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Resources => Books [Public] => Topic started by: Michael on March 14, 2011, 06:42:24 PM
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by Dion Fortune
Julie found this for me, and I am quite enjoying it - she (?) knows much, and I have always found her books very informative and insightful.
I will post excerpts here and elsewhere.
Nature is an old and subtle woman, jealous of her own way, and she did not reveal to him the meaning of the call that sounded in his ears. It is not her will that any of her children should break from their allegiance ; in humankind she works with the group as her unit, and it is not well that any one individual should liberate himself from the restraints of social life while still free to reap the advantages of the social organization.
...his source of strength had been his complete freedom from all sense of obligation to his kind, and therefore from scruple
or remorse, which naturally placed him at a great advantage in dealing with men who were subject to both ; like an electric filament, the occulist of the left-hand path can only glow in a moral vacuum, and Lucas's soul was no longer Hermetically sealed.
...for a prince of evil must become a slave of good, a slave beaten with many rods, before he can win back to the cross-roads where he turned to the left. Nature had caught Lucas; would he escape from her in time to resume his own dark path, or would
he, swept by her ever-swiftening current, be returned to the pit whence he had issued by unnatural means, to start again the slow and painful ascent, aeons behind the evolution of his race, and suffering acutely because he would retain his consciousness of better things?
Always keep this in mind when dealing with those who have acquired 'power'. Anyone who acquires intrinsic awareness, and deviates to the path of self-delusion of ego flattery, is doomed far more than those who have never begun the path.
Thus always be extremely careful when fraternising with those leaning this way, as your soul can become infected without knowing. Choosing who to spend time with is one of the primary influences upon our spiritual journey - beware the fate of hubris.
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Hear, hear!
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i did not really understand because it sounded like she was speaking about both nature and the world
and both in some way determined to effect
i read her when i was younger and decided i really had no idea what she was speaking about
although i did find them dark
i saw them as just fanciful stories and never found too much deeper except for a woo woo factor
i am numb to seeing in certain patterns it seems in certain ways
i remember i had a hole in the earth i would sit
also in the dark with candles
it was by a stream "brook" as it often was
it was a quiet and hidden place
i would walk through the farms paddocks as though they had no fences
there were fascinating fences made from stone
old barbed wire
fish could sometimes be seen
bottles dug out from the mud as well as many other useful things
timber always looks grand after being tumbled down streams and smoothed hardened and weighty
that time was around the time of reading those books
everything was a mystery
everything new
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yes that's what it was
enchantment
that was what was there and
that is what is attached to those images
of that time
it began with enchantment
so it seems those lines
no doubt the book was speaking about enchantment
yet her words also did that too
that's the paradox the finger wants to point at
i looked up the words lalla
formerly to the secondary mention
they meant play
and play they did
actually coming out of the page
that word
pre arriving before the secondary place
that was also like a portal which preceeded its own arrival
yet its arrival was formulated differently
articulation and direction
a flash of light followed by a unit of information
which later arrives as though magic
yet its formulation did not come from within oneself
but from somewhere else yet
somehow pertinent
it was not held in such a way
as earlier mentioned
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by Dion Fortune
Julie found this for me, and I am quite enjoying it - she (?) knows much, and I have always found her books very informative and insightful.
I will post excerpts here and elsewhere.
Always keep this in mind when dealing with those who have acquired 'power'. Anyone who acquires intrinsic awareness, and deviates to the path of self-delusion of ego flattery, is doomed far more than those who have never begun the path.
Thus always be extremely careful when fraternising with those leaning this way, as your soul can become infected without knowing. Choosing who to spend time with is one of the primary influences upon our spiritual journey - beware the fate of hubris.
The text is correct to 92%
"Nature is an old and subtle woman, jealous of her own way, and she did not reveal to him the meaning of the call that sounded in his ears. It is not her will that any of her children should break from their allegiance ; in humankind she works with the group as her unit, and it is not well that any one individual should liberate himself from the restraints of social life while still free to reap the advantages of the social organization.
...his source of strength had been his complete freedom from all sense of obligation to his kind, and therefore from scruple
or remorse, which naturally placed him at a great advantage in dealing with men who were subject to both ; like an electric filament, the occulist of the left-hand path can only glow in a moral vacuum, and Lucas's soul was no longer Hermetically sealed.
...for a prince of evil must become a slave of good, a slave beaten with many rods, before he can win back to the cross-roads where he turned to the left. Nature had caught Lucas; would he escape from her in time to resume his own dark path, or would
he, swept by her ever-swiftening current, be returned to the pit whence he had issued by unnatural means, to start again the slow and painful ascent, aeons behind the evolution of his race, and suffering acutely because he would retain his consciousness of better things?"
Quite good explained by Clapton and Robertson
It's In The Way That You Use It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0XQwazkx10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0XQwazkx10)
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ah
and i i never knew eric clapton sang that song
it sin the way that you use it
meant to me also
the movement
then its what movement
whats moving what
the filament
integration
acceptance and movement
acceptance of movement and integration through chosen moving as though electrically charged
and so on