Saturday, October 25, 2025

Afternoon of the Magicians

In the Whitley Streiber Gary Lachman interview I listened to yesterday, they mentioned the famous 1960 French book The Morning of the Magicians, by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. Today I randomly wondered whether anyone had ever written a book called The Afternoon of the Magicians. I mean, obviously someone must have, right? It's as inevitable a title as A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man or A Farewell to Legs.

Google returned only one hit, a Russian site that didn't seem to be referring to a real book.

I switched to image search and got 13 results. Eight were for Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberer. Two were for The Morning of the Magicians. Two were captioned The Morning of the Magicians but had photos of the cover of The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The remaining one was this:


If you click the link, it goes to the Amazon page for The Morning of the Magicians. No idea how that picture got to be associated with that link.

The really weird thing is that I own an epub of that book, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon (2104) by David McGowan, but have never read it and can't for the life of me remember the circumstances under which I learned of its existence and decided to download it.

1 comment:

Ra1119bee said...

William,
Trump, symbolic of Baal, the rider of the storm/cloud,
has returned in Autumn in DC
to build a Baal's Room.( Ballroom )
aka Baal's Palace.

The Doors were frequent guests in Laurel Canyon
and Jim Morrison and his girlfriend lived there.

Baal symbols are the Bull, ram and thunderbolts.
The Charging Bull is on Wall Street.
A thunderbolt could be symbolic of a missile.
A ram's Horn aka Shofar is blown at Jubilees and
at Shemitah.

Where's my Horn?
Interesting how my 2015 Where's My Horn
dream keeps returning back to this time.
I personally don't think it's a coincidence.

Baal was/is a mythological deity of :
fertility, weather, rain, wind, lightning, ****seasons,
******war, sailors.****

I believe that Trump is taking on the archetypal role
of Baal and building Baal's Room ( Baal's Palace) for the New Atlantis
and its new Triumvirate Government.

Partially destroying a historical building to build
a 90k square foot ballroom?
For what? when he's in Mar-a-Lago most of the time?

That dog don't hunt.

You would think that ballroom's are used in optimistic
and metaphorically 'Camelot' years, which
in America that time has come and gone.

IMHO, we are being played by the Magicians, who are master
manipulators of this illusion.

Trump's new ballroom will be bigger than the White House itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryBqzvfQX40

https://sapiru.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/baal-cycle-pt-ii-baals-palace/

https://storytellingdb.com/baal-canaanite/

https://cinemascholars.com/the-los-angeles-homes-of-morrison-and-the-doors/

The Doors - Riders on the Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2-FPlvY58

Afternoon of the Magicians

In the Whitley Streiber Gary Lachman interview I listened to yesterday, they mentioned the famous 1960 French book The Morning of the Magici...