From New Dawn Special Issue 11 (Mar 2010) It was during its transitional phase of the early nineteenth century that Freemasonry began to change its public symbolism. During the eighteenth century, the skull and crossbones were used to mark the […]
Secret History
Human Devolution: Ascended Apes or Fallen Angels?
“By next Friday evening they will all be convinced that they are monkeys,” wrote Thomas Henry Huxley to his wife Henrietta. The year was 1860, and on June 30, Huxley would confront Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, in one of […]
The Knights Templar: Yesterday & Today
They came from the West to the Middle East, imposing themselves on the native population, and fending off insurgent attacks that were to last for generations. They were feared by many, hated by some, and lionised by others. No, I’m […]
The Illusion of Control: The Priory of Sion & the Illuminati
From New Dawn Special Issue 2 (May 2006) This whole secret society business is a slippery one. What is a secret society? How far back do they go? Human beings have been forming exclusive clubs ever since the first moment […]
A Hundred Thousand Year Old Civilisation?
From New Dawn 98 (Sept-Oct 2006) In 1999, I was engaged in pursuing an intriguing little problem. Charles Hapgood, best known as the author of Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, had died as the result of a car accident […]