Offering to Isis: Knowing the Goddess Through Her Sacred Symbols
M. Isidora Forresthas been a devotee of the Goddess Isis for more than fifteen years. She is an initiated Prophetess of the House of Isis, and in 1997 she was formally ordained by Arch-Hierophant Olivia Robertson as a Priestess of the international Fellowship of Isis. Forrest has also earned the title of Adept for her more than twenty years of study in a one-hundred-year-old Hermetic magical tradition.Ten years ago, Forrest and her husband founded the Hermetic Fellowship, a legally recognized, not-for-profit religious organization. Today, the Fellowship offers a mix of ritual for worship, celebration, and spiritual growth, as well as workshops and classes devoted to education in the Western esoteric tradition.Forrest is the author of "Divination in the Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri," in The Golden Dawn Journal, Book I; "The Equilibration of Jehovah&quot;inThe Golden Dawn Journal, Book II; "The Hermetic Isis"inThe Golden Dawn Journal, Book III; and "Pagans and Neo-Pagans"inMagical Pantheons, all of which were edited by Chic and Tabatha Cicero and published by Llewellyn.