Tajemná růže

A collection of mystery stories based on traditional, often mystical symbolism, and on Irish folklore and oral tradition.

It is a tragic mistake of the believers in science to deny and dismiss the mystery... I can't see the other side, that is. The stars don't shine in daylight, therefore they are not. And yet, the landscape glimpsed on the other shore when the morning breeze blows away the mists, the evening star glittering over the horizon, the crescent moon over the field of Boaz - were they not when we knew not of them?

Yeats's The Secret Rose reminds today's souls again and gloriously of this once so general and so simple truth: there are mysteries, and darkness obscures things real, though hidden. There is magic, there is an unknown world behind the curtain of blindness even in this life on earth. Reading this book will enchant you in a way that you will never forget if you have read truly and been touched by the strange poetry. And perhaps you read in the demonic gloom of today's despair, you will not shake off the impression of the always still possible rescue in the name of beauty.

Czech edition