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Name: The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures
Author: AE

The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

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

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ Not to be lost in vision we must learn the geography of the spirit and the many mansions in the being of the Father.
If we concentrate we shall have power.
If we meditate we shall lift ourselves above the dark environment of the brain.
The inner shall become richer and more magical to us than the outer which has held us so long.
How may I allure to this meditation those who see only by the light of day; who, when their eyes are shut, are as cave-dwellers living in a blackness beneath the hills? ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ The vision of the girl and old man may in reality have been but a little part of the images with which my brain was flooded.
Did I then see all, or might not other images in the same series emerge at some later time and the connection be lost?
If I had written a tale and had imagined an inner room, an old mother.
An absent son, a family trouble, might I not all the while be still adventuring in another's life? ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ I know that with the pictures of memory mingle pictures which come to us, sometimes from the minds of others, sometimes are glimpses of distant countries, sometimes are reflections of happenings in regions invisible to the outer eyes; and as meditation grows more exalted, the forms traceable to memory tend to disappear and we have access to a memory greater than our own, the treasure-house of august memories in the innumerable being of Earth. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ When minute analysis is made of images in the brain, those foolish fables about memory and imagination no longer affect those who begin this quest, and we see how many streams are tributary to our life. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ Is not the gathering of the will and the fiery brooding to this end, and are the glimpses we get of supernature caused but by the momentary uplifting of an eye, by which, when it is fully awakened, we dead shall be raised? ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ If we brood with love upon this myriad unity, following the meditation ordained by Buddha for the brothers of his order, to let our minds pervade the whole wide world with heart of love, we come more and more to permeate, or to be pervaded by the lives of others. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ Or do they already mirror each their own world, and is all knowledge already within us, and is our need but for wisdom to create the links between portions of a single being, dramatically sundered by illusion as the soul is in dream? ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ We are haunted by unknown comrades in many moods, whose naked souls pass through ours, and reveal themselves to us in an unforgettable instant, and we know them as we hardly know those who are the daily comrades of our heart, who, however intimate, are hidden from us by the husk of the body. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ While we think we are imagining a character we may, so marvellous are the hidden ways, be really interpreting a being actually existing, brought into psychic contact with us by some affinity of sentiment or soul. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ I perhaps to build on had some little gift of imagination I brought with me into the world, but I know others who had no natural vision who acquired this, and by sustained meditation and by focussing the will to a burning-point, were raised above the narrow life of the body. ”

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AE, The Candle of Vision — The Mingling of Natures (1918)

“ We must ask ourselves these questions, for, when our lamp is lit, we find the house of our being has many chambers, and creatures live there who come and go, and we must ask whether they have the right to be in our house; and there are corridors there leading into the hearts of others, and windows which open into eternity, and we hardly can tell where our own being ends and another begins, or if there is any end to our being. ”

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