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Does Anybody know what this is on the Tour de Magdela
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When you go up the spiral steps and open the door for the view
there looks to be a pillar of sorts with a triangle on top and the
Trinity or triquetra
the three goddesses...
or Father Son and Holy Ghost
The triquetra is often found in Insular art, most notably metal work and in illuminated manuscripts like the Book of Kells
The windows have the three leaf clover
clover is one of the main nectar sources for honeybees.
It makes sense there is a triangle connected to the shamrock or clover it is three in one
The Druids and Pagans used the shamrock as well the fleur de lis with France
It is very Celtic
This symbol is on the roof top of Roslyn Chapel there is a pillar or steeple with a pointed top
on the roof of Rosslyn Chapel ...it reflects the clubs in the deck of card
the number three
I wrote an article on what I found on the roof tops of Rosslyn
this structure at the Tour of Magdala has windows with the clover/clubsymbol
The Clubs have aconnection to the fleur de lis
which is a major symbol for the Acadians also with the French
Clovis the Merovingian took it as his symbol
Clover...Clovis
The triquetra are the borromean rings mentioned before  The clover symbolizes the three rings of the Lord - Demiurge  The spiraled stair symbolizes W time axis , at the end-top you got the three ring of fire. The galaxy is alive, all living systems reproduce through the sexual fire, in the microcosmos and also the macrocosmos.  Spirals 9-6 cyrcling the vesica pisics The motto of the Church of Scotland is Nec tamen consumebatur - Latin for Yet it was not consumed Furthermore, recent medical evidence indicates that with each and every ejaculation men suffer a significant loss of zinc, a rare but vital trace element. Frequent ejaculation thus results in a chronic, critical deficiency of zinc, symptoms of which include loss of memory, mental confusion, paranoia and hypersensitivity to sunlight. These facts seem to verify the 'old wives tale' that excessive male masturbation addles the mind, weakens the spine and leads to blindness. What do we use to treat the prostate ? Pumpkins glowing Halloween seeds  Ritual sex magic is based on the interdimensional sexual singularity fire  Hierosgamos fermentation ritual The virtual fleur the lis comes out from the middle spirals of rhombic dodecahedron hypercube diagram, reason why it's said to be a phallic symbol. Lis - Lisard key, the Mona Lisa, Mon -moon 1 singularity plus the lizard key - reptilian rhombic singularity key  Monad From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philosophy Monad (philosophy) a term meaning "unit" used variously by ancient philosophers from the Pythagoreans to Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus to signify a variety of entities from a genus to God. Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism Monadology, a book of philosophy by Gottfried Leibniz in which monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality Monadologia Physica by Immanuel Kant The Cup or Monad, a text in the Corpus Hermetica Mystery noun, plural -ter·ies. 1. anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature. 2. any affair, thing, or person that presents features or qualities so obscure as to arouse curiosity or speculation: The masked guest is an absolute mystery to everyone. 3. a novel, short story, play, or film whose plot involves a crime or other event that remains puzzlingly unsettled until the very end: a mystery by Agatha Christie. 4. obscure, puzzling, or mysterious quality or character: the mystery of Mona Lisa's smile. 5. any truth that is unknowable except by divine revelation. MON-KEYS MOON ON MON-DAY MON = 1 = SINGULARITY MONA LISA SHOWS 9 FINGERS - GODDES 9 CLOCKWISE SPIRAL DOMAIN CODE MON -A - QUARIUS - SINGULARITY LISA - LIZARD - ROMBIC SKIN SINGULARITY   
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…But what is the EXACT Location of the Balmoral Pyramid?
So where is the pyramid in Scotland? The location of the Scottish Pyramid is 57°01’33.8″N 3°13’16.6″W. You couldn’t get any more EXACT than that!
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…But what is the EXACT Location of the Balmoral Pyramid?
So where is the pyramid in Scotland? The location of the Scottish Pyramid is 57°01’33.8″N 3°13’16.6″W. You couldn’t get any more EXACT than that!
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James Watt and the sabbath stroll that created the industrial revolution
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On a spring Sunday in May 250 years ago, the Scottish engineer had a stroke of mechanical inspiration – and changed the world
Fri 29 May 2015 15.48 BST
Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, a young Scottish engineer took a Sunday walk across Glasgow Green – and changed the world. Thanks to the idea dreamed up by James Watt that Sunday in May 1765, human beings became masters of power generation and so transformed our planet.
At the time, Watt was merely fixated with the problems posed by the primitive and inefficient steam engines that were then being used to pump water from mines, and had already made several futile attempts to improve them. Then, on his Sunday walk, the idea for a new device – which he later called the separate condenser – popped into his mind.
It was a notion that would have stunning consequences. The separate condenser changed the steam engine from a crude and inefficient machine into one that became the mainstay of the industrial revolution. Britain was transformed from an agricultural country into a nation of manufacturers.
Today, many scientists believe the processes unleashed by Watt have begun to alter the physical makeup of our planet. After two-and-a-half centuries of spewing out carbon dioxide from plants and factories built in the wake of his condenser’s invention, the atmosphere and crust of the Earth are beginning to be transformed. Watt truly changed the world, it seems.
Indeed, that walk on Glasgow Green remains “one of the best recorded, and most repeated, eureka moments since Archimedes leaped out of his bathtub”, according to William Rosen in his book The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention, published in 2010.
In 1765, Watt – then an instrument-maker based at Glasgow University – was working on a Newcomen pump, a state-of-the-art device in which steam pushed a piston through a cylinder. Water was then sprayed into the cylinder, cooling it and causing the steam to condense, creating a vacuum behind the piston that sucked it back into its original position. More steam was pumped in and the piston was pushed forward again.
It was a very powerful process but also a very inefficient one. Constantly heating and then cooling the engine’s huge cylinder required huge amounts of heat and coal. Steam engines like these had only limited usefulness.
Then Watt set off on his walk. When he was halfway across the green, the idea of a separate condenser came into his mind. Such a device would, he realised, create a vacuum that would help suck in the engine’s piston but still allow its main cylinder to operate at a constant temperature. “I had not walked further than the golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind,” he later recalled.
The earliest known portrait of James Watt, painted by Carl Fredrik von Breda in 1792. Photograph: SSPL via Getty Images
Watt would have gone to work straight away but was constrained by the dictates of the Scottish sabbath. He quickly made a model of his device, nevertheless, and this is now displayed in the Science Museum in London. Four years later, he patented the condenser – and triggered the industrial revolution.
“Watt’s condenser tripled the efficiency of the steam engine and that meant that mill or mine owners got three times more mechanical work for every tonne of coal they had to buy,” says Colin McInnes, professor of engineering science at Glasgow University. “It meant that Britain’s coal stocks had been effectively trebled. He made a tremendous difference to the rate at which industry spread through Britain and subsequently the rest of the world.”
Until Watt, human enterprise was constrained by the process of photosynthesis, says McInnes. “In other words, we had to rely on natural living sources for the power we needed to run our factories or plants: fast-flowing water or horses or burning wood. By making the steam efficient, Watt changed all that. He gave us the means to exploit energy-dense fossil fuels in an effective manner. It changed the world and ended the era of renewable energy.”
This point is backed up by Ben Russell, curator of mechanical engineering at the Science Museum, and author of James Watt: Making the World Anew, published last year. “Before Watt, industry had to rely on water power, and there was a strict limit to the number of factories you could build on the banks of fast-flowing rivers,” he says.
“After Watt invented the separate condenser, you could build highly efficient factories almost anywhere you wanted. It made it possible to build plants that were driven by cheap, relatively easy sources: coal and steam. The cotton industry was transformed. So was brewing. And mining. Watt brought wide acceptance of steam as a power source.”
Within a few decades of Watt’s breakthrough, networks of factories and mines, linked by railways, were spreading across the country, triggering a national frenzy for fossil fuels that has since become a global obsession. Steam power no longer dominates global industry but our reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas still lingers – with growing impacts on the planet.
Indeed, the Nobel-prizewinning chemist Paul Crutzen now argues that the greenhouse gases produced by burning fossil fuels have brought about such profound changes that we must accept the world has entered a new epoch. He calls it the “anthropocene”.
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According to Crutzen and many other scientists, the planet is no longer being shaped primarily by natural processes but by ones set loose by human beings. We are raising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, scarring the planet’s surface in our search for coal and metals, cutting down forests to make way for factories and homes, and acidifying the oceans. Humans have become planet changers.
As to the event that triggered this onslaught, there are few better candidates than Watt’s stroll across Glasgow Green 250 years ago – though for such a momentous event, it is still afforded remarkably little recognition.
Indeed, it was only relatively recently, in the 1980s, that Glasgow’s councillors decided to install a small boulder in what is Glasgow’s oldest park, with a simple inscription: “Near this spot in 1765, James Watt conceived the idea for the separate condenser for the steam engine.”
By contrast, a few metres away, a 40-metre obelisk dedicated to Horatio Nelson was erected in 1806, only a year after his death at Trafalgar. Thus a remote battle was celebrated with a grandiose monument while an invention that gave birth to the industrial revolution and changed the world had to wait almost two centuries for recognition – in the form of a small stone.
On the other hand, Watt’s striking achievement will be recognised on 5 June, when Glasgow University stages a seminar, The Invention that Changed the World, focusing on Watt and his revolutionary separate condenser, as part of the Glasgow Science Festival.
“Watt was a real product of the enlightenment,” says the seminar’s organiser Lesley Richmond, deputy director of Glasgow University’s archives. “He was self taught, yet went on to work at Glasgow University at a time when Adam Smith and Joseph Black were teaching there.
“He was far more than just the inventor of the separate condenser, though that was the device that was to have the greatest impact. He also invented a machine for copying documents, for example – an early photocopier, in effect.
“And there is so much we can still learn about him. Many of his devices and papers have still to be properly archived and studied. In 2019, we will mark the bicentenary of Watt’s death. By then, we want to have all his work in digital form. Then we will get a real chance to appreciate his fantastic achievements.”
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HOLY GRAIL IN NOVA SCOTIA: AN INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT YOU’VE NEVER LEARNED IN HISTORY CLASS
By: Andrew Rafuse
Among historians there is a form of professional ignorance that immediately works to discount any new theories, new information which could change our views of modern civilization. This essay will explore one of these issues.
Who was the first European in Nova Scotia? Where was the first settlement? Why were they here? This essay will seek to answer these questions and provide supporting evidence to back up the claims made in this paper.
The Holy Grail is arguably one of the most prized religious items in the world. There has been debate among scholars for centuries as to what exactly the Holy Grail is. The generally accepted theory is that the Grail is the chalice that Christ drank from at the last supper, and the chalice used to collect his blood during the crucifixion. Another theory that has been gaining popularity recently is that the Grail is actually the bloodline of Jesus Christ, his descendants. A Biblical scholar who felt that Mary Magdalene was Christ’s wife first proposed this theory. (Bradley, P. 17)
If we look at the most powerful families in the world we soon see a trend. They are, albeit distantly, related. The Rockafeller family can trace their lineage back to the Steward family. The Stewards can trace their family bloodlines back further to early Romano-Celtic rulers, who could trace their lineage to the “Holy Grail” and through this woman to Joseph of Arimathaea. If we are to believe that the Secret of the Holy Grail is that it was in fact a woman, the next direct descendant of Christ than these families can trace themselves directly back to him through the Grail.
After Christ was crucified the care of the Grail was given to Joseph of Arimathaea; he travelled west to the British Isles, arriving and settling in the area of Glastonbury. Evidence shows that he stayed there for several years. To further Substantiate this claim, in Glastonbury there is a tree, known as the “Glastonbury Thorn” the only known area where this tree grows is in the Middle East, near where Christ was crucified. The Legend of this tree is that when Joseph of Arimathaea arrived in Glastonbury, he stuck his walking staff in the ground. This rooted and became known as the Glastonbury Thorn, which was chopped down in the 1600s by a Puritan fanatic. (Bradley, P. 26)
In looking at the legend of the Holy Grail we cannot ignore role of Arthur in this legend. Evidence will prove that King Arthur did exist, and that there were in fact Knights of the Round Table. When looking at this one must be weary, and sift through the tales of magic and dragons to find the actual truth; this is a somewhat difficult task due to the nature of many of these tales.
What is known about Arthur is that he lived between 470 and 550 CE. A wound received at the Battle of Camlann in 542 left him crippled. After the battle he was taken to Glastonbury (then known as the Island of Avalon) to heal. Exactly how long Arthur lived after Camlann is unknown but some Welsh stories have him living on for a few more years as the crippled Fisher King of or near the Grail Castle.
The title of King was something which Arthur never received; he was however a military commander who was responsible for protecting the border between England and Scotland as well as portions of the English coastline from invasion. It is a myth that Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were the Guardians of the Holy Grail. It is known that during times of peace in Britain Arthur’s Knights would get bored and restless. As a way to alleviate this boredom Arthur sent his knights on quests to find the Holy Grail. These quests became little more than an excuse for the knights to plunder, rape and pillage. (Boyles, Livingston)
Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the first known legend written about “King” Arthur. He said the there were only a small number of Knights under Arthur’s command. This may be due in part to a mistranslation of the word “rotunda”. This is a roman word that means roughly, a large round building. Geoffrey may have miss-interpreted this when he was writing his story and thought that it meant a round table. Historical evidence will show that at times there were over 6000 Knights of the “Round Table”. (Bradley, P. 33)
These are the known facts about Arthur, as you can see his actual relevance to the Holy Grail is negligible. He was included in this essay to show his legendary connection to the Grail and to illustrate that his actual contribution was small.
The groups of people known as the Knights Templar may have had the most impact on the legend of the Holy Grail. This order began at the end of the first crusade with the mandate to protect pilgrims on their way from Europe to the holy land. The first Templar knights were poor, relying on alms from travellers to survive. The Order very quickly gained power in Europe as well as in the Holy Land. They changed their mandate slightly to include the protection and in some cases finding of holy relics such as the Shroud of Turin, Arc of the Covenant, and the Holy Grail.
Over the two hundred year life span of the Knights Templar they gained power in Europe on a massive scale, being exempt from all powers save that of the Pope himself. (Who Were the Knights Templar?)
Due to the immense power and wealth held by the Knights Templar they were feared and hated by almost all of the kingdoms of Europe; this would ultimately lead to their downfall. The king of France, Philip IV began making accusations against the Templars. They were subsequently arrested and tortured. Many of the knights confessed, through the use of torture, to things such as trampling and spitting on the cross, homosexuality and acts of sodomy and worshipping of the Baphomet, an alleged false idle (further research would later prove that this was in fact the Shroud of Turin.) (Griffin)
In 1307 the Pope Clement V, issued the Vox In Exelsco. This document officially disbanded the order or the Knights Templar and ordered them all to be arrested and tried for heresy. Shortly after there was another bull issued by the Pope, the Ad Providum, which passed all property and assets controlled by the Knights Templar to their rivals, The Knights of the Hospital (Pope of The Templar Era)
A portion of the Templar fleet set sail for Portugal, where, they simply took on new names. The rest set sail north to Scotland. Where the Scottish independence movement gave them an ideal cover.
At the time the most powerful family in Scotland was the Sinclairs, who’s land provided a perfect hiding place for the fleet of the Knights Templar. The knights established a fortress in Rosslin, Scotland to house their remaining treasures; including the Holy Grail. The Knights Templar would soon be able to repay the kindness of the Scottish people by fighting alongside them at the of Bannockburn and other battles for Scottish independence. (Prince Henry Sinclair)
The Templars lived in Scotland for many years without fear that their secret would be discovered or threatened. This time of comfort came to an end as the English began pushing north back into Scotland. This push made the Templars uneasy and they began to look for a way to move their precious relics out of Scotland. This escape came in the 1390s in the form of a man named Henry Sinclair. Sinclair had employed Antonio and Nicolo Zeno, expert mapmakers and navigators to help him sail west on a voyage of exploration. (Cummings)
Sinclair arrived in what is now Nova Scotia in 1398, he then sailed around the southern tip of the province and to New England. While in Nova Scotia it is thought that Sinclair established at least one settlement. Was this settlement where the new haven for the Knights Templar?
The site of the settlement is in central Nova Scotia, just south of the area known as “The Cross” or the crossroads in New Ross. The ruins were built in a style of architecture known as rubblework, which involved piling pieces of oddly shaped stone together so they lock together in a way and form a wall; after this was done than mortar may have been added. This type of architecture was consistent with fourteenth century Celtic architecture.
One of the mysteries of the site that has baffled scientists and historians for years is the “Holy” well within the walls of the ruined castle. This well has never run dry, even though it is on a hill and even when other wells in the area are completely dry. The New Ross fire department has this well on record as an inexhaustible water supply. Another curiosity about this well is the condition of the water. Deposits of heavy metals in the ground of New Ross causes the water to be very hard and have extremely high counts of heavy metals (ie lead, uranium). The water from this well is completely free of such metals; in fact it has the lowest count of metallic particles in the area.
Small-scale digs on the site reveal several artefacts from fourteenth century Scotland; including a piece of a sword blade, a dagger blade and several farming implements. It should be noted that this has only been placed from this time period by the assessments of historians; there has never actually been any scientific tests on the items to prove their origins.
If we look at the site on a larger scale we begin to see the significance of the area where the castle is located. It is in central Nova Scotia, near two rivers, the Gaspereau and the Gold. These rivers both flow from the same source but once they pass through New Ross they divide, the Gaspereau flows north and empties into the Bay of Fundy, while the Gold river flows south and empties into Mahone Bay. This made finding the site simple, if you knew what you were looking for.
Medieval navigation was less than advanced. It was nearly impossible for navigators to find their position on an east-west plane, however they could determine where they were based on north-south. Because of this the preferred and most efficient form of navigation was to sail directly north or south until you were at the same latitude as the end location and then sail east or west from there. This would often place the navigator within about 200 miles of their desired destination. In the case of Nova Scotia, a completely unpopulated (at least by Europeans) land, there were no towns or ports that could be used as reference for location.
Both Rivers emptied into bays that were on the same latitude, this made it confusing and almost impossible for navigators to distinguish between eh two. The Gold River empties into Mahone bay, near Oak Island; while the Gaspereau River empties into the Bay of Fundy, near and island- Oak Island.
If we look more closely at these islands we start to see some startling similarities; the Gaspereau Oak Island was part of a land reclamation project during the 1930s and is now a peninsula. However, the comparisons are still relevant.
Both islands are at the mouths of the rivers leading to the castle in New Ross. When you are sailing toward the islands the river is to the right of the island. Oak trees, something that doesn’t happen on any other island, populate both of the islands. The reason why they are not found anywhere else is simply, acorns don’t float. Were these islands markers that a navigator would use to find the castle?
Upon further exploration of the Oak Island in Mahone Bay one will find several more clues that point to a major settlement in Nova Scotia. Tourist maps of the island will show so-called “Pirate walls” along the coast of the island. These walls were, as the name implies, assumed to have been made by pirates; even though permanent construction and that type of hard work were not typical pirate traits. The style that the walls are built in does however date back to fourteenth century Celtic Europe, the same as the castle in New Ross. (Bradley Pp. 45-80)
The famous “money pit” as well fits into this theory. The construction of the money pit seemed to take place over about 500 years. Radio Carbon dating of boards found in the deepest part of the pit (approximately 200 feet) shows that the first part of the pit was constructed at the same time as the walls on the island and the castle. It was later built upon in the fifteenth and sixteenth century. This later construction may be when Pirates used it. No one has been able to successfully excavate the “Money Pit” as of yet so the question remains, what is in the pit? Was it a hiding place for treasures brought here by the Knights Templar? Was it a storage facility for gold mined in New Ross?
This essay has presented you with evidence, not concrete proof that there was an early settlement in New Ross, Nova Scotia. As well that there is a connection between the Knights Templar, an order charges with protecting sacred Christian relics and this settlement in New Ross. The problem inherent with this subject is that there has been very little official, professional research into the topic. When researching one must be careful to sift through the legends and faerie tales that all to easily become wrapped up in a topic such as this.
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1911–1915, John Russell Pope. 1733 16th St. NW
(Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress)
Scottish Rite Temple (Franz Jantzen)
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The mausoleum at Halikarnassos (353–c. 340 b.c.e.) was a model for many buildings in this period, including Masonic temples, because as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world it was associated with the beginnings of Western architectural traditions. The origins of freemasonry are linked to the lodges of medieval stonemasons and with a practice of architecture based on fundamental rules of the universe, with its most esoteric aspects expressed through a language of symbols. The definition of freemasonry as “a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols” explains why the buildings housing such organizations are themselves expressive of symbolic meaning.
Thrown down by an earthquake in the thirteenth century and quarried in the sixteenth century by the Knights of Saint John for the building of one of their castles, King Mausolos's tomb, a Hellenistic monument located on the Turkish coast, was the subject of numerous reconstructions by historians, archaeologists, and architects based on two ancient texts that describe its huge dimensions, colonnaded base, and stepped pyramidal top supporting a quadriga.
John Russell Pope's design, based on Newton and Pullman's 1862 restoration of the mausoleum, is centered on a nearly square site (217.5 by 212 feet) and raised above 16th Street on a podium with steps that extend the width of the block and that are organized according to arcane numerology. Three, five, seven, and nine steps converge on the central entry, which is guarded by Sphinxes, sculpted by Adolph A. Weinman, representing wisdom and power, contemplation and action. Thirty-six Ionic columns 33 feet high circumscribe the temple room, where the highest degree of freemasonry (the thirty-third) is conferred. The attic, marked by acroteria and the stepped pyramid, covers a square Guastavino dome; thus, the basic form above the base encloses a single volume. The compact base, with its expanses of smooth walls broken only by windows and doors, the peripteral colonnade set against nearly solid walls, and the faceted surfaces of the roof demonstrate Pope's unerring sense of balanced proportional relationships between masses and details. The light, monochromatic Indiana limestone is particularly well suited to the combination of planar surfaces and finely carved Greek and Egyptian details. Although Pope, with the advice of local architect and mason Elliott Woods, was responsible for incorporating some basic symbolism, the inscriptions and symbolic decorative details were planned by the grand commander of the lodge, George Fleming Moore, after the architectural design was completed.
The ground story is represented by the monolithic base on the exterior; on the interior an apsed atrium is ringed by offices, meeting rooms, banquet hall, and libraries. The atrium's form and decoration were intended as symbolic imitation of a Roman impluvium. Two sets of four massive Doric columns in a highly polished green Windsor, Vermont, granite establish a pathway leading to the apse on the east, where the main stair rises to the temple room. The oak-beam ceiling is painted in deep shades of red, brown, blue, yellow, and green, as are the walls in recesses behind the column screens. The decorative vocabulary mixes Greek frieze motifs and Egyptian hieroglyphics. The variation of rich and beautifully crafted materials continues in the main space. The temple room, a square with beveled corners that continue up into the dome, is constructed of limestone walls, Botticino marble dado, black and white marble floors, and a Guastavino tile dome. Windows are screened by Ionic columns set in antis made of green Windsor, Vermont, granite. Their gilded bronze capitals and bases echo the lavish use of gold or bronze in the entablature, windows, screens, and doors. The vault nearly doubles the height of the room, a proportional relationship that complements the subdued richness of the architectural surface. American architectural critic Aymar Embury so admired Pope's Scottish Rite Temple that he maintained, “Roman architects of two thousand years ago would prefer [it] to any of their own work.” 43
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