Heavenly witness

But who wants to see a supersonic rocket full of smokeless propellant disappear into the heavens like a flash of light when one can witness the leisurely ascent of a firework rocket as it climbs leaving a graceful trail of sparks ... 

Next, Bonario and Celia are directed to present their witnesses. Alas, they have only their consciences to support their case. "And heaven," says Celia, "never fails the innocent."... 

The Knave in the pack of cards, which, when trump, takes both King and Queen, is a symbol of Salt. He or IT is a sort of Priest uniting the two active principles - or you may say he stimulates action between them, that is between two negative (inert) principles, thus ultimately bringing the Work to perfection. John (I John 5.7, 8) alludes to this correspondence when he says "There are three that bear record in heaven the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and there are three that bear witness on earth the spirit, the water and the blood, and these three agree in one."... 

He smiled. If you d asked him that question, he would probably have said, In one of God s many mansions. He was a great one for believing in heaven for the blessed—a giant laboratory, probably, where God could share the secrets of his creation with those few mortals with wit enough to understand. ... 

For it heals all dead and living bodies without other medicine. Here Christ is my witness that I lie not, for all heavenly influences are united and combined therein. 

But though the play invites us to believe this, it does not endorse easy assumptions of a hand from heaven not least because the circumstances of D Amville s death are explicable in completely natural terms. Having just witnessed the death of his two sons and the failure of all his hopes for posterity, D Amville is distracted when he arrives at the scene of execution, and is further discountenanced by the tranquil acceptance of death shown by Charlemont, for whose death he has plotted ... 

Comets have been observed since antiquity. Commonly, they are defined as heavenly bodies with a luminous head and one, sometimes two, tails. Sir Edmund Halley recognized that the comet of 1682 was the same as that seen in 1607 and before in 1531. He predicted the next appearance of that comet, now called comet Halley, for the year 1759. Unfortunately, his death in 1742 prevented him from witnessing the realization of his prediction. By applying Kepler s laws and Newton s theory to the observations, it was clear to astronomers since Halley s time that many comets orbit the Sun in elongated, elliptical orbits, while others appear to have nearly parabolic ones. 

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