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[[File:Dion_Fortune.jpg|thumb]]'''Dion Fortune''' (born '''Violet Mary Firth''', 6 December 1890 – 6 January 1946) was a British [[occultist]], ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the [[Fraternity of the Inner Light]], an occult organization that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the [[Ascended Masters]]. A prolific writer, she produced a large number of articles and books on her occult ideas and also authored seven novels, several of which expound occult themes. | [[File:Dion_Fortune.jpg|thumb]]'''Dion Fortune''' (born '''Violet Mary Firth''', 6 December 1890 – 6 January 1946) was a British [[occultist]], ceremonial [[magician]], novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the [[Fraternity of the Inner Light]], an occult organization that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the [[Ascended Masters]]. A prolific writer, she produced a large number of articles and books on her occult ideas and also authored seven novels, several of which expound occult themes. | ||
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She came to believe that she was being contacted by the [[Ascended Masters]], including "the Master Jesus", and underwent trance mediumship to channel the Masters' messages. In 1922 Fortune and Charles Loveday claimed that during one of these ceremonies they were contacted by Masters who provided them with a text, The Cosmic Doctrine. Although she became the president of the Christian Mystic Lodge of the Theosophical Society, she believed the society to be uninterested in [[Christianity]], and split from it to form the Community of the Inner Light, a group later renamed the Fraternity of the Inner Light. With Loveday she established bases in both Glastonbury and Bayswater, London, began issuing a magazine, gave public lectures, and promoted the growth of their society. | She came to believe that she was being contacted by the [[Ascended Masters]], including "the Master [[Jesus]]", and underwent trance mediumship to channel the Masters' messages. In 1922 Fortune and Charles Loveday claimed that during one of these ceremonies they were contacted by Masters who provided them with a text, The Cosmic Doctrine. Although she became the president of the Christian Mystic Lodge of the Theosophical Society, she believed the society to be uninterested in [[Christianity]], and split from it to form the Community of the Inner Light, a group later renamed the Fraternity of the Inner Light. With Loveday she established bases in both Glastonbury and Bayswater, London, began issuing a magazine, gave public lectures, and promoted the growth of their society. | ||
During the Second World War she organized a project of meditations and visualizations designed to protect Britain. She began planning for what she believed was a coming post-war Age of [[Aquarius]], although she died of leukemia shortly after the war's end. | During the Second World War she organized a project of meditations and visualizations designed to protect Britain. She began planning for what she believed was a coming post-war Age of [[Aquarius]], although she died of leukemia shortly after the war's end. | ||