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George William Russell, better known as Æ (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland. From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna (translator of the Enneads of Plotinus), James Joyce, and other writers, thinkers, and artists, and was closely associated with the Irish National Theatre Society (later the Abbey Theatre).Coracle Press has undertaken to republish many of the works of Æ as well as studies of his work by others. John Eglinton's Memoir, first published in 1937, two years after Æ's death, provides bothbroad views and incisive insights into the man, as could only be done by one who shared many of his gifts, many of his friends, and knew him well. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:One is tempted to prolong this analysis of literary arts and graces ; but enough has been said to recall some leading characteristics of Arnold's genius in verse and prose. We turn now to our investigation of what he accomplished. The field which he included in his purview was wide—almost as wide as our national life. We will consider, one by one, the various departments of it in which his influence was most distinctly felt; but first of all a word must be said about his Method.chapter{Section 4Chapter IIMETHODTHE Matthew Arnold whom we know begins in 1848 ; and, when we first make his acquaintance, in his earliest letters to his mothei and his eldest sister, he is already a Critic. He is only twenty- five years old, and he is writing in the year of Revolution. Thrones are going down with a crash all over Europe ; the voices of triumphant freedom are in the air ; the long-deferred millennium of peace and brotherhood seems to be just on the eve of realization. But, amid all this glorious hurly- burly, this "joy of eventful living,"the young philosopher stands calm and unshaken ; interested indeed, and to some extent sympathetic, but wholly detached and impartially critical. He thinks that the fall of the French Monarchy is likely to produce social changes here, for " no one looks on, seeing his neighbour mending, without asking himself if he cannot mend in the same way." He is convinced that " the hour of the hereditarypeerage and eldest sonship and immense properties has struck " ; he thinks that a five years' continuance of these institutions is " long enough, certainly, for patience, already at death's door, to have to die in." He pities (in a sonnet) " the armies of the homeless and unfed." But all the time he resents the " hot, dizzy trash which people are talkin... ... Read more

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Part three of the Collected Works. Although A.E. was a poet, painter, newspaper editor, and political writer, it is as a mystic that he is best known today. His writings on the subject are of major importance to all who are interested in the unseen worlds. This contains all A.E.'s known writings on the subject: not only are the texts of The Candle of Vision, Song and Its Fountains, The Avatars, The Interpreters, and Imaginations and Reveries here, but so also are all his contributions to The Irish Theosophist and other esoteric journals, his introductions to and reviews of books, and the interview in W.Y. Evans Wentz's The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries. Also included is The Return, a hitherto unpublished short work, together with an introductory note by Monk Gibbon. ... Read more

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George William Russell, better known as Æ (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland. From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna (translator of the Enneads of Plotinus), James Joyce, and other writers, thinkers, and artists, and was closely associated with the Irish National Theatre Society (later the Abbey Theatre).In his biography of Æ, Henry Summmerfield relates of him that probably in mid-1884 he "began to experience waking dreams of astonishing power and vividness which seemed to be thrust into his consciousness by a mind which was not his. Images of cosmic happenings and other worlds overwhelmed him with a majesty far removed from anything of which he was aware in his own being. 'I remember how pure, holy and beautiful these imaginations seemed,' Æ wrote in later years, 'how they came like crystal water sweeping aside the muddy current of my life. . . . The visible world became like a tapestry blown and stirred by winds behind it. If it would raise but an instant I knew I would be in Paradise."' Song and Its Fountains is imbued with the force of this powerful inner life.In [this book] I have tried to track song back to its secret fountains. As I have thought it unnatural to see together in galleries pictures unrelated to each other, or taken from the altars for which they were painted, so I have thought it unnatural for lyric to follow lyric in a volume without hint of the bodily or spiritual circumstance out of which they were born. I have here placed some songs in their natural psychic atmosphere. Those who cannot follow my reasoning may perhaps be amused or interested by the fantasy a poet built about his life and poetry. -ÆAnd the ancient mysteryHolds its hands out day by day,Takes a chair and croons with meBy my cabin built of clay ... Read more

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Vision's Power To Turn Your Gaze From The Absolute
I found this book to be one of the most significant books that I have ever read. "Song And Its Fountains" explores poetic inspiration and I am convinced that George Russell truly experienced the height of inspiration in a manner that closely matches my inner experiences. He describes many states of consciousness which I am familiar with, "The faculty of dreaming while I was awake had then become active..". This makes it clear that AE was familiar with waking dreams and he goes on to describe this faculty very precisely, "It is not true that we must fall asleep to dream. The dream consciousness may flood the waking, and that waking consciousness may have little more to do with the molding of the dream than the seer of dream in sleep has to do with the creation of images by which he is surrounded."

I also found it highly significant that George Russell did not have to meditate to achieve this heightened state of consciousness, "I had found the genie in the innermost sometimes overcoming me by an enchantment of dream flooding the waking consciousness not merely when I was meditative, but when I was at work or walking in the streets or on country roads."

AE also describes how vision can idealize the world and give it a supernatural beauty, "The words of the seer imply...transfiguring the things his eyes have seen and making of them a wonder-world of his own." Elsewhere he uses an expression which I particularly admire, "So over the images we see a glamour is cast...".

However, his mention of peculiar emotional states in waking dreams came as a surprise to me. I am familiar with intense and unfamiliar emotions in dreams but not when fully conscious. AE describes a visitation occurring while not asleep, "the dream, which was burdened with such intensities of emotion, when it departed left behind a slight lyric which could not hold or hardly hint at the love...". This is quite extraordinary and makes AE worthy of serious study.

George Russell was a serious student of Eastern religions and singled out the Upanishads for special consideration. From this, he got the idea that his visions may have been a distraction from the mystic way and that he was prevented from achieving the highest being. He humbly states, "My farthest traveling inward was but a footstep." Towards the end of the book he strikes a note of despair and describes his vision as "blossoms of illusion". As far as I am concerned, the glamour that vision can cast over the world is too powerful to be ignored. It may even have the power to turn your gaze from God, the Absolute, or what have you. A visionary is truly a distracted soul. ... Read more