title: Persephone Unveiled: Seeing the Goddess and Freeing Your Soul
author:  Charles Stein 
description: "Stein has created the most powerful and authoritative book I have ever read on the nature and consequence of divine revelation."<br />-Peter Manchester, associate professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University and author of <i>The Syntax of Time</i><br /><br />"Beginning where other scholars leave off, Charles Stein crosses the radiant field of the Goddesses to touch the lip of the ineffable. Instead of being silenced, he elucidatesquietly at first, ecstatically later, bearing witness to the timeless visionary core of the ancient Mysteries in what, in fact, is a profoundly reasoned approach that resonates Now."<br />-Nor Hall, author of <i>The Moon and the Virgin, Those Women</i>, and <i>Irons in the Fire</i><br /><br />"In Charles Stein the Mysteries have found their true Speaker. They have always needed a scholar who was a philosopher, a philosopher who was a poet, and Stein is all three, in generous measure. Stein understands being and Being, and how the Mysteries' great gfit is the ability to leap the gap between them."<br />-Rached Pollack, author of <i>The Body of the Goddess</i>
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  ‘You are possibly the loveliest woman I ever beheld and any man can dream of
  until he drives himself nigh mad with longing.’
  
  There was something very serious in his steady look that made Persephone’s
  heart thump heavily and then race on.
  
  ‘Did you do that when you were held and tortured, Alex?’ she asked painfully,
  somehow unable to halt the question on her lips.
  
  ‘Not then,’ he said, with a shake of his head that spoke of honesty and
  regret. ‘Don’t forget you were a very cross little schoolgirl when I left for
  the army, Persephone. I dreamt of someone very like you are now—a someone who
  could reach inside my tortured heart and join her clean, bright soul to my
  bitter one. I was getting ready to dream of you and only you every night from
  the moment I finally did lay eyes on you as a grown-up goddess. I’ve got so
  into the way of it now that I don’t think even your displeasure will stop me.’
  
  ‘Maybe I don’t want to stop you,’ she murmured, and suddenly found it
  impossi