The Cosmic Doctrine

Dion Fortune

Weiser Books, Jan 15, 2000 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 227 pages

In the 1930s, beginning at the Vernal Equinox in Glastonbury, Dion Fortune started receiving communications from the Inner Planes concerning the creation of the universe, and the evolution of humanity. This is her record, and includes previously unpublished material.

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Contents

• INTRODUCTION BY DION FORTUNE: 1
• Section III: 7
• BY ONE OF THE COMMUNICATING ENTITIES: 14
• Section I: 19
• THE FIRST TRINITY: 26
• THE BUILDING OF THE ATOM: 32
• THE EVOLUTION OF THE ATOM: 36
• THE GENESIS OF A SOLAR SYSTEM: 42
• COSMIC INFLUENCES ON A SOLAR SYSTEM: 49
• Section II: 55
• THE RELATION OF A GREAT ENTITY TO THE COSMOS: 58
• THE PROJECTION OF THE CONCEPT OF THE UNIVERSE: 65
• THE RELATION BETWEEN THE PROJECTED IMAGE AND THE LOGOIDAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 67
• AUTOREACTIONS AND COSMIC MEMORY: 70
• THE BIRTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE UNIVERSE: 73
• 13 THE BEGINNINGS OF MIND AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS: 77
• THE SEEDATOM BUILDING A SEVENTH PLANE BODY: 82
• EVOLUTION OF THE FIRST PLANETARY FORM: 90
• EVOLUTION OF THE LORDS OF FLAME FORM AND MIND: 97
• THE INFLUENCE OF THE REGENTS UPON THE GLOBES: 104
• THE GOAL OF EVOLUTION OF A LIFE SWARM: 107
• 19 TABULATED SUMMARY OF INFLUENCES: 114
• THE LOGOIDAL RELATION: 121
• INFLUENCES OF THE MANIFESTED UNIVERSE: 128
• 23 TEACHING CONCERNING OTHER EVOLUTIONS: 135
• INFLUENCES WHICH HUMANITY EXERTS UPON ITSELF: 141
• THE LAW OF LIMITATION: 152
• THE LAW OF SEVEN DEATHS: 160
• THE LAW OF IMPACTATION OR THE TRANSMISSION: 167
• THE LAW OF THE ATTRACTION OF OUTER SPACE: 176
• AFTERTHOUGHTS: 186
• DIAGRAMS BY C T L: 213
• INDEX: 225

About the author

Dion Fortune (1891-1946), founder of The Society of the Inner Light, is recognized as one of the most luminous figures of 20th-century esoteric thought. A prolific writer, pioneer psychologist, powerful psychic, and spiritualist, she dedicated her life to the revival of the Western Mystery Tradition. She was also a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, whose members included at various times such people as A.E. Waite, Aleister Crowley, and W.B. Yeats.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cosmic Doctrine
• Author: Dion Fortune
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Weiser Books, 2000
• ISBN: 1578631602, 9781578631605
• Length: 227 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / General