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Creation II… Stuart France

* … “We find the information on this board to be, ever so slightly, uncomfortable.” “It’s slave mentality.” “And it’s metallic mind.”  “’The blood of the slain God’ is, perhaps, most perplexing.” “It might be more than that if the … Continue reading

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On Philosophy… Stuart France

* It is clear that every ‘great philosophy’ is, no more and no less than, the confession of its author. To explain how a philosophy’s highest flung claims have been derived, therefore, we need only ask, ‘what really makes its … Continue reading

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Deluge! II… Stuart France

* … Wen and I are still in the British Museum mulling over one of the information boards… “We don’t normally hold with ‘establishment views’ but this one’s not bad.” “There seems to be a conflation of ‘Sages’ with ‘Gods’.” … Continue reading

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Kingship … Stuart France

* Kingship was the only form of government in Ancient Mesopotamia. It was ordained by the Gods for the guidance and prosperity of people and cities, to maintain order and to protect the wealth in society. Among the kingly duties … Continue reading

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Scribes… Stuart France

* With the advent of cuneiform, the Oral Tradition continued to develop alongside ‘written literature’, but the primary purpose of recording stories in writing was not necessarily to supply individual readers with a coherent or connected account of ‘historical’ events. … Continue reading

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The Incomparable Comper II… Stuart France

* … “And for a long time that is all we had.” “That, and the Green light of the Lady Chapel.” “That, and the Gold-Green light of the Lady Chapel.” “And, when that is all you’ve got you tend to … Continue reading

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Curse of the Hay-Collar III … Stuart France

* Now, that night at meat was an uncomfortable one for the Lord of Dyved, for his companions found sport in ribbing him about the day’s proceedings upon the Fair-Mound of Arbeth. “So, was it blows and wounds or were … Continue reading

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The Wisdom of Solomon… Stuart France

* “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

* “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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Linking the Chain III… Stuart France

* “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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