2005 | New Dawn : The World's Most Unusual Magazine

The Alchemy of Time: Understanding the Great Year & the Cycles of Existence

December 8, 2005 By davidjones

BY JAY WEIDNER — The age of iron has no other seal than that of Death. Its hieroglyph is the skeleton, bearing the attributes of Saturn: the empty hourglass, symbol of time run out… – Fulcanelli The inspiration for this article comes from my almost nineteen years of research into the Great Cross of Hendaye and the French alchemist Fulcanelli. The unknown, anonymous, alchemist Fulcanelli in his masterpieceThe Mysteries of the Cathedrals first brought the cross at Hendaye, France to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Prophecy & Prediction, Spirituality & Metaphysics Tagged With: alchemy, Golden Age, Kali Yuga, time

Global Terror: The British Connection

December 1, 2005 By davidjones

By JASON JEFFREY — “There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge.” – Britain's Queen Elizabeth II speaking to Paul Burrell, former butler to the late Princess Diana On July 7, 2005 bombings on the London subway system and a bus killed 52 people and injured 700. As the list of unanswered questions and inconsistencies about the attacks continued to grow, blame was quickly laid on ‘al Qaeda’. The effects of the London bombings were immediate: There … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Conspiracies & Cover-Ups Tagged With: conspiracy

Where Did Christianity Really Come From?

December 1, 2005 By davidjones

By ROBERT FEATHER MIMMM., C.Eng. — This article is a brief examination of the nature and historical roots of the Qumran community that lived and worked on the western shore of the Dead Sea around 150 BCE to 68 CE and the connections that may be discerned between it and the preaching of John the Baptist, the ministry of Jesus, and the origins of Christianity. It looks through the eyes of scholars like Jozef Milik, one of the first to discover the nature of the Dead Sea Scrolls and to analyse … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Hidden History & Secret Societies, Mysteries & Unexplained Tagged With: Christianity, essene

New Dawn 93 (November-December 2005)

November 25, 2005 By davidjones

Atlantis in New Orleans News reports of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans often described the inundated American city as “a modern Atlantis.” Alternative historian and author Frank Joseph reveals there are parallels between the lost capital of the Ancient World and what is occurring today in the United States. Where Did Christianity Really Come From? Since their discovery in the late 1940s, an aura of mystery has surrounded the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Essene … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Back Issues

New Dawn 92 (September-October 2005)

September 25, 2005 By davidjones

Global Terror: The British Connection In the aftermath of the July 7 London bombings, British PM Tony Blair announced draconian new "anti-terror" laws. As questions continue to mount over who was ultimately responsible for the blasts, Jason Jeffrey examines evidence suggesting intelligence agency involvement and documents the long standing secret relationship between Britain and global terror networks. America's Masonic Foundations Many American politicians and televangelists claim a … [Read more...]

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Ancient Civilisations: Six Great Enigmas

September 1, 2005 By davidjones

By WILL HART & ROBERT BERRINGER — We stand today at an unprecedented turning point in human history. In recent years two versions of ancient history have formed. One, we shall call ‘alternative’ history, the other we shall refer to as ‘official’ history. The former ponders over a variety of anomalies and tries to make sense out of the corpus of evidence, i.e., the pyramids and timelines, why they were built, by whom and when. The latter conducts digs, catalogues pottery shards, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ancient Civilizations, Articles, Mysteries & Unexplained Tagged With: Egypt, sumeria

The Secret Origins of AIDS: Facts, Fallacies & Conspiracy Theories

August 9, 2005 By davidjones

BY ALAN CANTWELL, MD — In 2006 the AIDS epidemic was a quarter-century old. Officially starting in June 1981 as a mysterious and fatal disease exclusively found in several dozen young white gay men from New York City and Los Angeles, the disease has already killed 20 million people with 40 million more currently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), widely accepted as the sole cause of AIDS. One million Americans are now infected with HIV; and almost half of the new cases are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Conspiracies & Cover-Ups Tagged With: AIDS, cover-up

New Dawn 91 (July-August 2005)

July 25, 2005 By davidjones

China's Challenge to the American Empire Under the Bush administration, the United States has come to be viewed as an American Empire imposing its policies on the rest of humanity. Now an upcoming nation seeks its rightful place on the world stage. Stephen Kaposi examines China's rise to global prominence and Washington's reaction. The Mystery of the Maya - Part One The Maya civilisation, that appeared in Mexico around CE 250, is known for building majestic pyramids but also for its bloody … [Read more...]

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New Dawn Interview With Tobias Churton

July 1, 2005 By davidjones

By RICHARD SMOLEY — Tobias Churton is one of today’s most lively and spirited investigators of that underground stream of the Western tradition known as Gnosticism. He first became interested in the Gnostics while reading for a degree in theology at the University of Oxford in the 1970s. Soon after leaving, he became interested in exploring these ideas for television. “I’d got it into my head that there had never been any religious television – only programmes about religion,” … [Read more...]

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Did Chinese Mariners Land on Australian Shores Before Europeans?

June 9, 2005 By davidjones

BY DAN BYRNES — Gavin Menzies, the former British submariner, and author of 1421: The Year That China Discovered The World1 is visiting Warrnambool (located in the Australian state of Victoria) in September this year [2005] to test his startling theory against a resolution of the mystery of the Mahogany Ship. A fascinating contest between maritime mystery theories is now being proposed. Since he published, Menzies has maintained a website (www.1421.tv) to present evidence he believes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Hidden History & Secret Societies Tagged With: Australia, China