The Devil's Brood

The main characters in this amazing story are Robert, the author’s father, and Mag, a trampish woman who seduced him at an early age into the dangerous world of spiritualism. Before Robert died he entrusted his son with his Legacy.

“Nevertheless, whenever his (the author’s) employment required him to move to another town, the box went too, its hiding places oscillating between attics and garages, as the musty odours of decomposition became ever stronger and their cardboard stronghold ever more limp as it absorbed moisture from the atmosphere. However the papers it contained might impact on his father’s memory, neither he nor his mother would be likely to escape the effect of such revelations upon their own lives. Simply living with such knowledge would be a formidable burden. ‘Wait until the end of your life, when these secrets can’t harm you before….’

Robert’s first love at fourteen.

“Feeling her warm lips over his mouth he couldn’t decide whether he liked it or not. He was now experiencing both psychological and physiological problems at the same time. Reflecting on his upbringing one can imagine moral and social problems also standing their turn in a queue. He began to tremble, not with anticipation or stimulation but with foreboding. The battle between hand and conscience had been fought and conscience had…”

On his second date with Mag she dropped the bombshell that would change his life.

“I can’t teach you how to predict the future, but I can help you to enter the spirit world…”

“His mind was conjuring up visions of dead people wandering aimlessly like spectral beings in a world that wreaked of age, damp earth and decaying flowers. Her following remarks reassured him and extinguished his macabre imaginings…”

Robert’s training took many years. Eventually, his spirit was able to leave his physical body and journey in the spirit world to view the lives and deeds of his infamous ancestors, one of which was a former King of England and who planted the seed of The Devil’s Brood on Britain’s shores.

“Gwladus was a twenty-year old virgin who had fallen in love with love. Timid but unafraid, with some feelings of uncertainty and guilt plus the shame that is born of impropriety, she allowed him to remove her gown and feast on her nakedness…”

“Solomon’s ‘Song of Songs’ and its lyrical celebration of the beauty and wonder of human love and above all, its appreciation of the female form, was embodied in the woman now before him (the King). Except this was no poetic imagery but an unimaginable marvel of physical reality…”

The final Chapter discusses the kind of evidence that may support the proposition that the book’s main character did achieve the ability to separate his astral mind (his soul) from his physical body and use it for the purpose described. His accounts span more than forty-years and were conducted in secret without any pecuniary gain whatsoever.