Dion Fortune
1890 – 1946 English occultist, novelist, founder of the Society of the Inner Light
Occultist and novelist who founded the Society of the Inner Light.
- Religion
- A Western esoteric Christianity combining Kabbalah, ceremonial magic, and Theosophical ideas, expressed in both teaching and fiction.
- Affiliations
- Former member of a Golden Dawn successor, the Alpha et Omega. Founded the Fraternity, later Society, of the Inner Light.
Dion Fortune, born Violet Firth, trained in a successor branch of the Golden Dawn before founding her own group, the Fraternity of the Inner Light. She wrote both practical manuals such as The Mystical Qabalah and occult novels that conveyed her teaching in story form. Her work helped shape modern British magic and the later revival of Kabbalistic and Pagan practice.
Connections
- influenced Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers — Trained in a Golden Dawn successor descended from Mathers's order.
In the timeline
- 1935 Dion Fortune's The Mystical Qabalah central figure