Dion
Fortune
Dion Fortune - Violet Mary Firth Evans (1890 - 1946),
(D.O.B December 6, 1890) - some sources give her year
of birth as 1891 - 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 [7],
a lodge of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,
before transferring to the Stella Matutina Lodge of
The Golden Dawn, then run by Moina Mathers, widow
of Samuel Liddell MacGregor-Mathers. Of her non-fictional
works on magical subjects, the best remembered of
her books are; The Cosmic Doctrine, meant to be a
summation of her basic teachings on mysticism, The
Mystical Qabalah, an introduction to Hermetic Qabalah,
and Psychic Self Defence a manual on how to protect
one's self from psychic attacks.
Though some of her writings may seem dated to contemporary
readers, they have the virtue of lucidity, and the
avoidance of the deliberate obscurity that characterised
many of her forerunners and contemporaries.
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