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Matgioi – Warrior Metaphysician
Read More →: Matgioi – Warrior MetaphysicianOne could not wish for a better example of the Kshatriya or warrior path than Albert, Comte de Pouvourville (1861-1939). He was born an “army brat” in a minor aristocratic…
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A Search for Paul Brunton
Read More →: A Search for Paul BruntonThere was a time when Paul Brunton (1898-1981) needed no introduction. From the 1930s through the 1950s, his eleven books were best-sellers in the field of alternative spirituality. A Search…
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Magic for Grown-ups: The Work of the UR Group
Read More →: Magic for Grown-ups: The Work of the UR GroupIn the consensus view, magic belongs (if at all) in Disney films and Harry Potter books, and adults who actually believe in it are stuck in infantile or medieval superstition.…
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Twisting the Threads: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Tradition
Read More →: Twisting the Threads: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery TraditionThis article was published in New Dawn Special Issue 5 (Winter 2008) Once upon a time, every religion was Janus-faced. It had its exoteric or outward side, serving or exploiting…
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Who Was Julius Evola, Really?
Read More →: Who Was Julius Evola, Really?New Dawn 162 It is a pity that no researcher, while there was still time, ever spoke to the friends and relations who had known Julius Evola (1898–1974) in his…
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Agarttha: Taking the Lid Off the Underground Kingdom
Read More →: Agarttha: Taking the Lid Off the Underground KingdomIn 1884 the French occultist Saint-Yves d’Alveydre (1842-1909) decided to take lessons in Sanskrit. Having just published his definitive work on the secret history of the world, called Mission des…
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Antarctica in Myth, Fantasy & Reality
Read More →: Antarctica in Myth, Fantasy & RealityAt the Bottom of the World Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), in his book about the subterranean world, compares the earth to a human body. It drinks in the oceans at the…
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Understanding the Traditionalists
Read More →: Understanding the TraditionalistsTraditionalists, for present purposes, means the loosely-constituted group inspired by René Guénon (1886-1951). Many of them also revere Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947). Later Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) became central to the…
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When Does the Kali Yuga End?
Read More →: When Does the Kali Yuga End?The widespread belief that an age is ending and a new one dawning is part of a cyclical concept of time common to most philosophical cultures. The best known versions…
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Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of Marvels
Read More →: Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of MarvelsThe museum of Athanasius Kircher (1602 – 1680) in the Jesuit College of Rome was an obligatory stop for high-class tourists, from John Evelyn the diarist to Queen Christina of…
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