Tag Archives: mystery

Thursday photo prompt – Mists – #writephoto

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Every Thursday at noon GMT, I publish one of my photos as a writing prompt.  If you know where the photo was taken, please keep it to yourself until the challenge is closed. Throughout the week I will feature as … Continue reading →

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Photo prompt round-up – Portal – #writephoto

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Portal * Pathway arrow-straight Connecting the here and there No deviation * Moment to moment Worn by a thousand footsteps Inevitable * A choiceless journey Mitigated by freedom To walk in gladness * The photo for this week’s prompt was … 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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Portal – Hayley .R. Hardman #writephoto

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The end of the passage way glowed a warm light colour. I trailed my hand over the smooth wall as I walked along the flagstones. I could hear muttering voices, soft music and I smelt pine and fire. Ahead, the … 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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Thursday photo prompt – Portal – #writephoto

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Every Thursday at noon GMT, I publish one of my photos as a writing prompt.  If you know where the photo was taken, please keep it to yourself until the challenge is closed. Throughout the week I will feature as … Continue reading →

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