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 […]
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“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 […]
Egypt in the Western Occult Tradition
This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 8 No 6 (December 2014) O Egypt, Egypt, of your reverent deeds only stories will survive, and they will be incredible to your children! Only words cut in stone will […]
Alchemy – The Art of Transformation: An Interview with Cherry Gilchrist
Cherry Gilchrist’s book on the history and interpretation of alchemy has remained a classic since its first publication in 1984. Alchemy, the Great Work: A History and Evaluation of the Western Hermetic Tradition was published in a new edition by […]