The incredible and unusual story of the "magical battle of England" between English wizards and Nazis

During World War II, while part of London was burning from German bombings, the famous British occultist and pioneer of modern witchcraft Dion Fortune, leading her secret society the Fraternity of the Inner Light, declared magical war on Hitler and the Nazis. Through guided meditations, she created a Sixth Column aimed at combating the Reich’s "black magicians," experts in mass propaganda. "Let us visualize Germany as a vast swamp of human impotence and ignorance covered by a dense black cloud of ancient evil," wrote Fortune, fascinated by Arthurian myths and the legend of Merlin.

Because, besides the terrestrial battlefield, there was another more unusual and unknown war. The protagonists of the "magical battle of England," as it was known, were wizards who confronted totalitarianism, visualizing deadly rays through "anti-Nazi telepathy" or patrolling the English coasts and the Baltic waters as "angelic presences" dressed in red robes and armed with swords of fire, "a huge dark form along the coasts and from north to south and east to west, and vice versa, watching so that nothing strange could move without being detected."

Edited by David Bizarro.