Zeitschrift für Pathopsychologie (Leipzig und Berlin, 3.1914-1919)

154 A. Pick, Zur Phänomenologie abnormer GlückggefUble.

of ether, with the determination to pat on record, at the earliest
moment of regaining consciousness, the thought I should find upper-
most in my mind. The mighty music of the triumphal march into
nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me with a sense
of infinite possibilities, which made me an archangel for the mo-
ment. The veil of eternity was lifted. The one great truth which
underlies all human experience, and is the key to all the mysteries
that philosophy has sought in vain to solve,'flashed upon me in a
sudden revelation. Henceforth all was clear : a few words had lifted
my intelligence to the level of the knowledge of the cherubim. As
my natural condition returned, I remembered my resolution; and,
staggering to my desk, I wrote, in ill-shaped, straggling characters,
the all-embracing truth still glimmering in my consciousness. The
words were these (children may smile; the wise will ponder): >A
strong smell of turpentine prevails through-out«.