Back to AtD. The Compassionate, p. 973

[Ian Livingston]

As angels, is their job to act, or to inspire?


On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Persisting behind the world's every material utterance, the Compassionate
> now took steps to re-establish contact with Yashmeen."
> Here is her earlier dream of them.
> P. 794. "We ascended, or rather, we were taken aloft, as if in mechanical
> rapture, to a great skyborne town and a small band of serious young people,
> dedicated to resisting death and tyranny, whom I understood at once to be
> the Compassionate."
>
> And Ljublica talks naturally with the Russian Chums' dog. They're around.
>
> The Chums. Felt intuitively and named by Yashmeen, a voice of the author's
> vision/values, yes? Are they named that because they intercede
> in bad scenes---like angels are supposed to or like God is implored to?
> Any conceptual relation to Rilke's angels, anyone think? That they are
> metaphysically 'fictional' yet can intercede in life, what's THAT all
> about?
>
> Are they now around because the war has officially started? Otherwise,
> they seem late to the danger to yashmeen and Ljubica, yes?
>
>



-- 
"We know that the mask of the unconscious is not rigid--it reflects the
face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect,
friendliness softens its features."
--C.G. Jung
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