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A visionary narrative of the soul’s journey from its origin to its destiny—six stories that stir wonder, challenge what you thought you knew, and restore what you never realized you had lost.

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How to live in a world with which you disagree? How to live with mankind while not owing either their torments or their joys? When you cannot be one of them?

Milan Kundera: L'Immortalité

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Bronzino. circa 1545

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Walter Crane. Voyage de Rêve. 1902. pastel on card. The National Gallery of Prague (detail)

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Detail of the angels from Anton Rafael Mengs’s La Adoración de los pastores. Museo del Prado. 1770

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Caravaggio

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E. Stephan: Meister Eckhart gazing at a mountainous landscape. Oil on canvas. circa 1900

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As if an angel dropped down from the clouds. Drawing by William Blake. 1809. Pen and grey ink, watercolour (detail)

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Illustration in Marie L. Farrington’s Facing the Sphinx. 1889

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Engraved frontispiece in Charles-Francois Dupuis’s Origine de tous les cultes, ou religion universelle. 1795

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Franz von Stuck. Sketch for Kuss der Sphinx. before 1895. black and white chalk, pencil and rubella on slightly gray scouted paper. Museum Villa Stuck

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Giuseppe Felli. Monumento a gregorio gori pannilini, con genio funerario. circa 1882

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Giovanni Scanzi. Funerary monument for Elisa Falcone (studio model by artist of later marble relief). 1893

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Lady Frieda Harris. Thoth Tarot

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Elihu Vedder. Soul in Bondage. 1891. chalk on canvas