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Dionysios, the founder of one of the Athos monasteries, lived in a cave as a hermit high up on a mountain side; he saw one day a strange supernatural light shining lower down. He felt inspired to build a monastery at the spot and eventually persuaded the emperor to materialize his inspiration. This was in the fourteenth century and the buildings are still there.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 4 : Introduction To Mystical Glimpses > # 202