In the world of modern occultists, neo-pagans, Wiccans and other lovers of magic today probably no more famous figure than the writer and mystic Dion Fortune.
She was born in 1890 in a small Welsh town where her ability produced a commotion.In adolescence, Dion (then called her Violet Mary Firth) was a strong medium, easy to fall into a trance, and others hit the "prophetic revelations".With four years of hard girl dreamed of the legendary Atlantis, she even convinced relatives that in a previous life she was a priestess there.
In 1910, Dion became the assistant director of a London college, women domineering and quick-tempered.She traveled to India and took possession of it some magical techniques.Dion and her boss often quarreled.When in 1911, Dion finally quarreled with his boss and has to retire, obstinate Magin struck her hard "psychic blow," which permanently injured his mind Fortune.
To guard against this strike, Dion became hard to learn magic and mysticism.She began attending theosophical circles and started to travel.In her own words, one of the plateau in the Himalayas, she had a vision of Jesus and recalled all of its rebirth.
In 1919, Dion joined the Lodge "Alpha and Omega", an offshoot of the famous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.As the motto of the Order, she took an old family "Deo, non Fortuna", later turned this phrase into a magic name and pen name "Dion Fortune".
We then head of the Order Brodie Innes Dion Fortune has learned to awaken the energy and direct the internal forces for magical purposes.At this time the dictation of "voice of the Cosmos" she wrote the book Cosmic Doctrine (The Cosmic Doctrine).
In 1924 Dion Fortune purchased the estate in Glastonbury.Glastonbury plays a special role in the legends of King Arthur and all the English magical-mystical folklore, which is very fascinated by Fortune.There she again entered the dream into contact with the mystery of the Masters.In the same year, Dion Fortune founded his own Church - Fellowship of the Inner Light (Fraternity of the Inner Light).
In 1927-1928 Fortune published in the journal "Okkalt rivyu" series on mystical experience, her experiences in the community, "Golden Dawn".This has led to a final break with the head of the company Moin Mathers, who already is constantly irritated student literary activity.
allegedly Dion Fortune, Mathers organized against it is the second in her life, "psychic attack".After that Dion issued a very useful book "Psychic Self-Defense," which described the methods of protection against mental attacks (we will publish excerpts of this book).
But Dion died not from a magical strike, and from the usual leukemia in 1946.
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