Summary

AE The Candle of Vision — Retrospect (1918)

As the mother nourishes the body so the Mighty Mother nourishes the soul.
Yet there are but few who pay reverence where reverence is due, and that is because this benign deity is like a mother who indulges the fancies of her children.
With some she imparts life to their own thoughts.
Others she endows with the vision of her own heart.
Even of these last some love in silence, being afraid to speak of the majesty which smiled on them, and others deceived think with pride: "This vision is my own."
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AE The Candle of Vision — Retrospect (1918)

But the day was to come when I could not deny the Mighty Mother the reverence due, when I was indeed to know by what being I had been nourished, and to be made sweet and mad as a lover with the consciousness of her intermingling spirit.
The sages of old found that at the close of intense meditation their being was drawn into union with that which they contemplated.
All desire tends to bring about unity with the object adored, and this is no less true of spiritual and elemental than of bodily desire
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AE The Candle of Vision — Retrospect (1918)

I would sit among the rocks with shut eyes, waiting humbly as one waits in the antechambers of the mighty, and if the invisible ones chose me as companion they would begin with a soft breathing of their intimacies, creeping on me with shadowy affection like children who steal nigh to the bowed head and suddenly whisper fondness in the ear before it has even heard a footfall.
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