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Tag Archives: Society of Inner Light
The Talking Tree by William G. Gray
Exactly what were the Qabalists seeking? Their main objective was the same as other Mystery Schools, namely the discovery and knowledge of the Elements of Existence in terms of Fundamental Energies, and the codification of Consciousness as the Pattern (or … Continue reading
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Christ and Qabalah by Gareth Knight and Anthony Duncan
Me Myself (of which I make so great a fuss) is a mere, brittle spike of consciousness on the circumference of being; a tiny terminal of an unplumbed depth. This opening stanza, read in the quiet nave of an old … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglican, Anglican Curate, Anthony Duncan, Biography, Browning, Christ, Christ & Qabalah, Christianity, Christina Rosetti, Church history, Church of England, Cloud of Unknowing, Collaboration, Corbridgem, Devotional, Dion Fortune, Early Church, Emily Bronte, English poetry, esoteric, Friendship, Gareth Knight, Highnam, History, Julian of Norwich, Kathleen Raine, Magic, mysticism, Newcastle, Occult, Parkend, poetry, Qabalah, Richard Rolle, Society of Inner Light, Tennyson, Tewkesbury, Victorian, Warkworth, Whitley Mill
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Dion Fortune’s RITES OF ISIS AND OF PAN (PAPERBACK EDITION!)
NEW Paperback version now available! Dion Fortune encoded much practical magical lore within her novels, leaving it up to the reader to work out how to make use of it. Behind the novels were two major rituals, the Rite of … Continue reading
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Tagged British fiction, British Literature, Ceremonial Magic, Cosmic Doctrine, Dion Fortune, Divine Feminine, esoteric, fiction, Gareth Knight, Goat-foot God, Goddess, Golden Dawn, Israel Regardie, Magic, Magic Rite, Magician, Moina MacGregor Mathers, Moon Magic, mysticism, Novels, Occult, occultism, Psychology, qabala, Qabalah, Rite of Isis, rite of pan, ritual magic, Sea Priestess, Skylight Press, Society of Inner Light, tarot, Violet Firth, Winged Bull
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Dion Fortune’s RITES OF ISIS AND OF PAN – edited by Gareth Knight
“The clearest, simplest – and best – analysis and explanation of what magic is and how it works that I have ever come across. Gareth Knight shows that DF’s novels are initiatory and were intended to be so. He supplements his exposition with … Continue reading
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PRE-ORDER!! DION FORTUNE’S RITES OF ISIS AND OF PAN: limited edition hardback
A special hardback edition, bound in plain blue cloth with a gold-stamped spine. Limited to 250 individually numbered copies, of which the first 100 are signed by Gareth Knight. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER HERE Signed copies will be supplied while stocks … Continue reading
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Tagged British fiction, British Literature, Ceremonial Magic, Cosmic Doctrine, Dion Fortune, Divine Feminine, esoteric, fiction, Gareth Knight, Goat-foot God, Goddess, Golden Dawn, Israel Regardie, Magic, Magic Rite, Magician, Moina MacGregor Mathers, Moon Magic, mysticism, Novels, Occult, occultism, Psychology, qabala, Qabalah, Rite of Isis, rite of pan, ritual magic, Sea Priestess, Skylight Press, Society of Inner Light, tarot, Violet Firth, Winged Bull
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“Now We are Three” by Gareth Knight
Now we are three. That is to say – three years old. And we are Skylight Press. A brain child of my daughter Rebecca (AKA Rebsie) along with kindred spirit Daniel Staniforth, based in the USA, and we recently got together … Continue reading
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The Magical Battle of Britain: The War Letters of Dion Fortune
“Let us meditate upon angelic Presences, red-robed and armed, patrolling the length and breadth of our land. Visualise a map of Great Britain, and picture these great Presences moving as a vast shadowy form along the coasts, and backwards and … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypal images, British History, British Literature, British mysteries, British Novel, Dion Fortune, esoteric, fiction, fraternity of the inner light, Gareth Knight, Glastonbury Tor, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, Magic, magical battle, Mediumship, Moon Magic, New authors, Occult, order of the golden dawn, Psychology, Qabalah, Sea Priestess, Society of Inner Light, Theosophy, trance mediumship, Uncategorized | Tagged Battle of Britain, violet mary firth, Western Mysteries, World War Two
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Dion Fortune on Skylight Press
Skylight Press is thrilled to reissue the work of one of the most important voices in the Western Mysteries canon. For the purposes of introduction we defer to our own Gareth Knight, not only an expert on her great lineage … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Britain, British History, British Literature, British mysteries, British Novel, Dion Fortune, esoteric, fiction, Gareth Knight, Glastonbury Tor, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, Magic, Mediumship, Moon Magic, Occult, order of the golden dawn, Psychology, Qabalah, Sea Priestess, Society of Inner Light, Theosophy, trance mediumship, violet mary firth, Western Mysteries, World War Two
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A short review of Gareth Knight’s “I Called it Magic”
Here is a short review of Gareth Knight’s autobiography, I Called it Magic, written for The Inner Fire Journal by David Goddard: “If you have ever wanted to glean some understanding of the mind, and motivation, of an adept Mage-of-Light … Continue reading
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Tagged Autobiography, Christian Mysticism, cs lewis, Dion Fortune, Esoteric. Western Mysteries, Faery Lore, Gareth Knight, Grail Tradition, Inklings, Magic, Masonic, Occult, qabala, ritual, rosicrucianism, Society of Inner Light, spirituality, tarot, Tolkien, Western Mystery Tradition
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I Called it Magic by Gareth Knight (Paperback Edition)
Released as a limited edition hardback last month, Gareth Knight’s I Called it Magic is now available in standard paperback format. Here is a review that will appear in the Winter Solstice edition of the Inner Light Journal (reprinted here … Continue reading
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Tagged Autobiography, Christian Mysticism, cs lewis, Dion Fortune, Esoteric. Western Mysteries, Faery Lore, Gareth Knight, Grail Tradition, Inklings, Magic, Masonic, Occult, qabala, ritual, rosicrucianism, Society of Inner Light, spirituality, tarot, Tolkien, Western Mystery Tradition
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