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This review is from: The Magical World of the Inklings: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield (Paperback)
I view "The Magical World of the Inklings" as an Inspired Vision of The Inklings and their Inspired Visions. Gareth Knight has created a fine presentation concerning these Inklings. My particular initial interest was J R R Tolkien, due to great interest in Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings. I had some interest in C S Lewis as well. The other two Inklings covered, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield, I did not know of yet. Now, however, I am very interested in all four of these Inklings due to this very fine work of Gareth Knight. I already liked this author due to such works as "The Rose Cross and the Goddess" [concerning Rosicrucian and allied topics].
"The Magic World of the Inklings" is very well patterned to present the situation of the Inklings in time and space [pre 1950 Oxford especially]. An example of very fine-tuned presentation is "The Inklings Time Chart" at the start of this book. This chart helps overview the Inklings and their lifetimes in parallel. This fine book equally presents each Inkling and created works, the levels of meaning of each and their interaction -- that is Cross Inspiration. Much additional wisdom and advice is given by Gareth Knight to support understanding The Inklings. I feel more-and-more that certain folks and their works can greatly aid in Inspiring our uninspired world -- especially for those of a Western tradition. They are not alone -- Jane Roberts and her works are as Deep as Well. "First of all -- never mind what happened first because it's complicated -- then you had a matriarchy, then you had a patriarchy, now we have a 'mechanarchy', the rule of the machine. And matriarchy and patriarchy are both destroyed by mechanarchy, and something else has got to happen. And what's going to happen is one of the most exciting things ... I think somehow that the principle of magic -- (when you say magic people don't know the difference between magic and sorcery even) -- but anyhow the principle of magic will re-establish itself." [Quoted from the quote of Robert Graves by Gareth Knight before the foreward to "The Magical World of The Inklings"] +++
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