I just read What is Occultism?, a series of essays by Dion Fortune originally published as Sane Occultism. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but am still chewing on this passage, towards the end of the book:
“American occultism will never come into its own until it ceases to import its systems from Europe and India, but goes back along the line of its own tradition, picking up the aboriginal contacts, and daring to bend them to its own evolutionary purposes … Egypt has no message for the United States.”
I’m not sure if I agree with that, or not. Maybe I should be reading about Mayan mysticism, but you know… I’ve always shied away from that because it seems so foreign. And, isn’t that counter to at least part of the point made here? Hmmm….