![]() ![]() ![]() She did not voyage out and mingle out in the world. After experiencing her visions, she became an anchoress, which means she lived for the rest of her life in a very small cell attached to a Church. And then she meditated on it for twenty years, all before revising that original text into what's known as "the Long Text." Soon after her visions, she wrote what is referred to as the "the Short Text" of her Revelation. At least, in Julian's opinion, likely her illness caused her to have a series of sixteen visions of Jesus. ![]() She was literate.īut when she was just thirty years old, Julian fell deathly ill. Quite an accomplishment, don't you think?Īnd, unlike Margery Kempe-a contemporary of Julian's-Julian received an education. She is commonly credited with being the first known female English writer. Julian of Norwich is considered one of the great mystic writers of the Medieval Period. But Jesus, that in this vision informed me of all that me needeth, answered by this word and said: Sin is behovely, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." (Chapter 27) This stering was mikel to be forsaken, and nevertheless mourning and sorrow I made therfore without reason and discretion. "And methought if sin had not been, we should all have been clean and like to our Lord as He made us and thus, in my folly, before this time often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted for then, thought I, should have been well. ![]()
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![]() The dragon is basically a big, horribly lethal cat whenever he is not airborne. Hambly straight-up says the dragon did something "like a cat" at least five times. ![]()
![]() The mind acquires a development of power”. “When the faculty is acquired - or rather when it is brought into consciousness for it exists in everyone in imperfect form - a new horizon opens. Hinton also promises that when the visualisation is achieved, his cubes can unlock hidden potential. Regardless, the later spelling won acceptance while the early version died with its first appearance. To confuse matters further, by 1904 Hinton was mostly using “tesseract” - I say mostly because the copies of his books I’ve seen aren’t entirely consistent with the spelling, in all likelihood due to a mere oversight in the proof-reading. As is sometimes the case, there seems to be some confusion over the Greek or Latin etymology, and we’ve ended up with a bastardization. ![]() However, in Latin, “tessera” can also mean “cube”, which is a plausible starting point for the new word. ![]() ![]() In Greek, “τεσσάρα”, meaning “four”, transliterates to “tessara” more accurately than “tessera”, and -act likely comes from “ακτίνες” meaning "rays" so Hinton’s use suggests the four rays from each vertex exhibited in a hypercube and neatly encodes the idea “four” into his four-dimensional polytope. He first used it in an 1888 book called A New Era of Thought and initially used the spelling tessaract. The term “tesseract”, still used today, might be Hinton’s most obvious legacy, but the genesis of the word is slightly cloudy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Nutcracker, based on the New York City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is illustrated by Valeria Docampo. I like that it takes a different perspective on the magic and anticipation we feel at Christmastime while still pointing to the reason we celebrate Christ’s birth. However, younger children can certainly engage with this book. It is geared toward children age 4–7, and I think the poetic language does lend itself best to that age bracket. Join every creature as they celebrate the arrival of Jesus!” All of creation comes together in this poetic and majestic telling of the Christmas story. I think the publisher’s description does a great job capturing the essence of this book-" Song of the Stars, written by bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones, takes children on the journey of Advent and the anticipation of Jesus’ arrival. I like the illustrations, and I like that it is a simple but clear story about the importance of Jesus’ birth. He is the new King, the rescuing King, the forever King. It is a retelling of the Christmas story from a very pointed perspective that Jesus is the promised King of the Bible. ![]() The Christmas Promise Storybook: A True Story from the Bible about God’s Forever King by Alison Mitchell is a great addition to any Christmas library. ![]() |