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Whirling Limbs…

* …As Abadam and Yva made their way out of the garden in the east, it seemed as though the leaves of the trees themselves were whispering: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed … Continue reading

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The Incomparable Comper…

* The nearest church is St Nicholas’ of Great Kimble so we head off there.“Why blue specifically do you think?”“Well, we’re sort of assuming that it’s a healing energy but if we follow the Theosophists then I suppose it could … Continue reading

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The Alchemist… Stuart France

A drawing by Julien Champagne. * Why would the Mediaeval Stonemasons sculpt figures on the top of their buildings which no one can see from the ground? * Like some church towers, it was possible to scale the towers of … Continue reading

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The City and the Stars (1) – Skara Brae ~ Steve Tanham

With the Pictish Trail weekend a long car journey and a boat ride behind us, we had awakened in Stromness to the early morning of an overcast Orkney day – The excavated and intact Neolithic village of Skara Brae was … Continue reading

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A Fatal End?…

* The Druids of Erin, so the story goes, Long prophesied the coming of St Patrick. They told it in this way… * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Amnesia…

* A nameless shadow flits across the face of Science. The Theory of Evolution has not been proven. The ‘missing links’ for each species have not come forth from the fossil record. The constituent parts of our DNA have proven … Continue reading

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Mary Smith ~ AfghanistanAdventures#59 Ghastly things and lovely things

Reblogged from Mary Smith’s Place: Jaghoray, Afghanistan, December 1989 Mazar Bibi Clinic under construction 1989 Mazar Bibi Clinic as it is today Hussain had taken Rahimy, Sharif and Zahir, to see something more of the area and I was writing … Continue reading

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Solstice of the Moon: Sacred Earth

The weather was looking none too promising for the final day of the workshop, but at least it wasn’t really raining. It seemed incredible, under the heavy grey of the sky, that we’d had the clear weather-window the night before, … Continue reading

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The Alchemists: Fulcanelli… Stuart France

This skyscape no longer exists due to renovation and the recent fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. * ‘There are deeper secrets in stone than in iron.’ * It is not to everyone’s taste. Some respected proponents of the Western … Continue reading

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Solstice of the Moon: Switching the Lights On

We had returned to Easter Aquhorthies for a second visit. It was still raining, but this time the sky was much brighter than the iron-grey deluge of the day before and there was already a sense of revisiting an old … Continue reading

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