Occult Police?, Fact or Fiction Options

I was reading Dion Fortune´s "Psychic Self-Defence" in which came a paragraph that caught my particular attention, followed by a brief experience of hers. The paragraph reads as follows:

"There is a very curious aspect of the occult field concerning which something must be said in the present
pages, though not a great deal can be revealed, and, to be frank, I do not know a great deal about it
myself, but only such aspects as I have actually come across. I have always heard it called the Occult
Police; others may know it by different names but I believe it to be a very real and concrete thing, though
its organisation is not upon the physical plane, nor, so far as I know, are its mundane activities gathered
up into any single pair of hands. I have crossed its trail upon a number of occasions, and played my part
in its activities, and I have talked with others who have also been concerned in it, and they have always
said as I do, that it is the inner voice and circumstances alone that direct our activities when we
co-operate with this mysterious organisation."

It caught my attention because I have heard of the Occult Police but always (mis) took it for a joke. Oh dont tell anyone or ill be in trouble with the occult police and such.
Then Dion Fortune came into my life. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I also read, in the same book, that there are certain lodges called Hunting Lodges in which the purpose of the group is to stop the wrong doings of Black Lodges and that the Hunting Lodges have some sort of link or direct connection to the Occult Police.

So I was wondering, is there such a thing as "Occult Police"? What are your experiences with this organization if any? or just jot down your opinion about them.

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If there are Occult Police, they are not in the normal concept of what we think of as police. It is not “evil” that they are after or what we would think of as abuses of power it is something else.

On the flip side I have witnessed people who do not like each other getting together to stop someone who is abusing their power. It could be that “the occult police” where the force behind this. However, I think it was people looking to their own self-interest to a large degree.

There are also groups that specialize in policing “their own” but I find theses people mostly idiotic and somewhat delusional. Kind hearted but delusional…then again who am I to say.

All I know is that in my experience, serious abuses of power where not put down by a special group, just a concerned group helping out a friend of one of them. And it was not to put an end to other abuses, just those that concerned one party, and a telling that it will not be one person that comes after her, but a group if it comes down to it.

Made me think of Twin Peaks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The Bookhouse Boys and the Black Lodge. "The owls are not always what they seem"
It sounds like what Dion is saying is that there is a kind of astral egregore or conglomerate of egregoric beings responsible for resisting the forces of black magick, "evil" forces, and occult "wrongdoings". This egregore can then be tapped into consciously or unconsciously when one is pitted against these sorts of things. That's my interpretation anyway.
For anyone, who has seen Twin Peaks, remember the Giant? I haven't seen the whole series yet, but from what I've seen the Giant might be considered a kind of occult police, helping Agent Cooper.
Lynch is awesome!!

This post has been edited by flyingmojo: Nov 22 2007, 07:53 PM

Occult Police - hocum pocum? I don't think so. Dion Fortune is not the only writer to have alluded to the Occult Police. W E Butler in his posthumously published book "Lords of Light" ( a collection of his lectures to "The Ibis Fraternity") mentions a little of the concept in a lecture on "The Withdrawn Order". The Withdrawn Order is a misleading label given to "a body" that functions behind a number of modern esoteric groups, particularly the Society of the Inner Light and a number of key groups that have branched off from it. Page 128 of Lords of Light provides some insight into the roles of the Occult Police and, in particular the role of "Hunting Lodges". I would encourage anyone interested to beg, borrow, buy this great little collection of lectures.

Best wishes

Malvhina