Description: A description of Glastonbury that remains one of the most evocative and poignant accounts of this wild yet holy placea power center polarizing with distant Jerusalem and linking and harmonizing the Christian way with the primeval and pagan past of England.
Brief description: Dion Fortune (born Violet Mary Firth, 1890-1946), founder of the Society of the Inner Light, is recognized as one of the most luminous figures of 20th-century esoteric thought. A prolific writer, pioneer psychologist, powerful psychic, and spiritualist, she dedicated her life to the revival of the Western Mystery Tradition. She was also a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, whose members included A. E. Waite, Aleister Crowley, and W. B. Yeats.