dwelling therein," he is referring, as an adept of the Golden
Dawn, to that other world in which man comes into contact with
the "Unknown Supermen." It seems certain that Hitler shared
this belief, and even claimed to have been in touch with these
"Supermen."
We pointed out that Samuel Mathers was the founder of the Golden
Dawn. Mathers claimed to be in communication with these
"Unknown Supermen" and to have established contact with them in
the company of his wife, the sister of Henri Bergson. Here
follows a page of the manifesto addressed to "Members of the
Second Order" in 1896:
"The new man is living amongst us now! He is here!" exclaimed
Hitler, triumphantly. "Isn't that enough for you? I will tell
you a secret. I have seen the new man. He is intrepid and
cruel. I was afraid of him."
"In uttering these words," added Rauschning, "Hitler was
trembling in a kind of ecstasy."
It was Rauschning, too, who related the following strange episode,
about which Dr. Achille Delmas, a specialist in applied psychology,
questioned him in vain: It is true that in a case like this
psychology does not apply:
"Hitler was standing up in his room, swaying and looking all
round him as if he were lost. 'It's he, it's he,' he groaned,
'he's come for me!' His lips were white; he was sweating
profusely. Suddenly he uttered a string of meaningless figures,
then words and scraps of sentences. It was terrifying. He used
strange expressions strung together in bizarre disorder. Then
he relapsed again into silence, but his lips still continued to
move. He was then given a friction and something to drink.
Then suddenly he screamed: 'There! there! Over in the comer!
He is there!' -- all the time stamping with his feet and
shouting. To quieten him he was assured that nothing extra-
ordinary had happened, and finally he gradually calmed down.
After that he slept for a long time and became normal again..."
[Hermann Rauschning: Hitler m'a dit. Ed. Co-operation, Paris,
1939. Dr. Achille Delmas: Hitler, essai de biographie psycho-
pathologique. Lib. Marcel Rivimere, Paris, 1946.]
We leave it to the reader to compare the statement of Mathers,
head of a small neo-pagan society at the end of the nineteenth
century, and the utterances of a man who, at the time Rauschning
recorded them, was preparing to launch the world into an
adventure which caused the death of twenty million men. We beg
him not to ignore this comparison and the lesson to be drawn
from it on the grounds that the Golden Dawn and Nazism, in the
eyes of a "reasonable" historian, have nothing in common. The
historian may be reasonable, but history is not. These two men
shared the same beliefs: their fundamental experiences were the
same, and they were guided by the same force. They belong to
the same trend of thought and to the same religion. This
religion has never up to now been seriously studied. Neither
the Church nor the Rationalists -- that other Church -- have
ever allowed it. We are now entering an epoch in the history of
knowledge when such studies will become possible because now
that reality is revealing its fantastic side, ideas and
techniques which seem abnormal, contemptible or repellent will
be found useful in so far as they enable us to understand a
"reality" that becomes more and more disquieting.
We are not suggesting that the reader should study an
affiliation Rosy Cross-Bulwer Lytton-Little-Mathers-Crowley-
Hitler, or any similar association which would include also Mme
Blavatsky and Gurdjieff. Looking for affiliations is a game,
like looking for "influences" in literature; when the game is
over, the problem is still there. In literature it's a question
of genius; in history, of power.
The Golden Dawn is not enough to explain the Thule Group, or the
Luminous Lodge, the Ahnenherbe. Naturally there are cross-
currents and secret or apparent links between the various groups,
which we shall not fail to point out. Like all "little" history,
that is an absorbing pastime. But our concern is with "big"
history.
We believe that these societies, great or small, related or
unrelated, with or without ramifications, are manifestations,
more or less apparent and more or less important, of a world
other than the one in which we live. Let us call it the world
of Evil, in Machen's sense of the word. The truth is, we know
just as little about the world of Good. We are living between
two worlds, and pretending that this "no-man's-land" is
identical with our whole planet. The rise of Nazism was one of
those rare moments in the history of our civilization, when a
door was noisily and ostentatiously opened on to something "
Other." What is strange is that people pretend not to have seen
or heard anything apart from the sights and sounds inseparable
from war and political strife.
All these movements: the modern Rosy-Cross, Golden Dawn, the
German Vril Society (which will bring us to the Thule Group
where we shall find Haushofer, Hess and Hitler) were more or
less closely associated with the powerful and well organized
Theosophical Society. Theosophy added to neo-pagan magic an
oriental setting and a Hindu terminology. Or, rather, it
provided a link between a certain oriental Satanism and the West.
Theosophy was the name finally given to the whole vast
renaissance in the world of magic that affected many thinkers
so profoundly at the beginning of the century.
In his study Le Thiosophisme, histoire d'une pseudo-religion,
published in 1921, the philosopher Rene Guenon foresaw what was
likely to occur. He realized the dangers lurking behind
theosophy and the neo-pagan Initiatory groups that were more or
less connected with Mme Blavatsky and her sect.
This is what he wrote:
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The Dawn of Magic
Adolf und die Ubermen von der Golden Dawn
Magick Socialism
"At bottom," said Rauschning, "every German has one foot in
Atlantis, where he seeks a better Fatherland and a better
patrimony. This double nature of the Germans, this faculty they
have of splitting their personality which enables them to live
in the real world and at the same time to project themselves
into an imaginary world, is especially noticeable in Hitler and
provides the key to his magic socialism."
P.J. Toulet and Arthur Machen
"Two men who have read Paul-Jean Toulet and who meet (probably
in a bar) imagine that that means they belong to an aristocracy."
Toulet himself wrote that. It happens sometimes that
important things are suspended on a pin's head. It is thanks to
a minor but charming writer, unknown despite the efforts of a
few admirers, that I first heard the name of Arthur Machen,
practically unknown in France.
A Great Neglected Genius
In November 1897 a friend, "somewhat given to the occult
sciences," brought to the notice of Paul-Jean Toulet a novel by
an unknown thirty-four-year-old author entitled The Great God
Pan. This book, which evokes a primitive pagan world, not
entirely submerged but still cautiously surviving and
occasionally releasing among us its God of Evil and his cloven-
hoofed angels, made a profound impression on Toulet and started
him on his literary career. He began translating The Great God
Pan and, borrowing from Machen his nightmarish decor with the
Great Pan lurking in the thickets of our countryside, wrote his
first novel: Monsieur du Paur, homme public.
How We Discovered an English Secret Society
About the year 1880, in France, in England and in Germany some
secret societies of Initiates and members of hermetic orders
were founded to which a number of very influential people
belonged. The story of this mystical post-romantic crisis has
not yet been written. It deserves to be, as it might throw
light upon the origin of several important trends of thought
which have determined certain political tendencies.
The Golden Dawn
This society was called the Golden Dawn, and its members
included some of the most brilliant minds in the country.
Arthur Machen was himself a member.
A Nobel-Prize Winner in a Black Mask
Mathers was succeeded in his office by the celebrated poet W.B.
Yeats, who was later to become a Nobel Prize-winner.
A Hollow Earth, A Frozen World, A New Man
The Earth is hollow. We are living inside it. The stars are
blocks of ice. Several Moons have already fallen on the Earth.
The whole history of humanity is contained in the struggle
between ice and fire.
Against Nature and Against God
It is well known that the Nazi party was openly, and even
flamboyantly anti-intellectual; that it burnt books and
relegated the theoretical physicists among its "Judaeo-Marxist"
enemies. Less is known about the reasons which led it to reject
official Western science, and still less with regard to the
basic conception of the nature of man on which Nazism was
founded -- at any rate in the minds of some of its leaders.
If we knew this it would be easier to place the last World War
within the category of great spiritual conflicts: history
animated once again by the spirit of La Legende des Siecles.
Haushofer and the Vril
This secret community was founded, literally, on Bulwer Lytton's
novel The Coming Race. The book describes a race of men
psychically far in advance of ours. They have acquired powers
over themselves and over things that make them almost godlike.
For the moment they are in hiding. They live in caves in the
centre of the Earth. Soon they will emerge to reign over us.
The Idea of the Mutation of Man
The reader will recall that the writer, Arthur Machen, we
discovered was connected with an English society of Initiates,
the Golden Dawn. This neo-pagan society, which had a
distinguished membership, was an offshoot of the English
Rosicrucian Society, founded by Wentworth Little in 1867.
Little was in contact with the German Rosicrucians. He
recruited his followers, to the number of 144, from the ranks of
the higher-ranking Freemasons. One of his disciples was Bulwer
Lytton.
G.'. D.'. Mathers Meets the "Great Terrorists"
We have already mentioned the Golden Dawn and the German Vril
Society. We shall have something to say later about the Thule
Group. We are not so foolish as to try to explain history in
the light of secret societies. What we shall see, curiously
enough, is that it all "ties up," and that with the coming of
Nazism it was the "other world" which ruled over us for a number
of years. That world has been defeated, but it is not dead,
either on the Rhine or elsewhere. And there is nothing alarming
about it: only our ignorance is alarming.
[Indeed, those who forget history, etc. -B:.B:.]
"As to the Secret Chiefs with whom I am in touch and from whom
I have received the wisdom of the Second Order which I communi-
cated to you, I can tell you nothing. I do not even know their
Earthly names, and I have very seldom seen them in their physical
bodies....They used to meet me physically at a time and place
fixed in advance. For my part, I believe they are human beings
living on this Earth, but possessed of terrible and superhuman
powers....My physical encounters with them have shown me how
difficult it is for a mortal, however "advanced," to support
their presence....I do not mean that during my rare meetings
with them I experienced the same feeling of intense physical
depression that accompanies the loss of magnetism. On the
contrary, I felt I was in contact with a force so terrible that
I can only compare it to the shock one would receive from being
near a flash of lightning during a great thunder-storm, exper-
iencing at the same time great difficulty in breathing....The
nervous prostration I spoke of was accompanied by cold sweats
and bleeding from the nose, mouth and sometimes the ears."
Hitler Claims to Have Met Them Too
Hitler was talking one day to Rauschning, the Governor of Danzig,
about the problem of a mutation of the human race. Rauschning,
not possessing the key to such strange preoccupations, interpreted
Hitler's remarks in terms of a stock-breeder interested in the
amelioration of German blood.
"But all you can do," he replied, "is to assist Nature and
shorten the road to be followed! It is Nature herself who must
create for you a new species. Up till now the breeder has only
rarely succeeded in developing mutations in animals -- that is
to say, creating himself new characteristics."
"A person close to Hitler told me that he wakes up in the night
screaming and in convulsions. He calls for help, and appears to
be half paralysed. He is seized with a panic that makes him
tremble until the bed shakes. He utters confused and unintell-
igible sounds, gasping, as if on the point of suffocation. The
same person described to me one of these fits, with details that
I would refuse to believe had I not complete confidence in my
informant.
"The false Messiahs we have seen so far have only performed very
inferior miracles, and their disciples were probably not very
difficult to convert. But who knows what the future has in
store? When you reflect that these false Messiahs have never
been anything but the more or less unconscious tools of those
who conjured them up, and when one thinks more particularly of
the series of attempts made in succession by the theosophists,
one is forced to the conclusion that these were only trials,
experiments as it were, which will be renewed in various forms
until success is achieved, and which in the meantime invariably
produce a somewhat disquieting effect. Not that we believe that
the theosophists, any more than the occultists and the
spiritualists, are strong enough by themselves to carry out
successfully an enterprise of this nature. But might there not
be, behind all these movements, something far more dangerous
which their leaders perhaps know nothing about, being themselves
in turn the unconscious tools of a higher power?"
by Louis Pauwells & Jacques Bergier
1st published in France under the title
"Le Matin des Magiciens"
1960 by Editions Gallimard, Paris