Dion Fortune Quotes

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• We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.

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  Moving, May, Action

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.17, Dion Fortune

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• What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

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  Imagination, Contemplating

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• Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

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  Art, Causing Change, Consciousness

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• Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

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  Hands, Mind, Tools

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Mystical Qabalah”, p.28, Weiser Books

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• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

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  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.

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  Reality, Views, People

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• When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

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  Mean, Height, Way

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.29, Dion Fortune

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• The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists use it as a window in a watch-tower. Psychologists call it a psychological mechanism; magicians call it magic, and the man in the street calls it illusion or charlatanry according to taste. It does not matter to me what it is called, for it is effectual.

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  Dream, Artist, Men

  Dion Fortune (2003). “Moon Magic”, p.83, Weiser Books

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• The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

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  Ascent, Matter, Spirit

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• We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

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  Spiritual, Divine, Conscious

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.14, Dion Fortune

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• Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances?

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  Believe, Reality, Invisible

  Dion Fortune (2003). “Moon Magic”, p.109, Weiser Books

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• The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

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  Lying, Rights, Opposites

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• I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

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  Two, Safety, Remember

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.86, Dion Fortune

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• All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

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  Goddess

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• There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

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  Personality, Use, Answers

  Dion Fortune (1971). “Goat Foot God: A Novel”, p.235, Weiser Books

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• The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

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  Three, Phases, Dimensions

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.17, Dion Fortune

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• There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the Virgin. You may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other.

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  Real, Thinking, Practice

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.13, Dion Fortune

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• Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.

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  Life, Sea, Substance

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage”, p.2, Weiser Books

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• The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

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  Dragons, Scorpions, Serpent

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.75, Dion Fortune

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• One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

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  Sheep, Organization, Black

  Dion Fortune (2011). “Psychic Self-Defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.119, Weiser Books

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• No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend.

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  Weed, Training, Plot

  Dion Fortune (2017). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.78, Youcanprint

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• In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.

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  Paganism, Males, Degrees

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Applied Magic”, p.77, Dion Fortune

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• Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret by its discoverers and not at once made available for all who desire to share in it.
  The knowledge is reserved in order that humanity may be protected from its abuse at the hands of the unscrupulous.

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  Discovery, Hands, Order

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• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

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  Team, Suffering, Stronger

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.85, Dion Fortune

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