#jj van der leeuw

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J. J. Van Der Leeuw, Gods In Exile

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It is in the new vision, which is born when man is freed from the tyranny of illusion, that the whole world is changed and appears radiant with love and beauty, apparently utterly changed, though the change really is in man himself alone.

J. J. van der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

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This is a FIRST EDITION of J.J. van der Leeuw’s The Fire of Creation published in 1926.

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When we have seen the vision of Reality our world is changed, utterly and almost beyond recognition, and yet nothing has changed in things as they are, it is but that we have gained a new vision. Ugliness and suffering, disharmony and evil only exist for us as long as we see our worldimage as an objective reality, as long as we see things by themselves. The moment we can see the objects and events of our world as the interpretation by us of Reality, the eternal meaning of the thing in itself is revealed through its appearance in our world; we see the changing object, the passing event in the light of the Eternal. In that light they can no longer be ugly or evil; they all share the grandeur of eternal Reality.

J. J. van der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion