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Margaret Lumley Brown was a leading member ofDion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light, taking over many of DionFortune's functions after the latter's death in 1946. She raised the artsof seership to an entirely new level and has been hailed with somejustification as the finest medium and psychic of the twentieth century.Although she generally sought anonymity in her lifetime her work wasthe source of much of the inner teachings of the Society from1946 to 1961 and provided much of the material forGareth Knight's The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legendand A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism.Gathered here is a four part record of the life and work of thisremarkable woman. Part One presents the main biographical detailslargely as revealed by herself in an early work Both Sides of the Dooran account of the frightening way in which her natural psychismdeveloped as a consequence of experimenting with an ouija board ina haunted house. Part Two consists of articles written by her onsuch subjects as Dreams, Elementals, the Faery Kingdom, Healingand Atlantis, most of them commissioned for the legendary but shortlived magazine New Dimensions. Part Th ree provides examples ofher mediumship as Archpythoness of her occult fraternity with tranceaddresses on topics as diverse as Elemental Contacts, Angels andArchangels, Greek and Egyptian gods, and the Holy Grail.Part Four is devoted to the occult side of poetry, with someexamples of her own work which was widely published in her day.Gareth Knight was a colleague and friend of Margaret Lumley Brown in theirdays in the Society of the Inner Light together, to whom in later years shevouchsafed her literary remains, some esoteric memorabilia, and the privilege ofbeing her literary executor