Author: Joscelyn Godwin

Joscelyn Godwin

About the Author

JOSCELYN GODWIN, Professor of Music Emeritus at Colgate University, New York State, has been publishing, editing, and translating esoteric materials since the 1970s. These include works on speculative music (Harmonies of Heaven and Earth, Music, Mysticism and Magic, Harmony of the Spheres, Cosmic Music, The Mystery of the Seven Vowels, Music and the Occult), Renaissance and early modern studies (Robert Fludd, The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance, The Real Rule of Four, Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of the World, translations of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz), and histories of esoteric movements and themes (The Theosophical Enlightenment, Arktos, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Atlantis and the Cycles of Time, Upstate Cauldron).

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Paul Brunton in his later years (credit: www.paulbrunton.org)

A Search for Paul Brunton

By Joscelyn Godwin

From New Dawn 191 (Mar-Apr 2022) There was a time when Paul Brunton (1898-1981) needed no introduction. From the 1930s through the 1950s, his eleven books were best-sellers in the field of alternative spirituality. A Search in Secret India and […]

Magic for Grown-ups: The Work of the UR Group

By Joscelyn Godwin

From New Dawn 172 (Jan-Feb 2019) In the consensus view, magic belongs (if at all) in Disney films and Harry Potter books, and adults who actually believe in it are stuck in infantile or medieval superstition. It does not help […]

Twisting the Threads: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Tradition

By Joscelyn Godwin

This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue 5 (Winter 2008) Once upon a time, every religion was Janus-faced. It had its exoteric or outward side, serving or exploiting the majority of believers, and its esoteric or inward side, […]

Who Was Julius Evola, Really?

By Joscelyn Godwin

New Dawn 162 It is a pity that no researcher, while there was still time, ever spoke to the friends and relations who had known Julius Evola (1898–1974) in his youth. Like some other occult philosophers (Blavatsky and Gurdjieff come […]

Agarttha: Taking the Lid Off the Underground Kingdom

By Joscelyn Godwin

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 Juifs (“Mission of the Jews”),2 he was anxious to deepen […]