Born Violet Mary Firth (1890–1946), Dion Fortune was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer. She co-founded the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an organization that promoted esoteric philosophies, many of which she claimed were taught to her by spiritual entities known as the Ascended Masters. Her teachings uniquely combined spirituality, social ethics, sexuality, and magic.
Dion Fortune regarded sexual energy as a sacred and powerful life force with immense spiritual potential. At the core of her work was the belief that sexuality, when consciously directed and sublimated, could be used for both personal transformation and societal healing.
She rejected the coital magic of Aleister Crowley - magic based on physical sexual acts and instead taught sublimation: the redirection of sexual energy into spiritual power. For Fortune, orgasm was an “earthing force” that expelled energy, whereas true sexual magic required the raising and focusing of sexual force through ritual.
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