Author: Dion Fortune
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 160925399X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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Following his wife’s tragic death, a rich man attempts to contact the god Pan, and his efforts yield spirited results in this classic occult novel. In her compelling way, Dion Fortune combines romance, suspense, and the search for truth and meaning in this psychological thriller that deals ultimately with the growth of consciousness and the path to self-knowledge. Wealthy, skeptical Hugh Paston, shocked by the death of his wife with her lover in a car crash, finds himself at a crossroads in his life. In search of a distraction, he wanders into the shop of an antiquarian bookseller who befriends him and sparks his interest in occult literature. Hugh is drawn to study the Eleusinian Mysteries and, determined to evoke Pan, the goat-foot god, he buys Monks Farm, a former monastery, long unused and sinking into ruin. With the aid of Mona Wilton, a young artist, Hugh refurbishes and revitalizes the property in preparation for the rites. In the ancient monastery, he is possessed by the spirit of a fifteenth-century prior, Ambrosius, who had been walled up in the cellar for practicing certain pagan rituals he had discovered in old Greek manuscripts in the monastery library—rituals dedicated to Pan.
Author: Dion Fortune
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877281115
Category : Paranormal fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Author: DION. FORTUNE
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ISBN: 9788888303840
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Diotima
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781438233666
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The Goat Food God.... The Lord of the Hunt... Swift footed, keen eyed... To be approached with laughter and song... God of madness, dreams and healing... Sending armies mad and persuading young women to go on living... Beloved of all the gods, yet never resident on Olympus... Pan presents the modern reader with a series of, if not contradictions, then puzzles. Who was this deity - and who was he thought to be? What were the people who honoured him like, and why did they seek him out? In The Goat Foot God, Diotima takes a scholarly yet idiosyncratic look at Pan, as is only befitting the subject. Using the Homeric Hymn as a base, and moving beyond it, she examines what the ancients knew and thought about Pan. She moves on to the present day and finds no less puzzlement, asking how Pan might fit in with the modern feminist consciousness. There are more questions than answers herein, but that is entirely in keeping with the eponymous subject....
Author: Dion Fortune
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909735705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Dion Fortune used her occult novels as a vehicle to introduce newcomers into a world of magical beliefs, scattering information and ritual instruction throughout their pages. 'The Goat-Foot God' is one of her most ambitious novels, describing the spiritual awakening of Hugh Paston, a wealthy, bored, boring, and desperately unhappy man. Following his wife's death in a car crash with her lover, Hugh Paston wanders disconsolately into a seedy bookshop, where a phrase in a second-hand book, and an apparently chance meeting with the proprietor, leads him on a quest to discover the true meaning of the Great God Pan. It is a journey that brings him into painful contact with Mona, the bookseller's adopted niece, who helps to awaken memories of past lives that stimulate long-repressed aspects of his psyche. On this journey Paston (and the reader) learn much of the deeper well-springs of Nature, and of the equality of male and female in completing those magical circuits that sustain all aspects of Life.
Author: Kala Trobe
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738700960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Explore the power of male archetypes by calling upon the energies of specific godforms. This guidebook and companion volume to Invoke the Goddess shows you how to activate a positive and powerful connection to fifteen gods from three different pantheons--Hindu, Greek, and Egyptian--with ritualized meditations and visualizations. ·To increase initiative-elicit the dynamic energy of Hermes ·For greater power-invoke the might of Zeus ·For career success-seek the business savvy of Ganesh ·For magickal prowess-call upon the prophetic wisdom of Thoth The gods live in our very midst, inside as well as outside of our own psyches. Invoke the Gods presents the history, lore, and instruction you need to incorporate their archetypal powers into your life.
Author: Dion Fortune
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Susan Johnston Graf
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438455550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Talking to the Gods explores the linkages between the imaginative literature and the occult beliefs and practices of four writers who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William Butler Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune were all members of the occult organization for various periods from 1890 to 1930. Yeats, of course, is both a canonical and well-loved poet. Machen is revered as a master of the weird tale. Blackwoods work dealing with the supernatural was popular during the first half of the twentieth century and has been influential in the development of the fantasy genre. Fortunes books are acknowledged as harbingers of trends in second-wave feminist spirituality. Susan Johnston Graf examines practices, beliefs, and ideas engendered within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and demonstrates how these are manifest in each authors work, including Yeatss major theoretical work, A Vision.
Author: Penny Billington
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1801520313
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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How to use the brilliant insights from Dion Fortune's occult novels to master the art of the embodied imagination, discover your vitality, and open up to the clarity and love that arise from the root of your being. Dion Fortune's esoteric novels were written as guides to magic and inner development to be used along with her great nonfiction work, The Mystical Qabalah. This book shows how to work with her most popular fictions, exploring how the stories and characters can help you integrate the secrets of the Tree of Life and discover what Fortune called "the keys to the temple." The book contains an exploration of Fortune's writings, experiential practices, and a hands-on workbook section, you will learn to utilize the wealth of esoteric wisdom found in The Mystical Qabalah, The Goat-Foot God, The Sea Priestess, The Winged Bull, and Moon Magic. "This wonderful evocation of Dion Fortune's esoteric novels offers initiatory and practical pathways to the neophyte and reader!" - Caitlin & John Matthews, authors of The Lost Book of the Grail
Author: Joseph Leonhard ilpert
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1696
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