Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Soul Drawn towards the Earth
A bright winged figure bends towards a dark, downward-hanging human form amid curling clouds. The caption describes anguish that the earth can attract a soul by one bewildering atom. The surrounding passage moves between contemplation of the world and grief at its power over the soul. Bridgman-Metchim gives that tension a bodily image, suspended between uplift and descent.
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D. Bridgman-Metchim. "A Soul Drawn towards the Earth" [editorial title]. In Atlantis: The Book of the Angels, D. Bridgman-Metchim. Cheap edition, 1903 scan, 1903, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited. Source scan leaf 170. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0064-0170
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D. Bridgman-Metchim. A Soul Drawn towards the Earth. Atlantis: The Book of the Angels. Scan leaf 170. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0064-0170