The Candle of Vision (1918)

by George William Russell

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Discusses concepts that anticipated the modern human potential movement by half a century. Russell taught "creative visualization", and believed that the creative powers of imagination could become a passport to other worlds. This study of the true nature of visionary exploration will appeal to the artist and the poet, as well as the mystic.… (more)

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A brief and genuine take on visions by an Irish poet. Both Dion Fortune and Israel Regardie having referred to this title, I looked it up and was not let down.

ketolus | Aug 7, 2017 |

A unique and poetic mystical vision
by George W.Russell, a man who walked
his own way but was remembered by
Yeats' wife as 'the only saint you or I
will ever know.'

Ssigrist | Mar 9, 2009 |

The anecdote abt AE WBY and the plums is telling. what is it abt. plums? Remember WCW's poem about that delicious fruit. AE shows up in the library as Stephen gives his 'lecture' on Shakespeare. (

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Porius | Oct 11, 2008 |

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1918

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I had travelled all day and was tired,but I could not rest by the hearth in the cottage on the hill.

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Discusses concepts that anticipated the modern human potential movement by half a century. Russell taught "creative visualization", and believed that the creative powers of imagination could become a passport to other worlds. This study of the true nature of visionary exploration will appeal to the artist and the poet, as well as the mystic.

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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. Yeats, and James Stephens.

The Candle of Vision describes Russells' luminous excursions into the otherworld, including clairvoyant and prophetic visions, precognition of Gnostic concepts, past-life and astral journeys, and, always, heightened awareness of the beauty that pervades mundane reality. Russell describes encounters with what today we would call UFOs, and attempts to construct a private Kabala based on an intuitive reconstuction of a primal language and alphabet. Lastly, he attempts to put a mystical gloss on the primeval Celtic pagan deities. Lovers of Celtic lore and ecstatic mystic literature will both find much to enjoy in this short book. --J.B. Hare

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