Gareth Knight
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| Born | April 3, 1930 Basil Leslie Wilby |
| Died | March 1, 2022 |
| Nationality | British |
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Gareth Knight (born Basil Leslie Wilby[1]) (3 April 1930 – 1 March 2022[2]), was a British author, esotericist, magician and teacher. His numerous titles and workshops have influenced a generation of magicians, occultists and practitioners of alternative spirituality, including such figures as musician and esotericist R J Stewart[3] and author Caitlin Matthews who acknowledge his influence. For many years Knight taught esotericism publicly -- in Matthews' words, he "ran public magical courses at Hawkwood [College] every year from the 1970s to the 1980s (long before anyone else dared do this)."[4]
Knight’s decades-long association with the esoteric school Servants of the Light and its director of studies Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, both beginning in the 1960s,[5] led him to write his first book, A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, in 1965, and eventually the biography of the school's founder Dion Fortune, Dion Fortune and the Inner Light, in 2000. Richard Smoley in his guide to Christian esotericism, Inner Christianity, characterizes Knight as one among "various heirs to the Golden Dawn legacy ... using ritual magic in a Christian context today"[6].
Knight founded the Helios Book Series in the 1960s[7] which served members of the school, and later his own Gareth Knight Group in 1973.[8] Knight's daughter Rebsie Fairholm continues his work[2].
Selected publications
- Evoking the Goddess: Initiation, Worship, and the Eternal Feminine in the Western Mysteries. Inner Traditions, 1993.
- The Circuit of Forces. 1998.
- Principles of Hermetic Philosophy & The Esoteric Philosophy of Astrology. 1999.
- Spiritualism and Occultism. 1999.
- Granny's Magic Cards. 2004.
- Dion Fortune and the Lost Secrets of the West. 2006.
- The Arthurian Formula. 2006.
- The Occult Fiction of Dion Fortune. 2007.
- Magic and the Power of the Goddess. 2008.
- The Faery Gates of Avalon. 2008.
- To the Heart of the Rainbow. (Reissue of 'Granny's Magic Cards'). 2010.
- Melusine of Lusignan and the Cult of the Faery Woman. 2010.
- Yours Very Truly Gareth Knight: Selected Letters 1969-2010. 2010.
- The Romance of the Faery Melusine. 2011.
- The Abbey Papers (new, expanded edition, in collaboration with Rebecca Wilby). 2011.
- I Called It Magic. 2011.
- Faery Loves and Faery Lais. 2012)
- The Book of Melsuine of Lusignan in History, Legend & Romance. 2013.
- The Faery Gates of Avalon. 2013.
- Dion Fortune's Rites of Isis and of Pan. 2013.
- Christ and Qabalah (with Anthony Duncan). 2013.
- Melusine of Lusignan and the Cult of the Faery Woman (reissue). 2013.
References
- ↑ "Wilby, Basil Leslie". encyclopedia.com. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Remembering the Life and Work of Gareth Knight". Servants of the Light. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ↑ "Biographical Information for RJ Stewart and Anastacia Nutt". Inner Temple Traditions/Inner Convocation. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ↑ Matthews, Caitlín (2019-10-27). "GIANTS & TROJANS: Brutus and the Mythic Founders of Britain at Hawkwood College, 6-8 December 2019". Soundings. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
- ↑ "Remembering the Life and Work of Gareth Knight | Servants of the Light". Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ↑ Smoley, Richard (2002). Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition. Boston, MA: Shambala. p. 38. ISBN 1-57062-810-6.
- ↑ "Remembering the Life and Work of Gareth Knight". Servants of the Light. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ↑ "ABOUT US". Gareth Knight Group. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
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