The Keys to the Temple by Penny Billington

Author:Penny Billington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: key to the temple, keys to temple, penney billington, dion fortune, tree of life, golden dawn, qabalah, qabala, kabbalah, cabala, novels of dion fortune
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2017-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

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50. Fortune, The Sea Priestess, 4.

51. Fortune, The Goat-Foot God, 10.

52. A book about Glastonbury, first published as articles in the Society of the Inner Light’s magazine. See bibliography.

53. Fortune, The Winged Bull, 46.

54. Ibid., 14.

55. Fortune, The Sea Priestess, 13.

56. Ibid., 4.

57. Fortune, The Goat-Foot God, 13.

58. Ibid., 14.

11

The Emotional Connection

The lives of a man are strung like pearls on the thread of his spirit; and never in all his journey goes he alone, for that which is solitary is barren. 59

Dion Fortune has told us that she viewed her fiction as if on a screen. The images arose and she transcribed what she saw—as the psychology of the characters gradually opened to her, dictating the action of the plot. And each of the characters was simultaneously Everyman—the typical human on their journey—and also of heroic stature: a representation of the possibilities within us all.

Archetypal Resonance

It is easy to categorize three of her characters: Ted is the Warrior, Wilfred the Artist, and Rupert the Priest. Hugh is more difficult, having made no independent mark in the world. Absorbed by his journey of integration, he is initially led by Mona and Jelkes. But as his alter ego, Ambrosius, becomes integrated into his psyche in a healthy way, he soon starts to make things happen: he becomes the archetypal Active Man of Earth who crafts the work of change.

The archetypal resonance of each character is mediated by their upbringing and experience, and, in stories where even the domestics are well sketched, these main characters have an authentic presence that provokes our empathy.

Ted

Ted needs to strive for goals, to dare and achieve—all of which has been denied him in peacetime. Altruism is an essential part of his psyche: he needs to be loyal to a cause, to be of service, and to protect. We feel the frustrations of a strong, dependable person tethered by circumstance. His transformative power is anger—at injustice and at abuse of the weak—and whilst this warrior energy can be utilized productively in peacetime as in war, it requires the right opportunities.

Ted has experienced the energy of the warrior in the inebriation of battle, in protecting Ursula: then, he loses his self-doubts and inhibitions and is completely effective. The only time he makes this transition without the catalyst of anger or emergency is in the early rituals, where his emotional connection to a primal level of consciousness makes him a worthy Priest. For the first time with awareness, he courts, submits to, and experiences divine inebriation, and becomes one with the greater life. He becomes the vehicle for Horus, and everything that is Ted Murchison is swept away. He feels himself reborn in the knowledge of ritual from the oldest times.

Wilfred

It is the artist Wilfred’s “dynamism” that makes him so useful for magic. His priestess Vivien notices that despite his illness, he has an amazing store of it. His magnetic vitality increases in relation to the depletion of his body.

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