Susan Howatch - Glamorous Powers

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The author’s most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an Anglo-Catholic monk.In 1940 Darrow returns to the world he once renounced, but faced with many unforeseen temptations he fails to control his psychic, most glamorous powers. Corruption lies in wait for him, and threatens not only his future as a priest but his happiness with Anne, the young woman he has come to love.

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Susan Howatch

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GLAMOROUS POWERS

COPYRIGHT CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PART ONE: THE VISION ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE PART TWO: THE REALITY BEYOND THE VISION ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN PART THREE: THE FALSE LIGHT ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE PART FOUR: THE LIGHT FROM THE NORTH ONE TWO AUTHOR’S NOTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PRAISE BY SUSAN HOWATCH ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

HarperFiction An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 77–85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

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First published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1988

Copyright © Leaftree Ltd 1988

The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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SOURCE ISBN: 9780007396382

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CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE Susan Howatch

COPYRIGHT

PART ONE:

THE VISION

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

PART TWO:

THE REALITY BEYOND THE VISION

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

PART THREE: THE FALSE LIGHT

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

PART FOUR: THE LIGHT FROM THE NORTH

ONE

TWO

AUTHOR’S NOTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PRAISE BY SUSAN HOWATCH ABOUT THE PUBLISHER PART ONE THE VISION Конец ознакомительного фрагмента. Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес». Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес. Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

‘Ecstasy or vision begins when thought ceases, to our consciousness, to proceed from ourselves. It differs from dreaming, because the subject is awake. It differs from hallucinations, because there is no organic disturbance: it is, or claims to be, a temporary enhancement, not a partial disintegration, of the mental faculties. Lastly, it differs from poetical inspiration, because the imagination is passive. That perfectly sane people often experience such visions there is no manner of doubt.’

W. R. INGE

Dean of St Paul’s 1911–1934

Christian Mysticism

ONE CONTENTS COVER TITLE PAGE Susan Howatch COPYRIGHT PART ONE: THE VISION ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE PART TWO: THE REALITY BEYOND THE VISION ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN PART THREE: THE FALSE LIGHT ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE PART FOUR: THE LIGHT FROM THE NORTH ONE TWO AUTHOR’S NOTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PRAISE BY SUSAN HOWATCH ABOUT THE PUBLISHER PART ONE THE VISION Конец ознакомительного фрагмента. Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес». Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес. Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом. ‘Ecstasy or vision begins when thought ceases, to our consciousness, to proceed from ourselves. It differs from dreaming, because the subject is awake. It differs from hallucinations, because there is no organic disturbance: it is, or claims to be, a temporary enhancement, not a partial disintegration, of the mental faculties. Lastly, it differs from poetical inspiration, because the imagination is passive. That perfectly sane people often experience such visions there is no manner of doubt.’ W. R. INGE Dean of St Paul’s 1911–1934 Christian Mysticism

‘The apparent suddenness of the mystical revelation is quite normal; Plato in his undoubtedly genuine Seventh Letter speaks of the “leaping spark” by which divine inspiration flashes on him.’

W. R. INGE

Dean of St Paul’s 1911–1934

Mysticism in Religion

I

The vision began at a quarter to six; around me the room was suffused with light, not the pellucid light of a fine midsummer morning but the dim light of a wet dawn in May. I was sitting on the edge of my bed when without warning the gold lettering on the cover of the Bible began to glow.

I stood up as the bedside table deepened in hue, and the next moment the floorboards pulsed with light while in the corner the taps of the basin coruscated like silver in the sun. Backing around the edge of the bed I pressed my back against the wall before any further alteration of consciousness occurred. Firm contact with a solid object lessens the instinctive fear which must always accompany such a radical transcendence of time and space.

However after the initial fear comes the equally instinctive acceptance. I had closed my eyes to lessen the terror of disorientation but now I forced myself to open them. The cell was still glittering, but as I watched the glitter faded to a shimmer until the scene resembled a view seen through the wrong end of a telescope, and I could perceive my body, remote and abandoned, pressed against the wall by the bed as if impaled there by invisible nails. I looked aside – I could see my body turning its head – and immediately the darkness, moving from right to left, began to erase the telescopic view. My eyes closed, again warding off the fear of disorientation, and this time when I reopened them I found I was once more moving in a normal world.

I was myself, inhabiting my body as usual and walking along a path through a wood of beech trees. Insofar as I was conscious of any emotion I was aware of being at ease with my verdant tranquil surroundings, although I felt irritated by the persistent call of a wood-pigeon. However eventually the pigeon fell silent and as the path began to slope downhill I glanced to my left at the chapel in the dell below.

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