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Rh capricious will and season, and without conscious effort; that its utterances declare what is learned by spiritual and involuntary discovery:—

Yes, the spontaneity of conception, which alone gives worth to poetry, is a kind of revelation—the Revelation through Insight. imagery of what genius perceives by Insight. This sense has little to do with reason and induction; it is the inward light of the Quaker, the a priori guess of the scientist, the prophetic vision of the poet, the mystic, the seer. If it be direct vision, it should be incontrovertible. In occult tradition the higher angels, types of absolute spirit, were thought to know all things by this pure illumination:—