This monograph explores the work of Dion Fortune, one of the most prolific British occult authors of the interwar period, and her claim that her books had an initiatory quality. She held that reading her books and meditating on their contents could produce a lasting change in consciousness, which in turn could lead to lasting changes in an individual's life. This book aims to rehabilitate a figure largely forgotten by both the fields of Literature and of Esotericism and proposes a framework for analysing initiatory fiction and the experience of fictional initiation. The study presents a new avenue for research and theoretical perspective on literary texts from the Occult Revival, as well as on famed modernist texts and more contemporary occult fiction.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introducing the Work of Dion Fortune
- 2. âDeo non fortunaâ: An Adeptâs Life
- 3. Libric Gnosis: Initiation and Fiction
- 4. The Fisher King: Western Mysteries in the Occult Revival
- 5. âNormality and simplicity andcommon decencyâ: The Winged Bullâs Middle-Class Magic
- 6. âMan-headed, eagle-winged, bull-footedâ: Magical Sexuality in The Winged Bull
- 7. âThe eyes of a woman, not a fiendâ: Satanism, Sexuality, and Regeneration in The Goat-Foot God
- 8. âThe method of St Ignatiusâ: Composition of Place as an Initiatory Tool in The Goat-Foot God
- 9. âLaws of the constructive imaginationâ: Imaginal Initiation in The Sea Priestess
- 10. Making Contact: Initiation and the Masters
- 11. âSome say she was a fallen angelâ: The Initiatory Power of Lilith Le Fay
- 12. âThe Breaker in Piecesâ: Initiatory Encounters with the Goddess in Moon Magic
- 13. âIt shall work on the group mind like a fermentâ: Dion Fortuneâs Legacy
- Back Matter
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