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Here is the cover for By Names and Images, my new book coming out from the wonderful Skylight Press March 21st. Cover by the much talented Rebsie Fairholm.
I have written before about the book, and am both glad and sad I left it languishing for years way beyond contract date with my previous publishers. Skylight is a great press and to have my name listed among the greats, Knight, Fortune, Gray, Richardson etc, is surreal. They have been a joy to work with and are getting the book out at about half the cost of what the first publishers projected, meaning more of YOU can buy it 
Seriously, I do (natch) think it’s a much needed book.
Tony DeLuce, author, magician and publisher describes it as:
The finest introduction to the Golden Dawn system yet penned and includes many never before seen highlights from the author’s years of oral instruction and training. A ‘must have’ for every student of the Golden Dawn, beginning and advanced.”
Need I say more?
There is a synopsis on the By Names and Images page (scroll down). More soon – : )
Pre-orders can be taken at:
"We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured." ~
“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism” ~
How does my spiritual practice and daily life serve the earth?
How does my spiritual practice and daily life affect the poorest third of humanity?
How will my spiritual practice and daily life affect the generations to come in the future?
"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity."
“For most of us, however, we only think seriously of food or sex or money when it becomes a problem, which is to say when we feel we are not getting our share. When we find ourselves in that situation then I regret to say that meditational visualisations are really not the best way to remedy the lack. … We are here in a physical condition in a physical world and while in that state we have to abide by the laws appropriate to it.”
"The biblical texts have been strained out through a Greek/Latin mindset, which is very surface and static. I sometimes think it would have actually have been better if Western culture had based so called "Western religion" on Greek philosophy, rather than middle-eastern, because then at least you'd have all one thing. It would be eternally consistent. But what we have now is sort of half of each. And you're left with a basically schizophrenic tradition." 
"Can a horse tell you what it means to be human? How can a horse get beyond the boundaries of being a horse and say what it means to be human? Why do we think a human being can say what it means to be God? And yet we’ve done that; we’ve done that and we said that we’ve got it so right that if you don’t believe it we’ll burn you at the stake. That’s a very strange idea." ~
Looks great. Looking forward to reading it
LVX,
Dean.
Beautiful cover, can’t wait to get a copy! This is an amazing time for new Golden Dawn books.