I started reading The Magical Battle of Britain: The War Letters of Dion Fortune tonight and came across something interesting. Basically, during World War II, Dion Fortune started a sort of occult/mystical interest group to do group meditations on various topics. Interestingly, the topics had very little to do with the war itself. They weren't trying to hex German pilots or psychically attack Hitler or anything. In today's language, they were trying to put a sort of "good vibes" out into the atmosphere to help their fellow Britons.
Anyway, I was reading how she got this group together and they started progressing along. And then Gareth Knight, who edited the book (as it is a series of letters from Dion Fortune to her group), talked about how, as the work went on, they found they couldn't take newcomers in as well as they did at the start (when they took in anyone). Dion Fortune herself wrote:
Outsiders who came in at the beginning grew with the work, but once the work had developed in the way it did, it was no longer possible to take in outsiders.
When I read this, the image that popped into my mind was nothing less than a World of Warcraft guild! It sounds like how so many guilds in WoW start. They take anyone and everyone at first, but, if the guild is successful and stays together for long, the people who joined at the beginning have leveled up to 80 (or more now) and have awesome legendary equipment. After a while, joining such successful guilds is by invitation only. Seriously though, as Ms. Fortune says here, its the only way they can really do it. Taking on a newbie would take too long getting them up to speed to be of much use (and seriously, not be much fun for the guildies or the noobie).
Anyway, that's just the thought I had. I wish I could have joined Dion Fortune's magical guild to defend Britain. :-)
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