Ancient Intuitions : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 128 ANCIENT INTUITIONS EVEN where I had a certitude that my attribution of element, form or colour to a root was right I have never thought this exhausted the range of its affinities in our manifold being. I went but a little way...
The Earth Breath : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 10 THE EARTH BREATH AFTER that awakening earth began more and more to bewitch me, and to lure me to her heart with honied entreaty. I could not escape from it even in that busy office where I sat during week-days with little...
Analytic : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 38 ANALYTIC BEFORE I may write more of that supernature which rises) a tower of heaven, above the depths where we move, I know I must try to solve some of the doubts and perplexities which come to most who hear of things they...
Earth : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 170 EARTH I THINK of earth as the floor of a cathedral where altar and Presence are everywhere. This reverence came to me as a boy listening to the voice of birds one coloured evening in summer, when suddenly birds and trees...
Intuition : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 112 INTUITION THAT sense of a divinity ever present in act or thought my words do not communicate. The ecstatic, half-articulate, with broken words. can make us feel the kingdom of heaven is within him. I choose words with...
Dreams : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 77 DREAMS I HAD discovered through such dreams as that of the satirical ape that there is One who is vigilant through the sleep of the body, and I was led by other dreams to assume that in the heart of sleep there is...
Power : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 137 POWER I HAVE spoken of a training of the will, but have not indicated the spring of power in our being, nor dilated on those moments when we feel a Titanic energy lurks within us ready to our summons as the familiar spirit...
Have Imaginations Body : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 102 HAVE IMAGINATIONS BODY? IN the literature of science I read of marvellously delicate instruments devised to make dear to the intellect the mode of operation of forces invisible to the eye, how Alpha rays, Gamma rays...
Untitled : * This book by Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell, is a set of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (which is short for Aeon), Russell was friends with many other figures of the Celtic renaissance of the early 20th century, including Y.B...
The Many Coloured Land : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 27 THE MANY-COLOURED LAND I HAVE always been curious about the psychology of my own vision as desirous of imparting it, and I wish in this book to relate the efforts of an artist and poet to discover what truth lay in his own...
Meditation : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 19 MEDITATION THERE is no personal virtue in me other than this that I followed a path all may travel but on which few do journey. It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is...
The Language Of The Gods : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 120 THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODS IF I interpreted rightly that dweller in the mind, the true roots of human speech are vowels and consonants, each with affinity to idea. force, colour and form, the veriest abstractions of these. but...
Imagination : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 66 IMAGINATION IN all I have related hitherto imagination was not present but only vision. These are too often referred to as identical, and in what I have written I have tried to make clear the distinction. If beyond my window I...
The Slave Of The Lamp : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 15 THE SLAVE OF THE LAMP BECAUSE I was a creature of many imaginings and of rapid alternations of mood out of all that there came to me assurance of a truth, of all truths most inspiring to one in despair in the Iron Age and lost...
Title Page : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], THE CANDLE OF VISION BY AE (GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL) "The Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord."--PROVERBS. "When his candle shined on my head and by his light I walked through darkness."--JOB London, Macmillan And Co., Limited...
The Memory Of Earth : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 56 THE MEMORY OF EARTH WE experience the romance and delight of voyaging upon uncharted seas when the imagination is released from the foolish notion that the images seen in reverie and dream are merely the images of memory...
The Mingling Of Natures : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 48 THE MINGLING OF NATURES To move a single step we must have power. To see we must be exalted. Not to be lost in vision we must learn the geography of the spirit and the many mansions in the being of the Father. If we...
The Architecture Of Dream : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 89 THE ARCHITECTURE OF DREAM I HAVE failed in my purpose if I have not made it clear that in the actual architecture of dream and vision there is a mystery which is not explained by speaking of suppressed desire or sex or any...
Retrospect : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 1 RETROSPECT I HAD travelled all day and was tired, but I could not rest by the hearth in the cottage on the hill. My heart was beating with too great an excitement. After my year in the city I felt like a child who wickedly...
Preface : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. xiii PREFACE WHEN I am in my room looking upon the walls I have painted I see there reflections of the personal life, but when I look through the windows I see a living nature and landscapes not painted by hands. So, too, when I...
The Memory Of The Spirit : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 143 THE MEMORY OF THE SPIRIT HY BRAZIL, Ildathach, the lands of Immortal Youth which flush with magic the dreams of childhood, for most sink soon below far horizons and do not again arise. For around childhood gather the wizards...
Celtic Cosmogony : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 153 CELTIC COSMOGONY IN the beginning was the boundless Lir, an infinite depth, an invisible divinity, neither dark nor light, in whom were all things past and to be. There at the close of a divine day, time being ended...
The Celtic Imagination : * "The Candle of Vision", by AE (George William Russell), [1918], p. 162 THE CELTIC IMAGINATION OTHER names might be used in this Celtic cosmogenesis and the Dagda stand for Lir, Boan for Dana, Fintan for Mananan, and others again might be interchangeable with these. Even as the generations follow...
