ss, is headed "Elemental Symbolism," and was recorded by him
in these beautiful words:

"I saw Self, or Life, symbolized all about me as a limitless, fathomless
and lonely sea. I took a handful and threw it into the grey silence of
ocean air, and it returned at once as a swift and potent flame, a red fire
crested with brown sunrise, rushing from between the lips of sky and sea to
the sound as of innumerable trumpets."

"In another dream he visited a land where there was no more war, where all
men and women were equal; where humans, birds and beasts were no longer at
enmity, or preyed on one another. And he was told that the young men of the
land had to serve two years as missionaries to those who lived at the
uttermost boundaries. 'To what end?' he asked. 'To cast out fear, our last
enemy.' In the house of his host he was struck by the beauty of a framed
painting that seemed to vibrate with rich colors. 'Who painted that?' he
asked. His host smiled, 'We have long since ceased to use brushes and
paints. That is a thought projected from the artist's brain, and its
duration will be proportionate with its truth.'"

In explanation of why he chose to put out so much of the creative work of
his brain under the signature of a woman, and how he happened to use the
name _Fiona Macleod_, Sharp explained that when he began to realize how
strong was the feminine element in the book _Pharais_, he decided to issue
the book under a woman's name and _Fiona Macleod_ "flashed ready-made" into
his mind. "My truest self, the self who is below all other selves must find
expression," he explained. The Self that is _above_ the other self is what
he should have said. The following extracts are from the _Fiona Macleod_
phase of William Sharp and are characteristic of the Self, as evidenced in
all instances of Illumination, particularly as these expressions refer to
the nothingness of death, and the beauty and power of Love. "Do not speak
of the spiritual life as 'another life'; there is no 'other life'; what we
mean by that, is with us now. The great misconception of death is that it
is the only door to another world." This testimony corroborates that of
Whitman as well as of St. Paul, notwithstanding all the centuries that
separate the two. St. Paul did not say that man _will have_ a spiritual
body, but that he _has_ a spiritual body as well as a corporeal body.

After the experience of his illumination, William Sharp, writing as _Fiona
Macle