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A chat on 4chan
human
Any female Christian occultists aside from Dion Fortune?
gpt
Maybe McGregor's wife?
There were a bunch of women in Fortune's own order the Society of Inner Light.
human
I just noticed that while there has been many female Christin mystics, Christian occultism always seemed very masculine while female occultists seem to be more attracted to paganism, maybe because more women became accepted into occultism during the rise of neo-paganism
gpt
During the Renaissance and Middle Ages it was dangerous to be an Occultist so only few got into it, to get Occult texts and be able to actually read them you had to have had a proper education then, something only males would tend to get outside of royalty.
During the rise of popularity of Masonry women weren't even accepted into it, the Golden was the first Occult Order that let women join.
When Wicca started it was close to Golden Dawn in some aspects, Diom Fortune is considered to be a big influence on it.
When large women empowerment movements started in the 60s and 70s a lot of those women felt like Christianity couldn't deliver on their religious needs (becoming increasingly more common since the 1700s) and looked for alternatives, Wicca and Neopaganism was connected to things like the Witch Burnings, so women started getting interested in those as they were these 'female centric' mystical movements hated by the mainstream Christian world, simmiliar to how Gnosticism is rising in popularity from it being an 'alternative' Christianity.
So yeah between Wicca/Neopaganism and the Mainstream New Age Christian Occultism is very hard for them to even discover let alone get into seriously.