Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
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'''Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[occult]] author, [[psychic]], and [[esotericism|esoteric]] practitioner. An associate of [[Walter Ernest Butler]], she succeeded him as Director of Studies of the [[Servants of the Light ]].
==Biography==
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki was born and lives in the [[Channel Island]] of [[Jersey]], off the coast of [[France]].
She spent [[World War II]] on the [[Wirral Peninsula]] in the northwest of [[England]]. She studied [[acting]] in [[London]] and also took [[opera]] training at [[Trinity College of Music]]. She also enjoyed the sport of [[fencing]] when young.
During the 1960s, she and her husband Michael entered the [[Fraternity of the Inner Light]], an esoteric order founded by [[Dion Fortune]]. In 1965 she became associated with the [[Fraternity of the Inner Light]] and its founder [[Walter Ernest Butler]], and with [[Gareth Knight]] in the Helios School. In 1971 this became the Servants of the Light School. In 1976, when Butler retired, Ashcroft-Nowicki became Director of Studies of the SOL, a position she holds to this day.
Perhaps her most important contribution to modern occultism has been her popularization of [[pathwork]] as a training tool for the study of the [[kabbalah]]. {{Fact|date=February 2007}}
Politically, she describes herself as "a steadfast supporter of the [[Monarchy]] and the Sovereignty of Britain," with a "profound dislike of the whole idea of the [[European Economic Community]]." {{Fact|date=February 2007}}
==Published works==
To date Ashcroft-Nowicki has written 17 books and designed two [[tarot]] decks, the SOL Tarot Deck with Jo Gill and Anthony Clark, and the Shakespearean Tarot with Paul Hardy.
*''The Shining Paths
*''The Sacred Cord Meditations
*''The Servants of the Light Tarot
==External links==
*[http://www.servantsofthelight.org/aboutSOL/bio-Dolores.html Official biography of Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki at the Servants of Light web site]
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