PYTHONESS

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