View from the Big Hills

One of the reasons for writing these three blog posts was to look at the occasionally overlooked esoteric Christian side of Dion Fortune’s work and beliefs.   In undertaking this, I’m also suggesting that we can’t really appreciate her work and general legacy if we turn a blind eye to her esoteric Christianity, much of which was undoubtedly seeded through the Christian Science of her early life. Arguably, some people miss a whole aspect of Dion Fortune when they confuse her with the fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan.   Similarly, people miss out on much of the wisdom, power and love that can be found in the esoteric aspects of Christianity which she clearly relished. In the first blog in the series I looked at her war against The Star in the East – at times a thing difficult to comprehend in today’s global village of catholic (with a small “c”) beliefs. In the second blog, you may recall that I summarized the content of a lecture she gave to a Theosophical Lodge in 1927,