PRIESTESS THE LIFE AND MAGIC OF DION FORTUNE IBD

Sinopsis

Dion Fortune was the pen-name of Violet Firth, one of the most luminousand striking personalities of the twentieth century, Womanhood?s answer to AleisterCrowley, and quite possibly the Shakti of the Age.This new, revised, expanded and beautifully-written edition tells the full story of awoman who hid behind a veil of secrecy and who became a cult figure in the yearsafter her death in 1946. A brilliant writer and pioneer psychologist her whole lifewas devoted to living out an eternal Myth in a story that can be told in terms ofVirgins and Dragons, Moons and Oceans, and the spirit of the land itself.As a powerful psychic and medium, obsessed with the study and practise of Magic,and a high-grade initiate within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, hercareer was never entirely in this world, and her companions not always human.In her own eyes at least she was a Priestess, a channel for the Great Goddess, anexponent of the time-lost Mysteries of Women long before the present generationsof feminists and goddess-worshippers were even born.From her birth in Llandudno, through her years in the drowned lands of Somerset,Alan Richardson unfolds the luminous and very moving patterns of her life: herearly career as a psychoanalyst, her nervous breakdown, her time as a Land Girl andher developing psychism, her memories of past lives on Atlantis and relationshipswith Inner Plane beings who have an evolutionary interest in our world, herromance with a man she believed to be non-human and her fraught marriage to adoctor whom everyone knew as Merlin, the foundation of her own group devotedto bringing through the Western Mysteries at a time when few people knew thatthere was such a thing, her occult battles against the Nazis and fellow magicians- and the start of her long, hard, and always stormy journey into the Otherworld,toward the heart of the Goddess that she saw as sleeping within the Earth itself, andwho needed awakening . . .