From New Dawn 199 (Jul-Aug 2023) “MAN IN HAT SITS IN CHAIR.” That was British satire magazine Private Eye’s mock-commemorative headline for the coronation of Charles III on May 6 of this year [2023]. That sarcastic phrasing expresses a common […]
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Rene Guenon, Antichrist, & the Digital Deception
From New Dawn 199 (Jul-Aug 2023) It is in the work of a French-born writer on philosophy and Eastern religions that we find a truly panoramic overview of the deep-running problems that are coming to a head today. Rene Guenon […]
Craftsman Warrior Magician: The Three Initiatic Archetypes
From New Dawn 178 (Jan-Feb 2020) When Pierre Boulle wrote his novel La Planète des singes during the early 1960s, he had undoubtedly observed the strange division of mind and body in modern, Western society, reflecting it in the novel […]
Mouni Sadhu: The Adept From the West
From New Dawn 166 (Jan-Feb 2018) Twentieth-century Australia was a greenhouse of spirituality and occultism in their many colourful varieties, offering a revolving door to a diverse range of international teachers and practitioners who graced our shores. Among them was […]
The World of Esoteric Orders: Secrets Within Secrets
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 7 No 3 (June 2013) It is noon on a summer morning in California, and I am sitting in a dimly lit auditorium that is decorated in an Egyptian style with Art Deco touches. […]