THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 14-26
Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 14-26: Summary of the Numbers: In this section, an angel arrives and invites a group of ten...
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- Oct 25, 2022
- 4 min
THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 1-13
Word Cloud for Conjugial Love Numbers 1-13: Summary of the Numbers: The beginning of this section, while implying it is all about love,...
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- Oct 25, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #49
"'... Soeur Angélique, leave your work in the sacristy and pray here instead of Mère Madeleine. Do not look so scared, my daughter. It...
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- Oct 18, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #48
[The "Railway Children," Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis, rescued a boy with a broken leg, and he is now laid up in their home.] "'I say,...
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- Oct 17, 2022
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THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE'
"We know it from experience." Swedenborg tells about hearing some women in heaven responding this way to a group of men talking...
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- Oct 11, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #47
[Marie Killilea wrote two books about her daughter Karen Killilea, who was born with cerebral palsy in the 1940s and overcame both...
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- Oct 4, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #46
[Rose has just received a declaration of love from her cousin Mac, and spoken about what she hoped for in a lover, taking her Uncle Alec...
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- Sep 27, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #45
"She was always demanding too much of people and occasions. She met them with too much expectation, pursued them for perfection, and...
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- Sep 20, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #44
"I think it was Bion who saw it first, but we've all seen it. Timothy will rush out to the big meadow, his once-timid tail waving...
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- Sep 13, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #43
"Everyone took a look, and then Dan showed them the lovely plumage on a moth's wing, the four feathery corners to a hair, the veins on a...
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- Sep 6, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #42
[Martha Beck describes her own experience of post-traumatic psychic numbing with Virginia Woolf's phrase, "living behind a pane of...
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- Aug 30, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #41
"As far as the search for solitude is concerned, we live in a negative atmosphere as invisible, as all pervading, and as enervating as...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
Excerpted Inspirations #40
"When Adam was three years old, I began to lose hope that he would ever communicate verbally. His inability to speak was terribly...
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- Aug 16, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #39
[The Dean of the Cathedral has struck up an unlikely friendship with Isaac Peabody, the local watchmaker.] "'And no doubt as a boy you...
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- Aug 9, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #38
"I was alone with my books. I would get up each morning, eat breakfast, and drink a cup of coffee while I walked around my long, narrow...
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- Aug 2, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #37
[Vicky's beloved grandfather is dying of leukemia, and her family is staying with him over the summer. She refers to a recent...
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- Jul 26, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #36
"It's taken me some time to be comfortable using the term synchronicity, Jung's term for the curious way in which ordinary, external...
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- Jul 19, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #35
[Continued from the previous two weeks. Sylvia confides in her sister Judith that their bereaved father has taken up spiritualism under...
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- Jul 12, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #34
[Continued from last week. Sylvia ponders how to help her bereaved father.] "But now, now, she must think of nothing but her father. ...
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- Jul 5, 2022
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Excerpted Inspirations #33
[Sylvia Marshall's mother has died recently and unexpectedly of an illness. Her father is losing his reason in anguish and bereavement.]...
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