The sun., 1919-03-09
A. Els Flight Beyond Matter

in its sphere as Rants Craiqae Of Pure
Reason or the Principle of Newton in the
physical sphere.
A. E. introduces us to his world with
these words:
"When l am in my room looking upon
the walls 1 have painted l see there re-
Elections of the personal life, but WHEN 1
look through the windows 1 see living
nature and landscapes not painted by
hands. So, too, when | mediate 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. l
have tried according to my capacity to re-
port about the divine order and to dis
criminate between that which was self
begotten fantasy and that which ame
from higher sphere"
Thus, according to A. F., the universe
is vast "movie" studio conducted by
some sublime Director. The earth, the
air and the soul preserve for all time the
films taken of everything that has ever
happened in time. All the past is thus ac-
cessible to A. F., who by dint Of coneen-
tratiOn and meditation summons the fig
ures and events of the "dead past to
walk and talk and act before the eye of his
soul like great spiritual Prospero.s The
future is there too, for in that X dImen-
sion of the mind there is no time.
He describes TO us infinitely how his
brain became luminous, how Through
meditation and fiery concentration of will
a growing luminousness in my brain be-
gan, as if had unsealed in the body a
fountain of interior light"
Scientific analysis follows every new
stage in his progress toward this trans
cendent reality. And, indeed, the things
he has seen There and recorded in this
book are beautiful and terrible beyond
belief. In "The Many -Colored Land sat
''the Divine Kings. They were fire.
crested. saw the crest of the dragon on
one, and there was another plumed with
brilliant fires that ietted forth like feath-
ers of fame. They sat shining and star
like, mute as statues, more colossal than
Egyptian images of their gods, and st the
end of the hall was a higher throfe on
which sat one greater than the rest" Be
it remembered this is not description of
a visualized memory la Dunsany or
mere piece Of literature, but is the. veri-
table reality Of a life lived in another
sphere with the same utter conviction Of
its substantially as had Iohn Of Patmos,
Swedenborg or Blake.
In the chapter Hare Imdginations
Body? he says. she who attributes most
mystery to matter is further from the
truth, and he highest WHO conjectures
the Absolute TO be present in fulness of
being in the atom" Tap matter and you
find infinite force. Science itself is going
back TO the mystics for information. Ra-
dunn upset the materialistic philosophy,
if it really ever had any vogue outside OF
the German laboratory.
There are magically conceived and writ
ten chapters in The Candle Of Vision on
The Earth Breath, The Language Of the
Gods, The Memory Of the Spirit The
Celtic Imagination, Po,cer and The 4rchi-
lecture Of Dreams. /
1t is a profoundly simple book relating
the sublime experience of born poet and
mystic. 1t is a luminous, transferring
book-supreme trash to mental ground
lings, but the very truth itself to the few
who know that life is only symbol and
veil.
THE CANDLE OF VISION. By 4. Z.