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[shadow=cyan]RUTILATED QUARTZ WITH GOLD PYRITE RUTILE[/shadow]

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[shadow=silver]THE STORY OF THE CONCUBINE OF GIBEAH[/shadow]
[bible]Judges 19:1-30[/bible]
 
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[shadow=Cyan]AQUAMARINE:[/shadow]

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[shadow=Cyan]TOPAZ[/shadow]

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trompe l'oeil---
1. Style of painting that gives an illusion of photographic reality.
2. A painting that gives an illusion of photographic reality
["tromper"---to deceive + "le" the + "oeil", eye]

trouvere---
One of a class of poet-musicians fourishing in northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries, who composed chiefly narriatives such as the chansoms de gesk, in langue d'oil.
 
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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 the meanest village, it would would the a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the scavenger, for the joy of the angels lies only in the obediance to God's will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham's bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home."

---John Newton

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LABRADORITE MINERAL FORM:
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Thomas Brooks

Legacy 17

"Eye more, mind more, and lay to heart more, the spiritual and eternal workings of God in your souls, than the eternal providences of God in the world. Beloved, God looks that we should consider the operations of his hand; and desping the works of His hands is so provoking to Him that He threatens to lead them into captivity for not considering them. But above all look to the work that God is carrying on in your souls. Not a soul He is carrying on some work or other in it, either blinding or enlightening, bettering or worsening; therefore look to what God is doing in thy soul. All the motions of God within you are steps of eternity, and every soul shall be blessed or cursed, saved or lost to all eternity, not according to outward dispensations, but according to the inward operations of God in your souls. Observe what humbling work, what reforming work, what sanctifying work, He is about in thy spirit; what He is doing in that little world within thee. If God should carry on never so glorious a work in the world, as a conquest of the nations to Christ, what would it advantage thee if sin, Satan, and the world should triumph in thy soul, and carry the day there?"

JACINTH---the Eleventh Gem of the Holy Wall of the New Jerusalem

[bible]revelation 21:20[/bible]


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[shadow=silver]ST.APOLLONIA:[/shadow]

"HOURS OF ETIENNE CHEBALIER": Jean Fouquet
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St.Apollonia:
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"Workshop of Piero Della Fransca: Saint Apollonia":
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[bible]Matthew 10:34-39[/bible]
[bible]Mark 10:29-31[/bible]
[bible]Mark 13:12-13[/bible]
[bible]Luke 21:16-19[/bible]
[bible]Luke 21:14-15[/bible]
[bible]Luke 18:29-30[/bible]
[bible]James 3:16[/bible]
[bible]2 Timothy 1:7[/bible]
 
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[bible]2 Corinthians 5:5[/bible]

"HE WHO HAS PREPARED US FOR THIS VER THING IS GOD, WHO HAS GIVEN US HIS SPIRIT AS A GUARANTEE." 2 CORINTHIANS 5:5 (RSV)

[BIBLE]2 Corinthians 2:14-16[/bible]

"BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHO IN CHRIST ALWAYS LEADS US IN TRIUMPH, AND THROUGH US SPREADS THE FRAGRANCE OF THE KNOWEDGE OF HIM EVERYWHERE. FOR WE ARE THE AROMA OF CHRIST TO GOD AMONG THOSE WHO ARE BEING SAVED AND AMONG THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, TO ONE A FRANGRANCE FROM DEATH TO DEATH, TO THE OTHER A FRAGRANCE FORM LIFE TO LIFE." 2 CORINTHIANS 2:14-16 RSV
[bible]Ephesians 5:2[/bible]
 
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