The Magical Life of Dion Fortune: Priestess of the 20th Century

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DESCRIPTION This is the first full biography of Dion Fortune one of the most striking personalities of the twentieth century. She hid behind a veil of secrecy and became a cult figure in the years after her death in 1947. A brilliant writer and pioneer psychologist her whole life was devoted to living out an eternal myth in a story that can be told in terms of Virgins and Dragons Moons and Oceans and the spirit of the land itself. A powerful psychic and medium obsessed with the study of magic her career was never entirely within this world. And in her own eyes at least she was a Priestess a channel for the Great Goddess an exponent of the time-lost Mysteries of Women. REVIEWS A fascinating mixture of research commentary and atmospheric invocation. The Wiccan Because Dion Fortune was such an influential king-pin in the later occult renaissance and the book is a chronicle of an otherwise unchronicled but powerful period of evolution in the Western Tradition. The Lamp of Truth