This special commemorative edition of AEs The Candle of Vision is published on the 10th of April 2017ev. This is the 150th anniversary of the Feast for Life (birthday) of George William Russell, the man who bore the name Æon. This is also the 113th Anniversary of the writing of the third chapter of Liber AL vel Legis, the Book of the Law. The Candle of Vision is part spiritual biography, part inquiry into the mechanism of visions, and partly instructional. Originally published in 1918, AEs Candle of Vision is still a classic of contemporary mystical writing. Featuring a foreword by Brian Breathnach

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 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.

Known to his contemporaries as the 'Myriad-Mind Man', George William Russell (1867-1935) was an artist, a journalist, a poet, a playwright, a mystic, a seer, and much else besides. A friend and rival of W B Yeats, Russell - or 'AE' as he liked to be known - played an important part in the 'Celtic Revival' of the early twentieth century, wielding an influence which today is largely forgotten. In 'The Candle of Vision' Russell attempts to describe the revelations and visions that came to him with increasing frequency from his early twenties, messages and intuitions that convinced him that "the Golden Age was all about me, and it was we who had been blind to it, but that it had never passed away from the world." The author treats of clairvoyance, astral travel, of the Language of the Gods, of Celtic Nature Visions and meetings with what, in today's world view, we would regard as UFOs. This is a must-read book for all those fascinated by Nature mysticism and Celtic lore.

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.

Excerpt from The Candle of Vision 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 land scapes not painted by hands. So, too, when I meditate I feel in the images and thoughts which throng about me the reflections of personality, but there are also windows in the soul through which can be seen images created not by human but by the divine imagination. Ihave tried according to my capacity to report about the divine order and to discriminate between that which was self-begotten fantasy and that which came. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.