[Redbook3:114-115][19870404:1821j]{Mysticism,
Witchcraft and the Occult}[4th April 1987]
.1821
[continued]
But*
I have intuitively avoided witchcraft, and similar occult practices.
I was initially faintly attracted to such ideas: my father had (and
still has, I believe) a shelf of books on (and of) witchcraft. But I
have never got beyond the first page or so. Perhaps the kind of
person he was and is warned me off them. I think I only have a
couple of modern books on
witchcraft now, and one of
it – which so disgusted me that I never read it again.**
I
used to enjoy a good ghost story, though. The best I ever read were
in Jessie Adelaide Middleton's Grey Ghost Book, convincing because
extremely matter[-]of[-]fact. I suspend judgement on all such
histories.***
Although
I use Astrology and the Tarot cards as symbolic aids in what I hope
is a critical manner, I am wary of them as fortune-tellers****; I do
not think I have ever been to a fortune-teller.#
But
I have had a great interest in matters properly described as 'mystic'
rather than 'occult': therefore I have investigated a little way
[sic]
a number of religious systems and their 'mystical' aspects.
*[See
last previous entry.]
**ref II.{247}[[Redbook2:247][19821009:2330]{A
Crystal Ball}[9th
October 1982]]
The Pendulum, Crystal Ball and Magic Mirror – kept as a reminder.
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***
I have never used a ouija board, attended a séance, etc..
****[But
see [Redbook2:185-186][19810628:2240]{A Tarot Reading}[28th
June 1981].]
#(Perhaps
a graphologist once? – at a party.)
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