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Harlech Castle
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“Patrick McGoohan’s, ‘The Prisoner’, displays many thematic similarities to Franz Kafka’s, ‘The Castle’ and ‘The Trial’.”
Authority
Pages One-Five-Two and One-Five-Three
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No 8 (Light)
O God, the longer I gaze upon your face, the more acutely do you seem to turn the gaze of your eyes upon me!…Thus when I meditate on how that face is truth and the best measure of all faces, I am expanded into a state of immense wonder…
Those who look upon you with a loving face will find your face looking at them with love… Those who look upon you in hate will similarly find your face hateful. Those who gaze at you in joy will find your face joyfully reflected back at them.
– Nicolas of Cusa
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“Nature reduces all physical constructs to rubble and all mental constructs to hot air.”…
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No 9 (Dark)
O Divine One, all beauty which can be conceived is less than the beauty of your face.
Though every face is beautiful, no face is beauty’s self but your face, God/ess, has beauty and this having is being.
It is absolute beauty itself, which is the form that gives being to every beautiful form.
– Nicolas of Cusa
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Dyffryn Ardudwy Dolmen
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To close the day we repaired to a sacred site and performed a simple but effective turning of the year ritual.
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Pages Two-Two-Seven and Two-Two-Eight.
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No 2 (Light)
‘To understand the world, knowledge is not enough. You must see it, touch it, live in its presence and drink the vital heart of existence in the very heart of reality.’
– Teilhard de Chardin
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No 3 (Dark)
‘Let us advance one step further. What name should we give to this physio-moral energy of personalisation to which all activities displayed by the stuff of the universe are finally reduced? Only one name is possible, if we are to credit it with the generality and power that it should assume in the cosmic order: love… The conclusion is always the same: Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy of the world.’
– Teilhard de Chardin
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I love that castle and rock hidey hole.
The castle is built on a commanding point, as most castles are. The ‘hidey hole’ is an uncovered burial mound. 🙂
Thank you, Stuart. I couldn’t work out what the hidey hole was – uncovered burial mound – how interesting. You have such an interesting life.
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