tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407507233856990377.post4533650282431986750..comments2023-08-17T00:31:28.700-07:00Comments on Deep Pagan Thoughts: Most Influential People in the Rebirth of Paganism and Witchcraft.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407507233856990377.post-48424124974068603162011-11-17T08:01:18.207-08:002011-11-17T08:01:18.207-08:00Thanks for the post. It was hard to boil down all...Thanks for the post. It was hard to boil down all of those figures to just two or three sentences.Panmankeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10377332569960991864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4407507233856990377.post-74368963173714172892011-11-16T21:20:21.174-08:002011-11-16T21:20:21.174-08:00Hi - thanks for this post. While not disagreeing w...Hi - thanks for this post. While not disagreeing with the rankings etc, I do wish to present a different view on Dion Fortune.<br /><br />You write, "By the end of her life Fortune had become a mystical Christian, and was never officially a part of any explicitly Pagan tradition." <br /><br />While the latter part of this is undoubtedly true, the first part, I feel, simply reproduces a misunderstanding of Dion. The actual reality is Dion interwove and went beyond what we call 'paganism' and 'Christianity' in her magic. To quote myself (little time here): <br /><br />"Dion promoted and practiced the Three Fold Way, an integrated approach to the entire dismembered corpus of the western tradition as encompassed in the paths of Hermetic Mysteries, Devotional Mysticism and Nature Contacts. As Gareth Knight has shown, the apparent oscillation of Dion between ‘paganism’ and Christianity is a chimera and outside commentators who presumed to see certain outer activities as adherence to one path over another were not seeing the full picture, which was ever integrated."<br /><br />See article at: http://magicoftheordinary.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/dion-fortune-and-the-western-way/<br /><br />and Gareth Knight, "Dion Fortune and the Threefold Way".<br /><br />Thanks :)Peregrinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508191641503321789noreply@blogger.com