Applied Magic

This is a good little book, although we think the title “Applied Magic” is somewhat misleading. It perhaps would better be called “Essays on the Occult and Cosmic Considerations” or something of that nature. Those who like Blavatsky’s works would probably find this interesting, but those who are loo......more

Big, juicy ‘I-dont-know-vibes’ on this one. On the one hand, I have a soft spot the size of Saturn for women like Dion Fortune—minor heiresses who could carve out modern lives for their own at the start of the twentieth century—and on the other, she spent a chapter in this banging on about ‘racial a......more

This should be read twice or 3 times. It's fascinating, not in a sense as we are used to think of magic as something associated with "dark" forces but as something that our science still can't explain, yet it exists. Def-ly on my re-read list. Dion writing style can be challenging for someone who is......more

Not a very enjoyable read, but thankfully her other books are much better than this. Having previously read a few other books by Fortune, I assumed this one would have the same quality and I would close the last page feeling like I've learnt a lot. Spoiler: that didn't happen. If this book was edited......more