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A Collection of Poems (Revised Second Edition) -- In the investigation of a moonlit seascape, seldom would the investigator limit himself to an analysis of the total of physical materials: of air, of light, of water. More likely, the investigator would spend his time allowing his thoughts to wander among possibilities evoked by those half lights and lurking shadow. He sees the shapes flood in, as by a magic, from little investigated thoughts and nearly forgotten dreams. This is the direction an investigation of a seascape usually takes; particularly one made at night, by moonlight. Life seems kin to night, more under the cloak of the dark unknown than fully within the bright light known. So; any seascape is, rightly seen, like that of night, under the darkness of the unknown. So, day or night, the life I portray is life as under moonlight, pale fingers of light gently caressing shapes shrouded in darkness; masked by suggestive, but concealing snows of exteriors. Indeed, more may be glimpsed by half looks in half lights than may be seen by limiting hard looks and hard lights; those half lights which are, as flitting moon shadows, ever drawing from, and evoking, dreams. I say flitting moon shadows, because the look we get is always brief. So, let my light pass from shadow into dream; from dream again into shadow.

"As above, so below"...This statement has, in the past, been said by philosophers, and this belief is a major part of the Arthurian Story. Personalities and events in King Arthur's Astral Worlds are reflected from those worlds into this world. Time and time again, there is the occurrence, in material form, in this world, of objects and personalities which have an existence in Arthurian spirit worlds. And these have had a large importance to this world. Names are useful things in our arts and Owen's King Arthur could be subtitled A Book of Names and their Deeds. There are subtle conjures here. To know the name of a spirit and withhold your own name is to purchase power over that spirit in a shadowy slave economy of the soul. To reverse the equation is the signature of a faith that can bring the worker to good or ill; witness the unpronounceable Name of God and all those who pay homage to Its power. To exchange names with a spirit can be to bless and burn, die and be reborn in an ecstasy of union. Those who have a practice, reverends, priestesses, and doctors will find much in this book of use in both understanding their experiences and conducting their experiments.

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