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	DION FORTUNE BOOKS
		Dion Fortune was one of the first adepts to bring this "secret tradition" to a wide audience.
		As part of her teaching, Dion Fortune demonstrated, as she said, the intimate association between Kabbalah and "that most marvelous system of symbolism, the Tarot." It is this association that forms the basis for The Dion Fortune Tarot Cards.
		Dion Fortune's classic, The Mystical Qabalah, explores all aspects of the Qabalah, including the esoteric sciences of astrology and tarot, which form the basis of the Western Mystery Traditions.
	www.anathemabooks.com /dion_fortune.shtml (851 words)

	Dion Fortune and Tarot
		Dion Fortune, Crowley and World War II We will never know the extent of Dion Fortune's interest in the Tarot, but we know she took a keen interest in the progress of Crowley's Thoth Tarot, visiting him in Hastings with Frieda Harris to examine the artwork.
		Dion Fortune, initiate of the Golden Dawn, founder of the Community of the Inner Light, had, amongst other things, an extraordinary attraction to Glastonbury and the Arthurian legends that hold the destiny of England.
		Dion Fortune writes as head of the Society of Inner Light, but she makes clear that two of her main authorities were MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley, both prominent in the Golden Dawn.
	www.supertarot.co.uk /adept/dion.htm (2258 words)

	Dion Fortune - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dion Fortune - Violet Mary Firth Evans (1890 - 1946), (D.O.B December 6 1890) born Violet Mary Firth, was a British Occultist and author who was born at Bryn-y-Bia in Llandudno, Wales.
		In 1928 Fortune founded "The Community of the Inner Light", which was the forerunner of "The Fraternity of the Inner Light", which was in turn the forerunner of "The Society of the Inner Light", an outer court of the Golden Dawn.
		Dion Fortune was famed for participating in the ‘Magical Battle of Britain’, which was a plan by British magicians to magically aid the war effort and which aimed to forestall the impending German invasion during the darkest days of World War II.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Dion_Fortune (979 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Dion Fortune Tarot Cards: Based on the Conclusions of Dion Fortune in the Mystical Qabalah: Livres en ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dion Fortune (1891–1946), founder of The Society of the Inner Light, is recognized as one of the most luminous figures of 20th-century esoteric thought.
		Dion Fortune was one of the first adepts to bring this "secret tradition" to a wide audience.
		As part of her teaching, Dion Fortune demonstrated, as she said, the intimate association between Kabbalah and "that most marvelous system of symbolism, the Tarot." It is this association that forms the basis for The Dion Fortune Tarot Cards.
	www.amazon.fr /Dion-Fortune-Tarot-Cards-Conclusions/dp/1899585753 (415 words)

	The Novels of Dion Fortune - Alex Sumner
		Dion Fortune's novels therefore display her own peculiar view of magic, which is a synthesis of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, Theosophy, Jungian and Freudian psychoanalysis, and personal philosophy which is based in part on channelled wisdom.
		Dion is an early believer in feminism, not only in the sense of the mere fact of female equality, but also in the idea of females working together to advance their own interests.
		Clearly, Dion Fortune, who was middle-class herself and lived off an inheritance for most of her life, believed that in order to follow the Occult path, one must be materially well set-up, and able to be either free from not-so-great work altogether or at least able to have no trouble taking time off.
	www.jwmt.org /v1n0/dfortune.html (5406 words)

	Dion Fortune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fortune's group was later renamed "The Fraternity of the Inner Light", and was, later still, renamed "The Society of the Inner Light".
		Dion Fortune met and corresponded with Aleister Crowley, whom she acknowledged in the introduction of The Mystical Qabalah.
		ISBN 1-85538-051-X and Knight, Gareth; "Dion Fortune and the Inner Light", Thoth Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-870450-45-0, ch.5.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dion_Fortune (1303 words)

	Dion Fortune & Gardnerian Wicca (C.S. Clifton in W.o.W.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fortune continued to head their group, which became the Society of the Inner Light and maintained, for a time, both a large communal house in London and another establishment in Glastonbury.
		Its plot is typical of Fortune: a person down on his or her luck and near psychological collapse is rescued by a powerful magician or priestess and re-inte- grated socially and psychically.
		Fortune foreshadowed this in The Sea Priestess when she wrote:31 "In this sacrament the woman must take her ancient place as priestess of the rite, calling down lightning from heaven; the initiator, not the initiated....
	allstarz.hollywood.com /religioustext/bos/bos474.htm (4014 words)

	Dion Fortune
		In 1928 Fortune founded "The Community of the Inner Light", which was the forerunner of "The Fraternity of the Inner Light", which was in turn the forerunner of "The Society of the Inner Light", an outer court of the Golden Dawn.
		Dion Fortune met and corresponded with Aleister Crowley, whom she acknowledged in the introduction of The Mystical Qabalah.
		Dion Fortune was famed for participating in the ‘Magical Battle of Britain’, which was a plan by British magicians to magically aid the war effort and which aimed to forestall the impending German invasion during the darkest days of World War II.
	www.warriors-wizards.com /dion_fortune.htm (630 words)

	The New Age Files - Biogs and Info - Dion Fortune
		Dion Fortune was born Violet Mary Firth in Llandudno, North Wales on 6th December 1890, the daughter of a solicitor.
		She began to write articles and stories under the name of Dion Fortune (taken from her family motto Deo Non Fortuna, 'God not luck'), which were later published in book form together with the first of many occult textbooks.
		Dion Fortune became increasingly disillusioned with the Golden Dawn, and after Dr. Moriarty's death in 1921 she set about founding her own esoteric order with a few of Moriarty's students and a few members of the Theosophical Society in London.
	thenewagefiles.shadowweb.info /biogs_info/fortune_dion.php (636 words)

	About Dion Fortune
		Dion Fortune was born Violet Mary Firth in Llandudno, North Wales on 6th December 1890, the daughter of parents with an active interest in the Christian Science and Garden City movements and the running of hydro-therapeutic establishments.
		During this period Dion Fortune wrote several esoteric novels to illustrate the possible practical application of the content of her textbooks and articles in her house journal, the Inner Light Magazine.
		In early January 1946 Dion Fortune returned from Glastonbury feeling tired and unwell, was admitted to Middlesex Hospital in London and died a few days later from leukaemia, at the comparatively young age of 55.
	www.angelfire.com /az/garethknight/aboutdf.html (685 words)

	BooksDionFortune2
		Fortune sets out the requisite states of mind as well as the necessary actions by which those closest to the deceased can speed and smooth their passing, that should accompany the natural progression of death, laying out burial, and mourning.
		Dion Fortune reveals both the broad outlines and underlying principles of these systems.
		She is able to place occultism in its proper place as a philosophy that employs scientific and rational methodology to explore the meaning of life, while retaining religious overtones.
	www.onewitch.com /shopping/bookdionfortune2.html (208 words)

	Servants of the Light School of Occult Science, a fully contacted Mystery School teaching throughout the world by ...
		She began to write articles under the name of Dion Fortune (taken from her family motto Deo Non Fortuna, 'God not luck'), which were later published in book form as The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage, Sane Occultism and Psychic Self-Defence, the first of her many occult textbooks.
		During the 1930s Dion Fortune wrote several esoteric novels which contain much practical detail which was considered too 'secret' at that time to be published in her articles or textbooks.
		In early January 1946 Dion Fortune returned from Glastonbury feeling tired and unwell and was admitted to Middlesex Hospital in London.
	www.servantsofthelight.org /aboutSOL/bio-dion-fortune.html (916 words)

	About Dion Fortune
		Dion Fortune's first esoteric novel, a rip roaring occult blood and thunder, in which an innocent heroine, a natural psychic, is entrapped by a morally delinquent adept to spy upon his masters on the astral plane.
		Dion Fortune's second essay into a major experiment in esoteric fiction in what she hoped might develop into a series of ten books, each pertaining to a Sephirah on the Tree of Life.
		The principle of polarity, or the Circuit of Force, was, in Dion Fortune's opinion, one of the lost secrets of western occultism and she wrote a revealing series of articles in the last issues of her magazine that caused a certain nervousness in some of her more staid contemporaries.
	www.angelfire.com /az/garethknight/dfbooks.html (3102 words)

	Meet Dion Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dion Fortune’s primary purpose in writing fiction was to pass magical knowledge to a wide audience.
		Dion Fortune spares no effort making sure the reader sees the full scope of the goddess Isis and what she represents and rules, and what she needs in order to become whole.
		Dion Fortune puts that warning out very strongly in the first mention of the technique, instructing the reader to use astral projection if large bodies of water must be traversed.
	www.wisdomofsolomon.com /DF-bio.html (5035 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Sea Priestess: Books: Dion Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		My feeling is that Dion Fortune probably was trying to convey some personal experience or past life through this story (I'm not sure, because I havent yet read her other books fully, although I have a stack of them in my "to read" pile)..
		Fortune was forced to publish her work of her own accord and by her own means.
		Fortunately for us, both the times and the courage of publishing houses have changed and this lost treasure is now available to us once again.
	www.amazon.ca /Sea-Priestess-Dion-Fortune/dp/0877284245 (1642 words)

	Odd Cumhaill - Dion Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dion Fortune is probably the most influential figure in spiritual circles in the early to mid part of this century.
		Dion Fortune stands out as one of the leading occultists of the 20th century.
		See A Goddess Arrives: the novels of Dion Fortune and the development of Gardnerian witchcraft by Chas S. Clifton for a well considered article on Dion Fortune.
	www22.brinkster.com /oddslibrary/general/dion_fortune/dion.asp (1585 words)

	People in Magick: Dion Fortune
		A prominent occultist of her time, Fortune was an adept in ceremonial magic, and was perhaps one of the first occult authors to approach magic and hermetic concepts from the psychology of Jung and Freud.
		Later Fortune said the woman also had conveyed this psychic attack through yoga techniques and hypnotism which left her a "mental and physical wreck" for three years.
		The Society stresses that Fortune was not a Witch, nor was she involved with any coven; and the Society is not connected with Witchcraft in anyway.
	www.wyldwytch.com /weavings/articles/pagan_path/pages/dion_fortune.htm (1329 words)

	Dion Fortune: A Character Sketch
		He had met Dion Fortune in 1936 when she was 46 years old and at the height of her magical career and incidentally attending Bromage's London University Extension Course lectures on Literature and the Occult.
		Fortune in 1934 was described by Ithell Colquhoun as a big woman, simply and conventionally dressed, with faded blond hair, and reminding one of a schoolmistress or matron of a nursing home.
		Fortune was apparently a model student in the Golden Dawn until she began to question certain practices and lose confidence in the leadership.
	www.innerlight.org.uk /journals/Vol24No2/dfsketch.htm (2699 words)

	Dion Fortune: Mountain Temple & Order of the Golden Dawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fortune's experience with the Golden Dawn was brief and late; it was through the London-based Alpha et Omega Lodge of the Stella Matutina, which was administered by Moina Mathers after her husband's death in 1918.
		Fortune and her former G.D. associates purchased a small hut which they set up at the base of the Tor and thus created the first meeting-place of the Fraternity of the Inner Light.
		Fortune died of leukemia at the age of 56.
	home.earthlink.net /~xristos/GoldenDawn/biofortune.htm (431 words)

	The Mystical Qabalah (paperback book, new edition with additional writing by Dion Fortune) by Dion Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dion Fortune was one of the first Adepts to bring this "Secret Tradition" to a wider audience.
		Its lessons for the individual are invaluable and this book is a must for all who feel drawn to know themselves better so that their inner and outer worlds may be as one.
		This revised edition includes an additional chapter of Fortune's original writing, an editorial update for contemporary readers, and a foldout with Tree of Life diagrams to facilitate study of the text.
	www.sevenrays.com /catalog/describe?1578631505 (140 words)

	Dion Fortune - Libri
		Lo scopo principale che Dion Fortune voleva raggiungere attraverso i suoi romanzi era di allargare al vasto pubblico le sue conoscenze di magia e di occultismo, improntate al ritorno a una libertà individuale naturale in cui l’energia femminile e lunare si innalza a intermediario con il divino.
		Dion Fortune fu forse la prima scrittrice di magia cerimoniale e di ermetismo che attinse a piene mani alle opere di Freud e più tardi di Jung.
		Quando nel 1939 Evans la lasciò per un’altra donna, Dion Fortune tenne comunque aperto sia il centro di Londra che quello di Glastonbury che aveva fondato per il loro gruppo, "The Fraternity of the Inner Light".
	www.ilgiardinodeilibri.it /autori/_dion_fortune.php (455 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Dion Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dion Fortune (1891-1946 EV), born Violet Mary Firth, British magician and author.
		She was introduced to the occult by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and after its break up she launched her own occult society, the Society of the Inner Light.
		The effort involved in casting these spells is said to have contributed to her death shortly after the war ended, although the Society for the Inner Light website states that she died of leukemia.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Dion_Fortune (575 words)

	Occult \| Golden Dawn \| Ritual Magic \| Dion Fortune Part 2
		Mathers subsequently expelled Fortune because the correct symbols had not appeared in her aura, 'a perfectly unanswerable charge' as Dion fortune said later.
		Fortune called the animal back to her, at the same time noticing a thin cord connecting it to her.
		Dion Fortune's pioneering influence is much in evidence amongst new age people, contemporary occultists, Wiccans, Pagans and Ritual Magicians.
	www.mysteriouspeople.com /Dion_Fortune2.htm (1345 words)

	Dion Fortune
		This part of the website is dedicated to Dion Fortune whose life and writings were part of the foundation for the current evolution into the Age of Aquarius which is happening now, slowly...
		Dion Fortune lived a remarkable life in a world which was very diffent from the one we live in now and which was changing just as it is now.
		I first encountered Dion Fortune through her novels which are beautifully written and contain much magical and spiritual knowledge and wisdom.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /moonhawk/dionfort/dion.htm (269 words)

	BooksDionFortune1
		She explains that everyone has the ability to access the invisible planes of existence which cannot be perceived with the physical senses.
		In this book Dion Fortune discusses evocative magic, the sites of Druid worship, parallels between Christianity and the Qabalah, the astral plane, auras, spritual healing, power cycles, and our relationship with the Higher Self.
		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.
	www.onewitch.com /shopping/bookdionfortune1.html (312 words)

	Dion Fortune - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Dion Fortune (1891 - 1946), born Violet Mary Firth, was a British magician and author.
		Dion Fortune allegedly participated in the magical Battle of Britain, which was supposed to have been a gathering of British magicians for the purpose of hexing Adolf Hitler and forestalling a German invasion during the darkest days of World War II.
		Fortune, in her The Mystical Qabala, clearly stated that she depended on Crowley's reprinting of S.L. Mather's notes on Qabalah:
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Dion_Fortune (577 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Psychic Self-Defense: Books: Dion Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dion Fortune one of the great adepts of the 20th century, fills her books with great stories, great teachings and a lot of information that might not be ready noticed by the novice..
		Dion Fortune's writings in this book are clear in their meaning and show the enormity of the subject she attempts to cover in this work, it leaves you wanting to read more of her works.
		This book is, nevertheless, a nice little step inside the mind of an eccentric and impressive woman who combined both psychoanalysis and mysticism to produce a treatise on the powere of the combination of the science of the brain and the 'science' of non-organic, non-corporeal matter and force.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Psychic-Self-Defense-Dion-Fortune/dp/1578631513 (1249 words)

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