Part One Chapter I. The Great Goddess Isis The Meaning of the Worship of Goddess Today • Why Isis • The Question of Deity Personification • The Many and the One • Isis as a Living Goddess Chapter II. Existing from the Beginning The One Goddess • The Hellenized Isis Myth • The Egyptian Isis Myth • In the Beginning Was Isis • The Bird of Prey Goddess • Isis Regenetrix • She Who Is upon Her Throne • The Great Goddess Throne Chapter III. Mother, Full of Beauty Motherhood in Egypt • Egyptian Great Mother Goddesses • Isis as Great Mother • Isis as Cow Goddess • Apis Bull and Hesis Cow • Isis-Io • Isis, Mother of Pharaoh, Mother of the Dead • Harsiese: Horus, the Son of Isis • The Pregnancy of Isis • The Sufferings of Isis • Isis as Protective Mother • Mother of the Gods • The Great Mother and Wholeness Chapter IV. Great of Magic Magic in Egypt • Magic Among the Hellenes • The Magic of the Name • Isis and the Name of Re • A New Meaning for an Old Myth • Everyday Magic • Magic and the Magicians • More Tales of the Magic of Isis • The Healing Magic of Isis • Medicines of the Goddess • Magika Hiera • Goddess of Magic Chapter V. Lady of Green Plants The Lady of the Fertile Field • Isis as Grain Goddess • Isis-Thermouthis • The Serpent Goddess and Agathe Tyche • Isis and Demeter • Osiris as Grain God • Other Sacred Plants • The Waters of Life • Isis Sothis: Celestial Herald of the Inundation • The Great River • Bringer of the Inundation • Osiris: Lord of Cool Water • Ritual Use of Water in the Rites of Isis • Isis Pelagia: The Lady of the Sea • The Navigium Isidis: A Greco-Roman Festival of Isis • A Description of the Navigium Isidis Chapter VI. Goddess of Women Women in Ancient Egypt • Women in Ancient Greece • Women in the Hellenistic World • Women in Rome and the Empire • Women in the Rest of the Isiac World • Lady of Marriage and Childbirth • Isis and the Birth Goddesses • Love, Sexuality, and Sacred Renewal • Goddess of Love • Sexual Scandals and the Temple of Isis • The Great Virgin • Priestesses and Devotees • Isis and the Queenship • The Ptolemaic Queens • Isis the Warrior Queen • Isis the Feminist Chapter VII. The Black One An Initiation into the Mysteries of Isis • The Greco-Roman Mysteries • The Purposes of Mysteries • The Egyptian Origin of Greek Mysteries? • Egyptian Mysteries • Death: The Great Initiation • The Mysteries of Isis • The Rites in Greco-Roman Times • Born-Again Isiacs • Isis the Savior • Images of Mystery • The Path of Love Chapter VIII. Isis Veiled The Hermetic Isis • Lady of Wisdom • The Goddess Unheeded • “A Public School for Training Mages”: The Temple of Isis at Canopus ° The Last Pagan Temple: The Temple of Isis at Philæ • Isis in the Middle Ages • The Black Madonna • Renaissance of the Pagan Traditions • Giordano Bruno: The Neo-Egyptian Magician • Elizabeth and Isis • Isis and the Mythographers • The Tablet of Isis • The Philosophers’ Goddess: Isis and Alchemy • Isis in the Lodges • The Goddess of Initiation • The Goddess of the Golden Dawn Chapter IX. Isis Unveiled Dion Fortune: Priestess of the Moon • The Moon Magic of Isis • “ll Women Are Isis” • Colonel Seymour: A True Mage • CCT: A Priestess of Isis in the House • The Cosmic Isis, the Isis Within, and the Silver Priestess • The Value of Imagining Isis • Aleister Crowley and the Isis Aeon • The Fellowship of Isis • Perceptions of the Goddess • Coming to Isis • Being in the Service of Isis • Greeting the Goddess • Opening the Ways to Isis Part Two Chapter X. Entering the House of Isis Worshipping Isis • Growing in Her Presence • The Magic of Isis • The Art of Ritual • The House of Isis Chapter XI. Becoming the Votary of Isis On the Work of the Votary Developing Openness to Goddess • Unfolding Hope • Practicing Expectation • Developing Your Spiritual Skills The Robe of the Votary Tying the Knot of Isis The Wings and Breath of Isis On Purification and Consecration The Lotus Pool Rite Making Nile Water On Invocation The Opening of the Ways The Rite of Isis of the Earth Invoking the Four Pillars of the Earth The Star of Isis Meditations of the Votary of Isis The Ritual of the Making of a Priest/ess of Isis Chapter XII. Becoming the Handmaiden or Servant of Isis On the Work of the Handmaiden or Servant of Isis Preparing Your Temple • Discovering Your Priest/esshood • The Path of Personal Devotion • The Path of the Moon • How to Approach the Practices in the House of Isis The Robe of the Handmaiden or Servant of Isis On the Elemental Symbols On the Elemental Symbols On Vibration On Sacred Posture and Gesture Energy Movement in Sacred Posture and Gesture The Lotus Wand of Isis The Opening of the Ways: Priest/ess Version On Devotional Practices Meditations of the Handmaiden or Servant of Isis The Rites of Sacred Nature Winter: The Rite of Loosing the Eyes Spring: The Navigium Isidis Summer: The Rising of Sothis Autumn: The Inundation Rite The Ritual of Knowing What Is in the Heart Chapter XIII. Becoming the Magician of Isis in the House of Life On the Work of the Magician of Isis in the House of Life Invoking the Aakhu • The Path of the Sun • Consecration of the Temple • Rites of Passage, Rites of Life • Making Magic • The Work of Isis and the Way of Isis The Robe of the Magician Enlivening the Divine Image The Rites of Life Celebration for the Birth of a Horus Child The Marriage of Isis and Osiris The Opening of the Ways for an Ever-Living One On Kheperu: The Ways of Becoming The Ritual of Isis and Re The Throne On Divination in the House of Isis Choosing a Divination System On Natural Magic The Amulet of Isis and Horus Making Ushabtis The Knot of Healing The Scorpion Rite Weaving Healing The Rite of the Tet Meditations of the Magician of Isis Chapter XIV. Becoming the Prophet/ess of Isis On the Work of the Prophet/ess of Isis Oracular Work, Incubation, and Healing • The Path of the Stars • Entering the Mysteries The Robe of the Prophet/ess of Isis Becoming the Beloved of Isis On Oracular Work What the Prophet/ess Does • Preparing for Prophecy • Becoming the Prophet/ess • Testing Messages and Refocusing The Oracle of Isis The Boat of Millions of Years The Voice of Isis On Incubation: Sacred Dreaming The Practice of Incubation The Blessing of Isis Causing Sothis to Rise in the Temple The Sea-Egg of Isis Pelagia The Lamentations of Isis The Calling of the Waters The Entry of Osiris into the Moon Moonrise New Moon Waxing Moon Full Moon Waning Moon Dark Moon The Rite of Lady Alchymia Harvesting the Roses and Lotuses of Art The Rite of Lady Alchymia Negredo: The Death of Osiris Albedo: The Purification Rubedo: Osiris Rising Meditations of the Prophet/ess of Isis Appendix: Isis Myrionymos: Epithets of the Goddess Notes Bibliography Index