At beginning to read this book the reader enters from the first lines onward already, upon an unusual sphere, whilst a bright world begins to open up. The author takes you ever deeper into heights, into depth, endorsing awareness ever further into verities of renewed discovery. One becomes endowed with a new light, a vast sense of the eternal mysteries. Despite the mysteries ongoing, yet they begin to give us clues, to finding the golden thread amid the mazes. As you traverse along, pausing awhile at the lovely and sometimes startling verses in this work, which are bound to touch one...

In this impassioned work, utilizing both poetry and prose, Elsa de Visser recreates the faith of William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth for the modern believer and unbeliever alike. As refreshing as Anne Morrow Lindbergh's A Gift From the Sea, this spiritual odyssey could easily be subtitled, "A gift from the earth and heavens." With overtones of Thomas de Quincy and Kahlil Gibran, as well as the more religious and sagacious works of Allen Ginsburg, Elsa de Visser's The Arisen Flame lights the path to true knowledge of God, world, and self. Combining both Cartesian...

In this impassioned work, utilizing both poetry and prose, Elsa de Visser recreates the faith of William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth for the modern believer and unbeliever alike. As refreshing as Anne Morrow Lindbergh's A Gift From the Sea, this spiritual odyssey could easily be subtitled, "A gift from the earth and heavens." With overtones of Thomas de Quincy and Kahlil Gibran, as well as the more religious and sagacious works of Allen Ginsburg, Elsa de Visser's The Arisen Flame lights the path to true knowledge of God, world, and self. Combining both Cartesian...

From the beginning a panaramic vista opens, as we share of the romantic soul of a fifteen year old at the threshould. The author gives us a glimpse of Europe just before and after the occupation. As her subject blossoms and matures onward later in Canada, her family being of a well to do background while Elsa having opposed her parents is on a resolute path throughout decisive stages. It leads her further into unaccustomed realities. Later together with her man, strangest occurrences of the other-wordly or the extra sensory surely put them to the test. In an effervescent rebounding of courage...

From the beginning a panaramic vista opens, as we share of the romantic soul of a fifteen year old at the threshould. The author gives us a glimpse of Europe just before and after the occupation. As her subject blossoms and matures onward later in Canada, her family being of a well to do background while Elsa having opposed her parents is on a resolute path throughout decisive stages. It leads her further into unaccustomed realities. Later together with her man, strangest occurrences of the other-wordly or the extra sensory surely put them to the test. In an effervescent rebounding of courage...