From New Dawn 113 (Mar-Apr 2009) From 1209-1249 one of the worst genocides in history was conducted against the Cathars, a heretical sect in southern France. Pope Innocent III, promising gold and indulgences (the remission of punishment due for sins) […]
Ancient Mysteries
Enoch & the Watchers: The Real Story of Angels & Demons
From New Dawn Special Issue 8 (Winter 2009) Every visible thing in the world is put under the charge of an angel. – St Augustine In 2002 the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph reported that the Vatican had banned the veneration […]
Searching for the Dawn & Demise of Ancient Civilisation
From New Dawn Special Issue 8 (June 2009) When and where did civilisation begin? How far back in time does high culture go? Indeed, what do we mean by such terms as civilisation, or sophisticated and high culture? When I […]
The Lost City of Angkor Wat & the Mysteries of a Great Asian Civilisation
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 6 No 1 (Feb 2012) Angkor Wat is a vast stone temple at the heart of an ancient stone city. But at the ends of its corridors and the centres of its hidden rooms […]
When Does the Kali Yuga End?
From New Dawn 138 (May-June 2013) The widespread belief that an age is ending and a new one dawning is part of a cyclical concept of time common to most philosophical cultures. The best known versions are the Four Ages […]