ARMOR OF LIGHT TEST

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"We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests;
.....as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I had hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world, in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology!---I know of no reading of another's experience so startling and informing as this would be."
Henry Thoreau, Walden:Economy

"Time is the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born......
Henry Thoreau, Walden: Where I Lived, What I Lived For

 

[Porthos]

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" 2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 7

my fav quote

 

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... the close of the age....

 

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Solar Signature Pictures

"Courage
an independent spark from
heaven's bright throne, by which the soul
stands raised, triumphant high,
alone." ---Unknown

"Any obstruction [in the spiritual world] that ought to be removed because it is contrary to divine order, the angels cast down or overthrow merely by an effort of the will and a look."

---Emanuel Swedenburg, "Heaven and its Wonders and Hell"

 

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Signature ideas

"When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; but God is within, and your genius is within.....and what need have they of light to see what you are doing."

---Epicteus

"To lose the earth you know,
for greater knowing;
To lose the life you have,
For greater life;
To leave the friends you loved,
For greater loving;
To find a land more kind than home,
More large than earth;
Where on the pillars of this earth are founded,
Toward which the conscience of the world is tending---
A world is rising, and the River flows...."

---Thomas Wolfe, "You Can't Go Home Again"

 

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"There is gold and abundance of costly stones,
But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel."

Proverbs 20:15
[bible]Proverbs 20:15[/bible]
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in setting of silver."

Proverbs 25:11
[bible]Proverbs 25:11[/bible]

"...Let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious."
1 Peter 3:4
[bible]1 Peter 3:4[/bible]
[bible]1 Peter 3:6[/bible]

 

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"The getting of treasure by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death."

Proverbs 21:6
[bible]Proverbs 21:6[/bible]

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat of its fruits."
Proverbs 18:21
[bible]Proverbs 18:21[/bible]

 

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"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones."
---Proverbs 17:22

Proverbs 17:22
"When you have a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to the law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And is the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to life?"

1 Corinthians 6:1-4


1 Corinthians 6:1-4

"Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.... and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires."

Romans 13:12-14

"For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobediance, when your obediance is complete."

2 Corinthians 10:2-6

"For it is not the man who commends himself that is accepted, but the man whom the Lord commends."

2 Corinthians 10: 18

"God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control."

2 Timothy 1:7

"Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory, But it is written,

"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor has the heart of man conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him,"

God has revealed to us through Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God......
.....Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us from God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God for they are a folly to him, and he is not able to undestand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. "For who has known the mond of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ."

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

 

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[bible]Revelation 19:17[/bible]
Vogel Wolke, Lyonel Feininger
Cross of the Baltic, David Caspar Friedrich

 

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"For Sheol [The Grave] cannot thank thee,
death cannot praise thee,
Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness."

Isaiah 38:18

[bible]Zechariah 5:4-11[/bible]
[bible]Zechariah 5:8-9[/bible]
[bible]Revelation 12:14[/bible]
[bible]Zechariah 3:9[/bible]

 

[freespirit2001]

"Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol [the Grave]?
Shall I redeem them from Death?
O Death, where are your plagues?
O Grave, Where is your destruction?"

Hosea 13:14

 

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JALAL UD-DIN RUMI

 

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FREESPIRIT

 

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Kateri Tekakwitha

 

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LADY JULIEN OF NORWICH

"Wytt it wele, love was His menyng"

 

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"Presentiment"

" A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in setting of silver..."
[bible]Proverbs 25:11[/bible]

 

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More pics...kestral and flying ladies, sunset

" A soul in tension thats learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth bound misfit, I "

PINK FLOYD: Learning to Fly

 

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Cranes, Northern Lights

 

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perseids shower over canada, nighthawk

 

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nighthawk and cranes, an actors pose