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
From New Dawn Special Issue 10 (Dec 2009) 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 […]
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 […]