mddm (ch. 45): humans & non-humans

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 from ...

                                                     *** dion fortune: psychic  
                                                         self-defense [1930],   
                                                         chapter 7, york beach/ 
                                                         maine 1994: weiser, p. 
                                                         82 ***

"the explanation of the curious power, both of fascination and destruction, 
which is exercised by non-humans may lie in the fact that they belong to one 
element only, whereas in man all four are combined. any elemental contact is 
stimulating to us, because elemental beings pour forth in abundance the vitality 
of their own particular sphere, and this vitalises the corresponding element in 
ourselves. but if a four-element creature is drawn into the sphere of a single 
element he is poisoned by an overdose of the one element in which he finds 
himself, and starved of the other three. it is for this reason that mortals in 
the fairy kingdom are always said to be enchanted or asleep. they are never 
living normally in full possession of their faculties.
 an equally difficult problem is set to the non-human who is drawn onto our 
midst. a single-element creature is bidden to control and assimilate an 
additional three elements for which it has no equipment or experience, and the 
result is disastrous."

  in this perspective, software-agents are, of course, creatures of air ...

kai

                   ps: "there is nothing more disastrous than marriage with a 
                        non-human, for they have nothing in their nature that 
                        can satisfy the normal human yearnings for affection and 
                        sympathy. the one saving feature in such a union is that 
                        grounds for divorce are invariably readily available, 
                        for the morals of the non-humans are those of the 
                        barnyard." (p. 81)