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[axelkredosblog]

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent into spirit can begin. #dionfortune #antoniodonato73 https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7p-5_rrMUZQfXhC90e_lzIAPH9_f4Y6qAMmA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[juliokav]

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[shayjaggermitchell]

Have you ever suffered from sleep paralysis, seen or been attacked by evil spirits? I have, as a child and as an adult, and Ive searched for answers my whole life in many of the worlds spiritual traditions. I've never found a book that deals with spiritual protection as well as this book. Dione Fortune writes with honesty and integrity, based on experience and the things she prescribes actually work. #reading #bookstagram #dionfortune #psychicselfdefense #westerntradition #hermeticorderofthegoldendawn #occult #magick #psychic #vampire #sleepparalysis #protection https://www.instagram.com/p/CnRTAMlyKCi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jansetminadurmaz]

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[edwincourtenay]

The Witches bedside table! It’s the season!! I used be of the type who felt obliged to read EVERY part of a book! Back cover, inside cover, prologue, introduction, dedication!! Then - like it or not - trawl through the text until it was finished BUT - hurrah hurrah - no longer! Now I find I can dip in and out, cross referencing chapters, allowing one book to lead me to another, discarding this one if it bores me, discarding that one of I find it inane … it’s such a merry dance and when I surrender to it the synchronicity runs high and strong! I am a lover of books - the house groans with them - and once when I lived in a big house in Scotland I have my own library dedicated to them!! Now they occupy every room, on floors and shelves and tables. They are the root of power, the treasure troves of ancestral wisdom, the key and the lock and worth their weight in gold! Remember a book is a friend for life! Embrace them, dive into them, set their wisdom and power free!! #books #witch #wicca #dionfortune #doreenvaliente #magick #witchcraft #wisdom #power #edwincourtenay #halloween #samhein https://www.instagram.com/p/CUTRAjntVyg/?utm_medium=tumblr

[pinchetel]

First Steps into A Hidden World.

Sane Occultism

Dion Fortune

(Albatross, 2018)

First published in 1938 this book, despite some flaws, still provides a concise and accessible introduction to the study of the occult.

Despite being one of the major figures in twentieth century occultism Dion Fortune has somewhat slipped under the radar of popular recognition. A consequence, perhaps, of many of the virtues that make this book worth reading eighty years after it was first published.

In less than two hundred pages Fortune makes a cogent and compelling case for treating the study of the ‘occult sciences’ as a serious intellectual endeavor. Showing the tweedy good sense of an, admittedly eccentric, Edwardian scholar she sweeps aside the clouds of self-indulgent obfuscation that can surround her subject area.

Her view studying the occult is that it is a discipline that has one foot in the psychologists consulting room and another in the more esoteric realms of Christianity. Anyone embarking on the path she describes is signing up for hard work and even harder self-examination; the faint hearted need not apply.

Other views are, of course available, all of which come with their own charismatic figures and definitive texts. It can also be said that the psychologist cuts a much less godlike figure to a twenty-first century reader than to a twentieth century one.

Even so the central message that the way of the adept is narrow and only to be trod by those wiling to bear hardship is surprisingly timely. As is her advocation of a form of Christianity that is open to mystery making for a more appealing offer than the noisy evangelism or corporate blandness so often presented under its name.

Sane Occultism is a book with flaws, some of which are due to poor presentation by the publisher, others though may be more problematic.

Fortune sets out to cover a lot of ground, touching on everything from Astrology and Spiritualism, to whether or not occultists should embrace a vegetarian diet. As a result, there is, perhaps, a want of depth and the reader new to the field, as I am, is left wondering where to turn to find out more. Matters are made no easier by the fact that there is no index or bibliography, the way to enlightenment may be difficult, for anyone using this as a set text it is likely to be needlessly frustrating too.

The biggest issue though is the attitudes Fortune gives voice to on subjects such as sexuality. The kindest interpretation would be to say that she ‘had views that were current at the time’; to a modern reader these are inescapably prejudiced. It would be wrong to Bowdlerize the text in the name of avoiding offence, the study of any subject necessarily involves encountering ideas you find disagreeable. This is though an area that could have been well addressed in a forward by a contemporary Fortune scholar, something else the book lacks.

Despite its flaws this book is still one anyone with an interest in the occult either as a practitioner or in its place on the edges of our society will want on their shelves. Not least because it treats an area of study that is still presented as either silly or sinister as worthy of reasoned investigation.

[christopherpenczak]

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[euphoricnaturals]

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[manmetaphysical]

Part 3: Dion Fortune:  Sea Priestess of Avalon

Astro-Biographical Details.

Her actual  name was Violet Mary Firth. She was born in Llandudno in North Wales, but the Frith family were from Sheffield. They were involved in Hydrotherapy and her mother was a Christian Scientist so already adept at using thought forms and spiritual healing. Her parents would attend her meditation groups.

While she radiated practical wisdom- that of a Pallas Athene -which for her is in Sagittarius conjunct her Mercury which is very apt since she wrote so much. Pallas is the strategist and independent woman who has a way with words. She said “Experience is a very good teacher even though her lessons are very expensive.” It’s not Jupiter that ranks as the final dispositor of her chart, but it is Venus, which is also her chart ruler as Libra is on the Ascendant. Here it is best to view  to Vivien Le Fay Morgan, the character in her novels based on Arthurian legend, as the mouthpiece for Fortune and this mysterious woman she claims as an adept has ‘ageless beauty.’ She gives away many clues as to her real life personality in the novels which make good reading for that purpose alone.

With the Sagittarian sun sign, there is a lot of plain speaking about tricky subjects in her non-fiction work. The reason she is so valued today is that she could write about highly complex topics and make them easy to understand; she brought higher knowledge down to earth. In the novels she revealed in practice what is theoretical only in books such as ‘The Mystical Qabbalah’. She could however be bombastic and did not tolerate mystification for its own sake, but advocated for revealing the secrets of the ages. This garnered her several enemies whose cover was blown by this resolute attitude.

Furthermore, she did not indulge of the tricky rhetoric that Crowley- the Libran- was famous for- she just revealed her knowledge as if talking to a friend and taking you into her confidence. His Mercury was in Scorpio, so more twisted with satire; and hers was in Sagittarius more uplifted yet to the point. Still while reading her she seems coy and could have said more. But the hints even at sex magic are all there, but they are still ‘hints’ and you have to read through the lines of the novels carefully.  That’s part of the appeal of a Sagittarian sun sign-  you are getting the unvarnished truth, but with a wise old owl nodding and winking at you. Their ability to connect all the strands of wisdom together into a synthesis is remarkable.

Her books are still in high demand and for those who don’t like tomes full of technical vocabulary, her novels can trigger the very altered states she utilised to see visions. This may have been intentional. The reader can be subtly lead into a trance quite easily. She transitions from the concrete 3D reality, into dream imagery, and to conscious thought forms on the astral and etheric levels as she does in the opening chapters of Moon Magic (1938). She does this as if casually switching gears in a high speed car. She knew her stuff and this comes through in her work. The novels may not be regarded as having literary qualities, but they are not without merit, and in tone, similar in tone to the work of Iris Murdoch.

What set her apart was that she claimed an ‘inborn’ knowledge. She had inner intuition and heightened states of mind. She advocated that everyone should find their own inner ascended masters. She didn’t need any ‘lodge’ to validate her level or to ‘initiate’ her. Her South Node was conjunct the Sun. This points to the fact that she came in to this incarnation with prior experience of being a priestess of the old gods.  This same degree is that of the Great Attractor. This gave her the impetus in 1919 to join what was then remnants of the original Golden Dawn. This was no longer the Golden Dawn of 20 years previously. This was in the early 1920 so not the same lodge to which Crowley and W.B. Yeats had belonged. That one disbanded but it was still being run by Moina Mathers, a Swiss-Irish artist and astrologer and the wife of MacGregor Mathers. She founded the Alpha and Omega order. It used the same material drawn from Hermetic mysteries as the Golden Dawn so it was a continuation.

In the Sea Priestess she states plainly also that “all women are Isis” in the highest sense, if they are aware of that, but that Fortune herself is the representative of “the cult of the black Isis” and a whole lot darker than people realise having rule over death as well as birth and similar to the worship of Kali in India. Isis reassembled her partner Osiris including the missing genital part cut off by his brother Seth. The original temple for the Golden Dawn was that of Isis-Urania. Isis of the depths of nature and Urania the muse of astronomy-astrology.

Why the Moon is so important for her was that her Lot of Spirit – her Daemon if you will- was at 26° of Cancer, ruled by the Moon. So her many promptings to make moves in her life come from the tidal shifts of lunar inspiration.

“I am that soundless, boundless, bitter sea. All tides are mine, and answer unto me. Tides of the airs, tides of the inner earth; The secret, silent tides of death and birth. Tides of men’s souls, and dreams, and destiny – Isis Veiled, and Ea, Binah, Ge.”

Fortune exemplified the themes of a Libra Ascendant by marrying a man she involved in her rituals and taking that marriage seriously although some commented that the husband,  Penry Evans, allowed her to do all the talking.  But also that she wrote a book called The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage. Here it is achieving balance between inner masculine and feminine and she said that a man and a woman, when doing astral work together become soul mates as they would have synthesised their anima/animus.

Her Moon is also in Libra, and normally this is the pacifier, the people pleaser, good at settling disputes in marriage and in love, or in business contracts, and though it was noted by Israel Regardie that she ‘henpecked’ her husband in group sessions, she probably appeased and compromised with him as she did not find relationships very easy. She apparently allowed him to cheat, though it is not known if she also did that. Perhaps that it was at 0° Libra that meant she was an ingenue in relationships with such a lot to learn and put into practice. But the search is always for perfect equilibrium. This degree is also significant because it is one of the four world axis points so it is powerful in its own right as it represents the Equinox- hours of equal day and night.

And even the degree of her Sun seems to indicate she came from some lofty goddess realm -Diana of the hunt- with that Venus in Sagittarius- having an authority that comes from roaming the wild forests.  At 13° of Sagittarius the Sabian symbol for her Sun reads  Sphinx and Pyramids stand, remains of a glorious past. This is on her South Node when she talked a lot about past lives. For her to be Sphinx and revive the worship of black Isis was a natural position for her to adopt.

She was one of the Pluto-Neptune conjunction generation. These two planets only come together every 500 years but early that decade they were dancing together in Gemini. The previous time Pluto and Neptune were in Gemini was at the beginning of the Renaissance- itself a resurgence and rediscovery of hidden knowledge. Others born in this decade were Osbert Sitwell (1892) and  Robert Graves (1895) who wrote ‘the White Goddess’ a tribute to moon rites in ancient Greece. It was also known as the ‘mauve’ decade where Symbolist artists incorporated decadent and taboo themes such as demon possession in their work, and the turn-of-the- century madness where cult-like behaviour comes to the fore. coming to the fore. It was the decade in which Oscar Wilde had his heady rise and fall from grace, and it was the decade in which dark themes of  split personality and self transformation appeared in literature – very appropriate for the conjunction appearing in Gemini- such as Picture of Dorian Gray, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and of course at the end of the decade Bram Stoker‘s Dracula. We get a sense of these psychic transformations Fortune’s novels written mostly in the 1930s.

So to have this conjunction in the natal chart exerts a powerful influence towards the combination of spiritual and therapeutic modalities of any kind. These profound levels of psychism continued even after her death when her amanuensis Margret Lumley Brown who worked aside Fortune while she was alive, was said to have still been in communication with her to complete unfinished works especially Moon Magic. This was said partially to have come through automatic writing. Lumley was a fellow Sagittarian born December 7th, 1886.

4: Mars and Jupiter in Aquarius in the 5th

There are no planets in water signs, they are mainly in Air, Fire and Earth signs. There is a grand trine in Air from Jupiter in Aquarius, Pluto-Neptune-North Node in Gemini and the Ascendant in Libra. This points to her intellectual gifts and the ability to play with ideas with ease. She tried hard to understand feelings but her primary interest was in psychology was well known as she became a lay psychiatrist. She made the mind her number one subject but quickly saw that even Freud’s delineation of the subconscious pulling the strings of the conscious mind was not enough to explain how two minds can converge, so she focussed on the western mystery tradition. But even then when discussing occult practices she gave them a psychological flavour by using terms from psychology.

Jupiter would give full flight to creative ideas in Aquarius in the fifth underlining her ability to communicate and join groups. Mars there would give a lot of drive to become the leader, but also make her a tad contentious in any group. She was not averse to any dispute and could fight like the best- Sagittarians have a fiery nature- about what was right according to her. One such fight was in the Christian Mystic branch of the Theosophical Society around 1930 where the members ganged against her for her insistence on Western practices when they preferred ideas sourced from the Vedas as per Blavatsky.  So she was obliged to branch out on her own, something she often did. Another was her famous fight with Moina Mathers ousting from the lodge of the Alpha and Omega of the Stella Matutina pushing her to found her own group which was the Society of Inner Light- still in existence. Mathers claimed that Fortune had revealed too many of the inner secrets of the order. But Fortune said she could not possibly have known since she had not been initiated to that high a grade- she just knew it anyway. So they parted ways. Mathers’ Saturn was at 29° of Libra exactly on Fortune’s Uranus- so the fight was a clash of epic proportions with flashes of heightened electricity. Fated elements were also involved as Mathers’ North Node is close by at 2°of Scorpio adding to the intensity of that clash. To add to the mix Fortune’s North Node in at 14° Gemini is conjunct  Mathers’ Mars at 15°  Gemini. 

With both Mars and Jupiter are in the 5th House of Aquarius she had that drive to create running numerous projects simultaneously with business-like precision, but always insisting on high standards. She loathed idle volunteers who whimsically floated in and out of her group meetings and expected equal respect. She sent them packing. And Jupiter probably gave each of her pet projects total lift off. Even an early book of poems she wrote garnered attention and her early novels received reviews in the mainstream press at a time when no one was obliged to pay her any attention as she was an unknown. She wrote them couched in ordinary romance terms- almost genre style yet they are much more than that.

What also lifts these energies towards the creative side are these supportive sextiles she has from the Sagittarian placements in the third house of communication. Venus-the Sun in Sagittarius are sextile to Jupiter at 9° of Aquarius; and Mercury at  24° of Sagittarius is sextile to Mars at 21° of Aquarius so in any  war of words with Fortune, we might  pity the opponents. Fire and Air go well together as air feeds fire. She could proselytise for her unusual ideas with ease and people said they followed her because she imposed her will, but because she had an authority that people naturally believed. But she had the skill to put all this into words. The most forceful expression of this martial style persuasion is contained in Psychic Self Defence which is a manual of the Kung Fu/Ju Jitsu of the mind.

[theblackbroom]

"We all know that, when caught off our guard, there comes a dark temptation from the depths of our lower selves, something atavistic stirs, and we think thoughts, or even do deeds, of which we would never have believed ourselves capable." . Model: @creepy.julia Photo: @rockbrary Jewelry: @theblackbroom . #dionfortune #psychicselfdefense #occult #magick #darkart #darkbeauty #death #gothic #arcane #esoteric #ceremonialmagick #baphometjewelry #baphomet #baphometpendant #goatofmendes #theblackbroom #mysteries #occultjewelry #occultscience #innerlight #ascendedmasters #astral #666 #aleistercrowley #crowley #goldendawn #kabbalah #treeoflife (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtmP8cQFlMx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y80ukpvwoaid

[booksandwitchery]

Part II: Sane Occultism

After I finished devouring the Wicca for Beginners book by Thea Sabin (which, as I stated earlier, was wonderful until the uber theistic woo-woo stuff) I decided I had to keep digging; I felt possessed with a need to find meaning in life-- something to keep me grounded, I suppose. I felt (and to a certain extent, still feel) untethered and lost. I must have purchased at least fifteen books to start (special thank you to The Open Book for having a storewide 50% off sale) and now I’m probably at 30+...

But I digress. The next book that I began was called Sane Occultism by Dion Fortune, which was a hard did-not-finish for me, but nonetheless held some solid writing and ideas that resonated. These ideas were the following:

1. Despite the stereotypes associated with the word, “we can define occultism as an extension of psychology, for it studies certain little known aspects of the human mind and the mind side of nature.” Note: Still thinking that much of occultism is pseudoscience and conjecture, but I found it interesting that Fortune defines the term this way.

2. “Experience of the rarer forms of natural phenomena brings the conviction that their influences, in a subtle way, and little understood fashion, affect normal human life very much more than is realized.” -- In other words, though it is hard for many of us to admit, there are still things about life that science has not been able to explain yet, and these phenomena might just impact us more than we know.

3. “The astral plane is simply thought into existence by the composite imagination of the globe, and we are freed from its dominion when we realize its subjective nature.” For those curious, the term astral simply means “having to do with a substance, unperceivable by the senses, that is believed to pervade space and to constitute a nonphysical body belonging to each individual.” Now, I take Fortune’s words here to mean that the astral plane is unknowable, we cannot fathom its mysteries because of the constraints of our intellect--we can, however, interact with and interpret unexplained phenomena according to our own flawed, subjective human experience. I guess this would be a good time for me to state that it’s important not to take theosophy too seriously--we’re only human and we’re all just grasping for meaning wherever we can.

4. “We have to distinguish between the symbolic expression of abstract ideas and the actual delineation of concrete objects. There is no god of Israel to fight in battle and snuff up the savior of burnt offerings, but--there is a logos, and the nature of the logos can only be apprehended by those who can meditate in an empty shrine.” This one gave me chills honestly, because it suggests (rightly, I think) that many belief systems fail to admit that much of their doctrine is founded upon symbolism or archetypes more-so than actual concrete existence; for example, Wiccans may claim to worship the god (sun) and goddess (moon) --but aren’t they actually just worshiping facets of deity according to dualities because this is easier for humans to grasp? And similarly, aren’t their beliefs in various cultural pantheons just facets of nature, anthropomorphized to psychologically assist them with feelings of closeness to it? When we can truly grasp this idea, it’s much easier to see how connected all world religions are--how connected we all are, really.

5. “’As above, so below,’ has ever been the maxim of the occultist; it is a clue which will take us safely through the labyrinth, and to it we must cling. There is no religion higher than the truth. It is better to endure the torture of uncertainty than to believe a lie.”

[jthnomad]

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[pdf-tower]

Dion Fortune - Psychic Self-Defense (1930)

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