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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 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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Adoration of the One?… Stuart France

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “It is a curious attribute of the Chain of Being, that it allowed every class to excel, ‘after its own heart’.” * * “Stones may be considered ‘lowly’ but they ‘trump’ the class above them, plants, in both strength … Continue reading →

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Circle of Heaven… Stuart France

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* To find a Black-Bird’s Stone Laid-by the Snake of Steel City, Before the Lowly-Ladies House, Beyond a Blood-Baked Bridge. O’er stile and up, a rise Which leads out-the-wood High, upon a ridge… Continue reading at Stuart France

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Derbyshire’s Green Man… Stuart France

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* Beyond the forest’s leafy shade, The hooded one, with giant’s pace From pinnacle to pinnacle Leap’t silently, in moonlit grace… * In eremitic solitude In caverns deep to meditate… Within, the riddle of the night, A key that will … Continue reading →

Alder-Ley… Stuart France

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* A rift in the bed-rock Makes us wonder Just what is destined to emerge… A poisonous fume Or the trailing plumes Of a Sun-Bird? * Source: Stuart France