Lamp of the Goddess: Lives and Teachings of a Priestess

By Rae Beth

Book Overview

As the millenium approaches, we are drawn to modern Goddess spirituality. By sharing our personal spiritual experiences with each other, Rae Beth feels the world will change. She goes within for this book of recollections, inner guidance, and ancient teachings. She explains individual reincarnation as a microcosm of Earth's great cycles of existence, as a means of developing the love and wisdom needed to manifest the true beauty of the spirit realm. Along with structions for recalling past lives and developing psychic skills, she gives descriptions of the Otherworld (where we go between lives) as the land of the Dark Goddess--the Queen of the Dead. This is not a fearsome place, but a joyful spirit land where healing flows, whether we approach it from its peripheries in deams, meditation, or between incarnations. Rae Beth also includes thoughtful interpretations of various myths of the Goddess in her many aspect--sIsis, Kali, Mary Magdalene, Persephone, and Tiamet--to name a few. This book looks at reincarnation from the viewpoint of a presentday priestess who honors the Deep Feminine, of the Goddess, as Mother of Souls, as the Earth Mother of physical existence. This sharing vision is relevant to us all, in our process of discovery and rebirth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877288488
• ISBN13: 9780877288480
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

exquisite mystical prose-poem

This is a hauntingly beautiful book. I came to witchcraft through Rae's first book, Hedge Witch, and waited a long time before buying her second. I admit this took me far longer to get into, and indeed I cannot go along with everything she says. I like my religion practical, and she endorses ideas I have little truck with, such as Atlantis. But this is a humble, generous, mystical book, exquisitely written and full of insight. I respect her enough to be able to put my prejudices aside. Unlike the vast majority of pagan writing these days, this book is, in my opinion, genuinely profound. Many paragraphs are prose-poems of astonishing beauty. I recommend it highly as a companion to Hedge Witch, and as a thought-provoking volume in its own right.

very good but a little dry at first

the begginning of this book was pretty boring but it did get better as i got more and more into it. i enjoyed all the differnet info on the goddesses, and the past life exercises.

Definitely worth buying...

Rae Beth has written what seems to me the most accurate and well-thought out explanations of varying dark goddesses that I've seen. I loved reading about her past life experiences. This book is purely fascinating.

An Amazing Book!

This book is awesome. It's beautifully written, and has information on goddesses from many traditions. This book, unlike some other goddess-oriented books, really did balance the feminine and masculine elements and honor them equally, she dosen't place the goddess over the god. I found the section on her visions and pastlife memories very interesting. And there are some really great rituals in here too. I highly reccomend this book!