Rogier van der Weyden’s Magdalen seated in green, absorbed in a book
Rogier van der Weyden, The Magdalen Reading (before 1438)

Women in Mysticism and Spiritualism

Founders, visionaries and scholars of the inner life.

Women stand at the centre of the esoteric and mystical traditions, often as their founders. Teresa of Ávila mapped the soul’s Interior Castle; Anna Kingsford’s The Perfect Way reshaped Christian esotericism; Blavatsky founded Theosophy; Emma Hardinge Britten became Spiritualism’s historian.

In the twentieth century Evelyn Underhill wrote the classic study of mysticism and Dion Fortune built one of the most influential magical orders of the century. This room brings their voices together.

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Mysticism

Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism

Evelyn Underhill

English · Mysticism

The Interior Castle

St. Teresa of Avila

The Interior Castle

St. Teresa of Avila

English · Christian Mysticism

Psychic Self-Defense

Dion Fortune

Psychic Self-Defense

Dion Fortune

1930 · English · Occult Philosophy

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