Topic: The Demon Lover

[Michael]

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.

[Nichi]

Hear, hear!

[runningstream]

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

[runningstream]

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

[Jahn]

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

[runningstream]

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