Today is the birthday of Violet Mary Firth (December 6, 1890 – January 8, 1946), occultist and author. She is better known by her pseudonym Dion Fortune, which was inspired by her family motto "Deo, non fortuna" (Latin for "by God, not fate")."Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will."
- Dion Fortune
"To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect."
- Dion Fortune
"There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep."
- Dion Fortune
"We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them."
- Dion Fortune
"Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers."
- Dion Fortune
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