Hindrance
As described elsewhere, Esmé Scarron had to
travel from Austria to Venice to get his final answer from the young girl Meg.
He was in a rather desperate state and uncertain about what awaited him as he
drove over the mountains.
He was delayed when he reached Venice; he finally
rushed into his palazzo to find that his ex-wife and daughter had got there
first and had been speaking against him and revealing his secrets to Meg and
her mother.
I can’t remember exactly what happened to
delay his arrival - someone may have stolen the last gondola from under him the
way some people steal taxis! This anonymous person - Scarron said he would be
forever accursed or something like that - greatly inconvenienced Scarron and
may even have helped to sabotage his plans.
This was the last in a series of
interventions, some of which helped to further Scarron’s evil plans and some of
which helped to hinder them.
Perhaps the outcome would have been exactly
the same if the delaying man had never existed; perhaps it was just all down to
bad luck and chance. However, I suspect that unseen influences were at work.
Which side was behind the intervention? Good
forces like to prevent evil from operating; evil forces like to sabotage
everything and everyone including their own: being on the dark side is no
protection.
Reading about this fictional incident brought
something similar but positive from real life to mind.
Help
A colleague of mine had a crucially important
interview for a job a while back. It was with an organisation he had set his
heart on working for, so he had invested everything in the outcome.
I had always sent good wishes whenever he had
something important at stake - British citizenship, the flat he hoped to get -
and I assured him that I would be thinking of him and sending positive vibes
while he was being interviewed.
He doesn’t usually wear a tie but planned to
get one from a branch of Tie Rack at the huge station he was travelling to. He
was nervous and became agitated; he couldn’t see the tie shop anywhere. Things
got worse; the station is complicated with many exits. He got rather lost, and
when he got outside wasn’t sure which way to go. The organisation is in a
rather secluded place off the main road, which didn’t help.
He was afraid of being late; he started to
panic and decided to ask someone for directions. He told me that the man he
stopped made all his problems disappear and put him on the right road. He found
the right place; he was on time for the interview and none of the interviewers were
wearing ties either.
He got the job. This was in 2006, and he is
still there.
He told me that the man who helped him was
tall and blond and very pleasant. He told me emotionally that this man must
have been an angel who was sent to help him. I was very taken aback, as I had
never heard him use that kind of language before. He has never said anything
like that again.
Getting what we attract and deserve?
What can we learn from these two incidents?
People like Esmé Scarron may be disconnected
and unprotected. Something may take advantage of them when they are in a very
agitated state.
Distress signals can attract trouble and
alert predatory people who rush to the scene like taxis driven by evil spirits and
make everything worse.
People who practise black magic attract evil entities
that take any chance they get to sabotage the life of the practitioner.
The second incident is unusual in that a bad
inner state did not generate a bad outcome. When decent people become desperate
or even very agitated, it may interfere with their normally healthy instincts.
Their choices may be ‘off’ when it comes to approaching someone for help. They
might well home in on the wrong person, someone hostile who is offended at
being asked for directions for example. They may get someone who puts them on
the wrong road, or someone who delays them further by rambling on for ages before
saying that they can’t help.
Perhaps it depends on what was habitually being
broadcast by the two people, on what wavelength and to what zone. Perhaps distress
signals sometimes attract helpers not hinderers.
My colleague is a very positive person
despite having endured a life that would have turned many people to the dark
side. I think that he earned the help that he got in his hour of great need.
Something stepped in to make a positive intervention.
Perhaps that man really was an angel in
disguise. Perhaps some interventions really are providential.
Or maybe it was all just luck and chance.
Or maybe it was all just luck and chance.
Getting lost and confused in huge and unfamiliar stations with shops upstairs, downstairs and in various tunnels can easily turn into a nightmare scenario:
