The Devil & the Goddess
Meditations on Blood, Serpents & Androgyny
This unique study, at once scholarly and personal, erudite and ecstatic, looks at the possible origins of Satan in Christianity’s demonisation of archaic goddesses. Along the way there are in-depth speculations on menstruation and the origins of culture, the kundalini experience, androgynous deities and sexuality, blood sacrifice, and ritual scarification. All are underlined by an attempt to penetrate beyond the damaging dualisms we have inherited from Christian theology; especially the false division of life into body and soul, flesh and spirit.
The full text is also available online here, and as a PDF eBook for easy printing and offline reading (see below).
Reviews
Occulture at its finest.
John Eden, Turbulent Times
eBook
A special eBook edition of this booklet is now available in PDF format. I’ve reformatted it to A4 for easy printing and reading:
- The Devil & The Goddess (1.12MB PDF)
As the eBook is free, and the booklet is now out of stock, there will be no more reprints of this title.
Reprinted in my essays collection, Archaeologies of Consciousness.
