Secret History

A war time photo of Aleister Crowley imitating Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, for whom he claimed to have invented the "V for Victory" hand sign.

The Magus Was A Spy: Aleister Crowley and the Curious Connections Between Intelligence and the Occult

By Richard Spence

From New Dawn 105 (Nov-Dec 2007) In Magick Without Tears, Aleister Crowley observed a fundamental similarity between the “Secret Chiefs,” the invisible and inaccessible Masters to whom he professed obedience, and “Captain A. and Admiral B. of the Naval Intelligence […]

Living at the End of an Age

By Dr Kerry Bolton

This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 3 (June 2017) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centrecannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the […]

Photograph of English cunning man George Pickingill, taken at the turn of the 20th century, in either the 1890s or early 1900s.

Witchcraft Before Wicca: The Cunning Men and Wise-Women of Old

By Michael Howard

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 4 (Aug 2017) Today the popular image of witchcraft in the mass media and in books and magazines is largely defined by ‘Wicca’, a form of neo-pagan witchcraft created by a retired […]

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) & Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931)

Unity: The Remarkable Story of Charles & Myrtle Fillmore

By Walter Mason

Myrtle Fillmore was in desperate straits in 1886. Sick from tuberculosis and malaria, her much-younger husband had managed to bankrupt himself in both the mining and real-estate industries. She was so weak that she was incapable of caring for her […]

Medieval Magic & Pharmacy: Not Just “Flying Ointments”

By Thomas Hatsis

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 10 No 3 (June 2016) When I first started my investigation into the so-called “witches’ ointment” of the early modern period I was looking for a specific kind of ointment that caused a specific […]