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Gnosis 13: The Goddess (New)

by Gnosis

Publisher: Gnosis

Binding: Magazine

Book Id: GNO13

Price: $9.00

Description



"The second coming of the Goddess has proved of inestimable value to people everywhere, for it has provided them with a new mythic pattern, a saving story to live by."
- Caitlin Matthews, from Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom

Contents -- Fall 1989

1
Editorial

2
News

3
Study Groups

4
Forum

13
Special Forum: The Cult of Personality and the Perennial Philosophy
by Robin Waterfield and Peter Lamborn Wilson

18
Introduction: Lifting the Veil
by Jay Kinney

20
Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom
by Caitlin Matthews
Sophia in her many guises may be the key to the Goddess's reappearance.

28
The Goddess Emerging
by De-Anna Alba
An overview of the rise of Goddess-worship and paganism in the 20th century.

32
Images of Goddess
by D. Jean Collins
Dion Fortune, Andre Norton, and insights into the Black Goddess.

37
Goddess in the Metropolis
by Irene Javors
The Goddess walks the streets of our urban experience.

40
The Mother of Memory
by Dawn Kolokithas
A meditation of the mythic figure and the role of the muse.

43
Animals and the Goddess
by Susan Levitt
A look at the indelible link between the Goddess and the animal kingdom.

47
Shekhinah: A Poem
by Leah Novick

48
Visions of Mary and Psychic Evolution
by Michael Grosso
Are Virgin Mary sightings part of a pattern of behavior modification?

54
Goddesses, Yes; Goddess, No!
by Stephan A. Hoeller
The limits of monotheism in light of the feminine and the multi-centered God image.

58
The Goddess: None Other Than God
by Charles Upton
The divine in nature calls for the transcendent unitary vision as well.

64
Beyond the Goddess
by Richard Smoley
Without balance the feminine may be as prone to excess as the unrestrained masculine.

68
Book Reviews

  • The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia by Moshe Idel
  • Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah by Moshe Idel
  • Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia by Moshe Idel
  • Coming To Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West by Morris Berman
  • The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today compiled by Shirley Nicholson
  • Angels: Ministers of Grace by Geddes MacGregor
  • Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee, foreword by Whitley Strieber
  • In Search of the Primordial Tradition and the Cosmic Christ by Father John Rossner, Ph.D.
  • Blavatsky and Her Teachers by Jean Overton Fuller
  • The Elements of the Celtic Tradition by Caitlin Matthews
  • Practical Magic in the Northern Tradition by Nigel Pennick
  • Earth's Embrace: Archetypal Psychology's Challenge to the Growth Movement by Alan Bleakly
  • Inside the Brotherhood: Further Secrets of the Freemasons by Martin Short
  • The Temple and the Lodge by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
  • Black Square and Compass: 200 Years of Prince Hall Freemasonry by Joseph A. Walkes, Jr.
  • Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England by T.M. Luhrmann
  • The Faith Healers by James Randi
  • The Way of the Lover by Robert Augustus Masters
  • The Moon Under Her Feet by Clysta Kinstler
  • The Esoteric Path: An Introduction to the Hermetic Tradition by Luc Benoist with a chapter by Robin Waterfield
  • Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic, translated by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric
  • Krotona of Old Hollywood, Vol. I, 1866-1913 by Joseph E. Ross

Entering the Castle: Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul's Purpose
Myss, Caroline
Simon & Schuster

Myss provides a highly original inner path to self-knowledge as she reveals a necessary external path, one that takes you out into the world to serve God and others as a mystic without a monastery -- without having to retreat into silence, self-denial, or isolation. Adapting Teresa of Ávila's vision of the soul as a crystal castle with many floors and rooms, Myss guides us from room to room, helping us meet different aspects of our self, our soul, and our spirit -- preparing us for the ultimate encounter with God and our own divinity. Through intense practices and methods of spiritual inquiry adapted for contemporary life, she helps us to develop our powers of prayer, contemplation, and intuition and to ascend the seven levels of soul knowledge that build a soul of strength and stamina.

Price: $15.00

A Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection: Al-Dawr Al-A la (Hizh Al-Wiqaya)
Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin
Anqa Publishing

Widely used for centuries in Sufi circles, this beautiful and powerful prayer, written by the great Sufi master Ibn ‘Arabi, has never before been available in English. The book provides a lucid English translation and an edited Arabic text, as well as a transliteration for those unable to read Arabic who wish to recite the prayer in the original language. It also explores the prayer’s contemporary life, properties and historical transmission. It gives full details of generations of well-known scholars and Sufi masters who have transmitted the prayer, providing an intimate and fascinating insight into Islamic history.

Price: $25.95

The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Pfaff, Donald W.
University of Chicago Press

Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University, gives us the first book to describe how ethics may be a universal, hardwired function of the human brain. He explains how specific brain circuits cause us to consider an action toward another as if it were going to happen to us, prompting us to treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Into this picture, he brings various brain hormones that produce or induce forms of moral behavior such as individual heroism, parental love, close friendship, and violence and aggression.

Price: $20.95

Initiation: The Living Reality of an Archetype
Singer, June
Taylor & Francis/Routledge

This book builds on the vast clinical experience of Jungian analyst Joseph Henderson, who studied initiatory symbolism in patients' dreams, fantasies, and active imagination, demonstrating the archetype of initiation in both men and women's psychology. This book's modern collection of essays shows how the archetype of initiation is seen clinically today. It explores the archetype of initiation in Henderson's own life, as well as amplifying and extending the archetype from early history up to the present. Initiation symbolism often underlies contemporary phenomena, but is rarely recognized; Initiation illuminates these experiences.

Price: $33.95