~ GRACE    id+   CHARITY              see> GRATEFUL
^u         id+ | THAT WHICH DESERVES A  " THANK YOU " |
           id+   ATTRIBUTES CAUSING POSITIVE RETRIBUTIONS
                 also OF CHARM or THAT WHICH IS PLEASING as in
                 CHARMING CHARISMA
           note  GRACE IS DUAL  ESTHETIC AND THEOLOGIC
           GRACE IS A SOURCE of GRATITUDE  ESTEEM  BEAUTY or
           GRACE CAN BE A DIVINE CHARM and is
           A CORNERSTONE FOR RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS
           note GRACE and "GOOD" ARE SAID TO BE AN AVENUE TO GOD
           ply> | GRACE OFFERS AN APPROACH TO DIVINITY |
           sp    GRACIA  = GRACE
                 GRACIAS   THANKS
           lat   GRATUS    FAVOR  ESTEEM  AGREEABLE
                 GRATIA    PLEASING  CHARM  BEAUTY
           gr    CHARIS    SEVERAL CARDINAL MEANINGS  sug> CHARM
           more below
           consider CHARITY PLEASING GRACEFULNESS  GOOD WILL
                    BENEFICENCE  GIFT  BENEFIT  GRATITUDE
           hx> WHILE ROMAN LATIN CHRISTIANS HOLD THAT
               GRACE IS SUPERNATURAL
           LUTHERAN CALVINIST AND OTHER PROTESTANT REFORMERS
           DENIED SUPERNATURAL GRACE AND BELIEVED THAT
           HUMANS HAVE NO GRACE AND ARE TOTALLY CORRUPT
           PROTESTANTS BELIEVED THAT HUMAN FREEDOM AND
           ACTIONS ARE MOSTLY EVIL
           IN CONTRAST TO THE CALL BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
           FOR FAITH as in FIDUCIAL FAITH    sug> FIDUCIARY
           CALVIN PREACHED THAT MEN CAN NOT BE SAVED BY
           THEIR FREE WILL NOR BE REDEEMED BY THEIR GOOD ACTIONS
           FROM THEIR ORIGINAL SIN
           note AMONG PROTESTANT or REFORMED SOCIETIES
                PURITANISM COEXISTED WITH
           EXCESSES OF INDUSTRIALISM or CAPITALISM
           perhaps because PROTESTANT CHURCHES
           AVOIDED ANTAGONIZING CHURCH MEMBERS
           PURSUING INDUSTRIAL or OTHER EXPLOITS
           sug> COLONY  INDENTURE  SERF  SLAVE
           see> BENTHAM  UTILITARIANISM  MARX  MARXISM
~ GRACES   or GRATIEAE or CHARITES
~ GRACILE  SLIM DELICATE                     sug> GRACIOUS GRATIS
           myth> GRACES or CHARITIES STAND FOR THE HUMAN NEED FOR
                 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A SUPERIOR EXTERNAL POWER
  THEY ARE THE BASIS OF THEISTIC BELIEFS AND REFLECT THE GENERAL
  RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IN THE BENEFICENCE OF GOOD AND THE CALL FOR
  GOODNESS ADVOCATED BY MOST RELIGIONS
  in GREEK ROMAN TERMS THE GRACES WERE THE DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS BY
  VARIOUS MOTHERS and are often shown in COMPANY OF APHRODITE or
  WITH THE MUSES IN COMPANY OF APOLLO
  THE GREEK GRACES WERE GODDESSES OF FERTILITY AND
  WERE CONSIDERED AS PLEASING OR CHARMING         sug> CHARISMA
  ukr CHARA    = GOBLET or LIBATION  ENCHANTMENT
  sp  ENCANTO    TO CHARM  BEWITCH from
      EN         WITH
        CANTO    SONG
  lat GRATIAE    GRACIOUSNESS
  sp  GRACIA     GRACE
      GRACIAS  THANKS
  THEIR NUMBER VARIED FROM ONE or CHARIS to a
  TRIO OF DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS  & HERA or
                      ZEUS   & EURYNOME or
                      HELIOS & AEGLE
  THE THREE DAUGHTER GRACES WERE
  AGLAIA     for BRIGHTNESS
  EUPHROSYNE     JOY or JOYFULNESS
  THALIA         BLOOM
  AT SPARTA THERE WERE TWO GRACES KLETA AND PHAENNA
  AT ATHENS THERE WERE TWO        AUXO AND HEGEMONE
  lit+ THE ILIAD ALLUDES TO THE UNION OF CHARIS & HEPHAESTUS
       perhaps it denotes ART                          <symb
  A WEDDING OF CRAFTSMANSHIP WITH CHARM      <sug>  ARTISTIC
  art> THREE GRACES or CHARITES ARE SHOWN IN A WALL PAINTING
       OF THE HOUSE OF TITUS DENTATUS PANTHERA LOCATED IN
  POMPEI or POMPEII  also note DEPICTIONS BY BOTTICELLI in
  his version of PRIMAVERA and the PLUMP GRACES by RUBENS
  sug> for more about art consult  ~ MYTH

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