<p>Margaret Lumley Brown was a leading member of<br />
Dion Fortune&rsquo;s Society of the Inner Light, taking over many of Dion<br />
Fortune&rsquo;s functions after the latter&rsquo;s death in 1946. She raised the arts<br />
of seership to an entirely new level and has been hailed with some<br />
justification as the finest medium and psychic of the twentieth century.<br />
Although she generally sought anonymity in her lifetime her work was<br />
the source of much of the inner teachings of the Society from<br />
1946 to 1961 and provided much of the material for<br />
Gareth Knight&rsquo;s The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend<br />
and A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism.<br />
Gathered here is a four part record of the life and work of this<br />
remarkable woman. Part One presents the main biographical details<br />
largely as revealed by herself in an early work Both Sides of the Door<br />
an account of the frightening way in which her natural psychism<br />
developed as a consequence of experimenting with an ouija board in<br />
a haunted house. Part Two consists of articles written by her on<br />
such subjects as Dreams, Elementals, the Faery Kingdom, Healing<br />
and Atlantis, most of them commissioned for the legendary but short<br />
lived magazine New Dimensions. Part Th ree provides examples of<br />
her mediumship as Archpythoness of her occult fraternity with trance<br />
addresses on topics as diverse as Elemental Contacts, Angels and<br />
Archangels, Greek and Egyptian gods, and the Holy Grail.<br />
Part Four is devoted to the occult side of poetry, with some<br />
examples of her own work which was widely published in her day.<br />
Gareth Knight was a colleague and friend of Margaret Lumley Brown in their<br />
days in the Society of the Inner Light together, to whom in later years she<br />
vouchsafed her literary remains, some esoteric memorabilia, and the privilege of<br />
being her literary executor</p>