About this episode

Mollie Adler and Ike Baker discuss the teachings and legacy of occultist Dion Fortune, exploring her insights on magic, psychology, and the unseen world.

Dion Fortune was one of the great occult teachers of the twentieth century, and one of my personal favorites. In this episode, I’m joined by Ike Baker for a conversation about Fortune and her legacy. We begin with Ike’s own relationship to her, including the story of visiting her grave in Glastonbury, then move into her work on magic, psychology, psychic hygiene, ritual, Qabalah, polarity, Christ, Crowley, Avalon, and the power of images to act upon the mind. Fortune understood something we desperately need right now as a collective. The unseen world has consequences, the images we feed can become forces, the mind has gates, and ritual changes the one who repeats it. Ike is teaching a full course on Dion Fortune beginning July 13th 2026, called The Magic of Dion Fortune. The course meets Mondays at 7pm Eastern via Zoom for 10 modules. All sessions will be recorded for registrant playback and will include custom syllabi, supplemental materials, and slides. The course covers Dion Fortune’s unpublished papers and rituals, along with an integrated study of her theory and practical work through 21 of her writings, including The Mystical Qabalah, Psychic Self-Defense, The Cosmic…

People in this episode

Host: Mollie Adler

Guest: Ike Baker

Topics covered

• occult teachings
• psychic hygiene
• magic and psychology
• Dion Fortune's legacy
• ritual and mind
• Qabalah

Keywords

• Dion Fortune
• occult
• psychic hygiene
• ritual
• Qabalah
• magic
• psychology
• Ike Baker

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Mystical Qabalah, Psychic Self-Defense, The Cosmic Doctrine, The Circuit of Force, Applied Magic, Sane Occultism, The Training and Work of an Initiate, rites of Pan and Isis

Places: Glastonbury

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