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A Goodly Company by Ethel le Rossignol




Antiquarian / Second Hand

A series of psychic drawings given through the hand of Ethel le Rossignol as an assurance of survival after death this sequence of designs is shown to open the eyes of all men to the glorious world of spiritual power which lies about them.

[London: printed for the author by] The Chiswick Press [1933]. First Edition.
Hardbound large folio (495 x 370 mm), 70 unpaginated pages illustrated with 35 full-page black and white spirit drawings and 7  tipped-in colour plates (each 320 x 320 mm) with circular illustrations heightened in gilt. Original pale green buckram, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board.

Condition:
Clean, unmarked text pages, contents clean and crisp with vivid colour plates; firm binding, cloth with slight sunning and scratching, mild edge-wear with some fraying to corners; slight creasing of back pastedown  - in all a very good copy of this scarce title.


From an article on the College of Psychic Studies website:

"Constance Ethel Le Rossignol was born in Argentina to a family with ancestral roots in Jersey. She studied art in London before serving as a nurse during the First World War. Her artistic career really took off when she started channelling artwork from a spirit she called JPF. It is JPF, she claimed, not Ethel who should be credited for the extraordinary paintings.

Ethel channelled 42 magnificent works of art from JPF. These were exhibited in a 1929 show at the London Spiritual Alliance, which later became The College of Psychic Studies. She compiled the images alongside JPF's transmitted teachings in the 1933 publication A Goodly Company: A series of Psychic Drawings Given Through the Hand of Ethel Le Rossignol as an Assurance of Survival After Death, a copy of which we hold in The College of Psychic Studies' library.

Ethel claims she herself didn't visualise the other world that's so vividly depicted in her artwork. Rather, the spirit of JPF revealed it to her gradually through a transmission of thought, energy and movement. The sinuous lines of colour in Ethel's paintings are expressions of these waves of thought and energy and movement. As JPF transmitted through Ethel on 24 May 1920, "Only the wave of thought is what I send, not a drawing of lines." (https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/our-collection-of-ethel-le-rossignol-paintings/)




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