Each article in the series inspired by Dion Fortune's five occult novels seemed like the last one at the time, but, even though the returns diminish, a further trawl always produces a little more material to comment on.
This article contains a few more particularly striking expressions and propositions, many of which speak for themselves.
The Winged Bull mentions a 'psychological car crash', and that the victim is in need of a human 'breakdown lorry'.
This is a very neat way of describing a major internal disaster. It is spot on: people do sometimes feel as though they have been hit by a truck, and they may well need some assistance to get going again.
The crash victim is called Ursula. She is in a bad way because she has been in the power of an energy vampire. Dion Fortune comes up with some very good images here: Ursula is described as being like a run-down battery and a sucked-out orange, while her vampiric victimiser swells up like a bullfrog!
This cover picture by Bruce Pennington shows Ursula the psychological car crash victim and the breakdown lorry:
These very true words are from Moon Magic:
“...there are no anaesthetics in psychology.”
Dion Fortune got that one right. Some people will have no idea what she is talking about; they are the lucky ones. Others will know only too well how excruciatingly painful dealing with the inner world can be; they will have learned the hard way that there is no pain relief so their agony just has to be endured.
