#Imperishable Logos

[father-of-the-void]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

— John 1:1

[theviceenforcer]

(OC Faction) - The Imperishables symbol

The logo for the villainous group known as The Imperishables who are bent on world domination and nemesis to the heroic Surge Pack. Citizens of Day City beware!

[nijjhar]

Woman for blood = life belongs to Elohim, Allah whilst Man for the semen... Woman for blood = life belongs to Elohim, Allah, Parbrahm, etc. whilst Man for the semen = seed to Yahweh, Brahma, Khudah, etc. https://youtu.be/UNt5Jp8X6wU Christ = Satguru Rajinder:- Woman for blood = life belongs to Elohim, Allah, Parbrahm whilst Man for the semen = seed to Yahweh, Brahma, Khudah, etc. Now, God is Spirit and Supernatural Father of our supernatural “soul”. Therefore, God is invisible and imperishable “His Word” called “Noor” whilst the creation of Yahweh, Brahma, Khudah, etc., Adam and Eve are visible and perishable creations. Thus, our “soul” is the Real Self whilst the flesh is elusion called Maya. So, this Planet Earth belongs to Adam and his “seed”, the races and tribes and not to the spiritual supernatural selves Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, etc. that are never born and they never die but the tribal people are born and they die. What is the creation of Yahweh, the Lord of Nature including Moon, Sun and Stars that are visible to the two naked natural eyes, is called “Mythology” whilst the Supernatural Celestial World of Sadhus always singing the praises of our Supernatural Father called “Logo”, His Word, the Very Face of God is the “REALITY”. Thus, in the secular world that belongs to the tribal men, woman plays the spiritual part, the SHAKTI; Power of the deities is a female and not a male. Further, the woman being the counterpart of God, she carries no tribal identity and on marriage becomes a Mrs of so and so. For rendering services in the family, mother is to be highly respected whilst father being the head of the family is to be “honoured”. Finally, woman is a chattel that can move to any country after marrying a man of that country whilst the men cannot move cannot move as freely as the women. That is why during the exodus, the Pharaohs did not kill the girls but the boys to eradicate the bad characters not worthy of their country telling lies and cheating. Pharaohs honoured the faithful to Abraham and Yahweh truthful Joseph whom the crook Patriarchs wanted to kill for speaking the truth to father Jacob and father Jacob was so pleased with his character that he gave his Plot to the Samaritans, the generation of Joseph. The generations of the other Eleven Patriarchs were thrown out by Jacob called “Sukkot” but their crook Rabbis called “Sukkot” a “Festival”. But the brethren of Joseph never changed, the other Fold that both John, the Baptist, Prophet Elijah, the Cornerstone of the Temple of Yahweh and Christ Jesus tried their BEST to retrieve to the Fold of the Samaritans but they killed Christ Jesus whilst the Samaritans honoured Him Highly. The Samaritan man who picked the wounded person under “Agape”, the unconditional Devine love of our Supernatural Father God looked after the wounded person more carefully than his own family members whilst the two Pharisee and Sadducee passed by under “Eros”, the tribal love that could generate racism and had no speck of spirituality but their skin full of the dead men. Under the present situation, people who display “Agape” belong to God and welcome the migrants whilst the once-born display racism to other tribal people. Remember that Abraham took Ishmael and Hagger outside the boundary of the Promised Land. Much more is in my other videos. Our Father God blesses you in Agape for Peace.     If we have one God, our SUPERNATURAL FATHER of our supernatural “soul”, there should be one Faith. So, they are "Antichrists" that have a following of the spiritually blind Super Bastard fanatic devils - John 8v44 - Hindu, Jew, Sikh, Christian, Muslim, etc. outwardly of appearances, and not spiritually inwardly. These spiritual selves Hindu, Jew and Christian, are never born like Christ, the title and they never die but the tribal selves Judah, Levi, Jatt, Tarkhan, etc. were born and they will die. Thus, Jesus was born and Jesus died on the cross and rose on the Third Day and not Christ, the title. JEWS THEMSELVES ARE ANTISEMITIC. www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/JAntisem.htm A Jew is spiritual of heart inwardly and not in the flesh outwardly.  This planet Earth is for the habitation of 144000 tribal sons and not Jews, Hindus, Sikhs or Muslims. Atomic war is very near indeed. END TIME GOSPEL TRUTH – FREE LECTURES AND SEMINARS. www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/GistEndGospel.htm Other:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/Nobility.htm http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/tenlights.htm http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/JattIslam.htm Proofs of the Virgin Birth of Jesus: - www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/bojes.htm Matt 21v33-46:- As the Jews killed the Prophets and then collected money from the devotees, so they did to Christ Jesus and created the Antichrist Pope. https://youtu.be/aOH6r380ECo Super Hitler tribal Putin will destroy Blasphemer USA and the West. My Books:- ONE GOD ONE FAITH:- www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/bookfin.pdf Punjabi www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/pdbook.pdf EXPOSES the CROOK KHATRIS:- Punjab Siyan. John's baptism www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/johnsig.pdf Trinity www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/trinity.pdf

[galadhremmin]

personal Tolkien (related) Reading List 2022 so far, (suggestions welcome).

On Tolkien and his work:

Books

A companion to Tolkien, ed. Stuart Lee 2014

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, Verlyn Flieger 1983

Tolkien and the Classical World, ed. Hamish 2021

Tolkien and Alterity, ed. Christopher Vaccaro 2017

Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien ed. Bradford Lee Eden

The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie, Jonathan S. McIntosh, 2017.

Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader, ed. Jane Chance 2014

War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien - Janet B. Praeger 2004

Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien, Michael Tomko 2017.

Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, Anna Vaninskaya 2020.

Pagan Saints in Middle-earth,  Claudio A. Testi, 2020.

Arda reconstructed, Douglas C. Kane 2009.

Shadows of imagination: the fantasies of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark R Hillegas 1979.

essays:

The Story Was Already Written: Narrative Theory in The Lord of the Rings, Mary R. Bowman Narrative, Volume 14, Number 3, October 2006, pp. 272-293

Tolkien's Debt to Fellow Inkling Owen Barfield, Siobhán Maloney.

Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity,  Dimitra Fimi 2007.

Real-World Myth in a Secondary World: Mythological Aspects in the Story of Beren and Lúthien. In Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance 2003.

“Mad” Elves and “Elusive Beauty”: Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology, Dimitra Fimi  2006.

“Come sing ye light fairy things tripping so gay”: Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien's "'Celtic' type of legends": Merging Traditions  Dimitra Fimi 2007.

and also @skyeventide​’s essay list.

Books on related/relevant authors and topics:

related topics:

The invention of race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng 2018.

(On) authors that influenced on Tolkien, or seem related to his work:

The Well at the World's End, William Morris.

The House of the Wolfings, William Morris

The Roots of the Mountains, William Morris

News from Nowhere, William Morris.

William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary : Thompson, E.

The place of the Lion, Charles Williams.

The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Edison 1922

An Experiment with Time, J.W. Dunne 1927 >> Borges’ "Time and J. W. Dunne", in Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952.

The Book of Wonder ,The Charwoman’s daughter, Lord Dunsany (’ "When American Clyde Kilby arrived in Oxford in the summer of 1966 to offer Tolkien "editorial assistance" in finishing The Silmarillion, one of the first things Tolkien did was hand him a copy of Dunsany's The Book of Wonder and tell him to read it before starting work on Tolkien's own story.”)

(I would add The King of Elfland’s Daughter to any list involving Dunsany and Tolkien, but this list is for me and not people in general, so does not include books I have already read and don’t want to read again this year. As much as I adore it!

Same goes for great essays I have already read, like the Enchanted hair, Cloaking or Stuart Hall and Tolkien ones).

this is...far from complete but let’s see how far I get while also reading other things lol. Feel free to suggest more.

[madamlaydebug]

The eternal [Logos] is the Power of God, and the work, of the -eternal [Logos] is the world, which has no beginning, but is continually becoming by the activity of the eternal [Logos]. Therefore, nothing that constitutes the world will ever perish or be destroyed, for the eternal [Logos] is imperishable. All this great body of the world is a Soul, full of intellect and of God, who fills it within and without and vivifies everything.

Contemplate through Me [the Divine Mind], the world and consider its beauty. ... See that all things are full of light. See the earth, settled in the midst of all, the great nurse who nourishes all earthly creatures, All is full of Soul, and all beings are in movement. Who has created these things? The one God, for God is one. You see that the world is always one, the Sun, one; the moon, one; the divine activity, one; God, too, is one. And since all is living, and Life is also one, God is certainly one. It is by the action of God that all things come into being…

The Corpus Hermetica

[vedicshastras]

Suspended by Spirit - Valentinus, the Gnostic, in his vision of the order of creation, wrote: “I behold all things suspended in air by spirit, and I perceive all things wafted by spirit; the flesh I see suspended from soul, but the soul shining out from air, and air depends upon aether, and fruits produced from Bythos (profundity), and the foetus born from the womb.” This is Gnostic emanationism, the birth of all natures from their own superiors, and creation itself emerging from its own cause, the absolute or the profundity. - In the simplest arrangement of the Gnostic concept of the godhead, we find first the universal Logos. “He who stood, stands, and will stand.” By nature and substance unknowable, he is the incorruptible form who projects from himself an image, and this image ordains all things. From his own eternal soul and imperishable nature That Which Abides emits 3 hypostases, which Simon Magus called Incorruptible Form, the Great Thought, and the Universal Mind. _______________________________________________ Art ‘Creation’ by Soufiane Idrassi (#SoufianeIdrassi) #Wisdom #Esoteric #Symbolism #Philosophy #Spirituality #Mystery #Gnostic #Gnosticism #TheWisdomoftheKnowingOnes #KnowingOnes #ManlyPHall (at Vedic Shastras) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFzmJz7FPj-/?igshid=c9a9ohb1qpzi

[kenbowe]

1 Corinthians 15:50–54

“I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” ”

https://ref.ly/1Co15.50-54 via the Logos Bible Android app.

[therealnickho-blog]

Timelines

Westworld has been quite the disruptive force in modern television. It critically examines the dark side of human nature and technology, all while giving women characters the spotlight in a male-dominated genre. One of the most intriguing aspects of the show, however, is the vehicle through which it delivers these storylines.

Westworld employs an intricate multiple timeline narrative structure that (at least in Season 1) is an absolute treat to experience. Plotlines occurring place in the past are juxtaposed with narratives happening in the present. However, the imperishable bodies and faces of the android hosts and the recurring artificial theme-park setting deceive viewers into thinking that everything is happening concurrently. Eagle-eye fans might have noticed slight differences between the interior of the Mesa Hub between scenes or the depiction of the Westworld logo, though the presence of multiple timelines isn’t fully revealed until the end of Season 1.

Westworld is by no means the first show to wield the multiple timeline technique. Several sci-fi movies (such as Donnie Darko, Looper, and Arrival) use time as a focal point of their stories. Yet Westworld deftly uses multiple timelines not only as a means of advancing the plot, but as a device to highlight character growth and emphasize core themes of the show.

The journey of William (aka “The Man in Black”) is one of the most intriguing and creative uses of multiple timelines by the show. It’s amazing to watch the character arc of young William as he discovers his true self in the park and transforms into “The Man in Black.” Viewers will never forget the moment when young William in the past timeline (who started out with a white hat) picks up and dons the black hat as the screen transitions into the present timeline when it is revealed who the “The Man in Black” was all along.

Similarly, the use of multiple timelines is a thematic exposition that allows us to empathize with the hosts and understand how they process memory. Dolores is constantly reliving narratives and memories, retracing her steps in a way that revives past evens instead of recalling them in a traditional sense. She does not “remember” things the same way that humans do; she relives it. We can almost feel her anguish and confusion as she stumbles through the park in Episode 10 of Season 1, jumping through time to relive every iteration of her actions. For viewers, it makes her quest to find the center of the maze and consequent consciousness all the more tangible and real.

[eldamaranquendi]

The Music of the Gods by KipRasmussen

“This is Ainulindale, the music of the Gods who created the world spiritually through song before its material formation. That's Eru in the middle and Varda, Manwe, Ulmo, Aule, Yavanna and Melkor, left to right. I found Tolkien's creation scene both unpaintable and irresistible. And because I'm a craven, I chose not to depict the other Ainur such as Mandos, Tulkas, etc. Please forgive me. The watermark made the whole thing look like Eru was presenting a Doritos logo so I removed it. I mean, I really do love Doritos--every crunchy triangle is sacred-- but it felt a little blasphemous compared to The Flame Imperishable. Anyway, feel free to use the image with attribution. Thanks.”

[delicatechaosduck]

Logo Design Trends That You Should Be Aware

As of now that we're right into the new year, we figured it is ideal to do a fast audit of a part of the top logo design designs emphatically affecting the web.

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1. Standard Tones That Emulate Nature

With 2020 being a year where we were rushed inside, 2021 is anticipating a year stacked up with nature and #earthtonesonly.

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What's uncommon about this is it will give your logo a perfect and changed look paying little regard to which part of the point you go for.

Using the conditions of nature in a clear leaf format may be all around what your logo needs or you can pick a relieving green and gritty hued concealing reach to help your logo sprout.

You don't ought to be a normally arranged business to use this theme as a picture of new beginnings and improvement.

2. Direct Geometric Shapes

A high level logo arrangement routinely piles of symbolism. This year we're taking it's anything but's a score by using praiseworthy shapes to outline an extraordinary logo plan.

Consider seals your go-to for this arrangement style, yet not something unnecessarily radiant or involved. “buy company logo“

This example will underline the sensitive and fundamental pieces of plan while giving a logo the development it needs. Look at how as a logo could unravel onto a stamp. With the ultimate objective for it to keep up structure inside the sensitive surface of the stamp ink, a numerical shape is an outright need to hold together the arrangement.

3. Calming Color Schemes

Monochrome, concealing less, and calmed tones will begin to stand out in most logo designs this year. Notwithstanding, it is its own subject adjacent to that.

Having a clear concealing reach pursues into account more open door in the real arrangement. Think about everything, in case you have boisterous shadings and a crazy arrangement, your logo will radiate a particularly strong and uproarious energy. This is mind blowing for specific brands, anyway not for all.

If you limit the concealing reach, you get the opportunity to go wild on the printed style and picture mix. Since the part of concealing coordinates it, the logo will look tranquil, loosening up, and clean. “buy business logo“

Calmed colors transmit a vibe of prosperity and security. Recall that arising out of 2020, a huge load of us long for that. So play on our human necessities and go arrangement your sensitive adapted logo!

4. Glitch/Static Motion

Whatever amount of all of us may hate to surrender, 2020 lead us down the rabbit opening of TikTok, and with that, the glitch design.

So why not take on 2021 by totally tolerating how the glitch is cool. It sends us back to grainy TV yet furthermore dispatches us into the future with a tendency and energy for obscure frequencies.

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Permit your customers to feel the vibrations of your message and brand by arranging your logo taking into account static turn of events.

5. Movement Integrated Modern Design

There's something glad and fun about child's shows – maybe this is because we grew up watching them. By and by they're making a bounce back in logo plan.

Various associations are choosing a 'mascot' to address their picture, and it's working splendidly. Notwithstanding the way that this inhales new life into an old logo, yet it in like manner thinks about unbelievable collection.

You can choose to coordinate with your character with text, which gives your logo a more special feel – you can stamp business cards with the substance and staff shirts with the character, for example. 

This logo configuration furthermore helps you with entering into other checking stages. You can epitomize your character and revive it in short catches for online media. “buy custom logo“

Look at how as a character can duplicate your stamping destinations and go starting there. Acknowledge this example as a way to deal with be fiery and stand separated from the gathering.

6. Evaporating Letters and Text

Wordmark logos are strong and guarantee that your customer knows absolutely which brand they're interfacing with. With headways in visual correspondence and the chance to make your own text based style, text has another explanation.

This year we're seeing control sway wordmarks with the cool look of negative space and evaporating text.

The missing bits of the letters or words give the impression of mystery and help order the notification of your group. Basically make a point not to take it exorbitantly far where your logo is clouded.

Another lovely technique to intertwine this fascinating arrangement is to play with the negative space in your arrangement to help it's anything but's a material shape for your picture. Think FedEx where there's a bolt in the negative space between the 'E' and the 'x'. “logos company”

7. Tendencies

Right when we talk about tendencies in logo plan, I need you to get the image of single-hide points off of your brain. While using tendencies this year consider splendid tones that blend to transmit a fragile and safe yet blended energy.

Also, to help raise your tendency logo essentially more, what might be said about endeavoring a 3-D arrangement? Use the help of shadows and highlights to make your point genuinely pop.

You needn't mess with a logo plan with a billion tones, yet take two that address you and your picture and combine them as one to make the ideal visual for your new site, shirt, or holder cap.

If this style suits your necessities, mess with it! Permit your internal rainbow to shimmer onto your next logo plan.”custom logos for sale“

[webdevelopmentromania]

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[befanini]

The Music of the Gods by KipRasmussen

“ This is Ainulindale, the music of the Gods who created the world spiritually through song before its material formation. That's Eru in the middle and Varda, Manwe, Ulmo, Aule, Yavanna and Melkor, left to right. I found Tolkien's creation scene both unpaintable and irresistible. And because I'm a craven, I chose not to depict the other Ainur such as Mandos, Tulkas, etc. Please forgive me. The watermark made the whole thing look like Eru was presenting a Doritos logo so I removed it. I mean, I really do love Doritos--every crunchy triangle is sacred-- but it felt a little blasphemous compared to The Flame Imperishable. Anyway, feel free to use the image with attribution. Thanks. “ - Kip Rasmussen 

[bloomofiron]

The Obsidian Sentinels Sororitas Order, the Dark Age of Technology

Sisters Rewrite - Part 1/???

The Sentinels differ from other Sororitas in that they predate the Age of Apostasy, and they instead originated during the Dark Age of Technology.

During the Dark Times, the Emperor walked the galaxy in disguise as a mortal man. The Men of Iron, once the servants of humanity, had been overtaken by the storms of the Warp and now, daemon-ridden, they sought to tear down everything humans has built. The war against the Iron Men ranged so widely and so fiercely that even the Emperor was at a loss to put an end to it, and he was reduced to aiding what pockets of humanity he could as whole systems burned around him.

It was in a system far from Terra that he first encountered the Clockwerk Titan, which its followers called the Beast With A Thousand Maws, and its inhabitants called the Dark Planet. A synthetic world, the A.I. at the Dark Planet's core had become the host to a daemonic entity like none other before it. The Emperor had seen and fought daemons from the highest circles before, but this was a wholly unique obscenity. Although few records remain, the Titan's ceaseless hunger and desire to consume all life has led some religious and historical scholars to believe the cancerous core of the planet had become host to an avatar of Nurgle himself.

The humans who lived on the Dark Planet were deeply in the thrall of the Beast With A Thousand Maws, altered by its attendant machines and aiding it in its endeavors by hurling the human and xenos slaves their raiding parties captured into the great rifts in the globe's surfaces. Sacrifices to the Black God, the killings performed thousands or hundreds-of-thousands at a time. As he sought a way to reach the planet's heart and either slay or banish the monster within it, the Emperor encountered a group of woman who were priestesses to an entity they called Augmentus Prima - according to them, the mother of all life.

Although the other denizens of the Dark Planet had fallen deeply into corruption, the simple humility and piety the women possessed had seemingly rendered them immune to the Titan's influences, and though the Emperor did not (at the times) approve of religion, the priestesses did not worship Augmentus directly. Rather, they held her up as an immaculate example of courage, selflessness, and honor - a figure to be emulated and looked to for advice. Like the other natives of the Dark Planet, they too had been... altered to serve the Titan's whims, but these alterations did not allow the Beast With A Thousand Maws to control or command them. These qualities were what convinced the Emperor to seek their aid in his personal crusade against the Clockwerk Titan.

The Emperor approached the leader of Augmentus' cult, Loralyn, whose title was the Shepard of Songs, and in his negotiations with her, he was surprisingly candid. He revealed his nature as an immortal and perpetual, and pointed out where he thought their purposes and interests aligned. If she and her sisters would serve as his honor guards on the journey to the planet's core, he would imbue them with a portion of his power, giving them the means to fight back against the Titan and its minions. Loralyn agreed, and together with her sisters and the future Emperor, they brought war to the heart of the Dark Planet. Battling their way though the synthetic world's interior, they encountered many foes and dangers, behemoths of flesh and necro-tech that the Titan spun up from the Warp, tears in the cloth of reality from which lesser daemons poured like viruses into a healthy bloodstream. Broken lightning towers, unstable sub-levels, oceans of oil, fields of burning promethium, and city-sized dynamos that churned with fel energy all dotted the technological hellscape.

At last, the Emperor and his allies came to the Central Control Manse at the core of the planet. Alone, Loralyn and the Emperor entered, and what transpired there or the nature of their struggle against the Warp entity that lay within is not known. When they emerged a day and a night later, the Titan's heart - which they named as the Hope-Devouring-Cancer - had been vanquished. The Beast With A Thousand Maws was dead.

Why the Emperor did not destroy the planet entirely is unknown, though it seems that doing so may have even more dire consequences than letting it be. In reverence and solidarity with their new ally, Loralyn and her sisters agreed to stand watch over the Titan's corpse until the end of time.

The Emperor assumed that would be several decades, perhaps a century or two, until they all died of old age and the Dark Planet was forgotten and lost.

This was... not the case.

During the Siege of Terra, a great number of the Dark Planet's defenders braved the Warp storms to reach the embattled planet and join the defenders there. The Emperor could hardly believe it when their flagship, the Silver Triptych, came into orbit over Terra with dozens of smaller vessels in tow. Loralyn had heard of her old friend's troubles, and sent every soldier she could spare to aid in Terra's defense. The priestesses, now calling themselves the Obsidian Sentinels, explained that the alterations and experiments performed by the Titan on the Dark Planet's inhabitants had (perhaps when combined with the Emperor's own powers) rendered them immortal. Not as the Emperor was, for they could still die, but they were ageless and unchanging, and they had been keeping their lonely vigil for the last seven thousand years.

Concerned about that information, but happy to have any allies he could bring to bear, the Sentinels were allowed to join the defenders within the Imperial Palace. Their leader, Raidne, was of particular note, slaying hundreds of daemons with her great warhammer and hurling the broken body of Sorgaxon, a demon prince, from the walls. When the Siege ended, some of the Sentinels returned to the Dark Planet, while others joined the various Crusades that set out to pursue the traitors or punish Horus' former allies.

The Modern Day

The Obsidian Sentinels are a convent of ageless women who stand guard over the corpse of the Dark Planet and ensure that its technology or relics do not fall into the hands of the Imperium's enemies. Their Canoness, Loralyn, is just over thirteen thousand years old, and several other members of the Sentinels have survived since M23. Once a personal friend and ally of the Emperor, Loralyn is ceaseless in her eternal vigil, though she remains distant and estranged from Imperial politics.

Sentinels reside primarily on the Dark Planet, whose location is a closely guarded secret (though it's known to upper levels of the Inquisition). They consider its defense to trump all other concerns, however, they occasionally leave in small groups to investigate or purge groups, cults, or individuals who possess technology originally forged on their world, or who may be trying to revive the Clockwerk Titan. They have special hatred of Obliterator Chaos Space Marines (as well as the Dark Mechanium in general), believing the Obliterator Virus was somehow extracted from the heart of the Beast With A Thousand Maws.

Sentinels are human, but like many humans from the Dark Age of Technology, they were once slaves to the Men of Iron and were altered to serve their robot masters. The nature of these alterations varies from individual to individual, but at minimum all Sentinels have plugs that allow the for wearing of power armor and interfacing with other machines.Their manifestations tend to be technological in nature, mathematical sequences, whirling gears, hissing steam, and layers of motherboards.

Alongside Canoness Loralyn, the Sentinels are led by Augusta Tailwind, leader of the Sentinel military force; Raidne, the Canoness' personal champion, who led the Sentinels at the Siege of Terra and who oversees the Sentinel's crusades; and Skye Blaineux, the master of the Sentinel fleets.

The Highgate Journal Controversy

The Emperor, in what passed as his youth, was a prolific writer who was occasionally careless with his things. As a result, it is not unusual for new writings, manuscripts, sketches, and journals penned by the Emperor to be uncovered, even as late as M42. The Highgate Document is one such find.

On its surface, the Document seems innocent enough. A high-quality notebook of semi-imperishable paper that dates from M23, the journal was originally bound by a company called Highgate Stationary, whose logo is stamped on the back cover - hence the name. It was hand-written by the Emperor and records about two years worth of his travels in both prose and sketches. It details his discovery of the Dark Planet and his meetings with Loralyn and several of her sisters. Drawings of the priestesses, as well as their homes, vehicles, and the secret base where they plotted the downfall of the Dark Titan take up just under a third of the pages. The authenticity of the Highgate Journal has been verified by the highest levels of the Ecclesiarchy and Inquisition.

On the surface, the Highgate Journal seems to confirm everything the Sentinels have claimed about their encounter with the Emperor. There's only one problem, nowhere in the text are the Sentinels or inhabitants of the Dark Planet ever described as being human. In fact, the Emperor goes to great lengths to avoid doing so. He remarks on their 'incredible stature', describes them as 'towering', and once - calls them 'giantesses', which is the source of much confusion. Raidne, the leader of the Sentinels who came to Terra during the Siege, was photographed alongside several of the Imperial Fist Space Marines, including Helgrin Amos and is Company, and even in her power armor, the Astartes dwarf her in size.

Several investigations have been launched, but they are yet to turn up any conclusive evidence that the Sentinels are xenos or consorting with them. Still, that doesn't prove their innocence, a lack of guilt doesn't make them innocent, and the Inquisition is considering a full infiltration operation.

Soundtrack Technologic - Daft Punk, Iron Man - Black Sabbath, Info High - Sharon Apple, Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce, Within the Giant - Nobuo Uematsu, The Touch - Stan Bush.

[mayacatmaster]

Bhagavan.; Truly there is no cause for you to be miserable and unhappy. You yourself impose limitations on your true nature of infinite being, and then weep that you are but a finite creature. Then you take up this or that spiritual practice to transcend the non- existent limitations. But if your spiritual practice itself assumes the existence of the limitations, how can it help you to transcend them ? Hence I say know that you are really the infinite pure being, the Self. You are always that Self and nothing but that Self. Therefore, you can never be really ignorant of the Self. Your ignorance is merely an imaginary ignorance, like the ignorance of the ten fools about the lost tenth man. It is this ignorance that caused them grief. Know then that true knowledge does not create a new being for you, it only removes your ignorant ignorance. Bliss is not added to your nature, it is merely revealed as your true natural state, eternal and imperishable. The only way to be rid of your grief is to know and be the Self. How can this be unattainable ? *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Via and thanks “Ramana Maharshi”: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** From ~~~ Maharshi's Gospel, B.II., Ch.I. *** *** *** You have been fooled into thinking that ‘you’ are angry, sad, confused, afraid, and so on. Identification and reaction with these thoughts and emotions are where you forget your true nature. You are the divine watcher, the undisturbed witness. Be the ever present space for ‘ALL’ to appear and disappear in.  –Anon I mus *** *** *** "Live more consciously and bring more witnessing presence to everything that you encounter" -Anon I mus *** *** *** If you stand aloof as observer only, you will not suffer.  You will see the world as a show, a most entertaining show indeed. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj *** *** *** You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you.  True power is sitting back & observing everything with "logic"(Ma-at; Logos; Tao; Source; True Self).  True power is "restraint"(don't identify with it as "true; me & mine).  If words control you that means everyone can control you.  Telling yourself:" This Too Shall Pass!", just like any kind of clouds, use your heart like mirror, don't identify with it as "real; true; me; mine", if you don't want it.  Breathe & allow things to pass.  Don't hold on it.  Empty your heart-mind just like sky. *** *** *** Watch Life, as if you are watching a movie! Watch your own 3D-life-movie, as if you are watching another peoples 3D-life-movie. Watch your own self, as if you are watching another people's self. Watch your own beliefs, as if you are watching another peoples’ beliefs.... inquiry and question it. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** I don't know how to tell my friend that I'm imaginary.  *** *** *** Public announcement:  I am not of this world.  That is all.  *** *** *** Mr. Bean:  Do you ever consider How aliens see your religion/morality/holy books/political/country-social-family-belief-system in movies.  *** *** *** Who loves sitting on 3d-movie-Virtual-life-reality and watching film screening? Who loves Sit back and watch your life-movie as if it's happen on another people? *** *** *** Is there any moment when you have not realized the Self?  Can you ever be apart from the Self?  You are always That. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi *** *** *** Remember you are infinite-eternal-Seer, Look at your 3d-life-movie-experience beyond “mind”(Experience; phenomenon) ; open your minded just like space.  *** *** *** From the Non-Physical,  I created me;  and now from the physical,  I continue to create. ~Abraham  *** *** *** So Why not just ….: look within yourself and inquire, Who lives? To whom? *** *** *** Remember you are infinite-eternal-Seer, Look at your 3d-life-movie-experience beyond “mind”(Experience; phenomenon) ; open your minded just like space.  *** *** *** Why not just ….: look within yourself and inquire, Who's world is this?  To whom does this world belong? *** *** *** Which you? Which world? How to free yourself from self-limitation? *** *** *** Remember you are infinite-eternal-Seer, Look at your 3d-life-movie-experience beyond “mind”(Experience; phenomenon) ; open your minded just like space.  *** *** *** And…: Stop all physical activity by no identify with any kind “I am this or that” as “me; mine; myself” & “real; true”  and sit naturally at ease.  *** *** *** Remain silent-witness-awareness-mirror-consciousness and let “sound”(Experience; phenomenon) be like an echo.  *** *** *** Realized…: *** *** *** The belief system you hold in your mind about yourself and world are reflected in the world that you see.  *** *** *** Your outer is not outer, it is INNER.  All your explorations and all your ideas, no matter how they may magnify scientifically or otherwise, are all going to be the result of the way you change the idea of how you see yourself and what you know is possible in your,  dimension of experience. ~Bashar *** *** ***  When you know, that physical reality is a mirror, a reflection, of your strongest beliefs, your strongest thoughts, what you believe is possible, most likely to occur, then you can use the outer mirror illusion reflection, as a guide line, a marker, a reminder, of what kind of thoughts you are having, what kind of definitions you are believing, what kind of concepts you are buying into.  - Bashar  *** *** *** The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing within yourself. *** *** ***  Use your heart like mirror, don’t identify with anything, do need think about anything.  *** *** *** Remember you are infinite-eternal-Seer, Look at your 3d-life-movie-experience beyond “mind”(Experience; phenomenon) ; open your minded just like space.  *** *** *** Let go of control and stop and rest at ease in that state.  Awareness without egoism-judgment-projectionis the greatest meditation.  Train and develop like this and you will come to the deepest awakening ~Tilopa *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Via and thanks “Sangha of Love” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** The first step in spiritual life is: Learning to control your mind. You learn to control your mind by inquiring, "To whom does the mind come?" This makes you realize that the mind comes to your body. It's part of your body process. But in truth you have no mind. You are mindless. When you are mindless you are Brahman. You are God. Where the mind is limited. You have to always go beyond the mind. You stop paying attention to the thoughts. Let the thoughts do what they will. Allow the thoughts to frighten you if they will. To tell you all kinds of stories. To tell you all kinds of things. Do not pay any attention. When you ignore your mind it will go away. The second step in spiritual progress is: To develop humility. And humility means you do not judge people. You do not feel slighted when someone talks about you or tells you something rude. You do not get angry or upset. You just remain yourself. ~ Robert Adams: T. 175 Steps In Spiritual Life - August 2, 1992 *** *** *** There is no outside . . . it's all within existence . . . outside is a concept within existence. existence is not subject to the concept of outside. *** *** *** We Understand That The Way - You Chose To Experience This (PHYSICAL Reality) Make It Appear To Be Outside Of You. So, The Thing To Remember In  Order To Give Yourself More Opportunity Pro Choosy And Experience The Kind Of Physical Reality You Prefer, The Kind Of Physical Reality • That You Say is More In Alignment with Your True Vibration, is To Begin To See And Experience Physical Reality As A Reflection, Similar To The Idea Of The  Reflection That Exists In Your Glass Mirrors.  Bashar (HALL Of Mirrors)  *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Via and thanks “Michelle Copeland”: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Sit back and watch your life-movie as if it's happen on another people...^^ *** *** *** Cats are strongly connected to their Source, so... No wonder they look more alien-like, their being is more alien. *** *** *** You are that...not continue repeated 'I am Brahma.', it's let Brahma play as you...^^ *** *** *** Mirror the most simplest “Cosmic Principle”(Tao; Source; Ma at; Brahma) in every area *** *** *** Q: What are the hindrances to the realization of Reality, alignment with Source and as an alignment-deliberate-creator? *** *** *** M: It’s you want to be a kiss-dark-tyrant-ruler’s-ass-blind-obey-dog, because you said I follow order like dog, and it what made me a “man”(woman; children). *** *** *** No matter of it’s use what kind of name…. God/religion/moral/holy books/country/social-family-belief-system. *** *** *** So…: Never hold back  your spiritual badassery.  You came here  to unleash that shit.  *** *** *** A Man Who Conquers Himself Is Greater Than One Who Conquers A Thousand Men In Battle. ~Buddha *** *** *** Otherwise…: I'M AGENT SMITH. MY JOB IS TO PROTECT THE MATRIX  FREE THINKERS Will BE  RIDICULED and eliminated  AS FOR THE REST OF YOU SHEEP, GO BACK TO SLEEP, YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW is on. *** *** *** So…: Therein lies the basis of anyone's success:  How much do I practice thoughts that bring me joy, and how much do I practice  thoughts that bring me pain? ~Abraham *** *** *** What a joy, to travel the cat-like-way or Source-like-way of the heart. What a misery, to travel the kiss-dark-tyrant-ruler’s-ass of mindset. *** *** *** May all hearts beat as “One”(Source; Tao; True Self), don’t use any kind of name Manipulate us became blind-obey-dog, then “bite”(war) to each other. No matter of it’s use God/religion/morality/country-social-family-personal-belief-system. *** *** *** The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing within yourself. You can…: Born as a cat, died as a cat, just let your life Cat like, even …: You're Crazy To Everyone Who Can't Manipulate You. Or You want said I follow order like a dog, it what make me a “man”(woman; children). *** *** *** It depend on your choice, decide and select, pick wise what you want. *** *** *** I encourage you to have a profound and genuine curiosity, a deep determination to go beyond the world that is created by concepts and ideas (as useful as they can be), and an intention to wake up from living an abstract life — from liking  what your mind tells you to like, disliking what your mind tells you to dislike, agreeing with what your conditioned mind tells you to disagree with, and everything endlessly looping in a waking dream. ~Adyashanti *** *** *** I See Everything.  I Keep Quiet  About It.  But I Understand.  I Know.  *** *** *** Energy is my first language, I undersigned more than I do words.  You might as well be who you really are because your vibes is going to tell the truth anyways.  *** *** *** Simplicity, easy is my ultimate sophistication. *** *** *** Socrate's Way： *** *** *** According mirror and reflect the most simplest “Cosmic Principle”(Tao; Source; Ma at; Brahma) Response to various conditions, various challenges, various tests, variety people and things. *** *** *** "Science cannot solve the ultimate mysteries of natures  And that is because we ourselves are part of nature and  are therefore also part of the mystery we are trying to solve." ~Max Planck  *** *** *** So…: According alignment with “Source”(True Self; Tao) and as alignment-deliberate-creator Response to various conditions, various challenges, various tests, variety people and things. *** *** *** Between egoism and "Source"(Tao; True Self); Between man-made-rules and "Source"(Tao; True Self); Between desires and "Source"(Tao; True Self); Between your-origin-face and "Source"(Tao; True Self); *** *** *** Between your heart, my heart and another heart; *** No matter what... You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the end beginning of it. *** *** *** Life is "Tao"(True Self；Brahman) back to itself. I observed the sun, moon, stars orbit operation life. *** *** *** Because…: "Nature"(Tao；Ma-at；Logos; Source) never did betray the heart that loved her. *** *** *** So…: Follow the force that is guiding the whole universe is in you.  Pledge allegiance to your "Source"(God; True Self; Tao; Logos),  everything is done! ~Huangdi Yinfujing 「觀天之道，執天之行，盡矣！」: 黃帝陰符經； *** *** *** You are never along or helpless.  The force that is guiding the whole universe is in you too! *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Via and thanks “Devi Mandir”: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** The Seer of All, who is all Knowledge, the Lord of the Universe, who is all existence; before the Creative Consciousness, before the knowers of Consciousness, existing in eternal delight as the Consciousness of Infinite Goodness. ~Jai Shiva *** *** *** Who loves sitting on 3d-movie-Virtual-life-reality and watching film screening? Who loves Sit back and watch your life-movie as if it's happen on another people? *** *** *** Is there any moment when you have not realized the Self?  Can you ever be apart from the Self?  You are always That. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi *** *** *** Remember you are infinite-eternal-Seer, Look at your 3d-life-movie-experience beyond “mind”(Experience; phenomenon) ; open your minded just like space.  *** *** *** "Outward ritual; cannot destroy ignorance, because they are not mutually contradictory, " wrote Shankara in his famous CENTURY OF VERSES. Realized knowledge alone destroys ignorance.....Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than inquiry. 'Who am I? How was this universe born? Who is its maker? What is its material cause?' This is the kind of inquiry referred to." The intellect has no answer for these questions; hence the rishis evolved yoga as the technique of spiritual inquiry. ~Autobiography of a Yogi Ch10 by Paramahansa Yogananda *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Thanks for “Paramahansa Yogananda” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 【中文翻譯參照】： 商竭羅的尊者之歌，其中有著名的一節，這樣寫道：”外在的儀式消滅不了「小我我執無明認同」無知，因為它們並非互不相容的。 只有親身體悟瞭解的真知灼見才能消滅「小我我執無明認同」無知。 只有內觀覺照自我探究，自性光明的真知灼見才能從內在湧現，除此之��，別無他途。 『我是誰？眼前這個世界是怎麼來的？是誰造就的？眼前物質世界其經驗體會的關鍵決定性成因是什麼呢？』;  我們內觀覺照自我探究的探詢考察就是用這種提問。(知識份子答不出這些問題; 因為這些乃是有道之士發展「心道無隔；梵我一如；神人合一」瑜珈作為靈性自我探究的方法。 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

[maidenofsophia]

The Thought of Norea

"Creator of All, Ennoia of the Light, dwelling in the heights above the (regions) below, Light dwelling in the heights, Voice of Truth, upright Nous, untouchable Logos, and ineffable Voice, incomprehensible Mother-Father!

It is Norea who cries out to Them. They heard and they received Her into her place forever. They gave it to Her in the Parent of Nous, Adamas, as well as the voice of the Holy Ones, in order that She might rest in the ineffable Epinoia, in order that She might inherit the first mind which She had received, and that She might rest in the divine Autogenes, and that She too might generate Herself, just as She also has inherited the living Logos, and that She might be joined to all of the Imperishable Ones, and speak with the mind of the Mother-Father.

And She began to speak with the words of Life, and She remained in the presence of the Exalted One, possessing that which She had received before the world came into being. She has the great mind of the Invisible One, and She gives glory to Her Mother-Father, and She dwells within those who are awake within the Pleroma, and she beholds the Pleroma.

There will be days when She will behold the Pleroma, and She will not be in deficiency, for She has the four holy helpers who intercede on Her behalf with the Source of the All, Adamas. They are who is within all of Creation, possessing the thought of Norea, who speaks concerning the two names which create a single name."

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The Daughter, here as the daughter of Eve, ascending - from the Nag Hammadi text; “The Thought of Norea/Ode to Norea.” Edited to avoid male-dominate implications. The original scripture can be found here.

[wristwatchjournal]

Dietrich TC Pure Timepieces Launches As Collaboration Between Swiss Watchmaker & aBlogtoWatch

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Today on aBlogtoWatch, we debut the Dietrich TC Pure wristwatch collection. The Dietrich TC Pure is produced by Swiss watchmaker Dietrich and represents a new flavor of the popular existing Dietrich TC-1 (“Time Companion 1”) product family. The watch is sold and produced entirely by Dietrich but was designed and conceived in direct collaboration with aBlogtoWatch, namely our Art Director Matt Smith-Johnson. The TC Pure would not have happened without a direct and personal relationship between Mr. Emmanuel Dietrich and Matt Smith-Johnson.

The pair met in person around 2017 at a small watch industry event where Dietrich was displaying timepieces. Smith-Johnson happened to be there and, as the story goes, he accidentally knocked over a “wobbly” watch display stand that Dietrich watches were secured on. No damage ensued, but it resulted in Matt Smith-Johnson later designing a brand new display concept for Dietrich — demonstrating to Mr. Dietrich that they shared a passion for design. The TC Pure project took well over a year, with the duo going back and forth on numerous designs. From a design perspective, Dietrich wanted a dial for the TC-1 that he himself could not come up with. He gave design direction and feedback to Smith-Johnson, who created the TC Pure dials for Dietrich’s direct approval. The result is a new “sterile” (no branding) watch face experience for the Dietrich TC product family.

aBlogtoWatch’s Ariel Adams was the first timepiece writer to showcase the world of Emmanuel Dietrich online over a decade ago. Dietrich is an accomplished designer who, in the context of watches, brings a unique mixture of industrial design sensibility with a biomorphic aesthetic. He takes established principles of timepiece legibility, proportions, and ergonomic comfort and renders unique shapes and forms around them. Dietrich’s current most “mainstream” watches are within the TC-1 collection, which is designed to be an original take on the popular “integrated bracelet steel sports watch.”

This classification of watches that includes the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and Patek Philippe Nautilus has proven to be exceptionally popular with timepieces consumers and collectors alike. This is due to their mix of fashionable versatility, unmistakably masculine looks, and a distinctive aesthetic. The TC-1 watch features a unique look on a popular theme, something Dietrich excels at. With the TC Pure, aBlogtoWatch wanted to create a new dial variation that even further refines the face of the TC collection down to its core properties using sophisticated tenets of minimalism. Hence the name Dietrich “TC Pure.”

Dietrich and aBlogtoWatch have designed two versions of the TC Pure featuring the product in a natural steel case and bracelet or with a black-colored PVD coating. The watch is 42mm-wide, 9.3mm-thick, and wears smaller than the width might suggest given the narrow lug structure. The 50-meter water-resistant case has Dietrich’s signature hexagonal shape, which is mirrored in the design of the bracelet’s links. Inside the watch is a Swiss-made ETA 2824-2 automatic movement, of which only the time is displayed on the dial of the TC Pure. For a full look at the standard Dietrich TC-1 watch, you can read the aBlogtoWatch review here.

Now let’s hear from Emmanuel Dietrich and Matt Smith-Johnson about the TC Pure watches, as well as the design process that led to them.

Ariel Adams (AA): Emmanuel, you are known to be both meticulous and protective of your unique design sensibility. What did it take to convince you to work with a third-party designer such as Matt to publicly offer a new variation on a watch design platform (the Time Companion) that took you years to develop and perfect?

Emmanuel Dietrich (ED): I am 100 percent a product designer and in this domain, for sure, I am quite protective. Or better said, I wouldn’t easily give up to the pleasure of designing an object. But saying that also indicates that I am primarily thinking in three dimensions. This is my strength. Imagining a form in space is as easier for me than for most other people to calculate or analyze. Each human has special capacities and can only be champion in the domains where we perform naturally. But in a complex context, if you want to make a top job, it is very important to know your limits and seek the help of people who have the same level of ability in the sub-domains you are lower-performing in.

For me, this limit is graphic design. Thinking in two dimensions is a different approach or mindset, even if it belongs to design. My passion for three dimensions led to designs like Organic Time, where the dial is freely composed like a small universe, not drawn on a flat surface as with a classic watch.

Knowing this, I sought first for the help of a typographer — the great Raymond Larabie from Typodermic Fonts, and had him design a beautifully balanced figures alphabet especially for my watch dials. (Standard fonts usually have figures that are not “stable” when used alone on a dial, with the result that the entire industry  — even Rolex — uses almost the same classic Eurostile font. And this is one of the reasons for the success of vintage dials; their numbers were designed by hand and carefully balanced in a pre-computer era.)

A second logical step was to ask for a pure graphic designer like Matt to play with these figures and create a very strong graphic design that prolongs the DNA of the brand but explores territories I wouldn’t penetrate myself.

AA: Matt, over a number of conversations, you and Emmanuel learned that you had a lot in common. Tell me about some of the shared interests you two have and perhaps how some of your overlapping passions ended up in the TC Pure watches from a design or detailing perspective?

Matt Smith-Johnson (MSJ): When it comes to design, I think it’s fair to say we both enjoy the process itself. Working within a predetermined set of constraints and managing to make something different or unexpected brings great satisfaction to us both. For the brand and products of Dietrich, Emmanuel has built a visual language from the original Organic Time onward. In a way, he set up the constraints I ended up working within to design the TC Pure dial.

I’ve always been a fan of Dietrich watches, I even bought the first edition of the TC-1 as soon as it launched. This influenced me in a way I was initially unaware of. When designing the first few concepts, I was trying to predict or emulate what I felt Emmanuel would do. Almost as if I were following a strict design brief, ya know?

After presenting the first few concepts, Emmanuel brought up some of the logo work I have done. We had a call, and he said something like, “With these logos, you see how you do things so efficiently and minimal? That’s your style. That’s what you do naturally when working on your own — do something like that for me. That is what you can bring to Dietrich: something I wouldn’t think of.”

This really gave me the permission and confidence to just be myself. It changed the process for me, which led to the “TC Pure” you see here.

AA: Emmanuel, explain how the TC watch collection actually represents a very time-tested and approved timepiece concept, even though its shape and form feel distinctive.

ED: First, the combination of stainless steel case and bracelet, combined with a three hand-date automatic movement, is the most successful combo out there. Simply because it is the best “form-follows-function” package available for daily use. And design is a lot about form following function!

Second, the case construction of the TC uses the same idea of a flat surface sharply bent to go into the bracelet that Gerald Genta used with so much talent and success. This “Genta bend” allows us to have a perfectly integrated metal bracelet compared to watches where the metal bracelet needs a complex first link to go from flat to the curved form of the case. If you look at Rolex, which is the only brand to perfectly master this exercise, it needed 50 years to improve from an approximative flimsy piece of metal to the beautiful solutions it achieves now. But in terms of design, I would consider the Genta bend much more modern and consequential.

Then, on this basis, it’s up to you to develop your own language. And here, as ever, it is about finding a strong formal expression that stays approachable and likable. It is about being yourself and being recognizable in the overcrowded watch world. It is about generating passion. And this is an alchemy none can really explain that just happens or not.

AA: Matt, how do you explain to watch lover novices what is special about Dietrich? You and I agree that it takes some experience and exposure to understand what particular designers such as Emmanuel Dietrich bring to the table. To newbies, his work might just seem different for the sake of being different. How might you describe it?

MSJ: Dietrich has a conceptually driven design language that I typically only see at the “haute horology” level of watchmaking. Every Dietrich collection uses organic shapes and forms, resulting in a unique biomechanical looking watch. It sort of reminds me of H.R. Giger, without being frighteningly dystopian.

For me, Dietrich watches are a celebration of the relationship we have with things more precise and imperishable than ourselves. People are imperfect, we’re organic, we make mistakes — and yet we build machines that complete tasks with astonishing accuracy. We’re capable of measuring time with great precision yet, nevertheless, our perception of carefully measured time remains inconsistent. What a fascinating paradox!

If you look closely, you’ll notice that each collection plays with this concept. I just don’t think you’ll find another brand out there with a philosophy quite like this.

AA: Emmanuel, tell us about your design work outside of the Dietrich brand. What are some other watches or products you designed? How did you get your formative training and experience as an industrial designer and then as a wristwatch specialist designer?

ED: My passion for design goes back to my sixth year, when my mother told me, “If you want weapons to play with, you will have to fabricate them yourself!” Starting from that instant, I consequently ordered tools for all my following birthdays and Christmases and started producing not only the wooden swords and guns I was dreaming about but all possible items. Bicycles and watches were especially in my focus, and one friend of the family who was my mentor in the DIY world was, indeed, working on watch prototypes at the LIP factory in Besançon (I grew up in the French watch region, close to Switzerland). I learned a lot from him and inherited his passion for precision work

This led me to study cabinet making and then interior design — in Paris, at the Boulle school. I went immediately freelance afterward and started proposing my ideas to potential clients. Since watches were in my blood, I tried and succeeded with two first designs, one made entirely of plastic for a theme park in France (a concept I also presented to Hayek Senior for Swatch, who loved it but eventually turned it down) and another one made of leather that I to sold to Hermès, thanks to the exceptionally open-minded Jean-Louis Dumas, who was leading the company in this time. The watch was called “Harnais.” These two projects opened a lot of doors for me in the industry, and I designed over the following 20 years for many brands, especially the creative ones like the Calvin Klein license of the Swatch Group, in its bright years.

Apart from watches, I was so curious I designed almost everything. From disposable plastic spoons for Häagen-Dazs to office furniture for Haworth, from home furniture to technical items like garage tools or even medical devices. I learned a lot about various techniques, and a lot about watchmaking, visiting all my client workshops and factories and working with them on product development.

That led me to create my own universe in the watchmaking world, a logical step, even if I remain primarily a designer.

AA: Emmanuel, tell me a little bit about what type of wearing experience you intended for the TC collection when you originally conceived it. What type of watch lover did you see wearing it? In what types of contexts? In other words, what problem or style were you designing the TC as a solution for? Answer that for the TC Pure, and explain what new solution is being solved with the addition of a more minimalist dial for the Time Companion product collection.

ED: The TC should also be a perfect match for the independent-minded watch lover who seeks an alternative to the classics. He wants to show he has made a choice centered on his taste and not on social ranking. He wants to have a talking piece that opens a discussion with like-minded watch aficionados.

My first intention was to transport the wearing comfort I was able to achieve in the Organic Time to an integrated stainless steel watch. I think men are approaching fashion and accessories with strong functional criteria, and I like this, too. A suit must be as comfortable as it is good-looking. A watch, too. So, this was the start, a smooth metal bracelet (that doesn’t pinch hairs), a well-sized and formed case that lays comfortably on the wrist.

On this basis, I started to interpret the formal language I had developed with Organic Time in this context and decided to go for extensive work on the rounded six edges that I love so much. You can find this shape everywhere in the watch, and that gives the design a very strong, coherent identity.

I am still very happy with the result, but as a designer, maybe I had the feeling I went a bit too far toward classicism with the dial, and always dreamed to have some more daring and pure, where the visual link with the case and bracelet would be stronger. Being able to do this with Matt was the perfect occasion, and being a team gave us the strength to make the dial sterile, which I personally adore.

AA: Matt, you’ve designed watches before (together with me, for instance, on such products as the Laco RAD-AUX and Undone Aqua BLK + YLW) in a collaborative environment. What was it like collaborating on design with Emmanuel Dietrich?

MSJ: Since we are both design nerds, it was easy to communicate with Emmanuel. Quite simply, it was a very enjoyable and relatively relaxed process. Once I had Emmanuel’s blessing to be myself, I went off and developed some more concepts. One design became the “seedling” for the TC Pure.

We both kept pushing to explore different paths from that seedling concept. At one point, we thought of making a dial that clearly contrasted with the case. I played around with materials and colors for some time, but it just felt off. After that, we thought it would be cooler to just make it look like the whole head of the watch was milled out of a single chunk of metal. Like the whole of the watch was just some singular, unified thing. I’m glad we went that route.

At another point, Emmanuel had the idea we shouldn’t use dial feet, but rather two simple screws that would be visible on the surface of the dial. It was a real no-nonsense sort of utilitarian look that we both liked.  However, it took away from the dial’s simplicity and symmetry, so it didn’t make the cut.

Gaining the courage to drop the logo took us both a while. We agreed that the sterile dial worked best with the concept direction, so after conferring with trusted colleagues, we got the guts to go ahead. We know that, typically, you want to see the branding on a product, but we both felt keeping the dial pure was the overriding factor. The dial is intended to echo the other forms already present in the design. It’s the pure, boiled-down essence of the greater thing. It couldn’t be interrupted by branding and work to the same effect.

AA: Matt and Emmanuel, what are just a few things you want timepiece lovers and the larger aBlogtoWatch audience to know or think about when viewing a Dietrich TC Pure watch on their wrist? What does this overall design and product mean to you, and what do you want people to know about this project years from now when TC Pure watches might be discovered by a new crop of enthusiasts eager to understand where they came from and what artistic and utilitarian purposes the line is meant to serve.

ED: I hope the watch community realizes this is a project fueled with passion and the love of sharing. Surely, the outcome should be business, and a reward that allows for further developments for all of us. But when I think back to the way this came to life, I am quite amazed and pleased that none of us three spoke of money for his involvement in the process at any time. There was always the idea to share the results, but we invested our talents and energies from scratch, without hesitation, for the sheer pleasure of doing it. This is something rare and the kind of moment I am living for. And then, as Matt is saying, each object we create is a bit of ourselves and our seeds of -hopefully good- taste in this world. We did our best here and tried hard to give an excellent product and a lot of pleasure at a fair price. I really cannot wait to see one on an unknown wrist one day. This is always my best reward.

MSJ: I really enjoy seeing how the light catches the dial when I’m wearing the TC Pure. The vertical brushing just pops at times, and I quite enjoy it. I’m not sure how to answer the rest without sounding grandiose, overblown, or slightly mad. I’d love for this watch to simply be remembered by the time future generations of watch enthusiasts crop up. Echoing an earlier point, the TC Pure is an imperishable extension of our creative selves. I’m just happy to be a small part of Dietrich’s legacy and make something cool with a designer I thoroughly respect. Price for each model is $2,000 USD. Purchase the stainless steel version here and the Black PVD version here.

aBlogtoWatch and Dietrich have a commercial relationship regarding the sale of TC Pure watches. Sales of Dietrich TC Pure watches will lead to some revenue-sharing for aBlogtoWatch, an important piece of information transparency the audience is entitled to.

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