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Name: The Candle of Vision — Analytic
Author: AE

The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

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“The Candle of Vision — Analytic”, published in 1918, is a work by AE. It explores elements such as vision, imagination and brain.

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ People pass them by too easily saying, "It is imagination," as if imagination were as easily explained as a problem in Euclid, and was not a mystery, and as if every moving picture in the brain did not need such minute investigation as Darwin gave to earthworms.
I was asked to believe that giants, armour, hillside and sunny distance so appeared in my brain because I had seen men who might be enlarged to giants, pictures of armour with which they could be clothed by fancy, brass with which the armour could be coloured. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ Nor can be it denied that vision is often so radiant and precise, for experience affirms that it is, and hundreds of artists, and indeed people who are not artists at all, will tell you how clearly they see in their dreams. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ While I looked, giants in brazen armour clambered swiftly up the hillside, swinging clubs which had spiked balls of brass held by a chain at the end.
They glittered in the sun as they ran up and past me.
Motion, light, shadow, colour were perfect as things seen passing before the physical eyes. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ I think few of our psychologists have had imagination themselves.
They have busy brains, and, as an Eastern proverb says, "The broken water surface reflects only broken images."
They see too feebly to make what they see a wonder to themselves.
They discuss the mode of imagination as people might discuss art, who had never seen painting or sculpture.
One writer talks about light being a vibration, and the vibration affecting the eye and passing along the nerves until it is stored up in the brain cells. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ On that path, as an ancient scripture says, to whatsoever place one would travel that place one's own self becomes, and I must try first to uproot false ideas about memory, imagination and vision so that by pure reason people may be led out of error and be able to distinguish between that which arises in themselves and that which comes otherwise and which we surmise is a visitor from a far country. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ The darkness in you will begin to glow, and you will see clearly, and you will know that what you thought was but a mosaic of memories is rather the froth of a gigantic ocean of life, breaking on the shores of matter, casting up its own flotsam to mingle with the life of the shores it breaks on. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ 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 have not heard or seen for their own part. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ If we brood on this we will come to think the old explanation is untenable and will address ourselves with wonder and hope to the exploration of this strange country within ourselves, and will try to find out its limits, and whether from image or vision long pondered over we may not reach to their original being. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — Analytic (1918)

“ Not that it is incredible to think that the spirit in man is Creator, for all the prophets and seers of the world have told us that, but the common psychological explanation is not acceptable, because we know that forms can appear in the brain which were transferred by will from one person to another. ”

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