1957 The Cosmic Doctrine

Description

Early Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper

The very scarce second edition of this work, which was first published in 1949 in a vanishingly scarce first edition. 

In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.

'The Cosmic Doctrine' came about in 1922, when Fortune underwent trance mediumship to channel the spiritual entities known as the 'Ascended Masters'. She claimed the text of this work was provided by those masters.

The work consists of thirty chapters, with titles including 'The Twelve Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes', 'The Influence of the Lords of Flame, Form and Mind', and 'The Law of the Attraction of Outer Space'.

Dion Fortune was the co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organisation that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the 'Ascended Masters'. She is recognised as one of the most significant occultists and ceremonial magicians of the early twentieth century. 

Bookseller's label to front free endpaper.

This second edition is revised and enlarged.