Name: An Introduction to Ritual Magic
SKU: 54099874
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Author: Dion Fortune
ISBN: 9781870450317

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gareth Knight

Dion Fortune

Publisher

Thoth Publications

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

242

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.8 cm

Weight

0.45

ISBN13

9781870450317

Synopsis "An Introduction to Ritual Magic"

Each chapter is supplemented and expanded by a companion chapter on the same subject by Gareth Knight. In Dion Fortune's day the conventions of occult secrecy prevented her from being too explicit on the practical details of magic, except in works of fiction. These veils of secrecy having now been rolled back, Gareth Knight has taken the opportunity to fill in much practical information that Dion Fortune might well have included had she been writing today. In short, in this unique collaboration of two magical practitioners and teachers we are presented with a valuable and up-to-date text on the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic "as it is". That is to say, as a practical, spiritual and psychic discipline, far removed from the lurid superstition and speculation that are the hallmark of its treatment in sensational journalism and channels of popular entertainment.

Dion Fortune

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Violet Mary Firth (1890-1946), better known as «Dion Fortune», was one of the most famous British occultists and esoteric writers, as well as a pioneer of modern witchcraft. From a young age, she joined the Theosophical Society and attended psychology and psychoanalysis classes at the University of London. In 1919, she was initiated into the London temple of Alpha et Omega, before entering the Stella Matutina order, both heirs to the spirit and rituals of the legendary Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Fortune, founder of her secret society Fraternity of the Inner Light, was greatly influenced by Aleister Crowley, whom she met and corresponded with, and his theories on sexual magic, as well as Arthurian myths. Among her non-fiction work, notable are The Cosmic Doctrine, The Mystical Qabalah, and Psychic Self-Defense. She died in 1946 from leukemia.

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