{‘The Celtic Church brings Love....’}[14th October 1989]

[Redbook6:314][19891014:1805]{‘The Celtic Church brings Love....’}[14th October 1989]

.1805

‘The Celtic Church brings love while the Roman Church brings Law.’*

* – quoted as a 7^th-century maxim in Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln ‘The Messianic Legacy’** p107; source not given.

**[See [Redbook6:320][19891015:0000]{‘The Messianic Legacy’}[15th October 1989]]

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{Creation and Destruction}[14th October 1989]

[Redbook6:313][19891014:1614]{Creation and Destruction}[14th October 1989]

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‘The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.’*

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

					|
Revolution	g~	–	Revelation		+			–
				Creation
				Fragmentation	Diversity
			j~	(Destruction)	|
					Distraction
					a~

In the early circles, the outer principle at A~ was sometimes Destruction; more recently, Destruction has seemed an equivalent to Fragmentation.**

*Mikhail Bakunin, end of 1^st revolutionary credo, 1842 (per E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 1:817)

**{But in very early circles, Creation was sometimes at C} 

[& cf ?[Redbook1:265A,297A-I;2:1A-1G][19730501:0000][The Wind, the Edge of the Sea, and Fusion Child][To 1st May 1973]: ‘“The Child is called creation.”’]

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{Cernunnos}[14th October 1989]

[Redbook6:313][19891014:1459]{Cerununnos}[14th October 1989]

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Re T[arot].XV:

‘Another important god is Cernunnos, the stag-horned, shamanistic Lord of the Animals. Stags play an integral part in the Celtic literature recorded in the early Christian period, apparently embodying the attributes of the Shaman.’*

*– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 3:18 Celtic Religion

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{Share Cycles}[13th October 1989]

[Redbook6:312-313][19891013:0941h]{Share Cycles}[13th October 1989]

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[continued]

It is curious that a serious fall on the New York Stock Exchange should occur exactly two years, if I am right, after the weekend of the last crash and the great storm.* For outer matters, if the year is an outer circle, this is where one should expect such a collapse – like the Fall of leaves in autumn:**

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

					C
					|
					23/12
		Simpli-fication T.XIII Death	R~	← Mid November
		↑		We are here
Revolution T.XII Hanged Man	G~	–		Autumn Equinox	o	Spring Equinox		–	M~
					Midsummer
					←
					A~

***

But I expect falls on the Stock Market happen at other times too.****

*[The Great Storm of 15^th-16^th October 1987]

**{cf XVI. [] 7}

***{cf VII. [] 333}

****Yes – like 19900923ff <900924>

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{Embracing [+C†I~]}[13th October 1989]

[Redbook6:312][19891013:0941g]{Embracing [+C†I~]}[13th October 1989]

19891013.0941

[continued]

Earlier this afternoon, I – in the course of considering* worship as Love of Christ – had the experience of embracing [+C†I~], the [+C] of my fictions, whom I saw and knew as of my own age (or as I perceive my own age: that is, mentally my age but physically a little younger – it used to be the opposite);** and that experience is with me now. He is the Archetypal Christ, as I perceive him: related intimately to, but not identical with, the Jesus of the Gospels.***

*[[Redbook6:305][19891012:1612c]{A Circle Structure for Prayer (4) [continued]}[12th October 1989]]

**[Unclear whether this refers primarily to how the writer perceived his own age or (as is probably the intention) the age of +C†I~]

***Note that as I call him here by his full name ‘[+C†I~]’ I do not say that he is rooted in the Gospels, as for the Christian Church Christ must be; because (as the Church recognises) the pre-existent Archetype may have descended into (or even as) Jesus Christ.

[&/but? cf [Redbook6:266-267][19890918:1015c]{Evil (5): The Devil and A~}[18th September 1989], para 1 (parenthesis);

cf [[Redbook6:270][19890923:2059]{The C~ Card}[23rd September 1989],] 270, &

[Redbook6:273][19890927:2051]{Christ and the Circle}[27th September 1989]]

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{Crucifixion and Love [continued (6)]}[13th October 1989]

[Redbook6:311-312][19891013:0941f]{Crucifixion and Love [continued (6)]}[13th October 1989]

19891013.0941

[continued]

In an earlier session,* I offered to give a lift to a lad without transport, living 8 miles in the opposite direction [to me], to and from every course, if no one nearer would do it. [W] is giving two children a lift to and from a different school on her route to and from [d]’s school every day, because the family have no car. This is not charity in the modern sense, but it is I believe the beginning of the Virtue at g~ which used to be translated as Charity, which I prefer to call by some such term as Loving-kindness, ie Applied Love. I suppose r~ is Pure Love, and at C perhaps Divine Love, which is the Attraction to Unity? There is a kind of Love at j~, too, but I do not yet know its name: I know its nature, though, a type of creative, fiery, political, shaking-and-stirring kind of Love: the fire of Love, perhaps, but not (I imagine) as Rolle** would have meant it. And so on...?

In the inner development of communities,*** g~ corresponds to the cluster or group of neighbours within which one lives (C is the Individual, r~ the Family, j~ the Parish or Ward – the smallest formal political unit, normally).****

*[of the Welsh course; see last previous entries]

**[Richard Rolle, c1300-1349, English mystic, hermit, & writer of ‘The Fire of Love’]

***(ref earlier vol [eg [Redbook1:114-116][19700120:1605]{The Cluster}[20th January 1970] (concept later incorporated into the subsequently destroyed Locality Plan);

[[Redbook3:176-180][19870412:2137](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY)[12th April 1987], at

[Redbook3:177-178][19870412:2137b](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY [continued])[12th April 1987] & [Redbook3:178-180][19870412:2137c](FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY [continued(3)])[12th April 1987];

[Redbook4:33][19870710:0855f]{COMMUNITY}[10^th July 1987]];

[Redbook4:126-127][19871014:2155d]{Generalisation and Specialisation [continued (4)]}[14th October 1987];

& cf [Redbook4:132][19871018:2352c]{Angelic Hierarchies [continued (3)]}[18th October 1987]])

****{No longer – revised [[Redbook6:343][19891031:0008]{Government Circles revised}[31st October 1989],] p343 – g~ = ward, r~ = family & friends, j~ = district}

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{Crucifixion and Love [continued (5)]}[13th October 1989]

[Redbook6:311][19891013:0941e]{Crucifixion and Love [continued (5)]}[13th October 1989]

19891013.0941

[continued]

So what does my reaction* tell me?

I was angry, but the anger was on the surface: the core of me was undisturbed, but the anger was supported by the core. The core, the centre, was a fulness of the Spirit which followed unchanged from the quality in me when I first arrived [at the class] (‘Lover, love Love, and be beloved’) but expressed itself differently at the surface in relation to what had happened: this continued for some time after I went to bed; the difference when it diminished into ordinary reactions, before I slept, was noticeable (I was also briefly cross about the method of teaching, but came to terms with that fairly quickly).

*[See last 3 previous entries, [Redbook6:308-309][19891013:0941b]{Crucifixion and Love [continued]}[13th October 1989]ff]

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{Crucifixion and Love [continued (4)]}[13th October 1989]

[Redbook6:310][19891013:0941d]{Crucifixion and Love [continued (4)]}[13th October 1989]

19891013.0941

[continued]

Now then: later,* it occurred to me that the curious and emphatic way of wriggling hips** was quite likely to have been body-language for an unconscious sexual attraction (as I had briefly noted the attractiveness of this particular girl earlier on that evening, although never before).***

I can personally evidence once again**** that the quality of imagination of a genital encounter based upon such an interpretation or understanding is very poor: highly unsatisfactory, leaving much to be desired, and transient, compared with the Quality of Love in the Spirit, which is a lasting joy. But people respond according to their degree: I do not think it was I initially that was earthy.

All good fun!

*[See last previous entry]

**[See last previous entry but 2, [Redbook6:307-312][19891013:0941]{Crucifixion and Love}[13th October 1989]]

***[But was she there before? See [Redbook6:307-312][19891013:0941]{Crucifixion and Love}[13th October 1989]]

****ref? []

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