The Descent of the Gods

<p>Although George William Russell aka A.E., was a poet, painter newspaper editor and political writer, working for three decades in the Irish cooperative movement, he is probably most well known today as a mystic. His writings on the subject resulting from his Hindu and Theosophical studies and his own visionary abilities, are of major importance to all who are interested in the unseen world.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This volume contains all A.E.'s known writings on the subject. Not only are the texts of The&nbsp;<em>Candle of Vision</em>,&nbsp;<em>Song and Its Fountains</em>,&nbsp;<em>The Avatars</em>,&nbsp;<em>The Interpreters</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Imaginations and Reveries</em>&nbsp;reprinted here, but so also are all his contributions to&nbsp;<em>The Irish Theosophist</em>&nbsp;and other esoteric journals, his introductions and reviews of books, and the interview in Evans Wentz's&nbsp;<em>The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries</em>. Also included is "The Return," a hitherto unpublished short work that may well have been the start of a book he felt unable to complete, together with an introductory note by Monk Gibbon.</p><p><br></p><p>This volume, a Collected Edition of A.E,'s works, has an extensive introduction and copious notes by Raghavan lyer and Nandini Iyer which greatly increases the value of this book to the enquiring reader.&nbsp;</p>