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Leadbeater, and Annie Besant. If you are new to the study of fairies as real rather
than fanciful beings, this book may seem overly philosophical and ponderous but
the graphic descriptions of the devas are truly wonderful and are sure to be
enjoyed. After a long life of study and meditation and work in the garden I have
seen the truth of these writings in more ways than one. If your childish inner heart
still has a yearning for fairies that has not flown with childhood’s blush you may
find the answer to its inner knowing within the pages of this book. It is interesting
and very lovely and causes you to look at nature’s bounty with a keener eye. The
writing goes from the highly technical to the poetic as in this description of sylphs
or fairies of the Air element. “They are disporting themselves wildly in groups of
two or three, travelling at great speed across the sky. There is a certain fierceness
in their joy as they call to each other, their cries sounding like the whistling of the
wind, reminiscent of the call of the Valkyries in Wagner’s opera of that name.”

This is a unique book and one that should not be missed by sensitive people who
wish to be intimate with the natural world.

The book is now in its twelfth printing. New copies can be ordered from the Theosophical
Publishing House, and second-hand ones via Amazon.com. In South Africa the only public

library with a copy is the City Library in Cape Town.

Hodson continued with his explorations into the spirit world and a second book was

published posthumously in 1984, called Clairvoyant Explorations. For it he commissioned
other artists to do spirit paintings, mainly of devas he perceived in New Zealand where he

had settled. But, in the opinion of those knowledgeable about the esoteric field, none of

them equal Wynne’s paintings or the ‘colossal heights’ of perfection that she achieved. Her
paintings therefore remain matchless and unique.

Recently, a selection of the paintings has been published in association with inspired

poetry. These are in a book called Angel’s Voices by Mellina Barnett and her sister Carol
Robinson. For some 20 years Mel has been writing poetry received from the Angelic Hosts

and felt that she needed matching angelic illustrations if she were ever to publish her

poems. Via the Internet she discovered the Kingdom of the Gods and its paintings.