{"id":1819,"date":"2012-04-04T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unfoldingseries.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2013-04-13T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T23:22:14","slug":"magick-of-the-unfolding-series-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unfoldingseries.com\/uf9\/magick-of-the-unfolding-series-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Magick of the Unfolding Series Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the final part of Magick of the Unfolding Series<\/a> I receive a critique from a trusted adviser:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Alchemist<\/span> \u2013
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019d been working two hours in subjective time when I called a break. The chorus had been laboring over chapter 6 with \u201cconcern – wistfulness – honor \u2013 planning\u201d and merely rating it as, \u201cIt’s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

God, I wish I knew how this was going to turn out!<\/em><\/p>\n

The gray-bearded alchemist stopped on the left side of my desk and leaned on his rune-encrusted cane. He was almost twice as wide as me with wounds on a scale of magnitude many times greater my own. This man, who practiced Tai Chi and sword for six years before his life had taken a tragic twist, bent forward and glowered.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou, Sir, are a fraud!\u201d<\/p>\n

Rising to give him my seat, I opened my hand and gestured he should take it.<\/p>\n

Plunking his large frame into the Herman Miller Aeron, I watched its arms expand as if both trying to escape and offering surrender. \u201cAnd you don\u2019t have the courtesy to bring seats for anyone other than yourself!\u201d He exhaled, sticking out his tongue allowing it to flap and making a Pbth, pbth, pbth, until he was empty.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I am a fraud!\u201d I laughed. \u201cYou taught me that.<\/a> As you’ve said, I write fiction. And as for chairs\u2026?\u201d I opened my hand again and waved one into existence at the side of my desk, \u201cAny of you could create one here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Alchemist firmly planted his cane between us, bent towards me to make his point, using both hands to brace his upper body, and glared.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlchemist? How have I offended you today?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOffended? Sir, I am grundled!\u201d he harrumphed. \u201cI heard what you told Marian! Of course it\u2019s magick! How could you allow Old Friend to say otherwise?\u201d<\/p>\n

His sister was standing in front of Andrea (who was in corporeal form today) making comparisons between Candice, Andrea, and me. She looked up from the manuscript to watch our conversation with an expression of tired sadness only fully comprehensible by another caregiver.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s allowed his opinion the same as everyone else,\u201d I answered. \u201cStrictly speaking, you may be right. However, we are focused on the manuscript today and limiting ourselves to its use within that context. Once we pass the Prologue in Awakening<\/em>, there is no more magick.\u201d<\/p>\n

He banged his cane against the ancient stage allowing his passion to override his manners, \u201cThe whole Tree of Life and the Kabbalah are magick! They are the very basis of the Age of Enlightenment and the Western magickal systems. Without it we would never have received our liberties! We’d still be living under monarchy!”<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I know,\u201d I calmly answered, \u201cbut we do not\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot? Not?\u201d he repeated. \u201cThere is not<\/strong> one word of it anywhere in the text!”<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m truly sorry; we\u2019ve talked about this before. You taught me what I know of the Kabbalah\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised you remembered any of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d I admitted and looked at my watch. We could go on like this for hours, but our break was almost over. \u201cThe Kabbalah is all what you said and more. My wife unlocked the secrets you attempted to teach me. They\u2019re widely published on the web now.\u201d<\/p>\n

A resigned emptiness came over him, \u201cThen we have lost! The materialists will dismiss my work as an artifact of history with no relevance today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat won’t happen. The truths you and Old Friend have taught me run throughout the story. They are not spelled out in many cases. Casual readers will not grasp that there are underlying details to be known.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly those who are capable of independent thought will see into the deeper meanings I have written. This was done just as you taught me. I\u2019ve only scratched the surface of what is possible. If I had included more of The Tree it would have confused people and caused them to put the book down.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked through the bubble at the audience and watched a handful nod at their readings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no magick contained here. The Tree is introduced in the second novel, Unfolding: Nexus<\/em>. It’s presented as as an allegory allowing the reader to see various metaphysical, psychological, and emotional characteristics of the human soul mapped as landscape at Brightwood Spiritual Retreat. It’s a faster-paced book. I’m sure you’ll find what you are looking for. If my readers are smart enough, they\u2019ll begin to map those descriptions to their personal experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

I pointed to Drew standing by the coffee table with Tyler and Marsha, \u201cHe got it right when he compared the Kabbalah to a road and nothing more. If Unfolding<\/em> were about the Kabbalah itself, then it might contain the magick you desire. Should you live long enough,\u201d I offered, \u201cand there is money to be made so I can support myself, perhaps we can collaborate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBah!\u201d The Alchemist rose, stood to his full height, chin jutted forward, hooked my Herman Miller with the crook of his cane, and trundled back to the cast.<\/p>\n

Fini<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Jeffrey A. Limpert<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

__________________<\/span><\/p>\n

Image Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theatre of Dionysus in Athens<\/p>\n

https:\/\/secure.flickr.com\/photos\/jes5199\/3279786442<\/p>\n

By Ian W Scott<\/p>\n

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