In this book 'Wellness by Festivals, Customs & Beliefs' Mr Mohapatra has revealed various rituals and traditional beliefs with interesting incidents of God worshipping and observations followed by all communities living in India. India is the land of great tolerance and every Indian is allowed to worship any religion freely. There exists one Supreme Divine who is manifested in all the Gods and all religions of men. He is real, omnipresent and exists in nature as well as inside the human. Rituals are followed for psychological and physiological health, longevity, prosperity and wealth. This book shall impart knowledge about various customs and rituals being observed by different communities in India. Righteousness, religion, duty, reponsibility, virtue, justice, goodness and truth are treated as Divine law. It is a way of life and is called as Eternal Religion. In Indian philosophy it is believed that every act or deed must necessarily be followed by its consequences, which are not merely of a physical character, but also mental and moral.

"In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . ."
With this dramatic, poetic recasting of the Genesis myth, Barbara Walker begins this highly original and fascinating work, which is both an incisive critique of patriarchal religion and a bold proposal to establish a liberating alternative to the Judeo-Christian myth. She envisions a religion and a spirituality compatible with women's essential role in society and free of all the superstition and demeaning imagery characteristic of traditional, male-dominated religion. In place of theology she suggests "thealogy," replacing the academic study of the God concept with a down-to-earth "knowledge of the goddess" - a knowledge that incorporates the scientific understanding of the universe and recognizes the symbolic nature of religious concepts and the psychobiological foundations of religion. Rejecting the transcendent deity of patriarchal religion, thealogy would revere an immanent personification of the real universe, especially of the sacred Earth, the only source of life we know.
Hearkening back to the widespread worship of a mother goddess at the dawn of civilization, Walker argues for a restoration of this primal religious sensibility, which celebrated the Earth's fertility and woman's innate power to bear new life. Women are already rediscovering this ancient form of spirituality, Walker shows, and redefining modern religion to conform to woman's new appreciation of their rights and the long history of male dominance.

First published in 1919, The Equinox: Volume III, Number I, also known as The Blue Equinox is essential reading for students of Thelema. Within its pages are instructions for initiates, including Aleister Crowley's own extensive reading lists divided into courses. The book also details the history, principles and aims of the secret society O.T.O. and its ally the A