Both this book and the previous book, originally published in France in I believe the 1950s! are a lot of fun. One weird idea essay after another, the first "Occult" explantion of Hitler and the Third Reich. Strange Churches in France, that supposed have over the door things loosely translated as " this place stinks". A loose farrago of interesting and weird ideas.

If you thought Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! was wild and weird, if you like Phillip K. Dick and "The Man in The High Castle" then you will really like this.

Not a scholarly study, but the author takes himself seriously. It also introduces the Voynich Manuscript (the really weird REAL not fictional unreadable book) that sits in the rare book room of the Yale Library. It does this long before it became popular in the US.

So read this for fun, with breathless teenaged anticipation, for all things weird and wonderful. It is also very useful if you want to know where the weird current New Age Ideas got one of their starts.

Too much Fun Sez I! Have Fun, Sends Steve

This book is a stepping stone in to the world of which the human conciousness has lost through time via a materialistic blinding method that has caused mankind to eliviate himself of the responsibilities of co-existing in unison with his fellow brethren and the cosmos.

if you like astronomy and all its mystery and the unknown its highly recommended!

This book is such a complete piece of antiscientific, ocultist nonsense that its continuing popularity in a highly educated country like France is really hard to explain. Only for those interested in cultural oddities from the 60's.

One of the most thought provoking and enlightened (if not unconventionally Gallic) examinations into the minds and motivations of post modern tyranny that you will ever read. This book literally abounds with new perspectives into the dark recesses of the Third Reich and it's principle architects and poses a number of uncomfortable questions about how such a sinister and repressive ideology could take hold so firmly in a modern, democratic state. A thoroughly compulsive read.

Co-authored by distinguished chemical engineer Bergier. Can be viewed as a work of fiction, yet also as a work of fact. Fact of the kind that's stranger than fiction. First impression was that authors were an interesting pair of cranks, as geniuses often appear to be. To illustrate, who could have suggested (before 1961, its publication year) that India and South Africa would acquire the A-bomb? Yet Pauwels & Bergier make no claim to being prophets. If, at first reading, you fail to find the promised enchantment, come back to it a few years later ... after you've lived a little more ... I think Pauwels and Bergier will help you see reality in all its strangeness. *Note: this book is out of print ... can something not be done about getting fresh copies into circulation? I've not been able to understand why something so simple seems so hard to do.