View From The Big Hills

  William Stoltz - Rest In Peace - 21st September 2026 "For Light and Life shall be drawn at last to the radiance of one Star,  and that Star shall mount to the unshadowed height." Farewell old companion. You welcomed me with open arms into your home, into Ordo Astrum Sophiae and onwards in the Greater Mysteries. You taught me much. We went on road trips and dog walks, often staying up far too late. You initiated me into the Mysteries of Ancient Scotch and the Guild of the Golden Thistle. I'll miss you hugely. May you march onwards with your next adventure.  "O lion-headed serpent of light Whose breath is flame and the splendour of divinity: Receive us into thine embrace! Receive us into thine embrace, O Lord Agathodaimon And clothe us in thy Light. Receive us into thine embrace, O Agathodaimon And clothe us in fire. Receive us into thine embrace, O Agathodaimon And clothe us in earth. Receive us into thine embrace, O Agathodaimon, Even into the empurpled shroud of n...

Toni Sussmann, the erudite Jungian practitioner and psychotherapist, remains relatively unknown outside Jungian circles. I think that’s rather a shame.   Arriving in England with her husband in 1938, Toni was one of many refugees fleeing the rising tide of Nazism, who settled and managed to thrive in the bubbling cauldron of London. Importantly, to anyone with an interest in the esoteric history of England, Toni undoubtedly had a quiet and unassuming influence on the thinking and practice of some of the players at the time. For those interested in the wider story of Dion Fortune, Toni Sussman was on record as a colleague of Dion’s student Helah Fox. Helah had been a member of the Inner Light’s community for a number of years, having lived at both Chalice Orchard and 3 Queensborough Terrace. Helah told the late Janine Chapman in 1973 that Dion Fortune had consulted Toni Sussmann in about 1943 or 1944 as “the best Jung practitioner who there was in London”. That would h...

Song for Lughnasadh                    [He:]     O beauty's blossom, most cruel maid,                              A grievous foe have you been to me:                              My heart you took and my trust betrayed                                        And smiled as I sank in the dark sea.                    ...