{Spiritual Fusion}[2nd October 1987]

[Redbook4:78-81][19871002:2245c]{Spiritual Fusion}[2nd October 1987]

19871002.2245

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This morning – and I have been wanting to write this all day, and may have lost some of the original intensity – I was aware of a property of the disembodied Spirit which might be visualised as as that of two clear, bright clouds or vapours which, coming together, may touch perimeters (as we do), or intermingle, overlapping (as Angels might), or fuse, as one (as God is): not, in the last case, as an amoeba or a cell (in reverse) might, i.e. becoming one which was neither of the two; nor, for certain, as the big fish eats the little fish; but as two Spirits voluntarily occupying the same point or dimension, so that both perceive with the same point of view of each, as though two (or three) in one, but able to move and remove as separate spirits again. Beyond this[,] logic and imagination find it hard to go.

The language of Venn diagrams may help: the three stages are:

(i) (Touching)**

(ii) (Mingling)

(iii) (Fusing)

The categories are not clear-cut: the Spirits of Men may perhaps through imaginative sympathy mingle, or something like it, even though the majority might only touch; the Spirits of Angels, at least disembodied, may fuse, or something like it, at least for a time, although presumably short of the ultimate Fusion which is God{:*}; and the implication of this for the One is that Spirits which have achieved Fusion (as we see it) of their Souls with the One may still appear individually to those still separated (If this is correct, it resolves a problem which had bothered me for some time, about subsequent manifestations: one way of comprehending it may be via the extra-temporal and intra-temporal essence of the One, i.e. as both transcendent and immanent, One and All).

*{although they might commonly intermingle;}

**[The typescript diagrams have not survived the transition to Blogger, which is a pity.  They can be described as follows:

(i) Two circles touching at their circumference but not overlapping;

(ii) Two circles overlapping by about 1/4 circumference;

(iii) One circle.]

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