The Altar Fire
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ISBN13: 9781407627366
Paperback|9781407627366
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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: Strange Moods 5 vigil, over limbs and brain. The faculty, the godlike power of knowing and imagining, all actually less to me than my own tiny and fragile sensations. Such moods as these are strange things, because they bring with them so intense a desire to know, to perceive, and yet paralyse one with the horror of the darkness in which one moves. One cannot conceive why it is that one is given the power of realising the multiplicity of creation, and yet at the same time left so wholly ignorant of its significance. One longs to leap into the arms of God, to catch some whisper of His voice; and at the same time there falls the shadow of the prison-house; one is driven relentlessly back upon the old limited life, the duties, the labours, the round of meals and sleep, the tiny relations with others as ignorant as ourselves, and, still worse, with the petty spirits who have a complacent explanation of it all. Even over love itself the shadow falls. I am as near to my own dear and true Maud as it is possible to be; but I can tell her nothing of the mystery, and she can tell me nothing. We are allowed for a time to draw close to each other, to whisper to each other our hopes and fears; but at any moment we can be separated. The children.Alec and Maggie, dearer to me?I can say it honestly?than life itself, to whom we have given being, whose voices I hear as I write, what of them ? They are each of them alone, though they hardly know it yet. The little unnamed son, who opened his eyes upon the world six years ago, to close them in a few hours, where and what is he now ? Is he somewhere, anywhere ? Does he know of the joy and sorrow he has brought into our lives ? I would fain believe it ... these are profitless thoughts, of one staring into the abyss. Somehow these bright weeks have...
| ISBN-13 | 9781407627366 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1407627368 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 0.33 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $13.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 156 pages |
| Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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