The website Occult Underground includes a biography of occultist Dion Fortune as well as several links for Fortune’s books including Psychic Self Defense, The Machinery of the Mind, and The Mystical Qabalah…

 

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(From Occult Underground) “Dion Fortune (December 6, 1890 – 1946), born Violet Mary Firth, was a British occultist and author who was born at Bryn-y-Bia in Llandudno, Wales. Her pseudonym was inspired by her family motto “Deo, non fortuna” (which translates as “God, not fate”).

 

She reported visions of Atlantis at age four and the developing of psychic abilities during her twentieth year. She attended courses in psychology and psychoanalysis at the University of London, and became a lay psychotherapist at the Medico-Psychological Clinic in Brunswick Square.

 

Her first magical mentor was the Irish occultist and Freemason Theodore Moriarty. In 1919 she was initiated into the London Temple of the Alpha et Omega before transferring to the Stella Matutina order.

 

She wrote a number of novels and short stories that explored various aspects of magic and mysticism, including The Demon Lover, The Winged Bull, The Goat-Foot God, and The Secrets of Dr. Taverner. This latter is a collection of short stories based on her experiences with Theodore Moriarty. Two of her novels, The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic, became influential within the religion of Wicca, especially upon Doreen Valiente…”

 

For Fortune’s complete biography and links to her ebooks click here.

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