The Bad Samaritan: Behind the Lies and Cover-ups about the Man Believed to be God

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By LYNN PICKNETT & CLIVE PRINCE — It is remarkable what happens when you abandon your preconceptions about Christianity – hard though that might be, if, like us, you were brought up as a churchgoer – and approach the subject as objectively as possible. When we began our latest book, The Masks of Christ: Behind [...]

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The British Occult Secret Service, The Untold Story

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By MICHAEL HOWARD — Since the time of Elizabeth I, British secret services have worked according to the principle of ‘the end justifies the means’. Money, bribery, blackmail – these are their recruitment methods… – Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), October 2007 It is not really surprising that historically occultism [...]

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Esoteric Australia

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By MEHMET SABEHEDDIN — In 2001 as Australians celebrated the centenary of federation, no attention was paid to the role of mystic thinkers and esoteric ideas in Australian history. The vast majority of Australians know nothing of the “inner side” of their country’s political, cultural and religious evolution. How many people are aware, for example, [...]

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The Art & Science of Sexual Magic

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By DAMON LYCOURINOS — Sex… a word with multiple meanings, manifestations and images that expresses the most fundamental instinct of the animal kingdom. For us mortals sexuality is the expression of how we experience ourselves as sexual beings biologically, physically, emotionally and so on. The implication of this word, so popular it is the most [...]

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The Mysteries of Trebitsch-Lincoln: Con-man, Spy, ‘Counter-Initiate’?

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By Dr. RICHARD B. SPENCE — Whatever else may be said about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, few can match his resume. He started life in Hungary in 1879 as plain Ignacz Trebitsch, the son of a prosperous orthodox Jewish family. He ended it sixty-four years later in Shanghai as the Abbot Chao Kung. Or at least [...]

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The Captain Cook Conspiracy

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By GREG JEFFERYS — Historians and archaeologists consistently ignore solid evidence that Captain James Cook was not the first European to discover Australia while government agencies regularly prohibit access to shipwreck sites which would uncover proof for this assertion. Why is the true history of Australia being covered up? Why does history treat Captain Cook [...]

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Behold the Green Dragon: The Myth & Reality of an Asian Secret Society

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Dr. RICHARD SPENCE — History certainly has no shortage of enigmatic or controversial brotherhoods, orders, lodges and societies. The Knights Templar, for instance, are a perennial object of fascination and speculation. Whether the Templars were the inspiration for the no less controversial Freemasons, a band of depraved heretics or the innocent victims of a conspiracy [...]

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The “Bloody” Baron von Ungern-Sternberg: Madman or Mystic?

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By DR. RICHARD SPENCE — My name is surrounded with such hate and fear that no one can judge what is true and what is false, what is history, and what is myth.1 – Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg, 1921 In Mongolia, there was a legend of the warrior prince, Beltis-Van. Noted for his ferocity [...]

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A Pagan Christ? Reflections on the Real Christmas Story

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By RICHARD SMOLEY — Strictly speaking, a pagan Christ is a contradiction in terms. The very concept of paganism was constructed by Christians who wanted to distinguish their faith from the old religion of Greece and Rome, which by the end of classical antiquity was observed only by peasants in remote rural areas – the [...]

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Mary Magdalene, Apostle of the Apostles

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By SHARRON ROSE — With the publication of Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the mid-nineties and the Gnostic Gospels found in Nag Hammadi, a new perspective on the role of Mary Magdalene in the revelation and dissemination of the esoteric teachings of Christ has emerged onto the public stage. With the release of The Da [...]

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