So need an expert here - I have held a copy of the Book of Kells, over 200 years old - now the original one is worth a fortune, and this one owned by my sister, is worth quite a bit as well. All this talk about the Illuminati - Illuminate means to "adorn" - but if you read the following item, you see other meanings...in the bible you find the Illuminati in the Garden of Eden - it means also, when it comes to illluminated manuscripts - the word - maybe communication. But Hebrews 10 and Barach - these are only references to illuminated in bible - Hebrews 10 is very cyptic - mentions making thy enemies thy footstool right out of 109th and 110th psalms, masonic significations and term Nearer to God, in essense - which is Masonic song. One guy who was inquired re investigation of Titanic said "hey, if someone started to play that son on the Titanic, I would have felt threatened"....must have been a mason. Then we had Clinton's "new covenant" - remember born again Christians Gore and Clinton at Democrate Convnention made the New Covenant? Well we sure got it .....blood sacrifices as Waco and Ruby Ridge and Balkans let alone a prostitute in the Oval Office obviously working for Mossad who was taping the Presidents phone, through the phone of the prostitute....for that is what she was. Idea of the Illuminati was to get into the Masons and get ahold of the finances......always watch the guy with the check book - but now, they have the US Treasury - what more could they want? Well the oil for one thing....and these people will murder every domestic jew and moslem and christian get it - Mormons believe this for this is what the bible demands, that the Holy Land be destroyed. Illuminati? Guess it is what you say it is - but you find he Illuminati still lurking in the Garden of Eden and in libraries all over the world. I have original picture of the Illuminati of the 1740 to 60 period....on aristocrats, tied up to banks, masons - with statuate of many breasted Diana - called Charity in the Cellar......those guys at lealst had a sense of humor and also had lots of pornographic material......John Wilkes in this picture, as in Lord Sandwich and Dashwood and they form the pyramid stance, of the day - that darn bank of England - wonder if they still bury gold in the water - once safest place in the world to hide your gold. So this is interesting item......in Paris on the streets once they were selling sheets from a monastery - illuminated script - monks chants, and I bought some - gave two to the Schumaker Gallery at the University, and they are still there with two Hogarths I donated. The old Hells Fire Club, is today's Bohemian Club, an I think this is about as close as you can get to the American Illuminati...... The bible is the master plan as used by these demoniacs. Saba Contents Bibliography Timeline Home Page Illuminated Manuscripts The practice of hand-copying texts used in courtly circles was also the chief means of distribution in the Church. Scribes were paid to laboriously copy out by hand the ornate Gothic script that was the staple of religious discourse. A room in the monastery reserved for this activity was called the scriptorium and here they not only transcribed texts but provided "illumination"--elaborately conceived initial letters, ornamental borders and gilded illustrations. Outstanding examples of illuminated texts include the seventh and eighth century works of the Irish School, particularly The Book of Kells and The Lindisfarne Gospels. Production costs were quite high: an account roll in Westminster Abbey records that one 14th century Mass book cost 35 pounds--the equivalent of several hundred pounds today--but of this the scribe received only 4 pounds for two years' work and 1 pound for clothing. Such books were, understandably, rarities and often chained to the walls of the monastery. The technique of illumination sought to release the light, the truth, of a text from within. It was a light shone through the text, not on it. The text thus appeared as the walls of a gothic church. These churches were often made of porous stone which allowed light to filter through the walls, the light of God was thus all about the parishioners, it did not shine down on them from above but was the very medium through which they moved. As Marshall McLuhan writes: Probably any medieval person would be puzzled at our idea of looking through something. He would assume that the reality looked through at us, and that by contemplation we bathed in the divine light, rather than looked at it. (106) The glosses, learned commentary, border designs and other decorative materials did not "illustrate" the text so much as reveal its inner qualities; text and decoration existed in a kind of continuum that was the truth of The Word. In the late eighteenth century, William Blake revived the illuminated manuscript as a the ideal vehicle for a revolution of the imagination. In the nineteenth century, John Ruskin singled out the illuminated manuscript as a manifestation of the radical challenge posed by a revival of the Gothic in a utilitarian age. The electronic sign of hypertext also provides new opportunities to reconsider the illuminated manuscript, as is evident in the early work of Judy Malloy. © 1995 Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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