Pauwels, Louis (1920-)
Pauwels, Louis (1920-)
Co-author with Jacques Bergier of the sensational bestselling French work, Le Matin des Magiciens (1960), later translated into English as The Dawn of Magic (London, 1963) and reprinted in America as The Morning of the Magicians (1971). The book had a significant influence on the occult revival in Europe and elsewhere, and it contained revelations of the part played by occultism in the career of Adolf Hitler and the establishment of Nazi philosophy.
Pauwels and Bergier have also collaborated on Der Planet der unmöglichen Möglichkeiten (1968), translated into English as Impossible Possibilities (1971).
Pauwels was born in Paris, August 2, 1920, and worked in journalism and French television. As a student he was fascinated by the romance of alchemy. His collaborator Bergier was born 1912 and qualified as a chemical engineer during World War II. Pauwels was an active member of the French resistance movement. In the 1970s he was employed as the chief editor of Figaro magazine.
Sources:
Pauwels, Louis, and Jacques Bergier. The Eternal Man. London: Souvenir, 1972.
——. Le Matin des Magiciens. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1960. English edition as: The Dawn of Magic. London: Anthony Gibbs and Phillips, 1963. Reprinted as The Morning of the Magicians. New York: Stein and Day, 1964.
——. Der Planet der unmöglichen Möglichkeiten. Bern: Scherz Verlag, 1968. English edition as Impossible Possibilities. New York: Stein and Day, 1971.