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Thanks for sharing, regardless of the motive. A spark, worthy to ignite the fire of storied and wonder.

Rene' Girard's work is well descibed here, and it is helpful for me to see this so well explained. Since the body of his work, holds horrors of the lynch mob, or the seasonal angst dis-ease, of yearly personal or community grievances.

The alchemical process of cooking up one's mind, and seeking resolve through ritual or ceremony, syntax or logic, is a rather involved group of actions, whose theme lingers over every movement. Morality, whether for the community's culture, or for the legal culture of governance, can also show itself in economy of home, and relations. Industry for profit, or industry for utility.

Your mentioning of dominon, as being seen by some as domination, is poignant. Hence tyranical, authoritarian actions can appear as disharmonious, without form or righteous justice.

In the realm of governance, form takes the appearance of Law, Courts of Civil appeal for mercy or/and grace to the people's court. Here Culture meet between governance by law as compared to actual circumstance of the Cultural conditions or the economic industrial conditions. Both commerse and culture, have their mitigating circumstances, while one might expect governance to be an unbending rule of law, absent of its "spirit", law enforcement has many courts of appeal.

I write all this, simply to add an odd esoteric nuance to having "dominion" over the life in our times. Dominion, as you hinted, establishes form. HOW ONE PERFORMS STEWARDSHIP. Caretending and nurturing has more inherent patience than dictating or executing any entity that is outside our ability to order.

Within the realm of emminationist hierachies, we have the quality of wisdom ( foresight and order) as well as the consequential quality of movements. Bears don't fly. Form limits one's mastery over air, water, earth or warmth/coldness.

The mirrored book, reflects from other cultures too. Form allows Movement, according to wise functions.

Perdsian leadership, was noted as a meritocracy, where the informed and qualified are encouraged to guide or steward cultural stabilities. The old Chinese way, was for a Civil Servant to deminstrate aptitude in the "test by 10,000 questions", hence qualifing one for duties in a community, by merit of familiarity and reasoning.

How exactly we expect science to show difference to; cultural conditions, political legal conditions, or the economy of home within trade and the crafts, is a delicate art of "forming". Does the form have room for the spirit of new discoveries? Are all "movements" accounted for, by wise memory or wise expectation?

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