Known to his contemporaries as the Myriad-Mind Man, George William Russell (1867-1935) was an artist, a journalist, a poet, a playwright, a mystic, a seer, and much else besides. A friend and rival of W B Yeats, Russell - or AE as he liked to be known - played an important part in the Celtic Revival of the early twentieth century, wielding an influence which today is largely forgotten.
In The Candle of Vision Russell attempts to describe the revelations and visions that came to him with increasing frequency from his early twenties, messages and intuitions that convinced him that "the Golden...
Known to his contemporaries as the Myriad-Mind Man, George William Russell (1867-1935) was an artist, a journalist, a poet, a playwright, a mystic, a ...
