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xi Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgments to Brian Keeble, the estate of Cecil Collins and the Tate Gallery for citations and images, including the adapted cover illustration, “The Music of Dawn” from The Vision of the Fool and Other Works, (Ipswich: Golgonooza, 1994) and Meditations, Poems, Pages from a Sketchbook (Ipswich: Golgonooza, 1997); to Christopher Bamford and Lindisfarne Press for the citations from The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. V. de L. Milosz, (West Stockbridge: Lindisfarne, 1985); and to Studies in Spirituality, to The Journal of Consciousness Studies, and to the editors of Gnostica 3, Mélanges offerts àAntoine Faivre (Louven: Peeters, 2001), in which earlier versions of parts of this book first appeared. My thanks to New Directions Publishing for permission to quote from the works of the poet H.D., in particular “Tribute to the Angels” (excerpts) by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), from Trilogy, © 1945 by Oxford University Press; copyright renewed 1973 by Norman Holmes Pearson, and “The Walls Do Not Fall” (excerpts) by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), from Trilogy,© 1944 by Oxford University Press; copyright renewed 1972 by Norman Holmes Pearson. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation . Many thanks also to the various readers and editors of this book during the course of its production, each of whom helped to make it a better work. ...

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