Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

OOMMUNINGS WITH NATURE.
BY LANDON FAUNTLEROY.
For days the rain clouds had been hnrrying through "the
foothills, '' and nature had surrendered henelf to the elements
RO completely that it seemed as if those driving mists had drenched
her to the very heart. My task that morning had been one
which demanded my closest thought and care, and yet. through
it all, there had been creeping into my soul the oonsoiousness
that the wet world outside held a message for me, oonld I but
give myself to her mood. I felt that the mood was one that
would only yield itself to the most loving sympathy, that otherwiRe,
the intruder would but meet the inlao11pitable and inclement
exterior beneath which nature bidtl8 all that she accounts
nanRt tender and h••ly. But the deep love which welled
np from my heart and flowed to meet the great mother-heart
without. told me that her imnoMt ancl moat sacred thought
would not be withheld.
Laying aside my pen and equipping myself for the rain, I
soon stood upon the summit of a neighboring hill. Probably a
half mile from the foot of the hill, and 2000 feet below me •
rolled the turbid stream of the American ttiver, and far up the
oaiions, as it outs it11 sinuous way between the hills, I heard, with
a sense of which I have lately found myself poBBe&lled, the
angry current as it thundered against its rooky sides.
My consoiousuess seemed to flow out and to naeet the con­
RdouaneRR of all by whitlh I was surrounded. Guided by the
nui11y water!', I Reamed to Jlll"" up the atream ; and, as I penetratecl
the dn11ky green of each leafy nook, as I puRed under
the moAA-grown rock11 of the overhanging bills, and tumed
&~~icle to fulluw the rivuletR All they tumbled down the hillsicleR
in 11ilvery ca.