From New Dawn Special Issue 11 (Mar 2010) Caodaism was always the favourite chapter of my briefing to visitors. Caodaism, the invention of a Cochin civil servant, was a synthesis of the three religions. The Holy See was at Tanyin. […]
Secret History
Truth About the Knights Templar
From New Dawn Special Issue 11 So many books, articles and academic treatises have been written about the Order of Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem – usually shortened to the Knights Templar – that it is […]
Freemasonry’s Secret Science of Symbolism: Resurrection, Immortality, and the Secret Elixir
From New Dawn Special Issue 11 (Mar 2010) It was during its transitional phase of the early nineteenth century that Freemasonry began to change its public symbolism. During the eighteenth century, the skull and crossbones were used to mark the […]
Human Devolution: Ascended Apes or Fallen Angels?
“By next Friday evening they will all be convinced that they are monkeys,” wrote Thomas Henry Huxley to his wife Henrietta. The year was 1860, and on June 30, Huxley would confront Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, in one of […]
The Knights Templar: Yesterday & Today
They came from the West to the Middle East, imposing themselves on the native population, and fending off insurgent attacks that were to last for generations. They were feared by many, hated by some, and lionised by others. No, I’m […]