Category Archives: alchemy

The Count… Stuart France

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Without belief in a beyond, There can be no thresholds… Jack Black Source: Stuart France

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Men of Meaning… Stuart France

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* All you ‘men of science’… Busy seeking spirit in matter… As if mind were to be found in the head! Small wonder you ever discovered anything at all. Count Black… Source: Stuart France

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Aspiration

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Sue Vincent

For Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday

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The Wisdom of Solomon… Stuart France

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “So many questions.” “Chief amongst which, perhaps, is why would the Temple be built by a demon?” “By the Prince of Demons?” “It may just be that we are meant to ‘subjectivise’ this story?” “In which case, the ‘temple … Continue reading →

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Angels, Angels, everywhere III… Stuart France

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “The nine orders of Angelic Being mattered because the divisions echoed the Trinity and because they corresponded to the nine-fold partition of the heavens.” * * “From the Empyrean in descending order the spheres were those of the ‘first … Continue reading →

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Angels, Angels, everywhere… Stuart France

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “The Elizabethans followed Medieval lines of belief with regard to the angels yet confused, omitted, or misunderstood many of the finer details.” * * “They were convinced that the angels, as agents of ‘pure intellect’, acted as intermediaries between … Continue reading →

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Linking the Chain III… Stuart France

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “Despite Copernicus, the educated Elizabethan inhabited a geocentric universe whose movements were directed from a fiery, light-filled heaven, situated beyond the fixed stars, by a fiery, light-filled Super-Being.” * * “Between this, the ‘highest-heaven’, and the created universe was … Continue reading →

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Linking the Chain II… Stuart France

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “The Elements, then, were not links in a simple chain but acted more as ‘inherent principles’ within the chain as a whole…” * * “Similarly, the perfected parts of inanimate nature, operated at heights far removed from what might … Continue reading →

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Linking the Chain… Stuart France

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “The idea of ‘Creation’s Ladder’ as uniform and consistent must be relinquished.” * * “Many aspects of it could not be compressed into such stricture.” * * “The Four Elements, being inanimate, should, one might suppose, take their place … Continue reading →

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Adoration of the One? II… Stuart France

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “Another curiosity, found in the Chain of Being, held that each class possessed a ‘primate’.” * * “The eagle among birds, the lion among beasts, the king or emperor among men.” * * “Other primacies were the sun among … Continue reading →

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