Gareth Knight (pseudonym for Basil Wilby) 1930 , is a British esotericist and author of many books. He is a leading member of the Fraternity of the Inner Light , founded by Dion Fortune , as a subsidiary of the Golden Dawn . Gareth Knight is one of the world's foremost authorities on ritual magic, the Western Mystery Tradition and Qabalistic symbolism. He trained in Dion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light, and has spent a lifetime rediscovering and teaching the principles of magic as a spiritual discipline and method of self-realisation.