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The Morning of the Magicians: Alchemy, Nazis, a...
Quick Answer The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier is a 1960 French book that launched the modern esoteric counterculture. It covers Nazi occultism, alchemy and atomic physics,...
Kim by Kipling: The Esoteric Quest Behind the G...
Quick Answer Kim by Rudyard Kipling follows Irish orphan Kim O'Hara through British India as the chela of a Buddhist lama seeking the liberating River of the Arrow, and as...
Momo by Michael Ende: Time, the Grey Men, and t...
Quick Answer Momo by Michael Ende is about a listening girl who battles the Grey Gentlemen -- sinister time-thieves -- who steal life by convincing people to save time obsessively....
Foucault's Pendulum by Eco: Conspiracy, Kabbala...
Quick Answer Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco follows three Milan editors who invent an elaborate conspiracy about the Knights Templar as an intellectual game. Their artificial conspiracy, fed into...
The Magus by John Fowles: The Godgame and the I...
Quick Answer The Magus (1965) by John Fowles follows Nicholas Urfe, a disaffected Englishman who takes a teaching job on a Greek island and enters an elaborate psychological theater run...
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse: Spirit, Flesh,...
Quick Answer Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) by Hermann Hesse follows two medieval monks: Narcissus, the ascetic scholar devoted to spirit and intellect, and Goldmund, the wandering artist driven by flesh,...