Dion Fortune Books in Order

Based on a series of popular lectures, this book explains modern psychology in straightforward language, outlining how the nervous system, instincts, complexes, and the subconscious mind work, and how psychotherapy and psychoanalysis can be used to resolve inner conflict.

A posthumous Inner Light text that reinterprets the Arthurian legends as living occult patterns, exploring Merlin, Arthur, Guinevere, and the Grail as keys to inner-plane training and group ritual work rooted in Atlantean and Glastonbury symbolism.

Fortune’s guide to the dying process describes the stages the soul passes through after death and shows how candles, flowers, and focused thought can support the etheric body, helping the departed and protecting the living from unintentional depletion.

Fortune lays out the path of Western initiation, from early discipline and meditation through temple work and inner-plane service, showing how an initiate prepares body, mind, and spirit and how magical training becomes a lifelong vocation of responsibility and service.

Originally issued as Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science, this work weighs the strengths and dangers of séance-room spiritualism, distinguishes ordinary mediumship from higher contacts, and explains when communication with the dead is helpful, misleading, or simply unnecessary.

This book bases healing on Qabalistic and subtle-body anatomy, examining how illness can originate on physical, etheric, astral, mental, or spiritual levels and outlining methods of diagnosis and treatment that work with the aura, psychic centers, and the etheric double.

An accessible survey of occult philosophy that strips away superstition to present magic as a rational, disciplined study of consciousness, ethics, and symbolism, aimed at helping thoughtful students use esoteric methods to explore meaning without abandoning critical thinking.

Drawn from her later teaching letters, this volume distills Hermetic principles into practical observations about cosmic law, polarity, and evolution, with commentary and exercises that show how these ideas can reshape personal outlook and modern magical practice.

Fortune explores the human aura as a circuit of magnetic force, describing how personal energy can be raised, directed, and balanced for magical work, psychic sensitivity, and everyday effectiveness, with added notes on the etheric vehicle and its practical implications.

Combining Dion Fortune’s original papers with modern commentary, this book gives a step-by-step introduction to ceremonial magic, covering temple layout, symbolism, visualization, and inner contacts so that group or solitary practitioners can approach ritual work in a structured, balanced way.

An omnibus edition that first explains why secret schools exist and how their rituals function, then follows with a detailed picture of the training, tests, and responsibilities that shape the life and inner work of a Western initiate.

This volume collects Fortune’s wartime letters calling groups to shared meditations and visualizations for Britain’s protection during the Second World War, offering both a vivid record of occult response to crisis and a practical model for group mind-working.

A series of esoteric commentaries on the collects from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, using familiar liturgical prayers as gateways into mystical Christian experience and showing how they can support inner transformation and quiet devotional magic.

This combined edition brings together Fortune’s teaching on death and the afterlife with her critical study of spiritualism, outlining what souls experience beyond the body, how to approach mourning and psychic contact, and where occult science parts company with séance tradition.

Using occult principles of polarity and the seven planes, Fortune explores attraction, sex, and marriage, explaining how masculine and feminine energies interweave in relationships and how spiritual understanding can resolve tension between physical desire and inner ideals.

A dense symbolic cosmology that uses images of currents in space and evolving atoms to sketch the creation of the universe, the growth of consciousness, and the laws governing both soul and cosmos, intended as a meditative training text rather than literal physics.

Nine essays tackle topics such as evocative magic, sacred centers, the astral plane, auras, spiritual healing, reincarnation, and the Round Table myth, offering clear, down-to-earth reflections on how hidden forces shape religion, magic, and daily experience.

A collection of essays on putting magic to work in ordinary life, from protection and meditation to working with inner contacts, aimed at readers who want to translate esoteric theory into practical methods for self-development and quiet, ethical influence.

Fortune’s classic introduction to Western mystery schools explains what esoteric orders are, how they evolved, what their rituals actually do, and how seekers can judge schools, masters, secrecy, and obedience without losing their own judgment.

Her most influential textbook on the Hermetic Tree of Life, mapping the ten Sephiroth and twenty-two paths in practical language and linking Qabalistic theory to meditation, magic, and psychological growth for students of the Western Mystery Tradition.

A sequel to The Sea Priestess that follows Vivien Le Fay Morgan as she builds a lunar temple in the city and trains a new circle of students, weaving romance, reincarnation, and ritual magic into a story about dedication to the Moon goddess.

An occult novel in which frail, unhappy Wilfred Maxwell meets the enigmatic Vivien Le Fay Morgan and helps her restore a sea temple on the coast, discovering through ritual and vision how the tides, Moon, and sea gods can remake a life.

After his wife’s tragic death, wealthy Hugh Paston turns to occult books and the god Pan, buying a ruined monastery to recreate ancient rites with artist Mona Wilton, and learning through reincarnation and ritual what it means to honour nature’s power.

This novel centers on Ursula Brangwyn, harmed by an unscrupulous occult group, and Ted Murchison, the practical man who helps her reclaim magic on healthier terms, contrasting sensational, ego-driven occultism with disciplined work rooted in spiritual responsibility.

Expanding her earlier Practical Occultism in Daily Life with extra material, this book outlines simple occult principles for remembering past lives, working out karma, using mind power wisely, and approaching astral magic and inner contacts without losing common sense.

Glastonbury: Avalon of the Heart is a meditative tour of the town as a mystical landscape, blending history, legend, and visionary experience to show how it has carried Christian, Arthurian, and pagan currents and why it still functions as a living spiritual centre.

Fortune describes the soul’s journey before, during, and after physical death, addressing fear of dying, conditions on the inner planes, and how the living can assist the newly dead without clinging or unhealthy mediumistic dependence.

A partly autobiographical manual on recognizing and countering psychic attack, covering signs of obsession, vampirism, and hauntings, the psychology behind them, and practical methods of protection that combine sound living, ritual, and clear thinking.

Veronica Mainwaring becomes secretary to occultist Justin Lucas and finds herself bound as his trance medium, caught between fascination and dread as past lives and psychic vampirism surface, until her own spiritual resources give her a way out.

A collection of linked stories about Dr Taverner and Dr Rhodes, physicians who treat bizarre psychic and magical problems using occult methods, from etheric vampires to hauntings, loosely based on Fortune’s experiences with her own mentor.

A Dr Taverner occult detective story in which the doctor and his assistant Rhodes race to recover a stolen ritual manuscript whose misuse could be disastrous, blending psychic investigation with classic mystery plotting.

Here Fortune argues that real occult study must stay grounded in reason, surveying subjects such as meditation, astrology, numerology, group karma, psychic pathology, and the left-hand path while warning against credulity, moral evasion, and untested claims of power.