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I did mean to mention that man’s use of perspective in painting was a turning point (early in the 15th century), in that it foreshadowed the turning of art away from its imaginative colorations toward a more specific physical rendering—that is, to a large degree after that the play of the imagination would not be allowed to “distort” the physical frame of reference.

[...] Bibles were illustrated with woodcuts in the late 15th century. [...]

[...] Although she left Appendix 6 unfinished, it contains many ideas worth more study: “Some of the experiments with man-animals didn’t work out along our historic lines, but the ghost memories of those probabilities still linger in our biological structure … The growth of ego consciousness by itself set up both challenges and limitations … For many centuries there was no clear-cut differentiation between various aspects of man and animal … there were parallel developments in the emergence of physical man … there were innumerable species of man-in-the-making in your terms….” [...]

[...] And after many centuries, the debate over the relationship between mind and brain continues, if first the existence of the mind is even agreed upon!

[...] You can say that it took untold centuries for the EE units to “initially” combine, forming classifications of matter and various species, or you can say that this process happened at once. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking they had the earth to themselves for many centuries, in that modern man did not compete with them.

[...] In it he’d referred to early humans living for several centuries — the only time he’s ever made such a reference. [...]

This private probability
isn’t half bad
when you consider
the public worlds
we had to travel
to get here:
molecules waiting
in the wings,
looking for
the precise
time-space
to leap into,
tiny strands of
consciousness
reuniting
after centuries,
sorting out ourselves
from a million
other forms
we’ve taken part in—
reassembling
just those we wanted
to call Rob and Jane.

[...] After all, the process had been refined through the centuries.

[...] In somewhat the same way, your own experiences flow down and into the cracks and crevices of all the other times and centuries that compose your present lifetime.

“To your way of thinking, some lives are lived in a twinkling (in various systems), and others last for centuries. [...]

When my father, Robert Sr., photographed Jane and me on our wedding day, December 27, 1954, and then in 1957, did any of us know that his work would be published almost half a century later?

[...] To your way of thinking some lives are lived in a twinkling, and others last for centuries, as some huge trees. [...]

[...] “I feel like I’ve been gone five centuries’ worth. [...]

[...] (And typography itself was known, but not much used, in China and Korea in the 11th century.) In about 1448 Gutenberg became a citizen of Mainz, Germany, where he continued his work. [...]

18 century.

(3. Something about my Roman life in the first century AD. [...]

Your curiosity did not involve philosophies, but had to do with the physical world, and particularly with its water passageways—an interest that did indeed find you and the Caribbean, later, in either the 14th or 15th century, directly involved with piracy—and I believe with some controversy involving the French government at the time.

[...] The methods have been given, not only by me, but by others through the centuries. [...]

(To Bobby.) And I hesitate to bring this up but our friend, here in the middle, was a Brother in an order in the 15th century in Denmark and it was a secret order that operated underground, so to speak. [...]

[...] There are personalities who have traveled through the centuries, literally, without an understanding, and if this was their reality and if it was their own making, still be glad that it is not yours and accept those relationships that you now have and realize their potential and do not close yourselves off to stupid pride and through barriers of your own making. [...]

([Joel:] “Centuries are a long time.”)

[...] There is no time schedule, and yet it is very unusual for an individual to wait for anything over three centuries between lives, for this makes the orientation very difficult, and the emotional ties with earth have become weak.

(I’ve painted a portrait of Van Elver, who is the fourteenth-century artist [Danish or Norwegian] from whom Seth receives information on painting techniques.^*)

[...] This is a concept in the nineteenth-century transcendentalist philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson⁵ and others.)

[...] You leave from any moment of your time and you are gone sometimes for centuries of physical time. [...]

[...] It can convey the unique individuality of many different ceremonies, held by different nationalities through the centuries. [...]

Ago century, seance. [...]

The father however had a particularly unpleasant life in 14th Century France, and (to Dave) if you will refuse what you had learned in the past, he could not force you to remember. [...]

[...] We have 12th-century Poland for your wife, the earlier existences given earlier. [...]