In the Memoirs, Mrs. Sharp comments upon this and says:
"It is true, as I have said, that William Sharp seemed a different person
when the Fiona mood was on him; but that he had no recollection of what he
said in that mood was not the case--the psychic visionary power belonged
exclusively to neither; it influenced both and was dictated by laws he did
not understand."
Mrs. Sharp refers to William Sharp and Fiona, as two persons, saying that
"it influenced both," but both sides of his personality rather than both
personalities, is what she claims. In further explanation she writes:
"I remember from early days how he would speak of the momentary curious
'dazzle in the brain,' which preceded the falling away of all material
things and precluded some inner vision of great beauty, or great presences,
or some symbolic import--that would pass as rapidly as it came. I have been
beside him when he has been in trance and I have felt the room throb with
heightened vibration."
One of the "dream-visions" which William Sharp experienced shortly before
his last illness, is headed "Elemental Symbolism," and was recorded by him
in these beautiful words:
"I saw Self, or Life, symbolized all about me as a limitless, fathomless
and lonely sea.
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