#756 + TOUCHSTONES + PURE GOLD GENIUS + VEHICLE OF THE DIVINE

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The Lydians were an ancient people who lived in what is now Turkey

during the Iron Age.

The Lydians developed a way to determine the quality of gold

with what is called a Lydian Stone

–flat pieces of basanite.

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A piece of gold would be dragged across the stone

so that it leaves a scratch mark.

The color of the mark was the objective determinate.

If it looked red, or coppery, the gold was not pure

and

was an alloy.

If the mark was bright yellow, the gold was pure.

The Lydians would make charts for color comparison.

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The purity of the gold became visible to those

who knew what to look for

and

who had the capacity to discern

what was pure gold.

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Note images above:

middle – an ancient Lydian Stone showing the mark of pure gold

top + bottom – showing the marks of gold and gold alloys on a touchstone

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RESURRECTION/EXODUS                                                          Catherine L. Johnson  1996

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TOUCHSTONE

The Lydian Stone has become known by another name:

touchstone.

You touch the gold to the stone,

and

then the value becomes apparent by its mark.

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A

touchstone

is used by contemporaneous jewelers to determine

if a gold metal is pure gold or an “illusion of purity”

which is an alloy masterfully blended

with just enough “truth” of gold

mixed with copper and other alloys

to make it appear to look like pure gold.

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The lesser qualities of gold

are mixed with copper and other alloys

to make it look like gold, without being pure gold –

that is the difference between 14 karat and 24 karat.  

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The word,

touchstone,

has evolved over the centuries,

but still

“suggests a simple test of the authenticity

or

value of something intangible.”

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The word/construct of

touchstone

is a

beautiful metaphor

to discern/align/sense intuitively/analyze

what is

truly authentic,

rare,

a sincere gold standard

in other areas of life other than gold metal:

the mark of genius in diverse fields of creative exploration;

the mark of personal character;

the mark of inspiring leadership;

the mark of an anam cara in one’s life;

the mark of a revolutionary paradigm shift;

the mark of courage

and

so forth.

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The fabricated/commercial platforms

of social media

is an alloy

and

a substitute of true intimacy.

Social media platforms

provide a stage/a theatre

to perform

“an illusion of truth” without a touchstone

to test the authenticity of its”truth-telling”

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The SONICS of TRUE GENIUS is SENSED.

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It is critical that those

anointed

with

GENIUS

step UP

and

educate/demonstrate

WHAT the sound of pure crystal IS

and

WHAT the look of pure gold IS 

and

WHAT the touch of pure love IS 

and

WHAT the taste of authenticity IS.

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INTEGRITY
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Ha!

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Above:

example of Walter Benjamin’s essay

on the

POWER

of the

ORIGINAL

and  

its craven various,

deconstructed,

decontextualized 

copies.

“ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION”

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