Thursday, November 25, 2021
6:25 a.m. In The Demon Lover, as in her other novels, Dion Fortune gives so clear a description of realities the guys have given us, that the similarity or identity of the two sets of teachings is plain. Someone not having had the guys’ explanations might not find her statements so clear, but those who have had them can hardly miss the point, I should think. Case in point, page 150 :
“Was he indeed dead? Dead in the sense in which most people use that word? She knew quite well that he had discarded his physical body, that a man with an olive skin and an erect carriage would no longer walk toward her with the light springing step that was so characteristic of him; but she firmly believed that Lucas as a personality continued to exist – that the organized system of thoughts and feelings that made up his character was still held together by a centralized consciousness, was still activated by desires and controlled by a purposive will, and it was this organized consciousness that had been her companion, not the five foot nine of flesh and bone that now mouldered in the churchyard.”
Now, the guys have yet to talk to us of such magical procedures – I hope some day they will – but that description of what we are cannot be surpassed: an organized system of thoughts and feelings making up character, held together by a centralized consciousness, activated by desires and controlled by a purposive will. Isn’t that us?