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Aithnê's Dream. Sept '85 Text below from Page 142. "Iona".

"But there, as elsewhere, one must bear in mind remembrance that, in spiritual sight,
there is symbolic vision as well as actual vision."

"When Aithnê, Colum's mother, dreamed that an angel showed her a garment of so
surpassing a loveliness that it was as though woven of flowers and rainbows, and
then threw it on high, till its folds expanded, and covered every mountain-top, from
the brows of Cannaught to the feet of the Danish Sea, and so revealed to her what
manner of a son she bore within her womb."
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