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The Goat Foot God

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Hugh Preston and Mona, aided by the antiquarian bookseller Jelkes, convert an ancient monastery into a temple for the worship of Pan, the goat foot god.The monastery is haunted by the spirit of Ambrosius, a 15th century monk who was condemned for his pagan leanings and interest in Pan. Unleashed occult forces which overlap the centuries threaten chaos, but Hugh and Mona weather the psychic storms and conduct an invocation of Pan.Here ,as with her other novels, Dion Fortune imparts a considerable amount of occult knowledge.

This book is very entertaining and gives a very obvious encounter with the beliefs and practices of the old religion. Its reference to the old religion is still very basic since it does not go too deeply into the different aspects of Pan. It does however give the true importance of the balance of nature. Good for anyone in the study from Initiate up to adept to read.

It is a rare opportunity to get a chance to see behind the closed doors of an esoteric lodge. In this book by Dion fortune, we have just this chance. Although couched in the form of entertaining fiction, The Adept Dion Fortune gives us insight into the Greater Mysteries of Initiation. Facinating and most entertaining. a must for every sincere seeker of the western Mysteries! -Paul A. Clark, author of the Broken Seal.

I now have all of Dion Fortune's fiction. When I read The Sea Priestess last year I really liked it a lot, rating it my second favorite novel I've ever read behind Crowley's Moon Child. That is because it made such an impact on me that whatever makes you happy the endorphins go off, and it satisfied my fantasies of Atlantis, the occult and as an alternative to Harry Potter or Stephen King. This is the most neo pagan out of all of Fortune's fiction, with the title The Goat Foot God it is a referance to Pan, an old god of centuries past.

I am the scandinavian renderer of this, the gre- atest, book on earth. Would just like to say that since Koontz's books were occupied by a larger publisher in Sweden, and I found Her Majesty the Great Violet Mary Firth a.k.a Dion Fortune, I was not the sorrier for that.And this is the first, and this is the best, I've ever read! A great casting and a series on english TV... How can they (UK) have missed it??? They are visionary (as expected of a visionary) to the maximum, and pure manuscripts, maybe too good for Hollywood...