The Vision We Forget

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Excerpt from The Vision We Forget: A Layman's Reading of the Book of the Revelation of St. John the DivineHen I wrote The Christ We Forget and The C hmch We F orget, I had only the usual distant acquaintance with The Vision We Forget. I was fa miliar with certain favourite passages in the Book of Revelation, but that was all. It was with a certain zest, therefore, that I began to read this book as a whole, with my own eyes and nobody else's, and I soon found that I was in touch with a supreme product, whatever more it may be, of the human mind, There are doubt less innumerable treatises on the Apocalypse which I ought to have studied, and I did try one or two, but I found them less interesting than the Book itself and sometimes more perplexing. On prophetic systems, any opinion from me would be valueless, but in John of Patmos I greet one who seems to have compre hended this world in which somehow I have to live. As a father to a child, he tells me how the Christ he remembered looks at things here and now - what part the Christ plays in our diama - what greater part He will play when the time comes. I have no idea how John cameto put on paper much that I have read. All I know is that John's words are there. And the words fit facts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.