“There is precious little
theorization in The Candle of Vision, but the theory it does present
is deeply challenging to conventional beliefs about the natural world and the
existence of a supreme deity beyond nature. A.E. assumed that his experiences were
memories of past lives, but not necessarily his own memories.” From A.E.,
The Candle of Vision
I became aware of a swift echo or response to my own moods in circumstance which had seemed hitherto immutable in its indifference. I found every intense imagination, every new adventure of the intellect endowed with magnetic power to attract to it its own kin. . . . I could prophesy from the uprising of new moods in myself that I, without search, would soon meet people of a certain character, and so I met them. The Candle of Vision, by AE (George William Russell), [1918]
