The goat-foot god, - Hardcover

Fortune, Dion

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877281114 ISBN 13: 9780877281115

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1971

Synopsis

Dion Fortune used her occult novels as a vehicle to introduce newcomers into a world of magical beliefs, scattering information and ritual instruction throughout their pages. 'The Goat-Foot God' is one of her most ambitious novels, describing the spiritual awakening of Hugh Paston, a wealthy, bored, boring, and desperately unhappy man. Following his wife's death in a car crash with her lover, Hugh Paston wanders disconsolately into a seedy bookshop, where a phrase in a second-hand book, and an apparently chance meeting with the proprietor, leads him on a quest to discover the true meaning of the Great God Pan. It is a journey that brings him into painful contact with Mona, the bookseller's adopted niece, who helps to awaken memories of past lives that stimulate long-repressed aspects of his psyche. On this journey Paston (and the reader) learn much of the deeper well-springs of Nature, and of the equality of male and female in completing those magical circuits that sustain all aspects of Life.

About this title

About the Author:

Dion Fortune (1891-1946), founder of The Society of Inner Light, is recognized as one of the most luminous and significant figures of the 20th-century esoteric thought. A prolific writer, pioneer psychologist, and powerful psychic, she dedicated her life to the revival of the Western Mystery Tradition. Other titles by Fortune include "Mystical Qabalah, Psychic Self-Defense, The Sea Priestess", and "Moon Magic".

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0877281114
• ISBN 13: 9780877281115
• Binding: Hardcover