Isom lexicon iconographicum
a graphic dictionary of symbols

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Drawing 051...

Organic calculator,,,

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Galactic wonders...

Symbols: The alphabet of human thought

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Facebook overload...

Forgotten landscape...

Noosphere ...

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Elegant symbolism...

Artist: Nita L. Isom © 2010 Acrylic painting 12"X18"


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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

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Amalgam...

Planet unknown...

Growth turbulence...

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Frozen in space time...

Cosmic invisibility
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SPACE.com -- All Galaxies to Become Ghosts, Frozen in Time and Space:
"As if in a dream where we swam but could not reach the shore, the universe likewise recedes as we study it, destined to disappear at the whim of time, space and the laws of physics. All that will be left are fading ghosts of distant galaxies, each an afterimage preserving a final moment as a swarm of stars slips into a netherworld of cosmic invisibility."

Illuminati symbolism...

Sir Winston Churchill, quotes about Illuminati:
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

 Underworld of the great cities
of Europe and America

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Seek truth...

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Symbolic season...

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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. Theodor Geisel

Symbol maker...

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Erykah Badu

The Creator
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Quantum expression...

-There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all....It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe....The impression of design is overwhelming. Paul Davies (British astrophysicist)

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Direction...

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): A Guide to Resources on Henry David Thoreau and Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau - “We become like a still lake of purest crystal”

Organic beauty...

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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. Trofim Lysenko



Lysenkoism - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com:
"Lysenkoism refers to an episode in Russian science featuring a non-scientific peasant plant-breeder named Trofim Denisovich Lysenko [1898-1976]. Lysenko was the leading proponent of Michurianism during the Lenin/Stalin years. I. V. Michurin, in turn, was a proponent of Lamarckism. Lamarck was an 18th century French scientist who argued for a theory of evolution long before Darwin. Lamarck's theory, however, has been rejected by evolutionary scientists because it is not nearly as powerful an explanation of evolution as natural selection."

Links:
Trofim Lysenko
Lysenkoism
Answers.com Trofim-Lysenko

Symbols No. 794...

Much of human knowledge is symbolic.

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Universal explanation...

applicable or common to all purposes,
conditions, or situations.

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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. John Charles Polanyi

Forbidden pleasures...

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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Quintilian: "Roman rhetorician, born at Calagurris (Calahorra) in Spain. Concerning his family and his life but few facts remain. His father taught rhetoric, with no great success, at Rome, and Quintilian must have come there at an early age to reside, and must have there grown up to manhood. The years from 61 to 68 he spent in Spain, probably attached in some capacity to the retinue of the future emperor Galba, with whom he returned to the capital. For at least twenty years after the accession of Galba he was at the head of the foremost school of oratory in Rome, and may fairly be called the Isocrates of his time. He also gained some, but not a great, repute as a pleader in the courts. His greatest speech appears to have been a defense of the queen Berenice, on what charge is not known. He appears to have been wealthy for a professional man. Vespasian created for him a professorial chair of rhetoric, liberally endowed with public money, and from this time he was unquestionably, as Martial calls him, 'the supreme controller of the restless youth.' About the year 88 Quintilian retired from teaching and from pleading, to compose his great work on the training of the orator, the Institutio Oratoria. After two years retirement he was entrusted by Domitian with the education of two grand-nephews, whom he destined as successors to his throne. Quintilian gained the titular rank of consul, and probably died not long before the accession of Nerva (AD 96). A wife and two children died early."

Shape development...

Symbols: The alphabet of human thought

 Ronald D. Isom © 2010

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. Maya Lin



Vision of past lives...

Past or a confabulation
"maybe abnormal brain chemistry"
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“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

Oscar Wilde

Interesting connection:Marvelous confabulation: "Early researchers, such as psychologist Daniel Berlyne (1972), linked confabulation with amnesia and abnormal brain chemistry. Nowadays, it's more pleasantly harnessed to the marvelous potential of the human imagination. Fantastic and spontaneous outpourings of irrelevant associations and bizarre ideas come quite naturally to ordinary creative folks."

Verbal development...

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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. W. H. Auden

Links:
The W. H. Auden Society
Poems by W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poet: Wystan Hugh Auden - All poems of Wystan Hugh Auden
Older than George Eliot: "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden. Extremely sad poem made famous in what film?
Kingdom Poets (a blog by D.S. Martin): W.H. Auden
Silkworms Ink: Quote Poetry Lullaby

BBC - Radio 3 - WH Auden

Inner spirit...

Look inward

If we look inward instead of out, we can connect with our inner spirit and gain peace and a feeling of contentment. There are times in our life that contentment isn't coming from outside sources. We feel empty and broken, tired and degraded, used and helpless, lonely and hopeless. We may have friends and family who comfort us and care deeply, but until we go inside, no one can resolve the fear we feel.

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Fractured society...

Fractured Society
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“Civility in a Fractured Society” (4 March 2010): "In response to violent acts of various parties and the dislocating consequences of the global recession, a divisive rhetoric of anger has been precipitated in recent years in the West as well as the East. On the assumption that civilization requires civility, I have commenced a 50-state civility tour to suggest that Americans would be wise to tone down the words we use to define differences between fellow citizens and adversaries, actual or potential, around the world."

Season of light...

It is no surprise that we seek light in a season of darkness. We are, after all, a visual species. As compared to many other living creatures that rely on their senses of hearing or smell, human beings make their way through the world with vision as our primary guide, and devote far more of our brains to sight than we do to any other sense. Though our mammalian forebears were nocturnal, we are not, and in true darkness we are all but helpless.

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Exploded nature...

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Answers from the earth...

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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Daniel Webster

Unseen influences...

A mole looking for a badger
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The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. Kenneth Grahame

Sky dreams...

Transiency of an event
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. Kenko Yoshida

Yoshida Kenko: "(Japanese: 吉田兼好; Yoshida Kenkō; 1283 - 1350) was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His major work, Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), is one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature; the consistent theme of the series of 243 essays is “the universal principle of change,” one of the central ideas of Zen Buddhism. The work expresses the sentiment of 'mono no aware' (the sorrow which results from the passage of things) found in the undercurrent of traditional Japanese culture since antiquity. Kenko described how the momentariness and transiency of an event or a process intensified its beauty."

Tortured soul...

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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Enlightenment...

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Emerging soul...

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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mohandas Gandhi

Musings...

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Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.  Whitfield Diffie

Solar impact...

9"X12 Ink drawing
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. Henry David Thoreau

Political manipulation...

Politician's word choices used to  interfere with the publics critical thinking processes

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Working Families Looks Beyond Symbols
Working families for working class: politicians may wear hard hats but not all understand working class - Courant.com: "As we reach the end of a bitter and contentious campaign season, political advertisements dominate the airwaves and flood our mailboxes. With the economy still limping along, candidates for all offices and from both major parties are trying to connect with working class voters who are down on their luck."

Sacred being...

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Albert Schweitzer