A book is the gift you can open again and again…
Michael Moon’s Bookshop Booktokens
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from the book of epitaphs London 1755
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Ancient libraries make me happy
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DAT ROSA MEL APIBUS
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Stages of the Reader
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, September 24, 1907
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“Your Vision will Become Clear only when You can Look into Your own Heart. Who Looks Outside, Dreams; who Looks Inside, Awakes.”
~ Carl Jung
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“I know now that even bodies are not received by the senses or the faculty of imagining, but are perceived only by the mind, and that they are not perceived by being touched or seen but only by being understood, and therefore I know clearly that there is nothing that can be perceived by me more easily or more clearly than my own mind.”
René Decartes- Meditations
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“Everything that I have accepted as being most true up to now I acquired from the senses or through the senses. However, I have occasionally found that they deceive me, and it is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once.
Renè Decartes- Meditations
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From Manly P. Hall’s Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
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“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
~ Carl G. Jung
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The third ceremony teaches #Freemasons about the mortality of men, so the central design of this tracing board is a #coffin. There are also several #Masonic emblems including a set square, level, plumb rule, maul and compass. Freemasons make symbolic use of stonemasons’ tools in their ceremonies and they are often referred to as ‘working tools
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The Masonic Temple in Philadelphia
Shown here is the corridor on the second floor, east end. The statues are Joseph Bailly’s “Beauty” (left) and “Wisdom” (right.) The archway leads to Ionic, Egyptian and Norman Halls
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