#Dion Fortune

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Psychic Self-Defense

Dion Fortune: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the winged bull Fortune: its about a woman who falls in with an evil occult society run by this disgusting slug of a man hugo astley Aleister Crowley: haha couldn't be me Fortune: who also wears a pyramid hat Crowley: wait a minute

Fortune: now hugo Astley's occult society is irresponsible and wanton Fortune: not like mine Fortune: i like my occult societies to be socially acceptable and on the up and up Barker: this sucks Poe: clive

Fortune: see, the occult isn't about orgies and hashish Fortune: it's about morals and ethics and carnal forbearance Barker: oh my GOD Barker: i hate this SO much Crowley: hey wait a minute is that hugo Astley guy supposed to be me??

Crowley: ooo! so you think i'm real gross do you, dion? Crowley: well maybe you'll rethink what gross means Crowley: when you smell like cat piss! Crowley: I'M THE GREAT BEAST!!! DO WHAT THOU WILT!!

King: oh jeez! King: what's that awful smell? Barker: it smells like cat piss! King: Barker: Poe: Koontz: Lovecraft: why are you all looking at me?

Barker: well you do like cats soooo Lovecraft: edgar likes cats just as much! Barker: yeah but honestly Barker: you just seem like a cat piss sort of guy, howard

Dion Fortune: i'm sorry, everyone, it's me King: Poe: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: Poe: do you have a cat? Fortune: no it's a curse

Poe: it's a curse? Dion Fortune: yeah i got cursed to smell like cat piss Barker: damn that's real rough Barker: sounds like maybe you ought to read up on your psychic self-defense Poe: clive

Fortune: for your information Fortune: i wrote the book on psychic self-defense Barker: and yet here you are Barker: smelling of cat piss Fortune: Barker: and we're supposed to take you as an authority huh? Poe: clive

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Shelley: what's UGHHH Shelley: the fuck is that unholy stench??? Dion Fortune: that's me Fortune: i was cursed to smell like cat piss Shelley: someone open a fucking window, jesus christ Shelley: what's wrong with you lot? Shelley: just stewing in it, ugh!

Dion Fortune: don't worry everyone Fortune: i am highly skilled in the art of psychic self-defense Fortune: using the awesome power of my mind, i will defeat this curse Shelley: [flipping switchblade] i got a better way to defeat a curse

Shelley: look dion you just tell me who did this and i'll get em to lift that curse right quick Fortune: you can't just stab away a curse! Fortune: you have to use psychic vibrations! Shelley: stabbing is way easier Shelley: way easier than Shelley: Shelley: whatever the hell you're doing

Shelley: listen dion just tell me who did this Fortune: it's a mystery, it could be any one of my many many enemies Shelley: it was Crowley Fortune: how do you figure? Shelley: it's always Crowley innit

Fortune: when investigating a psychic attack, it's important to approach the problem methodically Fortune: first eliminate non-psychic possibilities, like, say, low blood sugar Fortune: or sick building syndrome Shelley: [shivving crowley] too late, i stabbed him

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Who is 4Chan?

Dion 4Chan was an occultist writer in the 1900s who invented soy milk, brony fandom, and hacktivism. She wrote several novels about a thinly veiled Crowley spoof named Hugo Astley, likely resulting in the homunculus known as Rick Astley and his popular rolls.

[gnosticinitiation]

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

DION FORTUNE

The Training and Work of an Initiate

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

"There is another very simple measure which gives immense relief in cases of psychic interference. It is obvious that the attack is made through the psychic centres, therefore any thing which closes those centres will render the victim comparatively immune. It is well known how the stolid, materialistic type of person can live with impunity in haunted houses that drive the sensitive to madness and suicide. It is also well known that psychic work cannot be performed if there is food in the stomach; the best results are always obtained when fasting. The obvious corollary of these facts is that if we want to keep the psychic centres closed, we should not allow the stomach to become empty. The person who is facing a psychic attack should not go more than two hours without food." —Dion Fortune, Psychic Self-Defense

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Dion Fortune - The Sea Priestess - Samuel Weiser - 1972 (jacket design by George Moore)

[entheognosis]

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

Dion Fortune

[thesorcererpoet]

Found this second edition Dion Fortune book in a second hand bookshop today… I am well happy!

[hijodelagua]

La Cábala Mística (edición anotada) - Dion Fortune

[doc-avalon]

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind’s thought, and influenced by the mind.

– Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah

[jackgreenhood]

He wondered what manner of thing in reality sympathetic magic might be; as described by the anthropologists it was just plain idiocy; but he had a shrewd suspicion the anthropologists never really got at the heart of anything. In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it. From: "The Goat Foot God," by Dion Fortune.

[pageofqueens]

[booksandwitchery]

I may be in my twenties but in many ways I will never grow up hahaha

[jidysz]

Look what I got!

[gnosticinitiation]

Esoteric science always thinks in terms of an evolution, whereas the ordinary man thinks in terms of an incarnation, a single life, this difference of viewpoint fundamentally influences their attitude towards life, to the one, death is the end of all, to the other it is the end of a phase. To the one it is a cataclysm, to the other a sunset.

DION FORTUNE

The training and work of an initiate 

[creature-wizard]

You don't have to answer if you don't want (ofc). But I was wondering what you think of Dion Fortune...specifically psychic self defense? I'm not a fan tbh but one of my best friends really loves her and says I'm being too critical.

Not familiar, sorry!

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Christine Hartley - The Western Mystery Tradition - Aquarian Press - 1986 (cover illustration by Steinar Lund)