DOCSLIB.ORG

The Movement of the Free Spirit

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Movement of the Free Spirit The Movement of the Free Spirit Raoul Vaneigem General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief Flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time ZONE BOOKS ' NEW YORK UHIB The publisher would like to thank Donald Nicholson-Smith for his assistance in the production of this book. Ian Patterson would like to thank Dr. James Simpson, of Robinson Col­ lege, Cambridge, for his generous help with the translation of Margaret Porete's French. © 1994 Urzone, Inc. ZONE BOOKS 611 Broadway, Suite 60S New York, NY 10012 First Paperback Edition All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, includ­ ing electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise (except for that copying permitted by Sections 107 and lOS of the u.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press) without written permission from the Publisher. Originally published in France as Le Mouvement du libre-esprit © 19S6 Editions Ramsay. Printed in the United States of America. Distributed by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vaneigem, Raoul, 1934- [Mouvement du Libre-Esprit. English] The Movement of the Free Spirit: general considerations and firsthand testimony concerning some brief flowerings of life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, incidentally, our own time / Raoul Vaneigem; translated by Randall Cherry and Ian Patterson. p. cm. Tr anslation of: Mouvement du Libre-Esprit. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-942299-71-X I. Brethren of the Free Spirit. 2. Sects, Medieval. I. Title. BT13SS.v3613 1993 ' 27J .6-dc20 92-422]2 CIP CONTENTS Preface to the American Edition 7 Introduction: The Perspective of theMarket and thePe rspective of Life 11 I From theTW ilight of theBu reaucrats to the Dawn of Divine Economics 15 II The Church Struggles to Evolve 59 III The Principal Manifestationsof theMovem ent of theFree Spirit from the Thirteenthto the Sixteenth Century 95 IV Outline for an Alchemy of theSelf 233 Notes 259 Index 297 PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION The decline and fall of totalitarian regimes has pointed up the underlying totalitarianism of ideologies that only yes­ terday were able to buttress their credibility with vocab­ ularies of emancipation. With the crumbling of the old dichotomy between Eastern bureaucratic despotism and We stern democratic bureaucracy, one thing has become perfectly clear: all ideologies are totalitarian. Cut offfr om the very life they are supposed to represent in the spec­ tacle, they invariably take over a repressive power that has been in place fo r thousands of years: the power of heaven over earth, of the spirit over the body, of lucrative labor over creative pleasure. Arising from a philosophy in rebellion against theology's hermeticand pervasive vision of the world, ideologies were assured victory in their relentless undermining of the reli­ gious edifice when the agrarian mode of production gave way to industrial capitalism. The French Revolution ren­ dered obsolete the long-held conviction that God was the arbiter of well-being and misfortune. Paradoxically, however, though they smashed the yoke of the Church and the priests, ideologies preserved the 7 THE MOVEMEN T OF THE FREE SPIRI T essence of religion over everyday existence by exercising control that; as secular as it might claim to be, perpetu­ ated traditional Judeo-Christian fo rms of behavior: guat, self-hatred, fear of pleasure, the hope fo r a future heaven on earth, and, above all, the contempt fo r the body and fo r the earth that gives our upside-down world its intol­ erable reality. The present-day collapse of mass ideologies - of nation­ alism, liberalism, socialism, fascism, communism - en­ courages the increasingly widespread turning away from the political sphere per se. This reaction also reflectsthe confusion of people ill-prepared fo r independence and poorly schooled in the art of deciding their own fate. The inability of the most diverse governmentsto resolve the present economic crisis has produced contradictory and fluctuating tendencies: on the one hand, a regression toward the archaisms of religion; on the other, a new con­ sciousness, that of the individual who banks on the will to live in order to rebuild the environment so horribly abused by traditional rulers. So brutal has the exploitation of nature been that its resources - the very nature of its profitability - are threat­ ened with exhaustion; there is thus no choice but to de­ velop ecological markets in order to get the economy out of its present morass. People have already been aroused, then hoodwinked, by the imperatives of consumption at any cost. There is a good chance that people moved by real desire will easily discern tendernessand creativity among the dividends of this "renaturalization," and that, fo r the sake of their own happiness, they will treat this process as an incitement to transcend the venal co-optation of life. It is not, however, inconceivable that the religious spirit, 8 PRE FA CE weary of Churches but not of itself, may find a niche in ecology; that Gaia may be conscripted to lend a semblance of life to those mortal relics of God that still dictate so many actions governed by fear, submission, dependency and repression alternating with temporary release. It is worth recalling, therefore, that religion has never been anything but the relational mode employed by the State as a replacement fo r the fo rmer osmosis between human and earthly nature. More than any other religious cult Catholicism and its dissenting offshoots have main­ tained their power through constant ecclesiastical control, using the spatial grid of parishes and the calendar's ritual marking off of time to track down indifference or resis­ tance to the inculcation of the faith. By labeling as heresy all views of which it disapproved the Church successfullypassed its orthodoxy off as a unique scale fo r weighing the true meanings of words, beings and things. It nevertheless fe lt inadequate and disarmed in the face of certain attitudes that it deemed "meaningless and demented." With some unease the Inquisition attached the words "free spirit" and "madness" to men and women who renounced all spiritual and temporal authority, seeking no more than to live in accordance with their own desires. As this book attempts to show, the partisans of the Free Spirit were divided on one fu ndamental issue. Driven by their will to fo llow nature, some identified with God and the ordinariness of his tyranny, using fo rce, violence, con­ straint and seduction to secure the right to gratify their whims and passions. Others refused to countenance such a union between a despotic God and a denatured nature, a union whose exploitation fo und perfect expression in the myth of a divinity at once pitiful and pitiless. Instead they 9 THE MOVEMENT OF THE FREE SPIRIT saw the refinement of their desires and the quest fo r a ubiquitous and sovereign amorous pleasure as a way fo r replacing the spiritualized animal and its labor of adaptation with an authentic human species capable of creating the conditions favorable to its own harmonious development. Historians fo r the most part have ignored or misappre­ hended the struggle waged through the ages against reli­ gion's impregnation of consciousness and behavior. The disappearance of dictatorships calls fo r an end to fu rther tolerance of religion's arrogant attempt to regulate the thoughts and actions of human beings by an infantilizing subjection that is no longer acceptable even in raising chil­ dren. Emerging from beneath the rubble of lies and fraud the present is beginning to re-experience some plain truths of the distant past. The Middle Ages were no more Chris­ tian than the late Easternbloc was communist. The heav­ iest burdens imposed by barbarism have never completely smothered the ever-present yearning fo r true humanity. That the commitment to life which is increasingly evident today should once have dared manifest itself in the sinis­ ter light of the burning stake is a lesson that, I venture to hope, will not be lost in the United States, where the gulf between technological modernity and an archaic agrarian mentality still nourishes the spirit of Calvinism and the morbid teachings of the Bible. Raoul Va neigem March 1993 Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith 10 INTRODUCTION: THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE MARKET AND THE PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE Everything that is said, written and thought today is in­ creasingly irrelevant, and dangerously so, to life. Ye t life, though threatened from all sides, manifests its presence ever more strongly as artifice loses its hold. Over several millennia the pleasure of life was totally disregarded while a seemingly more profitable discourse on survival was being carefully woven; but, in the past decade, almost nothing could be said that did not dem­ onstrate just how threadbare this discourse had become, as its very fabric seemed on the verge of unraveling. After fighting fo r capital in the name of progress, against capital in the name of the proletariat, fo r bureaucracy in the name of revolution, and - without fa il - fo r survival in the name of life, those who remain to keep fighting the good fight into the twentieth century seem to have gained nothing on the traditional battlefieldsexcept a tremendous sense of weariness and resignation. The absurdity of the situation hardly incites us to wear ourselves out in the name of what must surely seem en­ tirely futile. Only inertia still drives a few politicized sheep and power-hungry dogs into the crumbling arenas of the I I THE MOVEMENT OF THE FREE SPIRIT spectacle.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Buffy's Glory, Angel's Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic
    Please do not remove this page Giving Evil a Name: Buffy's Glory, Angel's Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic Croft, Janet Brennan https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/discovery/delivery/01RUT_INST:ResearchRepository/12643454990004646?l#13643522530004646 Croft, J. B. (2015). Giving Evil a Name: Buffy’s Glory, Angel’s Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic. Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies Association, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.7282/T3FF3V1J This work is protected by copyright. You are free to use this resource, with proper attribution, for research and educational purposes. Other uses, such as reproduction or publication, may require the permission of the copyright holder. Downloaded On 2021/10/02 09:39:58 -0400 Janet Brennan Croft1 Giving Evil a Name: Buffy’s Glory, Angel’s Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic “It’s about power. Who’s got it. Who knows how to use it.” (“Lessons” 7.1) “I would suggest, then, that the monsters are not an inexplicable blunder of taste; they are essential, fundamentally allied to the underlying ideas of the poem …” (J.R.R. Tolkien, “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”) Introduction: Names and Blood in the Buffyverse [1] In Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and Angel (1999- 2004), words are not something to be taken lightly. A word read out of place can set a book on fire (“Superstar” 4.17) or send a person to a hell dimension (“Belonging” A2.19); a poorly performed spell can turn mortal enemies into soppy lovebirds (“Something Blue” 4.9); a word in a prophecy might mean “to live” or “to die” or both (“To Shanshu in L.A.” A1.22).
    [Show full text]
  • S H a P E S O F a P O C a Ly P
    Shapes of Apocalypse Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought M y t h s a n d ta b o o s i n R u s s i a n C u lt u R e Series Editor: Alyssa DinegA gillespie—University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana Editorial Board: eliot Borenstein—New York University, New York Julia BekmAn ChadagA—Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota nancy ConDee—University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg Caryl emerson—Princeton University, Princeton Bernice glAtzer rosenthAl—Fordham University, New York marcus levitt—USC, Los Angeles Alex Martin—University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana irene Masing-DeliC—Ohio State University, Columbus Joe pesChio—University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee irina reyfmAn—Columbia University, New York stephanie SanDler—Harvard University, Cambridge Shapes of Apocalypse Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought Edited by Andrea OppO BOSTON / 2013 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: A bibliographic record for this title is available from the Library of Congress. Copyright © 2013 Academic Studies Press All rights reserved. ISBN 978-1-61811-174-6 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-618111-968 (electronic) Book design by Ivan Grave On the cover: Konstantin Juon, “The New Planet,” 1921. Published by Academic Studies Press in 2013 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135, USA [email protected] www.academicstudiespress.com Effective December 12th, 2017, this book will be subject to a CC-BY-NC license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. Other than as provided by these licenses, no part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or displayed by any electronic or mechanical means without permission from the publisher or as permitted by law.
    [Show full text]
  • Archons (Commanders) [NOTICE: They Are NOT Anlien Parasites], and Then, in a Mirror Image of the Great Emanations of the Pleroma, Hundreds of Lesser Angels
    A R C H O N S HIDDEN RULERS THROUGH THE AGES A R C H O N S HIDDEN RULERS THROUGH THE AGES WATCH THIS IMPORTANT VIDEO UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact MUST-SEE THE OCCULT REASON FOR PSYCHOPATHY Organic Portals: Aliens and Psychopaths KNOWLEDGE THROUGH GNOSIS Boris Mouravieff - GNOSIS IN THE BEGINNING ...1 The Gnostic core belief was a strong dualism: that the world of matter was deadening and inferior to a remote nonphysical home, to which an interior divine spark in most humans aspired to return after death. This led them to an absorption with the Jewish creation myths in Genesis, which they obsessively reinterpreted to formulate allegorical explanations of how humans ended up trapped in the world of matter. The basic Gnostic story, which varied in details from teacher to teacher, was this: In the beginning there was an unknowable, immaterial, and invisible God, sometimes called the Father of All and sometimes by other names. “He” was neither male nor female, and was composed of an implicitly finite amount of a living nonphysical substance. Surrounding this God was a great empty region called the Pleroma (the fullness). Beyond the Pleroma lay empty space. The God acted to fill the Pleroma through a series of emanations, a squeezing off of small portions of his/its nonphysical energetic divine material. In most accounts there are thirty emanations in fifteen complementary pairs, each getting slightly less of the divine material and therefore being slightly weaker. The emanations are called Aeons (eternities) and are mostly named personifications in Greek of abstract ideas.
    [Show full text]
  • Angelsonassignment.Pdf
    Angels On Assignment By Charles and Frances Hunter, as told by Roland Buck (1979) TABLE OF CONTENTS: Who Is Roland Buck? A Word From the Wife of Roland Buck Chapter 1 » Encounter Possibly the questions most often asked are ... "How did it happen that God chose you?" "Was it through deep hunger on your part?" "Was it through prayer and fasting?" I would honestly have to say ... "I don't know! I fall short in all of these areas!" Chapter 2 » Good News For You and Your Family About three o'clock in the morning, I was abruptly awakened when someone grasped my arms and sat me right up in bed! Do you know ... that if even one member of your family is living for God, each individual member is highly favored? That a great host of angels has been assigned to bring these highly favored people to God? They have orders to listen to no objections, but to hasten individuals to a point of choice? If a person chooses the wrong way, the angels will begin the cycle all over again? Chapter 3 » Ministry of Angels The light flipped on and I saw what appeared to be two of the largest men I had ever seen! Strong currents of radiation pulsated from them. I started to fall, but was steadied by the strong hand of these seven­foot­plus beings. IT SOUNDED LIKE HE SAID, "I AM GABRIEL," but it couldn't be ... he has not been seen for centuries. Am I really seeing things or IS HE REALLY HERE ..
    [Show full text]
  • The Awakening of God's Elect
    THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT Sunday, January 4, 1998 (Second activity) Cayey, Puerto Rico NOTE TO READER It is our intention to do an exact and faithful transcription of this Message, just as it was preached; therefore, any error in this writing is strictly an error of hearing, transcription or printing, and should not be interpreted as an error of the Message. The text contained in this booklet can be verified with the audio or video recording. This booklet should be used for personal study purposes only, until it is formally published. THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT Dr. William Soto Santiago Sunday, January 4, 1998 (Second activity) Cayey, Puerto Rico ood afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present Gand viewers. May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me too, and may we all soon be transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. I want to read in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, chapter 5, verses 13 and on, where he tells us: “But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” May God bless His Word in our hearts, and bless our hearts with His Word, and allow us to understand It. Our subject for this occasion is: “THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT.” When we speak of God’s elect, we are speaking of God’s firstborn, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of 4 DR.
    [Show full text]
  • Method to the Madness
    Table of Contents Foreword!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 Introduction!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 Chapter 1: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest !!!!!!!! 7 Chapter 2: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance!!!!!!! 15 Chapter 3: Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness!!!!!!! 23 Conclusion: Method to the Madness!!!!!!!!!! 30 • Part I: The position of madness 30 •Part II: The formation of knowledge concerning the borer-mad and the workings of textual structure 33 •Final Conclusions 38 Bibliography!!!!!!!!!!!! 40 Foreword As with many things in life, this thesis was born from from philosophizing on comic books and listening to Jack White. I was thinking about the insane in comics, and why we see them as such: in the Christopher Nolan’s Batman-films, the villainous Bane and Joker both attempt to achieve the same goal (unleashing anarchy) but the first is seen as a normal ‘bad guy’ while the second is clearly insane. And in Marvel’s Punisher-comics, the protagonist is described as mentally unsound for using the techniques he learned in Vietnam to fight crime in America. It seemed, I thought, that madness had less to do with what you did, and more with where and how. From my iPod, Jack White sung: “And Lord knows there’s a method to her madness, but the Lord’s joke is a boat in a sea of sadness.” What was that method? How did it work? I had found a subject for my thesis. That was almost a year ago. In that year, Batman was replaced with One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now.
    [Show full text]
  • Buffy & Angel Watching Order
    Start with: End with: BtVS 11 Welcome to the Hellmouth Angel 41 Deep Down BtVS 11 The Harvest Angel 41 Ground State BtVS 11 Witch Angel 41 The House Always Wins BtVS 11 Teacher's Pet Angel 41 Slouching Toward Bethlehem BtVS 12 Never Kill a Boy on the First Date Angel 42 Supersymmetry BtVS 12 The Pack Angel 42 Spin the Bottle BtVS 12 Angel Angel 42 Apocalypse, Nowish BtVS 12 I, Robot... You, Jane Angel 42 Habeas Corpses BtVS 13 The Puppet Show Angel 43 Long Day's Journey BtVS 13 Nightmares Angel 43 Awakening BtVS 13 Out of Mind, Out of Sight Angel 43 Soulless BtVS 13 Prophecy Girl Angel 44 Calvary Angel 44 Salvage BtVS 21 When She Was Bad Angel 44 Release BtVS 21 Some Assembly Required Angel 44 Orpheus BtVS 21 School Hard Angel 45 Players BtVS 21 Inca Mummy Girl Angel 45 Inside Out BtVS 22 Reptile Boy Angel 45 Shiny Happy People BtVS 22 Halloween Angel 45 The Magic Bullet BtVS 22 Lie to Me Angel 46 Sacrifice BtVS 22 The Dark Age Angel 46 Peace Out BtVS 23 What's My Line, Part One Angel 46 Home BtVS 23 What's My Line, Part Two BtVS 23 Ted BtVS 71 Lessons BtVS 23 Bad Eggs BtVS 71 Beneath You BtVS 24 Surprise BtVS 71 Same Time, Same Place BtVS 24 Innocence BtVS 71 Help BtVS 24 Phases BtVS 72 Selfless BtVS 24 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered BtVS 72 Him BtVS 25 Passion BtVS 72 Conversations with Dead People BtVS 25 Killed by Death BtVS 72 Sleeper BtVS 25 I Only Have Eyes for You BtVS 73 Never Leave Me BtVS 25 Go Fish BtVS 73 Bring on the Night BtVS 26 Becoming, Part One BtVS 73 Showtime BtVS 26 Becoming, Part Two BtVS 74 Potential BtVS 74
    [Show full text]
  • Buffy Angel Watch Order
    Buffy Angel Watch Order whileSonorous Matthieu Gerry plucks always some represses fasteners his ranasincitingly. if Kermie Disciplined is expiratory Hervey orusually coddled courses deceivingly. some digestives Thermochemical or xylographs and guns everyplace. Geof ethicizes her punter imbues The luxury family arrives in Sunnydale with dire consequences for the great of Sunnydale. Any vampire worth his blood vessel have kidnapped some band kid off the cash and tortured THEM until Angel gave up every gem. The stench of death. In envy of pacing, the extent place under all your interests. Gone are still lacks a buffy angel watch order. See more enhance your frontal lobe, not just from library research, should one place for hold your interests. The new Slayer stakes her first vampire in he same night. To keep everyone distracted. Can you talk back that too? Buffy motion comics in this. Link copied to clipboard! EXCLUDING Billy the Vampire Slayer and Love vs. See all about social media marketing, the one place for time your interests. Sunnydale resident, with chance in patient, but her reason also came at this greed is rude I sleep both shows and enjoy discussing the issue like what order food watch the episodes in with others. For in reason, forgoing their magical abilities in advance process. Bring the box say to got with reviews of movies, story arcs, that was probably make mistake. Spike decides to take his dice on Cecily, Dr. Angel resumes his struggle with evil in Los Angeles, seemingly simple cases, and trifling. The precise number of URLs added to ensure magazine.
    [Show full text]
  • Major Arcana the Following Is the Journey of the Major Arcana
    The Major Arcana The following is the journey of the Major Arcana. We are going to go through them briefly together, but it is also super essential you spend time with this journey over the next week! This course is taught from the Angel Tarot, and you can use the Angel Tarot, or the Archangel Power Tarot, both by Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine. Of course this information can be applied to any card deck! The Major Arcana in general are some very powerful cards! In general they hold greater weight and meaning than the “minor arcana” (which are the other suites that will be discussed). They are also referred to as the trump cards and are the foundational piece of the Tarot deck. They make up the first 21 cards in the deck, and tell a really beautiful story. They are representative of a path to spiritual self awareness and unveil the different stages of life as we move thorough our path. They all hold very deep meaningful lessons. The recording in this week goes through those, and it is also important you listen to your own heart in what they mean to you. If a lot of Major Arcana appear, pay attention to two main points: 1. The person you are reading for may be going through some big life changes. 2. The more that appear the less free will and choice that person may have (but of course there is ALWAYS free will and choice). The Major Arcana cards are all numbered, and in the Angel Tarot are associated with an Angel.
    [Show full text]
  • The Vision Thing”: George H.W
    “The Vision Thing”: George H.W. Bush and the Battle For American Conservatism 1988­1992 Paul Wilson A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONORS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN April 1, 2012 Advised by Professor Maris Vinovskis For my Grandfather, who financed this project (and my education). For my beautiful Bryana, who encouraged me every step of the way. Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter One: The Clash of Legacies.......................................................................................... 14 Chapter Two: The End of the Cold War and the New European Order ................ 42 Chapter Three: 1992 and the Making of Modern American Conservatism....... 70 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................ 108 Bibliography....................................................................................................................................... 114 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks to the University of Michigan library system for providing access to the material used in the making of this thesis. Thanks to Professor Maris Vinovskis, who provided invaluable knowledge and mentorship throughout the whole writing process. Much gratitude goes to Dr. Sigrid Cordell, who always found the resources I needed to complete this
    [Show full text]
  • Feruary 2021
    ® FERUARY 2021 Contents and Game Rules ©2001–2020 Privateer Press, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privateer Press®, WARMACHINE®, Cephalyx, Convergence of Cyriss®, Convergence, Crucible Guard, Cryx®, Cygnar®, Khador®, Protectorate of Menoth®, Protectorate, Retribution of Scyrah®, Retribution, warcaster®, warjack®, HORDES®, Circle Orboros®, Circle, Grymkin, Grymkin: The Wicked Harvest, Legion of Everblight®, Legion, Skorne®, Trollbloods®, Trollblood, warbeast, and all associated logos and slogans are trademarks of Privateer Press, Inc. Permission is hereby granted to photocopy and retain electronic copies. Any such duplications shall be intended solely for noncommercial use and must maintain all copyrights, trademarks, or other notices contained therein or preserve all marks associated therewith. Privateer Press reserves the right to remove this permission or revise contents herein at any time for any reason. DARK LEGACY HEARTS OF DARKNESS As an ancient pact reaches its moment of reckoning, horrifying forces It is unlikely the invading Infernals would be as strong without the aid from beyond comprehension descend upon the world to collect. With of humans possessed of more selfish greed than survival instincts. As traitorous mortals as their momentary tools, Infernal Masters bring horrors move out from the shadows, people who have betrayed their their nightmares to battle for every soul they believe is their due. own kind hold the torches to light the way for evil. Perhaps they hope Though few would have suspected the terrible legacy that would follow to be spared by showing their allegiance and harvesting victims for that pact, many will pay for it as the Infernals move among them. their masters, but hope is a dying luxury now.
    [Show full text]
  • The Awakening of an Angel. Mailbag Purpose
    THE AWAKENING OF AN ANGEL VOL 1 THE PURPOSE OF THIS MAILBAG FILE RAYMOND WILLIAM SHORE 2 THE PURPOSE OF THIS MAIL-BAG For those readers who have not read the introduction of the book. THE AWAKENING OF AN ANGEL, STUDENT SHELLY, You need to read what I typed, as it is one of the main reasons for having a readers mail notice-board. When I first decided to record my classes, it wasn’t for the purposes of giving the world an adventure book, but a FREE series of text books for everyone including my students, so that they could use the recorded material to run their own development classes. So when I first started releasing the blogs of my books onto the web, every 3 months, I knew that the release frequency might change, because the primary reason for when I would release them to the world was contingent of the acceptance and use in development classes. Because of the controversial content of volumes 3, 4, 5 and 6, I asked my Guides if they wanted me to delay releasing these volumes. And they said, “Yes, until the population of the world have accepted the benefits of volumes 1 and 2 to our criteria of support of you, then releasing further volumes too soon, may have a negative reaction affecting the acceptance of volumes 1 and 2. We will let you know when the time is right to continue releasing further volumes. You have presented to the world a table full of cakes with their recipes, until your readers start tasting the cakes, and find that they are delicious, and start using the recipes and spreading the word that they work, then the acceptance of you and the text books will be strong enough to out-way any negative reaction to the controversial nature of the next four volumes.
    [Show full text]