Approximately a little more than a year ago I had had an ability to feel icons. And not only as I have found out them then. And also spiritual people, artifacts, places of force. If to tell in more detail about icons, at a view of some icons which I for myself call special (not wonder-working! further I will explain this moment), I have absolutely distinct feeling in a body. It is worth ceasing to look at an icon and to think of something abstract, the feeling vanishes. There was this ability after participation in web conferences at the famous one network writer in the field of development of the person.
For that time which I have this ability various such icons have got to me. Further, in the notes on this subject, I plan to show the special icons found me in the Internet and “alive”. I will explain why I don’t put an equal-sign between recognized wonder-working icons yet, and special. IT because so far this question is in a research. I saw the icons which are considered wonder-working from which there are feelings, as well as from what they are absent. It puzzles me and therefore the question is still open.
In special icons I intuitively feel a charge of a certain spiritual power, soul in which they also differ from usual icons. It is possible that the size of this charge, and defines miraculousness of an icon. As far as I heard at a conference, such icons can influence mind, promoting his stop and also to change taste of drinks and a smell of perfume. I didn’t do still similar experiments with drinks/spirits therefore I can’t confirm/disprove.
In temples, I always try to find a similar icon for a prayer. Most often she only one in the temple if at all is. For me a similar icon, if not opened completely then the slightly opened window to the world celestial. It is possible that prayers through her will be heard there rather. Now, when according to some forecasts in the world there can come quite hard time, I have decided to publish information on these icons, artifacts, places. I hope that will give some spiritual support to people.
On a photo Iversko-Gavaysky icon of the Mother of God.
At the Library Company of Philadelphia, it doesn’t get more #VintageLibrary than our original Lion’s Mouth Suggestion Box.
Benjamin Franklin drafted the Library Company’s plans, rules, and articles of agreement in 1731, after he and a group of like-minded individuals conceived the idea of a subscription library in which all members would pool their financial resources in order to afford a larger and finer library than any one of them could have amassed individually.
The first book order was sent to England on March 31, 1732. The list of books ordered was representative of the kind of books that could be found in any good colonial American, or even English, private library. The largest portion included titles on history and travels, followed by literature. Small segments dealt with the sciences, theology, philosophy, economics, and linguistics. The works were useful because the desire for the books stemmed from the readers themselves as evidenced by the suggestion box, which reads:
Gentlemen are requested to deposite in the lion’s mouth the titles of such books as they may wish to have imported.
Franklin’s ingenious solution to the problem of access to books, the subscription library, was copied up and down the Atlantic seaboard from Salem, Massachusetts, to Charleston, South Carolina.
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