tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41401758834002498002024-03-14T11:48:52.624-07:00View from the Big HillsIntermittent ramblings from the Big Hills...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-84027302542673269942023-03-26T09:04:00.009-07:002023-12-24T04:55:27.480-08:00The Beginnings Of The London GroupThe London Group was formed by previous members of two esoteric groups strongly linked with Dion Fortune -- the Society of the Inner Light and the Society of Western Mythologists. The former of these two groups had changed its direction, teachings and practices, resulting in a number of members leaving to pursue avenues they believed were more appropriately aligned to serving the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-50802889939525662032020-04-15T14:04:00.002-07:002020-04-15T14:19:38.245-07:00The Flute Of Seven Stops<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Celtic Firehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09300052679549616820noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-8125270175617569832020-04-04T10:57:00.000-07:002020-04-04T11:02:30.675-07:00Drawing The Tree of Life - from the London Group 1975 Archives <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Celtic Firehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09300052679549616820noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-15697882274198332922019-08-25T05:18:00.001-07:002019-09-28T07:34:29.541-07:00The Shield of Gaia
"The real battle lines are not between East and West, "Socialism" and "Capitalism", or even between "a-theism" and "theism"; but between enlightenment and ignorance, between imagination and blind short-term greed, between vision and bigotry; and in this battle it is vital that the forces of Light should join hands at every possible point, and stand together in whatever context they operate."
~ Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-66078757000214024952019-08-21T13:19:00.000-07:002019-09-21T11:29:22.731-07:00In Memorium - Zachary Cox
Fare thee well friend...
"Life is too short for endless haggling.
Take Reason's sword in hand and dare to cut the Gordian knot of language.
Leap to the truth, if you can, if you dare, within the confines of a single page. Glance down in passing at the tortured labyrinth of twisted words where generations of philosophers have wandered.
Glance down, but do not fall. Do not swoop.
Life Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-64715654902868306032018-08-04T08:56:00.000-07:002019-09-28T07:42:59.238-07:00Dion Fortune, the Star in the East, and the Sermon on the Mount - Part 3One 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 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-6625063538009695302018-06-29T14:34:00.000-07:002018-08-05T09:59:07.462-07:00For Pondering
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-21581226766045391792018-05-15T13:30:00.001-07:002018-12-16T04:14:02.759-08:00Dion Fortune, the Star in the East, and the Sermon on the Mount - Part 291 years ago to the day, Dion Fortune gave a talk to a Theosophical Lodge in the Southeast of England. This second part in a series of three blogs is based on notes
taken of that talk by someone who attended the lecture. Providing some insight into what was happening at the time in her battle with the Star in the East, mentioned in Part 1, this is probably best approached by using your
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-82788949846491690802018-05-13T10:48:00.000-07:002020-05-07T12:45:51.162-07:00Dion Fortune, the Star in the East, and the Sermon on the Mount - Part 1
“I ask those who are
in sympathy with what I am doing to remember that thought power is potent for
protection and support, just as it is for attack, and to lend me their help on
the Inner Planes. My task is not a light one. But as long as I am responsible
for the conduct of this magazine I will follow the example of the Master Who,
while He had compassion for those who fainted by the way, had a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-13709661069420045562018-05-06T09:42:00.009-07:002023-09-03T07:54:02.759-07:00Some thoughts on the month of May <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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In
Summer Term 1911, a young Violet Firth joined Studley Horticultural College For
Women in Warwickshire. Gareth Knight's book, Dion Fortune and the Inner Light,
dedicates a whole chapter to this
part of Violet's life. Alan Adams (writing as Charles Fielding), Janine Chapman
and Alan Richardson all touch upon aspects of this time with varying degrees of
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-32469963212760916752017-10-30T13:20:00.000-07:002018-05-17T14:03:54.233-07:00“Vocatus atques non vocatus, Deus aderit”<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning: silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-5151729050003220072017-03-07T14:44:00.002-08:002021-01-02T10:05:24.095-08:00The Springtime of Dion Fortune<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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the 6th of July 1941, almost two years into the bloodshed and
destruction of the Second World War, Dion Fortune sent out her 80th war letter to members and friends of the Fraternity of the Inner Light.
Over 70 years later, in a seemingly vastly different world to the one she knew
-- at least on the surface -- much of this particular letter’s content has aUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-75198489144741547252016-09-25T13:38:00.000-07:002016-12-16T16:41:45.073-08:00Alan Garner and the gift of uncertainty<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Naneferkaptah tells Prince Khaemwaset of the most holy of secrets....
“In the box
of iron there is a box of copper. In the box of copper is a box of juniper wood.
In the box of juniper wood there is a box of ivory and ebony. In the box of ivory
and ebony there is a box of silver. In the box of silver there is a box of
gold, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-36037423292950406532015-12-06T14:17:00.003-08:002021-04-04T15:34:08.648-07:00From Maiya’s pen…Part Two
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A
few weeks ago, in Part One of this thread, I shared some of my initial thoughts
about a short yet inspiring and beautiful article on the Signs of the Zodiac written
by Maiya Curtis Webb and published in a 1919 edition of The Occult Review.
For
this blog - Part Two - we now move a little backwards in time, to the other
side of the Great War and to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-68597518749826351612015-11-26T12:59:00.000-08:002015-11-26T12:59:13.834-08:00Navigating an ambiguous world...
"The human spirit glows from that small
inner light of doubt whether
we are right,
while those who believe with certainty
that they possess
the right are dark inside
and darken the world outside
with cruelty,
pain, and injustice."
- Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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The year
following the end of the horrific First World War marked a pivotal time
in the development of British Occultism. In 1919, Violet Mary Firth was initiated into the London A.·.O Lodge of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
It was at
this point in her life that she made an important connection, for participating
in the young Soror D.N.F.’s initiation was a certain Maiya Curtis Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4140175883400249800.post-4432907013497435182015-06-21T11:53:00.002-07:002021-04-09T03:39:58.871-07:00Swinburne '77 meets O'Murnaghan '15
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