Top 43 Dion Fortune Quotes

#1. A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

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#2. Occultism has no Pope.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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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#5. Unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve.

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#6. Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand
an extended application of its powers.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

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#10. 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.

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

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

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#13. The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

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#14. Well, you remember what Iamblichos said about the way they built up the god-forms in their imagination so as to get the invisible powers to manifest through them?

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#15. Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances?

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#16. Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

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

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#21. In his imagination he performed the 'composition of place' reconstructing the scene from what he could remember of the classics, so laboriously and unprofitably rammed into his head at Harrow.

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#22. The body is the vehicle of the mind.

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#23. You want to wake the Old Gods, don't you?" "Yes." "Well then, go where the Old Gods are accustomed to be worshipped.

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

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#26. Phantasms of the Living, by Gurney and Podmore.

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

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#28. Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

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#29. I can best compare my life to a vitaminless diet
plenty of nutritive bulk, but the little something that meant health was lacking. I suppose my trouble was really spiritual scurvy.

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#30. The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.

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#31. Some say these people were Phoenicians, but that is incorrect; they were older than the Phoenicians being Atlanteans,

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

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#34. The neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic.

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#35. What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,

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

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

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#38. Now vampirism is contagious; the person who is vampirised, being depleted of vitality, is a psychic vacuum, himself absorbing form anyone he comes across in order to refill his depleted resources of vitality.

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#39. In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.

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

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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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#43. After that I went home and Sally put what was left of me to bed; next day, being a Christian family, we saluted the happy morn with the Hell and Hades of a row because I wouldn't get up and go to early service, my sister being quite determined that even if I didn't get up. I shouldn't sleep.

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