Vale is in many ways a reflection and creation of Mr. Jenkins himself.
Eminent recent European adaptations include Aribert Reimann's Lear (1978), based on an extraordinarily austere rendering of Shakespeare's hitherto unadapted play, and Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto (1984; A King Listens), a reflection on creation and the complex workings of memory that is based on The Tempest.
Globalisation of financial markets, with free movement of goods and capital, has facilitated smuggling of counterfeit goods (in part a reflection of the creation of global brands), internet fraud, and money-laundering.
Therefore, your reference could be simplified to something like: "The text from John is a reflection of the creation story, 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth' (Genesis 1 1).".
In terms of spiritual principle, his actions can easily be compared to the consecration of the Holy Father's love, and its reflection, with His creations.
When Bruce Babbitt was Interior Secretary in the Clinton Administration, he voiced the belief that "all the plants and animals in the natural world are together a direct reflection of divinity, that creation is a plan of God".
"All the beauty to be found throughout the whole creation is…the reflection of the diffused beams of that being who hath an infinite fullness of brightness and glory" (True Virtue, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 550 51).
On view through June 17 at the Palazzo Reale here, the exhibition "Genius and the Passions: Leonardo and the Last Supper" examines what it calls the "precedents, innovations and reflections" of this singular creation.
They are confections rather than meanings, reflections rather than creations of culture.
Just as it was their own reflections that led to the creation of a natural religion, so it was their own reflections on living a harmonious and cooperative life in a human society that led to the creation of a 'natural' (a humanistic) ethic.
