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AE [George William Russell]

I do not know indeed, but I suspect of that inner being that it is not one but many and I think we might find if our meditation was profound that the spokes of our egoity ran out to some celestial zodiac.  And, as in dream the ego is dramatically sundered into This and That and Thou and I, so in the totality of our nature are all beings men have imagined, aeons, archangels, dominions and powers, the hosts of darkness and the hosts of light, and we may bring this multitudinous being to a unity and be inheritors of its myriad wisdom.

"I can surmise the character of the first illumination in Wordsworth, the most retrospective of poets, who knew also that in those illuminations a being was seeking incarnation in him, and in Shelley, Keats and other poets when they were first met by their souls.  I rarely see a child alone without wondering on what mysterious river consciousness is drifting.  There is enchantment in these first adventures afloat on the canoe of dream, though the reverie may be like that doomful slumber Keats imagined”