Year: 1999
Author: Dion Fortune
Genre: mysticism, meditation, magic
Publisher: Samuel Weiser
ISBN: 0-87728-596-9
English language
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: No
Number of pages: 327

Dion Fortune is considered the most important woman thinker to emerge from the occult revival of the post 1890's in England. In 1919 she was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a magical society whose members included W.B. Yeats and Arthur Machen, among others. There she studied western magic, bringing to her work a keen knowledge and understanding of psychology which she had previously studied at London University. When she left the Golden Dawn, she was a full fledged occultist, adept in the mysteries of the Western Tradition.
The Qabalah, whose disciplines include the occult sciences of astrology and tarot, forms the basis of the Western Mystery Tradition. It is a system of mystical knowledge and spiritual development in the same way that Yoga is the mystical system of the East. The Tree of Life - a diagram consisting of ten circles connected by twenty-two "paths" - is the heart of Qabalistic teaching. It is a cosmic diagram; the blueprint of the universe and the human being, containing within itself a description of all possible relationships and all phenomena.
The Mystical Qabalah is Dion Fortune's most famous book. It presents a thorough explanation of the Tree of Life and provides a key to the practical working of the mystical system. Here is what she says about this work:
''The point of view from which I approach the Holy Qabalah in these pages differs, so far as I know, from that of all other writers on the subject, for to me it is a living system of spiritual development, not a historical curiosity. Few people ... realize that there is an Esoteric Tradition in our midst, handed down in private manuscripts and by 'mouth to ear.' Still fewer realize that it is the Holy Qabalah ... which forms its basis."

Part I.
I. THE YOGA OF THE WEST 1
II. THE CHOICE OF A PATH 8
III. THE METHOD OF THE QABALAH 13
IV. THE UNWRITTEN QABALAH 19
V. NEGATIVE EXISTENCE 29
VI. OTZ CHIIM, THE TREE OF LIFE 37
VII. THE THREE SUPERNALS 43
VIII. THE PATTERNS OF THE TREE 55
IX. THE TEN SEPHIROTH IN THE FOUR WORLDS 62
X. THE PATHS UPON THE TREE 72
XI. THE SUBJECTIVE SEPHIROTH 78
XII. THE GODS UPON THE TREE 84
XIII. PRACTICAL WORK UPON THE TREE 92
Part II.
XIV. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 104
XV. KETHER, THE FIRST SEPHIRAH 109
XVI. CHOKMAH, THE SECOND SEPHIRAH 122
XVII. BINAH, THE THIRD SEPHIRAH 139
XVIII. CHESED, THE FOURTH SEPHIRAH 161
XIX. GEBURAH, THE FIFTH SEPHIRAH 173
XX. TIPHARETH THE SIXTH SEPHIRAH 188
Part III.
XXI. THE FOUR LOWER SEPHIROTH 216
XXII. NETZACH 221
XXIII. HOD 238
XXIV. YESOD 252
XXV. MALKUTH 265
XXVI. THE QLIPHOTH 297
XXVII. CONCLUSION 305
DIAGRAMS
I. The Three Pillars and the Descent of Power
II. The Three Triangles
III. The Tree of Life and the Thirty-two Paths

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