Mirroring Magic (ePub)

Mirroring Magic is a true tale of real magic, both high spiritual 'magic' and the more common supernatural of a lesser source. In the similitude of Miguel Cervantes, writing Don Quixote in an attempt to counter the fantastical tales of knightly knocking about so popular in his own day, I offer this true tale of real-life magic to the world in counterpoint to the many stories of fantastical adventure the world thrills to now, the difference being that this is real. It is the story of what this involvement with the otherworldly has been in my life and where it has led me. It is a window onto what my life has been, and is still being, now nearly seventy years on. Though not as action-packed as our contemporary works of pure fantasy, it might yet carry more actual and true interest, especially if truth is of interest, truth being of all importance, for the path of magic is founded in truth, not make-believe, in reality, not in the unreal, in real magic, not in magical thinking. At its heart this book is about truth, the very spirit of truth, and how truth is of all importance. Mirroring Magic spans three months from mid-March to mid-June of 2017, first in Spain, then England, then back in Spain on the Camino de Santiago. It is the companion volume to Forgiving Heaven, the furtherance of this most marvelous, fascinating, intriguing and delightful true story. And I do believe this true story is truly for the few. You might want to find out if you're one.
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From the Introduction:
"Just as the Earth upholds the pyramids, upholds all the temples long reduced to their foundations of earth, upholds all the monuments still standing to God and to ourselves, so does Indigenous Religion and myth uphold all the subsequent religions that the Earth and its peoples have brought forth in the advancement of civilization. It is the true orthodox, to which all spiritual traditions owe their being, except perhaps the Kopomists, and whatever might have actually descended from the sky. It is the groundwork and baseline of my belief."
~S. Preston Chase, Devcriceo
Turtle Camp, Cooper River, South Australia
April 4th, 2019
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From the Foreword:
"I've probably known the author as long as anyone living. It might even be reasonable to say I've known him as long as he's known himself. It depends on how one defines 'knowing,' it being one point of the greater consideration, the theme of knowing running the length of this book like a fault line, by turns keeping the mind both engaged and at bay. It occupies the uncertain world of the ad hoc off-balance, having a certain uncertain certainty, one foot holding center, one foot doing the hokey-pokey, though some might say the hocus-pocus, others might say the bunk, hogwash, bull and hokum. It's a dance which a rhythm all its own, though some will recognize the cadence, the resolution of the syncretic conversion of a specifically abstract form into variations of the same aspect of understanding; pitching pennies against a line drawn in the sand, waves coming in to wash the slate clean, the next day the beach looking like it has never known water. You know you've arrived when you find yourself staring at the back of your head.
As I write this he is camped with me under a coolibah tree on the Cooper River in the outback of Australia. And though I probably know him better than anyone living, there are times when I feel like I hardly know him at all.
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~Mortimer Quigley McNaught
South Australia, April 5th, 2019