The Quarterly Review of THE CHURCHES’ FELLOWSHIP for Psychical and Spiritual Studies

Winter 1988

No. 138

President’s Letter ...... 2 Angels in Dark Places ...... 5 The Celestial Hierarchies ...... 9 Annual General Meeting ...... 12 Annual Conference Report ...... 26 Programmes ...... 34 White Wave ...... 37 The Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies (FOUNDER: LT. COL. REGINALD M. LESTER, C.J.I) President Emeritus: The Worshipful Chancellor the Revd E. Garth Moore 44 High Street, New Romney, Kent TN28 8BZ Telephone: 0679 66937

PATRONS who have expressed their sympathy with the general purposes of the Fellowship, as set out in the Prospectus, without thereby necessarily endorsing all the individual views put forward in this Review or at meetings of the Fellowship:

The Bishop of London (The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Graham Leonard, PC) The Bishop of Hereford (The Rt Revd J.R.G. Eastaugh) The Rt Revd Philip Pasterfield The Rt Revd Mervyn Stockwood The Rt Revd Oliver Tomkins The Very Revd E.F. Carpenter DD The Revd Lord Soper The Rt Revd R.H. Coote The Bishop of Truro (The Rt Revd P. Mumford)

President: The Revd Dr Martin Israel Vice-Presidents: Miss Margaret Brice-Smith The Rt Revd George Appleton, Miss Renee Haynes M.A. Chairman: The Venerable Michael Perry Vice Chairman: Capt. Hugh Corbett, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N. Canon John Smith Honorary Treasurer: Mr Jack Holmes General Secretary: Mr Julian Drewett Editor: Dr Elizabeth Bowen

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL The Revd George Aylen, Mrs Barbara Bunce, Dr Elizabeth Bowen, The Revd John Quigley, Canon John Smith, Mrs Beryl Statham, Mrs Dorothy Warren, Mrs Margaret King, The Revd Keith Denerley, The Revd Michael Shrewsbury and Regional Representatives ex-officio.

AIMS AND OBJECTS The aims and objects of the Fellowship are summarised below, but can be read in fuller detail in the official prospectus. The Fellowship, and Ecumenical body of Christians founded in 1953, exists for the study of the wider reaches of the paranormal and extra sensory perception in their relation to the Christian faith. The field of study includes psychical phenomena, mysticism, creative meditation and spiritual healing. The psychical includes such phenomena as telepathy, clair­ voyance, clairaudience, precognition and psychokinesis. There are two classes of membership: full and associate. Those eligible for full membership must be practising members of Churches which are members of or affiliated to the World Council of Churches, or must themselves acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of the World. Others are eligible for associate membership as the council may from time to time determine. Associate members cannot vote or hold office. The Fellowship is entirely dependent for its funds on the generosity of its members. The subscription is £9.00 per annum; £13.50 for combined husband and wife subscription; pensioners, students, clergy, ministers of religion and their spouses £6.00 each. Joint reduced rate £10. Life Membership £100. Subscription includes the Quarterly Review and The Christian Parapsychologist free. Those who can subscribe more are asked to do so.

Copyright of all material in this Review is reserved to the authors and publishers. Nothing may be reproduced or translated without written permission, opinions do not necessarily express the views of anyone except the individual contributor. EDITORIAL This winter we are thinking about guidance, angelic or discarnate guidance in particular. Today, pedagogic, hierarchical and authoritarian tend to be derogatory terms; it seems that the secular world is at variance with us in this as in other things. It does not look with confidence and thankfulness to its guides and guardians. We do. That we each have our own angel, we know, because Jesus spoke of them. Some of us are aware of other discarnate intelligences whose loving concern and suggestions are a precious thing. Each of us knows someone whose spiritual stature and awareness have been an influence through contemporary speech or past writings. Might it be that each of us is, in some way, guide and guardian to another and that we all grow together? Perhaps our angels are the good friends to each other that we should be. Guidance is not always recognised. There is a story told of a man who became lost one day in a forest. “Quite an unpleasant experience,” he said. “I was really frightened. I even started praying at one point. Fortunately the prayer wasn’t needed because just then a forester came along and told me where I was.” O God, Who answers every call, thank You for Your care of us, and for our guardians. May we know them. May we hear again the angels thronging to worship at Your coming and know You incarnate still in every baby born. A blessed and glorious Christmas to you all.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not; For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. Luke 2:10 A.V. OUR CHIEF GUIDE Jesus the most of God that human frame Could hold, when seen, was Father shown to Man. His promise he’d return there after death He did fulfil, and stated He would be In other forms at hand to act as Aid To everybody’s need for spiritual growth. He taught obedience to the Father’s Will; For inspiration turned aside to pray. In imitation of His Way of Life, Enabling us to speak direct to God, We must invoke His help before we pray, Or else our guidance may not be Divine: In keeping with what is the Father’s Will When Jesus walked this earth He did appoint Some men to help Him in his earthly task; So, now He operates in wider spheres, With those He has appointed as our “guides”, We should consider, as, when on the earth, There could be those who teach another way, So guard ourselves against those other “guides”, By having Christ contained within our minds. Giles Lang

1 THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER The ministry of angels plays an important part throughout the whole Bible. From the time of Abraham, who is appraised of the imminent destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by angelic beings, to that of the writer of Revelation, who is directly instructed what to write to the seven churches of Asia by an angel, we are not left long without their mediation in the affairs of God and His dealing with the cosmos. In these accounts it is hard to distinguish the Divine Presence from a separate class of angels, but the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews shows us, right at the beginning of his work, that Christ is greater than any angel. An angel is simply a messenger, and as such any ethereal being, including the spirit of a departed one, could be classed as an angel, especially when, as is the rule, it has important information to impart. But, in fact, it is generally understood that a true angel is of a completely different order from the human being, whether alive in the flesh or dead in the spiritual body. An angel is a being of pure light and unimpeded will; it shows no personality such as we might find with a departed spirit, who is likely to retain some of the basic character components that typified him or her while yet alive in the flesh. Sometimes the angel can assume human form, but its message is transpersonal, as in the case of Abraham feeding the three angels, appearing as ordinary men, who suddenly appeared to appraise him of the imminent conception of the child of promise, Isaac, and of the destruction of the two sinful cities noted above. The same applies to the fragmentary passage in Joshua 5:13-15, in which an angel, possibly God Himself, gives the Israelite leader encouragement about the capture of Jericho — or at least this is what the apparition seems to mean, for otherwise it seems somewhat otiose in the climactic course of the Israelite advance into the land of Canaan. An angel transmits the message given it by God or the devil, the latter probably being a fallen angel of great power. The name Lucifer is commonly conferred on this infernal entity. In my own life I have had communication on a spiritual level with what I regard as my guardian angel on a number of occasions. The occasion has invariably been one of immediate peril, and instead of feeling completely at sea and in great dread, I have been aware of a presence directly with me (on one occasion immediately behind me) giving me strength and calmness so that I could comport myself as well as the occasion required. It was as if superhuman strength, on an emotional level, was provided, so that, far from breaking down in terror, I was able to confront my adversary in clear, unimpeded consciousness and do the work demanded of me. I was aware then, and was amazed later on subsequent reflection of my radiant calmness, so that I could show myself to the best in a hard situation. I was also aware of a light of radiance completely other than anything I had known on a purely earthly level, for it seemed to have no limit either of luminosity or of extent, and by its power it seemed to effect an inner healing of my naturally nervous disposition. I have now learned to depend on and cooperate with my guardian angel; I believe it serves to focus the power of the Holy Spirit on my consciousness when creative work needs to be done, as, for instance, in writing this letter.

2 And so I have moved beyond merely looking for help in difficult circumstances to working in dedicated cooperation with my guardian, and hopefully the whole ministry of angels, in the inspirational, healing work it is my privilege to perform. It may well be that the essential work of the great angelic ministry that we celebrate on September 29th, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, is to direct the power of the Holy Spirit to the world of created forms. . Martin Israel

See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. Matthew 18:10, N.I.V.

The song of the angels is not adulation or a paying of court to heaven’s king: it is sheer delight; delight, indeed, in the glory of existence; but being far beyond selfishness the existence in which they delight is the existence they share; and the glory, the Joy of their life is this, that it is wholly shaped and moved by the wisdom and love of God. Austin Farrer from The Brink of Mystery

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER Dear Members: The prophet Elisha was in trouble with the king of Aram. It appears that Elisha had psychic gifts which enabled him to tell the king of Israel all the secret plans that the king of Aram was making; so the Aramean king sent his army with horses and chariots to Dothan to bring Elisha back captive. Next morning, the prophet’s serving-lad got up and drew the curtains; and there, outside the walls of the city, was the Aramean army, looking as though it meant business. The lad was scared out of his wits and went to Elisha in terror. And Elisha? He simply prayed and said, “Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see,” and, we are told, “The Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was lull of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” (Read the whole story in 2 Kings 6.) .... How modern a tale that is! Christians today feel that they are a shrinking minority whilst the forces of apathy and the forces of the devil are on the rampage. So our hearts fail within us, and we say, “What on earth can we do about it? We are so few and our enemies are so many.” If that’s the case, then our eyes are closed. We don’t see what there is to see. God needs to open our eyes. The most ancient snatch of dialogue in our

3 service of Holy Communion is the one which goes (in one translation or another): The Lord be with you: And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts: We lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord our God: It is meet and right so to do. It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, almighty, everlasting G,od; therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee and saying, Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts. Lord, open our eyes that we may see! Open those eyes that can only see a little knot of people in a little church, and a little altar with a couple of little candlesticks; open our eyes that we may see the church pulsing with life, blazing with light, full of living creatures with eyes before and behind, rank upon rank of the host of heaven, stretching in limitless array further than the eye can see; mountains full of horses and chariots of fire round about us; hosts compared with which the angels of the devil are so weak and so powerless that they crumple into nothingness before the holy light that destroys every semblance of evil. This issue of the Quarterly Review has been compiled to help us realize something of the prodigal wonder of God’s unseen creation (normally unseen, that is; thank God for such of our members who have been granted God’s grace to see what the rest of us do not). That unseen host contains all sorts, both those which serve God and those who have fallen from their holy estate, so we need to be prayerful and Christ-centred and watchful lest we take for our guide that which is less than the best in the spiritual world. We need discernment of spirits (1 John 4.1). That, too, needs opened eyes, for which we may pray God. May this Fellowship always stand for an awareness of the amazing richness of God’s created order; and may the holy angels of our holy God enrich us with their companionship, hearten us by their presence, and strengthen us with their help, so we may love and serve God in the world where he has set us! The blessings of the holy angels be with you always. Michael Perry

When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh, my lord, what shall we do?” the servant asked. “Don’t be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” II Kings 6:17, N.I.V.

4 “Angels in Dark Places” by Beryl Statham In “The Dark Night of the Soul” St. John of the Cross writes: “The inspirations (of God) come through the angels ... as the light penetrates many windows at once. Each window conveys and pours into the next, somewhat modified, according to the nature of the glass . . . and the distance from the sun. Man . . . must receive that enlightenment according to his capacity, in a limited degree, and with suffering. The same light which enlightens angels enlightens man, and sets him on fire with love for he is a spirit already prepared for the infusion of that light. But, because man is impure and weak, the sun’s rays are painful until the fire of love, purifying him, shall have spiritualised and refined him, and then he may be able to receive, with sweetness like the angels, the union of this inflowing love. Meantime this loving knowledge comes upon the soul through trials and pain.” The angels work amongst us in a variety of ways, in direct experience, in dreams, light, music and “nudges to action”. The adoptive mother of a seven-year-old boy was faced with having to tell him of his beloved father’s death and went to his bedroom wondering how she could break the news. He was sitting up in bed with his books and at first didn’t see her. Then, looking up, he said, “Oh hallo! Have you come to tell me Daddy died? I know because he came to see me. He said everything would be all right and then he said goodbye and went out of the window with an angel.” Laura was an elderly woman I visited in the course of my job. She lived with her friend Mabel, a smaller, timid woman who took Laura’s domination in good part. Laura told me that when she fell into a bath of near boiling water and was terribly scalded, Mabel lifted her out — humanly speaking an impossible task. “But,” Laura said, “there were two pairs of hands and I think the other hands were my grandmother’s.” Perhaps her grandmother, freed of the limitations of an earthly life, was able to work effectively with the angels to help her granddaughter. Perhaps we could work more effectively ourselves, in spite of our earthly limitations, if we had a more acute awareness of their existence! After a women’s meeting in the crypt of a Bristol church three or four women were waiting for transport when one noticed what appeared to be spilt sugar on the floor, which she had just vacuumed. Surprised, she went to investigate and found it was a patch of light with no apparent source. It was not shadowed by her hand, or by standing in it. It disappeared and came again before vanishing for good. When the Chaplain of Bristol prison was told of this he said a prisoner had reported a similar incident, when a circle of light appeared on his bed in an enclosed cell. He wanted an explanation which the Chaplain was quite unable to give. I like to think the angels were having fun, giving glimpses of themselves just to indicate their presence without allowing a rational explanation! Haloes are, of course, a common feature of religious paintings, and light

5 may sometimes be seen surrounding inspired speakers, while spiritual healers may see light, or murky colours, indicating the places needing healing., Rosalind Heywood, in her book The Infinite Hive, writes of “the singing”, unlike earthly music, which many people hear in unexpected places. On one occasion, when waiting in the entrance to Westminster Hall, she “passed beyond the singing” and became aware of a wise and powerful “Being” who she felt was “brooding over the Houses of Parliament”. She was so affected by this that she visited a saintly old man to ask him about it. Before she mentioned it he spoke spontaneously of the Angel of the House of Commons, influencing for good the deliberations of Parliament in long, evolving patterns rather than in one particular moment in time. A friend living near Lincoln Cathedral once heard clearly the sound of music, unlike anything she had heard before, above the clamour of a bell­ ringing practice. Her husband and son could not hear it, although to her it was clear, and the next day she was told that a favourite aunt had died at the time she heard it. “Orders” or “nudges” are an experience of many people, not all of whom would put them down to the activity of angels. Rosalind Heywood refused what she was told was a life-saving operation on her schoolboy son because “orders” told her it was not necessary, and he recovered perfectly without it. I have “nudges” which I have to obey, and I have bought a house, refused one job and gratefully accepted another in response to “nudges”. Once I was mercilessly nudged to ring up an acquaintance without any idea of what to say, and the outcome of our conversation was that she married a man she was actually sending away when I telephoned her. They have been happily married for nearly thirty years now. St. John of the Cross reminds us that our capacity to receive is through suffering. We are, he says, “spirits already prepared for the infusion of that light”, which will be painful until “the fire of love, purifying us, shall have spiritualised and refined us”. We can only attain it through suffering and yet, paradoxically, it is as unhelpful to desire suffering as to desire wealth, success, or anything other than God Himself. One desire is not better than another, except the desire for God, and then we will be given, through His angels, the work, the experiences, the relationships and just that amount of light we are able to bear, because each soul is unique and needs his own special challenge. For thirteen years I visited Bristol prison as a member of the Board of Visitors, which is a Home Office appointment, giving the right of entry to any part of the prison at any time. Bristol is a local prison, which means that all offenders, whatever their offences, are sent there from the Courts, sometimes to stay and sometimes to be sent to other establishments. I worshipped regularly with the men, sometimes joining in the Chaplain’s study groups and sometimes talking with individual prisoners privately in the Chaplain’s office. In the outside world are some wicked men, too clever to be caught, but in the prison are those who have done wicked things and have been found out, so there is no escape for them from what they have done. Others are weak, or inadequate, or mentally ill, or have been made wicked bv circumstances, whilst some are innocent and trapped with those

6 who may corrupt them. So prisons are dark places, and yet the angels are active there as they are everywhere. George was serving a long sentence and attended church services faithfully. After one service he turned to me with shining eyes and said, “This is freedom!” which perhaps is more than many regular churchgoers, free in the outside world, can honestly say. Jimmy was a pathetic figure, gentle and timid, who had gone beserk with an axe and killed a woman. His agony and grief at his action was so acute that he could not endure himself and sometimes had to be put into the strip (padded) cell for his own protection. I got to know him quite well and saw him gradually coming to terms with himself, and he was awakened by the Chaplain to God’s love for him. He was baptised and confirmed and in time went to a mental hospital for rehabilitation before being returned to a family who loved him. The angels were working hard with Jimmy! I treasure a white rose etched on to black scraping board, sent me by Mick’s wife when he was serving his sentence, “the light shining through the darkness”, she said. Mick was the Chaplain’s “Red-Band” (trusty prisoner), in charge of the chapel, and he-knew himself beloved, just as he was, accepting his sentence as fair and deserved. He is now the verger at a large parish church, a man truly at peace with himself. I met Bill only once, at a Chaplain’s study group, when we were discussing forgiveness. He contributed nothing and looked profoundly sad. I asked him, “What do you think, Bill?” and he raised his head and said, “He’s dead, isn’t he?” Bill had killed his beloved brother in a drunken brawl and that night he hanged himself in his cell, having refused to go to the hospital wing. At his funeral his whole family gathered, deeply grieving. He had not been a bad man and died not entirely without comfort because his fellow prisoners had shown him kindness amounting to tenderness, his distress bringing out the innate love in them, so his life was not wasted. I hope he was met by his angel, perhaps with the brother he had killed, when he decided he could not live with what he had done. The prison officers, too, often show wise understanding and care of distressed prisoners and perhaps are unaware that the angels are working through them. Our acceptance of humiliation and defeat can be a flicker of light for someone who would be dazzled, or even blinded, by a stronger light, and we can work with the angels even when we feel we are in the dark ourselves. God’s messengers may manifest themselves in mysterious, wonderful and unexpected ways, because differently for each unique soul. Pain is turned to joy as those things which stand between man and the God who created him are relinquished, until the final relinquishing of our lives to Him. I feel we may be received into the arms of Guardian Angels as we were received into our mothers’ arms when we were born. Today there is a better understanding of death, especially in the hospices and sometimes death can even be funny. I remember an aunt of mine, a very old lady who had been waiting impatiently to meet the Lord she had served faithfully all her life, deliberately filling in the last hours of waiting. She said crossly, “I don’t know why they keep me waiting on the doorstep! They should have come for me last night, but I’m doing sums while I wait.”

7 hat sums. I asked. Nine threes are twenty-seven, add three and that’s KMty h J PuettZ8j °d!” she announced triumphantly. I saw her a little while before she died and knew she was contentedly making her S^e had gone beyond our reach for the time being "ht e we are here the angels’ work is to teach us how to love. Kahlil Gibran writes of Love: “Even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth, so he is for your pruning... if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of vour laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.” Because we are created by God, called to love Him and respond to Him a™ because the angels are all about to lighten our path towards Him we shall never be satisfied until we have laughed all of our laughter and wept all of our tears. We are, in St. John of the Cross’s words, “spirits already prepared for the infusion of that light” and there can be no rest until we have reached the place that God has prepared for us. The angels will help us on our way. r

I found myself passing beyond the Singing which was very strong in such places, into the ambience, the consciousness - what words can one use?- of a profoundly wise and powerful Being who I felt was brooding over the Houses of Parliament. In that inner space he towered so high that the actual buildings seemed to be clustered about his feet.. . . I was acutely aware that his task, his deep concern, was to influence for good the deliberations of Parliament, and also that he thought in terms of long evolving patterns rather than of one particular moment in time.” Rosalind Heywood from An Infinite Hive

PROTECTION When I was young, my family lived in an old Victorian house. Upon retiring to bed on one particular night, I followed my usual practice of saying a short prayer “Lord, keep us safe this night, secure from all our fears . . . ”, During the small hours of the morning, I was aroused by an ‘inner alarm’ which urged me to get out of bed, which I did, staggering rather sleepily to the opposite side of the room. I heard a violent cracking noise behind me and, turning, I became fully awakened by the sight of a sizeable piece of heavy ceiling resting across my pillow. Was this a prayer answered? William Dobson

My angels guard you day and night and nothing can harm you. You would indeed thank Me if you knew the darts offret and evil they turn from you. God Calling

8 The Celestial Hierarchies by the Revd V.P. Bowen A talk given to the London Group in October 1979. “Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.” Johnl:51 When I was invited to talk to you and the day was fixed for October 8th I thought it should be on the subject of the Holy Angels. This is the month that the Church by tradition sets aside for the contemplation of the Angelic Host and tomorrow is the Feast of St. Denys, or Dionysius, who for centuries has been thought to be the author of the fullest treatise on these spiritual beings, called the Celestial Hierarchies. It is a very large subject and I cannot hope to cover the extent of the revealed knowledge and human experience of the nature and ministry of the angels tonight so I must particularize. It is not necessary for me to prove to you the existence of angels. The Bible is so full of references to them and the writings of great spiritual masters so constantly mention them that that would be superfluous. But perhaps it would be helpful to start with a brief summary of what we mean by angels. The Greeks call them ASOMATOI, bodiless ones. They are spiritual intelligences that cannot be perceived by our physical senses, though some of the Fathers attribute to them ethereal bodies. They are created beings and St. Augustine thinks that they were created on the first day with the light. They are immortal, have free will, are finite and so are capable of falling and attaining perfection. Now of course we know that the language of time and space is inadequate but we must try not to stop at the imagery by which these spirits are described; wings, wheels, fire, bright raiment and so on. They are revealed to us in Holy Scripture as intermediate between God and man. This will naturally worry us as Christians. We believe that Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, is the only Mediator and Advocate, and there is evidence in St. Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians (2:18) that worshipping of angels was a danger then and the Epistle to the Hebrews (Chapter 1) is at pains to show that Christ is superior to the angels. I think our fears, if we have them, are unfounded. We do not deny that God works through us, the members of Christ, and that He speaks through us. We all know the miracles that He has worked on each one of us through the agency of a fellow Christian and the messages we have received from Him through the words of our friends. In the spiritual world that is true of the angels. That is the main theme of the Celestial Hierarchies. Dionysius was probably the last writer of the Platonist School at Athens writing in the Fifth Century. The aim of the School was the synthesis of the Christian Faith with Platonic thought and their chief contribution to spiritual mysticism is the idea of HENOSIS (union of the soul and God) and THEIOSIS (the Deification of man). Dionysius had a profound effect upon the whole Church, both East and West, both doctrinal and mystical.

9 Meister Eckhart, Richard Rolle, in fact all the mystics, were influenced by him. However it is the idea of God being mediated to man through the angels that we want to look at tonight. The Celestial Hierarchies is a difficult book and I don’t think I need apologise to you when I say that it is not always possible to understand. I should be in good company! Dionysius starts with a quotation from St. James. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of Light.” He goes on to call upon Jesus, “the Light of the Father which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world,” to give us grace to contemplate the Hierarchies, to contemplate the Celestial Intelligence. He says that, as in the Church here on earth, there is an hierarchical structure in the spiritual world by which the Divine Radiance is mediated downwards through choirs of angels and that through them the soul may move upwards towards its Deification and Oneness with God. These spirits consist of nine orders or choirs, each representing Divine Attributes which they manifest to those below. The first of the Triads of Choirs consists of the Seraphim, the Glowing Ones, burning with Divine Love; the Cherubim, who are the Fullness of Knowledge and Streams of Wisdom; and the Thrones, the Steadfast Power which penetrates all consciousness. The Second Triad is composed of the Dominions, which are the Divine Justice and liberating rule of God; the Virtues, conveying Grace that is strong and brave; and the Powers, that wield the Authority that directs the intellect without tyrannical force. The Third and last of the Triads contains the Principalities, which are both Divine Lordship and True Service; the Archangels, who imprint the Seal of the Divine upon the universe so that it may be read as His Word; and the Angels who work with individual souls, purifying and uplifting them. You may ask where Dionysius got all this information. Well, of course, it all comes from the Bible and you may find most of it in Ephesians 1:21, Colossians 1:16, Isaiah 6:2 and Ezekiel 1:5. The references to Angels and Archangels come from various parts of Scripture and these are the only ones that normally have direct contact with human beings. All these Celestial Beings are called Angels because each order is the interpreter and herald of those above. The downflowing life of God is perfecting, illuminating and purifying so as the angels transmit this Life to those below them they make a spiritual ladder by which the soul ascends to God through purification, illumination and union. This corresponds to the active life of the soul by which if becomes the servant of God: the inner life by which the soul grows in sonship and contemplative life by which the soul attains to true friendship with God. I chose the text from St. John’s Gospel to begin with because I thought that we needed to see all this activity in the context of the Atonement. The coming of Christ into the world, His Death upon the Cross, His Resurrection and Ascension open to us the way of God. As Jacob saw, in a dream, Angels ascending and descending on a ladder, now in actual fact the ladder is set up, Christ has made the Way — Himself being the Way, the Truth and the Life, and the traffic between Heaven and Earth is now a fact. The Angels, as our prayer book says, serve God in Heaven and succour us

10 on earth. They are the ministers of God and sometimes it is very difficult to differentiate between what we call direct action of God and His action through His angels, in, for example, Abraham’s conversations, the Angel of the Presence leading the People of Israel, or the giving of the Law to Moses. The same may be said about the release of St. Peter at Jerusalem and St. Paul at Philippi. It is all God’s work and word. When we think of the Holy Angels we want to do more than thank God for their aid here'on earth against the evil one, and more than thank Him for their protection that they watch over us. We want to think of them as those who are messengers, agents of His Truth and Healing. We want to think of them as strengthening our feeble prayers here on earth, carrying our prayers up to heaven, and allowing us to join in the worship of heaven. But we want to do more t.han that: we want to know them as agents of our redemption, to know that their ministry is to bring us to our perfection and the Beatific Vision. We want to know them because Our Lord promises that we shall be as the angels of God in heaven and that when Our Lord comes in glory it will be with the angels. May I give you a final text? “Ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.’’ (Hebrews 12:22-24) Finally, a prayer used by the Nuns of Chester: "O my Lord Jesus Christ, as it hath pleased Thee to assign an angel to wait on me daily and nightly, with great attendance and diligence, so I beseech Thee, through his going betwixt us, that Thou cleanse me from vices, clothe me with virtues, grant me love and grace to come, see, and have without end Thy bliss, before Thy fair face, that liveth and reigneth after Thy glorious passion with the Father of heaven, and with the Holy Ghost, one God and Persons three, without end in bliss."

Father Paul Bowen is the Rector of Wanstead in East London. He is a member of the CFPSS.

Nor think, — though men were none, — That heaven would want spectators, God want praise! Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise His works behold Both day and night. Milton

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim and seraphim. Pope St. Gregory I (quoting from St. Dionysius)

11 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held at Digby Stuart College Roehampton Lane, London SW15 on Friday 2nd September 1988 at 5 pm The President opened the meeting with prayer. Apologies for absence were received from Miss K. Challis Mrs P Patey Mrs P. Grosset, Miss R. Plant, Mrs KTennant, the Venerable M. Perry Mr D. Houlding, Mr D. and Mrs Y. Cremer. There were 54 members present. The minutes of the last Annual General Meeting were taken as read and signed as correct. There were no matters arising.

Chairman’s Report (read by Capt. H. Corbett in the absence of the Chairman). “This time last year, we were expecting to move into our own new headquarters office in the Kentish village of Hamstreet. In the event, and almost at the last moment, we discovered planning difficulties in the number of persons allowed to work in the premises at any one time, so were advised to, withdraw from the purchase. Instead, as we all know, the Fellowship s offices are now in rented accommodation in New Romney, on the south coast of Kent. Our lease is for an initial three years with the option of renewing for three years at a time; it is our present intention to use the first three years in order to carry out intensive search for suitable permanent owned premises where we might be our own landlords from (say) late 1990 to early 1991 onwards. The Council and Executive Committee do not intend to let time slip by and—perhaps—there may be progress to be reported by next year’s AGM. The move from St. Mary Abchurch involved a great deal of extra work on the part of Julian and Catherine and a host of volunteers, but I am sure it has been well worth it. Julian will be able to work from a base only a few miles from home, which will involve much lower travel expenses and will enable him to be so much fresher at the beginning of the working day. The offices themselves are capacious, well furnished, well serviced and well laid out; the library has been pruned of all but the books we would wish to recommend to members or enquirers, and is housed in a series of bookshelves, so that anyone who comes can see at a glance what it contains. Mention of Catherine Drewett brings me to the second main point in this annual report. Catherine and Julian have been joint secretaries (or, technically, General Secretary and Assistant Secretary) for some time, and we have greatly valued Catherine’s presence at Conferences and in other ways. She has, however, resigned her post with effect from 1 September 1988, and Julian is now sole General Secretary, doing full-time on his own the work-sharing job previously shared with Catherine. But — as we see_ Catherine has stayed on a few days in order to be at our Annual Conference here at Roehampton. We thank her for all she has been and all she has done for us, and wish her happiness as she concentrates on her career as a teacher. The rest of this report is pedestrian by comparison. The main occasion to which I would draw the AGM’s attention was the conference held at Almondsbury for Group and Branch organizers. It replaced, for one year,

12 the two-day Clergy Conference we have been having for the last couple of years. President, Secretary, and Chairman addressed sessions, but the main purpose was to enable our workers in the field to reflect on the work of their groups and branches, and the ways in which the aims and objectives of the Fellowship could be the more effectively pursued. It was voted a great success, and, though we shall be having a further Clergy Conference in 1989, it was felt that a residential meeting for Group and Branch Organizers ought to be held once every two (or, more likely, three) years. The life of the Fellowship has (however) continued where it has always resided — where two or three (or twenty or thirty, or a hundred or more) are gathered together. We are a Fellowship, and therefore we meet. We owe a great debt of gratitude to our group and branch organisers, to the speakers who give of their time and expertise, to those who lead our study and discussion; to those who work hard so we can have our Regional Conferences; and supremely to Julian, who sits at the centre of this web like a benevolent spider and without whom the Fellowship just would not be able to function. The biggest event of the Fellowship’s year is its Annual Conference, and the organization behind it has to be experienced to be believed. It does not just happen; it has to be created and sustained, and followed through. Thank you, Julian, for all you do and for all you are to us. We appreciate you. And so the Fellowship has experienced another year, and is in good shape and good heart to continue its work of counselling and supporting and justifying and forwarding an understanding of the psychic element within Christian life. Long may it witness to that indispensable aspect of Christian experience!” Secretary’s Report (Mr Julian Drewett) “The last year has seen great changes in the day-to-day running of the Fellowship. You have alredy heard that, at the last minute, plans to purchase a building in Hamstreet fell through and the decision to lease the office suite in New Romney was made. During December preparations were made to make the move from London to Kent. Many of you will know what it is like to move house after several years’ occupation. It makes the opportunity to have a thorough clear out of a lot of items that you have been holding on to for years and it also brings you face to face with items that have been hidden for years in dusty corners. And so it was at St. Mary Abchurch. The move was made during the first week of January and the weather was kind. The new office has room for the computer and printers to be properly housed, there are two desks with telephones and enough space for a good display of books for sale and tapes and videos for hire. The library is properly shelved in a separate room and the new catalogue will be available during the autumn. I do apologise for the long delay over its production but there has been a lot to do. Members may borrow by post and the Fellowship will bear the cost of postage one-way. The curious thing is that over the last 8 months there have been more callers at the door at 44 High Street than there ever were at St. Mary Abchurch in the last three years that I was there. The local clergy come in to borrow tapes, books etc and use us as a resource for their congregations. This followed a coffee

13 morning when all the local clergy were invited to drop in and see what we are all about. People come off the street and ask for a brochure and perhaps some relevant literature. It is all very encouraging. Hie overall feeling is that one is part of a living community instead of an anonymous blob in the City of London. During the past year, there has been a conference for leaders of groups , branches and regions when we were able to spend some time discussing the work throughout the country. Study and Discusson Notes have also become available during the year for the use of individuals and groups. These are becoming a very valued part of our resources especially as they can be had either singly or as a small booklet. Barbara Bunce played a large part in getting that project underway and we do thank her. There are one or two copies on the bookstall for inspection only. Orders can be given to the bookstall staff. We have been able to stock a small library of videos on various subjects connected with our work. Several groups have requested copies for hire for meetings where a video machine is available. The York Branch has already used one and found this form of evening on the programme to be a fruitful one. One new booklet has been published this year, The Paranormal in Holy Scripture. It is made up of two reprints from articles in the Christian Parapsychologist and is most useful for those who question our work and need to read something with a biblical basis of the paranormal. On an administrative level, all subscriptions are now paid to Head Office and although there are still several members still paying to their region by mistake or having banker’s orders to a regional account, this new system is running smoothly. Most of the regions are now active, and as you will see from the accounts, a greater amount of money is going out from Head Office for the use of regions on a local basis. All the journals go out from New Romney now and I do want to take this opportunity of thanking all those volunteers who have distributed journals over the years. Membership has risen again with 100 new members and an overall total of 1235 up to 31 August this year. 114 people subscribe separately to the Christian Parapsychologist. You might be interested to know that we have a smattering of members in South Africa, Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Apart from this national conference, regions and branches have continued to hold day and residential conferences. A most successful week­ end was held in Bournemouth in April. Unfortunately, the Northern region were not able to go ahead with their week-end in York for lack of support but it is hoped that the national conference to be held there next year will draw members together again after this transitional period following the most successful years at Scarborough. Grateful thanks are due to all those who give such a lot of their time to the organisation of these events and who keep the work of the Fellowship alive throughout the country. As for my travels this year, I have visited the London branch twice, and visited the Cheltenham branch. Catherine and I very much enjoyed taking

14 part in the Taunton day conference last autumn. I spoke to the East Midlands group in Newark where Penelope Grosset is doing good work in bringing people together from a very scattered membership. In November, I was invited to preach at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge on the ministry of healing and the work of the Fellowship and in April I represented the Fellowship at a conference in Swanwick organised by CCHH. Finally, in June I made a trip to the York and Ilkley branches. Looking ahead to the near future, we are about to reprint two booklets by our President, Dr Martin Israel: The Power of the Spirit in Everyday Living and An Approach to Mysticism both of which have sold very well in the past. A further conference for clergy will be held in 1989 following the two successful events in 1987. Plans are also taking shape for the York conference from 1 - 3 September 1989. The Archbishop of York hopes to be with us as will Dr Israel, Margot Grey and David Hay of the Alister Hardy Research Centre with which we hope to have closer links. I do commend to you next year’s conference, the theme of which will be ‘Religious Experience’. We want to draw members from all over the country to York. Finally, I want to say a big thank-you to all those who have helped me over the last year — the volunteers who have given of their time so generously — the officers and members of council who have supported the work of the office — to those who are working hard at this conference and to the many members for all their friendship. It is good to be part of a family such as this. May God bless our work as we go forward into another year.” Treasurer’s Report (Mr Jack Holmes) Mr Holmes told the meeting that the funds of the Fellowship were in a sound state despite the fluctuating stock market. He referred the meeting to the Income and Expenditure account and made comments on individual items. He said that the subscription income had dropped but this was because there were several Life Membership subscriptions included last year and this was a more realistic figure. Membership was increasing slowly. There would have to be a review of subscription rates next year which would be put to the next AGM. There had been donations of £13,610 which included a generous gift from Miss Kathleen Appleby of £10,000. On the Expenditure side, there had been a reduction of the number of books in the library, resulting in a new valuation. This meant that £1,792 had been written off. The depreciation of the value of the motor vehicle was greater this year due to the purchase of a new car for the secretary. The vehicle needed to be replaced every two to three years. Mr Holmes said that there was a reduction in salaries and national insurance contributions due to the fact that Mrs Teresa Parker had left the employment of the Fellowship during the year 1987/8. The audit and accountancy fee had increased considerably over last year’s figure and the Treasurer said that he was concerned at the high cost of this. He told the meeting that the firm had been taken over by a larger City firm and he suggested that this was the reason for higher charges. The figure for depreciation of equipment was higher due to the purchase of new furniture and equipment after the move to New Romney. The Fellowship

15 had made a donation of £550 to St. Mary Abchurch on leaving those *j?i6miscs. The Treasurer told the meeting that three small accounts had been closed dunng the year. They were the Staff Gratuity Fund, the Vera Staff Fund and the Library Fund. The Bursary Fund was being maintained and was available to members to reduce conference fees. The total of funds ^?An}ed !° £325>960- The auditors had failed to claim tax refunds of £6000 for the year 1986/7 and this was being looked into now. The Treasurer thanked the Secretary for the day to day work that he had done on all the financial matters concerning the Fellowship. Report on the ‘Quarterly Review’ (Dr Elizabeth Bowen) Dr Bowen outlined the themes for the 1989 editions of the Quarterly Review. Spring 89 would be ‘Self-Image’, Summer 89 would be about the psychic power of plants, trees, flowers and gardens, Autumn 89 would be about people’s experiences of discamate beings and Winter 89 would be about music and the psychic. The Editor said that in the future she would like to hear from members about any one book which had meant a lot to them. Dr Bowen said that she was always open to suggestions for themes for the journal. Report on ‘Christian Parapsychologist’ (Capt. Corbett in the absence of the Editor) “I was present at a meeting at St. Mary Abchurch on 18 October 1978. On the following day I wrote to Maurice Frost with an aide-memoire of the things we then agreed. Point one read as follows: “I shall be described as “editor” of CP and will continue as such for a year at least; it is up to me to give notice if I feel that I am running short of material.” “A year at least”; it sounds like the story of the man who stayed for dinner. Since then, I have edited CP for a decade, and have chosen (or commissioned) articles, reviews, letters, and news items for forty issues covering 1460 pages and containing well over three-quarters of a million words. If it be true that we shall have to account at the day of judgement for every idle word we utter, I shall need to be pardoned more than twice seventy times seventy. Unless, of course, the words in CP have not been idle. I like to believe that they are not, and that the Fellowship, in sponsoring CP for more than a decade (because it was a Fellowship publication for some time before I became editor) has helped Christians to think theologically and constructively about the relation of the psychical to the spiritual. Certainly my decade of editorship has been a remarkably happy and fertile one, and CP has received more bouquets than brickbats. “It is up to me,” I wrote ten years ago, “to give notice if I feel that I am running short of material.” May I assure members that that time has not yet come? Just at present the queue of articles awaiting publication is a little shorter than it has been for most of the time I have been responsible for CP, but I am working on that and do not imagine I will run out during the coming twelve months. If the Fellowship decides to organize a third International Conference on Christian Parapsychology in 1990, six years

16 after the second and twelve years after the first, and if there are as many and as excellent contributions to that Conference, and if most of the papers can again appear in CP, we have got it made for some years to come. If the Conference is not repeated, the Editor will have to earn his keep by commissioning material in some other way. This present Annual Report covers the numbers which appeared in December 1987, and March, June and September 1988. Last year I mentioned the long CP articles by Angus Haddow and Donald Bretherton. Since then, they have been reprinted as a separate booklet of 40 pages, with a cover price of £1, under the title The Paranormal in Holy Scripture. That booklet is selling well and should help to commend the Fellowship’s interest to those who ask whether the Bible legitimates them. In the year under review, the December issue contained an article about Emanuel Swedenborg in preparation for the three hundredth anniversary of his birth. In March we carried a symposium on the Deliverance ministry with articles showing how it appeared to Anglicans, to Roman Catholics, to Evangelicals, and to those who were aware of the psychiatry of pseudo­ possession. The June issue “majored” on Christian attitudes to Spiritualism, and, to mark the 1988 Lambeth Conference, reprinted the Report on Spiritualism which was issued by the Lambeth Conference of 1920 — a less quoted report than the 1939 Church of England one, but one whose contents are well worth reconsidering. (Incidentally, next year the embargo on the Bishops’ Meeting of 1939 will expire and we shall be able to see exactly what they thought of the Underhill Report and why they decided against its publication. CP will, in due course, contain details about that so that the record can be set straight.) Finally, our current issue (September 1988) contains an autobiographical article by Renee Haynes, and an article by an Evangelical scholar which attempts to cast a large bucket of cold water on the whole enterprise of Christian parapsychology. It is printed because it is necessary for members of the Fellowship to know what those who do not agree with them are saying. If a reasoned reply is forthcoming it will be printed in a later number. A new feature in CP has been the “Revised Review”, in which a writer looks at a book which has had a great influence on Christian psychical and spiritual studies in the past, and which needs a reassessment for a later generation. Two have so far been published, and more are in the pipeline. A minor feature of CP has been the brief notes of books of lesser significance. At a meeting of branch and group representatives this Summer, it was said that this section of CP gave too little guidance as to the value (or even the danger) of the books mentioned, and that, as it appeared on the outside back cover, casual readers who picked up CP might think that the Fellowship was commending a very odd selection of material. As a result, from this issue onwards, the section in question is being printed in the body of CP rather than on the back cover: it is prefaced by a disclaimer saying that inclusion of a title here does not mean that we approve of the book or its subject; and I am attempting to be more critical and less purely descriptive. That shows, I hope, that I welcome criticism of CP and try to act on it. I wish there could be more of it; perhaps because this report is being

17 presented in absentia those who hear it at the A GM may be emboldened to make comments they would be too shy to make to the Editor face to face. If any such criticisms are passed on to me, I promise to give them my most careful consideration. I do not believe it is impossible to improve CP. Meanwhile, I do all I can to make it as useful as I can.” Discussion of Reports Mr David King asked about the figure for the cost of renting premises. The Treasurer said that the figure of £1675 included a nine month period at St. Mary Abchurch and a three month period at New Romney. Next year the figure would be £3000 for a full year at New Romney inclusive of rates. Mrs Macauley expressed concern that such a large proportion of the Fellowship’s assets was invested in stocks and shares especially at such an unsettled time. The Treasurer assured her that the best advice had been taken from our stockbroking firm and no further funds would be invested other than in a building society account until the financial climate became more settled. The Secretary added that the bulk of funds had come from generous legacies over the last ten years. Mrs Margaret Butler expressed the hope that the Fellowship would be in a position to purchase property for its HQ in the future. The Treasurer replied that this question came up for discussion periodically. He pointed out that if a substantial part of the assets were spent on property, there would be a considerable loss of income resulting in a much reduced service to members. Capt Corbett reminded the meeting of the comments made by the chairman in his report that the three year lease at New Romney would provide time for the council to discuss at length the pros and cons of purchasing a property and that the council would be considering this between now and the next AGM. The President congratulated both editors on the excellence of the journals of the Fellowship. Approval of Accounts It was proposed by Prebendary Michael Shrewsbury and seconded by Canon John Smith that the accounts be formally approved. This was agreed unanimously. Election of President The Secretary announced that the Revd Dr Martin Israel had been elected for a further term of five years. On behalf of all the members, the Secretary took the opportunity to thank Dr Israel for all he gives to the Fellowship. Election of Council Members The Secretary declared that Mrs Beryl Statham, the Revd John Quigley and Prependary Michael Shrewsbury had been elected to the Council for a period of three years. Election of Auditors The Treasurer said that the firm Westcott Wilson, now taken over by Blakemores, had been inadequate and expensive. Another firm which operated in Sandgate, just seven miles from the present HQ, had given a

18 more favourable quotation for the work. This quotation was about £500 lower than the London firm. Mr Holmes said that he knew this accountant personally and could recommend him. He therefore proposed that Eiles, Wood & Co be elected auditors for the year 1988/89. This was seconded by Canon John Smith and carried. Any other business Mrs Statham gave news of Mrs Patricia Patey who was seriously ill. It was agreed that a letter of greeting be sent to her. Mrs Doris Weston said that Miss Margaret Brice-Smith, a Vice- President of the Fellowship, was now in a nursing home and she would be visiting her the following afternoon. She would take the good wishes of the meeting to Miss Brice-Smith. The President closed the meeting with prayer.

THE MORNING OFFICE HYMN OF ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS Ascribed to Archbishop Rabanus Maurus, 9th cent. Tr AR Christe, sanctorum decus Angelorum. CHRIST, the fair glory of the holy Angels, Thou who hast made us, thou who o’er us rulest, Grant of thy mercy unto us thy servants Steps up to heaven. Send thy Archangel, Michael, to our succour; Peacemaker blessed, may he banish from us Striving and hatred, so that for the peaceful All things may prosper. Send thy Archangel, Gabriel, the mighty; Herald of heaven, may he from us mortals Spurn the old serpent, watching o’er the temples Where thou art worshipped. Send thy Archangel, Raphael, the restorer Of the misguided ways of men who wander, Who at thy bidding strengthens soul and body With thine anointing. May the blest Mother of our God and Saviour, May the assembly of the Saints in glory, May the celestial companies of Angels Ever assist us. Father almighty, Son and Holy Spirit, God ever blessed, be thou our preserver; Thine is the glory which the Angels worship, Veiling their faces. Amen.

Devil is the opposite of Angel only as Bad Man is the opposite of Good Man. Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite not of God but of Michael. C.S. Lewis from The Screwtape Latters

19 THE ANGELS by Sylvia Fowler From a 1981 London Group discussion of members’ experiences As Tom says, we get our priorities right in our house. The dog and I went first class and the cat went BOAC. Tom went army charter, you see with everything stuck on with chewing gum. ’ It was absolutely terrible weather—the ship was just going up and down and the sea was coming over. And poor old Scrabby-dog got sick. There was only a doctor on board: no vet or anyone. I got the doctor and said, Come and have a look at my dog. You ought to be able to do something ” He S7 don,t know what’s wronS with him’but he’s in. He’s definitely very ill. Scrabby was 14 years of age. He might have been sea-sick, but he wasn t sick. We just didn’t know what was wrong. That night when I’d had my dinner, I went back on to the cruise deck where his kennel was, and I looked at him and I didn’t know what to do. He lay in my arms just like a rag doll. I thought, “This is terrible.” I sat with him for about an hour, then 1 laid him back in his kennel again. No sound no noise. I thought, “I can’t, I cannot let this go on. I can’t let this little dog’ whom I love so much, suffer like this. We’ve got another five weeks before we reach Singapore.” And I thought, “I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to pick him up, I’m going to love him, then I’m going to get enough courage and I’m going to drop him into the sea.” And I was standing there, looking out into total blackness, and I was suddenly conscious of this beautiful light, slightly on my left. It was white-blue; I’ve never seen anything so beautiful in all my life. And I thought, “This is a lighthouse! God’s telling me it doesn’t matter where you go, He’s there.” And I thought, “How beautiful. How marvellous!” and that was enough for me. It wasn t enough for God, because very suddenly, very quickly, this light split up and made two most huge figures. I can’t tell you how tall they were. I look at the London buildings sometimes and I think, “Yes, they were that tall. The outside arms were quite loose, but the inside area, because they were standing close together, were joined. I was absolutely terrified, and I watched them grow. There was a second’s pause — and then they flew at me! There was a sort of garment, and I could see a foot —. All they said to me was, “Go away!” Well, I’ve never been so frightened in all my life. I fell down the gangway. I just got off that deck as quickly as I could. I was absolutely petrified. And I thought, “What are they?” I’ve always thought of angels as being haloes and feathers and golden hair and these were just an outline in light and it had been so quick, watching the figures form. I just didn t want to stay alone that night. There was a party on board and I washed and dressed and I went in. I just wanted to be with *people I wanted to sit down and find normality again. I sat there as long as I possibly could, and I slept on and off all night and I kept seeing these figures in front of my eyes. As soon as it was light the next morning, I got up, and I thought, “What am I going to find?” I went up on deck and there wasn’t a sign of anything but through the kennel I could see two bright eyes looking at me, and a

20 scrabbling and I knew Scrabby was fit and he was well. I opened the door and he came bounding out. He only had a little stubby tail and when he was so pleased that wasn’t enough to wag; that was going and his bottom was going as well, he was so delighted. And he was saying to me, “If only I could talk!” And that was how it was.

Child of My throes, where'er I set thee stand; No self-sought danger earns My angel's hand. Morgan

GENERAL SECRETARY’S NOTES National Conference 1989. This conference will be held in York from 1 - 3 September. The theme will be ‘Religious Experience’, and it is hoped that the Archbishop of York will be one of our guests. National Conference 1988. Cassette tapes are available on the talks given at this conference — price £2.75 each including postage. The titles are:- ‘Grades of Inspiration’ — The Revd Dr Martin Israel ‘Prediction and Prophecy’ — The Revd Dr Martin Israel ‘What did Blake believe?’ — Miss Desiree Hirst ‘Swedenborg — Prophet of the New Age’ — The Revd Dr Michael Stanley. Office Staffing. HQ will be closed for the Christmas period froip 24 December — 3 January inclusive. Video Library. The following VHS videos are now available for group, branch or individual use. The hire charge is £5 for groups, £2 for individuals. ‘The Seven Circles of Prayer’ — (35 minutes) ‘Prayer in Your Home’ — (27 minutes) ‘Visions of Hope’ — this is on near-death experiences, interviews etc, (40 minutes) ‘The Healing Ministry’ — this is made by the Churches’ Council for Health and Healing. (46 minutes) ‘Pray, Hope & don’t worry’ — the life and work of Padre Pio. (60 minutes) Library. At last, I am pleased to announce that there is a new edition of the library catalogue which may be obtained from HQ, price 50p including postage. Members are invited to borrow books by post when the Fellowship will pay postage one way and the borrower will pay postage on returning the books. Up to four books may be borrowed at any onetime for a period of a month. Please make use of this facility.

21 ANNUAL ACCOUNTS Income and Expenditure Account — General Fund Year ended 31st March, 1988 1988 1987 £ £ Income Subscriptions ...... 8,113 8,971 Income from investments (gross) ...... 22,944 23,357 Interest receivable ...... 1,048 286 (Deficit)/profit on sale of books and hire of tapes ...... (40) 261 Sale of Christian Parapsychologist ...... 411 456 32,476 33,331 Other income: Donations 13,610 1,195 £46,086 £34,526 Expenditure Amount written off library valuation ... 1,792 Cost of Quarterly Review and Christian Parapsychologist ...... 5,703 6,176 Travelling and Car Expenses ...... 4,080 2,924 Depreciation of Motor Vehicle ...... 2,306 1,239 Salaries and NIC ...... 11*610 13,184 Pension Scheme ...... ’500 500 Expenses Allowances ...... 250 Postage, Stationery and Rental of Franking Machine ...... 4,402 4,753 Accommodation Charge ...... 1,675 1,163 Telephone ...... ’ggl 770 Insurance ...... 128 304 Audit and Accountancy Fees ...... 1,922 1,229 Fee for Tax Repayments ...... *304 250 Sundry Expenses ...... 1,108 855 Depreciation of Equipment ...... 1 *035 290 Deficiency on Conferences ...... ’170 1,299 Donations ...... 650 100 Bank Charges ...... 168 Costs of Removal to New Premises ...... 812 Computer Expenses and Consultancy ... 772 Profit on Sale of Motor Vehicle ...... (507) Net Costs of Regions and Branches ...... 872 £40,163 £35,286 Net Surplus/(Deficit) ...... £ 5 923 £ (760)

22 The servants of Christ are protected by invisible, rather than visible beings. But if these guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayeTS- St. Ambrose

TOLD IN A COACH by The Revd E.V. Rowlingson From CFPS Q.R. March 1964 A few of us resumed our seats in the coach which was parked during the lunch hour, in the yard of an ancient inn. As we waited for therestof the party to join us, one of them, an elderly man with a strong, scholarly face, climbed in and began to talk to us, standing in the aisle of the coach. “All this,” he said, indicating with his stick the sweep of green countryside, intersected by high hedges and country roads, “is well known to me. I’ve been familiar from boyhood with every stick and stone of it.” He paused reflectively, “I had a curious experience here once,” he continued, “I’ll tell you about it.” “One wild stormy day,” he began, “when I was a young student, I reached home after a hard morning’s work, and made up my mind to have a cosy afternoon. I stretched out my legs in front of a blazing fire, while the windows rattled, the wind howled round the house and the rain lashed down in torrents. Now I was not asleep!” he looked at us whimsically, “Actually, I was reading a novel, but believe it or not, I heard a voice speaking in the room, as clearly as you now hear me speaking to you. Yet I was alone in the room. The voice said, ‘You must go out!’ ” He paused dramatically, and I pictured the young fellow leaping from his chair and staring round the room in bewilderment. “After a moment or two, I told myself not to be a fool,” he went on, “I said it was the wind tearing at the window-panes, the noise of the rain — and I sat down again. But a little while afterwards, I was electrified at hearing the voice again, close to me, speaking above the wind and rain — forcefully too! ‘You must go out!’ ” . It was evident that the narrator was re-enacting the scene in memory, and we sensed the uncanny feeling that crept over the youth as at last he got up to obey the strange summons. “Completely encased in sou’-wester, oilskin coat and rubber boots, he continued, “I struggled out into the storm, half inclined to nod impishly at the room behind, as much as to say, ‘You’ve won, but what’s the next move?’ In a few minutes I was coming do wn this road and had to fight every inch of the way, hardly able to see where I was going. Not a soul did I meet, yet I trudged as if impelled by some unseen will power, and I turned up that lane over there, which you see straggles steeply up between hedges. “All was desolate and lonesome, not a man nor beast in sight, and I began to think I had been made a proper fool of— and then —” he lowered his voice and held us with a steady eye and impressively raised forefinger— “I heard faint moaning and a feeble cry for help! It came from the ditch on

23 the other side of the hedge. I managed to squeeze through and there in the ditch, half-dead from exposure, pain and fear, was an old labourer with a wooden leg. He had been hedging and ditching in the morning before the storm came on and had fallen, caught his wooden leg in the brambles and couldn’t move. He had been there for hours and no one had passed that way. The poor old man had almost given up hope of being found before night came. I dragged him out and got help from the inn here. ‘Thank God you came, sir, he kept muttering, ‘I should have died if you hadn’t come' Thank God!’ ‘Perhaps He sent me,’ I said.”

Though not inheritors as yet Of all your own right royal things . . . Yet are ye Angels in disguise; Angels who have not found your wings. Sutton

BLESS THE LORD, YE HIS ANGELS We have all experienced the good offices of angels even though we may not have thought about their divine origin. When in some trouble a person happens” to phone or call, we may spontaneously say, “You are an angel!” Or we say, “Be an angel and do something for me.” I owe it to the dear late Canon Andrew Glasewski that I know angels are ever ready to assist us and can appear in all sorts of guises — a person, a thought or even a parking place when needful! Before setting out for the busy market town, Andrew said he always asked an angel to reserve a place for him near his’ destination, and it was always there. He added that it was important to ask m advance and give thanks at the end. Many of us give thanks for Andrew’s enthusiasm for sharing his discoveries in his healing and prayer work One day I was visiting some farming friends, when the farmer had to go to a certain place to pick up a truck. He was bothered about it because his son was not available to help hitch it to the car. Cheerfully I said that his wife and I would ask an angel to assist. He smiled and set off. On return he said, Such a funny thing happened; a man came across a field and asked if he could help!” The farmer repeated how funny this was — “funny” was his word I did remind him about the angel, but he looked sceptical. However his wife and I gave thanks. Some years ago there were several angels around when I was involved in a car accident when taking a friend to Exeter station. I had stopped at the top of the hill at a giveway sign when a van ran into the back of the car. I immediately lost consciousness and only remember whizzing through a

24 long, long tunnel and finding at the end I was still alive! I was spared the physical and mental pain of the whole affair and still have no recollections of what happened. The following was related to me later. Knowing nothing about cars my friend was relieved when we ran into a lamp-post instead of running to the bottom of the hill. The first angel was in the form of a young man who got off a passing bus and phoned for help. The next two angels were ladies coming from the station on another bus and they were on their way to a prayer meeting. They asked for prayers for the unknown people in the squashed car. Later I learned it was the group led by a friend of mine. The police told my friend’s cousin and my sister that they did not expect to find anyone alive in the Mini which was battered back and front. My friend was, and still is, a very spiritual person and forgave me for spoiling her holiday. I have always been thankful I did not cause her an untimely death. That our lives were spared eighteen years ago, I can only attribute to the Divine Protection in which we both trust. Now I live on a busy road along which ambulances and fire-engines race several times a day. I try to pause for a few moments to ask the heavenly host to go with them and to be with those in need, whether through fire, flood or accident, or whatever. I give thanks that the heavenly host is in the situation. I must confess to irritation sometimes at being interrupted by a wail, but I know there is a crisis somewhere and I was greatly blessed in my time of crisis. “Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts: ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.” (A.V. Ps. 103, vs. 20, 21) Sylvia Button

There shall no evil happen unto thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. Psalm 91

It is not when man's heart is nighest heaven He hath most need of Servant - Seraphim - Frederick Myers

25 And, as I stood there praying, I remember seeing the whole room filling with angels. So full of light they were, so beautiful, so happy. They came to us both and surrounded us. There was a time when I did not believe in angels but ever since I had begun many years before to minister Our Lord’s healing grace to sick folk, they had become very real to me. They certainly came into that room that night. The Revd George Bennett from Miracle at Crowhurst

REPORT ON ANNUAL CONFERENCE HELD SEPTEMBER 2nd - 4th 1988 at Digby Stuart College, Roehampton, on “Inspiration and Prophecy.” Ninety-five members enjoyed a stimulating programme, blessed by sunshine which enhanced the beauty of the lake and gardens. We were given an excellent talk on Friday evening by Dr Martin Israel on “Grades of Inspiration.” Just as we breathe in oxygen, we breathe in the Holy Spririt, which goes right through us and changes us. Old age may well be the most important part of our lives, since we then have time to come to understand ourselves and to realise how our selfish ego is antagonistic to true growth. We must be open in the silence of His Spirit, wanting nothing for ourselves, as Isaiah (Chap. 6 v. 1-6) responded, “Here am I; send me,” not telling God what he (Isaiah) wanted or where. Then the Holy Spirit can cleanse our ego permanently: “He who saves his life will lose it; he who loses his life will save it.” On the inner level, we are made whole and reinvigorated; on the outer level we become creative, many advances in science can come through the Spirit’s inspiration, as do the great works of art which through their beauty bring God closer to us. The artist who plays a piece of music or interprets a poem or a play must equally be inspired afresh by the Holy Spirit to recreate the work. The Holy Spirit works through the individual: whether for good or evil depends on how he/she allows it to use him/her. It is by our lives and by the work that we do that we proclaim the greatness of God. The truly holy person does not tell you about God, but His Spirit shines through him. Real prayer means being open to God so we may be tranformed and serve others. Three (of many) thought-provoking “Obiter Dicta” in this talk:- 1) We come closer to each other in silence, for words often separate. 2) If Jesus hadn’t grown in spiritual discernment (eg the story of the Syro-Phoenician woman), he would not have been a complete human being. 3) Though Spiritualism may give us some idea of the after-life, it is completely earth-bound; contrast the very different effect made on us by a mystical experience.

’26 On Saturday morning we listened to a lucid and riveting talk by Dr Michael Stanley on “Swedenborg: Prophet of the New Age.” Swedenborg was born in 1688. In a unique experience at the age of 55, he began to live with those who had passed on as if he was one of them, though still continuing to live in this world for another 27 years. This led to a new breakthrough in consciousness to a vital experience of that inner life which animates and unifies the whole of life: a universal brotherhood across the boundaries of time and space, religion and race: this consciousness he called the Christ consciousness. It was a gift he received from the Lord Himself (via high celestial beings) when he was meditating on the Bible. His first work, The Secrets of Heaven (in 12 volumes) reveals the inspiration lying behind the outer skin of the Bible. He never met an angel who hadn’t once lived on this (or some other) planet: they became angels through being open to the divine life flowing through them. Deep within us, we too are angels, but since the whole spiritual realms reside within us, we are also potential devils. We are all linked together and with the denizens of this otherworld. The unspiritual see nothing but the outside of this world, but to the spiritual the whole of the Divine can be revealed in a grain of sand, as Blake saw. Swedenborg was not interested in using the Bible (like Tarot cards) to predict and so control the future, but rather to understand the hidden depths of our world. His goal was not further scientific discoyeries but to find where the soul resides: because he felt that when a scientist made a great discovery, he tended to interpret everything from that one point of view. But he did describe creation and demonstrate his belief that all the energy of the Divine is in every atom, which is the infinite source of potential life. In 1743 Swedenborg began having disturbing dreams, leading him to heights of ecstasy and to depths of despair. His Journal of Dreams relates these with interpretations anticipating methods used in our century by Jung for interpreting dreams. In these dreams over an 18-month period his EGO was crucified and he became a completely changed and truly humble man. He then explored the world of angels, who no longer appeared visually to him, but as tactile realities. He concluded that all our thoughts and feelings come to us from other spirits both here and departed, linked higher up the chain with angelic beings. Very happy weddings take place among Spiritual Beings who produce spiritual offspring, i.e. new forms of love and wisdom. Swedenborg died in 1772, never intending to set up a new organisation: he wished only to free minds from religious dogma. But after his death a group of prominent people formed the New (Swedenborgian) Church, realising they could no longer worship in the old way. This account does scant justice to the wealth of material and insights presented to us by Dr Stanley. The second half of Saturday morning was filled with a lecture by Miss Desiree Hirst on “What did Blake believe? An enquiry into the Spirituality of William Blake.”

27 Blake did regard himself as a prophet: he wrote poems of prophecy on America and Europe and frequently referred to Old Testament prophets. Because of his visions (eg of angels) as a child, his parents gave him an artistic education, through which he met John Flaxman, the sculptor. Later he saw a vision of a procession (when locked overnight accidentally in Westminster Abbey where he had been sent to record the monuments). John Flaxman’s enthusiasm for Swedenborg influenced Blake, as did Joseph Johnson, a publisher and bookseller. Partly through their influence arose Blake’s great sympathy for the downtrodden and hatred for slavery and other abuses of society. Blake studied Swedenborg’s writings though not agreeing with everything, for he actually wrote an anti-Swedenborgian satire, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. But Blake’s early work shows sympathy with Swedenborg and he always held on to certain essentials of his ideas (eg he did not emphasise the transcendence of God but thought of Him in human terms, “The great eternal humanity divine”). Swedenborg was particularly attractive to Blake because he wrote about his paranormal experiences without fear. Blake was also influenced by Paracelsus and Boehme. Paracelsus, whose thinking was imbued with Plato’s ideas, emphasised the importance of imagination in life and art. He used imagery from alchemy to describe reality and the human mind. Boehme wrote in very beautiful German prose. His deeply devotional interpretation of the Bible, particularly of the Creation, worried the orthodox: the material world sprang from the heavenly spiritual which emanated from the Godhead. William Law (1686- 1761 author of a Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life) was in his later life influenced by mystical experience: he collected most of Boehme’s writings which emphasise the Inward Christ of Experience. Blake shows in his poems a clear vision of the beauty of Nature as God had originally intended it, though he saw clearly that Nature is at odds with itself in this fallen world. This would be redeemed by the second coming of Christ, as would mankind (through regeneration and forgiveness of sins). He turned increasingly in his later life to Boehme’s writings and he equated Boehme’s “Sophia” (wisdom) with “The Heavenly Jerusalem.” Saturday evening saw Dr Martin Israel’s second fine talk on “Prediction and Prophecy.” Both prediction and prophecy look to the future. The trouble with mediumship is that you can become increasingly dependent: bit by bit you are taken over and eventually destroyed. Hence the Biblical prohibitions, which appear so sweeping: people with literal minds can fail to recognise hyperbole and irony. You can’t do much about premonitions, whose importance is to show us that there are other ways of‘knowing’ than the conventional channels. The best solution is to hand our premonitions to God and ask Him to show us how to use them. Prayer is the very stuff of life (not a marginal activity): our relationships will only change when our heart changes and it is that which God does for us in prayer: we can say to Him: “This evil is part of me — take it and use it.”

28 When you are in a state of prophecy, you are open to God: it is no longer you, but God working in you. You become aware of God’s holiness which highlights the injustices of Society: e.g. Amos denounced the unjust Way of Life of the Jews of his day. The prophet speaks to the whole nation, not with new teaching but with old teaching applied with pointed relevance. Ezekiel was the first to stress individual responsibility, though we are nothing if we are not part of the whole. But condemnation alone is no good (except it makes us feel good!): the true prophet gives the message of recon­ ciliation and love. Jeremiah, a reluctant prophet, realised he must suffer: through suffering comes growth and he reached the peak of his prophecy and a new perspective in Jeremiah Chapter 31, verse 31. The work of the CFPSS should be primarily that of prophecy: the whole church needs prophetic figures, who show people the way to God. Jo Joachim

Angels! sing on, your faithful watches keeping, Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above; While we toil on, and soothe ourselves with weeping, Till life's long night shall break in endless love. F.W. Faber

BISHOP KING’S GUARDIAN ANGEL Bishop King, a holy Bishop of Lincoln, who died in 1910, told a story about his guardian angel. One day he went to a gaol to visit a man who had been put into prison for robbery and violence. “Do you know, Bishop,” said the man, “that I nearly killed you one day?” “Did you?” said the Bishop. “Tell .me about it.” “I and my pals knew that you used to go every week to visit a sick man in a village near Lincoln. So we hid one night and waited for you. I was to knock you on the head and my pals were to take your money. But, as we lurked behind the bushes, we saw that you were not alone as usual. You had a friend who walked by your side, and we were afraid to attack the two of you.” “But,” said the Bishop, “I never walked with anyone on that road from the village, I was always alone.” “I tell you,” said the prisoner, “I saw your companion. He never left you till you came to your own door.” “It must have been my guardian angel,” said the Bishop. Church Times, 27th September 1935.

29 ANGELS OR GUARDIANS OR GUARDIAN ANGELS During a service I was giving clairvoyance to a member of the congregation when I became aware of two angels, with wings, over the head of the lady I was speaking to. As this was an unusual experience for me, I asked her if what I saw had any significance for her? The reply was, “This week I have been discussing with friends whether angels exist or not,” I was able to tell her that they did, because I could see them with her. According to the teaching of theologians, not only every baptised person but every human being including unbelievers, has his own special guardian angel from his birth. Saint Basil with reference to Mt. 18.10, teaches “Everyoneof the faithful has an angel standing at his side as an educator and guide directing his life” (Adv - Eunomium 1111). According to St. Gregory the Wonder Worker and to Saint Jerome, every person has from his birth his own special guardian angel. The nature of the angels is spiritual as distinct from human nature, which consists of body and spirit. The nature of the angels is free from all materiality. The angels are by nature immortal, they have not always existed. They were created by God like everything else. They have their ranks and are organised by a careful system of authority. The Genesis account attributes their creation solely to an act of God. The primary task of the good angels is the glorification and service of God. The secondary task of the good angels is the protection of men and care for their salvation. The Archangel Raphael is one of the heavenly messengers, who is well known by the touching history of the just man Tobias. His mission was as the healer of not only bodily evils, but also those of the soul. The feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel was introduced in the 5th century. On three occasions I have had warnings of impending dangers, two while driving my car. The voice I heard on each occasion telling me to slow down, or to get out of a situation, I feel sure was my guardian angel looking after me. Extract from Matins on the feast of Saint Raphael:- Grant us a share with all the blessed spirits - Mansions in heaven. Let Blessed Raphael angel of compassion Heaven sent healer hither haste to save us During all sickness, and in matters doubtful Guiding us surely. The Revd Peter P. Carr

When he went to seek a man he found Raphael that was an angel. But he knew not. . . . Tobit 5:4 The Apocrypha

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Lord, make my heart a place where angels sing. John Keble

I HAVE SEEN AND BEEN SPOKEN TO BY THE ANGEL OF DEATH No, I wasn’t ill. I was in sound health. Nor was I thinking of anyone close to me who was ill. I was lying flat on my back at 6 am on a lovely summer morning planning my work ahead. I was a retail draper. First I would phone in a wool order then small wares, then look into the wants of baby-wear. I was happy in my work and in my ‘forties’. In the midst of all this thinking a tall male figure walked from the window and stood at the foot of my bed. All of him from top to toe was

32 shining, glistening white. His clothing too which seemed to be an integral part of his being. There was a little round white shape on his head. Definitely — NO WINGS. They would have looked out of place. We looked at each other. This beautiful male being and this tousy wee woman lying in her bed. He said, “I am the Angel of Death. You will hear sad news tomorrow.” Then He walked past me and away through the wall. I calmly accepted it. Somebody was going to die. I did not know who. The day passed and the next day. But in the evening of the second day a neighbour tapped the door and said Mrs. Starling died today. Another neighbour. One thing I do know, NO ONE, but NO ONE need have any fear of the Angel of Death. Rea Lilly

An angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him. Luke 22;43, N.I.V.

THE CUP The angel sat on the doorstep of the little chapel polishing a silver candle­ stick. Beside him, on the threshold of the door, stood another candlestick and a pair of silver vases. “Oh, let me help!” cried Timothy; “I love to polish silver. Let me do the censer! It needs it badly — unless you’ve already done it?” “No,” said the angel, “I haven’t. It’s hanging in the sacristy.” Timothy edged carefully around the vases and stepped into the chapel. The sunlight made two long, slim patches of rainbow colour on the floor. The little boy looked up. Again there was a new window in the chapel. The colours of it were chiefly greens and blues, for it pictured a dusky garden, and there was a depth of night sky overhead. Our Lord Jesus Christ was in the Garden, praying, on His knees, with hands clasped and eyes closed. Very mightily He seemed to be pleading, begging, beseeching. Little Timothy’s heart and throat and eyes ached with sorrowing sympathy as he looked at this picture of prayerful agony. Standing beside our Lord Jesus Christ there was an angel with a cup, brimming full; and the angel held the cup to the lips of our Lord. At the bottom of the window was written; “Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from Me: nevertheless, not My will, but Thine, be done.” “In the Garden — at Gethsemane — before they came to take Him,” whispered Timothy. “Yes; I know.” After a little while Timothy said, still whispering, “I’m sorry for the angel too, because he had to hold the cup.” And the verger stopped polishing the candlestick for a moment, and said very gently, “Thank you, Timothy.” Florence Converse from The House of Prayer

33 PROGRAMMES LONDON BRANCH Saturday 18th January BOURNEMOUTH BRANCH Christ Church, Wanstead and Wanstead Rectory, Ell December 13th 11.00 a.m. Arrive. Coffee Provided Revd Max Magee, MA, BD, “The Spiritual onwards Path into the Nineties”. Lately Chaplain of University of 12.00 p.m. Silent Meditation (church) Strathclyde; missionary in India and at 12.30 p.m. Own picnic lunch. present Counsellor in London. Soup/tea/coffee provided 1.30 p.m. Miss Pearl Hanlon (Secretary, January 31st at 2.15 p.m. London Branch) will give a Mrs Paddy Williamson, ‘The Joy of a talk on a book of her choice. Spiritual Path to Today’s World*. Member of Secular Franciscan Order; Pax Saturday 25th February Christi; Christian CND Member; Christ Church, Wanstead and Wanstead Administrator of Children’s Adventure Rectory, Ell Playground; Lay Minister of the Eucharist 11.00 a.m. Arrive. Coffee provided, in RC Church. onwards 12.00 p.m. Silent Meditation (church) February 28th 12.30 p.m. Own picnic lunch. Mrs Grace Perry, ‘The Healing Powers of Soup/tea/coffee provided *Music. 1.30 p.m. Open discussion Member of Bournemouth Branch, who was trained as a singer and is now inspired to write poetry; her interests are Healing, Tuesday 28th March Meditation and Relaxation, upon which The House of St. Barnabas-in-Soho, 1 she lectures, and local Cancer Care Group. Greek Street, Soho Square, Wl. 6.00 p.m. Intercessions March 28th Followed by a talk by Miss Mrs Dawn Clogg. ‘God’s Guidance in my Jennifer Howard (London Life’ Regional Representative) on Anglican member of Bournemouth Branch her latest research on current who found that her father’s life span was subjects of interest. extended as a result of God’s use of her being a channel for healing and prayer. She has now created a beautiful garden and a WEST MIDLANDS REGION little sanctuary where those in need find 1989 One-day Conference peace of body and spirit in the name of our Saturday, 13th May Saviour. Old Bishop’s Palace, Deansway, Meetings are held at The Friends’ Meeting Worcester House, Wharncliffe Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, at 2.30p.m., unless otherwise Saturday 13th May, stated. All are welcome. 11.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. Speakers will include: James Roose-Evans Dr Hugh Pincott Mr Michael Jackson Alister Hardy Research Centre.

This possibility is being increasingly forced on me that we are not wholly accurate in the current habit ofsharply dividing these visiting phenomena into U.F.O entities, ghosts, and religious apparitions. There is more of an overlap than we care to admit. . . . Stephen Jenkins from The Undiscovered Country

34 SOUTHERN REGION (WEST) Dr Ronald G. Ingrey-Senn, MB, ChB, FRCPsych, DPM and DMJ is a Consultant Residential Conference Psychiatrist. Following a period initially in at Cotford Hall Hotel, Bournemouth general practice in S London, studied 14th - 16th April, 1989 psychiatry and joined the Home Office. He retired in 1983 as Director of Prison Medi­ Theme: cal Services. He is a former Mental Health “HIS HEALING LIGHT” Act Commissioner and currently a Friday, 14th April psychiatrist member of the Parole Board of 5.00 p.m. The Revd William E. Burridge England and Wales. His work has been — ‘The Guiding Light’ greatly enriched by his Christian devotion. 8.00 p.m. Dr Ronald G. Ingrey-Senn — ‘Body, Mind and Spirit’ — 1 Mrs Margaret Lobo, Dip M Th, (GSMD — York) is a music therapist and singing Saturday, 15th April teacher who is a member of the Society for 9.45 a.m. Mrs E. Margaret Owen — Music Therapy, and the Association of ‘Pray, Hope and Don’t Professional Music Therapists, presently Worry’ (Padre Pio) working at the Marylebone Music Therapy 11.30 a.m. The Revd William E. Burridge Unit in London. Destined for a career as a — ‘Channelling the Light’ professional opera singer, the loss of her 5.00 p.m. Dr Ronald G. Ingrey-Senn — voice overnight as a result of an attack of ‘Body, Mind and Spirit’ —’ 2 poliomyelitis, and regaining it through the 8.00 p.m. ‘Any Questions?’ careful tuition and care of Otakar Kraus, the renowned opera singer and voice Sunday, 16th April teacher, led her eventually to voice therapy 9.45 a.m. Mrs Margaret Lobo — ‘The and work with the mentally and physically Healing Power of the Voice’ handicapped, the terminally ill and the 11.30 a.m. Combined Service of Holy Communion and Healing deaf. conducted by The Revd Mrs E. Margaret Owen BSc„ the widow of William E. Burridge. an Anglican priest, is a retired biology Speakers: teacher whose own experience of spiritual healing opened up new avenues of The Revd William E. Burridge is a understanding. She became a member of Methodist minister deeply involved in The CFPSS after reading The Venerable Churches’ Ministry of Healing having Michael Perry’s book Psychic Studies - A served as Residential Director and Christian’s view. Chaplain at Green Pastures Home of Conference fee: Fully residential — £65.00 Health and Healing, Bournemouth, and now dedicated to healing work at Crowe (Single room supplements £6.00 extra). Hill Methodist Church and Christian Non-residents — all sessions £10.00. Retreat Centre, Ringwood, while Application form: Send SAE to Mr David remaining Field Officer at Green Pastures. King, 64 The Grove, Moordown, Bourne­ mouth BA9 2TX. Tel: 0202 513776.

EAST MIDLANDS BRANCH ILKLEY BRANCH Meeting on March 4th 1989 One Day Conference May 6th, 1989 at the Palace Theatre, Newark. Speaker: Speaker: Don Galloway The Revd Neil Broadbent Further details in Spring QR. Subject: “ON HEALING”

. . . which things the angels desire to look into 1 Peter 1:12 Av.

35 OBITUARY PATRICIA PATEY Patricia and I have been close friends for over thirty years and I have received so much hospitality from her and Rodney that I have lost count of my visits to them and our shared holidays. We exchanged letters and telephone calls and extended our friendship through mutual introductions 1 yyas never able to return their hospitality, but I did one thing for Patricia which 1 know meant a lot to her—I introduced her to the Fellowship which was for her, as for me, exactly what she had been looking for She had a sensitivity which saw deeply into people and events, together with a personal commitment to the Living Christ, and she was able to explore and deepen her psychic sensitivity safely within our Christian Fellowship. She contributed incalculably to our work by her faith her hard work, her hospitality and her capacity for making friends. It was lovely that she was able to stay in her own home until the very last evening of her life, when she was taken to Burrswood, accompanied by Rodney, so he was able to be with her for every moment of her time here. I remember him telling me once that he celebrated the day on which she accepted his proposal of marriage as he celebrated their wedding day because both were equally important to him. We send him our loving sympathy now. & Their three sons and their families have been in constant touch over these last weeks, and that would have been very important to her. Patricia knew what was happening to her and had let go, in great Love and inner serenity, of all that held her here. She will be missed by many but we rejoice for her. Beryl Statham

We cannot part with our friends; we cannot let our Angels go. - We do not see that they only go out, that Archangels may come in! Emerson

The theme in spring 1989 will be self-image. Do you struggle with self­ acceptance or self-rejection? Could you share your insights? In the summer we will be considering the psychic place and power of the plant world.

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36 Inspirations - which, could they be things And stay with us, and we could hold them fast, Were our good Angels. Longfellow

To thee all Angels cry aloud; the heaven and all the powers therein. To thee Cherubin and Seraphin: continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are fall of the Majesty: of thy glory. Te Deum

WHITE WAVE Flotsam by Jennifer During the last quarter, by far the biggest press coverage of interest to us was devoted to Martin Scorsese’s controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ, with the Turin Shroud a close runner-up. Reviews of the film, ranging from the rapturous (Alexander Walker in the Evening Standard 1.9), through the disparaging (Barbara Amiel Times 9.9.) to the downright condemnatory (Revd Dr William Oddie, The Daily Telegraph 8.9) poured in from all quarters. Margaret Duggan, writing in the Church Times on 9.9, pointed out that right at the beginning of the film there was a disclaimer that it was based not on the gospels but on one man’s spiritual exploration of the “dual substance of Christ” and if one kept that in mind it was very difficult to see what all the fuss was about. As she says, the film’s real blasphemy lies not in portraying Jesus dreaming on the cross of making love to Mary Magdalene, but in the innate authority of the person of Jesus without which it is almost impossible to imagine the gospel story: the actor William Defoe portrays Him as a wimp. Iain Johnstone in The Sunday Times on 11.9 went even further: “This is a portrait of Jesus not just as a human being, but as a potential inmate of Broadmoor. . . His charisma wouldn’t get Him a job as a television evangelist.” In fact, as many of the critics agree, Judas Iscariot is the strongest character in a film which seems to tell us more about Martin Scorsese and Nikos Kazantzakis, on whose book it is based, than it does about our Lord. On 14.9 The Times reported that since the film opened in London on 9.9. more than 7,000 people had probably been to see it. As the radio-carbon dating tests on the Turin Shroud began in Oxford (27th July), there was already much speculation in the press as to the results with the Revd David Sox, an Anglican priest who was formerly general secretary of the British Society for the Turin Shroud, hinting they would be negative (The Tablet 23.7, Radio 4 Sunday programme 24.7, Radio Times 27.7). On 7.8, The Sunday Times Science Correspondent, Nick Rufford, intimated that the Vatican was steeling itself for a “fake” result but also pointed out that previous carbon dating tests on other relics had sometimes

37 produced anomalies: such as the laboratory in Tuscon (US), participating in the Shroud tests, which dated a Viking cow horn at 2006 AD, 18 years in the future! The Evening Standard headline on 26.8 read: “Turin Shroud is a fake” (exposed by Oxford scientists) and included an article by Dr Richard Luckett, Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge, giving 1350 as a probable date. On 9.9. Professor Hall, who led the study, stated the “leak” was wrong (Times). On 18.9, although no official statement had yet come from Papal representatives, The Sunday Times Science Correspondent announced that scientists who had tested the samples of cloth had confirmed to the newspaper that the Shroud was forged between 1000 and 1500 AD. On 29.9. CUfford Longley, Religious Affairs Editor of The Times, said science had vindicated the two bishops of Troyes who had denounced the Shroud as a trick when it first appeared in medieval times (one of them had even given the name of the guilty man). Tim Radford, in The Guardian of 29.9, quoted Dr Michael Tite, keeper of laboratory services for the British Museum, who organised and oversaw the tests, as saying that although the Shroud seemed “just too perfect to be true” it showed the nails going through the wrists (now accepted as the correct place) whereas every other picture of the medieval period showed them going through the palm of the hands. He thought work on the Shroud would go on. However, on 13.10, the Cardinal of Turin declared officially that the Shroud was a fake. Still on the miraculous side, 7 Days, The Sunday Telegraph colour supplement on 2.10, featured a long article by Ian Thomson on the blood of San Gennaro, patron saint of Naples, which liquefies twice a year. Whenever the miracle does occur, disaster for Neapolitans seems to ensue. At the beginning of this century, a Papal embargo was placed on any scientific research into this apparent mystery. A spectroscopic examination conducted in 1902 (just before the embargo) proved beyond doubt, claims Thomson, that the substance in the 2 ampoules where it is kept is human blood. On 21.7 Julie Collings in The Guardian reported on the first International Conference for Research into the Paranormal at Colorado State University where discussions were held on how paranormal abilities such as ESP might help in the early diagnosis of diseases. “A gifted aura reader”, Joseph Ostrom of Fort Collins, Colorado, believes that at least 50 per cent of people could see the aura with training and wants to help doctors to do this, and research scientist John Zimmerman has recently founded the Bio-Electro-Magnetics Institute to study the human aura in the belief that warning signs of diseases first show up there. He hopes to develop a non-invasive scanner which will detect these signs with the help of a specialised computer link-up. Also in The Guardian, Jasper Becker reported from Peking on 3.8 on Miss Zheng Xiangling, “a quiet young doctor who works at the People’s Liberation Army general staff head­ quarters and claims to possess three-dimensional X-ray vision in colour” which she inherited from her grandfather. She diagnoses her fully-clothed patients in the dark and maintains she sees their bones, veins and internal organs glowing before her eyes. She also claims to absorb the contents of

38 books at a glance and be able to kill goldfish by just thinking about it. Now that the Cultural Revolution is over, during which the paranormal was frowned upon, says Becker, ESP has become a national obsession and masters of “qigong”, the traditional system of deep breathing exercises used to develop psychokinetic powers are now teaching millions of Chinese how to practise their techniques. On 22.8 Nick Cohen in The Independent reported on The Psychic Fair in Oxford where the spirit world could be consulted for £ 10 a time. The proof that they were not disturbing anyone in the spirit world, said one clairvoyant, was that sometimes there was no answer. On 19.7 The Daily Express, Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph all carried reports of “satanic” sexual abuse of children which included drinking their own blood and that of sheep, as disclosed by three Court of Appeal judges in London. The allegations against 15 people included some of the parents. The 17 children concerned were to be put up for adoption. On 13.7 The Jesus Army set up a base camp on Clapham Common for a week to declare war “on social and moral evil” (Guardian 14.7). On 20.7 and 21.7 most of the daily papers reported on the member of the Hare Krishna cult who was sent to a mental hospital after killing and decapitating his American guru because he believed he was anti-Christ. In the August edition of Good Housekeeping, Andro Linklater investigated the appeal of the sects and gave useful addresses for help. The Daily Telegraph reported on 9.9 that members of an Ulster education board had decided overwhelmingly to prevent the Mormon Church from being allowed to microfilm old school rolls because of fears that the people on the lists might be “retrospectively baptised” into the Mormon faith. On 18.9, David Wastell in Seoul reported to The Sunday Telegraph that the Korean National Council of Churches was preparing for a head-on confrontation with the Moonies in a battle for the hearts, minds and pockets of millions of Koreans. They had launched a boycott of dozens of day-to-day Moonie products, ranging from mineral water to shoes. Among the performers at the previous days opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, said Wastell, were 48 members of the Little Angel dance troupe, drawn from a school financed by the Unification Church and 30 singers of the Sun Myung choir. Two of Mr Moon’s many children were competing in the Games as members of the South Korean equestrian team. After the Games ended, he added, the Olympic stadium was to be used for a mass wedding of 10,000 Moonie couples and $20 million were behind a plan to start a new Korean daily paper. On 26.9 the Daily Mail reported that a distinguished paediatrician, David Morley, had resigned from the UK directorship of the World Academy of Creative Science when he discovered it had links with the “free-love guru” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. On 23.8 in the Evening Standard Hugh David investigated claims that Buddhism can bring higher salaries, new houses and a Porsche while Alexandra King reported on a Buddhist retreat in The Times on 10.8 and the following day Sally Brompton in the same paper reported on Nichiren Shoshu, the Buddhist order which has just paid £6 million for a country mansion in Buckinghamshire. The September issue of She published “the story of a Buddhist novice philosophising in Hemel Hemstead”. On 26.9 The Daily

39 Telegraph reported on the US mother who had been installed as a reincarnated Tibetan saint. In The Sunday Telegraph on 28.8 the philosopher Sir Alfred Ayer reported on his recent near-death experience and how it affected his view of death and Kim Fletcher in the same edition investigated “the bizarre world of the occult and paganism”. The Independent (13.7), Times (19.8) and Guardian (30.8) carried articles on Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan and Afghanistan and on 17.9 The Sunday Telegraph magazine ran a long feature on the spread of Islam — a force to be reckoned with. On 23.9 Brian Dooley, reviewing Jim and Tammy, a book about the disgraced televangelists (Prometheus £13.95) said although the scandals had destroyed any chance preacher Pat Robertson might have had in the US Republican primary elections, televangelists understood the new technology of the satellite dish, and could still reach parts other religions could not reach. There were various articles on astrology and She had features on premonitions, spontaneous human combustion and “things that go bump in the night”. With the Turin Shroud and Scorsese’s film in the forefront, the last quarter has been dominated by Jesus Christ. Even though He is so severely misrepresented in the film, some good may come out of it if people are tempted to turn to the gospels and discover what the real Christ is like.

They take different forms at the bidding of their master, God, and thus reveal themselves to men and unveil the divine mysteries to them, St. John of Damascus

How should ethereal natures comprehend A thing made up of spirit and of clay, Were we not tasked to nurse it and to tend, Linked one to one throughout its mortal day? More than the Seraph in his height of place, The Ange I-guar dian knows and loves the ransomed race. Cardinal Newman wrom the Prayer of the Guardian Angel in the Dream of Gerontius

The angel of the Lord brought tidings to Mary, And she conceived by the Holy Ghost “Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it unto me according to thy word.” And the Word was made Flesh And dwelt among us. From The Angelus

40 REGIONAL ACTIVITIES The Country is divided into regions purely for practical and administrative reasons, and we want to stress that all members are members of the Fellowship and not of their region only. A list of branches and groups is given below in order that those who move around the country know where to find the nearest activity in which they can take part. In all cases where there is not a name given for a particular place, the Regional Representative should be contacted for further information (Addresses on back cover). Northern Region (East) Branches meet in Hull, Ilkley and York. Groups meet in Harrogate, Leeds, North Shields.

Northern Region (West) Groups meet in Birkenhead, Manchester and North Lancs. Contact Regional Representatives, Mrs D. Coupland (East), Mr G. West (West).

West Midlands Cheltenham: Contact Mrs E.M. Percival, Arundel Lodge, The Park, Cheltenham. (0242) 522989) Coventry: Contact Mrs M. Warman, 2, Collingwood Road, Coventry. Hereford: Contact Mr & Mrs J. Hull, 52 Hafod Road, Hereford (0432 274950) Worcester: Contact Mr D. Houlding, 6 Sabrina Terrace, Worcester WR1 3JD Contact Regional Representative, Mr David Houlding

East Anglia Groups meet in Brandon, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Lavenham and Leigh on Sea. Contact Regional Representative Mrs Isabel Manktelow for further information. East Midlands A Branch meets alternately at Lincoln and Newark. Contact Regional Representative Mrs P. Grossett, Copper Lodge, Gelston, Grantham, Lincs. (0400 50365). South East Groups meet in Otford. Contact Head Office for further information.

Southern Region (East) A branch meets in Farnham Contact Regional Representative Mr Peter Watts for further information.

South West ^7 Branches meet in Bristol, Exeter, Taunton, Yeovil, North Cornwall and Lyme Regis. There are various other groups in Cornwall. Contact Regional Representative Mrs Margaret Virgin for further information. ___ zw______

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