The Esoteric orders and their work [Paperback]

Dion Fortune (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1978

Esoteric Orders and their Work examines how and why esoteric schools have restricted admission to their secret societies and orders, and shrouded their practices in mystery. The knowledge guarded by these schools-passed down through the ages, and revised from time to time by great teachers-is a secret traditional science that studies the causes that lie behind observable phenomena.

Dion Fortune reveals every aspect of these secret organizations and the training they offer to initiates.

Revised edition contains a new introduction by Gareth Knight, and an index.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn (1978)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006XLLLS
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Esoteric Orders and Their Works, May 2, 2011

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Well, this one gets to the core of it. If you want to learn about how things work, this is the book for you. Dion Fortune has written many good books, this surely is one of them. Thanks for the good service. Billy

9 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Conspiracy of the Occult, June 20, 2000

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A great book. It shows how secret societies have lived in societies through out history. What they have done or tried to do.

4 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Total Bunk, May 21, 2009

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After reading several books on occultism and the esoteric orders, I think it is mostly bunk. It seems that a desire to severe from the status quo, an overactive imagination, and an egotistical drive to be involved in magic pretty much sums up occultism. They seem to tenuously link together such things as the Egyptian mysteries, Hermeticism, alchemy, Greek mystery/philosophy schools, and various interpretations about the 17th Century Rosicrucian letters to get occultism and modern mystery schools. And to think it all started with the ancient, highly advanced culture of Atlantis, the lost continent, that was an allegory written of by Plato.

Now, all of that said, if you are into esoteric orders and occultism, Dion Fortune was apparently one of the leading ladies of the occult in her time, and her work is still revered by those in such circles. Maybe then this book is for you.