The Divine Enchantment: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Divine Enchantment, credited to John Neihardt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Divine Enchantment, by John Neihardt. Read by Nathan. When the princess Devanaguy falls into a deep trance-like sleep, she is visited by the god Vishnu: who causes her to fall pregnant with his holy child, Christna. Devanaguy’s sleep is prolonged supernaturally by Vishnu: allowing the god to relate to her his divine secrets through a series of ecstatic visions. Among the mysteries revealed to Devanaguy, she is shown how the gods will shortly powerfully intervene directly in human affairs. When the princess finally re-awakens: she is awestruck by her experiences, and bursts into a spontaneous rhapsody of praise. Throughout her rapturous intercourse with Vishnu, Devanaguy boldly continues to desire answers to mankind's profoundest questionings: - is it possible for mere mortals to comprehend the divine wisdom of the gods? - can be it really be true that divine beings care enough for mankind to want to intervene in human affairs: to do them good? (Introduction by Godsend)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Divine Enchantment
• Author credits: John Neihardt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 1:32:00

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Track guide

1. 00 Prefatory — 4:29
2. 01 Prelude — 1:54
3. 02 Enchantment — 19:39
4. 03 Interlude — 3:40
5. 04 Birth of Brahm — 7:08
6. 05 Procreation — 19:40
7. 06 Preservation — 11:25
8. 07 Dissolution — 11:53
9. 08 Nirvana — 5:09
10. 09 Disenchantment — 5:07
11. 10 Postlude — 4:18

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