Candle of Vision (Quest Book) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0835604454 ISBN 13: 9780835604451

Publisher: Theosophical Pub House, 1974

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 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 one another in time, each looking upon the same unchanging nature as the ancestors but naming it by other names, so in antiquity races were invaded by others who came with a cosmogony the same in all essentials, but for differences of language' and name, as that of the people invaded. After centuries there comes a blending of cultures and a subsidence into legend, bringing about a bewildering mosaic of mythology. The unity of primeval vision is broken up in the prism of literature. Deities grow in number in the popular imagination and coexist there, who i

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Considered by some the greatest examination of the mystical life ever written, this 1918 collection gathers the poetic meditations of George William Russell, an early-20th-century adherent of theosophy, which sought the essential truth underlying all religions, systems of ethics, and philosophies.

Here, in twenty chapters that stand alone as ruminations on the mystic consciousness or that can be read as a cohesive vision of mental and spiritual life, are Russell's thoughts on:

* "The Mingling of Natures" * "Have Imaginations Body?" * "The Architecture of Dream" * "The Language of the Gods" * "Ancient Intuitions" * "The Memory of the Spirit" * and more.

Not just a window in the soul of one man, this love work offers an insightful glimpse into the soul of us all.

About the Author:

About the Author:

"George William Russell (April 10, 1867 – July 17, 1935) who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, was an Anglo-Irish supporter of the Nationalist movement in Ireland, a critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years. He is not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell (1853 - 1919). He also has two great great grandsons named Connor John Russell and William Thayer Russell." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

About this edition

• Publisher: Theosophical Pub House
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0835604454
• ISBN 13: 9780835604451
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175