George William Russell, better known as (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). When I am in my room looking
upon the walls I have painted I see there reflections of the
personal life, but when I look through the windows I see a living
nature and landscapes not painted by hands. So, too, when I
meditate I 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. I have tried according to my capacity to
report about the divine order and to discriminate between that
which was self-begotte4n fantasy and that which came from a higher
sphere. -, from the Preface The value of 's book is raised above
debate or doubt. It is, in the first place, the work of a poet. It
is, apart from its arguments, a beautiful book, written in
exquisite prose and filled with pictures which, whatever their
origin, are of an unearthly loveliness. In the second place, it is
the work of an earnest and sincere man, convinced of the truth of
what he reports and determined to be as lucid and precise as the
conditions of his undertaking will permit him to be. . . . There
can be no doubt that has here achieved an expression of mysticism
remarkable at any time, and almost unique in our times. - The New
Statesman I remember how pure, holy and beautiful these
imaginations seemed, 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. -
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