It was easy enough for me to scan their minds and get a picture of it. The discovery of documentary falsifications and false attributions, the need to discover tests and revive them in authentic form by studying and collating codices, and the attempt to understand the personalities of the literary people and the philosophers of the past in their own Worlds are all indications of humanism’s fundamental concern for historicity. Doubtless in its results it realised the task of historical restoration only partially and imperfectly, but the task is never exhausted and is repeatedly proposed to historiographic endeavour. The humanists were aware of the value of this task, and they initiated it and insured its continuance by leaving it as a legacy to modern culture. Humanism does not have an antireligious or anti-Christian character. Its interest in defending the value and freedom of a person draws it into discussing the traditional problems of God and providence and of the soul, its immortality, and its freedom—discussions that were frequently concluded in much the same form as that accepted by the medieval tradition. However, in the context of humanism these discussions assume a new significance because they had the purpose of understanding and justifying the capacity for initiative of humans in the World. This capacity was defended even in the religious sphere, for the religious discussions of the humanists had two principal themes: the civil function of religion and religious tolerance. #RandolphHarris 1 of 14

Among these mortals were Erin, the versatile Black lady, a stunner when it comes to looks, and Jamerson’s one-time lover; and their little son Ashton, of course, four years old and running up and down the stairs just for fun, his feet in white tennis shoes (even after Labour Day, you know what that indicates), a little too big for his body; and Professor Gwen, Erin’s grandmother, a regal Black lady with white hair in a bun, shaking her head, talking to nobody, in the kitchen cooking up supper for God knows who. Hovering about the back of the property were the Shed Men, Justin and Matthias, sitting in an open lighted portion of the shed, reading the Weekly World News and howling with laughter at it, while the television was blaring Football. There was a giant limousine in front of the house and one in the back. As for the Big House, by Cresleigh Homes, I loved it. I found it to perfectly proportioned, which was not always the case with American houses, but this one, preening on its terrace of land, was more than agreeable and inviting, with its long evergreen-tree drive, and its regal windows all around. This inspiring two-story home had designs that blended stunning features, generous living spaces, two car garages, and outdoor amenities that offer the perfect blend of indoor and outdoor living. It made one realise that one was truly home. They used the highest quality builders and management trained in Architecture and Engineering, to create and unmatched expertise. #RandolphHarris 2 of  14

Interior? What Americans call giant rooms. Dustless, manicured. Full of mantel clocks, mirrors, portraits and Persian rugs, and the inevitable mélange of nineteenth-century mahogany furniture that people mix with new reproductions of classic Hepplewhite and Louis XIV styles to achieve the look they call Traditional or antique. Eh? And all pervaded by the inevitable drone of massive air-conditioning, which not only cooled the air magically but provided the Privacy of Sound, which has so transformed the South in this day and age. This all allowed the family to experience the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. After spending nearly twenty-five years in the United States Army and making fifteen moves; they completed the build and move into their forever home, built by Cresleigh . In a pastoral landscape, the area is architecturally unified, and each house and building is deeply espressive. My eyes began to examine the Heavens. Words cannot completely express how pleased the family is with their new home. I thought, “This is a bit like a personal relationship with God.” The feelings of joy can be felt as one approached the front door, and they love sharing their home with family and friends, and telling them about their incredible journey. I was pondering fiercely. It was as if I saw the Light of Heaven. “When God gives any person wealth and possessions, and enables one to enjoy them, to accept one’s lot and be happy in one’s work—this is a gift from God,” reports Ecclesiastes 5.19. #RandolphHarris 3 of 14

My mind continued to wander. I reflected on the immensity of the Universe that presented itself before my eyes. The Universe is immense and infinite, yet, at the same time, each of us has unique worth, glorious and infinite in the eyes of our Creator. Our personal worth is of immeasurable importance to our Heavenly Fathers. “I have seen evil under the Sun, and it weighs heavily on people: God gives a person wealth, possessions and honour, so that one lacks nothing one’s heart desires, but God does not enable one to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil. A one may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long one lives, if one cannot enjoy one’s prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better of than he. It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded. Though it never saw the Sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. So not all go to the same place?” reports Ecclesiastes 6.1-6.  Do you really want to steal another person’s soul out of the currents of human destiny? We are known and remembered by the most majestic, powerful, and glorious Being in the Universe! We are loved by the King of infinite space and everlasting time. Therefore, enjoy your time on this Earth and what God has blessed you with. #RandolphHarris 4 of 14

The discovery of historical perspective is, with respect to time, what the discovery of optic perspective in Renaissance painting was with respect to space: the capacity to realize the distance of the objects from each other and from the viewer and therefore the capacity to understand them in their actual place and time and in their distinction from each other—in their individuality. In Europe, toward the end of the thirteenth century, a new kind of art began to appear, at first in the South, and somewhat later in the North. By the beginning of the fifteenth century, this new era, marked by a revival of interest in arts and sciences that had been lost since antiquity, was firmly established. We have come to call this revival the Renaissance, meaning rebirth. This was the beginnings of the spirit that would develop into the Renaissance sensibility. These figures are no longer archetypical and formulaic representations; they are almost real people, displaying real emotions. The Renaissance is, perhaps most of all, the era of the individual. As early as the 1330s, it was conceived of a new Humanism, a philosophy that emphasized the unique value of each person. There is a contemplation of beauty, which transforms its love into a purely spiritual love of God. The imagery and architecture of this time is a source of inspiration and love. #RandolphHarris 5 of 14

The significance of human personality as an original and autonomous center organises the various aspects of life like they were in the ancient times. Perspective in this sense represents innocence itself, a divine beauty free of any hint of the physical and the sensual. It is this form of beauty that the soul, aspiring to salvation, is expected to contemplate. The importance that the modern World attaches to human personality is the consequence of an attitude made possible by Renaissance humanism. The civil function of religion is to recognize on the basis of the correspondence between the Heavenly and Earthly city. The Heavenly city is the norm or the ideal of human’s civil life; but precisely because it is such, its recognition means the commitment of men and of men and women to realise, as much as possible, its characteristics in the Earthly city. In the Bible is not only the proclamation of superterrestrial happiness, but also of Earthly happiness. Religion is the confidence in the value of human’s work, in the success of this work, and in the reward that humans will find in the future life. The fundamental function of religion is to support humans in the work of civil life, in political work and activity. The goals of truth and beauty of genius have to also rely on subjective and personal intuition to possess this divine frenzy of the creative act—to transcend the conditions of everyday life. #RandolphHarris 6 of 14

Spirituality can sometimes exceed reality, as it is a window, not upon nature, but upon divine inspiration itself. Archetypes are supposed to represent the four domains of knowledge—Theology, Law, Poetry, and Philosophy. Church is supposed to be a gathering of the greatest philosophers and scientists of the modern World. The concept of tolerance which has come to be affirmed in the modern World implies the possibility of peaceful coexistence between the various religious confessions which remain different from each other and are not reducible to a single confession. For humanists, additionally, the attitude of tolerance derives from their conviction of the fundamental unity of all the religious beliefs of humankind and therefore of the possibility of a universal religious peace. Moreover, religious peace also implies the essential identity between philosophy and religion. Christianity simply elaborates the mysterious glow of God that infuses our soul with sensuousness of light and colour and the pleasures of the sense, and brings about to fulfillment the wisdom that ancient philosophy has elaborated, because reason, which has supported and guided this philosophy, is the same which became incarnate in the Word (of God). The return to origins would be a return to the religious peace of the happy ancestors of the human race and the end of theological hatred and intolerance. #RandolphHarris 7 of 14

The broadening of our existence and of our knowledge asserts our sense of importance of the individual, especially the individual of genius and talent. The meaning is to evoke our own spirituality, presenting the Godlike aspects of our nature, which are discovered in the knowledge of the manifold intellectual, sentient, and moral human powers. The World is supposed to be like it was in the Hellenic times and return to unity of diverse forces, a cultural unity which millennial times somewhat lacks. We are in a search for the order and rhythms of nature. The condition of the soul which gives rise to the necessity of history (in the truest and highest sense of the word) is clearly manifested in the preserved human experience in the mind, which is why so many adults reflect on their childhood. A time when they were happy and protected and essentially worshipped by the family as a deity when they are first born into the World. Nonetheless, wherever we are, whatever our circumstances may be, we are not forgotten. No matter how dark our days may seem, no matter how insignificant we may feel, no matter how overshadowed we may be, our Heavenly Father has not forgotten us. In fact, God loves us with an infinite love. #RandolphHarris 8 of 14

Knowing that God knows us and loves us personally is like a light that illuminates our life and gives it meaning. The eternal original ideas of everything conceivable provides existence and value, beauty of all physical and spiritual forms, the truth in the unalterable working of every force according to its indwelling law, the justice in the inexorable course of events which are eternally regulated and meted their just reward. How can we help others know that their Heavenly Father loves them? Is that not the essential question? How can we know that God loves us? Often the feeling we have of our personal wort is based on the love and interest we receive from those around us. Yet this love is sometimes lacking. The love of people is often imperfect, incomplete, or selfish. The goal of life is the realization of the love of God, representing itself through humanity from all sides and in all forms in which the finite forms can be connected with the infinite. The task of us as human beings, therefore, is to represent this process of the love of God actualized in reality. The love of God is the most radiant sign and certain proof that humans are not intrinsically separate from the Lord. It implies a deep-rooted subjective view of the World, a spiritual attitude, that controls the formation of concepts. The love of God is perfect, complete, and selfless. Heavenly Fathers loves us and understands our needs and concerns. God is anxious to bless us. #RandolphHarris 9 of 14

If we could see ourselves as God sees us, imagine what it would mean to us. What if we looked at ourselves with the same benevolence, love, and confidence that God does? Imagine the impact it would have on our lives to understand the eternal potential as God understands it. It is evident that the languages are not really means of representing the truth that has already been ascertained, but far more, means of discovering a truth not previously known. Their diversity is not a diversity of sounds, but of World outlook. If we could view ourselves through God’s eyes, what influence would that have on our lives? I promise you that God will send us tangible signs of his existence and his love for us. I felt a little like Socrates must have felt with all those gorgeous Greek young men coming to him for advice, that is, until somebody showed up with the Burning Hemlock (a burning stake usually a cross that is as tall as a house). Well, it is a mind reader, magnet for spirits and ghosts and a possessor of other occult talents. This is mystifying me, unless they are deliberately playing this one out solely for reasons that will soon become clear. He could have lived among them for quite a while. And as I have already explained, they thought I was human too, though I probably could not count on that for too long. #RandolphHarris 10 of 14

Skeptical arguments are logically unanswerable but powerless against the natural sentiments and convictions that govern our judgment in daily life. Witches detect all kinds of small thing about other creatures. It has to do with the lazy and constant exercise of their power. I as sensed that at the funeral Mass, just breathing the same air as Dr. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and his wife Berta Low. However, fortunately, they were distracted by a multitude of other stimuli, so I had not had to bolt. We shall never know what the new scene of though is. But we can identify the main currents in contemporary thought with which we are concerned with. We can, therefore, safely tease and use an antidote to dogmatism and over certainty of every kind. All our ideas are derived from impressions of sense or inner feeling. That is, we cannot even conceive of things different in kind from everything in our experience. A matter of fact can never be proved by reasoning a priori. It must be discovered in, or inferred from, experience. From these two propositions it follows that metaphysical systems telling us of the existence of God, the origin of the World, and other matters transcending human experience. Become who you are. #RandolphHarris 11 of 14

The mind is pictured as an immaterial thing with the powers of receiving representations of things in the World which it inhabits, of reasoning about these representations, and of making decisions that are somehow translated into physical action by the body to which the mine is temporarily attached. These representations are usually called ideas. Art is a great representation, which makes good use of the mind’s power. In art, figures may be distorted or elongated to depict a feeling, as in Bronzino’s Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of Luxury), circa 1546, located in the National Gallery, London. The colours are often bright and clashing. At the upper right of Bronzino’s painting, Time, and, at the upper left, Truth, part a curtain to revel the shallow space in which Venus is fondled by her son Cupid. Folly is about to shower the pair in rose petals. Envy tears her hair out at center left. The Mannerist distortion of space is especially evident in the distance and separating Cupid’s shoulder and head. Shortly after the Spanish conquest of separatist States within Spain in 1519 and death of Raphael in 1520, many Italian painters embarked on a stylistic course that was highly individualistic and mannered, or consciously artificial. The call word of this Mannerist style was “invention,” and the technical and imaginative virtuosity of the artist become a paramount importance. #RandolphHarris 12 of 14

Each Mannerist artist may, therefore, be identified by one’s own “signature” style. Where the art of the High Renaissance sought to create a feeling of balance and proportion, quite the opposite is the goal of Mannerist art. The Christian Platonist, disbelieving in the prenatal existence of the soul, substituted for the inborn memories of the archetypes, inborn representations of them, which they called “innate ideas.” It was from the possession of and by reflection on these innate ideas that we came by the knowledge of such necessary truths of metaphysics, mathematics, and morals as our Maker had thought it necessary for us to have and which could not be discovered from experience. In the late work of Michelangelo, for example, particularly the great fresco of The Last Judgment on the alter wall of the Sistine Chapel, executed in the years 1534-1541, we find figures of grotesque proportion arranged in an almost chaotic, certainly athletic swirl of line. Mannerist painters represented space in unpredictable and ambiguous ways, so that bodies sometimes seem to fall out of nowhere into the frame of the painting, as in Tintoretto’s The Miracle of the Slave. The drama of Tintoretto’s painting is heightened by the descent of the vastly foreshortened St. Mark, who hurtles in from above to save the slave from his executioner. #RandolphHarris 13 of 14

The rising spiral line created by the three central figures—the slave, the executioner, holding up his shattered instruments of torture, and St. Mark—is characteristic of Mannerism, but the theatricality of the scene, heightened by its dramatic contrast of light and dark, anticipates the Baroque style, which soon followed. To examine and understand an idea, first reduce it to its simple constituent ideas. Then, if any one of these is still obscure, produce the impression from which it is derived. That means in your mind, arrange for the actual occurrence of the impression. It may not be what they artist intended to convey, but interpretation is subjective and it is your opinion of what you see expressed. Ideas of sensation come from our sense organ, ideas of reflection from our consciousnesses of our mental process. We are supposed to provide our own means of thinking, as mental images. “Now I have told you this once before, you cannot control me. If you try to take me down, you are going to break. I feel your every nothing that you are doing for me. I am picking you out of me, you run away. I stand alone inside. You are always hiding behind your so-called goddess. So what do you not think that we can see your face. Resurrected back before the final fallen. Now they have arrest until I can make my own way. I am not afraid of fading,” (I Stand Alone by Godsmack). #RandolphHarris 14 of 14