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In 1937, a British-Belgian occultist arrived in Berlin to brief Heinrich Himmler on a secret society called the Green Dragon. Tracing his unbelievable claims, Chasing the Green Dragon dives into the interwar Parisian occult underground, where intelligence operators and esotericists mingled in the temple of the Polaires, Masonic lodges, and Maria de Naglowska's Luciferian salons, sometimes with fatal results. A highly intellectual but eccentric scholar, Gaston de Mengel worked with René Guénon, the Cambodian Prince Iukanthor, and possibly with the French secret service - without realising it. Based on a wealth of obscure sources, including new archival finds, the stranger-than-fiction story of Gaston de Mengel is a unique account of little-known cultural currents that gave birth to numerous post-war conspiracy theories and Nazi Mysteries - and Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.

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""Chasing the Green Dragon compares with few other books in its depth of research and ability to make connections in little known strata of occult history. The figure of Gaston de Mengel, hitherto little more than a name to researchers, focuses a vast imaginal complex of 'unknown superiors' running the world, and all the paranoia and pretension that goes with it. Truly an alternative history of the first half of the twentieth century!"" Prof. Joscelyn Godwin, author of Arktos, Music and the Occult, The Theosophical Enlightenment, Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World, The Golden Thread, Upstate Cauldron, and others. ""Reads like a novel-but it's true."" Prof. Massimo Introvigne (Center for Studies on New Religions; author of Satanism: A Social History) ""Fascinating... a valuable piece of research"" Prof. Richard Spence, author of Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult

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Ike Vil (MA) is a writer, translator, musician - hence the dodgy moniker - and private scholar, who has spent his life studying secret, wondrous things. He will probably tell more if you buy him a beer.

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