To Lisa Lewis on "EGG" in case this would have been my message that was
deleted
I found three lines in a letter from RK to his French translator Louis
Fabulet, cited in the literary review "Europe" May issue (mainly devoted to
RK) (containing a translation of a paper by Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis !)
letter from Bateman's 29 june 1905 to be found in Pinney's vol III 1900-1910
:
"L'Oeuf est l'Aura ou l'auréole qui entioure l'âme de chaque être humain et
qui n'est visible qu'au regard spirituel de ceux qui suivent une certaine
école de psychologie."
MXR
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De : Peter Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
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Envoyé : mercredi 14 juillet 1999 11:36
Objet : They
> There's a letter from Kipling's sister (forget to whom - it should be with
> the Society's collection deposited at Sussex University) in which she
> claims to have seen the 'Egg' and the 'colours' as described in 'They'.
I
> once researched the story in depth for a paper (still unpublished),
> visiting the Society for Psychical Research to see what they said about
it.
> Their Librarian (a most helpful man) confirmed that the Egg and the
> colours are a well-known psychic phenomenon, but thought it unlikely that
> two random strangers would see the same colours in the same circumstances,
> as he said everybody sees them differently. He showed me a booklet that
> describes Trix's career as the well-known medium 'Mrs Holland'. It seems
> she is famous in those circles because she (in India), and two ladies in
> England and the U.S., all independently received similar 'messages' from a
> recently deceased, leading psychic. It didn't sound very convincing to
me
> but I am unlearned in these matters! The booklet gave a poem by Trix
> which she claimed had been written without her conscious knowledge while
> she was in a trance, sitting in a garden. The poem is about a child's
> grave in the garden. She said she had not known, but found out
> afterwards, that there really was a child's grave in the garden. I don't
> know quite how this connects with 'They' but it does sound suggestive.
> Lisa Lewis
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