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'Sir Christopher Lee at University College Dublin, discusses rumours of his extensive occult library and black magic. You Tube, November 2011'
Amusing that the person that wrote that Mr. Lee owned 20, 000 books in regard to the occult, to some extent, may have assumed that Mr. Lee's occult based characters in films equated with Mr. Lee being obsessed with the occult. Perhaps in a way, the now late, Mr. Lee was a victim of his own acting excellence with acting roles involving the occult. Mr. Lee from this video source and some other sources online, very well may have had a Christian worldview.
A philosophical lesson here is not to assume that someone that presents a fictional worldview (s), is also embracing that fictional worldview (s) in a non-fiction context, such as the story of Mr. Lee's life. A fictional portrayal does not equate necessarily with an actual worldview in reality. Nor should it be assumed that someone that owns a few books on the occult, and may find them intellectually interesting, embraces the occult as worldview.
I own very few books on the occult, for educational purposes, as I do study religious studies and philosophy. I am by no means an expert on the occult. My friendly neighbour, Walter Thomas Franklin, gave me some of them, probably largely to get disturbing images within the texts out of his house. I neither embrace the books nor the worldview.
Interestingly, I was chatting last Sunday, with a very committed Christian brother and actor at church, that has done local church performances. He is acting in a horror film...
'Sir Christopher Lee at University College Dublin, discusses rumours of his extensive occult library and black magic. You Tube, November 2011'
Via my neighbour
MATTHEWS, RUPERT (ed.) PAUL ROLAND, KAREN FARRINGTON, LUCY DONCASTER, ANDREW HOLLAND, (2009) The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, London, Arcturus.
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