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MY PERSONAL MONA LISA

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“Much like Leonardo da Vinci, I worked intermittently on this single painting over a period of many years, never satisfied that it was finished, and continually improving upon the original.  This painting is my personal Mona Lisa, my daughter, Maria.

We had a live-in servant for many years, named Tanneke Everpoel, hired and paid by Maria Thins.  She did all of the “heavy labor”, as it were: cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, carrying water, tending fires, and a myriad other chores, including helping with the children.  However, the expense of paying her wage and room did not include standing for endless hours, day after day, while I painted this portrait!  My daughter, Maria, was lovelier and much more readily accessible for the task of standing for this portrait.

It is argued, convincingly, that the immortal painting by Leonard was his own self-portrait as his own, feminine  reflection. What man, or woman, regardless of sexual preference in a given lifetime, has not inhabited the flesh of ten thousand bodies, some human, many not, through  a nearly infinite cascade of galaxies, stars and planets come and gone.  Is not survival a nearly infinite game, in which we interchange ourselves as the players of many parts?

Leonard kept his portrait with him all his life.  He never considered that it was complete or perfect.  Nor did he ever intend to sell it.  How could one sell a most cherished reflection of himself?  It is more meaningful than one’s own body, which only disguises the inner self, the essence of spirit that animates the fragile flesh.

In fact, a body hides the reflection of the soul!  How can any substance, especially that as rude and fragile as meat, reveal the inherent qualities an immortal nothingness?  Indeed, it is the fundamental challenge and the most formidable task of an artist to reveal it!

The name given to this painting by others, “The Milkmaid”, is a sacrilege!   It rivals the incomprehension others have for Leonardo’s personal masterpiece.  Yet, how can anyone truly understand that a painting is meant to reflect the  essence of an immortal being, seen through the eyes of another?

She is painted with angelic colors: blue, gold and white, in contrast to the menial nature of her station in life.  From her issues, for me, the Milk and Bread of Life.  Life is embodied in her and through her.  Women, are the source of children, the source of energy, the source of care.  There is no more vital responsibility for any being who plays the game of life, than to confront dreary daily tasks.  To humbly make the daily loaf.  To soak that bread, mix and soften it with milk, make it warm and feed it to a teething child.  Survival is made of such things.

In those days I viewed life as idyllic.  My dreams were more real than reality.  All things were a possibility.  Tragedy could not find me.  Until it did, of course.  Even when we lost a child, which we did with several, my wife, Catharina, remained resolute in her Faith.  God guided us.  He did what was best.  We knew not why and need not question His purpose for us.

I have no such faith in predetermination.  A loaf of grain, clean water and a bed was my fare.  Time and a place to paint, uninterrupted, were necessities.  My love, shared with wife and family, was the staple diet of my life.  I assumed, as a Fool who knows not his own mortality, that they would endure, even when I was gone.”

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Excerpt from the book VERMEER: PORTRAITS OF A LIFETIME, by Lawrence R. Spencer

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TESLA-DETERMINISM

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automaton beingsPredeterminism is the idea that all events are determined in advance. Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.

The concept of predeterminism implies that there is an unbroken chain of prior occurrences stretching back to the origin of the universe. In the case of pre-determinism, this chain of events has been pre-established, and human actions cannot interfere with the outcomes of this pre-established chain.

“Tesla-determinism” is the observation and opinion of Nikola Tesla (arguably the most intelligent human in the history of Earth) that “Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.” and  “The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear his actions are governed not from within but from without.”
Although humans and other sentient being in the physical universe may be somewhat “self-determined” it is only with the context of a very finite and limited ability to influence the “wheelwork of the universe” of which the existence of all living  “engine”  is an automaton inextricably linked and predetermined by external influences.

“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.”

Example:  In the Lensmen Series books, by E.E. Smith, the god-like guardians of civilization know as “Mentor” conceived a “Cosmic All” in which every detail of existence was envisioned and planned in advance.   Envisioning and causing every aspect of existence was a game played for the amusement of Mentor.

This idea does not necessarily exclude the notion that “divine” spiritual entities are creating and moving the “gears” of our universe.  Telsa was certainly aware of a “Divine Being”.  Our ability to determine our own existence depends on concentrating our minds to become in tune with “this great power”.   Tesla was certainly a preeminent practitioner of this ability.

~ Lawrence R. Spencer. 2016.

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PLUMERIA LIES

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PLUMERIA

Plumeria flower are found a large trees in Hawaii.  These are the flowers used to create the “leis” or “flower necklaces” that are worn by the beautiful Hawaiian people. They give 

these “leis” to all of the tourists when they get off the airplane at the airport.  When I lived in Hawaii (for two years) there were Plumeria trees everywhere around my house.  The aroma of these flowers is very soft, sensuous, and sexual, as the purpose of every flower  is  essentially sexual.  The flowers bloom all during the year because the weather is always
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“warm and wet”!!   Hawaii an amazing place to be on this planet!!  For me, it is as close to the definition of “Paradise” as I can think of on Earth.

Everything about Hawaii literally “screams” out the idea of “Sexual Reproduction!  The trees, the amazing flowers, the plants, birds, and the warm and wonderful rain!  The air is always Warm and Moist and Alluring.  Soft Sunlight Glows Relentlessly.  Magnificent Moonlight illuminates the Glistening Ocean Waves at night.   The Black Sand beaches — whose sands are continually replenished from the Semen of Volcanic Ejaculations –glisten like the Wet Walls of a Virginal Vagina in the Moonlight….

beachRelentlessly Powerful Waves POUND onto the beaches of the Island Shores….  Ebbing and Flowing… In and Out….. In and Out…. In and Out….. with Soft, Soothing, Sonorous Rhythms….   and repeatedly,

again, and again, and again….. spew their Thick, White Foam of Relentless Wetness in Orgasms of Overwhelming, Penetrating Power on to the Eternally Open Thighs of Her Welcoming Sands….

Before the arrival of the European “missionary” invaders, the Beautiful Hawaiian girls were encouraged by their mothers and families to make love with ALL the young men of the neighboring villages!  They did not wear any clothing.  They displayed all of their Natural, Maternal Beauty for anyone and everyone to see and enjoy!!!  It was a requirement that they become pregnant, and give birth to a healthy baby BEFORE they were eligible to get married!

Everyone in the villages shared the responsibility to care for, feed and educate the children.  However, when the Christian “missionary” invaders arrived, they told all the Hawaiian people that this behavior was “evil” and that sex was a “sin”….   They forced the Hawaiian people to wear “clothing”, to cover their bodies in “shame”……  European Christian Missionary Invaders destroyed the culture and the civilization of the Hawaiian people forever. The honest, innocent, beauty of these marvelous people were crushed and coerced and tricked into extinction by the “Plumeria Lies” of European religion.

One hundred year later, the Hawaiian Islands and their indigenous culture and their pristine people, have been raped, pillaged and plundered by European Invaders.  Nothing remains of their innocence.  Nothing remains of the Innate, Maternal Intelligence of the Hawaiian people.  Only the relentless, radioactive waters of the Pacific Ocean, contaminated by Fukishima, embrace their Virgin Shores….