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The Kingdom of God is an intelligible world
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   Intelligibility  is what can be comprehended by the human mind  in contrast to sense perception.  The intelligible method is thought thinking itself, or the human mind reflecting on itself.     These affections are described in succession as corresponding to increasing levels of reality and truth from conjecture ( εἰκασία ) to belief ( πίστις ) to thought ( διάνοια ) and finally to understanding ( νόησις ).     However the Absolute  is generally regarded as being only partially intelligible. The Absolute is the idea of an unconditional reality  which transcends  limited, conditional, everyday existence . It is sometimes used as a term for God  or the Divine . Other similar concepts are The One  and First Cause .    The visible world  Thus AB  represents shadows and reflections of physical things, and BC  the physical things themselves.  These correspond to two kinds of knowledge , the illusion  (εἰκασία eikasia ) of our ordinary, everyday experience, and belief  (πίστις pistis ) abo...
Canonization of Marta Kalas Reeves
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    Saint Marta Kalas Reeves was one of the victims of Gary Leon Ridgway,  the Green River serial killer.  He raped, strangled and dumped bodies  near the Green River initially.  For years, Ridgway eluded capture,  picking up mostly prostitutes.  But now, because of DNA technology, he  was finally brought to justice and confessed to approximately 50 murders  on November 5, 2003.  Pacific Highway South is where many of these  girls were last seen.  Marta was last seen March 5, 1990.  Her body was  found September 20, 1990 on Highway 410, a logging road.   According to Luke, after Jesus cast out seven demons from her, Marta  became part of a group of women who traveled with him and his 12  disciples/apostles, “proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.”  Magdalene is not a surname, but identified the place Marta came from Seattle, a city in a country that was America, located in the north-westernmost region of the World Map.   Marta Kalas Reeves was formally canonized as a saint of...