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Game of Stones … Stuart France

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “This must be it,” shouted Min getting excited again. If she had been a child she would have been jumping up and down on the spot. “The green sward, you mean?” replied Cor who was just as excited but … 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 II… Stuart France

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “The Angelic Worlds had been set out as early as the fifth century AD by Dionysius the Areopagite who taught that the Angelic Beings were arranged in a definitive nine-fold order according to their capacities to receive the undivided … 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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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 →