TWILIGHT ZONE TEST....

[freespirit2001]

:sorry:


www.scifi.com/twilightzone/gallery (http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/gallery)

Bottom Picture from Show:"Time is not Enough"

[freespirit2001]

Help...I'm having trouble with my attachments...I can't get rid of the thumbnail text...(I'm not sure how to cut and copy the image from the file....???) or am I limited to thumbnails only?http://clothesline2/

[brian4]

I've tried picture attachments too and got the thumbnails. The thumbnails are simply links to the full size images. As far as I know, you are limited to thumbnails.

[freespirit2001]

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/321.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001)

Maxfield Parrish: "Morning Spring" and "Cadmus"

[freespirit2001]

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/3_s.jpg

"Cross in the mountains" Caspar Friedrich
www.art.gothic.ru (http://www.art.gothic.ru/)

[freespirit2001]

"Life withoutliberty, is like a body without spirit." Kahil Gibran

webshots : http://images.webshots.com..... (http://images.webshots.com...../)
webshots sunset

[freespirit2001]

http://luvjc.net/emoticons/dbz/0025.gif


Evans: "Sea of Steps" ......

[freespirit2001]

http://images.webshots.com/ProThumbs/32/12432_wallpaper280.jpg

[freespirit2001]

http://luvjc.net/emoticons/computer/0038.gif




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http://luvjc.net/emoticons/angel/0043.gif

http://luvjc.net/emoticons/angel/0043.gif

http://luvjc.net/emoticons/angel/0022.gif

[freespirit2001]

http://images.webshots.com/ProThumbs/58/8158_wallpaper280.jpg Caspar Friedrich
"Woman at Dawn" webshots


http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/8_s.jpg

"Morning in the Reisengebirge" 1810
www.art.gothic.ru (http://www.art.gothic.ru) (The Russian Gothic Project)

[freespirit2001]

http://images.webshots.com/ProThumbs/34/42734_wallpaper280.jpghttp://luvjc.net/emoticons/bouncing/0011.gif


WEBSHOTS: "Magical Journey"

http://images.webshots.com

[freespirit2001]

http://images.webshots.com/ProThumbs/98/24498_wallpaper280.jpg http://luvjc.net/emoticons/dbz/0025.gif


http://luvjc.net/emoticons/angel/0041.gifWEBSHOTS: SLEEPY HOLLOW FARM (VERMONT)

[freespirit2001]

http://www.homestead.com/deenotes/files/ghostridersSunset.jpg

www.homestead.com/deenotes/ghost~ie4.htm (http://www.homestead.com/deenotes/ghost~ie4.htm)
GHost Rider Song by stan Jones

[freespirit2001]

http://artcyclopedia.com/images/Friedrich.jpg

Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon Caspar David Friedrich

[freespirit2001]

http://webhome.idirect.com/~mikeha/namericans/ghostriders1.jpg

American Indian Ghostriders: http:webhome.idirect.com (Mikeha)

[freespirit2001]

The Cross and the Mountain Caspar David Friedrich

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/cross.small.jpg


http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/cross.jpg

[freespirit2001]

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/10_s.jpg

"Abbey in Oak Forest" Caspar Friedrich
www.art.gothic.ru (http://www.art.gothic.ru)

[freespirit2001]

http://www.machiventa.org/images/Photo%20Footprints.gif

Picture from: http://www.machiventa.org (http://www.machiventa.org)

[freespirit2001]

"For each individual, when listening inwardly becomes an art, the world will become a Spirit's school room for teaching the human soul the characteristics of the higher conscious states of being---qualities of Godliness."


http://www.machiventa.org/images/Photo%20Midnight%20Blue.gif

Picture from: http://www.machiventa.org (http://www.machiventa.org)

[freespirit2001]

http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/photos/wovoka.jpg WOKOVA PAINTING and the GHOST DANCEhttp://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/moon2a.jpg


Thomas W. Kavanagh's study of Mooney's Plates...Shoshone Indians

The GHOST DANCE originated with the Lakota Indians

http://php.indiana.edu
http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/photos/wovoka

[freespirit2001]

http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/44f.jpg

ACTUAL GHOST DANCE Mooney Plate's of the Ghost Dance (1891-1893)



http://www.newday.com/graphics/ghost_dance.gif

THE "GHOST DANCE" a recent movie .....Tim Schwab and Christina Craton
Thumbnail of the Ghost Dance Dress (1890)
National Museum of the American Indian
www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/ (http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/)

[LorentzHA]

:P

[LorentzHA]

http://www.christianforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6765

[LorentzHA]

sheite, it worked!

[freespirit2001]

I noticed your new look in another creation science web site last night...(I am jealous you know!)....( Love it) I may need to lower my hood in my avatar and change the flame in my lantern...but I'm not pro-ace-beta-cappa just yet with my technical abilites as you are with science knowledge and pro information channels and bio-communciation skills...Love hearing from you!!! I did get that book "Genesis Revisted" as you recommended...( Love it!!)...hope to be back later in a science forum again and maybe hear a comment or two or more advice from you!...

Coooool Avatar!!!! You go girl!!!....That Nathan Poe is something else again!

( Did you like my Ghost dance studies in pictures...I have done some studies myself in the ghost fields...?) ( Thinking of investigating some positive EMR?....)

[LorentzHA]

I noticed your new look in another creation science web site last night...(I am jealous you know!)....( Love it) I may need to lower my hood in my avatar and change the flame in my lantern...but I'm not pro-ace-beta-cappa just yet with my technical abilites as you are with science knowledge and pro information channels and bio-communciation skills...Love hearing from you!!! I did get that book "Genesis Revisted" as you recommended...( Love it!!)...hope to be back later in a science forum again and maybe hear a comment or two or more advice from you!...

Coooool Avatar!!!! You go girl!!!....That Nathan Poe is something else again!

( Did you like my Ghost dance studies in pictures...I have done some studies myself in the ghost fields...?) ( Thinking of investigating some positive EMR?....)
Hi, good hearing from you! Thanks for the compliments :) Yes, I miss you over in the science forum, please come back soon!! I love hearing from you as well!! When you say another Web site, do you mean here at CF? I think you just mean my new avatar here, right? This is the only forum (CF, science, creat. evo) that I post to. :)

I am pleased you like Genesis Revisited, I really liked it myself.

Yes, Nathan is a card. :D

Yes, the ghost dance pictures were very intriguing!! I kept looking at those last night. Your investigations sound intriguing. Hope to see you around the science forum soon. Keep in touch!!

[freespirit2001]

http://artmagick.com/images/paintings/friedrich/friedrich16_p.jpg

"CROSS ON THE BALTIC" Caspar David Friedrich www.artmagick.com (http://www.artmagick.com/)

[freespirit2001]

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/12.jpg
WINTER ---1807 Caspar David Friedrich

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/13.jpg

WINTER--1834 Caspar David Friedrich

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/11.jpg

ELDENA RUIN BY NIGHT---1802 David Caspar Friedrich

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/7.jpg

CEMETARY AT DUSK Caspar David Friedrich

Russian Gothic Page "Dark Gothic Art"
http://art.gothic.ru/paint/friedrich/index_e.htm

[freespirit2001]

First Thumbnail is from the Band "GhostDance"..."Angel in Exile"
The next Picture is called "Madonna" ( an old russian postcard) and the photo is called "Presentiment" taken by Andy Grudkin from "The Russian Gothic Project" www.art.gothic.ru (http://www.art.gothic.ru/)

[LorentzHA]

Freespirit- Love the pics!! :)

[freespirit2001]

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/collection/images/family_250_150.jpg



"Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound sense of
spirituality."

Carl Sagan

.....The Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a King who wished to settle accounts with his servants..."

Matt.18:23

" One who speaks does not know;
One who knows does not speak."

Taoist saying

" The sense of the mysterious stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

Einstein

" The universe constantly and obediantly answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives conceiving them."

Thoreau "Where I lived, What I lived for."

(???????)http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/552.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001)


http://www.goethehaus-frankfurt.de/grafix/museum/b_raum12.jpg

DER ABENDSTERN Caspar David Friedrich

Frankfurter Goethe-Museum

*the first image is from:www.coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu (image galleries)
www.coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/collection/ (http://www.coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/collection/)

[freespirit2001]

MY LIFE IS A STROLL UPON A BEACH

My life is like a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean's edge I can go,
My tardy steps its waves sometimes o-errach,
Sometimes I stay to let them overflow.

My sole employment 'tis, and scrupulous care,
To place my gain beyond the reach of tides
Each smoother pebble, and each shell more rare,
Which Ocean kindly to my hand confides.

I have but few companions on the shore;
They scorn the strand who sail upon the sea;
Yet oft I think the ocean they've sailed o'er
Is deeper known upon the strand to me.

The middle sea contains no crimson dulse,
Its deeper waves cast up no pearls to view;
Alone the shore my hand is on its pulse,
And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew."

Thoreau

[Flighty Mouse]

"For by grace you have been saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8)

[Dragonfly]

just trying out my new toy. :clap:

[freespirit2001]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/spitzer-021204-480-367.jpg

February 12, 2004

ROSE-SHAPED FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

A "Reflection Nebula".... this picture was taken by the state of the art infrared detectors on board NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope (Feb.12)

"This picture is more than just pretty," said Dr.Thomas Megeath, principle investigator for the latest observations and an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonain Center for Astrophysics, cambridge, Mass. "It helps us to understand how stars form in the crowded environments of stellar nursuries."

This Reflection Nebula (#NGC 7129) spans 10 light years across and is 3300 light years away from the constellation Cephaus home to some 130 stars. Our own sun is believed to have grown up in a similiar family setting.

The Spitzer was launched on August 25, 2003 and the Spitzer Space telescope is the 4th of Nasa'a Great Observatories.

www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/57.cfm (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/57.cfm)

[LorentzHA]

Amazing!

[freespirit2001]

I'm wondering if I should be welcoming visitors, who pass the portals of the Twilight Zone....Test...as fellow Ghost Riders ....????

I'm also wondering if I should continue with my studies here and my "test"....or ask a moderator if she sent this "test" life experience to the Journal Forum...this is only a TEST....

.http://luvjc.net/emoticons/alien/0024.gif

[LorentzHA]

Fellow Ghost Riders, I like it!

[freespirit2001]

http://www.asterius.com/asbury/boardwalk2.jpg




http://www.asterius.com/asbury/palace2.jpg
...My home town Asbury.....The Fun House across from the Boardwalk where we'd go on weekends...now demolished....

pictures from---Martin www.asteria.com (http://www.asteria.com/)

http://www.asterius.com/asbury/palace1.jpg

[freespirit2001]

http://asterius.com/asbury/convention4.jpg
http://asterius.com/asbury/convention1.jpg
CONVENTION HALL ......Asbury Park....photos by Martin Doudoroff
www.asteris.com (http://www.asteris.com/)

The Movie "Earthly Possessions" starring Susan Sarandon used this as a background shot in a scene at the end of the movie. The last part of the movie was shot in and by the Casino...(below)

http://asterius.com/asbury/casino1.jpg

[freespirit2001]

"HAUNTED HOUSE WAGES SOUGHT"....

"Ten young people hired to work as ghouls and vampires at the haunted house in Convention Hall last fall say they were never paid for some of their work...Asbury Pk. attorney...has filed suit on their behalf...."

http://asburypark.net/news/2004/01/0123scarysuit.shtml
:cool: ;)

[freespirit2001]

...:)

[LorentzHA]

So I'm still trying to find a new look....maybe something sculpted...:)
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/collection/images/family_250_150.jpg
This pic of yours is very cool, you could crop this and use it?

Or if you want sculpted, check these out. I am a Rodin fan. See if you like any of these. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rodin.html#images

[freespirit2001]

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/collection/images/family_250_150.jpg
This pic of yours is very cool, you could crop this and use it?
:wave: feel free.....

[freespirit2001]

Another great Gothic Art and photography web site:

The Russian Gothic Project: http://dark.gothic.ru (http://dark.gothic.ru/)
http://art.gothic.ru (http://art.gothic.ru/)

http://photo.gothic.ru/lizett/Lady_s.jpg

Photos by Flamma Aeterna (c) Lizett Hollz

http://photo.gothic.ru/lizett/Dani_s.jpg



Below:Gustav Dore (1833-1883)

[freespirit2001]

GHOST:THE HAUNTING OF OUR LANGUAGE

On Language by Jeffery McQuain



" Most individuals arrested by the Government," a Sudanese dissident told ABC News, "are routinely taken to an unmarked building we call ghost houses. In these places all forms of torture are practiced, and sometimes the detainees are killed."

Not only houses, however, are being haunted nowadays. Ghost expressions have been rising rapidly through our language.

The solid word ghostware, for instance, first appeared in computer lingo a few years ago. In 1996, Time magazine's Techwatch included "ghostware: technology that is alive and well today with no one ( almost no one) sensing its presence." Today's spookspeak also contains hypenated compounds. Martha Grimmes, in her haunting 1996 novel "Hotel Paradise," described how a dying flashlight points "its dim ghost-circle at the wall."

Most ghost terms, though, are two-word phrases. The lexiconographer Cynthia Barnhart cites ghost nets, a 1980's term used by environmentalists for the abandoned drift nets that entrap marine life, and ghost children. Writing for The Atlantic Monthly in 1994, Xiao-huang Yin examined China's population problems: "To get around strict child quotas, villagers often fail to register the births of their daughters...In a village near Baoying, in northern Jiansu, I found seven such ghost children."

The first element of these scare words is nothing new. Ghost itself came into Old English as gast, " soul, spirit." Among its varied meanings are a doubled image on the TV screen and an absent student being counted as present.

Other English compounds may include words worth looking at for their intimations of immortality. The lively deadline, for example began as a literal term during the Civil War for the boundary of a prison camp; any prisoner crossing the designated line was shot....

....Next came ghost town and ghostwriter early in this century, but the lexical explosion began just a generation ago. Since the 1960's, ghost feather has been among a dusting of synonyms for "dust bunny," a bit of fluff under furniture. Then ghost time appeared during the Vietnam War as military slang for being off duty, and ghost town was revived to denote a resort area after a busy season...

...The dead-on ghost rider has also been recently revived. This expression, first popularized in the 1949 Western song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" by Stan Jones, came back in the early 1990's for insurance fraud; when a bus or tain wreck suddenly produces more victims than actual riders, the added claims are said to come from ghost riders."*

Other transportation terms that have come out of nowhere include ghost train, identifying a train that runs at night to carry convicts or to keep tracks from being shut down by snow. Ghost train is also what London bus drivers call each night's final run, while a ghost station designates an unstaffed or unused train depot.**

Ghost plane, perhaps based on the Flying Dutchman myth of a ghost ship, began in the early 1990's for flights without fliers. During an American Airlines strike in 1993, Michael Riley reported in Time that "angy passengers watched helplessly as ghost planes---no flight attendants, no passengers, just baggage---pulled away from the jammed gates at Dallas-Fort worth International Airport.***


...Soon ghost may be the word to avoid. In the last decade, Wall Street has scared up ghost stock for stock that cannot be delivered because it was sold short without being acquired for delivery. A doctor can perfrom ghost surgery on another physician's patient without that patient's knowledge. In The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Paul Dickson reveals that a sandlot baseball game include a ghost runner, an imaginary player to enlarge a team's roster. More recent is the street slang get ghost, a verb phrase meaning " to leave quickly or disappear."

Anne H. Soukhanov, the author of "Word Watch," also calls up ghost band. That musical noun phrase, she explains, conjures a "group, especially one specializing with swing, that still bears the name of the deceased leader and continues to perform with a new leader and chiefly new members, in the manner of the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.

Finally, any unexpected reversal or change of direction is called a Ghost turn. ..."thumbs up"....a modern sense of encouragment.

Other supernatural sayings may soon materialize. In fact, these ghost terms could be just the first part of the phantom menace."







**(Note...There was also a Ghost train in Nazi germany that was used to carry jews escaping out of germany...there was also a movie about this legendary Ghost Train that also carried gypsies...the movie was touched with some comical moments)

*** O'Hare Airport also reported blimps on their radar that a plane was in air traffic air space but no plane actually existed...and these blips were called "ghost planes"...




*New York Times Magazine article September 5, 1999

Jeffery McQuain author of: "Never Enough Words:How Americans Invented Expressions as Ingenious, Ornery, and Colorful as Themselves" and " The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of the Brain Imaging" with Paul M. Matthews

[freespirit2001]

http://w3.gorge.net/stewart/card1.gif

Catherine J. Flick

http://w3.gorge.net/stewart/nighthawks.htm (http://w3.gorge.net/stewart/nighthawks.htm)



http://www.valdosta.edu/~bergstrm/coni_1.jpg

Common Nighthawk photo by Brad Bergstrom

Common Nighthawk-Family Caprimulgidae-("Goatsucker")---Chordeiles Minor...also known as the Nightjar bacause of its "jarring" cry, "bull-bat," "mosquito hawk," "pork-and-beans," "will-o'-the-wisp" and "poor-will."

www.valdosa.edu/~bergstrm/coni.html (http://www.valdosa.edu/~bergstrm/coni.html)


http://www.sunnydale.nl/deadlikeme/images/title1x12.jpg

[freespirit2001]

GHOST FLOWERS

Ghost Flowers (Monotropa Uniflora) are also known as Indian Pipes are completely devoid of chlorophyll---they are heterotrophic---non-photosynthetic flowering plants in the blueberry family. They can grow in the dark.

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/images/mono1.jpg

This picture is from Tom Volk---
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/tom_fungi/oct2002.htm (http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/tom_fungi/oct2002.htm)
Tom Volk is Professor in the department of Biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

[freespirit2001]

GHOST ORCHID

Ghost Orchid (Polyrrhiza Lindenii) extremely rare orchid native to South Florida

http://harperkay.homestead.com/files/ghostorchid2.jpg

http://harperkay.homestead.com (http://harperkay.homestead.com)

[freespirit2001]

GHOST HOUSES OF THE SUDAN
www.soatsudan.org/tortureinsudan.asp (http://www.soatsudan.org/tortureinsudan.asp)

[freespirit2001]

GHOST TOWNS

Ghost pictures of Tombstone---The "Boothill Ghost"....the obvious image in the background is a ghost...(?)
www.claytongang.com (http://www.claytongang.com/oldwest/ghost.htm)/oldwest/ghost.htmhttp://clantongang.com/oldwest/Bootgst1.jpg

Another Boothill Ghost Picture: "Spooky Night in Boothill"
Michell and David Holt
http://clantongang.com/oldwest/ghost7.jpg

[freespirit2001]

off season Ghost Town....

Thumbnails of Asbury's boardwalk and surrounding areas---demolished rainbow Room....
www.asterius.com (http://www.asterius.com/)

[freespirit2001]

http://www.quebecairforce.com/Falcon/Escadrilles/Canada11/101e-Canada11.gif

GHOST RIDERS

Quebec AirForce

[freespirit2001]

http://3ngawards.homestead.com/files/Ghost_Riders.gif

MILITARY WING AWARD (September 2002)
http://3ngawards.homestead.com/NavyComm.html (http://3ngawards.homestead.com/NavyComm.html)

[freespirit2001]

http://www.skyhawk.org/3E/va164/va164.jpg

The VA-164 Ghost Riders ....Sky Hawk Organization
www.skyhawk.org/3E/va164/va164.htm (http://www.skyhawk.org/3E/va164/va164.htm)

[freespirit2001]

http://webhome.idirect.com/~mikeha/namericans/ghostriders1.jpg

American Indian Ghostriders: http:webhome.idirect.com (Mikeha)

[freespirit2001]

GHOST RIDERS--The Global Hawk --unmanned aerial vehicles

F16-Fighting Falcon
www.af.mil/news/air.an/0798/lab.htm (http://www.af.mil/news/air.an/0798/lab.htm)

Navy Detachment

[freespirit2001]

http://www.ghostriders.org/card.gif

[freespirit2001]

http://www.homestead.com/deenotes/files/ghostridersSunset.jpg

www.homestead.com/deenotes/ghost~ie4.htm (http://www.homestead.com/deenotes/ghost~ie4.htm)
GHost Rider Song by stan Jones

[LorentzHA]

http://www.quebecairforce.com/Falcon/Escadrilles/Canada11/101e-Canada11.gif

GHOST RIDERS

Quebec AirForce
Interesting. I remeber in Top Gun one of the pilots mentioned something about "Ghostrider..." (It has been a while...)

Awesome pics! The one of the ghost town, gave me the shivers.

[freespirit2001]

LOL**!!!*....http://luvjc.net/emoticons/wink/0002.gif

GHOST RIDER THUMBNAILS:

Ghost Riders Vineyard, Australia:www.ghostriderwines.com (http://www.ghostriderwines.com/)

Poster from Pine Junction gifts...www.pinejunctiongifts.com (http://www.pinejunctiongifts.com/)
"Bill Harwell(c)2003

[freespirit2001]

THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN


http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/images/hoffman3.jpg
"Sea of Steps--Wells cathedral: Stairs to the Chapter House and Bridge to Vicar's Close" 1903
Frederick H. Evans www.philamuseum.org (http://www.philamuseum.org)

Thumbnails of themes of "The Stairway to Heaven"--- Led Zepplin, Paul Whitehead and the Sphinx Trail in King's Canyon National Park, Kaweah Commonwealth

[priceless]

pardon me, while i make a quick test in your test thread hehe

[Lupin]

Garrin
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
no daniel! shut up. You retard. SHUT UP!!!!! escuse me every one while i kill a close friend of mine...............................punch stab owwwww..............kick bite...ewwwwwwwwwwww.....you taste like **** daniel...........no i dont want to bite you again...........dddddddddddiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee.........kick punch choke......ok im back.

here is were daniel will now talk to you.....

attention: no daniels were harmed in the writing of this post......i really wish i had icecream...

[freespirit2001]

http://luvjc.net/emoticons/disguised/0010.gif ...
"Smokey Places" a 1961 song by the Corsairs...
http://www.foreveroldies.com/pack2.htm (http://www.foreveroldies.com/pack2.htm)


"The Ghost of Vermeer the Delft..." Salvadore Dali www.virtualdali.com (http://www.virtualdali.com)
"The Sleeping Gypsy" Henri Rousseau www.webshots.com (http://www.webshots.com)

[freespirit2001]

THE SLEEPING GYPSY Henri Rousseau


" The feline, though ferocious, is loathe to leap upon its prey, who, overcome by fatigue, lies in a deep sleep." Rousseau ( inscription on frame)


Jean Cocteau described it in this way:

".....We are in the desert...The gypsy lying in the middle ground is lost in a dream, or has been carried away by a dream---like the river in the background---that the lion behind her sniffs at her without being able to reach her.....

.....The gypsy sleeps, her eyes are closed......
How to describe this motionless flowing figure, this river of forgetfulness? I think of Egypt, who knew how to sleep in death with her eyes open as do pearl divers under water...

.....From where does such a thing fall? From the moon...And perhaps it is not without motive that the painter, who never overlooks any detail, has been careful to omit any prints on the sand around the sleeping feet.

She is there. She is not there. She occupies no human site....
She lives in mirrors which, in advance, are reflecting cubist still lives."

( Preface to the catalogue for the John Quinn Sale, Hotel Drouot, October 26,
1926)*

" Surrealism in the twenties was very involved with the role of chance, and Mallarme's last famous poem," A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance" could have been carried as a standard.The relevance of The Sleeping Gypsy to the concerns of surrealism is certaintly underscored if not alluded to, in the lines from Cocteau, which must certainly have been written with Mallarme, consciously or inconsciously, in mind:

--- " From where does such a thing fall? From the moon. Like a round eyed beast, past and future are striving to sample at its source a river of innocent colors. This desert scene seems to have been captured by trickery; it might even be the result of some celestial absentmindedness. Its actuality is the result of a fantastic stroke of chance, as if a pack of cards were to reassemble itself it its original order after having been shuffled and tossed into the air."**

*HENRI ROUSSEAU The metropolitan museum of art Pg140: 19"THE SLEEPING GYSPY"

**pg.83 "Rousseau in his Time"

[freespirit2001]

THE BATTLE WITH DEATH

From THE KATHA Upanishads James Stephen

( young Nachiketas went to death;
He bargained with the monarch grim
For knowledge , as the Katha said,
And death revealed his Soul to him:

And he who learns with the fearless lad
Hath all that nachiketas had.)

From that the sun and moon arise,
They set in that again;
From that are stars and seas and skies,
And trees and beasts and men:
And that of Soul and
This of sense
Hath in them naught of difference.

All that is here...the same is there,
All that is there is here:

There is no difference anywhere.
The One doth all appear;
From Death to Death he goes who sees
Differences or Degrees.

That which is told of... That Thou art,
There is no other sprite:
No heaven...nor earth...nor middle part,
There is no day or night;
There is no beauty, truth or wit
But that alone, and Thou art it.

He dreameth---I am moon and sun,
I am the earth and sea.
I am the strife, the lost, the won,
I am variety.

He dreameth This and That and Thou,
In past and future time and now.
He is the dreamer and the dream.
He is the frightened and the fear.
He is the hope, the gloom, the gleam.
He is the season and the year.
...Not this is he,
Nor that Nor you,
He is thyself, and thou art One.

He will not be obtained by speech,
Nor by the mind, the ear, the eye:
He cometh in his time to each
Who affirms courageously:
Thou Art, He Is, and that is all
That may be told, or can befall.

Fast not...nor pray, but only know
He Is, I am:
And all is done:
The deed of time is finished---lo!
Thyself to thine own self is won:
Thou shalt not seek nor have reply
For Thou art that in blink of eye.

Thou knew'st all, 'twas hid within
Thy memory: if thou shoud'st mind
That which thou were not Death or Sin
Can conquer thee again, nor bind
Thine action, nor make thee to seem

A dreamer living in a dream.

(Thumbnail: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~nyager/pics/death.html (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~nyager/pics/death.html))

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PALE HORSE OF DEATH

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~nyager/pics/death.jpg

" And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed him."

Revelation 6:7-8
http:www.cse.unsw.edu.au (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/)

thumbnail:
Revelations 6:7:
" And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see."
http://momentin. (http://momentin./)com

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http://art.gothic.ru/paint/dore/9.jpg
(unknown title) Gustav Gore (1833-1883)
www.art.gothic.ru (http://www.art.gothic.ru/)

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" An early unconverted Saint,

Free from noontide or evening taint,

Heathen without reproach,

That did upon the civil day encroach,

And ever since its birth

Had trod the outskirts of the earth."

Henri Thoreau "Sunday"

[freespirit2001]

SUNDAY

"Dong sounds the brass in the east,
As if to a funeral feast,
But I like that sound best,
Out of the fluttering west.

The steeple ringest a knell,
But the fairiers' silvery bell,
Is the voice of that gentle folk,
Or else the horizon that spoke.

Its metal is not of brass,
But of air and water and glass,
And under a cloud it is swung,
And by the wind it is rung.

The steeple tollest the noon,
It soundest not to soon,
It rings a far earlier hour,
And the sun has not reached its tower."

Henri Thoreau "Sunday" "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers"

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" Henceforth the wise man
Can witness the scenes of the World
And listen to the song of the wind....

He will go calmly and
Will pass through the ferocity of the cities...

He will love the deep places, the fields,
Goodness, order, harmony...

Casting aside passion
And wary of
Worldly usages,
He will prefer landscape."

---Verlaine (HENRI ROUSSEAU Rousseau and His Time)

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" But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

Kahil Gibran

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From the Upanisads....Concerning Universal Soul:


The Conversation between Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi:

"Maitreyi!" said Yajnavalkya, " lo, verily, I am about to go forth fom this state. behold! let me make a final settlement for you and Katyayani."

Then said Maitreyi: "If now, sir, this whole earth filled with wealth were mine, would I be immortal thereby?"

"No," said Yajnavalkya. "As the life of the rich, even so would your life be. Of immortality, however, there is no hope through wealth."

Then said Maitreyi: "What should I do with that through which I may not be immortal? What you know, sir---that indeed, tell me!"

Then said Yajnavalkya: "Ah! Lo, dear as you are to us, dear is what you say! Come, sit down. I will explain to you. But while I am expounding, do not seek to ponder thereon."

Then said he: "Lo, verily, not for the love of the husband is a husband dear, but for love of the Soul a husband is dear.
"Lo, verily, not for love of the wife is a wife dear, but for Love of the Soul is a wife dear.
"Lo, verily, not for love of sons are sons dear, but for love of the Soul sons are dear....
"Lo, verily, not for love of wealth is wealth dear, but for love of the Soul wealth is dear.
"Lo, verily not for love of [faith-religion] is [faith-religion] dear, but for love of the Soul [fatih-religion] is dear.
"Lo, verily, not for love of worlds are the worlds dear, but for love of the Soul the worlds are dear.........
"Lo, verily not for love of beings are beings dear, but for Love of the Soul beings are dear.
"Lo, verily, not for love of all is all dear, but for love of the Soul all is dear."

"Lo, verily, it is the Soul that should be seen, that should be hearkened to, that should be thought on, that should be pondered on, O Maitreyi! Lo, verily, with the seeing of, the hearkening to, with the thinking of, and with the understanding of the Soul, this world-is all known.

"The worlds have deserted him who knows the worlds in aught else than the Soul.
"The [faith-religion] has deserted him who knows [faith-religion] in aught else than the Soul.
"Beings have deserted him who knows beings in aught else than the Soul.
"Everything has deserted hm who knows everything in aught else than the Soul.

"It is ---as, when a drum is being beaten, one would not be able to grasp the external sounds, but by grasping the drum or the beater of the drum the sound is grasped.
"It is---as, when a conch-shell is being vlown, one would not be able to grasp the external sounds, but by grasping the drum or the beater of the drum the sound is grasped.
"It is---as, when a lute is being played, one would not be able to grasp the external sounds, but by grasping the lute ot the player of the lute the sound is grasped.
"It is---as,from a fire laid with damp fuel, clouds of smoke issue forth...
"It is---as of all waters the uniting-point is the sea,
so of all touches the uniting-point is the skin,
so of all tastes the uniting-point is the tongue,
so of all smells the uniting-point is the nose,
so of all forms the uniting-point is the eye,
so of all sounds the uniting-point is the ear,
so of all intentions the uniting-point is the mind,
so of all knowledge the uniting-point is the heart,
so of all acts the uniting-point is the hands....
so of all journeys the uniting-point is the feet....
so of all [Truth] the uniting-point is the speech.

"It is---as a lump of salt cast in water would dissolve right into water; there would not be any of it to seize forth, as it were, but wherever one may take, it is salty indeed---so,lo, verily, this great being, infinite, limitless, is just a mass of knowledge.

"Arising out of these elements, into them one vanishes away. After death there is no consciousness. Thus, lo, say I."
Thus spake Yajnavalkya.

Then spake Maitreyi: "Herein, indeed, you have bewildered me, sir---in saying: "After death there is no consciousness!"

Then spake Yajnavalky: "Lo, verily, I speak not bewilderment. Sufficient, lo, verily is this for understanding.
"for where there is duality, as it were,
there one sees another,
there one hear another,
there one speaks to another,
there one understands another.
Where, verily, everything has become one's own self,
then whereby and whom would one smell?
then wherby and whom would one see?
then whereby and whom would one hear?
then whereby and to whom would one speak?
then whereby and to whom would one think?
then and whereby and whom would one understand?
Whereby would one understand him by whom one understands this All?
Lo, whereby would one understand the understander?"

From HINDUISM Loius Renou

" In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Kahil Gibran


(Ocean Grove sunrise)

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" Now Joshua was standing before an angel, clothed with filthy garments. And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel." And I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments; and the angel of the Lord was standing by.

And the angel of the Lord enjoined Joshua. "Thus says the Lord of hosts:
If you walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right access among those who are standing here. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men of good omen: behold, I will bring my servant the branch. For behold, upon the stone which I have set before Joshua, upon a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the guilt land in a single day. In that day, says the Lord of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor under his vine and under his fig tree."

Zechariah 3: 3-10

.."These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth...."

Zechariah 4:10

"And betwen the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven eyes and with seven horns, which are the seven spirits of God sent out to all the earth..."

Revelations 5: 6



"To him who conquers I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it."

Revelations 2:17 ( to the angel of the Church in Pergamum )

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MILAGA Bonnie Hofkin www.americanartist.com (http://www.americanartist.com)

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SOLEARES Bonnie Hopkin

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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN www.alaska.net (http://www.alaska.net/)

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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Theres a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows if the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for

Ooh, ooh....And it makes me wonder....
Ooh, and it makes me wonder...

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
And you know sometimes words have two meanings
In the tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all our thoughts are misgiven

Ooh...it makes me wonder...
Ooh...and it makes me wonder

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking

And its whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forest will echo with laughter

Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh...and it makes me wonder

If ther's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now...Its just a spring clean for the May Queen
Yes there are tow paths you can go by....but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on

And it makes me wonder....
Ooh...and it makes me wonder

Your head is huming and it won't go because you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady can't you hear the wind blow and you did know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our souls
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

And she's buying a stairway to heaven...


A Led Zepplin Song www.led-zepplin.com (http://www.led-zepplin.com/)
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KASMIR

Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear
Oh, oh

Oh, I've been flying...mama, there ain't no denyin'
I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'

All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
And my eyes are filled with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kasmir.



Oh, Father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
With no provisions but an open face, along the straits of fear.
Ohh


When I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah

Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oooh, my baby, let me take you there

There can be no denyin' that the wind'll shake 'em down
And the flat world's flyin'...There's a new plague on the land


(If we could just join hands...If we could just join hands....
If we could just join hands..)



Traversed the planet when heaven sent me. I saw the kings who rule them all
Still by firelight and purple moonlight, I hear the rested rivers call
And the wind is crying, from a love that won't grow cold
My lover she is lying, on the dark side of the globe

(If we could just join hands...)

Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry and I would dearly like to know
I've all this wonder of earthly plunder will it leave us anything to show

And our time is flyin' see the candle burnin' low
Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old


If we could just join hands.


( from Led Zepplin..)

[Der Alter]

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This is an image upload test. :pink:
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GHOSTRIDERS SKY HORSE www.homestead.com (http://www.homestead.com/)

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The Second Coming

William Butler Yeats

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
Surely some relevation is at hand;
Surely the second coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are the words out
When a vast image out of spiritual minds
Troubles my sight; somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again, but now I know
The twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocky cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

( quote shared by Tulc on the Friendship Forum, under "Quotes")

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HARPS HUNG UP IN BABYLON

"The harps hung up in Babylon
Their loosed strings rang on, sand on,
And cast the murmur forth upon
The roll and roar of Babylon
"Forget me, Lord, if I forget
Jerusalem for Babylon
If I forget the vision set
High as the head of Lebanon
Is lifted over Syria yet
If I forget and bow me down
To brutish gods of Babylon
Two rivers to each other run
In the very midst of Babylon
And swifter than the current fleets
Of Babylon, of Babylon
The restless river of the streets
Of Babylon. of Babylon
And Babylon's towers smite the sky
But higher reeks to God on high
The smoke of her iniquity

"But oh, betwist the green and blue
To walk the hills that once we knew
When you were pure, and I was true."

So rang the Harps of Babylon
Or 'ere along the roads of stone
Had let us captive one by one
The subtle gods of Babylon
The Harps hung up in Babylon
Hung silent till the prophet's dawn
When Judah's feet the highway burned
Back to the Holy hills returned
And shook the dust of Babylon
In Zion's halls the wild Harps rang
To Zion's walls their smitten clang
And lo!...of Babylon they sang
They only sang of Babylon:

"Jehovah, round the throne of awe
The vassal stars their orbit's draw
Within the circle of thy law
Can'st Thou make nothing what is done
Or cause thy servants to be one?"

That has not been in Babylon
That has not known the power of pain
Of life poured out like driven rain
I will go down and find again
My soul, that's lost in Babylon."

(author unknown)

( From (RVS)Psalm 137: "By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept when we remembered Zion, we hung our harps in the willows in the midst thereof")

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GHOST TRAINS


http://home.world-online.no/rou/Ghost_train.jpg

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GHOST TRAINS



http://www.trainweb.org/clevelandrails/WLE/GhostTrain.jpg

www.trainweb.org (http://www.trainweb.org)

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GHOST TRAINShttp://daveparker.freeservers.com/tran_art/ghost_train2.jpg

GHOST TRAIN painting by Dave Parker www.daveparker.freeservers.com (http://www.daveparker.freeservers.com)

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GHOST TRAINS



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GHOST TRAIN by Craig Fine Portraits www.craigfineportraits.com (http://www.craigfineportraits.com)

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GHOST TRAINShttp://www.trainwreckcentral2.com/files/2GHOST_TRAIN.jpg

GHOST TRAIN...("In memory of Ben")...www.trainwreckcentral2.com (http://www.trainwreckcentral2.com/)

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GHOST TRAINS


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Trestles www.trainwreckcentral2.com (http://www.trainwreckcentral2.com)

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FANTASY

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FANTASY http://home.world-online.no/rou/ny_side_5.htm (http://home.world-online.no/rou/ny_side_5.htm)

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GHOST SHIP


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www.home.world-online.no/rou/ny_side_5.htm (http://www.home.world-online.no/rou/ny_side_5.htm)

http://art.gothic.ru/cmart/desper/desper.jpg "Desperanza" www.art.gothic.ru.com (http://www.art.gothic.ru.com)

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VIRGIN WITH CORONA Odilon Redon(1890-1916) www.art.gothic.ru (http://www.art.gothic.ru/)

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"THE CALLING OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND ANDREW"
Duccio Di Buoninsegna Sienese Active (1278-1318)

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LANTERNS


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GIRL IN THE MORNING FOREST WITH AN UNLIT LANTERN LOOKING FOR OIL CHANGE
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AUTUMN GEMS

A poem by Yehuda Kassif

THE AIR IS CRYSTAL CLEAR BEFORE THE SUN,
WITH ITS THOUSANDS MEXICAN FIRE OPAL HUES,
RISES ON JASPER MOUNTAINS
A MISTY SETTING FOR THE NEW-DAY PRAYERS.

IN AQUAMARINE SKY, TOUCHES OF GOLDEN EDGED CLOUDS
MOVE SLOWLY FROM WEST TO EAST.
LEAVING TRACES OF SHINY SPARKLES
LIKE MICA FLAKES IN ADVENTURINE ROCKS.

UNDER SMALL TOURMALINE ROSEMARY BUSHES,
DIAMOND DEW-BEADS MOISTURIZE
PERIDOT GRASS AND REEDS,
ENABLING AGATE SNAILS TO WEAVE
SHINY PATHS INTO SILVERY LACE.

NEAR WARM CITRINE YELLOW BEACHES,
SMALL HEMATITIE FISH PLAY HIDE-AND-SEEK
WITH RIPPLING GENTLE WAVES
WHILE THE DARK, CHILLY, DEEP-SAPPHIRE SEA
CRADLES PEARLS IN THEIR ALGA COVERED OYSTERS.

FIRST JUICY MANDARIN ORANGES AND AMETHYST GRAPES
ARE PEEKING BETWEEN EMERALD LEAVES.
AND SHADY GROVES IN FULL BLOSSOM
LAVISHLY SPREAD THEIR SCENT INTO ONYX NIGHTS.

AND AFTER OPAL MOON ESCORTED BY TOPAZ STARS
WILL GLIDE DOWN THE MILKY WAY,
PINK MORGANITE CHEEKS WITH PEARLY SMILES
WILL HAND YOU POPPIES OF RED LIKE RUBIES

SAYING---OUR HEARTS ARE OPEN WIDELY---PLEASE COME.

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"IF TWO ANGELS WERE TO RECEIVE AT THE SAME MOMENT A COMMISSION FROM GOD, ONE TO GO DOWN AND RULE EARTH'S GRANDEST EMPIRE, THE OTHER TO GO AND SWEEP THE STREETS OF ITS MEANEST VILLAGE, IT WOULD BE A MATTER OF ENTIRE INDIFFERENCE TO EACH WHICH SERVICE FEEL TO HIS LOT, THE POST OF RULER OR THE POST OF SCAVENGER, FOR THE JOY OF THE ANGLES LIES ONLY IN OBEDIANCE TO GOD'S WILL, AND WITH EAQUAL JOY THEY WOULD LIFT A LAZARUS IN HIS RAGS TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM, OR BE A CHARIOT OF FIRE TO CARRY ELIJAH HOME."
JOHN NEWTON
http://www.thanasis.com/modern/orest01.jpg
"Orestes and the Erinyes" Gustave Moreau
www.thansis.com/modern/furies.htm

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The NUR-UL-AIN DIAMOND one of the largest pink diamonds of the world. This tiara has 324 diamonds and set in platinum.
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THE STAR OF THE SOUTH DIAMOND 128.48 carats 1853 Brazil
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THE PINK SUNRISE DIAMOND 273.85 carats

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THE HORTENSIA DIAMOND