Charlie's in Canada !!!! I'm not a fan of the monarchy but Charlie is definitely more likeable than his mother. My personal opinion is that Charlie is more interested in his title, rather than the duties of a monarch. He appears to be someone who enjoys his peace and quiet, and does not really like to be bothered with state duties. Charlie's not a bad egg, but he's definitely prophetic in these tumultuous times. I speak of Charles' relationship to John Milton's, Paradise Lost. I did invite Charles over to my house for a pasta lunch, but I don't believe he'll show up.
Please review Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica", and then compare to the message in Charles' favourite poem.
One of Charlie's favourite poems, but what does it mean:
God's Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs
—Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings
“God's Grandeur” meaning:
In "God's Grandeur" Hopkins conveys his reverence for the magnificence of God and nature, and his despair about the way that humanity has seemed to lose sight of the close connection between God and nature during the Second Industrial Revolution.
The speaker describes a natural world through which God's presence runs like an electrical current, becoming momentarily visible in flame-like flashes that resemble the sparkling of metal foil when moved in the light. Alternately, the speaker describes God's presence as being like a rich oil (such as olive oil), whose true power or greatness is only revealed when crushed to its essence. Given this powerful undercurrent of evidence of God's presence in the world, the speaker asks, why do human beings not heed God’s divine authority? The speaker starts to answer his own question by describing the state of human life: the way that humanity over the generations has endlessly walked over the ground, and the way that industry and economic pursuits have damaged and corrupted the landscape such that it looks and smells only of men (and not of God). Not only has the land been stripped bare of the natural things that once lived upon it, but even the shoes that people now wear have cut off the physical connection between their feet and the earth they walk on.
An answer to the above question may be - evil
Poised to profit from the destruction of Gaza, long time Netanyahu family friend, Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump, has just doubled his stake to 10 percent ownership in a financial firm, Phoenix Financial Ltd, a major Israeli finance and insurance firm, founded shortly after Israel’s establishment, making him the company’s largest shareholder that stands to gain from turbocharging illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory and just before the announcement of a cease-fire deal that Kushner may have helped advise on.
Phoenix holds shares in other Israeli companies in its own name and through a subsidiary, Phoenix Investment House, these include 11 public companies and one private company currently named in a database of businesses with links to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, compiled by the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Jared Kushner’s new private-equity fund plans to invest millions of dollars of Saudi Arabia’s money in Israeli startups, according to people familiar with the investment plan, in a sign of warming ties between two historic rivals.
Affinity Partners, which has raised more than $3 billion, including a $2 billion commitment from the kingdom’s sovereign-wealth fund, has already selected the first two Israeli firms to invest in, these people said. An Affinity Partners financial disclosure showed that 99 percent of the funds given to the firm were from foreign investors.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar have invested in an Israeli company linked to Israel’s military as part of their involvement with the investment fund of Jared Kushner, underscoring the tangled political and economic interests between Kushner, Israel and Gulf monarchies. The link comes from a $150m stake Kushner's Miami-based Affinity Partners purchased in the auto services unit of Israel's Shlomo Group, a part owner of Israel Shipyards, the only domestic shipbuilder for the Israeli navy which constructs Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boats.
