Sub conservatione formae specificae salva anima.- RAYMOND LULLY
I am come of a race noted for vigour of fancy and ardour of
passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet
settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence-whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does
not spring from disease of thought--from of mind
exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream
by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream
only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of
eternity, and thrill, in awaking, to find that they have been
upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn
something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere
knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless
or compassless, into the vast ocean of the 'light ineffable' and
again, like the adventurers of the Nubian geographer, We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that
there are two distinct conditions of my mental existence--the
condition of a lucid reason, not to be disputed, and belonging to
the memory of events forming the first epoch of my life--and a
condition of shadow and doubt, appertaining to the present, and
to the recollection of what constitutes the second great era of
my being. Therefore, what I shall tell of the earlier period,
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