of the Judicial Process”, made the same point; judicial decision is a matter, he said, of trained instinct and judgment, the rationalisation is provided afterwards to justify a decision which the judge knows in his own mind is right. In this the judgment differs from a true work of art, in which ideally the composition should be created by the process of expression or reasoning. What Cardoso J. was saying was that a trained instinct, rather than logic, was the safest guide to correct judgment; in other words that the invisible world was an ordered world in which trained instinct and judgment could be relied upon. Surely anyone who is experienced in handling people finds the same thing? The technique of handling men is an ordered systematic skill, which can be learned; and it certainly would not be correct to describe it as governed by cause and effect. Men resent it, and become non-conformist, when it is suggested that their lives are cause and effect.
To me it is axiomatic that the invisible intangible world is ordered, because I believe in creation. But there is another side to it. My adventure was to seek an in-dwelling with another, within the parameters of the divine in-dwelling. That way, I dared to believe that whatever went wrong I would be rescued. Suppose someone tried outside the parameters of the divine indwelling, and found that he had entered a relationship that tended towards chaos; he might fear that he would reach a point of no return, after which there was no turning back. He would probably be right. That is a world I do not know much about; probably it is best to know nothing about it. From time to time, I have referred to the spiritual world as the occult world, quite deliberately. They are the same world, despite the sinister overtones of magic in this latter description. That does not mean though, that it is safe to wander where you will in this spiritual world. For a start the Christian describes one forbidden area as “sin”. I believe there are other areas, best described as “chaos”, where it is unwise to…