title: Luminous Heart of Inner Radiance: Drawings of the Togal Visions
author:  Robert and Rachel Olds 
description: Artists Robert and Rachel Olds spent nine years in spiritual retreat together in the mountains of northern California integrating Earth living and the practices of the heart essence of Dzogchen. They came to their retreat after years of spiritual inquiry through their artwork and years of letting go and simplifying their lives to connect more fully with the natural world. They share the unique perspective that their completion of the path of Togal brings to encourage recognition that this Earth, this vision we call life, is a sacred offering. Their other books include Luminous Heart of the Earth and Water Drawn Before Sunrise.
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  # The Skies Discrowned by Timothy Powers  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Though the many lights dwindle to one light,  
  
  
  There is help if the heavens have one;  
  
  
  Though the skies be discrowned of the sunlight  
  
  
  And the earth dispossessed of the sun,  
  
  
  They have moonlight and sleep for repayment,  
  
  
  When, refreshed as a bride and set free,  
  
  
  With stars and sea-winds in her raiment,  
  
  
  Night sinks on the sea.
  
  
  ##### —A. C. Swinburne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # BOOK ONE: THE PAINTER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 1
  
  
  The crowd in front of the Ducal Palace always fascinated Francisco
  
  
  Rovzar. The great stone arch of the barbican seemed to frame a picture
  
  
  of all human endeavor and misery. Here a curbside magician produced
  
  
  gouts of flame from his mouth, there a cowled priest shambled along,
  
  
  flicking passersby with holy water from a leather bag at his belt. A
  
  
  knot of moaning women waved r