{Literary Circles [continued (11)]}[29th November 1988]

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Rudyard Kipling:

[The text on the ms diagrams reproduced above is too complicated to be summarised in a table at present.]

Although I do not have (and hope one day to have!)* the short stories [of Rudyard Kipling] in order to check this, I have an impression from E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] and memory that that the short stories are largely India and Army in the first semi-circle, and include engineering around the bottom [of the Circle], and concentrate mainly on England (especially) Sussex) and the supernatural in the left hemisphere.**

Remembering that each Life Cycle includes not only 2 concurrent (contra-rotating) circles (with radial resonance), but also 2 (and 4, 8 etc) consecutive cycles [sic], I would hazard that Kipling had a strong Inner Life Cycle, overlaid by an even stronger Outer Life Cycle,*** the effect probably of his imperial upbringing and schooling, which was responsible for the lifelong outer-right-semi-circle influence in his writing, and the superficiality of his approach to inner circle [sic] matters. That he was or became strongly interested in Inner Circle matters is undeniable; but his expression of that interest hardly moved beyond the occult (concrete not abstract) and a literal, Islamic-style religion. The Hindu Swastika on his books hardly seems to have influenced him at all.

*[Have now, in e-book form]

**But there are some Indian ghost stories.

***(I am gratified that this places ‘Recessional’ in Kipling’s life where I used it in ‘The Descent of the Spirit’ – ie at U~.)

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