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| Evoking the Goddess. Gareth Knight. Initiation, Worship and the Eternal Feminine in the Western Mysteries. Mythology and Magick |
Gareth Knight passed away a couple months ago. He was a student of the esoteric school founded by Dion Fortune. "Evoking the Goddess" is an enjoyable work by him, which explores the Divine Feminine both in Mythology and magical practice within the Western Mysteries.
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.
Honoring 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 recognize the power of the Goddess within to reconstitute and guide our existence.
