"My truest self, the self who is below all other selves must find
expression," he explained. The Self that is _above_ the other self is what
he should have said. The following extracts are from the _Fiona Macleod_
phase of William Sharp and are characteristic of the Self, as evidenced in
all instances of Illumination, particularly as these expressions refer to
the nothingness of death, and the beauty and power of Love. "Do not speak
of the spiritual life as 'another life'; there is no 'other life'; what we
mean by that, is with us now. The great misconception of death is that it
is the only door to another world." This testimony corroborates that of
Whitman as well as of St. Paul, notwithstanding all the centuries that
separate the two. St. Paul did not say that man _will have_ a spiritual
body, but that he _has_ a spiritual body as well as a corporeal body.
After the experience of his illumination, William Sharp, writing as _Fiona
Macleod_ constantly testified to the ever-present reality of his spiritual
life; a life far more real to him than the sense-conscious life although he
alluded to it as his dream.
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