From New Dawn Special Issue 10 (Dec 2009) We have to literarily, philosophically and theologically deconstruct certain concepts before we can really understand them. This is a process where we look beneath and beyond the commonly assumed folklore. Some readers […]
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The Magic & Mysticism of Eliphas Lévi: The Father of Modern Occultism
The most influential figure in the centuries old story of Western magic and the Judaic Kabala (“the receiving”) was neither a Jew by birth or conversion. That being said and further contributing to the confusion, he learned Hebrew in order […]
The Vedic Literature of Ancient India and Its Many Secrets
This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue 8 (June 2009) Secrets of ancient humanity and lost civilisations can be found all over the world. Yet they are perhaps most common in India, where even today the spiritual practices […]
“Nothing is Impossible”: Rediscovering The Kybalion
From New Dawn 165 (Nov-Dec 2017) And with the wish the energy was born…– Corpus Hermeticum, book I I once regarded The Kybalion as little more than a novelty of early twentieth-century occultism. I considered the book a faux-antique work […]
Aleister Crowley & The Book of the Law: A Magical Encounter in Egypt
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) is remembered as a libertine, philosopher, mountaineer, magician, and supposedly the “wickedness man in the world.” He wrote bad poetry, pornographic books, novels and a vast array of literature. He is best known as being an infamous […]