Bathed In The Light Of Dreams

Charles Mingus: Better Git It In Your Soul..1959

Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised
on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given
to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present
by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceedingly high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be,
but radiant with unearthly splendor, bathed in the light of dreams.
--James George Frazer
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion