Tag Archives: alchemy

The Gift… Stuart France

Posted on March 2, 2019 by

* It is possible to box almost anything. Thoughts… Ideas… Emotions… In this way a whole life may be compartmentalised into secure, bounded segments of much more manageable proportions. Bite sized pieces. Or even, ‘shots’. * Continue reading at Stuart … Continue reading →

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Mermaid up a Mountain ~ Antonia Sara Zenkevitch #writephoto

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

Dysfunctional polymath, renaissance woman, Mermaid walking up the great mountain, The things I was told I can’t but found I can, We learn to drink from our own fountain, I have faith and I have faith in science But don’t … Continue reading →

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The Great Mystery: Dreaming… Stuart France

Posted on January 27, 2019 by

* The mysterium conspires with the animal world whose souls so resemble the purity and innocence of a human child. * It recognises the miracle of life in both seed and egg and the wonder of a harvest which springs … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: Seal… Stuart France

Posted on January 3, 2019 by

* ‘For God created man immortal, and made him in the image of his own eternity.’ – The ‘Twentieth’ Leaf The preceding image we had to own did not seem to us particularly god-like. We turned the leaf: The Twenty-First … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: A Corn of Wheat… Stuart France

Posted on January 2, 2019 by

* ‘…then a triangle and finally a circle……’ – The ‘Eighteenth’ Leaf. …This to our mind pretty much makes the earth feminine and the moon masculine which we expect also makes the sun feminine and the star behind the sun … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: Atalanta… Stuart France

Posted on January 1, 2019 by

* …The ‘Sixteenth’ and ‘Seventeenth’ Leaves. * ‘…From a man and a woman make a circle…’ ‘…And then a square…’ * We thought again of The Officers Of Law who appeared to see the girl as a man? ‘The Spirit … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: Rose of Sharon… Stuart France

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

* The ‘Fifteenth’ Leaf. Operation Three: ‘I am the rose of Sharon as the Lily among thorns so is my love among the daughters.’ – Song of Songs 2:1 * In our mind’s eye we saw her: She was deep … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: White World… Stuart France

Posted on December 30, 2018 by

* We turned the ‘Eleventh’ leaf of the book: * Operation Two: ’… to him that overcomes will I give a white stone, and in the stone a new name written…’ – Revelation 2:17 * …The ‘Twelfth’ Leaf. Albedo: A … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: Ask… Stuart France

Posted on December 29, 2018 by

* ‘…We shall all be changed for this mortal, must put on immortality.’ – The ‘Eleventh’ Leaf. …Our respect for the stranger at our door grew. This little device appeared to effectively marry the elements and directions in a four-fold … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: Six… Stuart France

Posted on December 26, 2018 by

* …The rest of the Night and into the Dawn is something of a blur for us. One can only take in so much after all. We continued to turn the leaves of the little book… Leaf ‘Six’: Operation One: … Continue reading →

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