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Jewish mystical tradition is A. E. Waite's The Holy Kabbalah, N. J.: Citadel Press, n.d. See Raoul Birnbaum, The Healing Buddha, Boulder, Colo.: Shambhala Publications, 1979, p. 81. This author further cites several books, "of varying scholarly reliability," that treat this subject: G. F. Kunz, The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, New York, 1971 (original edition, 1913); B. Bhattaccharyya, Gem Therapy, Calcutta, 1958; and W. T. Fernie, The Occult and Curative Powers of Precious Stones, Blauvelt, N. Y.: 1973 (original edition, 1907). See Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, New York: Penguin Books, 1978, pp. 50-51. See Motoyama, Theories of the Chakras, op. cit., p. 28,- and Manley P. Hall, Man: Grand Symbol of the Mysteries, op. cit., p. 214. Blavatsky, op. cit., Vol. 1, pp. 379-380. In this section on the "Origin of the Satanic Myth," Blavatsky further comments that within these mysteries, the initiate, himself a candidate for adeptship, would experience "terrible struggles .. . between himself and his (by magic) personified human passions, when the inner enlightened man had to either slay them or fail. In the former case, he became the 'DragonSlayer' as having happily overcome all the temptations: and a 'Son of the Serpent' and a Serpent himself, having cast off his old skin and being born in a new body, becoming a Son of Wisdom and immortality in Eternity" (p. 380). The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 4, 1985, p. 209. See Chapter 7 for a discussion of yin-yang. See Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, New York: Doubleday, 1964, and Portable Jung, ed. by Joseph Campbell, New York: Penguin, 1976. Campbell, The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, op. cit. This book, together with the remainder of Campbell's series: The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, and The Masks of God: Creative Mythology, is a remarkable work of scholarship in the light of contemporary discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, op. cit., Vol. n, p. 364. Ibid. See Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Image, Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1974, Chapter IV, 2 "The Serpent Guide." Campbell, The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, op. cit., pp. 10 and 43. For more information on the goddess religion, its practice, symbolism, and historical significance, refer to Robert Graves, The White Goddess, New York: Vintage Books, 1959; John Blofield, Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin, Lansing, Mich.: Shambhala Publications, 1978; Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, New York: Avon Books, 1978; Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978; and Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, Vols. I and II, New York: New Sibylline Books, 1979; Geraldine Thorsten, God Herself, New York: Doubleday, 1980,- Ann Belford Ulanov, The Feminine, Evanston, 111.: Northwestern Univer-
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