Panthea the Spirit of Nature Author:Robert Hunt General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve Subjects: Value Pantheism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial ac... more »cess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 62 CHAPTER IV. THE VISION OF THE MYSTERY. Julian felt himself borne onward with an easy gliding motion, and he yielded to a feeling of luxuriant repose, which subdued him so completely, that he became entirely unconscious of any other influence. This dreamy sense of motion, which was a soothing consciousness of long and easy undulations, and from which there was no desire to escape, continued for some time. At length, the sense of hearing was suddenly awakened by sounds which sent a thrill through Julian's soul, and instantly quickened it with a feeling of intense delight, so entirely in accordance with his movements were the waves of harmony which now floated around him. The music did not appear to be drawn from any instrument, or to proceed from any human or even spiritual organs of articulation. The sounds were those produced by the movement of the ethereal medium in which he swam, -- the swelling and dyingcadences corresponding with the wave of progression upon which Julian was borne. He appeared to himself to be resolved into a state of extreme ethereality, and to be, indeed, a portion of the billow of sound -- all feeling being concentrated in one exquisite sense of hearing. Eventually the murmuring music became a more denned expression of joyous sound; and Julian became conscious that familiar words were fashioned into melody by some spirit tongues: -- " From the moonlit bowers Of the world of flowers, Now bathed with the mystic globes of dew, Which gather the light From the orbs of night, And their fading tint...« less