Sometime in the 1920s, during her initial research into occult abuse, Dion Fortune:
...became aware of the existence of an inner-plane and an outer organization of initiates which was called the Occult Police.
Most of its operations were on the inner-planes, with adepti whose job it was to try to seek out occult abuse and spiritual wickedness and then to put an end to it wherever possible.
Certain occults groups in the physical world had their own inner section to work with the Occult Police and these were called Hunting Lodges. They were the physical plane terminals for the inner-plane Occult Police organization.
Another inner-plane group to help to control abuse was called The Watchers. They seemed to act as part of the Occult Police and their specific role seemed to be to seek out occult abuse, misuse of powers of the mind, and general misconduct in the field.
The Watchers would then hand over the information either to the Occult Police or to suitable individuals on the physical plane who would then take the necessary action to put the matter right...
The Watchers and the Occult police did not die with Dion Fortune, in fact they are still [1998] very much in evidence...
Dion Fortune was instructed in the procedure she should use should she ever need to get in touch with the Occult Police to report abuse or ask for protection...
While using the resources of this inner organization, Dion Fortune was able to obtain a great deal of information about occult malpractice, as the Occult Police headquarters seemed to be the clearinghouse for all messages.
Her connection with the Occult Police continued throughout her lifetime.
From The Story of Dion Fortune by Charles Fielding and Carr Collins (1985). Second edition 1998, Thoth Publications: Loughborough, UK.
7 comments:
That'a all phrased in an interesting way. It sounds very procedural to me, which is not what I expected.
Bruce,
Do you see any truth in this? It reads like a novel
@BH - I assume the account is honest reportage of what was believed. As for whether such beliefs correlated with objective, interpersonal reality - well I think there was "something in it", some of the time, 100-ish years ago.
But The Occult Police would indeed make a great novel - indeed a series of novels. Quite likely its already been done, more than once.
"occult police' sounds suspiciously close to 'galactic federation' or whatever other group the new agers claim are 'guiding our evolution' here on earth...
@MC - It sounds pretty different to me! If you read the relevant section of the book I linked, the Occult Police was about combatting black magicians.
New Age either doesn't believe in black magic (having dispensed with good and evil - and focused on personal development and psychotherapy); or regards (de facto) black magicians as the goodies (hence the popularity of Aleister Crowley, and commitment to all the leftist ideologies among 99% of New Agers).
Dion Fortune is mostly criticised and rejected by New Agers in the modern inversional fashion, because of her traditional Christian ethics - eg in sexuality and race.
Albeit there was (between New Age and DF's magical group, and the like) the shared very general goal of assisting human spiritual evolution. This, I think, derives from key bits of shared metaphysics -- which is one in which God is a very philosophically conceptualized abstraction of the process of creation, Jesus is (just) a specially highly evolved Man whose role is to educate and guide people (not the maker of resurrection and creator of Heaven), and our fate after death is reincarnation - not resurrection.
As you know, I regard all this as mistaken. Yet there is much that is worthwhile. And 100 years ago, there was still residual unconscious and spontaneous participation - which (I believe) meant that metaphysical errors were considerable less harmful than they now are. There were then many ways of being a real Christian, that are hardly possible now.
Regarding fiction: This is similar enough to the plot of The Adept (1991, Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris) and its sequels that I’m now certain they used Dion Fortune as a source. A modern day Hunting Lodge in Scotland facing off against various dark wizards in places like Rosslyn Chapel and the Isle of Skye. Quite fun actually.
@Steve - I've not read KK's novels about the Adept, but from the summaries I found they do sound strikingly similar to the Occult Police idea.
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