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René Guénon and The Spirits
Read More →: René Guénon and The SpiritsEven the greatest thinkers are uneven. They have areas of brilliance and other areas where they cannot avoid showing their weaknesses. Immanuel Kant, for example, one of the most admired…
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The World of Esoteric Orders: Secrets Within Secrets
Read More →: The World of Esoteric Orders: Secrets Within SecretsIt is noon on a summer morning in California, and I am sitting in a dimly lit auditorium that is decorated in an Egyptian style with Art Deco touches. A…
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A New Science of the Heavens: An Interview with Robert Temple
Read More →: A New Science of the Heavens: An Interview with Robert TempleRobert Temple is a multifaceted writer and thinker whose work extends across many disciplines. From his work with Joseph Needham, author of the monumental Science and Civilisation in China, he…
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The Twisted History of the Swastika
Read More →: The Twisted History of the SwastikaIf you were asked to come up with a symbol for evil, very likely you would think of the swastika. The quintessential emblem of the Third Reich, it still evokes…
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The Secret Science of Mind: How Positive Thinking Became a Force in the Modern World
Read More →: The Secret Science of Mind: How Positive Thinking Became a Force in the Modern WorldThe greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.– William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience If there is…
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Mystery of the Seven Seals: Seven Spheres, Planetary Archons & Corruption on High
Read More →: Mystery of the Seven Seals: Seven Spheres, Planetary Archons & Corruption on HighUntil baptism …fate is true. But afterward the astrologers are no longer correct. – Excerpta ex Theodoto, 78 The New Testament is probably the most widely read book in the world.…
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Prophecy: Does it Work?
Read More →: Prophecy: Does it Work?Elie Wiesel, in his sombre memoir Night, describes a poignant incident from his time in a Nazi concentration camp. Amidst unimaginable suffering and despair, an inmate named Akiba Drumer “had…
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Life, Death & Gnosis: The Gnostics on the Afterlife
Read More →: Life, Death & Gnosis: The Gnostics on the AfterlifeThe possibilities for life after death come down to a mere three:1. There is no life after death. Death is the total extinction of consciousness. 2. Life after death continues…
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René Guénon & Counterinitiation: Are Things Getting Better or Worse?
Read More →: René Guénon & Counterinitiation: Are Things Getting Better or Worse?A question nags at everyone today: are things getting better or worse? The answer depends on the criteria you’re using. In terms of material comfort, it seems clear that life…
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The Gods Are Dead! Long Live the Gods!
Read More →: The Gods Are Dead! Long Live the Gods!When the veil descended, men revered what it covered. And as time went on it seemed to hide more and more and was revered still more. Then, when it was…
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In Search of the Lost Gospels
Read More →: In Search of the Lost GospelsThis article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 8 No 3 (June 2014) Slowly the public has learned that the Gospels in the Bible are not the only…
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Dreams: Another Reality?
Read More →: Dreams: Another Reality?This article was published in New Dawn 135 (Nov-Dec 2012) For most of us, the dream world is the most immediate and pressing of all alternative realities. Its bizarreness, its…
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The Way of the Sly Man: The Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff
Read More →: The Way of the Sly Man: The Teachings of G.I. GurdjieffThis article was published in New Dawn 131 (Mar-Apr 2012) It has happened to everyone. You go into a room only to find you have no recollection of why you…
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Gematria: The Link Between Numbers & Letters
Read More →: Gematria: The Link Between Numbers & LettersCount the numerical values Of the letters in Nero’s name, And in “murdered his own mother”: You’ll find the sum is the same. This piece of doggerel, written on a…
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What Is Consciousness?
Read More →: What Is Consciousness?One of the central themes of our age is consciousness. Mystics, scientists, philosophers alike have cast their eyes on this elusive entity, but no one seems quite able to say…
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Revisiting Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth
Read More →: Revisiting Joseph Campbell: The Power of MythPerhaps myth first arose out of the answers parents give to their children’s questions. Many of these are unanswerable: Why is water wet? Why is fire hot? Where does everything…
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God’s Forgotten Wife
Read More →: God’s Forgotten WifeIs God a man or a woman? Put baldly, this question seems ridiculous. And yet over the centuries it has proved almost impossible to keep from imagining the Supreme Being…
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The Cathars and Reincarnation: The Strange Revelations of Arthur Guirdham
Read More →: The Cathars and Reincarnation: The Strange Revelations of Arthur GuirdhamThe Cathars remain an enigma. An austere, world-denying sect, they were nevertheless associated with a remarkable cultural renascence in the southern France of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Beloved…
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The Quest for the Grail
Read More →: The Quest for the GrailFor most of us, the Grail is a mirage or a rainbow’s end. We may catch a glimpse of it, but if we allow ourselves to be led in its…
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Egypt in the Western Occult Tradition
Read More →: Egypt in the Western Occult TraditionThis article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 8 No 6 (December 2014) O Egypt, Egypt, of your reverent deeds only stories will survive, and they will be…
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Alchemy – The Art of Transformation: An Interview with Cherry Gilchrist
Read More →: Alchemy – The Art of Transformation: An Interview with Cherry GilchristCherry Gilchrist’s book on the history and interpretation of alchemy has remained a classic since its first publication in 1984. Alchemy, the Great Work: A History and Evaluation of the…
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The Lord of the World: What’s Really Behind the Legend of the Mysterious Kingdom of Agarttha?
Read More →: The Lord of the World: What’s Really Behind the Legend of the Mysterious Kingdom of Agarttha?A current theory holds that the secret rulers of humanity are an alien, reptilian race. The best-known version of this view comes from British author David Icke. (See Donald Tyson’s “Reptilians…
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The Masters of Gary Renard
Read More →: The Masters of Gary RenardAround Christmas of 1992, a man named Gary Renard, living in the remote backwoods of Maine in the northeastern corner of the US, came out of a meditation to find…
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What Are Humans Made Of?
Read More →: What Are Humans Made Of?The figure seems to hover around 95 percent. That’s the proportion of the universe that consists of dark matter and dark energy – entities that are only dimly and indirectly…
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From Witchcraft & Satanic Rites to Demon Possession
Read More →: From Witchcraft & Satanic Rites to Demon PossessionThe supernatural: the images that come to mind when that word is uttered often are ones that arouse anxiety or dread. Why? To begin with, you can only be afraid…
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Awakening Your Psychic Powers: An Interview with Kurt Leland
Read More →: Awakening Your Psychic Powers: An Interview with Kurt LelandThis article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 10 No 3 (October 2016) Kurt Leland is one of today’s most intrepid explorers of the inner planes. A musician…
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From Atlantis to Angels & the Afterlife: The Adventurous Life of Writer Ptolemy Tompkins
Read More →: From Atlantis to Angels & the Afterlife: The Adventurous Life of Writer Ptolemy TompkinsThe spiritual, the occult, the paranormal – these things have never sat well with the mainstream press. If they pay attention to such things, it is usually only briefly and…
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Toxic Prayer: Be Careful What You Ask For…
Read More →: Toxic Prayer: Be Careful What You Ask For…You might be under the impression that authors choose the titles of their own books. That isn’t true – at least not always. If the publishers don’t like the title,…
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Gnostic Mysteries of Sex: An Interview with Tobias Churton
Read More →: Gnostic Mysteries of Sex: An Interview with Tobias ChurtonTobias Churton is one of today’s most visible and prolific writers on the Western esoteric tradition. He first came to the attention of the public in the UK in 1987,…
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American Gurus & the Search for Enlightenment: An Interview with Arthur Versluis
Read More →: American Gurus & the Search for Enlightenment: An Interview with Arthur VersluisUntil recently the academic world paid almost no attention to the Western mystical and esoteric traditions. If any scholars strayed into these areas, they did so gingerly and apologetically, often…
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