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“We are beginning to understand, and for ever, that the only acceptable religion for man is the one that will teach him first of all to recognize, love and passionately serve this universe of which he is the most important element.” (quoting “Tielhard de Chardin tel que je l’ai connu” by G. Magoire, in Synthèse, November 1957)

“As Tielhard de Chardin has stated, only the fantastic is likely to be true at the cosmic level. We believe that human phenomena must also be measured against the cosmic scale. The thinkers of antiquity said this. Our modern world, with its planetary rockets and its efforts to contact other intelligent beings, is saying it.”

“‘The new man is living amongst us now! He is here!’ exclaimed Hitler, triumphantly. ‘Isn’t that enough for you? I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He is intrepid and cruel. I was afraid of him.'”

“‘In uttering these words,’ added Rauschning, ‘Hitler was trembling in a kind of ecstasy.'”

“As [Robert] Musil has pointed out: ‘If only a single one of the ideas which influence our life were taken really seriously so as to leave no room at all for its opposite, this would be enough to change the whole character of our civilization.'”

“We have a magical relationship with the Universe, but we have forgotten it. The next mutation of the human race will produce beings who will be conscious of this relationship, demi-gods. Already this mutation is having an effect on a few Messianic souls . . . “

“The physicist. George Gamow has conceived of a parallel Universe in which, for example, a billiard ball can go into two holes at he same time.”

–Excerpts from The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier (1960)