Lady Liberty as Artemis and The Shekhinah
I believe Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist saw the Shekinah while in the Holy of Holies. The Light, that is The Right Hand of God, told Zachariah his wife would bcome pregnant, and her son would be filled with the Holy Spirit of the Light while in Elizabeth’s womb, and the Spirit of the Light would only part from him at the moment of his death.
“It is done!
I believe the Shekinah was identified as Artemis, who was worshipped at Ephesus, where it is alleged Paul came upon them. But, I suspect Paul has already been arrested and is in chains, in a cell, in Rome – where he was tortured! I suspect Timothy was a Roman Priest, and secret agent, who went around the world destroying..The Followers of The Way. Paul is – the fall guy! Did he hang himself in prison?
I have been telling my readers of Royal Rosamond Press I am finding it difficult to retreat from my reporting to finish my books, because so many things – ARE COMING TRUE! With the attack on Disneyworld by Governor DeSantis, and the hidden Christian-right, my Light Hand has been forced. Below are pictures of my Castle and my Rosenburg Family Tree. I have made claim for other castles, and a million acres of land in Africa.
On this day, April 21, 2023, I declare Disney World, and Saint Nicholas, a vital part of the restoration program that the Light Hand of God bids me to begin. With His blessing….I awaken the Sleeping Beauty! I am seeking producers of a television series so I can TELL THE TRUE STORY OF JOHN! It is no mistake that the dark Neo-Confederate forces who took over the party of JOHN Fremont, attack Lady Liberty, and many of the immigrant’s she welcomed to the Land of the Free. This is a coup, a rebellion by The Dark……in order to extinguish The Light!
From my hot light hand!
John ‘The Nazarite’
The Hebrew Bible mentions several places where the presence of God was felt and experienced as a Shekhinah, including the burning bush and the cloud that rested on Mount Sinai. The Shekhinah was often pictured as a cloud or as a pillar of fire and was referred to as the glory of God. The Shekhinah was also understood to be present in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem, and to be seated at the right hand of God.
John the Baptist had an effective and popular ministry which drew the attention not only of the average person but also of Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, Herod Antipas (Roman ruler of Galilee and Perea) and others (John 1:19, 24; Matthew 3:7, Mark 6:16 – 19, etc.). He also drew his share of disciples. The first two people Jesus called to follow him were first followers of the Baptist.
23 At[bx] that time[by] a great disturbance[bz] took place concerning the Way.[ca] 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines[cb] of Artemis,[cc] brought a great deal[cd] of business[ce] to the craftsmen. 25 He gathered[cf] these[cg] together, along with the workmen in similar trades,[ch] and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity[ci] comes from this business. 26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded[cj] and turned away[ck] a large crowd,[cl] not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia,[cm] by saying[cn] that gods made by hands are not gods at all.[co] 27 There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute,[cp] but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis[cq] will be regarded as nothing,[cr] and she whom all the province of Asia[cs] and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness.”[ct]
And in the same way Lady Liberty is one personality with an additional—and distinctly different—characteristic in a specific city, Artemis of the Ephesians was the same and yet a different Artemis from the one found throughout first-century Asia Minor and Greece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekhinah
Capturing Sleeping Beauty At Rosamond Gallery
Posted on June 8, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
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Disney is preparing to take its fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his GOP allies in the state legislature to the next level, according to people familiar with the matter.
With just weeks until Florida’s legislative session ends, Disney is pushing lobbyists to step up their efforts to influence the Republican-controlled state legislature and to target land use related bills that could hurt the company, among other measures, said the people, who declined to be named in order to speak freely about the issues.
A spokesman for Disney declined to comment on the lobbying effort.
The battle between the entertainment giant and DeSantis started last year after Disney opposed the Florida bill that critics named “Don’t Say Gay,” which forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools for kindergarten through third grade.
Then, before DeSantis could strip the district where Disney is based of its self-governing status and replace the board that oversaw the area, a Disney-allied panel signed a long-lasting development agreement that drastically limits the governor’s control. DeSantis has said that state legislators are drafting legislation to nullify that agreement.
Republican officials and business leaders have increasingly criticized DeSantis’ salvos against the company. Former President Donald Trump and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — two of Florida governor’s potential 2024 rivals — and even former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein have all pushed back on DeSantis for his battle with the company.
Republican Florida state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia warned Disney not to fight back, as he stood next to DeSantis at a news conference Monday.
“I have a couple words for Disney. You are not going to win this fight. This governor will,” Ingoglia said. “One word of advice for Disney going forward: Let it go. Just let it go.”
At the same event, DeSantis vowed to nullify an agreement that would allow the Orlando amusement park to circumvent a special governing district board filled with DeSantis appointees.
Shortly after DeSantis’ remarks on Monday, Disney executives called on lobbyists to keep an eye on any Florida bills that could hurt the company and to start aggressively working against them, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. There is a particular interest in combatting legislation related to land use following DeSantis’ remarks, this person said.
This person, who was unauthorized to speak publicly on Disney’s plans, told CNBC that one of the land-related bills Disney lobbyists are watching carefully is CS/SB 1604: Land Use and Development Regulations. Ingoglia introduced the bill in the Senate, and an identical bill was put forward in the state House.
Both chambers have introduced amendments that could affect Disney. The measures would allow a “newly elected or appointed governing body of the independent special district,” such as the DeSantis-appointed governing body of the Disney district, to review any development agreements and have the option to vote on whether that district will readopt that original development deal.
Will Tinabell Merge Disney and Nike?
Posted on December 1, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Two days ago, I noticed Governor Tina Kotek looks like Tinkerbell – grown up! For a couple of months I have been looking for a way to bring Disney to Oregon, and GET Tink away from DeSantis, who doesn’t like women who are – different! Tinkerbelle has pointed ears – and wings! She also owns – a magic wand! How Christian – is that? Is there only one – brand of Magic in the world?. Hey! Wait a minute! The goddess Nike has wings! – and a wand! She carries a little being in her left hand! What the?
Then, I read this article. Note the date....11-21-2022
I could design a Revelations Game, the proceeds going to help the homeless. All these companies that have merged with Disney, can perform a Magic Trick – and remove the homeless from all the streets of America – and house them! This is what – WE ALL WANT! The whole State of Oregon will be…
THE NEW DISNEYLAND
I’m going to find time to learn computer graphics so I can put a pair of glasses on Tink.
John Presco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)
“Since Nov. 21, when Disney revealed the shocking return of Bob Iger as CEO and the ouster of his chosen successor Bob Chapek from the role, the informed speculation rumor mill about the future of the Burbank-based entertainment giant has been in overdrive.
Iger, in a town hall with employees on Nov. 28, dismissed the idea that another megadeal is what’s driving this new era for the executive at Disney. “We have a great set of assets here,” Iger told staffers. “Nothing is forever, but I am very, very comfortable with each of the assets that we have,” he added, and specifically called the idea that Disney could sell out to Apple “pure speculation.”
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That hasn’t stopped Wall Street analysts, investors and longtime Disney observers to note that Iger has built Disney into what it is today with a series of big swing bets — Pixar for $7.4 billion in 2006, Marvel for $4 billion in 2009, Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012 and 21st Century Fox assets for $71.3 billion in 2019 — that have shored up its intellectual property edge among rivals.
As Hollywood is ushered into an era where seemingly unthinkable deals are now discussed as possibilities, here’s a survey on the reasoning for and against those bets.
Disney Sells to Apple
Why it makes sense: Disney+ is growing fast, but that’s been costly. Apple offers a quick fix with troves of cash to fuel Disney’s streaming ambitions. Disney would also gain access to more than a billion Apple devices where its content would be integrated and boosted. In return, the tech giant would acquire Hollywood’s biggest brand to complement Apple TV+, which has struggled to feature enough original content to compete. Plus, Iger has close ties to Apple, sitting on the company’s board from 2011 to 2019. He noted in his autobiography, “I believe that if Steve [Jobs] were still alive, we would have combined our companies, or at least discussed the possibility very seriously.”
Why it doesn’t: Maybe it could make sense. But despite Department of Justice saber-rattling, it’s up in the air whether a sale to Apple would violate antitrust law, as Apple TV+ accounts for a minor share of the streaming market. If there was interest in a deal, the two sides could choose to bide time until a possibly better regulatory environment arrives post-Biden. Apple would also likely have to burn its cash reserves to make a deal happen, which may not be wise considering the recent downturn in the tech sector. Factor in the tech giant’s disinterest in stepping into the theme park business, there may not be enthusiasm for a deal on either side. — Winston Cho
Disney Sells Hulu to Comcast
Why it makes sense: Hulu would likely command a bidding war and high sale price from interested parties and help Disney raise some much-needed cash as the company seeks to cut costs. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has already champed at the bit in public for a Hulu acquisition, making statements describing Hulu as a “phenomenal business” that would trigger a “robust auction” from parties including Comcast if it went for sale. And with the pressure to improve NBCUniversal’s streaming business, where the Peacock streamer has failed to drive subscriptions, parent company Comcast could be willing to pay top dollar.
Why it doesn’t: Disney is already on track to buy out the remainder of Comcast’s 33 percent stake in Hulu by 2024 at a guaranteed sale price that values the streamer at $27.5 billion. Hulu, which has more subscribers than Disney+ in the U.S./Canada, attracts a more adult audience and drives the highest average-revenue-per-user of Disney’s streaming portfolio. As Disney’s streaming losses have grown to $1.5 billion, the company needs all the paying subscribers it can get. — J. Clara Chan
Disney Spins Off ESPN
Why it makes sense: Disney is in the content ownership business. Marvel? Star Wars? Frozen? Disney owns them. But sports? For Disney, sports at ESPN could be considered a rental. And while ESPN generates a ton of cash (Disney’s “linear networks,” including ESPN, had $8.5 billion in profits last year), linear TV is declining. Disney needs to invest in the future, and the future is not an expensive linear TV channel where all the big rights could be poached by a tech giant in a few years.
Why it doesn’t: The world is moving to ad-supported streaming, and sports rules advertising. The audiences are larger, people watch longer, and there are natural ad breaks. If Disney is all in on streaming, sports need to be part of it. And that cash flow? Why not take the profits and funnel them into streaming? And then there’s the allure of sports betting, which is growing fast. Disney may not own the sports, but it does own the ESPN brand, and that brand could be worth a fortune to the right betting partner. — Alex Weprin
Disney Buys Roblox or Epic Games
Why it makes sense: Despite its rich IP, Disney hasn’t found success with any of its in-house gaming efforts (remember Disney Interactive, the gaming division that was responsible for $1.41 billion in losses between 2008 and 2013 and essentially shuttered in 2016?); returning CEO Bob Iger even admitted in 2019 that the company isn’t “particularly good” at self-publishing games. Buying an existing, popular platform could supercharge Disney’s gaming ambitions and drive additional revenue — especially as it seeks expansions into virtual and augmented reality.
Why it doesn’t: Disney doesn’t need to make another expensive buy when it can continue to license its IP out to established gaming companies and developers like Electronic Arts, which is the strategy Iger stuck with at the end of his previous tenure. With Iger back as CEO, making another potentially embarrassing attempt at gaming would be unlikely for an executive focused on burnishing his legacy and finding a suitable successor. And if Disney does want to return to an in-house strategy, the company doesn’t necessarily need a platform like Roblox or Epic Games’ Fortnite. Instead, it could follow the Netflix model and buy smaller game developers to create quality games featuring Disney IP. — J. Clara Chan, Georg Szalai
Disney Merges With Netflix
Why it makes sense: Acquiring Netflix would make Disney the undisputed leader in streaming, giving it access to a wider breadth of content and expanding its worldwide footprint (Disney has been growing its international expansion, while Netflix is already in more than 190 countries). Netflix stock has dropped more than 55 percent in the past year, which may give it a more attractive price point. Plus Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings recently signaled his fondness for Iger, tweeting, “I had been hoping Iger would run for President. He is amazing.”
Why it doesn’t: In 2019, Disney closed a $71 billion deal for Fox assets that brought a vast IP library, but, even then, some thought that then CEO Bob Iger overpaid. With those assets, as well as the Marvel franchise and existing Disney IP, Disney has more than kept up with Netflix in streaming (235 million subscriptions across multiple Disney services; 223 million subscribers for Netflix). Iger may decide Disney does not need more pricey third-party IP to be competitive, especially with Wall Street concerned about Disney’s level of spending on streaming. Iger has already said that he will keep cost-cutting measures in mind, starting with a plan to keep Chapek’s planned hiring freeze in place, which may make an expensive acquisition even less likely. — Caitlin Huston
I Am Bernard Claus
Posted on April 2, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Three months before Obama got elected, I found the Bohemian Bank. Bernie Sanders is suggesting We the People Bank at Post Offices that I suggested be Trading Posts for the Poor and Homeless on Sunday. Who saw him coming, an old white-haired dude with big giveaway ideas?
Above is a photo of me at Eugene OCCIPY drinking a coke. The guy who took this photo gave me my moniker ‘Uncle Sam-a-Claus the Government Give-away Kind of Guy’. I was telling folks to hit them where it hurts by backing Government Charity Programs.
“Seize the Post Offices!” I shouted, to no avail! Everyone was too involved in the Kumbaya moment the organizers had invented, where The Kiddies sat on the floor and learned how to speak Anarchist Kindergarten Speak. Being an original radical and anarchist. I set out on my own. I have been vilified and called insane and dangerous. But, it looks like Bernie has been stealing my candy from my Trick-er-Treat bag.
Uncle Samacalus is watching out after you.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
John and Christine Presco
Posted on April 3, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Linda Woolverton is a award winning writer for Disney studios. She wrote ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and both Alice in Wonderland movies. Lewis Carroll was a good friend of the Rossettis, and took numerous photographs of this gifted family that produced two poets, a artist, and the publisher of a Pre-Raphaelite magazine titled ‘The Germ’. In 1969 I declared myself a New Pre-Raphaelite and considered if my siblings and I might emulate them. Christine heard me, and took up art in 1972. Then there are our muses and models, some of them our children.
http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/lewis-carroll-pre-raphaelites/
According to my aunt Lillian, her father, Royal Rosamond, taught Earle Stanley Gardener the rudiments of writing. In a taped interview Lillian told me she would fall asleep in the Rosamond home in Ventura to the sound of Roy and Earl pecking away on the Royal typewriter. Gardener is the creator of Perry Mason, an old television series about an attorney who never fails to win a case.
According to my mother, Rosemary, Royal used to sail out to the Channel Islands with his friend, Dashiell Hammett, and camp overnight. I found old photographs of my grandmother and Roy camping on one of these islands, and will post them later.
Henry Meade Bland was the Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County ad a friend of Joaquin Miller ‘The Poet of the Sierras’. Miller would come down from his poet and artist’s retreat called ‘The Heights’ and carry my father on his lap as he rode with my grandmother on the trolley to catch a ferry to San Francisco. My German kinfolk owned a orchard in the city of Fruit Vale that later became incorporated into the city of Oakland where I was born. I assume they sold their fruit to the canneries located in what is now called Jingletown, a community of Bohemians and Artists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingletown
Meade wrote a piece about George James in the same edition of Out West magazine that Royal Rosamond’s story ‘Camping on Ananapa’ is found. Below is Meade’s history written by Eugene T. Sawyers who was titled ‘The King of Dime Novelists’. Eugene authored the Nick Carter series. Hammett was titled “The dean of the hard-boiled’ school of detective fiction”. Royal wrote several love stories for early California Romance magazines. Rosamond’s poems are found next to George Sterling’s and Joaquin Millers.
When you remove the extras and the troubles others have brought to the creative endeavors of two abused siblings – who against all odds performed a miracle – then alas the light they shared come forth without cunning and destructive obstructions. Step back from the decaying fray and fraudulent claims, and behold the beautiful women Christine Rosamond Presco, rendered, and the New Pre-Raphaelite Newspaper, John Gregory Presco, has been publishing for twenty years! Royal Rosamond Press is named after my grandfather who self-published stories and poem in his magazine ‘Gem’.
The world wants to know how we did it, a high school drop out, and a single mother raising her daughter on welfare. Our abusive alcoholic parents contributed nothing to our miracle. Instead, they put before us what appeared to be insurmountable obstacles. Then, there are the bad business people who bankrupted this important artistic legacy, and took Garth Benton’s side in the divorce – before Christine mysteriously drowned – and after!
Christine would bless this post on Royal Rosamond Press, verses the ‘The Final Divorce’ that a ghost writer published in order to posthumously blame everything on Rosamond – and her mother, Rosemary, who is in contention for the role of the Evil Queen.
I would love to paint everyone in a wonderful light, but, they will not cease crawling around in the dark trying to manipulate the outcome. After my own daughter disqualified me, in yet another elimination round, I trust no living member of my family. They are unredeemable. However, Belle and her Sleepy Street Urchins, are going to play a big role, and are redeemable, because they wanted to help the Homeless.
Above are three photos of my aunt Bonnie and June Rosamond. They fit with Carroll’s images, one being the demise of Fair Rosamond by Queen Eleanor. Grimm named his Sleeping Beauty ‘Rosamond’. We are the Living Tale.
“Life imitates art.”
http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/lewis-carroll-pre-raphaelites/
Two years ago I received in the mail a book I ordered on E-Bay. I quickly scanned it to see if their were any illustrations or photographs. Then, I found it, what amounts to my personal Holy Grail. Joaquin Miller dedicated his book of poems ‘Songs of The Sun-Land’ to the Rossetti family that includes Gariel, Michael, and, Christine. Gabriel was a artist and poet, Michael, a publisher, and Christine, a poet.
“TO THE ROSSETTIS”
There is controversy over this dedication. Michael is against it. He is critical of Miller’s poems that takes the reader to the Holy Land. Joaquin is describing a personal relationship with the Savior that reminds me of how Bohemians and Hippies would view Jesus, he a Nature Boy of sorts.
Gabriel, who had Joaquin over to his house for dinner, where he met several members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood seems to address his brother’s objections in a letter, and gives a tentative go ahead. He talks about Miller sending him a photograph of himself and bids him to say a word or two at the bottom of it, that does not exist. This photo may be the famous one taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known as Lewis Carrol the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. If Joaquin had glued this portrait to a piece of paper, then we might have seen it on the dedication page.
What is going on here is extremely profound. Miller has exported his vision and lifestyle to the England, where he wrote Song of the Sierras, and now he is importing to America a cultural brand that contains Grail and Arthurian subject matter that was at the epicenter of the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The Rossettis may not have been too happy with Miller attaching himself to their star because the British are very protective of their culture. I wish I could say the same thing about the University of Oregon that is about to tear down homes that were once in the city limits of Fairmount, the city founded by Joaquin’s brother, George Miller.
The homes the Miller brothers lived in are registered and protected as Monuments. There is a Joaquin Miller State Park near Florence that was founded by George who also promoted the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway. There needs to be a Monument for George. I suggest the homes on Columbia Terrace be spared, and this city block declared a National Monument. I have suggested these homes be used to house homeless Vets going to college, but now I see a Free College on this site due to the student loan crisis.
This college will teach alternatives to prospective students of the UofO, such as having parents of students purchase a home in Eugene. In many cases a mortgage is cheaper than rent. Teaching your children how to get a job rather then attend college, will produce more home ownership that the UofO who promises jobs – that don’t exist!
The Miller Brothers were born on a farm near Coburg. They went into the world and achieved much. They are a cultural icon too Oregon and California. On page ten of the prelude, we read;
“By unnamed rivers of the Oregon north’
That roll dark-heaved into turbulent hills,
I have made my home….The Wild heart thrills
With memories fierce, and world storms forth.”
I once read that many college students didn’t know there was a Oregon, and if they did, they didn’t know where it is. The Rossettis more than likely read these words. Did they go to a globe to see where Joaquin and George live?
How many students at the UofO know who the Miller brothers were, and the Brotherhood.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
Maleficent (/məˈlɛfɪsənt/ or /məˈlɪfɪsənt/) is a 2014 American epic dark fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton and starring Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville. Loosely based on Charles Perrault’s original fairy tale, the film is a live-action re-imagining of Walt Disney‘s 1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
Alice Through the Looking Glass is an upcoming American fantasy adventure film directed by James Bobin, written by Linda Woolverton and produced by Tim Burton. It is based on Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll and is the sequel to the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, and Timothy Spall. The film is set to be released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 27, 2016.
Linda Woolverton (born December 19, 1952) is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals. She became the first woman to write an animated feature for Disney by writing the screenplay of Beauty and the Beast,[1] the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards. She also wrote the screenplay of The Lion King, and adapted her own Beauty and the Beast screenplay into the book of the Broadway adaptation of the film, receiving a Tony Award nomination for this.[2]
Her most recent works include the screenplay of Alice in Wonderland, a huge box office success, making her the first and only female screenwriter with a sole writing credit on a billion-dollar film,[3] and the screenplay of Maleficent.
Upon the completion of her master’s degree, she formed her own children’s theater company. She wrote, directed and performed all over California in churches, malls, schools, and local theaters. She also began to work as a coach to children acting in commercials in 1979.[4] In 1980, she began working as a secretary for CBS, where she eventually became a programming executive concentrating on both children’s and late-night programming. During her lunch breaks, Woolverton wrote her first novel, the young-adult Star Wind. Eventually quitting the job in 1984, she began to work as a substitute teacher when she wrote her second novel, the also young-adult Running Before the Wind.[5] Released in 1986 and 1987, respectively, both were published by Houghton Mifflin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Woolverton
In the interim between his early published writing and the success of the Alice books, Dodgson began to move in the pre-Raphaelite social circle. He first met John Ruskin in 1857 and became friendly with him. He developed a close relationship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his family, and also knew William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Arthur Hughes, among other artists. He also knew fairy-tale author George MacDonald well – it was the enthusiastic reception of Alice by the young MacDonald children that convinced him to submit the work for publication.[25][27
He also found photography to be a useful entrée into higher social circles.[53] During the most productive part of his career, he made portraits of notable sitters such as John Everett Millais, Ellen Terry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron, Michael Faraday, Lord Salisbury, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.[27]
Photograph of Annie Rogers and Mary Jackson as Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund, by C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), July 3, 1863
Little girls befriended and photographed by Charles Dodgson (otherwise know as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) included Ellen Terry, who went on to become one of the finest actresses of her generation; Sarah Angelina Acland, who became the most skilled early practitioner of colour photography in its pioneering years, and was awarded honorary fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society for it; Annie Rogers, who became Oxford’s first female don and a leading figure in establishing equality of opportunities for women in higher education; and most famous of all, Alice Liddell, who went on to become … Mrs Hargreaves.
A good few of the victims of his camera grew up to be strong and independently-minded women, and none of them ever needed psychotherapy; though at the age of 80 Mrs Hargreaves confessed to being “tired of being Alice in Wonderland”.
Women’s education was something Lewis Carroll believed in and pressed for, as well as proportional representation and a fairer political voting system …
AVS
The image is of Annie Rogers and Mary Jackson as Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamund, 1863. Carroll sent Annie a copy of the photograph along with this poem:
My dear Annie,
I send you
A picture, which I hope will
B one that you will like to
C. If your Mamma should
D sire one like it, I could
E sily get her one.
Your affectionate friend,
http://fannycornforth.blogspot.com/2015/02/rose-of-world.html
http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll18#nav_top
Born in London, he was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti and his wife Frances Rossetti née Polidori, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti.
He was one of the seven founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, and became the movement’s unofficial organizer and bibliographer. He edited the Brotherhood’s literary magazine The Germ which published four issues in 1850 and wrote the poetry reviews for it.
It was William Michael Rossetti who recorded the aims of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at their founding meeting in September 1848:
- To have genuine ideas to express;
- To study nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;
- To sympathize with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote;
- And most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.
Although Rossetti worked full-time as a civil servant, he maintained a prolific output of criticism and biography across a range of interests from Algernon Swinburne to James McNeill Whistler. He edited the diaries of his maternal uncle John William Polidori (author of The Vampyre and physician to Lord Byron), a comprehensive biography of D. G. Rossetti, and edited the collected works of D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.
Rossetti edited the first British edition of the poetry of Walt Whitman, which was published in 1868; however, this edition was bowdlerized.[1] Anne Gilchrist, who became one of the first to write about Whitman, first read his poetry from Rossetti’s edition, and Rossetti helped initiate their correspondence.[2]
In 1874 he married Lucy Madox Brown, daughter of the painter Ford Madox Brown. They honeymooned in France and Italy. Their first child, Olivia Frances Madox, was born in September 1875, and her birth was celebrated in an ode of Swinburne’s. A son, Gabriel Arthur, was born in February 1877, followed by another daughter, Helen Maria, in November 1879, and twins, Mary Elizabeth and Michael Ford, in April 1881. Their son Michael died in infancy. Rossetti and his wife did not have the children baptized, nor were they raised in a Christian household. The children were schooled at home by their mother and governesses. In 1897, Olivia married an Italian anarchist refugee, Antonio Agresti. They later moved to Italy, where Olivia became a translator and writer. After she was widowed in 1926, she became an associate of Ezra Pound, and the two corresponded frequently.
Gabriel Arthur, known as Arthur to the family, became a scientist, married Dora Lewis, and had several children. Helen became a painter of miniatures, and in 1903 married Gastone Angeli. He was in fragile health and died only a few months later. Helen gave birth to his posthumous daughter, Imogen Lucy, in 1904.
William Michael Rossetti was a major contributor to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; his contributions on artistic subjects were criticised by many reviewers at the time and since, as showing little evidence of having absorbed the mounting body of work by academic art historians, mostly writing in German. Below is a quotation from his article on Fra Angelico demonstrating his literary and art historical style.“The “pietistic” quality of Fra Angelico’s work is in fact its predominant characteristic. The faces of his figures have an air of rapt suavity, devotional fervency and beaming esoteric consciousness, which is intensely attractive to some minds …… the faces becoming sleek and prim, with a smirk of sexless religiosity which hardly eludes the artificial or even the hypocritical; because of this, there are some who are not moved by his work. Even so, Fra Angelico is a notable artist within his sphere,…….”[3]
It was William Michael Rossetti who recorded the aims of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at their founding meeting in September 1848:
- To have genuine ideas to express;
- To study nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;
- To sympathize with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote;
- And most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.
Although Rossetti worked full-time as a civil servant, he maintained a prolific output of criticism and biography across a range of interests from Algernon Swinburne to James McNeill Whistler. He edited the diaries of his maternal uncle John William Polidori (author of The Vampyre and physician to Lord Byron), a comprehensive biography of D. G. Rossetti, and edited the collected works of D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.
Rossetti edited the first British edition of the poetry of Walt Whitman, which was published in 1868; however, this edition was bowdlerized.[1] Anne Gilchrist, who became one of the first to write about Whitman, first read his poetry from Rossetti’s edition, and Rossetti helped initiate their correspondence.[2]
In 1874 he married Lucy Madox Brown, daughter of the painter Ford Madox Brown. They honeymooned in France and Italy. Their first child, Olivia Frances Madox, was born in September 1875, and her birth was celebrated in an ode of Swinburne’s. A son, Gabriel Arthur, was born in February 1877, followed by another daughter, Helen Maria, in November 1879, and twins, Mary Elizabeth and Michael Ford, in April 1881. Their son Michael died in infancy. Rossetti and his wife did not have the children baptized, nor were they raised in a Christian household. The children were schooled at home by their mother and governesses. In 1897, Olivia married an Italian anarchist refugee, Antonio Agresti. They later moved to Italy, where Olivia became a translator and writer. After she was widowed in 1926, she became an associate of Ezra Pound, and the two corresponded frequently.
Gabriel Arthur, known as Arthur to the family, became a scientist, married Dora Lewis, and had several children. Helen became a painter of miniatures, and in 1903 married Gastone Angeli. He was in fragile health and died only a few months later. Helen gave birth to his posthumous daughter, Imogen Lucy, in 1904.
William Michael Rossetti was a major contributor to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; his contributions on artistic subjects were criticised by many reviewers at the time and since, as showing little evidence of having absorbed the mounting body of work by academic art historians, mostly writing in German. Below is a quotation from his article on Fra Angelico demonstrating his literary and art historical style.“The “pietistic” quality of Fra Angelico’s work is in fact its predominant characteristic. The faces of his figures have an air of rapt suavity, devotional fervency and beaming esoteric consciousness, which is intensely attractive to some minds …… the faces becoming sleek and prim, with a smirk of sexless religiosity which hardly eludes the artificial or even the hypocritical; because of this, there are some who are not moved by his work. Even so, Fra Angelico is a notable artist within his sphere,…….”[3]
The Germ (1850) was a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to disseminate their ideas. It was not a success, only surviving for four issues between January and April 1850
The Germ published poetry by William Michael Rossetti (who also edited the magazine) and other members of the Brotherhood, including his brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Woolner and James Collinson. It also printed contributions of verse and essays on art and literature by associates of the Brotherhood, including Ford Madox Brown and Coventry Patmore, as well as occasional book reviews.
Illustrations were provided by members of the brotherhood. Every issue began with an original etching. Hunt provided an illustration to Woolner’s poem My Beautiful Lady in the first issue. Collinson illustrated his own poem The Child Jesus in the second issue. Madox Brown created a two page illustration of the King Lear and his daughters for the third issue, accompanying his article on the mechanics of a history painting. Walter Deverell depicted Viola and Olivia from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the last issue.
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The title The Germ refers to the Pre-Raphaelite belief in the importance of nature (a germ is a seed) and of the human imagination, as implied by the phrase “the germ of an idea”. They hoped that the magazine would be a seed from which new creative ideas would grow. It was subtitled thoughts towards nature in art and literature to emphasise the editors’ belief that poetry and art should be closely intertwined.
In the hope of improving the magazine’s poor sales, it was renamed with the less ambiguous title Art and Poetry, being Thoughts towards Nature, conducted principally by Artists for its final two issues.
| My Lady’s name, when I hear strangers use,Not meaning her, to me sounds lax misuse; I love none but my Lady’s name; Moud, Grace, Rose, Marian, all the same, Are harsh, or blank and tame. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/246/717.html
The name Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive honesty and spirituality in Christian art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of clothing and hair style.
Shekinah In New Mormon Temple
Posted on May 25, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
This afternoon I will be breaking bread with two Mormon Sisters I met in Wal-Mart’s produce section. I told them the secret of what Jesus wrote in the dust.
“Just inside the temple was a slab that was lifted to expose fine dust and shes from the alter sacrafice. This was gather in a bowl and spread on the ground before the Sotah who was being judged for adultery. Jesus wrote the name of God in the dust, gathered it and put it in a goblet with water. He bid the woman to drink – the NAME OF GOD!”
I told the TWO SISTERS that the priests who came to NAME John the Baptist used SIGN LANGUAGE because they served in the Holy of Holies where they prepared to speak THE SECRET NAME OF GOD on the Day of Atonement. I told them the infant John spoke, and may have wrote his name, or…..THE SECRET NAME that had been altered, or…..LOST!
We agreed to meet, and when I awoke the next morning, my angel told me she will dwell in the new Mormon Temple. My angel is……THE SHEKINAH!
I was going for a cucumber while seated in the electric cart, when a young woman blocked my way. She apologized. A voice in back of me, doubled down and were now speaking to me side by side. They were harmonizing. I noticed they were wearing NAME BADGES. They told me they were Mormons.
“You two are speaking in divine stereo. I think you are the TWO PAGES in my painting. I think they are the TWO WITNESSES in the Bible.”
“Which ones?”
“There’s more than one set?”
“Yes!”
Last night I googled Mormons and Shekinah and read again this excellent article by Val Larsen, a Mormon. One of the sisters called me just as I was about to type the first letter of my text message in response to her asking if we could meet. I asked about the New Temple – that will be built very near! Everything came together. I do what I AM told.
I went to the LDS research center in Eugene when I began doing genealogies. Finding the crypt of my Janke-Stuttmeister ancestors, who were Oddfellows, is one of the stepping stones to Completion.
“All’s well, that ends well!”
John ‘The Nazarite’
The new temple planned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Eugene and Springfield now has an official location and name.
The Willamette Valley Oregon Temple, first announced in April, will be built on a 10.5-acre site north of International Way and east of Corporate Way in north Springfield, according to a church news release. It’s located north of PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend.
The temple is planned to be single-story and approximately 30,000 square feet. An artist’s rendering was included in the release, but detailed design plans are still in development, the church said.
A private groundbreaking ceremony will be announced at a later time, according to communication director and temple media liaison Jeff Robinson.
He noted temples usually take two to five years to complete following the initial announcement, depending on the speed of the planning and permitting process.
“Not only will people in Eugene and Springfield benefit from the proximity of this temple, but it will shave off an hour or more of travel time for Latter-Day Saints along the coast and in the Cascades,” Robinson said in an email Sunday.
Springfield’s temple will be the third in Oregon, joining existing ones in Portland and Medford.
“Based on other existing temples, including those in Portland and Medford, the Eugene temple will ultimately exceed our community’s expectations in terms of beauty, thoughtfulness and contribution to the surrounding neighborhood,” Robinson said in April.
The temple was one of 20 announced for cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico and the Americas by church President Russell M. Nelson at the church’s general conference in April.https://www.usatodaynetworkservice.com/tangstatic/html/nreg/sf-q1a2z3be0d353f.min.html
“We want to bring the house of the Lord even closer to our members that they may have the sacred privilege of attending the temple as often as their circumstances allow,” Nelson said at the conference in Salt Lake City.
For the church, widely known as the Mormon church, temples are the most sacred places of worship, typically open only to members and reserved for special ceremonies such as marriages. Smaller, less ornate meeting houses, also called chapels, are used for regular Sunday services and community activities.
There are nearly 154,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Oregon, along with roughly 300 congregations, according to the initial church release.
The first Oregon church settlements began with the arrival of Latter-day Saint businessmen in 1887, according to the church website. They then built a lumber mill on the North Powder River before persuading several hundred families to move to Oregon.
Larsen, Val | Book of Mormon Central
SquareTwo Article Larsen-Heavenly Mother
“Heavenly Mother is prominently present in scripture. She plays all the roles we would expect a divine mother to play. While her presence has been obscured by the loss of plain and precious parts of original texts, her extensive involvement in the lives of her children is nevertheless still apparent if the scriptures are closely read with attention to symbols and surrogates. As the modern Zeitgeist impels us to look for the feminine divine in the scriptural canon, voices speaking from the dust—especially the Book of Mormon—providentially give us background information necessary to find our divine Mother hidden in plain view.”
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Belmont Legacy of Carl Janke
Posted on September 11, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
Months after my sister’s death I went to the Sacramento Library and looked at microfish about a legal battle between the heirs of Carl Janke’s estate in Belmont that appeared in the San Francisco Call.
Stuttmeister-Janke Wedding at Ralston Hall | Rosamond Press
The Rise of The Two Witnesses
Posted on January 22, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
With the light apparition in my painting ‘The Guardians of The Voice’ I have been led to look at the Two Witnesses in Revelations who may have been the men in white at Jesus’ tomb. Owning a near-death experience, I will go into a realm few can follow.
Seer John
Calling All Nazarite Angels
Posted on October 8, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Five days ago, I sent my daughter and her unborn child a photograph of what I believe is an angel hovering over the head of Mary Dominica who is Mary Magdalene Rosamond’ cousin. None of the women on Heather’s empowerment group, responded, this is because they are witch-base. I am fighting off witches that hover over my unborn grandchild. Kim Haffner is one of them. I suspect she has been sending pregnant Heather – poison!
I was born this day to Rosemary Rita Rosamond. None of the witches honor my mother and Heather’s grandmother. They are frauds. Many women’s empowerment groups honor the grandmother.
John
Stuttmeister Married at Famous Lutheran Church
Posted on July 10, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Mary Magdalene of Briar Cliff
Posted on September 24, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
The hungry consume his harvest,
taking it even from among thorns,
Job 5
Blue Angel
Posted on April 25, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Before I died, I told my friend Keith; “There an angel hovering over us!” I was lying in the sand, writing in pain. All of a sudden, the pain was gone.
I awoke from my nap a 3:00 P.M. Turned over, and beheld the Beautiful Shekinah I captured in my painting I did in 1976.
The name of my movie is ‘Blue Angel’. Sometimes events are so catastrophic, that our human ability to grasp the terror, is overwhelming, We own empathy for the victims of the Paradise fire. We seek solutions for how it could have been prevented. I go to other end of the spectrum, and find a cool blue light going from place to place in the inferno offering sanctuary, and a way out.
Two dear friends lived in Paradise. The mother died ten years ago, and her daughter moved away. I own visions of a divine fire, and angel who gave me new life.
To all those seniors who looked forward to a better end….come into the light.
John Presco
Bonds With The Blue Angel
Posted on April 25, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
In 1988 I had a Rose Reading. The woman reader saw me sitting on a hill looking down on these children on a playground.
“You were trying to heal them all.”
When I met my neighbor, Sandra, and when she told me she lived in the orphanage I would go by when I took a walk in the Oakland Hills, I saw what the Seer saw. I used to take a rest at the orphanage, and meditate on their, and my fate. There was always talk about the four Presco children being put in a orphanage.
I almost died of Whooping cough when I was eleven. I was sent to LA to visit my relative and came down with this rare illness. My aunt Lillian told me about the time I came outside looking for her and Uncle Dick. I was blue, and my finger contorted. Dick put me upside down on his knee and pounded on my back to get the flem out. This is when I began to see white auras around my kindred.
Above I am placing an angel coin in the tomb of my ancestor. It was given to me by a sister in recovery to honor my sister Christine. I wanted her sobriety to be out of reach of the parasites who were sold our Family Recovery.
John ‘The Seer’
Bonding With A Blue Angel
Posted on May 9, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
Bonding With A Blue Angel
by
Jon Gregory Presco
Copyright 1993
I and my three siblings have been cursed, and blessed. Within a hundred yards of our front door on San Sebastian Avenue, lived three Hags, old Crones of renown – and ill repute! Up the street, on Hollywood, lived Ms. Smith and Kay Coakley. To get to Mrs. Smith’s front door, one traversed a veritable Fairyland. Her yard was over-grown. At one time it was a showcase. But now the rose bushes meandered into the fruit trees. Everywhere was a bouquet of runaway flowers, that were once maintained and well-behaved. Now, they go and grow wherever they want to, they seemingly suspended in midair, clinging to vines to get the best sunlight. In the center of this maze was a bronze sundial on a marble pillar. We stopped here before we knocked on the big oaken door.
Bonds With Angels – The Arrest of Jesus
Posted on June 14, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Bond’s With Angels
by
John Presco
Copyright 2019
Chapter One The Arrest of Jesus
Why was Jesus arrested? Why was John the Baptist arrested? Above is a painting of their parents, Elizabeth and Mary. Do they own a clue their sons are about to be arrested for crimes, and be judged – like criminals?
This book has no intention of giving my reader – more religious bliss! This book is not a drug. Alas, I own powerful evidence of what Jesus did – that he knew was breaking the law. Yes, he knew there was a good chance he would be arrested. Therefor, he bid people who witnessed these criminal offences – not to tell anyone! Jesus was guilty of a cover-up.
Motive! Is there a motive for this lawlessness? Yes! And because their exist motive, for the first time in Christian History, I have proof there was a Historic Jesus! Many Biblical Scholars have published much doubt Jesus – was real!
The Resurrection of the Two Witnesses
In the previous article we saw God’s two anointed witnesses: the Word of God and the Spirit of God, be totally disrespected by the spirit of hypocrisy. This type of total disrespect will kill the ability of any true conviction upon sinners. Consequently sinners will have no fear to become religious hypocrites who call themselves “Christian”.
But now we see that God ended this day of hypocritical darkness. Spiritually this period of time of disrespect towards the Word and the Spirit lasted three and a half days. But now the day of God’s wrath and judgement upon hypocrisy had come!
“And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.” ~ Revelation 11:11
This event parallels the opening of the sixth seal, shown earlier in Revelation 6:12-17 where the final part reads:
“For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” ~ Revelation 6:17
So how did it happen that the two witnesses were brought to life in the hearts of people?
First a true ministry stood up and began to declare the full truth of the gospel: including the message that there is still only one church! Their message declared an end to hypocrisy and an end to man rule in the church. The spiritual New Jerusalem was preached with walls of salvation. And the gates of righteous judgement were established to keep hypocrisy out. Within this city is only sin-free holiness because of the very presence of Almighty God in their midst.
People began to repent of their separate Protestant and Catholic identities at the call:
“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:2-4
As people came out, a spiritual cloud of witnesses was formed (see Hebrews 12:1) and the two anointed witnesses began to be highly honored and to rise above the confusion of spiritual Sodom and Egypt (see Revelation 11:8) where they had been left dead.
“And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.” ~ Revelation 11:12
This is exactly what Jesus told the hypocritical Chief Priest (one of his enemies) before his crucifixion.
“…Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.” ~ Matthew 26:64
The cloud of witnesses is referred to in a number of places in scripture. Also in many places in scripture the witness of God’s mighty power is often shown within the context of powerful storm clouds.
It is all showing the difference it makes when God’s Word is fully respected and obeyed, and his Holy Spirit is powerfully working true righteousness among his people.
The Oak of Meher Mont
Posted on December 10, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
I posted this in 2009.
“When I awoke yesterday morning, my Angel bid me restore the Shekinah. The day before I had read a theory put forth by Fridrich von Suhtscheck that the story of Parzival is based upon the Song of the Pearl, or, the Hymn of the Pearl, or, the Hymn of Judas Thomas who was born of royal Parthian parents. For the reason Meher Baba was born of a Parthian father, I looked at Sulphur Mountain above Ventura as the new home of the Shekinah, or, the Rosa Mystica.
There is a rose garden atop Sulpher Mountain. Those who wish to connect with the Shekinah on Santa Rosa can see the Channel Islands from Meher (Mithra) Baba’s retreat. Anyone who seeks the light of God and the Rosa Mystica are forbidden to set foot on Santa Rosa Island until the end of the world.”
Jon
Jai Baba!
Update #7 from Sam Ervin
Yesterday, Dec. 8, Buzz and Ginger, Manager/Caretakers, were again at Meher Mount. They learned a lot more about the aftermath of the fire, and the news is troubling and leaves us with considerable uncertainty. I’ll combine the latest news with much of the report from update #6 to give a more complete picture of what we have learned. The “Thomas Fire”, named after St. Thomas Aquinas College because it started near there, has been raging across Ventura County since Monday, Dec. 4, and is still not nearly contained, having burned more than 100,000 acres. It has been driven by winds up to 80 MPH and extremely low humidity. In its first few days it burned the entire area, rural and wilderness, between the towns of Ojai, Santa Paula and Ventura, including all of Sulphur Mountain, where Meher Mount is located. Fire fighters played a role in saving some structures, as did effective weed and fire hazard abatement, as Buzz and Ginger did at Meher Mount.
Latest Summary:
We won’t know how damaged the water system is until we get power back, which Edison estimates could take 1-3 months. Water from the well will not be available until power is back on. Therefore we may not be able to open Meher Mount for an extended period. The electrical control box at the well is damaged and likely will need to be replaced, the pipe coming from the well is burned and broken, we have quite a bit of melted PVC pipe which needs to be assessed and replaced as needed, both at the well and at the water treatment site. Power lines are down, the poles burned, and fallen trees lie across some of the lines. There may be other damage we have not yet seen. Meanwhile, federal officials are taking over tomorrow from locals to manage access to the entire burned area, so we don’t know if even residents will be able to get to their homesites. I was hoping to go up on Sunday, but they may not allow it. Of course they are concerned about looters.
Baba’s Tree:
The part of Baba’s Tree that fell and burned was still smoldering on Dec. 8. B&G believe the largest and tallest part of the tree was knocked over by the 80 MPH winds, fell to the ground and then burned in the fire that came up the slope from the South. Buzz thinks the remainder of the tree may survive, though it will be considerably shorter and smaller. He said the part that fell was hollow inside for something like fifteen feet above the hollow at the base, and that it may have been a blessing it happened when no one was under the tree, as it clearly was quite weakened. This tree survived the New Life Fire in 1985, 32 years ago, so it is a survivor. It is Baba’s Tree, so we will see what He has in mind.
Buildings:
Fire came right to the two main buildings, the Visitor Center and the Workshop/patio. A small part of the wooden verandah trellis at the Visitor Center was burned and fell off. The rest of the building was not burned, but hot ash had been blown under the doors, and Buzz considered it a minor miracle the curtains did not catch fire and the part of the trellis that burned fell to the ground so the fire did not spread further into the trellis and house. The two main buildings are basically intact, as are their contents, the tractor, etc. They were very smoky inside.
Other:
• They had to walk down the canyon to the wellhead because of many fallen and burned trees blocking the road. The electrical panel at the well, which was new in 2016, and the wires and PVC pipes will need to be repaired or replaced once power is restored to the mountain and down to the well.
• The wooden fence at the entry gate was burned, so the place is less secure than before the fire.
• The water treatment system by the pool appeared relatively intact, though some PVC pipes had melted holes and the ozonator was burned.
• The large outdoor propane tank was charred underneath but intact and still 75% full.
• The Fire fighters had clearly been there, as there was a ladder against the house and the entry gate had been removed from its hinges.
• It’s clear the fire visited nearly every part of the upper section of the property they saw, and they were amazed at how the fireline seemed to stop at critical points. The huge eucalyptus burned, as did other trees. There remain some hot spots on the property, but Buzz feels they are far enough away not to threaten the structures.
• Though the damage appears less than it might have been, a lot of cleanup and repair will be needed, and volunteers will be appreciated, recognizing it may be some time before we get access to the property. Thank you to those who have already offered to help when the time is right.
• Buzz noted that while the whole place is covered with gray ash, there is a beauty to the wooded areas of oak forest where all the underbrush has been burned away.
Buzz and Ginger drove back to Santa Barbara, though they say the smoke is so bad there they are thinking of moving even farther away. They had to show a drivers license with an Upper Ojai address to get access. They were told the federal agents will take over management of access today.
I will plan to drive up to view the property when access is allowed for non-residents and we’ll begin to develop an action plan.
Meher Mount came through this crisis much better than it might have, and this is due in no small part to Buzz and Ginger’s outstanding fire hazard and weed abatement, which was also praised by the Fire Dept. Also, until all hot spots have been eliminated, there will continue to be risk of further damage.
Thank you all for your concern and support through this sudden and for many, devastating, firestorm. We will continue to let you know about what we learn over the next couple of weeks and how you might be able to help.
Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai!
photos by Buzz and Ginger Glasky
The Shekinah of Rose and Cross
Posted on November 18, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
I posted this 2009. I had a real vision of things to come. This vision lost me my family and friends. The news tonight showed the peril of the Syrian refugees fleeing to the island of Lesbos while Red State leaders of the Selfish Jesus, tear down the Statue of Liberty, after snuffing out her light. They do not care if the world saw them do this, because they believe their Savior just came for them. But, I send to all, the Compassionate Shekinah!
Jon ‘The Nazarite’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekhinah
http://www.crystalinks.com/shekinah.html
“who, at the beginning of the Israelites’ settlement in the land of Canaan, was often referred to as Yahweh’s Consort.
The literature also calls her the “Holy Spirit” which, in Hebrew, is also a feminine form. The feminine nature of the Shekhina is so easy to establish in Hebrew, because the gender of the subject plays an important role in the sentence structure.
In English, you can say “The Glorious Shekhina returned to bless us” without mentioning gender.
In Hebrew, both verbs and adjectives have a male or female forms, and many names suggest gender to anyone who understands the language. The simple sentence above indicates three times that the Shekhina is female, and the fact sinks easily into the consciousness of the reader.
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