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The Mystical Qabalah

Dion Fortune's classic remains the book through which most English-speaking occultists have met the Qabalah. Written in 1935 from her teaching in the Fraternity of the Inner Light, it presents the Tree of Life as the ground plan of the whole Western esoteric tradition, the skeleton on which magic, mysticism and psychology hang together. The method is systematic and remarkably clear: the three supernal and seven lower spheres are taken one at a time, each sephira described in its meaning, its correspondences and its psychological experience, with the three pillars and the paths between explained as stages of initiation rather than abstract diagram. Fortune insists throughout that the Qabalah is a method of training the mind to receive higher reality, not a museum of correspondences, and she translates the Hebrew technical vocabulary into terms her students could work with directly. Successive chapters carry the reader from the unmanifest through the roles of the planets and the angelic hosts to the practical use of the Tree in meditation and ritual. Nearly a century on, it is still the standard first serious book on the subject.

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