From New Dawn 149 (Mar-Apr 2015) On 13 December 1974, just over forty years ago, a 77-year-old Englishman died unexpectedly, after digging a flower garden, on the grounds of Sherborne House, an impressive mansion in the Cotswalds of England. Formerly […]
April, 2019
Gematria: The Link Between Numbers & Letters
From New Dawn 148 (Jan-Feb 2015) Count 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 wall in Rome around […]
An Introduction to Western Sexual Mysticism
From New Dawn 109 (Jul-Aug 2008) Very few people are aware that there are long-standing traditions of sexual mysticism in the West. During the last quarter of the twentieth century, many in the West became aware of Hindu and Buddhist […]
What Is Consciousness?
From New Dawn 120 (May-June 2010) 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 what it is. If […]
Camille Flammarion & the Mystery of Death
From New Dawn 123 (Nov-Dec 2010) In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France, a famous, and favourite, personality was the astronomer, science populariser, and science fiction writer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925).1 It is difficult today to gauge the celebrity status that […]