If I could introduce you to ten amazing people whose influence could transform your life by energizing your spiritual quest, they would be the nine visionaries featured in The Great Search . . . plus a tenth, John Philip Newell himself. What a treasure this book is. Enthusiastically recommended!--Brian D. McLaren, author of Life After Doom
In the great tradition of authors who leave church but remain spiritual--such as Barbara Brown Taylor, Rob Bell--the author of Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul forges a new path toward a true spiritual home, embracing a deep connection to the natural world.
The story of Adam and Eve's fall from innocence in the Garden of Eden is a mythical account of humanity's broken relationship with the divine, with Earth, and with themselves.
In contrast, Celtic wisdom is built on a strong bond with Earth. In the prophetic figures that Newell draws from, the Garden of Eden represents the inner garden of our souls and the outer garden of Earth, which are seen as essentially one. To live in relation to what is deepest in us is to live in relation to the ground from which we and all things have come. Where are we today, in relation to our true selves and the sacredness of Earth? And how are we to find our way home again?
This life-affirming, nourishing book contemplates these questions at a moment of great spiritual awakening, an era characterized by religious exile on a vast scale. We need a new sense of home spiritually, deeply rooted within ourselves and in our shared journey with each other and Earth.
From New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Tarot who has redefined tarot for the twenty-first century comes an original oracle deck and guidebook that takes seekers on a journey of self-discovery--now in a compact, pocket-sized format.
Kim Krans illuminates the revelatory power of archetypes--the ancient, universal symbols that have endured across time and cultures and reside deep in our shared psyche. The Wild Unknown Pocket Archetypes Deck fosters a profound understanding of our complex personalities, proclivities, and behaviors.
In this new pocket-sized edition, The Wild Unknown Pocket Archetypes Deck includes 78 gorgeous circular oracle cards divided into four suits: The Selves, The Places, The Tools, and The Initiations. Each archetype has been carefully selected for its symbolic potency and the lesson at the core of its nature, such as The Poet--representative of deep emotional creativity and the drive to find our truth--and The Vision, which is emblematic of the lifelong journey to fulfill our destiny. Accompanying the deck is a 224-page hand-lettered, fully illustrated guidebook written and designed by Krans, which details the meaning behind each card and offers clear, grounded explanations of the many spreads, practices, and concepts that power the Archetypes deck.
A beautiful and inclusive tool for self-exploration, The Wild Unknown Pocket Archetypes Deck will enchant spiritual, cultural, and intellectual seekers. It is an exquisitely designed work of art that embodies the mystery, glamour, and allure of Krans's beloved work while introducing a new realm of magic and depth to The Wild Unknown.
The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabalists, Rosicrucians, and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry, optics, and color theory.
Even for those with no knowledge of the fascinating history of alchemy, this book is a delight to explore. Each richly illustrated chapter begins with an introduction and quotes from alchemists by specialist Alexander Roob. The roots of surrealism and many other more recent artistic movements can be found in this treasure trove.
Wild Mercy is essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world.
Mystical brilliance at its best. --Caroline Myss No one can take us into the fiery and tender depths of the sacred feminine with more skill, humor, clarity, and vibrant naked honesty than Mirabai Starr. --Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope and The Return of the Mother We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of years--but the feminine is rising. Seeds of feminine wisdom that have been quietly germinating underground are now breaking through the surface, writes Mirabai Starr. Women everywhere are rising to the collective call to step up and repair our broken Earth. And we are activating a paradigm shift such as the world has never seen. With Wild Mercy, Mirabai shares the subversive wisdom and fierce compassion of the feminine mystic across cultural boundaries and throughout history. From saints and sages, to goddesses and archetypal energies, to contemporary teachers and seekers--you'll meet women who blazed a path that will illuminate your own. Each chapter explores a different facet of feminine mysticism through a tapestry of teachings, reflections, and stories, along with a practice for integrating the chapter's themes into your own life. As you journey through these pages, you'll explore:This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening. Beautiful, poignant, at times humorous, transcendent, messy, down to earth, refreshingly honest--the book explores death, and more importantly, being alive, through a rich mix of personal stories and spiritual reflections.
Joan writes about her mother's final years and about being with friends and teachers at the end of their lives. She shares her own journey with aging, anal cancer, and other life challenges. She explores what it means to be alive in what may be the collapse of civilization and the possible extinction of life on earth due to climate change.
Pointing beyond deficiency stories, future fantasies, and oppressive self-improvement projects, Joan invites an awakening to the immediacy of this moment and the wonder of ordinary life. She demonstrates a pathless path of genuine transformation, seeing all of life as sacred and worthy of devotion, and finding joy in the full range of our human experience.
A compelling book urging modern women to reconnect with their inborn femimine powers.
Reclaim your inner witch with the magical rituals, divination tools, spells and ancient wisdom in this revolutionary book. A witch is a woman in her power. She's wise, a healer, someone who is aligned with the cycles of Mother Nature and the phases of the Moon. Yet for so long, the word 'witch' has had negative connotations - being used as an insult, a slur and to perpetuate fear. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why in past centuries the word 'witch' has led women to be tortured, drowned and burned at the stake, and why the witch is now waking once again in women across the world today. This book will help women to remember, reconnect and reclaim the word 'witch' and its power. It explores the many different versions of witchcraft and their core principles and practices, and shares ancient wisdom made relevant for waking witches, including how to: - Align your energy with the wheel of the year, the sabbats and the cycles of the MoonThe Qabalah is one of the great foundations of Western esoteric and spiritual thought. It is an important tool in learning to use the intuition to explore the archetypal realms of divine life. The Mystical Qabalah is widely recognized as the most practical and authoritative guide to understanding and using the Qabalah. It explains its roots in Jewish mysticism, then demonstrates how this glyph the Tree of Life can be used to understand the emanations of the mind of God. The author, Dion Fortune, was one of the leading figures in the Western esoteric tradition during the first half of the twentieth century.
I am only a bridge; when you have got over the stream you can kick me away. -Gurdjieff to John G. Bennett
This work advances a thesis about Gurdjieff's mysticism and shows how one of Gurdjieff's most eminent pupils developed the heritage. It also compares John G. Bennett-for whom this is the first biographical study-with other Gurdjieff pupils, notably Ouspensky and Jeanne de Salzmann.
Bennett has been a controversial figure in the Gurdjieff lineage, rising to prominence, as he did, in the generation after Gurdjieff's death. Scholar Joseph Azize scrutinizes Bennett's visions (near-death, out-of-body, and mystical experiences), showing the original ways he witnessed life, death, and resurrection.
Azize also reveals how Bennett was taken advantage of by Idries Shah, and why there's a widespread view among students of Gurdjieff that Idries Shah was a poseur, a pretender to esoteric knowledge, prepared to deceive others when it was to his advantage.
Bennett's later connections with Shivapuri Baba, and his correspondence with David Bohm, are also sure to stimulate more explorations of Gurdjieff-related matters.
This is the first translation into English of Lazare Lenain's seminal work on the Shemhamephorash. 'The Science of the Kabbalah, or the Art of Knowing the Good Geniuses' was originally published in 1823. It was picked up by Papus when he was Grand Master of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix and republished in 1909. Indeed, in his Preface he says: No publication could benefit the progress of Kabbalistic studies more than the reissue of Lenain's very rare tract. Since then it has inspired such diverse esoteric characters as Samuel McGregor Mathers of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Robert Ambelain of the Ordre Martiniste.
Lenain's stated purpose in writing the book was to: make the public aware of what Magic is, so that each may obtain a correct notion of it, for ignorance demonizes everything it doesn't understand. Indeed, these are words which are particularly relevant today, in an age where scholarship, intellect, science and principle are being sacrificed upon the altar of self-interest, division and destruction.
He begins by discussing the power of numbers and an analysis of the Name of God, incorporating the sacred delta and, interestingly, using exactly the same phrase used by Lois-Clade de Saint-Martin: God created all things by weight, number and measure. Indeed, much of his early chapters suggest a familiarity with his teachings, and this may be another reason Papus was a devotee of Lenain. He explains each of the twenty-two Hebrew letters in detail, as an introduction to their use to form the Shemhamephorash, or 72-lettered Name of God (which is actually 72 syllables, each composed of three letters taken from verses in the Book of Exodus. However, each set of three letters, with a suffix added to vivify it, creates 72 angels or geniuses associated with the circle of eternity, each ruling over 5 degrees of the circle.
Lenain provides a simple method to identify the three Geniuses which rule over the various aspects of one's life, as well as a detailed description of the Sacred Calendar. The three Geniuses which impact an individual's life are the Elemental, the Astrological and the Divine. This knowledge can be used in a number of ways, from designing talismans for protection and good fortune, to knowing the best times to undertake travel, business venture and to avoid pitfalls.
An extensive list of the attributes, characteristics, powers and associations of the 72 Geniuses or Angels makes up the bulk of the book, which provide the building block for all the operations and talismans which can be derived from each of the Geniuses. The Operator can elect to work with their personal Geniuses, or with one which has influence over a specific goal. He provides Tables which indicate the days and hours to perform the appropriate operations, together with the incense, animals, plants and minerals associated with the planetary forces. In this he draws extensively from older sources, in particular Agrippa's 'Occult Philosophy', Kircher's 'OEdipus Egyptiacus' and Dupuis' 'Origin of Cults'.
Although he promises to provide all the information necessary to create talismans based on the 72 Geniuses, this part was to be provided in a second edition, which never materialized. To rectify this omission, the translator has provided a number of Appendices listing seals and sigils which can be used, ranging from the (in)famous list of Sigils from the Arsenal Library manuscript 2495, and Seals created by using the Golden Dawn formula of the Rosicrucian rose. Finally, he provides a new interpretation of the 72 Angelic Seals devised by Eliphas L vi in his private notes of 1860 to one of his students, Baron Spedalieri, entitled 'Clefs Majeures et Clavicules de Salomon.'
Hall clearly sets forth the relationship of the fire symbols to the life forces within the human body. Special treatment is given to the subjects of the ductless glands and the part which they play in the development of spiritual consciousness. Mr. Hall describes how man's body is a living temple and how the places of initiation and ritual in the temple's various chambers and passageways symbolize processes occurring in the human body.
Introducing The Neville Goddard Collection.
It has been my pleasure to devote my time to improving one of the best books available, in my humble opinion, and give students of Neville a more enjoyable reading experience.
What's new in The Neville Goddard Collection? For starters I have reformatted his entire collection of 10 books. This makes it easier to read, understand and comprehend. I have also added 2 of his more famous lectures, The 1948 Class Lessons and The 1951 Radio Talks, making this the most complete Neville book available. While his 10 books covers most of his material, I felt what was missing is now covered in these 2 lecture series.
From inside the book
Editors Notes
There are many noticeable differences in this collection of Neville Goddard's books that you are not likely to find in any other of his books or collections.
As a student of metaphysical literature, I have come to appreciate the value of having a well formatted book which has greatly enhanced my learning curve. It was with this in mind that I have undertook this project, a labor of love, in reformatting, revamping and restructuring the entire layout of Neville's 10 books as well as two of his finest lecture series, the 1948 Classroom Lessons and July 1951 Radio Lectures/Talks.
My reason for this is simple. It is easier for me, and I believe for anyone, to absorb the material of any book, especially a book of this caliber, when the formatting or layout isn't a distraction to the reader and allows them to put all their efforts and concentration into the content itself, which after all is the main purpose of studying a book such as this. I believe this new formatting will maximize and facilitate the students time as well as enhance the overall experience of studying the world's greatest mystic's teachings. I feel I have created an ambiance which will allow the reader to absorb the material with much greater ease.
Changes . . . Improvements Made
Wider margins, improved formatting/layout, chronological order of the year the books were originally published rather than alphabetical, with the exception of the 1948 Classroom Lessons and 1951 Radio Talks, which have been placed at the back of the book.
I have left the chapter indexes out at the beginning of each book. Rather, I direct you to the master index at the end of the book, should you choose to locate your favorite chapters or books. There is a Book Directory at the beginning. The title page of each book now has the original year of publication for that specific book.
I have also changed the headings. This will make it easier to know where you are in the book, while reading it, which I feel is important considering this book contains several different books and lectures. Each page heading now shows the title of the book . . The chapter number . . and the chapter title. This makes for an easy reference point no matter where you are in the book during your studies.
I have removed the reference to verses (such as John 1:1) from all scripture and instead have centered and italicized each one, as to set it apart from Neville's teachings of that scripture. I believe the point he was making was about scripture and which actual verse it was, had no actual bearing on those interpretations.
I have reserved 10 Pages for Notes, placed at the end of the book. This makes it more convenient, when referring back to them, rather than flipping through the book looking for specific notes.
Also I have included suggested reading of other books at the end of the book, for those readers who are seeking more truth, from this mystical world we all live in.
David Allen