The authors describe how Fortune’s group conceived of their magical battle, designed to strengthen British will power and stop the invasion, even if its effects are hard to quantify compared to those of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the Army.<\/p>\n
Some of her followers believe that the workings ruined her health, leading to her death a few years later.<\/p>\n
And they quote a well-known scholar of esotericsm who comes to this conclusion:<\/p>\n
Possibly such tales of magical warfare are simply one of the ways, as esoteric scholar Professor Wouter Hanegraaff describes, in \u201cwhich magic\u00adians seek to legitimate<\/em> magic to the wider society as well as to themselves\u201d in the modern era.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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