"A Link in the Golden Chain."

I titled it “A Link in the Golden Chain” because of the diverse range of early 20th century personalities drawn together by their connection to Vyvyan Deacon: Aleister Crowley, Krishnamurti, Annie Besant, Charles W Leadbeater, James Ingall Wedgwood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Norman Lindsay, Robert Browning, W B Yeats, Oscar Wilde and Sister Veni-Cooper Mathieson. Please buy a copy and follow the story.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing for New Dawn on Australia’s forgotten esoteric legacy. Past articles have centered around The Manor in Sydney and The Abbey in Brisbane (Vyvyan also had a base called The Abbey in Melbourne at one stage). There was an enormous surge in metaphysical and alternative spiritual pursuits a century ago. There will be at least two more interesting historical characters that I will investigate in 2017.

 

New Dawn Special Issue Vol.10 No. 6
 
 
CONTENTS:

• Our Mysterious Planet: Remarkable Cases of High Strangeness Defy Explanation in Our Scientific Age by Brent Swancer
• Is Our Sun Conscious? by Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.
• The Sun: A Universal Deity by Paul V Young
  
• When Statues Spoke: Wise Idols & Strange Oracles by Alistair Coombs
• A Twist in the Tale of Human Evolution: New DNA research Reveals Our ‘Lord of the Rings’ Antiquity by Brett Lothian
• Aliens, Fairies, Shape-Shifters & Djinn Illuminated: An Interview with Rosemary Ellen Guiley by Sean Stone
• There is No Spoon: The Physics of Spoon Bending by Brendan D. Murphy
• Advanced Civilization in Prehistoric America: Ancient Immigrants, Lost Technologies, and Places of Power by Frank Joseph
• Nat-Pwè: A Journey into the Magical World of Myanmar by Daniel Neiman
• The Mysterious Mind of the East by Jason Gregory
• Monks, Siddhis & Superhuman Ability by Jason Jeffrey
• PLUS MORE…