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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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Freemasons, Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Consciousness & the Hidden Masters: An Interview with Gary Lachman
Read More →: Freemasons, Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Consciousness & the Hidden Masters: An Interview with Gary LachmanAn overlooked but powerful current is flowing in our time. It’s found in a small group of writers and thinkers who are trying to overcome the materialism and rationalism of…
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What Happened to the New Age? Sorting Truth from Nonsense
Read More →: What Happened to the New Age? Sorting Truth from NonsenseThis article was published in New Dawn 147 (Nov-Dec 2014). Not long ago I was walking through the aisles of a New Age fair in the suburbs of Chicago. All…
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What is Alchemy?
Read More →: What is Alchemy?It is a remote location in China in the early 1960s. A young man, Wang Liping, is studying with three Taoist masters. After preliminary training, they give him a grain…
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The Mystery of Christian Origins: Hail the Solar Kristos
Read More →: The Mystery of Christian Origins: Hail the Solar KristosAn innate knowledge of the Gods is coexistent with our very existence; and this knowledge is superior to all judgement and deliberate choice, and subsists prior to reason and demonstration.…
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Kindling the Divine Spark: The Secret to Awakening
Read More →: Kindling the Divine Spark: The Secret to AwakeningBlessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.1– G.I. Gurdjieff The United States Declaration…
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Manifesting Your Will
Read More →: Manifesting Your WillMuch of New Thought is about manifesting your will. It’s far more helpful to do this if your will is in alignment with your own higher nature. This exercise is…
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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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The Rebirth of Gnosticism: An Interview with Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller
Read More →: The Rebirth of Gnosticism: An Interview with Dr. Stephan A. HoellerOne of the most compelling themes of current times is Gnosis – the idea of a transcendental knowledge that, like enlightenment, liberates the individual from bondage to the world of suffering.…
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Is Your God a Devil?
Read More →: Is Your God a Devil?It is one of the most familiar and reassuring lines in scripture: “The Lord is my shepherd.” But when you think about it, the metaphor is a disturbing one. It’s…
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The Dual Search for the Philosophers’ Stone
Read More →: The Dual Search for the Philosophers’ StoneTo say what the Philosophers’ Stone – the great goal of alchemy – is, one has to know. And to know, one must have attained it. I cannot claim to have done…
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Ritual Magic in Theory & Practice
Read More →: Ritual Magic in Theory & PracticeSeveral years ago I decided to do an evening-long introduction to ritual magic at the New York Open Center, one of the city’s best-known gathering places for mind, body, and…
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2012, the Apocalypse & the End of the Age
Read More →: 2012, the Apocalypse & the End of the AgeCultures that view themselves as waning are usually those most likely to tap into doomsday scenarios, especially when the world’s end is followed by universal renewal. – Prof. Anthony Aveni,…
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A Way to Live: The Path of Self-Knowledge
Read More →: A Way to Live: The Path of Self-KnowledgeFor all the scarcity in the world, one thing we never seem to be lacking is advice. We’re constantly deluged with exhortations of one sort or another – for diet,…
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Secret Teachings Reborn: The Mysterious Life of Manly P. Hall
Read More →: Secret Teachings Reborn: The Mysterious Life of Manly P. HallThis article was published in New Dawn 96 (May-June 2006) The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an explosion of spiritual teachers and impresarios dealing in “secret wisdom.” Their…
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The Inscrutable Madame Blavatsky: An Interview with Gary Lachman
Read More →: The Inscrutable Madame Blavatsky: An Interview with Gary LachmanThis article was published in New Dawn 137 (Mar-Apr 2013) I was in search of the unknown…– Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1890) Gary Lachman is one of today’s most intelligent and…
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Quest for the People of the Secret
Read More →: Quest for the People of the SecretA persistent legend originating in the East tells of hidden locations on the Earth where there exists certain groups of individuals with both exceptional powers and highly perfected character and…
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Christianity: The Ultimate Secret
Read More →: Christianity: The Ultimate SecretFrom New Dawn 84 Today there is an unprecedented thirst for the innermost secrets of Christianity. The quest for these lost teachings drives the plots of best-sellers like The Da…
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Wise Men From the East: Is There a Secret Brotherhood of Masters Who Direct the Spiritual Progress of Humankind?
Read More →: Wise Men From the East: Is There a Secret Brotherhood of Masters Who Direct the Spiritual Progress of Humankind?There is a strange and persistent legend that probably originates in the East. It proposes that in some hidden locations on the Earth (generally the highlands of Central Asia, particularly…
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The Mystery of Iniquity: Does Evil Exist or Do Bad Things Just Happen?
Read More →: The Mystery of Iniquity: Does Evil Exist or Do Bad Things Just Happen?On June 10, 1991, a cover story appeared in Time magazine on the topic of evil. The author, Lance Morrow, did not argue for a particular thesis and did not…
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The Necronomicon
Read More →: The NecronomiconIn 1977, America had barely heard of Iraq or of Saddam Hussein. The first Gulf War was more than a decade away; the second, more than twenty-five years away. The…
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Beyond Tantra
Read More →: Beyond Tantra“It’s all sex nowadays” my mother used to grumble after an evening in front of the television. Even her favourite nature programmes, she moaned, were increasingly obsessed with it. Much…
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C.W. Leadbeater: Saint or Sinner?
Read More →: C.W. Leadbeater: Saint or Sinner?This article was published in New Dawn 96 (May-June 2006) Rare is the man or woman whose controversy in life outlives their death into the next century. But such were…
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With Our Thoughts, We Make the World
Read More →: With Our Thoughts, We Make the WorldWhat we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. – Buddha Those…
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Illuminati Hell Or Aquarian Heaven?
Read More →: Illuminati Hell Or Aquarian Heaven?In March 1991, Random House published The Seeker’s Handbook – The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding (TSH). The book was carefully timed to serve the need it defined, a need…
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Nostradamus: Prophet of Hope
Read More →: Nostradamus: Prophet of HopeThe jury is still out on the millennial prophecies of Michel Nostradamus, the French master physician, astrologer and Kabbalist of the sixteenth century. Many regard him as the greatest prophet…
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Mercury Rising: The Life & Writings of Julius Evola
Read More →: Mercury Rising: The Life & Writings of Julius EvolaThis article was published in New Dawn 111 (Nov-Dec 2008) If the industrious man, through taking action,Does not succeed, he should not be blamed for that –He still perceives the…
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Awakening Our True Potential
Read More →: Awakening Our True PotentialMan is born an unfinished creature. He cannot walk or talk or feed himself. Long years of care are required to bring him to even the most minimal levels of…
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India’s Science of Light
Read More →: India’s Science of LightWhile most people in the Western world are aware of astrology, comparatively few know that other cultures have other systems of astrology. There are Chinese and Tibetan horoscopes, with their…
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The Mysterious Kybalion
Read More →: The Mysterious KybalionPeople who have spent time grazing in metaphysical bookshops may have come across a mysterious volume called The Kybalion, written by “Three Initiates” and first issued by the Yogi Publication…
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