The Keys to the Temple: Unlocking Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah Through Her Occult Novels

The Keys to the Temple: Unlocking Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah Through Her Occult Novels

by Penny Billington, Ian Rees
The Keys to the Temple: Unlocking Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah Through Her Occult Novels

The Keys to the Temple: Unlocking Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah Through Her Occult Novels

by Penny Billington, Ian Rees

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781801520270
Publisher: AEON BOOKS LTD
Publication date: 04/21/2022
Pages: 262
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Penny Billington is a Druid speaker and author and is active in the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids, having edited their magazine, 'Touchstone', for fifteen years. She regularly runs workshops, organises rituals, and gives lectures and has also authored a Druid Detective series of novels. She resides in Somerset, England. Visit her online at www.penny billington.co.uk.

Ian Rees is a psycho-spiritual psychotherapist practicing in Glastonbury, Somerset, UK. He has been a therapist for twenty years and spent ten years before that working in probation work and social work. He designed MA programs and taught at the Karuna Institute in Devon from 1999 to 2009. Since 2009 he has concentrated on developing and presenting workshops for the Annwn Foundation.

Table of Contents

List of Figures xiii

About the Authors xv

Introduction xvii

Book Synopses xxi

Unlocking the Mystical Qabalah xxvii

Section 1 Leaving Home

1 The Goat-Foot God: power of nature 3

2 Entering Malkuth and The Goat-Foot God 13

3 The Sea Priestess: currents and rhythms 23

4 Yesod and The Sea Priestess: making a foundation 33

5 The Winged Bull and the dance of relationship 43

6 Tiphareth and The Winged Bull 55

7 Moon Magic: the depths and the heights 63

8 Daath and Moon Magic 73

Section 2 Following

9 The work of change 85

10 First steps on the path 95

11 The emotional connection 105

12 Thresholds, guardians, and obstacles 119

13 Magical space 129

14 The mentor and the threefold way 139

Section 3 Crossing the Bridge

15 Magical work: guidelines and boundaries 151

16 The Qabalah applied 159

17 Working with Malkuth and The Goat-Foot God 167

18 Working with Yesod and The Sea Priestess 177

19 Working with Tiphareth and The Winged Bull 187

20 Working with Daath and Moon Magic 197

Conclusion 209

Bibliography 213

Acknowledgments 215

To Write to the Authors 217

Index 219

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