PRIESTESS The Life and Magic of Dion Fortune

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