“In Tune With the Infinite”
Rediscovering an inspirational classic whose influence is everywhere
6 min readSep 8, 2022
In one of my favorite scenes from The Wizard of Oz Dorothy is running away from home and happens upon the wagon of Professor Marvel who sympathetically invites her inside his fortunetelling parlor. Seating Dorothy before a crystal ball, Professor Marvel tells the wide-eyed girl:
This is the same genuine, magic, authentic crystal used by the Priests of Isis and Osiris in the days of the Pharaohs of Egypt — in which Cleopatra first saw the approach of Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony, and — and so on — and so on. Now, you — you’d better close your eyes, my child, for a moment — in order to be better in tune with the infinite.
In tune with the infinite. It was the title of an enormously popular and now largely unread 1897 inspirational book by…
