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In the French nineteenth-century Academy painter Jean-Léon Gérôme's picture The Two Majesties, a lion squats on a flat high rock in the desert fringe watching the setting sun. Its concentration of attention seems perfect, its interest in the golden orb is complete. The ordinary human, having no access to the precise state of animal consciousness, could even ask himself whether the lion is rapt in worship; it may have seen from a distance the desert Bedouins so engaged in their prescribed daily devotions. Certainly chimpanzees have been observed greeting the rising sun and thumping their chests in salute.

-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life > Chapter 1 : Devotion > # 26