In modern times, the term ‘genius’ has been thrown about far too often for it to be meaningful. From celebrities to politicians, the standard of the genius has dropped so…

Early twentieth century Australia saw a flowering of alternative spirituality when a number of communities, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne, embraced the influx of occult and spiritualistic practices from Victorian…

It is a little known fact that an actual doctrine lies at the heart of the counterculture of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco that emerged in 1967.  This doctrine…

The following is excerpted from the Introduction to my book The Return Of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World (published in May…

This article was published in New Dawn 99 (Nov-Dec 2006) Visionaries, luminaries, and spiritual pioneers Nicholas and Helena Roerich were two of Russia’s most outstanding people. High initiates, they devoted…

This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 3 (June 2019) Dr Richard Spence, a history professor and author of Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British…

This 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…

This article was published in New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) The masterfully told stories of a magical nanny that held adults and children alike spellbound for decades might incline readers…

New Dawn Special Issue Vol 8 No 3 “The East has said that when the Banner of Shambhala encircles the world, verily the New Dawn will follow.” – Nicholas Roerich Late in the summer…

In 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…

The 16th-century French doctor Michel de Nostradamus, and his obscure yet hypnotic prophecies, have cast their spell on the world over the last four-and-a-half centuries. He has become a wellspring…

The French writer Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre (1842-1909) was an extraordinary figure, a strange mixture of occultist and political philosopher. Born into humble circumstances, he led an adventurous life before marrying…

One of the world’s oldest legends tells of a vast underground network of tunnels and passageways connecting the great continents of the earth to a subterranean realm somewhere beneath the…

This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 8 No 3 (June 2014) “In the world of Tradition,” writes Julius Evola, “the most important foundation of authority and…

If an Illuminati exists, then Basil Zaharoff was surely part of it, and if he wasn’t, he should have been. In the course of his long life (1849-1936), he garnered…

At last, the true purpose of John Dee’s invention of the ‘British Empire’, previously hidden, can now be revealed. Conventional wisdom holds that he was responsible for naming that empire,…

I grew up and went to school in England, and am just old enough that when, age 12, I went to the newly mixed Comprehensive Secondary (which had been until…

Caodaism was always the favourite chapter of my briefing to visitors. Caodaism, the invention of a Cochin civil servant, was a synthesis of the three religions. The Holy See was…

From New Dawn Special Issue 11 So many books, articles and academic treatises have been written about the Order of Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem –…

It was during its transitional phase of the early nineteenth century that Freemasonry began to change its public symbolism. During the eighteenth century, the skull and crossbones were used to…

“By next Friday evening they will all be convinced that they are monkeys,” wrote Thomas Henry Huxley to his wife Henrietta. The year was 1860, and on June 30, Huxley…

They came from the West to the Middle East, imposing themselves on the native population, and fending off insurgent attacks that were to last for generations. They were feared by…

This whole secret society business is a slippery one. What is a secret society? How far back do they go? Human beings have been forming exclusive clubs ever since the…

In 1999, I was engaged in pursuing an intriguing little problem. Charles Hapgood, best known as the author of Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, had died as the result…

Follow Hitler. He will dance, but it is I who have written the music.… Don’t weep for me: I shall have had more influence on the course of history than…

The sixth-century BCE Greek philosopher-mystic Pythagoras was a man of spectacular achievement. Plutarch says that he taught an eagle to come at his command and stoop down to him in…

“The paths of Fantastic Realism… do not resemble the ordinary paths of knowledge.”– Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians As Richard Smoley rightly pointed out, “a…

Despite its proximity and influence on planet Earth, our understanding of the Moon – and the mechanism by which it formed – remains incomplete. The Moon is holding out on…

In Magick Without Tears, Aleister Crowley observed a fundamental similarity between the “Secret Chiefs,” the invisible and inaccessible Masters to whom he professed obedience, and “Captain A. and Admiral B.…

This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 3 (June 2017) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall…