Through the Gates of Death [Paperback]

Dion Fortune (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1968

Through the Gates of Death.

Product Details

• Paperback: 94 pages
• Publisher: Samuel Weiser (New York) (1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877281718
• ISBN-13: 978-0877281719
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,502,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars peace, December 13, 2003

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buddhagoddess (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Through the Gates of Death (Paperback)

Have peace in knowing that this world is just *one* step on your or your loved ones eternal journey. The previous reviewer, bookmage, mentioned it has an intellectual approach - and it does; however, I still think it can be quite helpful to those that are grieving in that they can know that their loved ones are quite happy and safe in their passage to their next stage of *living*. It isn't a *fluffy, there-there* book and it's a very quick read. If you are interested in alternative views of death and the passing of loved ones, I would read this book.

I picked this up because I want those I leave behind to feel happy for my passage and to be comforted with the thought that I'm in a good place when I pass.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly enjoyable- 3 and a half stars, March 14, 2003

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bookmage (Saint Louis) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Through the Gates of Death (Paperback)

The book is written in a mix of preachy advice that I am beginning to know Dion Fortune by and her very psychic and well knowledge Occult impressions on people going through death of a loved one or of just knowledge on death. The problem with the book is that it is written in an attempt to advise someone who is grieving... yet It is written from a COLD intellectual occultist supremist way. This book added a bit to my knowledge of death but I wouldn't recommended starting with this book, rather I would use this book only if you are already familiar with the occult view on death and to add to your knowledge. Also I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who is strongly grieving from a recent death. I would recommend this to someone who is looking for a occult view on death, who already has some knowledge on this occult view, and someone who wants to know how to handle death in the best way from an occult view. I would recommend The Astral World: Its Scenes, Dwellers, and Phenomena
by Swami Panchadasi as a very quick read to familiarize yourself with related occult subjects before you read this book or instead of this book if you are looking for just one book to read.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Treatise on Death, March 12, 2006

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Joseph Adams "brother" (Superior, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Through the Gates of Death (Paperback)

Dion Fortune was one of the foremost psychics and occultniks of the last century. With this book, a treatise of sorts on death, it explains to the aspirant the various stages we pass through on death from one world to another. The author does this without being too solemn or preachy, while the Society of Inner Light remains hidden to all but the most worldly. Fortune was controversial because people are not willing to accept anything different- a stupid, old fashioned concept taken from Little House on the Prairy aka out dated 1980s values. Death is the reality of life, and a lot of these groups teach reincarnation as an alternative to heaven.