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Spiritual Lineage
If only people would not talk till they knew, the World would be a much nicer place. Knowledge is sympathy and sympathy is love, and to learn it the Son of God became a man. People born with a split spine are going to be faces with the supernatural in some way because of a slight openness, they are prone to the unearthly forces, which stems from the deification of infants born with spinal bifida. Also, these beings are suspended, trapped like files in amber, whether by cowardice, impotence, self-hatred, or other patterns of violence (often victims of brute force).
These individuals have a lack of ability to deal with the past and anticipated future, and sometimes blood gushes from wounds that will never heal (incomplete spine). The tethering of the spinal cord is like tentacles of some strange creature, which causes these beings to be repressed. It is a reminder of the ever presence of a fascistic violence and contumelious and horrifying battle waiting to erupt, but also of the yearning to find its own resolution in the present and future.
These beings are basically living ghost and they manipulate time. They are an emotion, stuck in a terrible moment condemned to repeat itself over and over again. There is a connection between the spectral and the structure of the trauma, and they move forward in time, but events repeat. So we went to China in 2006, knew something was wrong when we got there because my cell phone was weeks ahead of the actual date. When we came back, I slept for 30 days. Then the next years, “You’re out of control.” We detected they had been psychic phishing.
Someone is pretending to be someone she is not, going as far as to act out his life (what she thinks happened) sleeping in his room, and throwing tantrums before the neighbors. However, the guy she is impersonating, everyone thought he would be dead by now, but he is not. Yet, this female, and her friend got that guy in a lot of trouble by pretending to be him. So everyone is now seeing something is wrong. The trauma penetrated the perceptions of the mind consciousness and those experiences were stored in the unconscious, which exists outside of time.
They split into conflicting, but interconnected layers, one caught up in the transient present, the other bound to a timeless past. He, as you know, can exist in two time zones that need to be reconciled before he can heal, recover, and move forward. Nonetheless, the female, who is pretending to be him, everyone cannot tell if she is really mentally ill or acting. And even other guys have pretended they are him, so he is burned. And they have the actual guy in this building with people he does not know, but are supposed to be his family. It is like two World’s merged, but not really. Something is wrong, the build is berserk.
Nephilim, son of God to be angels, spirit of God and is God, but is a man having a human body. Fallen angel spirit, but in a human body. The Nephilim have human bodies with all that entails, human chromosomes, DNA and anatomically correct aliens. If alien and human DNA is so different, hybridization would be impossible. This is not only true on the chromosomes because they have to pair as well, reports Doctor Robert Carter, Geneticist, an Analysis of the Genetics of the supposed Starchild.
God created all angels male and having some sort of residual sperm that came about while in human form on Earth, but sperm which God never intended them to use. I regret that my Father served in the war. As a result of his service, he got cancer and I was born with a split spine. The only problem I had as a child is that I wet the bed because my spine grew a tumor to close off the opening and tethered my spinal cord. It had to be removed before it snapped and I was paralyzed. However, I was fine, I just had a skin tag, on my back, the size of a pimple and that is how the tumor was discovered.
Dr. David Jones, told me that after surgery that I would never be able to walk again. However, a few weeks later, I was able to walk, but had some nerve damage. It caused me a lot of pain, numbness, and some complications I have not been able to overcome. This is a condition I have to live with for the rest of my life, and every seven years, someone gets to evaluate my cause and decide if I am still eligible for benefits, and it is not fair. They were recently terminated, but Mrs. Gervais reinstated them, and I have to be analyzed again this weekend. God said that he would turn it around, what the devil meant for evil, God will turn it around.
When it was dark in my heart, you brought me light. Thank you. As such, it seems the DNA and chromosomes that the fallen angels bodies could produce was a human match, but flawed, contains genetic deterioration (in comparison to the God designed perfect DNA of Adam) leading to malformation. It seems very likely that God built the angels these genetic deteriorations, in how He designed their spirit bodies to work should they take human form on Earth, but as you know, they could do no better than something which was flawed, however it was worked. Yet, it was correct enough to pass for human male DNA and chromosomes, when it came to combined with the DNA and chromosomes in the egg of a human woman, but she is an alien.
The Nephilim looked human, and their DNA and chromosomes appeared to be human, even if they miniscule flaws or deterioration in the ideal DNA of the humans living at that time. Bodies human enough to them to be called men, but they seemed to have a genetic decay rate more than man and the humans around them in comparison. However, the criticism from humans serves to make one harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves one with the soothing and flattering idea that one is superior to others.
That is why one must have a cultivated temperament that is never critical. This will not happen quickly, but must be developed over a span of time. You must constantly beware of anything that causes one to think of oneself as a superior person. Still, no one has financially paid for the damages they causes recently, the fractured spine, in two places, busted knees, blow to the head, nor property damages. The bank is the heart of the business system. From it and to it, in endless flux and reflux the life blood goes.
Questions….
You used to love them, leave them, kiss them, break their hearts, but now I got you in my arms. You used to get them, trick them, disrespect them and do them wrong, but now your player days are gone. Everybody knew about you, baby, and the games you played. Could not count the names, faces and numbers, nor the times you laid down, but somebody knew about you baby and that you would change. It was me because I could see my love would turn you around.
You used to love them, leave them, kiss them, break their hearts, but now I got you in my arms. You used to get them, trick them, disrespect them, and do them wrong, but now your playa days are gone. I always say never say never boy, but you did, that is when I took your mind and flipped the script. Your boys talking about you are falling off, and that you are whipped, but who are they to say when it is all my love I give to you.
They are just jealous because they seem like last night’s mule, they house a mess, they broke, and no one loves them. You used to love them, leave them, kiss them and break their hearts, but now I got you in my arms. Everything is going to be alright, I will do anything you like. All that you desire, all that you want, I want to be the one that is giving you more. Let me your angel, I am ready, ready to the one you love.
You do not have to worry, I am with you, and whatever you require is my one and only desire. Call on me, and you know that I will be all you desire. If Randolph Harris Company reports net sales of $800,000.00, gross profit of $580,000.00, and net income of $200,000.00, what are its operating expenses? $380,000.00. Therefore, $220,000.00 must have gone to pay taxes, or else someone is dipping in the teal.
The Price of the Vision
Many experiments that might be revealing are impractical, unethical, or impossible to do. In instances such as these, information may be gained from a case study (an in-depth focus on all aspects of a single subject). Clinical psychologists rely heavily on case studies.
Case studies may sometime be thought of as natural clinical tests (accidents or other natural events that provide psychological data). Gunshot wounds, brain tumors, accidental poisonings, and similar disasters provide much information about the human brain.
One remarkable case from the history of psychology is reported by Dr. J. M. Harlow (1868). Phineas Gage, a young foreman on a work crew, had a 13 pound steel rod blown through the front of his brain by an excavating charge. Amazingly, he survived the accident. Within 2 months Gage could walk, talk, and move normally. However, the injury forever changed his personality. Instead of the honest and dependable worker he had been before, Gage became a surly, foul mouth liar. Dr. Harlow carefully recorded all details of what was perhaps the first in depth cause study of an accidental frontal lobotomy (the destruction of front brain matter).
When a Los Angeles carpenter named Michael Melnick suffered a similar injury 120 years later, he recovered completely, with no sign of lasting ill effects (“Man tells,” 1981). Michael Melnick’s very different reaction to a similar injury shows why psychologist prefer controlled experiments and often use lab animals for studies of the brain. Case studies lack formal control groups. This, of course, limits the conclusion that can be drawn from clinical observations. Nonetheless, when a purely psychological problem is under study, the clinical method may be the only source of information.
Case studies can provide special opportunities to an answer interesting questions. For instance, how do you know what kind of person you are? Would your self-image change if you lost your memory for past events? Why would you continually abuse a powerful being and deny them what he has earned? There are consequences to unethical case studies, the results can be more disastrous than one can imagine. For example, the snow flake study, when people say bad things in the presence of a snowflake, it turned ugly and distorted, but when they were kind and respectful, it would turn beauty and shine. The snow flake was observed under a microscope and that is how researchers know this. So by refusing to do good things, you could be the reason the planet is decaying, unbalanced and falling apart. The punishment for using a living being as research is a Class B felony. Maximum imprisonment 10 years; maximum fine $100,000.00 (CC AS 11.56.100 CC AS 11.56.110).
The church ceases to be spiritual when it becomes self-seeking, only interested in the development of its own organization. The reconciliation of the human race, according to His plan, means realizing Him not only in our lives individually, but also in our lives collectively. We are not here to develop a spiritual life of our own or to enjoy a quiet spiritual retreat. We are here to have the full realization of the Lord, for the purpose of building His body.
My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character. My character determines whether or not the truth can even be revealed to me. There must be something in my character that conforms to the likeness of God. What I need is God’s surgical procedure, His use of external circumstances to bring about internal purification. Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.
Lord urges us to keep our minds filled with the concept of God’s control over everything, which means that a disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and to seek. Filled your mind with the thought that God is there, God is my Father, He loves me, and I will never think of anything that He will forget, so why should I worry?
In many respects, the Sun was the most important of the Egyptian gods, and was worshipped in a variety of different forms. With Good reason, the Ancient Egyptians regarded the Sun as a powerful life force. Along with the annual flooding of the Nile, it produced their crops and ensured their livelihood. The Sun god Ra had been worshipped from the Early Dynastic period (3100-2686 BC), but it was not until the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC), when Ra became the dominant figure in the Egyptian pantheon, that the sun cult really took off, in Helioplis (literally the ‘city of the sun’). There, around 2600 BC, a temple dedicated to Ra in his role as Ra-Horakthy was built.
From the time of Djedefra (2566-2558 BC), the direct successor of Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the name Ra also appeared as the title of the ruler – calling themselves ‘sons of Ra’, the pharaohs underlined their divine relationship with this powerful Sun god. More significantly, Heliopolis became the cult centre for Atum, the creator of the Universe who was also a solar deity and who fused with Ra as Ra-Atum.
The Sun was fundamental to ancient Egyptian life and was worshipped in many forms, of which the three most often deicted were the Sun disk, Khepri, and Atum. Many other gods also acquired a solar aspect. For example, in the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC), Amun was combined with Ra to become Amun-Ra, the king of the gods, and the warrior god Montu was worshipped as a solar god. Ra also reached into the afterlife, where he and Osiris were fused into one being. During the reign of Akhenaten (1352 – 1336 BC), the Aten – the Sun disc – was elevated to the status of sole god, and an attempt was made to eliminate the traditional plethora of gods and goddesses.
Nature Seeks Happiness as Indefinite as God

Love, she said, was a woman’s first necessity. For wise and good reasons, God made the knowledge of Himself scarce any otherwise attainable by us, than that of the existence of other beings absent. The will is placed in the soul, and who can enter there but he that created the soul? Human life partakes of the unrevealable inscrutableness of God. Women’s special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens. Every complete man embraces some of the qualities of a woman, for Nature does not mean that sex shall be more than a partial separation of one common humanity; otherwise we should be too much divided to be companionable. Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved; differences of object does not alter singleness of passion. My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same. As nature has made a great difference in the external appearance of man and woman, we may reasonably expect to find as remarkable a one in their moral character. A female who is at the same time useful and agreeable is as rare as sincerity in a statesman, or humility in an author. It is the highest compliment to give every man his own way; to a lady it is an infallible one.

Women are usually bred up in too low, narrow, and servile a manner of thinking, by being made to believe that their principal objects are to ornament their person, improve their fortunes, and marry rich husbands. As few husbands have little more knowledge than qualifies them for their professions and employments, they seldom require more in their wives than fits them for useful servants. Women love themselves in men. Women, the most beautiful of nature’s flowers, is the most recreant to her laws, and starves with cold and unnecessary forms that divine flame her beauteous system was designed to kindle. The powers of women’s minds are not derived from their bodies; women, in general, think and reflect as well, and quicker than men. Virtue alone is true honor, true freedom, and solid, durable happiness. Virtue is the only nobility. Virtue is God’s empire. A ship is not counted strong by biding one storm. At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural World can gain on our hearts and minds. Of love and marriages, coarse men speak with sneers and obscene jests, while serious men express themselves in hints, with apologetic smiles, as if they were betraying a weakness. I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. A proposal of marriage can never be an insult.

Marriage hath saved many a woman from ruin. A woman who hath given her consent to marry can hardly be said to be safe till she is married. The vindication of the loved object is the best balm affection can find for its wounds: A man must have so much on his mind is the belief by which a wife often supports a cheerful face under rough answers and unfeeling words. Wives set one on to abuse their husbands and then they turn round one and praise ‘em as if they wanted to sell ‘em. A woman can always be satisfied with devoting herself to her husband, but a man wants something that will make him look forward more. Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. Will any woman hesitate a moment whether she shall ride in a coach, or walk on foot all the days of her life? All things fulfill their destiny. Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without certainty. Nature seeks happiness. The human heart is so fond of happiness, that we give easy credit to what we wish. Happy are they who are blessed with the power of making happy. Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts. Luck is all. Where wit and ingenuity, vivacity, delicacy, and quickness are required, women manifestly excel men. The greater good a man does, in proportion to what he is capable of going, the more manly he is. The drawing room is woman’s element, realm, rather than man’s. Woman is a very peculiar and delicate organism; a sensitive and highly organized women is especially peculiar. It would require an inspired psychologist to deal successfully with them. And when ordinary fellows attempt to cope with their uniqueness the result is bungling. Most women are complicated and whimsical, but flowers, and diamonds will always warm her heart.

Around the World People are Listening
Reality is more often image than not. We know about the real World through film, through the television, through photographs, as much or more than we know it through actual experience. However, assuming that much of what we see in film, television, and photography is at least potentially manipulated, how real is our knowledge? What do we really know? From whose reality ? What level? And how can we represent what we cannot see? There is a hierarchy of human needs, and some needs are more powerful than others. Think for a moment about the needs that influence your behavior. Which seems strongest? Which do you spend the most time and energy satisfying?
On the pyramid of hierarchy, psychological needs are at the bottom. Since these are necessary for survival, they tend to be prepotent, or dominant over higher needs. It could be said, for example, that to a starving person, food is god. Higher needs are expressed only after the prepotent physiological needs are satisfied. This is also true of needs for safety and security. Until there is a basic amount of order and stability in meeting such needs, a person may have little interest in higher pursuits.
A person who is extremely thirsty, for instance, might have little interest in writing poetry or even just talking with friends. For this reason, the first four levels of the hierarchy are basic needs. Other basic needs include love and belonging (family, friendship, caring), and needs for esteem and self-esteem (recognition and self-respect).
All of the basic needs are deficiency motives, that is, they are activated by a lack of food, water, security, love, esteem, or other basic needs. At the top of the hierarchy we find growth needs, represented by the need for self-actualization. Such needs are not based on deficiencies. Rather, they are virtuous, life enhancing force for personal growth.
People are basically good. If their basic needs are met, they will actualize their potentials. How are needs for self-actualization expressed? Less powerful but humanly important actualization motives are called meta needs. There is usually a tendency to move up the hierarchy to the meta needs. A person whose survival needs are met, but whose meta needs are unfulfilled, falls into a syndrome of decay. Such people experience despair, apathy, and alienation.
Mere survival or comfort is usually not enough to make a full and satisfying life. It is interesting to note, in this regard, that college students who are primarily concerned with financial success, personal appearance, and social recognition score lower than average in vitality, self-actualization, and general well-being.
How do we explain the use of fasting as a means of social protest? How has the meta need for justice overcome the more basic need for food? (Perhaps the answer is that fasting is temporary and self-imposed.) Despite such objections, these views have been widely influential as a way of understanding and appreciating the rich interplay of human motives. Rather than being a scientific theory, the hierarchy represents a philosophical viewpoint.
Few people are primarily motivated by self-actualization needs. Most are more concerned with esteem, love, or security. Perhaps this is because incentives and rewards in our society are slanted to encourage conformity, uniformity, and security in schools, jobs, and relationships. When was the last time you met a meta need?
Some people are journalist for a living and consider it hard work. Others are journalist for pleasure and dream of opening a news bureau. For some people, carpentry, gardening, writing, photography, or being a street performer is fun. For others the same activities are drudgery they must be paid to do. How can the same activity be work for one person and play for another?
When I carry out an activity for enjoyment, to show my ability, or to gain a skill, my motivation is usually intrinsic. Intrinsic motivations occurs when there is no obvious external reward or ulterior purpose behind my actions my actions. The activity is enjoyed as an end in itself. Intrinsic motivation is closely related to the higher levels of hierarchy. In contrast, extrinsic motivations stem from obvious external factors, such as pay, grades, rewards, obligations, and approval. Most of the activities we think of as work are extrinsically rewarded.
SoulCycle IPO
A private corporation is owned by just one or a few people, who are closely involved in managing the business. These people, often a family, own all the corporation’s stock, and no stock is sold to the public. Many corporations are quite large, yet remain private, including Cargill, the nation’s largest private corporation, which sells nearly $60 billion in agricultural and industrial products every year. Privately owned corporations are not required to disclose financial information publicly, but they must, of course pay taxes. A public corporation is one whose stock anyone may buy, sell, or trade. Walmart is one of the United States largest corporations with more than $258.7 billion in revenues.
A private corporation that needs more money to expand or take advantage of opportunities may have to obtain financing by going public through an initial public offering (IPO), that is, becoming a public corporation by selling its stock so that it can be traded in public markets. For example, SoulCycle Inc., an Indoor cycling fitness chain, announced that they are offering an IPO, the proposed maxim aggregate offering price is $100,000,000.00, and the amount of registration fee is $11,620.00. There are risk to investing, the success depends on the value and reputation of the SoulCycle Brand. Maintaining, promoting their brand, will depend largely on their ability to provide consistent, high quality rider experience and marketing merchandising and community building efforts.
Their brand could be adversely affected if they fail to achieve these objectives or if their public image or reputation were to be tarnished by negative publicity. They have benefited in the past from celebrities riding in their studios. If they lose intellectual property, if their efforts are not successful, they value of their brand may be harmed, and that could effect financial condition and growth rate.
They may be unable to attract and retain riders, which could have a negative effect on their business and growth rate, and that could lead to a decline. The main point is if their reputation is harmed, there will be a decline in services. Their business is geographically concentrated and a failure to gain acceptance in new markets may have an adverse effect on their business and growth rate. If they cannot find demand or gain acceptance, this will have an adverse impact on business.
World of Love

The virtue of prosperity, the virtue of adversity is fortitude. I wrote in white clouds, in the blue sky, you name. However, it was blown away by the wind, and I embroidered it in the sea, but it was broken up by the waves of the sea, so I etched it in my heart, and then nothing would make it disappear. You give me joy for my pain, and whenever my heart is dark, you bring light to me. Through tears never did man see his way in the dark. I am equal to any trial, any sacrifice, and day after tomorrow; but when it comes today it is another thing. I am young, I do not know how to go out, and I need wisdom. Grant me the wisest man to ever live. Heaven always proportions our strength to the trails which it lays before us. Their intention was to create a symbolic, mystical art, something for which this medium was perfectly suited for. Focus your attention on that which you normally avert your eyes.

Learn to aestheticize the everyday, to reveal as beautiful that which we normally taken for granted. Do not desert without noticing it wonder or riches. It is better to be in this small chamber, than this large house, with this angry person, which leads to hell. He also always seemed to have fun with it, spoofing its high seriousness and mocking, particularly, it preoccupation with money and fame. However, you can achieve a unity larger than the comparatively elitist are of high culture could ever imagine. These people have the power to help you, they know what is going on, but turn their back and let you endure these trials all alone. Yet, the ideas of community itself, bringing together the diversity of the streets through unifying patterns, much like art. On the one hand, we sense your alienation from your community in the work.

617 Squadron
Although things may look paucity, do not fail to consider the omnipotence of that God, who is alone able to protect you. Over the last few years some people have questioned the actions they have taken to reach success. I myself, have taken a sideline to this question. I think the most dangerous thing on this plant is a man, as soon as people start to attack each other for resources, the animal instinct takes over. Each will try to outwit or kill one another to gain control of monetary riches.
Today I was watching “Setup,” a film starring Ryan Phillippe, and it really got me to thinking about what is really important. Although expectations are attached to roles, the role performance, or how each occupant of status fulfills his or her role, may vary widely. One reason is that people’s emotional commitment to and identification with roles may vary. Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession.
While family is important, if you cannot take legal means to see your family thrive, you may want to reconsider your choices. I do not want to give the movie away, but it is a cautionary tale of exploitation, mobster life, and judicial corruption. Some roles are entered into or discarded with little effort or commitment. Often times, when living that high life, people are forced to betray their friends, and kill to save their family, but by doing this, it opens them and others that they love up to become victim of bloodshed.
Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late. You know what I mean, I do not know the word to put in it. Eternally inexorable and unconcerned is Fate, a mere heartless trader in men’s joys and woes. I am sure there never were a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs than those in the United States. Time goes forward, and you go round. Speak to the point. Everlasting flame, or everlasting dishonor, nothing between!
Chaos

There are a thousand familiar disputes which reason can never decide. [A person’s] history is a thing hardly to be predicted, even from the completest knowledge of characteristics. For the tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from within. Chaos is the science of surprise, of the nonlinear and the unpredictable. While most traditional science deals with supposedly predictable phenomena like gravity, electricity, or chemical reactions, Chaos Theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, the stock market, and people’s emotions. A man can no more resist the impulse of fate than a wheelbarrow can the force of its driver. These phenomena are often described by fractal mathematics, which captures the infinite complexity of nature. Many natural objects exhibit fractal properties, including landscapes, clouds, trees, rivers, and many of the systems in which we live exhibit complex, chaotic behavior. There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. Destiny is too wise or too cruel for that.

Recognizing the chaotic behavior, fractal nature of our World can give us new insight, power, and wisdom. If the best me do not draw the great prizes in life, we know it has been so settled by the Ordainer of the lottery. Basically series of events seems like they are not connected and random, but they are not. Like how drilling for oil is causing more Earthquakes. It can be difficult to tell from data whether a physical or other observed process is random or chaotic, because in practice no time series consists of a pure signal. There will always be some form of corrupting noise, even if it is present as round off or truncation error. Thus any real time series, even if mostly deterministic, will contain some (pseudo) randomness. However, many events are actually orchestrated to look random, and the more you investigate them, you begin to see a pattern and notice that the events are connected. A great example of this Chaos Theory displayed in the film, Chaos, starring Ryan Phillippe; while weak souls are crushed by fortune, the brave mind maketh the fickle deity afraid of it.

His Birth Certificate

The contemplation of beauty, the inherently corrupt soul could transform its love from the physical and material into a purely spiritual love of God. The first representation of the goddess represents innocence itself, a divine beauty free from any hint of physical and the sensual. It is this form of beauty that the soul, aspiring to salvation was expected to contemplate. Woman is the most admirable handiwork of God, in her true place and character. The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it. This woman’s view, a woman’s, whose whole sphere of action is in the heart, and who can conceive of no higher nor wider one. And man’s desire of Earthly experience draws him to rebirth, and he is born into a form that fits nature as a glove a hand; the soul of a warrior passes into the robust form of a warrior; the soul of a poet into the sensitive cerebral form of a poet, he is still in development. I have know’d that sweetest and best of women ever since afore her First, which Mr. Harris who was dreadful timid went and stopped his ears in a swimming pool, and never took his hands away or come out once till he was showed the baby, wen bein’ took with fits, the doctor collared him and laid him on his back upon the airy stones, and she was told to easy her mind, his owls was organs.

And I have know’d her when he has hurt her feelin’ art by sayin’ of his ninth that it was one to [sic] many, if not two, while that dear innocent was cooin’ in his face, which thrive it did through bandy. Artist of genius and inspiration were considered to be different from everyone else, and to be guided in their work by insight that was considered divine in origin. Many believed that the goals of truth and beauty were not reached by following the universal rules and laws of classical antiquity, notions of proportion and mathematics. Nor would fidelity to visual reality guarantee beautiful results; in fact, given the fallen condition of the World, quite the opposite was more likely, studies of fellow citizens had demonstrated. This represents a divine frenzy, of the creative act, to transcend the conditions of everyday life. Art now exceeded reality. It is a window, not upon nature, but upon divine inspiration itself. It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the World is a finer one than the last. Like busts in marble, so does out individual fate exist in the limestone of time. Change and change love to deal with men’s settled plans, not with their idle vagaries. This luxuriant and conspicuous display of wealth is deliberate. And through we might want to read into this image our own sense of its decadence, fortune loves to mingle himself in all events.














































