The Demon Lover

New York: Samuel Weiser Inc, 1972. Second Samuel Weiser impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 286pp. Octavo [22 cm] Yellow and black tweed-patterned spine and boards. Light moisture staining to the top and bottom edges of the text block (not affecting the pages). Bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. In the price-clipped dust jacket, with surface rubbing, creasing to the front inside flap, and very minor moisture staining along the bottom edge. An occult novel, first published in 1927, by an early female practitioner of magic. Prominent British writer, occultist, and trance medium Dion Fortune (1890-1946), whose real name was Violet Mary Firth, studied psychology at the University of London before working as a counselor in a psychotherapy clinic. She was very fascinated by the esoteric, which led her to become a member of the Golden Dawn, and the Theosophical Society. Eventually she left these groups and formed her own- The Society of the Inner Light (originally founded as the Fraternity of the Inner Light). Firth wrote a number of books both fiction and non-fiction under the name Dion Fortune. These became the main texts used by the society. During the Second World War she assembled a widespread resistance to the Third Reich, through a program of visualization and meditation, undertaken by people across the United Kingdom. (Information from the Society of the Inner Light website.).