Hope springs eternal
“That which derives from our native folk tradition springs up like water from the soil, made alive by the good brown earth and fresh with the breath of herb and tree; it springs, it sparkles. It vitalizes a man's nature because it puts him in touch with the sun-warmed rain-wet earth -- his native earth, that his bare feet trod as a child when his soul was open and he still could feel the unseen." - Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and their Work, 1928 Some 50 years after Dion Fortune published her ground-breaking book Esoteric Orders and their Work, Richard “Kip” Carpenter produced a successful and fantastic children’s TV series, Catweazle. The series was called after the show’s main character, “Catweazle,” an 11th Century travelling magician. The series took arcane themes and wove wonderful tales to inspire and uplift a whole generation of children (and quite a lot of their parents and grandparents too). Carpenter was an experienced character ac...