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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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Stones of the Night III… Stuart France

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …After a longer than expected climb up the steeper than anticipated side of the plateaux, you are finally within appraisal distance of the pointed stone. Its presence, which now looms towards you, defining the false horizon, seems to demand … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night II… Stuart France

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …As the ferns thin you spy a wooden stile up ahead and descend the grassy-knoll rather too quickly for the conditions underfoot, trotting to the stile side, precariously, and resting awhile to catch your breath. A road runs to … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night… Stuart France

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* You are a passenger… You stay under glass… You are driven through the city’s ripped back-sides. You leave the city’s ripped back-sides on a road which snakes through low, rough, foothills. Far on the horizon a solitary fin-shaped peak … Continue reading →

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Striding out… Stuart France

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* If all goes well You’ll be setting out… * * For a landscape of old About which legends are told… * * Where hermits habitually stay And giant figures still play. * Source: Stuart France

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Baecca’s Well… Stuart France

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* From Baecca’s Well Via All Saint’s Spire * * To a rocky height That holds initiatory fire… * Source: Stuart France

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Points of Light

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Sue Vincent

It is the start of the festive season again. The dark nights of winter allow the fairy lights and decorations to sparkle in every town and village and through the windows of homes up and down this little island. People, … Continue reading →

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Adoration of the One? III… Stuart France

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “As an aid to poesis the Chain of Being works in numerous ways.” * * “It lends life to the notion of an interconnected cosmos without superfluity and raises the dignity of creation by recognising its symbiotic heights and … 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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