You know the habits of reading you use when you’re reading for pleasure-reading quickly and uncritically, letting the words weave someone else’s daydreams in your mind? That will emphatically not cut it here. First, for those readers who haven’t tackled a work of philosophy before, this is not light reading. 22.īefore we launch into the text, a couple of notes may be helpful. 19 through the first (partial) paragraph on p. Millennium Edition: Chapter 1, “The First Manifestation,” p. Revised Edition: Chapter 1, “The Dawn of Manifestation,” p.
The text varies somewhat between the two editions, but the concepts and images are the same, and I’ll be referring to both. You can use either one for the discussions that follow. Climb in and fasten your belts it’s going to be a wild ride.Īs noted in earlier posts here, there are two widely available editions of The Cosmic Doctrine, the revised edition first published in 1966 and the Millennium Edition first published in 1995, which reprints the original privately printed edition of 1949. With this post we begin a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philosophy.
