دانلود کتاب Quest for Dion Fortune

Biography of Dion Fortune ('Deus Non Fortuna') nee Violet Mary Firth, 1890-1946; authoress of "Psychic Self-Defence" (1930) etc.

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"She hypothesized a relationship between the chakras of occult philosophy's "etheric body" and the endocrine glands hormonal secretions in the human organism. She knew also that the endocrine system is controlled in the brain, and she was probably aware of the early experimental studies of the brain and the correlation of electrical activity of the human brain and human emotion. Her conclusions on these subjects were anything but final. She realized that not enough was known at the time to form more than tentative hypotheses, and she said so honestly."
-pp.159-160

"[W.E. Butler] She had been running a group in conjunction with the Theosophical Society. ... Christian Mystic Lodge, yes, of the T. S. [Theosophical Society] And there was a considerable amount of controversy because the T. S. didn't like the emphasis she placed on the Christian side, you see. And she didn't like the emphasis they'd placed on the Eastern side."
-p.155

"And then in 1925, she was told from the inner side to go on independently. And she did. It was then that she started out independently, without any reference to the Golden Dawn or to Stella Matutina. But she kept amicable relations with them..."
-p.115

"(Mr. Grant had cleverly manipulated our meeting to occur on the 11th day of January at 11 o'clock. It wasn't until much later that I discovered that the number eleven is the sacred number of the Left-Hand Path.)"
-p.143

"I hope that my book has filled in some gaps in this extraordinary woman's story and that it has put some opinions about her into perspective. It is important to realize, for example, that Dion Fortune had a sincere interest in and respect for the "hard" sciences--physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics. Although she usually carried the facts further than most scientists would have, she knew the facts nevertheless. Although she maintained her belief that the endocrine glands were controlled by the "emotions," had she lived longer she probably would have learned that emotions are physiological phenomena generated by the human brain in concert with the rest of the physical organism. Perhaps then she would have postulated a higher seat of governance in some astral realm..."
-p.182



The book contains some compositor's typos e.g. Guilford sc.: Guildford; Somerset and Dorset Night Railway sc. presumably: Somerset and Dorset Light Railway; affected sc.: effected (p.182); etc.