12-07-2012, 02:49 PM
Dion Fortune didn't write about secret societies per se, but she did have some insight, I think, into the goals and motives of participants in western occult fraternities. Basically, some positive, some negative; some petty, some magnanimous.
As to why the secrecy, I think to some extent it's because the rituals do have power and the fraternities think they don't want power in the wrong hands, although it's possible (likely?) that by "wrong" they mean "other than ours". It's also possible they're embarrassed because their rituals don't actually seem to work.
I think there's also an inheritance from earlier contacts with Ra and other outside sources that have been passed down "from mouth to ear" for many years (generations?). Presumably the teachings are, like Ra said about tantra, always half lost. I was surprised when reading a book by W.E. Butler when he mentioned "lands now lost," referring, I believe to Atlantis.
As to why the secrecy, I think to some extent it's because the rituals do have power and the fraternities think they don't want power in the wrong hands, although it's possible (likely?) that by "wrong" they mean "other than ours". It's also possible they're embarrassed because their rituals don't actually seem to work.
I think there's also an inheritance from earlier contacts with Ra and other outside sources that have been passed down "from mouth to ear" for many years (generations?). Presumably the teachings are, like Ra said about tantra, always half lost. I was surprised when reading a book by W.E. Butler when he mentioned "lands now lost," referring, I believe to Atlantis.
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