VISIONS AND CONSECRATED JOY On or about December 1910 human character changed. -Virginia Woolf in The Modern World: Ten Great Writers, Malcohm Bradbury, Penguin Books, Ringwood, Victoria, 1989, p.15. We heard about your leaving, then,(December 1910) at the age of sixty-five, after twenty-four years in Haifa. You’d seen Carmel and Akka joined in light, around the bay, teeming with ships from all nations, shining like jewels, a global metropolis that would have excited Abraham. And the world did change as you walked down that Mountain to the steamer and on to Egypt. Needing a rest, you took your visions West, to those minarettes of materialism. With that Dust finally in its home, You were ready to flood new regions with that light that was The Call to change human character forever with those seeds of Ancient Splendour and the fresh leaves of Your consecrated joy. Ron Price 27 October 1995
