The Mayfair Witches 01 - The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Author:Anne Rice [Rice, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Witches
ISBN: 9780099471424
Google: IZBcRCi-CyUC
Amazon: 0345384466
Published: 1990-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
TWENTY
THE FILE ON THE MAYFAIR WITCHES
PART VII
The Disappearance of Stuart Townsend
IN 1929, Stuart Townsend, who had been studying the Mayfair materials for years, petitioned the council in London to allow him to attempt contact with the Mayfair family.
He felt strongly that Stella's cryptic message to us on the back of the photograph meant that she wanted such contact.
And Stuart was also convinced that the last three Mayfair Witches – Juhen, Mary Beth, and Stella – were not murderers or evildoers in any sense; that it would be entirely safe to contact them, and that, indeed, "wonderful things" might result.
This forced the council to take a hard look at the entire question, and also to reexamine, as it does constantly, the aims and standards of the Talamasca.
Though an immense body of written material exists in our archives as to our aims and standards, as to what we find acceptable and unacceptable, and though this is a constant topic of conversation at our council meetings worldwide, let me summarize for the purposes of this narrative the issues which are relevant here, all of which were raised by Stuart Townsend in 1929.
First and foremost: We had created in the File on the Mayfair Witches an impressive and valuable history of a psychic family. We had proved to ourselves beyond a doubt that the Mayfairs had contact with the realm of the invisible, and that they could manipulate unseen forces to their advantage But there were still many things about what they did that we did not know.
What if they could be persuaded to talk to us, to share their secrets? What might we then learn?
Stella was not the secretive or guarded person that Mary Beth had been. Maybe, if she could be convinced of our discretion and our scholarly purpose, she would reveal things to us. Possibly Cortland Mayfair would talk to us too.
Second and perhaps less important- Certainly we had over the years violated the privacy of the Mayfair family with our vigilance We had, according to Stuart, "snooped" into every aspect of their lives. Indeed we had studied these people as specimens, and again and again, we justify the lengths to which we go by arguing that we will, and do, make our records available to those we study.
Well, we had not done that with the Mayfairs ever. And perhaps there was no excuse for not trying now.
Third: We existed in an absolutely unique relationship to the Mayfairs because the blood of Petyr van Abel, our brother, ran in their veins. They were "related" to us, one might say. Should we not seek to make contact merely to tell them about this ancestor? And who knows what would follow from there?
Fourth: Could we do some real good by making contact? And here of course we come to one of our highest purposes. Could the reckless Stella benefit from knowing about other people like herself? Would she not enjoy knowing there were people who studied such persons, with a view to understanding
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