Amethyst Poetry / Writing Saga # 17, Part Two / IN THE LIGHT OF INNOCENCE / A Novel

     At heart I wrote this book for C., the lovely French girl who had stayed with us for several weekends, awhile back now, and who had given us that delightful book THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho which had so inspired me to embark upon a new writing venture. 

     I found myself fashioning a story around an imaginary twenty-two year old girl, Arkiahh Rose. In an inner longing, I think, to reach C. with a greater dimension of universal truth: inner spiritual truth in the realm of SPIRIT, rather than outer natural truth in the realm of SOUL. Having learned through the things which I suffered, I wanted to share. I had been deeply inner-taught through the separating of these two realms of experience in me, by my being divided asunder through the revealing of the thoughts and intents of my own heart. This was the path by which I had been led further, and into the centre of all things, and peace; where I now live totally free of all the painful face-to-face, self-seeing which had been necessary for me to enter the hidden place of Love’s glorious liberty, and inner freedom: the ever-lasting Land – Everland. By my own painful experience, and subsequent incomprehensible joy, I had been made rich inside with the treasures of darkness: the hidden wealth of secret places; and I had ‘a cornucopia of plenty’ to share with anyone willing to listen. But how few were! One had to be terribly small and live in close company with the Least of Love’s little children. And that, the simplest thing in the world, was the world's hardest thing!

Ever land, Everland

The land that ever was

The land to ever land on

Ever there, of course!

  

    The story of IN THE LIGHT OF INNOCENCE is set in Plymouth, on the south coast of Devon in the United Kingdom. Arkiahh, recently returned from a year’s overseas experience after finishing her degree, prepares to start university again to sit her master’s degree. During a three week upheaval before she must start studying she reflects very deeply upon the future course of her life. The story follows her inner journey through this time of change. Her reflections upon the idyll of her charmed but unusual childhood, of her father, and Josh, the young man next door, which leave her in confusion over new rising feelings, culminates in an impassioned excursion, far reaching, and in truth, stranger than fiction.  

This unpublished manuscript is available to anyone wishing to read it.  This work is titled IN THE LIGHT OF INNOCENCE: A Novel. Please feel free to contact the author and request:  email:  arielaevans@gmail.com  

 This manuscript can be emailed in pdf format in Microsoft Word Document 2007.

These are the titles of the next three ‘ragged writings’ of Amethyst Poetry:

Caught Up!

Searching All Things

Her Unseen Hand Lies in Us Silent