Morgan La Fey recruits and trains a sexually frustrated surgeon who had been a priest of Isis in a previous incarnation and committed a sacrilegious crime.

As Dion Fortune herself states in her introduction, this is not a novel for entertainment, but a novel that illustrates the application of the magical theories described in her non-fiction works. Perhaps to someone unfamiliar with those concepts this might be simply an interesting fantasy, but I found it quite powerful, illuminating, and inspiring. ( )