{"product_id":"the-portal-by-patrice-chaplin-9780835608886","title":"The Portal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe true-life memoir Patrice Chaplin began in \u003ci\u003eCity of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e continues here in the story of her spiritual initiation into the Kabbalistic tradition preserved since the Middle Ages by a secret society in the pre-Roman city of Girona, Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSalvador Dalí was a member of that society, as was the renowned author Umberto Eco, the filmmaker Jean Cocteau, and Jancint Verdeguer, one of the most celebrated Catalan poets. Importantly, so was the mysterious Berenger Saunière, the priest who in the late 1800s built Rennes-le-Château in southern France, with the Tour Magdala, a tower that is twin to the neo-gothic tower in Girona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this gripping story that reads like the adventures of a female Castaneda, Chaplin is led through a series of initiatory stages which correspond to the magical square of Venus, containing the constellation of the Great Bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47559049707756,"sku":"9780835608886","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780835608886-the-portal.jpg?v=1776928407","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-portal-by-patrice-chaplin-9780835608886","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}