ABSTRACT

Frobe-Kapteyn had taken the esoteric correspondence course that Dion Fortune offered, and wrote that she would have liked to come to London, ostensibly to meet with Fortune, and that she was “working hard at the correspondences between Psychoanalysis, the Kaballah and ancient cults”. According to one of her biographers, “Dion Fortune was always aware however that psychology was no substitute for occultism because it went nowhere deep enough”. One can only wonder what might have happened if these two, C. G. Jung and Fortune, had actually met and whether there would have been any effect on Jung’s work, especially as regards woman, the Feminine, and the anima. Rider Haggard’s book She, might have read one of Fortune’s occult thrillers, such as Moon Magic or Sea Priestess, which were fictional accounts of her thought and magical practices, and an important aspect of her work.