Tag: Louis Pauwels
Mircea Eliade: "Pauwels, Bergier and the Planet of wizards"
Dedicated to science and mystery, past and future, archeology and science fiction, "Planète" was a multifaceted magazine, published by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, former authors of the cult book of "fantastic realism" "The morning of the wizards", which attracted also the attention of Mircea Eliade, who spoke of it in his work "Occultism, witchcraft and cultural fashions", published in 1976.
βThe Traveler of Agarthaβ: the magical realism of Abel Posse
In the initiatory novel by the Argentine writer and diplomat, published thirty years ago and set during the last bars of the Second World War, the "magical realism" of Pauwels and Bergier, the esoteric doctrines of the Theosophical School of the late nineteenth century, are combined. β which then influenced the Central European secret societies Thule and Vril β and the eastern legend of the underground kingdom of the Immortals. In the background, a Europe by now on its last legs and a Tibet that within a few years would have experienced the indelible tragedy of the Chinese invasion.
From Stonehenge to Rapa Nui: Donald Wandrei and the return of the Titans
Taking both hands from the "Weird" literature of HP Lovecraft e Arthur Machen and combining the proceeds with the hypotheses of Charles Fort and the theosophical and "Atlantean" doctrines, Wandrei's 1932 novel was able to anticipate if not actually shape most of the cultural currents ascribable to the so-called "alternative reality" of the second part of the twentieth century: from the "magic realism" of Jacques Bergier to the "paleo-astronautics", from the encounter with extraterrestrial civilizations up to some dystopian predictions that today, almost a century later, do not seem science fiction at all.