José Ferrer Aleu Boeken

«Tarod, Tarod, Tarod...» Una voz desconocida pronuncia este nombre martilleando sin cesar el cerebro del joven que no sabe cómo se llama ni por quién ha sido engendrado. El muchacho lo adopta como su nombre. Tarod reside en un fastuoso castillo, situado en la Península de la Estrella, donde habitan los Sumos Sacerdotes de Aeoris, dios del Bien, dios del Orden, y es instruido en las artes arcanas y mágicas, convirtiéndose en uno de los hechiceros de mayor rango. Es el Iniciado. Pero un día la voz se materializa en una forma humano de espíritu demoníaco. Es Yandros, personificación del Mal. Por él sabe el Iniciado que ha sido designado para introducir, de nuevo, el Caos en el mundo. Trasladándose a través de siete planos astrales, Tarod domina el Péndulo y atrapa los servidores del Orden en el Tiempo. Él, en cambio, es libre y ante sus ojos se extienden el mundo y el futuro para cumplir su misión

Tarod alone knew the nature of the supernatural force locked within his soul-and he knew that it must be thwarted, no matter what the sacrifice. Denounced by his fellow adepts as a demon, betrayed even by those he loved, he had unleashed a power that twisted the fabric of time, to put himself beyond the reach of that monstrous force and avert the pandemonium that threatened the world. He thought that nothing could break through the barrier he had created. He was wrong.

It is not science-fiction, although it cites myths on which that literary form has fed. Nor is it a collection of bizarre facts, though the Angel of the Bizarre might well find himself at home in it. It is not a scientific contribution, a vehicle for an exotic teaching, a testament, a document, a fable. It is simply an account - at times figurative, at times factual - of a first excursion into some as yet scarcely explored realms of consciousness. The Morning of the Magicians is a classic of radical literature, a book that has challenged assumptions and conventional knowledge for decades. It has shaken the foundations of beliefs all over the world and may be the most influential book published in the twentieth century. Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier spent years searching "through all the regions of consciousness, to the frontiers of science and tradition" and opened their minds to any fact or theory that went beyond the frontier of current theories. The result is this remarkable work, and the stream of possibilities that it contains: Do mutants exist, are they a future form of man? Does extrasensory perception reveal that human consciousness has advanced beyond its currently accepted limits? What connects the ancient art of alchemy and modern atomic physics?