Title:
Earth Magic
Genre:
History
Mystery
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Binding:
Hardcover
Edition:
2nd
Narrative:
First Person
Type of Book:
Non-Fiction
Number of Pages:
196
Number of Chapters:
9
Synopsis:
Earth magic in terms of use of magalithic sites requires both the rational mind trained in astronomy, geometry, pure mathematics, and numerology, AND the ”irrational” mind trained in complex ritual/ceremonial magic (prayer, chants, etc.).
But the height of megalithic culture waned long before Christianity (by 2000 B.C.), and so one cannot blame the New Religion or the Enlightenment for that. It is likely to have been a change in telluric conditions, at least in part, in this reviewer’s opinion.
Hitching ends this fascinating book with this paragraph:
”But we have lost something which those people had. If we tried to create a stone circle today, we wouldn’t know how to make it work. A dowser could find us a new site with the right underground forces, or a place where there had once been a circle; an archaeologist could show us where to replace them so as to take account of the changed conditions in the heavens; and a geologist could take us to the right sort of rocks. But even if a power might then be generated, it would be a different sort of power. Our knowledge of how to amplify and use it wouldn’t be there, as if we were passengers getting into a bus in a strange country with the engine idling- but without a driver. So perhaps there is one basic lesson to be learned as we look into this lost age: that man achieved his advance through conditions that were puzzling, hostile and confusing by the combined use of his instinct and his intellect, his mind and his brain. It was by this blend that, for a while, he moved forward in harmony with nature.” (pp. 302-303)
Hitching did a through and engrossing job on the book, although our knowledge of archaeology has improved since 1977. We now know that Stonehenge was not built by druids and that the ”mystery sites” in New England are associated with colonial or Native American cultures.
This is a seminal work in the Earth Mysteries genre and should someday be reprinted, perhaps in an updated edition.
But the height of megalithic culture waned long before Christianity (by 2000 B.C.), and so one cannot blame the New Religion or the Enlightenment for that. It is likely to have been a change in telluric conditions, at least in part, in this reviewer’s opinion.
Hitching ends this fascinating book with this paragraph:
”But we have lost something which those people had. If we tried to create a stone circle today, we wouldn’t know how to make it work. A dowser could find us a new site with the right underground forces, or a place where there had once been a circle; an archaeologist could show us where to replace them so as to take account of the changed conditions in the heavens; and a geologist could take us to the right sort of rocks. But even if a power might then be generated, it would be a different sort of power. Our knowledge of how to amplify and use it wouldn’t be there, as if we were passengers getting into a bus in a strange country with the engine idling- but without a driver. So perhaps there is one basic lesson to be learned as we look into this lost age: that man achieved his advance through conditions that were puzzling, hostile and confusing by the combined use of his instinct and his intellect, his mind and his brain. It was by this blend that, for a while, he moved forward in harmony with nature.” (pp. 302-303)
Hitching did a through and engrossing job on the book, although our knowledge of archaeology has improved since 1977. We now know that Stonehenge was not built by druids and that the ”mystery sites” in New England are associated with colonial or Native American cultures.
This is a seminal work in the Earth Mysteries genre and should someday be reprinted, perhaps in an updated edition.
Author:
Frances Hitching
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Publisher:
Book Club Associates
Place of Printing:
Southampton, England.
Publication Date:
1976-06-01
Photos By:
Ken Smith (Maps & Diagrams)
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Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Publisher Location:
London, England.
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:51:53
