
Preface
The Green Robe
The Watcher
The Blood-Eagle
Over the Gateway
Poena Damni
“Consolatrix Afflictorum”
The Bridge over the Stream
In the Convent Chapel
Under Which King?
In a quiet garden shaded by yew and elm, an elderly priest shares his uncanny ability to see the spiritual realm as clearly as the physical one. He explains that his gift is not a formal teaching authority but a heightened faculty of perception, comparable to artistic or mathematical talent. The conversation unfolds with gentle anecdotes, vivid descriptions of flowers, bees, and the play of light, inviting the listener to consider how thought and sensation intertwine.
The book expands these dialogues into a series of reflective essays that weave theology, philosophy, and everyday beauty. Each chapter offers a meditation on how we verify belief, how art can become a portal to the invisible, and how the ordinary world may conceal deeper currents of divine meaning. Listeners are drawn into a contemplative journey that encourages an attentive, almost synesthetic awareness of the world around them, without ever demanding a specific creed.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (192K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sonya Schermann, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2018-12-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1871–1914
An English priest-novelist who crossed a dramatic religious divide, he wrote fiction and spiritual works that still feel vivid today. He is especially remembered for the apocalyptic novel Lord of the World and for the urgency and clarity of his Catholic writing.
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