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In the higher Communion...

... the night of thought is the light of perception.

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Carl McColman
Jan 16, 2025
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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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