#Dion Fortune

[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

[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]

¡Por primera vez en castellano en edición de bolsillo!

España

Latinoamérica

[booksandwitchery]

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

[jidysz]

Look what I got!

[bibliophile78]

True spirituality never advertises itself.

(Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah)

[amokedas]

To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.

Dion Fortune

[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!

[animystsoul]

“I cannot tell what I said to the Moon, or what the Moon said to me, but all the same, I got to know her very well. And this was the impression I got of her--that she ruled over a kingdom that was neither material nor spiritual, but a strange moon- kingdom of her own.”

“In it moved tides--ebbing, flowing, slack water, high water, never ceasing, always on the move; up and down, backwards and forwards, rising and receding; coming past on the flood, flowing back on the ebb; and these tides affected our lives.”

“They affected birth and death and all the processes of the body. They affected the mating of animals, and the growth of vegetation, and the insidious workings of disease. They also affected the reactions of drugs, and there was a lore of herbs belonging to them.”

“All these things I got by communing with the Moon, and I felt certain that if I could only learn the rhythm and periodicity of her tides I should know a very great deal. But this I did not learn; for she could only teach me abstract things, and the details I was unable to receive from her because they eluded my mind.”

“I found that the more I dwelt on her, the more I became conscious of her tides, and all my life began to move with them. I could feel my vitality rise and ebb and flow and ebb again. “

“And I found that even when I wrote of her, I wrote in time to her rhythms, as you may have noticed; whereas when I write of everyday things I write in the staccato rhythms of everyday life. At any rate, be things as they may, I lived in time to the Moon in a very curious manner while I lay ill.”

Dion Fortune Sea Priestess

[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 

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

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

[entheognosis]

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

Dion Fortune

[thesorcererpoet]

While I don't want too give too many details, I have been really "going through it" lately. When I face times like these, I often turn to my spirituality. It is the one tool I have that helps me above all else, when facing difficulties in life. I can't begin to express how much it has helped me over the years, how it has spurred me on to overcome seemingly impossible situations.

Anyway, lately my mental health has been taking a big turn for the worse. I am going through a great deal of change and some of what has happened as a result has left me pretty shattered. I have become very negative and it's having an impact on both my job and on the spiritual work that I do for others.

My spiritual work is really important to me. I have always striven to help people where I can. I make a point of giving generously of my time, giving explanations of techniques, showing people to good and useful books they might not have heard of, spending time talking about what other people are experiencing spiritually, particularly spiritual emergencies, such as what I feel like I am facing now.

A spiritual emergency is usually something that leads to a big break through, even sometimes big enlightenment experiences. This stuff is not easy and a lot of the time, it comes up for some people, spiritually inclined or not, after life throws some difficult circumstances at them. (Such as the death of a loved one, the shattering of an illusion, sudden sickness, job loss, loss of purpose, heartbreak etc).

Now, usually I am capable of helping myself but I'm going to be honest, lately I have been in very deep. Thankfully, I live with a fellow spiritual practitioner, which is actually how we initially met. My partner @saganssorcery has been my absolute rock these last few days in particular.

Yesterday, I was almost at the peak of my utter despair in many ways. I have made some serious mistakes at work, and I am struggling a lot with getting along with others. I am also dealing with a great deal of financial and personal difficulties in the world. I have lost a lot of friends and have found myself outcasted by people I really loved. I want to give the reason but I don't feel that's necessarily appropriate, I guess all I can say is that I was languishing in a very bad situation for many years in a relationship with someone I desperately wanted to escape. I finally did it and a lot of people have been less than supportive, others outright cruel. Sagan is literally the only person who has ever helped me with this, it was through her that I finally managed to get out.

So yesterday and last night, Sagan sat with me teaching me things, something I have done for many others over the years and for the first time, something someone did for me. She went through a self empowerment mantra that works by going up the tree of life saying seven good things about yourself, 10 times per sphere, then once for each chakra and then once to the universe or heaven. This was literally designed to reprogram the negative pathways in my brain to change how I feel so I can continue to be capable of supporting us, and of doing my important spiritual work.

The other thing she did, was sit me down and do the most in depth tarot reading I have ever had. First of all, 11 cards, one for each sephirot on the tree of life, explaining in depth the combination of the card and its effect on the sphere. Then she followed through with placing all of the cards down for each of the 22 paths and read through each, including the two connected sephirot, and the path itself. It worked like a mirror of my soul, at this very moment I am in now. It took her a good couple of hours to go through it all in detail. I suppose it helps that I know tarot very well so we can communicate a lot quicker about this stuff, but yeah, I have never felt so seen in all of my life. It was almost like she was a doctor, diagnosing the spiritual sickness in me and prescribing the cure, or more to the point, showing me where to look. The answers were not simple but this definitely served to reveal to me things I had never had the chance of expressing. I cannot tell you all how profoundly grateful I am. Anyway, I have urged her to offer this work to others because, even though it is a hell of a lot of work, I do really strongly feel she can help others with it.

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