The Light Invisible

DESCRIPTIONThe Light Invisible was written by British author Robert Hugh Benson, author of Lord of the World, and published in 1903. This book of fiction is a series of related supernatural stories as told by an elderly priest to the author. From the author regarding the priest in the stories…"All that he claimed (and this surely was within his rights) was to be at least sincere in his perceptions and expressions of spiritual truth. His power, as he was at pains to tell me, was no more than a particular development of a faculty common to all who possess a coherent spiritual life. To one Divine Truth finds entrance through laws of nature, to another through the medium of other sciences or arts; to my friend it presented itself in directly sensible forms. Had his experiences, however, even seemed to contravene Divine Revelation, he would have rejected them with horror: entire submission to the Divine Teacher upon earth, as he more than once told me, should normally precede the exercise of all other spiritual faculties. The deliberate reversal of this is nothing else than Protestantism in its extreme form, and must ultimately result in the extinction of faith."CONTENTSThe Green RobeThe WatcherThe Blood-EagleOver the GatewayPoena Damni“Consolatrix Afflictorum”The Bridge over the StreamIn the Convent ChapelUnder Which King?With Dyed GarmentsUnto BabesThe TravellerThe Sorrows of the WorldIn the MorningThe Expected Guest

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