In the higher Communion...
... the night of thought is the light of perception.
Victorian poet Coventry Patmore offers this thought in his idiosyncratic mystical book The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895):
Lovers put out the candles and draw the curtains, when they wish to see the god and the goddess; and, in the higher Communion, the night of thought is the light of perception.
Patmore was affiliated with the Pre-Raphaelites, alt…
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