I propose now that magic is to religion as banditry is to politics. As banditry challenges ultimate legitimacy of political power, so magic challenges that of spiritual power. Magic and religion can be mutually distinguished, in ancient world or in modern one, by political and prescriptive definitions but not by substantive, descriptive, or neutral descriptions.” (3)

He could have added that illegitimate offspring who seek to return to state of power in their father or grandfather’s time as in case of Hitler often over-achieve. In Napoleon’s case he may have sought legendary Tuscan noble position of many centuries earlier. Some will even say I have a genetic pre-disposition to grandeur because I am a ‘bastard’ of THE Bruce. But I am a BRD of language of Birds and it seems to have helped me understand lesser codes of Green Languages.

“Divination is one of man's oldest spiritual technologies, its origins lost in shift from neolithic hunter-gatherers to settled agriculturalists. As shaman developed into priest, divination, along with all forms of spiritism, became codified into mythology. From a framework of mythic events and divination - literally readings of divine - came language, which evolved over time into written forms based on original symbolic elements. In turn, these symbolic elements became focus of divinatory practices of their own, creating sub-sets of meaning within common words and phrases. From this intentional ambiguity arose possibility of an initiate's language, a language of birds, or, as it was expressed by medieval initiates, Green Language.

Although we can point to Green Language {Of Hibernians including Swift, Carlyle, and many Great Scots.}in works as diverse as Midsummer Night's Dream and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencruz, Nostradamus' quatrains, 18th century alchemical texts and surrealist manifestos, few authors have bothered to explain it. One who did was Fulcanelli, enigmatic 20th century alchemist and philosopher, in his masterpiece The Mystery of Cathedrals, published in Paris in 1926. Here we have an authentic, although mysterious, voice of authority; one that was both master of Green Language itself, and a master of subjects usually hidden within it.” (4)

Chaplain Bridges encourages scientific investigation of ghosts and hauntings. She hopes to coax them out of realms of superstition and into light of scientific scrutiny. She endorses use of equipment to measure physical changes occurring within individuals and environment in vicinity of paranormal activity.

It’s a delightful summertime read that you will find yourself returning to as a reference to ghosts, hauntings, and unseen world that surrounds you.

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Chaplain Robin Renee Bridges, Corresponding Secretary http://www.spirit-sanctuary.org robinrenee@spirit-sanctuary.org

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