Dion Fortune's first magical mentor was the Irish occultist and Freemason Theodore Moriarty. She had befriended him while still involved in psychotherapy, believing that he could help one of her patients, a young man who had been fighting on the Western Front and claimed to be plagued by unexplained physical phenomena. Moriarty performed an exorcism, claiming that the young man was the victim of the soul of a deceased East European soldier which had latched onto him as a parasite. Fortune became an acolyte of Moriarty's ...
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Dion Fortune's first magical mentor was the Irish occultist and Freemason Theodore Moriarty. She had befriended him while still involved in psychotherapy, believing that he could help one of her patients, a young man who had been fighting on the Western Front and claimed to be plagued by unexplained physical phenomena. Moriarty performed an exorcism, claiming that the young man was the victim of the soul of a deceased East European soldier which had latched onto him as a parasite. Fortune became an acolyte of Moriarty's Masonic-influenced lodge, which was based in Hammersmith, and joined his community of followers living at Gwen Stafford-Allen's home in Bishop's Stortford. Moriarty spent much time talking about the lost city of Atlantis, a topic that would also come to be embraced by Fortune. Fortune later fictionalized Moriarty as the character Dr. Taverner, who appeared in a number of short stories first published in 1922, later assembled in a collected volume as The Secrets of Dr. Taverner in 1926. Like Moriarty, Dr. Taverner was portrayed as carrying out exorcisms to protect humans from the attacks of etheric vampires.
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9 x 5.5", cloth, 163pp, covers with minor shelf wear, hinges loose else a nice, clean, fresh copy in a nice dustjacket. FIRST ASH-TREE PRESS EDITION, LIMITED TO JUST 500 COPIES.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Dion is the pseudonymn of Violet Firth. Introductory essay on The Work of a Modern Occult Fraternity by Gareth Knight. Cheap paper of the text a bit toned else fine in fine dust jacket. Occult mystery novel.
Dion Fortune, alongside Aleister Crowley, is one of the most important figures in the Western Mysticism oeuvre. The importance of Dr. Taverner's training and expertise to Dion Fortune is foretold immediately in this book. Also, Fortune continues to tell us that the supernatural tales described in this greatly entertaining work are, in fact, hardly works of fiction at all.
Let this book pique your interests.
This book is very highly recommended for those interested in the supernatural and/or psychic and astral phenomena. More serious readers of the Occult will also not fail to fall to raptures during the read, as it is riddled with great Occult lessons and truisms.
One of the best books I bought last year!
VivB
Jan 18, 2008
This book was really a GOOD read. Thoroughly enjoyed it & will no doubt read it again!
