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In these memoirs, the point is made obvious that _Fiona Macleod_ is not
merely a _nom de plume_; neither is she an obsessing personality; a guide
or "control," as the Spiritualists know that phenomenon. _Fiona Macleod_,
always referred to by William Sharp as "she," is his own higher Self--the
cosmic consciousness of the spiritual man which was so nearly balanced in
the personality of William Sharp as to _appear_ to the casual observer as
another person.
It is said that the identity of _Fiona Macleod_, as expressed in the
manuscript put out under that name, was seldom suspected to be that of
William Sharp, so different was the style and the tone of the work of these
two phases of the same personality.
In this connection it may be well to quote his wife's opinion regarding the
two phases of personality, answering the belief of Yeats the Irish poet
that he believed William Sharp to be the most extraordinary psychic he
ever encountered and saying that _Fiona Macleod_ was evidently a distinct
personality.
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