Welcome to Author Teresa Joyce Jackson's MYSTIC GATES BOOKS website.
What are the Mystic Gates?
The Mystic Gates are illusive, non-ordinary, non-physical thresholds.
They exist in the “other" realms, can be accessed through “liminal" spaces ...
those spaces in-between the seen and unseen worlds,
in-between night and day — like dusk or dawn,
in-between the cyclic shifts of the Wheel of the Year,
in-between logic and fantasy ...
the “in-betweens," where your magical journey begins.
Myths, legends, spiritual teachings about medicine or spirit wheels, gateways, airts, quarter and cross-quarter energies, etc., have passed through generations of many different indigenous cultures. The mystic gates of this fictional series specifically focus on the energies of the “cardinal” directions, and are born from a fusion of the Celtic spirit wheel, “Old Forest” craft traditions, and the Adawee gateways of the Cherokee peoples. Though these different cultures vary in their teachings about directional energies, there are many uniting aspects.
In this fictional book series, each gate or threshold aligns with an element (one of air, fire, water, or earth), with one of the phases of the moon (waxing, full, waning, or dead), with the “seasonal” cyclic shifts along the Wheel of the Year (spring, summer, fall, or winter), and with the “winds,” or energies, of its cardinal direction (East, South, West, or North).
To enter through one of these mystical gates, you will need to discover its key. A riddle for each gate unfolds within that gate’s story. This riddle is a clue to help you find its gate key, open the gate, and access some of the teachings from the Mystic Gates Series Grimoire,
The Book of Gates.
The Book of Gates
The Book of Gates holds many secrets and magicks. However, since it is imbued with its own magickal powers, it can choose to teach you, or not. If you want to be chosen, and if you want it to continue teaching you, you must first and always abide by its Sacred Creed:
“I may do as I want, as I will, as I feel, but may harm none
—neither here and now, nor then and there, nor in the coming of time anew—
for I am of it All as it All is of the One,
and you are in me as I am in you.
What I give to the world, be it kindness or pain
—what I do with intent, be it harm or humane—
will return to me with the force of three,
be it three times the love or three times the pain.”
Beware of those who covet this grimoire. Some have only heard of it whispered through the trees. They let nothing stop them from their eternal quest. Others have at one time held it close to their hearts, but it abandoned them, for they broke its Sacred Creed. They sacrifice all who get in their way to reclaim it once again. But, The Book of Gates cannot be claimed.
In Book 1, Dead Moon Awakens, Aishling, Lance, Morrigan, and Kelile search for the
East Gate key. Did you figure out the key? If so, you’ll be able to find it hidden on this website.
The key acts as a “portal” and will transport you to a glimpse of The Book of Gates. Then you may begin your journey. However, until you have unlocked all of the gates, you will only be given glimpses of the enchantments and magickal teachings of each gate within this mystical grimoire. The complete writings of The Book of Gates cannot be viewed online.