In this wide-ranging view of magic and ritual, Gareth Knight demonstrates the presence of the Goddess throughout Western esoteric traditions. From Greek myths and the Mysteries of Isis to the emergence of the cult of the Blessed Virgin and seventeenth-century Rosicrucian spiritual alchemy, he shows how the Goddess - the elemental consciousness of Earth - has revealed herself in different times and places. Honouring her many guises, Knight explores the powers of the Goddess as maiden, mother, initiator, protector, sorceress and faery queen. Guided meditations on each of these qualities lead the practitioner into direct contact with the potent healing energy of the Divine Feminine. The author also offers rituals, exercises and other practical tools for integrating the Western magical tradition with worship of the Goddess. He shows how we, and our planet, have suffered due to the repression of the feminine principle. For our own health, and that of our environment as well, we must recognise the power of the Goddess within to reconstitute and guide our existence. · Draws from two thousand years of source material to demonstrate the ongoing reality of the feminine power and its relevance for today · Includes rituals, exercises, and techniques for evoking the Goddess · Explains how the dynamics of the sacred or magic circle serve as a guide to living harmoniously
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"If you've got the intellect and self-discipline to pursue this branch of magic, you'll find the work in this book enormously rewarding."--Barbara Ardinger, "PanGaia: A Pagan Journal for Thinking People", Summer 2008
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Gareth Knight has spent a lifetime unearthing and teaching the principles of magic as a spiritual discipline and method of self-realization. He was trained in the esoteric school founded by Dion Fortune and has been actively involved in the Western magical tradition since the early 1960s. He is the author of thirty books, including Tarot and Magic and A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism. He lives in England.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Ogmios
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I think this book was previously titled 'The Rose Cross and the Goddess'. It is an excellent book written on the mysteries by Gareth Knight, a true master of the Western Mystery Tradition. Looking at various Pagan traditions of the Goddess, it is scholarly, enlightening and practical - interjecting many advanced ideas of magical practice into a pagan framework. It is a good book for those who are tired of some of the already stale neo-pagan traditions to read, to give new ideas, new insights and inspiration.
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I would recommend the review of Coleston Brown who obviously knows Gareth Knight. This is a book for those dedicated to the Goddess or wish to be initiated in the mysteries. The practical work at the beginning of the book is helpful if you want to follow this path which is as veiled as Isis herself.
The book is obviously scholarly, but needs concentration and dedication from the reader.
The book is obviously scholarly, but needs concentration and dedication from the reader.
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A Ground-breaking Book
9 May 2008
By CyhBrown
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Originally published in 1985 as "The Rose Cross and the Goddess," then later substantially revised and expanded under the title "Evoking the Goddess", this latest edition has a new preface by the author.
In many ways, this book was, and still is, ahead of its time. For it presents the Western Mystery Tradition not as an inalterable secret "system" controlled by a hierarchy of reticent adepts, but as a dynamic, living approach to sacred lore. It is a way of transformation and spiritual service that is applicable to any religious or mythological tradition, yet is bound by none.
The book is divided into two main parts, which taken together provide a rare opportunity to work magic from beginning exercises to advanced levels of service. Indeed, the book could well be taken as a course of training in and of itself and I would certainly wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interested in the Magical Way.
There are times in this book, particular in the practical segments, where Knight's literary style, already accomplished and impressive, seems overshadowed by yet a greater voice. A poetic muse or spiritual contact seems to speak with unusual power from those passages.
In the chapter headed "The Faery Queen and the Magic Mountain,' Knight remarks more fully on an important theme running through the book. This is "the democratization of the Mysteries," which he rightly links to the power of the Goddess. He mentions the current spate of books and workshops on once secret doctrines and practices as evidence of this process
The book closes with a chapter on the Initiation of the Earth, in which Knight gives visionary examples of how this new priest and priestess-hood is undertaken in the context of the Goddess and sacred sites. Effective participation in this kind of spiritual service requires, the author tells us, "breadth of vision and largeness of soul" ~ a phrase which aptly sums up this book.
In many ways, this book was, and still is, ahead of its time. For it presents the Western Mystery Tradition not as an inalterable secret "system" controlled by a hierarchy of reticent adepts, but as a dynamic, living approach to sacred lore. It is a way of transformation and spiritual service that is applicable to any religious or mythological tradition, yet is bound by none.
The book is divided into two main parts, which taken together provide a rare opportunity to work magic from beginning exercises to advanced levels of service. Indeed, the book could well be taken as a course of training in and of itself and I would certainly wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interested in the Magical Way.
There are times in this book, particular in the practical segments, where Knight's literary style, already accomplished and impressive, seems overshadowed by yet a greater voice. A poetic muse or spiritual contact seems to speak with unusual power from those passages.
In the chapter headed "The Faery Queen and the Magic Mountain,' Knight remarks more fully on an important theme running through the book. This is "the democratization of the Mysteries," which he rightly links to the power of the Goddess. He mentions the current spate of books and workshops on once secret doctrines and practices as evidence of this process
The book closes with a chapter on the Initiation of the Earth, in which Knight gives visionary examples of how this new priest and priestess-hood is undertaken in the context of the Goddess and sacred sites. Effective participation in this kind of spiritual service requires, the author tells us, "breadth of vision and largeness of soul" ~ a phrase which aptly sums up this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Truly a book for the ages
20 Nov 2010
By Bokhara
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If you want a readable, down-to-earth book on the overall topic of "The Goddess" this book
should be at or near the top of your list. It is a shame that many of those who will read this work
will not themselves have anything near the practical, "hands on" experience Knight has had.
Since the Rishi first taught, thousands of years ago, knowledge concerning the feminine and masculine
aspects of all causation, has anyone seriously set pen to paper to clarify and simplify this topic
for esotericists? Certainly Gareth Knight has now done so. We owe him a big "Thank You".
should be at or near the top of your list. It is a shame that many of those who will read this work
will not themselves have anything near the practical, "hands on" experience Knight has had.
Since the Rishi first taught, thousands of years ago, knowledge concerning the feminine and masculine
aspects of all causation, has anyone seriously set pen to paper to clarify and simplify this topic
for esotericists? Certainly Gareth Knight has now done so. We owe him a big "Thank You".
2 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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New title for a previous book
4 May 2008
By W. Paul Blakey
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Previously published as The Rose Cross and the Goddess, this is an updated version. Lots of Goddess information and mythic descriptions. I guess you could call it a text book of the Goddess, all of which makes it a bit of a grind to read. It comes across rather dry because it is so chock-full of myths and characters. Worth having as a reference.
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