With the eyes of imagination it sees into the deeps of space, although to the actual vision only a courtyard and street are visible; and it sees into depths which it will presently need to journey through.

It was during such moments of clairvoyance that I had a vision of the infinity of which before my present life I was a part.

Then, in spite of myself, my consciousness flagged, and for days together I lived the tranquil, subconscious life of early childhood.
At first my mind, altogether unimpressed and undeveloped, may be compared to a photographer's apparatus fitted with its sensitized glass.
Objects insufficiently lighted up make no impression upon the virgin plates; but when a vivid splendor falls upon them, and when they are encircled by disks of light, these once dim objects now engrave themselves upon the glass.

My first recollections are of bright summer days and sparkling noon times,--or more truly, are recollections of the light of wood fires burning with great ruddy flames..