{Ghosts}[6th October 1987]

[Redbook4:111-113][19871006:1020h]{Ghosts}[6th October 1987]

19871006.0110

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What is intriguing about this* is its co-incidence with accounts of ghosts, which on the whole I do not take that seriously. The best book I ever read on the subject, however, was Jessie Adelaide Middleton's Grey Ghost Book: presented as the fruits of careful historical and evidential research, and (given its period) might even be so.**

It is notable that the 'stronger' (or more self-willed) ghosts are seen to be, the more wicked generally were their former lives; and the 'weaker' (or more transparent or flimsy) ghosts are seen to be, the less wicked (but often more tragic) generally were their former lives or characters.

(This of course reflects the Materialist [sic; =?] view of Men in general; but it is not the whole view: I have not heard of the ghost of a Saint, except as mythical explanation of a natural effect.) I hazard a ***guess that what we may be seeing is what is left between the 1^st Death (of the Brain) and the Second Death (of the Self), or an impression of it.

In the most wicked {of Men} this would be virtually the whole Mind: Self (etc.)****, Stained Soul, even evil spirits? – and perhaps the Soul's own projection of of the body: or the Stained Soul as Form.# Such an impression would be complete#*, strong, and potentially terrifying: but ultimately, to one who had self-knowledge and the direction of the Spirit, harmless.

In the less wicked but self-centred this might simply be a diaphanous Soul-form without the Inner Light of the Spirit but moved by the vestiges of the Self#** or by other currents of which we may not be aware.

The more fully-realised #*** a Man on the Inner Circle, the less he would leave behind between First and (vestigial) Second Death: so we do not come across good ghosts, only Good Spirits (or Angels) – who may, however, have some power over ghosts.

*[See last previous entries.]

**[The edition I have is dated 1930.]

{cf. III.[[Redbook3:114-115][19870404:1821j]{Mysticism, Witchcraft and the Occult}[4th April 1987],]115. (I am repeating myself!)}

***(very speculative)

****as imprinted on the Soul? [& see [Redbook4:109][19871006:1020d]{The Life-line [continued (4)]}[6th October 1987],fn3]

#cf. [[Redbook4:96-97][19871004:2105]{The Forms of Angels}[4th October 1987],] p.96.

#*Not 'complete' in a spiritual sense, i.e. not implying 'perfect' – of course. <930502>

#**as imprinted on the Soul?

#***{was}

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