The Archive of Stanley Messenger
The Cathar Connection
A journey through
Conjunction
Reflection
Resolution
by Stanley Messenger
a novel written in 1981
Contents
Chapter 1 The Edge of the World
Chapter 2 Esther
Chapter 3 Raymond
Chapter 4 Fraser
Chapter 5 Clothilde
Chapter 6 Diary of the Journey
Chapter 7 Clothilde
Chapter 8 Requiescant
Chapter 9 Fraser
Chapter 10 Recipe for a Threefold Conjunction
The people:
Alan Fraser, psychiatrist
Raymond Felcourt, works in accountancy when not wandering about Europe
Esther Corstorphine, trainee in probation service
Helène Fauré, ex-student, was at college with Esther
Clothilde Perrier, psychiatric consultant in Toulouse
Take Death
Enough to achieve, already now,
The distance from this incarnation
Already attained from the others;
Not so much that you fall out of love with the earth
And all of earth’s precious darlings
From ‘Recipe for a Threefold Conjunction’
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FOREWORD
This is a work of fiction. Nowadays this word is often itself a convenient fiction to conceal fact; fact which has been loosened up and adapted by imagination to convey truths which would be unassimilable in any other form. The reader is then free to do what he likes with the truths.
However, it saves disappointment if one is warned not to look for physical confirmations that don’t exist. Everything I remember about what Antonin Gadal told me in the fifties is in the book. But there has been a great deal of research since then, and things may now be seen differently. For example, I am told an exit in the Sos valley connecting with the Grotte de Lombrives has been found. But a direct link as high up the valley as Olbier would be very unlikely geologically, perhaps impossible. This doesn’t alter what may be factual on a spiritual level, and I hope the book will stimulate research on these levels also.
Perhaps the real nature of fiction lies in its suggestion that things which in reality happen on many levels can be condensed, and so be experienced with a synthetic immediacy without waiting for slower transcendence; just as fairy-tales in fact, which were born out of love and are based on faith, may also be prophetic of hope.
Stanley Messenger
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