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Dion Fortune born Violet Mary Firth (6 December 1890 – 8 January 1946), was a prominent British occultist, author, psychologist, teacher, artist, and mystic.〔Richardson, Alan; "The Magical Life of Dion Fortune", Aquarian Press, 1987, ISBN 1-85538-051-X, p 26.〕 Schooled in Western Esotericism, she was influential in the modern revival of the magical arts. She was also a prolific writer of the supernatural and the occult in both novels and non-fiction works. As a psychologist, she approached magic and hermetic concepts from the perspectives of Jung and Freud. Known to those in her inner circle as DF, her pseudonym was inspired by her family motto "Deo, non-fortuna" (Latin for "by God, not fate"), originally the ancient motto of the Barons and Earls Digby.〔Knight, Gareth; ''Dion Fortune and the Inner Light'', Thoth, 2000, ISBN 1-870450-45-0, p 2.〕 Fortune died in 1946 from leukemia in Middlesex, London, at the age of 55. ==Early life== She was born in Bryn-y-Bia in Llandudno, Wales, and grew up in a household where Christian Science was rigorously practiced. She reported visions of Atlantis at age four〔Knight, Gareth; ''Dion Fortune and the Inner Light'', Thoth Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-870450-45-0, pp 14–15.〕 and developing psychic abilities at age 20. 〔Chapman, Janine; ''Quest for Dion Fortune'', Samuel Weiser, 1993, ISBN 0-87728-775-9, p 3-5.〕 She joined the Theosophical Society〔 and attended courses in psychology and psychoanalysis at the University of London,〔Chapman, Janine; "Quest for Dion Fortune", Samuel Weiser, 1993, ISBN 0-87728-775-9, p 5.〕 and became a lay psychotherapist at the Medico-Psychological Clinic in Brunswick Square.〔Knight, Gareth; ''Dion Fortune and the Inner Light'', Thoth Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-870450-45-0, p29 and Richardson, Alan ''The Magical Life of Dion Fortune'', p 54. N.B. Janine Chapman however in her book, ''Quest for Dion Fortune'' (p 6), says that Fortune worked at the Tavistock clinic, citing Christine Hartley as her source.〕 Her first magical mentor was the Irish occultist and Freemason Theodore Moriarty (1873–1923).〔Richardson, Alan; ''The Magical Life of Dion Fortune'', Aquarian Press, 1991, ch.4. ISBN 1-85538-051-X and Knight, Gareth; "Dion Fortune and the Inner Light", Thoth Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-870450-45-0, ch.5.〕 In 1919 she was initiated into the London Temple of the Alpha et Omega〔Richardson, Alan, ''The Magical Life of Dion Fortune'', Aquarian Press, 1991, p111. ISBN 1-85538-051-X and Knight, Gareth; ''Dion Fortune and the Inner Light'', Thoth Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-870450-45-0, ch.7.〕 before transferring to the Stella Matutina order.〔Richardson, Alan; ''The Magical Life of Dion Fortune'', Aquarian Press, 1991, p114. ISBN 1-85538-051-X〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dion Fortune」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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