Gracious Word: Esse

1/17/2014

Word every Gracious Individual should know: Esse

Definition: Esse; (Pronounced: es-se) Latin; noun
1. Being; existence

Why I love this word:
"The esse of the life of every man, which he has from his father, is called the soul, and the existence of life thence derived is called the body." -- Emanuel Swedenborg, The Earths in Our Solar System, 1758

Photograph by Robbie Lawrence

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