[Redbook7:92][19900318:1452]{(Q[uote:]) Prophetic Precision}[18th March 1990]
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‘This forecast, the precision of which is foreign to the prophetic style....’ – N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible] Note a, re I K[ings] 13:2.
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[Redbook7:91][19900317:2244b]{Dream: Of Several Buildings [continued]}[17th March 1990]
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Outside, on the plain again,* I looked to the right of our new house. There might have been another building, a type of lodge perhaps, to the right of my line of vision: if so, it was only briefly noted.** But our own new house was filled with people: they seemed to be queueing to get in,*** and I wondered whether I had been mistaken in thinking we had already bought it:**** the visitors seemed to be viewing the property.#
But directly ahead, half way between our new house and the possible lodge, a motorway (with cars?) emerged from underground#* (on the line of the old grand house) and led on a slight rise (and? curve?) toward an enormous Church or Cathedral on the horizon:#** a little like the Abbey Church at Pershore,#*** but so vast that it seemed near even though it must have been far distant: looking in retrospect a little like a mediaeval fairy Castle, or the Heavenly City, but definitely a Church [sic].
*[See last previous entry]
**To the right of [A] (looking forward) the next house to our building, a detached house, has just gone up for sale – after we moved in, but planned beforehand. It is of similar style to ours. <920620>
[This seems to refer to the detached house on the left looking at the [A] building from the front. The house on the right, a smaller detached house at the start of a lane to other properties (including the back of [A], was unoccupied, and was put up for sale not long afterwards.]
***Were they also moving across to the ?Lodge?
****I’ll say! <920620>
#If this was the Old Court House [at Llan[...]], its price remained unchanged when everyone else’s was falling.... we can see it across the flood plain from one of the 2nd floor rooms [at [A]] <920620> [a few hundred yards away].
#*[A] is, of course, quite high above the edge of the A[...] T[runk road], which does indeed rise and curve away to the right at the front of the house. <920620>
[cf Redbook7:102-104][19900325:1023]{Dream: Of Two Journeys to the Church}[25th March 1990] <20210226>]
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#***(as seen from its Church Hall)
#****{cf? [[Redbook7:281][19900911:1135c]{Dream: Of a Spring Diverted....}[11th September 1990],] 281;
VIII. [] 114;
XIV. [] 1}
cf [[Redbook7:137][19900519:1830]{Dream: Of an urban house [sic]}[17th March 1990],] 137 <920620>
{VIII. [] 177.}
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[Redbook7:90-91][19900317:2244]{Dream: Of Several Buildings}[17th March 1990]
19900317.2244
The vividness and significance of a dream sometimes grows on one throughout the day, until in the end it demands to be written down.
I was in a house which we had bought and which I took to be* the Old Court House at Llan[...],** although (as I explained to the friend whom I was showing around) I seemed to have no memory of how I had come to be there. In fact, the house was modern, well-appointed (without being luxurious), light, airy, and large: not only more but larger rooms, and larger doors etc.. I remember that the nursery had a staircase, spiral as I now believe, in the centre connecting it directly with what I believed to be the kitchen immediately below.***
Outside, we (or I) walked a few hundred yards across a broad, level plain or park, to the residence of the lady who had sold us the house.# She inhabited the nearer wing (approximately one-third) of an old grand house,#* the centre at least of which was now a hotel:#** from one point inside her home, one could see the hotel guests (or at least their chairs, tables etc.) in a kind of small inner courtyard.#*** She had been a great political hostess in her day: politicians used to stay with her on their way to and from the Irish ferry.#**** I passed through the old Library, dark and quiet: the gold tooling on the spines on a wall of books shone out in the gloom, and I thought of the difficulty of converting my own meagre library to look like that.##
*This suggests, as it was meant to suggest, doubt.<920620>
**{ref VI. [[Redbook6:354-356][19891130:1358b]{On the Move}[30th November 1989]] 355,
VII. [[Redbook7:122-123][19900417:1857#]{Dream: Of Boarding the Wrong Train}[17th April 1990],] 123}
***The Old Court House does not have this; but there is another house**** for sale in Llan[...] which has a full scale kitchen in, and in the middle of, what should be the third bedroom.... <920130>
****=[A] <920620> [– The house which the writer and his family eventually acquired]
#Although [A] was owned by a family, all our dealings were with the elderly Mrs [B]. <920620>
[Probably actually owned by Mr. & Mrs. [B]. It was inhabited by two families on three floors, the upper of which was used only for guests; the writer and his family later lived on that top floor, and let the middle floor main bedrooms as holiday Bed & Breakfast accommodation. There was a small semi-enclosed courtyard at the back,#***, later gravelled, where garden chairs were set out. The [B]s had already emigrated by the time of sale, but the wife & mother in the other family frequently visited [A] after the writer and his family moved in.]
#* This is curiously like the relationship of the Archbishop’s Palace and Diocesan Offices to the old Bishop’s Palace, now a museum. <901221>
#**I did not know whether the other wing was a part of the hotel or something else.
#***[A] is a semi-detached house. Our neighbours live as a couple but from time to time fill the house with their 3 daughters, 3 sons-in-law, & grandchildren. There is an ‘inner’ U-shaped alcove behind, in their half of which they are making a patio.... <920620>
At election time, their side was planted with Liberal posters. <920620>
#****{There may have been a news item about a Victorian castle in South Wales, built by this sort of person.}
##cf [[Redbook7:134][19900514:1135]{Conflict Circles}[14th May 1990]ff,] 134ff [apparently]
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[Redbook7:89][19900315:1930c]{Dream and Prophecy [continued (3)]}[15th March 1990]
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There are also* not a few personal appearances in the early O[ld] T[estament] period, by the (Angel of) Yahweh.
I have [been] inclined to see the method of communication as reflecting the condition of the receiver, whether an Individual or (possibly) a whole culture.
*[See last previous entry but one, [Redbook7:89][19900315:1930]{Dream and Prophecy}[15th March 1990]]
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[Redbook7:89][19900315:1930b]{Dream and Prophecy [continued]}[15th March 1990]
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I, also,* seem to have stopped, for the most part, having vivid dreams of significance** since I became closely involved with the Church and with Christian writing (ie for the last couple of years) – but I had put this down to lack of sleep.***
*[See last previous entry]
**{But see [[Redbook7:90-91][19900317:2244]{Dream: Of Several Buildings....}[17th March 1990]] 90!}
***ref [[Redbook7:86][19900313:2328b]{Healing Prayer [continued]}[13th March 1990]] 86
[& see [Redbook7:32-35][19900202:1018c]{Time and Fatigue}[2nd February 1990]ff]
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[Redbook7:89][19900315:1930]{Dream and Prophecy}[15th March 1990]
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‘Before the prophetic period, dreams were one of God’s main channels of communication with humanity’
– N[ew] J[erusalem] B[ible], I K[ings]. 3:5, note b.
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*{ref III [ref not found] ?
IV ? [[Redbook4:199-200][19871206:1235e]{Sense and Sensibility (2)}[6th December 1987]&f; &
[Redbook4:234-235][19871216:2211b]{Prophecy and Intellection, Wisdom and Intuition}[16th December 1987]; – both inconsistent with the diagram above; BUT see
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[Redbook7:88][19900315:1716b]{The Assistant Bishop}[15th March 1990]
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The difference between my interview* with the Archbishop of […], […], last Autumn – he is now laid up by too great stress** – and that with the Assistant Bishop, […], this morning – was that the Archbishop was genuinely and deeply interested, and contributed to my ‘confession’; the Assistant Bishop, courteous and helpful though he was, and giving the impression of interest, fundamentally I think was not interested, and did not contribute (merely asking me to tell him about myself); and in the end, unintentionally I believe, cut me short. The result was that this morning I could never really get the spiritual pitch of my audience right, and I suspect verged on the incoherent.***
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*The [Assistant] Bishop took notes....
**{A heart attack, in fact}
***{See [[Redbook7:104-114][19900328:1738]{Tested Again}[28th March 1990],] 105}
****On the other hand, if (as I believe) the [Assistant] Bishop is a practical man, my discourse may have been inappropriate only when I fought against its tendency to stick to the practical. So my prayer beforehand# for guidance might have been more completely answered in the circumstances if I had allowed it to be.
#{to the Holy Spirit, I think}
#*{I do recall now that having asked me to (eg) tell me about myself, the Assistant Bishop at some stage (in response I think to my attribution of vocational significance to some personal event) commented with words to the effect that imagination (or wishful thinking?) often filled in the gaps in memory.}
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