Paperback: 240 pages

This is something of a unique event in esoteric publishing - a new book by the legendary occultist Dion Fortune. Well there are to be several, of which this is the first. Especially with its teachings on the theory and practice of ritual or ceremonial magic, by one who, like the heroine of two of her novels, was undoubtedly a Mistress of that art. In a work that has hitherto appeared only in fragmented form in rare journal articles, she deals in successive chapters with Types of Mind Working; Mind Training; the use of Ritual; Psychic Perception; Ritual Initiation; the Reality of the Subtle Planes; Focusing the Magic Mirror; Channelling the Forces; the Form of the Ceremony; and the Purpose of Magic - with appendices on Talisman Magic and Astral Forms. Each chapter is supplemented and expanded by a companion chapter on the same subject, by Gareth Knight. In Dion Fortune's day the conventions of occult secrecy prevented her from being too explicit on the practical details of magic, except in works of fiction. these veils of secrecy having now been rolled back, Gareth Knight has taken the opportunity to fill in much practical information that Dion Fortune might well have included had she been writing today. In short, in this unique collaboration of two magical practitioners and teachers we are presented with a valuable and up-to-date text on the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic as it is. That is to say, as a practical, spiritual, and psychic discipline, far removed from the lurid superstition and speculation that are the hallmark of its treatment in sensational journalism 

Paperback: 248 pages

The Arthurian Formula, was the last major work of Dion Fortune, and formed the corner stone of the inner work of her Society of the Inner Light for the following twenty years, supplemented by the remarkably gifted psychic Margaret Lumley Brown. It later formed the basis for work by Gareth Knight with the Company of Hawkwood and allied groups in later years, inspiring his book The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend. Dion Fortune's contribution explores the remote sources of the Arthurian legends and the mission of Merlin, played out in the polar relationships between Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot in both human and faery dynamics, and leading to aspects of the Grail. Margaret Lumley Brown develops the threads in the labyrinth formed by the archetypal patterns of the knights and ladies, including particular reference to Morgan le Fay. Gareth Knight's commentary pulls together these strands with an overview of the various traditions back of the Arthurian Formula – of Glastonbury, Atlantis, the world of Faery, Merlin, the Troubadours, the cult of Queen Venus, and their application in the practical Mysteries of today. 

Over seventy-two years ago, beginning at the Vernal Equinox in Glastonbury, Fortune started receiving communications from the Inner Planes concerning the creation of the universe, the evolution of humanity, natural law, the evolution of consciousness, and the nature of mind. This is her record, in a revised edition, and includes previously unpublished material that is still relevant today. 

An in-depth study of the rites and visions of two high grade occultists within Dion Fortune's Fraternity of the Inner Light. Paints a fascinating picture of Dion Fortune and her fellow adepts at the peak of their magical careers. Seymour was one of the finest teachers on the occult arts to emerge this century. Contents also include the reincarnation identities of Dion Fortune's 'Secret Chiefs'; the far memories and ancient bonds between the senior magi within the Society; Dion Fortune's 'lost' novels; and the ancient gods and discarnate entities invoked and mediated by the entire Lodge.

At last - a comprehensive biography of Dion Fortune based upon the archives of the Society of the Inner Light. As a result much comes to light that has never before been revealed. This includes:

Her early experiments in trance mediumship with her Golden Dawn teacher Maiya Curtis-Webb and in Glastonbury with Frederick Bligh Bond, famous for his psychic investigations of Glastonbury Abbey.

The circumstances of her first contact with the Masters and reception of "The Cosmic Doctrine". the ambitious plans of the Master of Medicine and the projected esoteric clinic with her husband in the role of Dr. Taverner.

The inside story of the confrontation between the Christian Mystic Lodge of the theosophical Society of which she was president, and Bishop Piggot of the Liberal Catholic church, over the Star in the East movement and Krishnamurti. Also her group`s experience of the magical conflict with Moina MacGregor Mathers.

How she and her husband befriended the young Israel Regardie, were present at his initiation into the Hermes Temple of the Stella Matutina, and suffered a second ejection from the Golden Dawn on his subsequent falling out with it.

Her renewed and highly secret contact with her old Golden Dawn teacher Maiya Tranchell-Hayes and their development of the esoteric side of the Arthurian legends.

Her peculiar and hitherto unknown work in policing the occult jurisdiction of the Master for whom she worked which brought her into unlikely contact with occultists such as Aleister Crowley.

Nor does the remarkable story end with her physical death for, through the mediumship of Margaret Lumley Brown and others, continued contacts with Dion Fortune have been reported over subsequent years.

Gareth Knight is well known as an occult writer. He commenced his training in the Society of the Inner Light from 1953 at the age of 23 but left in 1965 to develop as an esoteric teacher, writer, and publisher in his own right. He returned to the Society in 1998 to collaborate in the development of advanced techniques, to edit Dion Fortune`s previously unpublished writings, and to contribute regularly to the revived Inner Light Magazine. the present volume is the result of his researches into the Society`s archives with the generous permission and encouragement of the Warden and Council of Management.  

ISBN: 1899585702

Paperback 160 pages

The chapters in this book consist of articles that appeared in the Inner Light Journal, house journal of the Society of Inner Light, between Spring 1997 and December 2001. Their common theme revolves around aspects of the life and teachings of Dion Fortune. Special articles include: The Arthurian Formula, From Watchers of Avalon to the Church of the Graal, and The Lady of the Lake. 

Revealing every aspect of these secret organizations and the training they offer to initiates, Fortune examines how and why esoteric schools have restricted their admissions and shrouded their practices in mystery. 

Contains revelations on the Karmic ties between souls, how souls find their mates, and describes the esoteric teachings on such topics as contraception and abortion.  

Dion Fortune was drawn again and again to Glastonbury. In Glastonbury: Avalon of the Heart, she writes of her love affair with Glastonbury as ‘one of the secret green roads to the soul’, providing as background the time-honoured legends of Joseph of Arimathaea, the Grail and King Arthur. Her description remains one of the most evocative and poignant accounts of this ‘holiest earthe in England’. 

This is something of a unique event in esoteric publishing - a new book by the legendary occultist Dion Fortune. Well there are to be several, of which this is the first. Especially with its teachings on the theory and practice of ritual or ceremonial magic, by one who, like the heroine of two of her novels, was undoubtedly "a Mistress of that art".

In a work that has hitherto appeared only in fragmented form in rare journal articles, she deals in successive chapters with Types of Mind Working; Mind Training; the use of Ritual; Psychic Perception; Ritual Initiation; the Reality of the Subtle Planes; Focusing the Magic Mirror; Channelling the Forces; the Form of the Ceremony; and the Purpose of Magic - with appendices on Talisman Magic and Astral Forms.

Each chapter is supplemented and expanded by a companion chapter on the same subject, by Gareth Knight. In Dion Fortune's day the conventions of occult secrecy prevented her from being too explicit on the practical details of magic, except in works of fiction. these veils of secrecy having now been rolled back, Gareth Knight has taken the opportunity to fill in much practical information that Dion Fortune might well have included had she been writing today.

In short, in this unique collaboration of two magical practitioners and teachers we are presented with a valuable and up-to-date text on the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic "as it is". That is to say, as a practical, spiritual, and psychic discipline, far removed from the lurid superstition and speculation that are the hallmark of its treatment in sensational journalism and channels of popular entertainment. 

Almost 15 years after she first appeared in Sea Priestess, Dion Fortune wrote about her heroine Vivien Le Fay again in her second classic novel, Moon Magic. In Moon Magic Vivien appears as Lilith Le Fay, and uses her knowledge of moon-tides to construct an astral temple of Hermetic magic. Dion Fortune's novels are enduring favourites among readers of esoteric fiction. 

A thorough and systematic analysis of the Ancient Wisdom expressed in the symbolism of the Tree of Life, the glyph that inherently summarizes the yoga of the West.

This book contain the complete text of Dion Fortune's Practical Occultism in Daily Life which she wrote to explain simply and practically, enough of the occult doctrine and methods to enable any reasonably intelligent and well balanced person to take practical use of them in the circumstances of daily life. She gives sound advice on remembering past incarnation, working out karma, divination, the use an abuse of mind power and much more.

Gareth Knight has delved into the Dion Fortune archive to provide additional material not available before outside Dion Fortune's immediate circle. It includes instruction on astral magic, the discipline of the mysteries, inner plane communicators, black magic and mental trespassing, nature contacts and elemental shrines. In addition, Dion Fortune's review of The Literature of Illuminism describes the books she found most useful in her own quest, ranging from books for beginners to those on initiation, Qabalah, occult fiction, the old gods of England, Atlantis, witchcraft and yoga. In conclusion there is an interpretation by Dion Fortune's close friend Netta Fornario of The Immoral Hour, that haunting work of faery magic by Fiona Macleod, first performed by Glastonbury.  

Paperback: 176 pages

One of the early ambitions of Dion Fortune along with her husband Dr Thomas Penry Evans was to found a clinic devoted to esoteric medicine, along the lines that she had fictionally described in her series of short stories The Secrets of Dr. Taverner. The original Dr. Taverner was her first occult teacher Dr. Theodore Moriarty, about whom she later wrote: 'if there had been no Dr. Taverner there would have been no Dion Fortune!' Shortly after their marriage in 1927 she and Dr. Evans began to receive a series of inner communications from a contact whom they referred to as the Master of Medicine. Owing to the pressure of all their other work in founding an occult school the clinic never came to fruition as first intended, but a mass of material was gathered in the course of their little publicised healing work, which combined esoteric knowledge and practice with professional medical expertise. Most of this material has since been recovered from scattered files and reveals a fascinating approach to esoteric healing, taking into account the whole human being. Health problems are examined in terms of their physical, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual origination, along with principles of esoteric diagnosis based upon the structure of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The function and malfunction of the psychic centres are described along with principles for their treatment by conventional or alternative therapeutic methods, with particular attention paid to the aura and the etheric double. Apart from its application to the healing arts much of the material is of wider interest for it demonstrates techniques for general development of the psychic and intuitive faculties apart from their more specialised use in assisting diagnosis. 

Principles of Hermetic Philosophy, together with The Esoteric Philosophy of Astrology, are the last-known works written by Dion Fortune. they appeared in her Monthly Letters to members and associates of the Society of the Inner Light between November 1942 and March 1944.

Her intention in these works is summed up in her own words: "The observations in these pages are an attempt to gather together the fragments of a forgotten wisdom and explain and expand them in the light of personal observation."

She was uniquely equipped to make highly significant personal observations in these matters as one of the leading practical occultists of her time. What is more, in these later works she feels less constrained by traditions of occult secrecy and takes an altogether more practical approach than in her earlier, well known textbooks.

Gareth Knight takes the opportunity to amplify her explanations and practical exercises with a series of full page illustrations, and provides a commentary on her work, together with a further three chapters on recent practical work in the Hermetic Tradition.

This book represents the third collaborative work between the two. An Introduction to Ritual magic and The Circuit of Force being already published in this series. 

After finding herself the subject of an extremely powerful psychic attack, Dion Fortune decided to share practical information on various methods of psychic defense, and how to safe-guard yourself against paranormal malevolence.

An account of how to detect psychic attacks, with some methods of defence against them, noting how attacks are made, motives behind them and the physical aspects of attack and defence. Vampirism, the pathology of non-human contacts, etheric body projection and black magic substances are explored. 

Paperback: 280 pages

Margaret Lumley Brown was a leading member of Dion Fortune`s Society of the Inner Light, taking over many of Dion Fortune's functions after the latter's death in 1946. She raised the arts of seership to an entirely new level and has been hailed with some justification as the finest medium and psychic of the 20th century. Although she generally sought anonymity in her lifetime her work was the source of much of the inner teachings of the Society from 1946 to 1961 and provided much of the material for Gareth Knight's The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend and A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism. Gathered here is a four part record of the life and work of this remarkable woman. Part One presents the main biographical details largely as revealed by herself in an early work Both Sides of the Door an account of the frightening way in which her natural psychism developed as a consequence of experimenting with an ouija board in a haunted house. Part Two consists of articles written by her on such subjects as Dreams, Elementals, the Faery Kingdom, Healing and Atlantis, most of them commissioned for the legendary but short lived magazine New Dimensions. Part Three provides examples of her mediumship as Archpythoness of her occult fraternity with trance addresses on topics as diverse as Elemental Contacts, Angels and Archangels, Greek and Egyptian gods, and the Holy Grail. Part Four is devoted to the occult side of poetry, with some examples of her own work which was widely published in her day. Gareth Knight was a colleague and friend of Margaret Lumley Brown in their days in the Society of the Inner Light together, to whom in later years she vouchsafed her literary remains, some esoteric memorabilia, and the privilege of being her literary executor. 

Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan - a practising initiate of the Hermetic Path. Vivien has the ability to transform herself into magical images, and here she becomes Morgan Le Fay, sea priestess of Atlantis and foster daughter to Merlin! Inextricably drawn to an ancient cult, she learns the esoteric significance of the magnetic ebb and flow of the moon-tides. 

As well as being an occultist of the first rank, Dion Fortune was an accomplished medium. Thus she is able to explain the methods, technicalities and practical problems of trance mediumship from first hand experience. She describes exactly what it feels like to go into trance and the different types of being one may meet with beyond the usual spirit guides.

For most of her life her mediumistic abilities were known only to her immediate circle until, in the war years, she responded to the call to try to make a united front of occultists and spiritualists against the forces of materialism in the post-war world. At this point she wrote various articles for the spiritualist press and appeared as a speaker on several spiritualist platforms.

This book contains her original work Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science with commentaries by Gareth Knight that quote extensively from now largely unobtainable material that she wrote on the subject during her life, including transcripts from her own trance work and rare articles from old magazines and journals.

Dion Fortune needs no introduction to the student of the Western Esoteric Tradition as the founder of a major occult school, the Society of the Inner Light.

Gareth Knight, originally a student of her school, after making a name of his own as an esoteric author and teacher, has recently returned to the Society.

This book represents the fourth collaborative work between the two, An Introduction to Ritual Magic, the Circuit of Force, and Principles of Hermetic Philosophy being already published in this series. 

Dion Fortune and Aleister Crowley stand as the twentieth Century's most influential leaders of the Western Esoteric Tradition. they were very different in their backgrounds, scholarship and style. But for many, Dion Fortune is the chosen exemplar of the Tradition - with no drugs, no homosexuality and no kinks. This book tells of her formative years and of her development.

At the end, she remains a complex and enigmatic figure, who can only be understood in the light of the system she evolved and worked to great effect.

there can be no definitive "Story of Dion Fortune". This book must remain incomplete and full of errors. However, readers may find themselves led into an experience of initiation as envisaged by this fearless and dedicated woman.  

Deep mysteries veiled under the guise of fiction, this work makes available to the serious student of occultism knowledge of esoteric laws and magical practices in the highly dramatic and entertaining form of a novel.

Hardened to some degree through adversity in the trenches and post War joblessness, besides being disillusioned by conventional religion, Ted Murchison has a vision of the Assyrian Winged Bull in the British Museum while chancing on his one-time Commanding Officer Alick Brangwyn shortly afterwards.

Brangwyn, now an experienced esoteric researcher – testing the practicality of initiating change in accordance with will – offers him a job as general handyman. As a result, Murchison now meets Brangwyn's ethereal sister, Ursula, who has also become involved in the occult arts.

Bragnwyn reveals that his sister has been rescued and is under a form of benevolent house arrest for own good, having become unwisely embroiled in a 'black' Lodge and the schemes of a practitioner of the negative occult, called Astley, who has marked her down as a feminine sacrifice for one of his questionable rituals.

After Astley succeeds in spiriting her away once again, Murchison organises Ursula's rescue from playing a principal role in Astley's version of the Black Mass. From then on Ursula and Ted polarise successfully; realising each possesses elemental qualities that the other lacks in what is likely to become an on-going positive long term relationship.