{Forcing}[13th August 1982]

[Redbook2:243-244][19820813:1945c]{Forcing}[13^th August 1982]

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In the T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] this (last) week there is an article about Gilles de Rias ('Maréchal, Monstre et Martyr') whose final paragraph starts with the words: 'The seduction, corruption, exploitation and ritual murder of youth is only one aspect of the mediaeval quality of modern life....' The phrase leapt at me, falling as it does at once into the pattern – and only into the pattern – of the Inner Circle as it was not meant to be. Why? The original or true version is Revelation (introduced by Love), Diversity, (Inner) Action and Unity. The four terms used in the T.L.S. share one thing in common: they are all terms of Will, i.e. the external action of one mind upon another: not perhaps compulsion, necessarily, but imposition.

The implication of this is that the crucial factor is the direction of initiation, as it were: just as in the Dream* (it is suggested) some of those on the Outer Circle are enabled to move (perhaps on an inner face of it, within the Cathedral, as compared with those who are merely within the Railings) in the direction (of rotation) of the Inner Circle, under an inner guidance, and thus to be within the Cathedral; so the attempt by imposition to move others on the Inner Circle, albeit in the apparently proper direction of rotation, produces instead a progression horribly tainted with the Outer Circle rotation of the imposer of Will: although apparently (and fascinatingly) that Outer Circle rotation seems also to be in the Inner Circle direction (which may be the mechanism by which the Will seeks to induce that direction in its subject or victims).

The thing, in any case, offers the beginnings of insights into the precise nature of the relationship between Mysticism and Magic: or between Spirituality and Witchcraft, call them what you wish.

*[[Redbook2:237-238][19820809:0845b][A Dream: The Unfinished Cathedral][9^th August 1982]]

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