{Worship}[18th March 1988]

[Redbook5:94-96][19880318:1955c]{Worship}[18th March 1988]

.1955

One of the notable characteristics of the eight Circle Archetypes in my fictions is that none of them wants to be worshipped; nor do any of them show any signs of wanting to order people about, or rule them. They all show a considerable respect for the Individual (in my opinion): [The Narrator]'s fear of +Mk in the [2] pub* may be ultimately well-founded** (although +Mk says not so, in [0]), but it is incorrectly based on [the Narrator's] belief that +Mk has destroyed people (in the earlier books): in both cases it was the [O] which was the medium, and the cause is unclear but seems to be related to the victims themselves, expressly so in [1].***

I take heart from these characteristics. Particularly in the lower hemisphere, from +K through +Mk to +M, it would be possible for these Archetypes to appear as figures of terror, even horror, given their roles. But, on the whole, they don't; and I suspect that this is due to the presence in all the [fiction] books of +C, albeit silent**** until the end of [2].

It is interesting that when +Mk and +K appear at their most terrifying,# at [the military camp] in [1], +C is miles away – in London. I don't recall planning it that way, but I may have. +C exerts a unifying influence on them: by the time of [2], he has become present to all of them at all times, I think.#* He also exerts this influence on the writer. Without his presence and influence, they tend in varying degrees to go their separate ways, which is (I guess) how they become (or are seen as) pagan.

These are a million miles away from some New Agers' projections of Lucifer or Pan who appears [sic] to want to be worshipped exclusively or in place of God the Father. I distrust these projections because to me they reek of authorial self-projection at a superficial level: but their origin may well be in a deep psychological unease, felt by all manner of peoples, at the treatment by Mankind of his environment and, indeed, himself.

*[subject to revision]

**{cf. VI.[]279}

***[The fictions (at least as revised) do not unambiguously support this view of +Mk; who appears at the least to be an agent. <20180209>]

****[ – to [the Narrator], at least, except for the occasional couple of words and some quite extensive recitations from text or memory. <20180209>]

#(their most pagan, too?)

#*ref. +M at the Corner House [restaurant] in King St.

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