{"product_id":"priestess-the-life-and-magic-alan-richardson-9781870450119","title":"PRIESTESS The Life and Magic of Dion Fortune","description":"\u003cp\u003eDion Fortune was the pen-name of Violet Firth, one of the most luminous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand striking personalities of the twentieth century, Womanhood's answer to Aleister\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrowley, and quite possibly the Shakti of the Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new, revised, expanded and beautifully-written edition tells the full story of a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewoman who hid behind a veil of secrecy and who became a cult figure in the years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eafter her death in 1946. A brilliant writer and pioneer psychologist her whole life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas devoted to living out an eternal Myth in a story that can be told in terms of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirgins and Dragons, Moons and Oceans, and the spirit of the land itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a powerful psychic and medium, obsessed with the study and practise of Magic, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand a high-grade initiate within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecareer was never entirely in this world, and her companions not always human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her own eyes at least she was a Priestess, a channel for the Great Goddess, an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexponent of the time-lost Mysteries of Women long before the present generations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof feminists and goddess-worshippers were even born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom her birth in Llandudno, through her years in the drowned lands of Somerset, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Richardson unfolds the luminous and very moving patterns of her life: her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearly career as a psychoanalyst, her nervous breakdown, her time as a Land Girl and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher developing psychism; her memories of past lives on Atlantis and relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith Inner Plane beings who have an evolutionary interest in our world; her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eromance with a man she believed to be non-human and her fraught marriage to a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoctor whom everyone knew as Merlin; the foundation of her own group devoted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto bringing through the Western Mysteries at a time when few people knew that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethere was such a thing; her occult battles against the Nazis and fellow magicians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- and the start of her long, hard, and always stormy journey into the Otherworld, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etoward the heart of the Goddess that she saw as sleeping within the Earth itself, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho needed awakening . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Richardson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1870450116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781870450119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thoth Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.09h x 6.09w x 1.00d","brand":"Alan Richardson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48135893549311,"sku":"9781870450119","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bf93bae-6970-4a6a-8acd-65831c7baf6a.jpg?v=1770159153","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/priestess-the-life-and-magic-alan-richardson-9781870450119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}