{The Life-line [continued (4)]}[6th October 1987]

[Redbook4:109][19871006:1020d]{The Life-line [continued (4)]}[6th October 1987]

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*In the normal course of events, the Awareness** moves exactly along the borderline of Outer and Inner Circle, residing between Self and Soul; or marginally outside the Inner Circle Border.[#2] This represents the ordinary person travelling round the Outer Circle, aware of the Inner, able to return at Crisis, but unlikely {in practice} to do so.

To the extent that the Soul is pulled outwards by the Self, Brain, Body etc., the Soul is stained, and thus veiled from the Awareness – as is the Spirit. This represents the person less able to return at Crisis, and more unlikely to do so.[#0?(unfinished)/towards1?]

If the Soul is wholly pulled into the Outer circle the Spirit “comes up against”*** the Outer Circle: here evil spirits may result, by a kind of black sympathetic process. This represent the most evil among Men.[#1]

Where the Spirit is allowed by the Self to pull the Self into the Inner Circle, this represents the Man who has returned at Crisis and is following the Inner Circle.[#3]

Where Brain and Body have also been pulled across the border, this represents the physically sanctified Man, or Angel in corporeal form.[#4]****

#0-4[The numbers represent an attempt at the transcription stage to relate the paragraphs to the numbers inserted against the text from the diagram in the last previous entry.]

*[See last previous entry & diagram.]

**[It seems that the Soul is generally seen here as something more-or-less equivalent to qualitative memory content or information (in the broadest sense including experience and personality); whereas Awareness is perhaps broadly equivalent to Mind (or perhaps Mind includes Soul along with Awareness) and may well be what is also considered as Consciousness. & cf. e.g. [Redbook4:111-113][19871006:1020h]{Ghosts}[6th October 1987].]

***Can the Spirit really be moved [in this sense]? <891001>

****This is speculation! <891001>

This interesting metaphor seems to have given way later to the simpler (but inter-connected ([– see [Redbook4:106-109][19871005:2320i]{The Life-line}[5th October 1987],]p.106, [[Redbook4:111-113][19871005:2320#]{Ghosts}[5th October 1987]]112) Light-v.-stain symbolism. <891001> [And see next entry, first, para.]

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