Quotes from Dion Fortune

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

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

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

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

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.

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

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

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

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.

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....

the neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic.

In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology.

There is something very intimate and personal about one's books. They reveal so much of one's private soul.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

The body is the vehicle of the mind.

unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve.

spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

a trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those who are unaccustomed to high- tension psychic forces. For whereas the person who is ripe for development will unfold the higher consciousness rapidly in the atmosphere of a high-grade initiate, the person who is not ready may find these influences profoundly disturbing.

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

The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

We all know that, when caught off our guard, there comes a dark temptation from the depths of our lower selves, something atavistic stirs, and we think thoughts, or even do deeds, of which we would never have believed ourselves capable.

It has been well and truly said that in the exoteric church the ceremony is performed by one person for the benefit of the congregation; but in the Lodge the ceremony is performed by the congregation for the benefit of one person.

The occultist does not try to dominate Nature, but to bring himself into harmony with these great Cosmic Forces, and work with them.