Name: Dion Fortune's Book of the Dead
Price: 16.71 EUR
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Author: Dion Fortune
ISBN: 9781578633364

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dion Fortune

Publisher

Weiser Books

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 14.3 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN

1578633362

ISBN13

9781578633364

Synopsis "Dion Fortune's Book of the Dead"

This handbook helps the living assist the dying at the time of death. It teaches that the living must, first and foremost, understand the process that the soul goes through before they can help the spirit in its transition. Dion Fortune's Book of the Dead is a clear, concise, illuminating guide that explains the stages in the natural process of dying that each and every soul passes through from this world to the next. Fortune shows how traditional customs connected with the passing of a soul have their roots in psychic fact. For example, we place candles and fresh flowers in the death chamber as soon as the soul has departed because they provide sufficient etheric emanations to meet the needs of the "etheric double," assisting in the soul's disentanglement from the physical. Without the flowers and candles, the etheric body will draw its vitality from any available source, including grievers. Loved ones in particular are susceptible to depletion and can be drained dry in their ignorance. The living, Fortune writes, have two tasks to perform: "We must see to it that dust returns as swiftly and harmoniously as possible, giving rise to none of the happenings which may be termed the pathologies of death," and "we ought to follow up the departing soul with the right kind of telepathic communication until it is safely established on the Other Side."

Dion Fortune

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Violet Mary Firth (1890-1946), better known as «Dion Fortune», was one of the most famous British occultists and esoteric writers, as well as a pioneer of modern witchcraft. From a young age, she joined the Theosophical Society and attended psychology and psychoanalysis classes at the University of London. In 1919, she was initiated into the London temple of Alpha et Omega, before entering the Stella Matutina order, both heirs to the spirit and rituals of the legendary Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Fortune, founder of her secret society Fraternity of the Inner Light, was greatly influenced by Aleister Crowley, whom she met and corresponded with, and his theories on sexual magic, as well as Arthurian myths. Among her non-fiction work, notable are The Cosmic Doctrine, The Mystical Qabalah, and Psychic Self-Defense. She died in 1946 from leukemia.

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