From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 1 (Feb 2017) Tobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar in Western esotericism. A film-maker, composer and poet, he recently completed his latest book, Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque, […]
Secret Wisdom
Magic in Mind
From New Dawn 98 (Sept-Oct 2006) A question frequently put to me by newcomers to magical practice is whether there is a reliable way of distinguishing subjective experience from what exists independently of their perception of it. In other words, […]
Quest for Hidden Wisdom: An Interview with Richard Smoley
This article was published in New Dawn 98 (Sept-Oct 2006) Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney need no introduction to New Dawn readers. After successful careers as editors of Gnosis (1985-1999), the highly respected US journal of esoteric knowledge, in 1999 […]
Homage to Pan: Rosaleen Norton – The Witch of Kings Cross
From New Dawn Special Issue 3 (June 2007) Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) has been described as Australia’s best known witch. She was a controversial and ‘colourful’ character in Sydney’s Kings Cross district during the 1950s and 1960s and was known to […]
Maria de Naglowska, A Herald of the New Era
From New Dawn 135 (Nov-Dec 2012) When Winston Churchill called Russia “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” he could as well have been describing a daughter of Russia named Maria de Naglowska. She was a poet, a […]