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  • But in each case the goal of the pilgrimage was the veneration of numinously powerful shrines, cathedrals founded on faith whose spires soared to the heavens and whose power came from the invisible secrets of creation.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • But in each case the goal of the pilgrimage was the veneration of numinously powerful shrines, cathedrals founded on faith whose spires soared to the heavens and whose power came from the invisible secrets of creation.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Indeed, for all the patent artificiality of his neon colours there is often something numinously chapel-like in the ways he uses them to define space.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • I was also imbued with Lawrence Durrell's idea of making the image solid as diamond, going beyond loading every rift with ore, it seems, as everything kept impacting on my sensibility: in a tropical environment of jamoon and blacksage amidst birdcalls of the kiskadee and blue-sackie and simultaneously engaging, if only numinously, with Hopkins '"God's grandeur" with dialectal sprung rhythms nonetheless.

    Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot 2008

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