I recall an old Jewish story of interest about a man who had the ability to paint a persons face perfectly, who was commissioned by one who could read faces as you describe. He was commissioned to paint the face of none other than Moses himself...and traveled to meet him, completed a painting of Moses visage and returned it to the man.
The man who commissioned the work was astounded upon looking at Moses face. “This is the face of the great Hebrew prophet, the one man among men who has ventured closer to the creator than any other? But this is the face of a murderer!”
Indeed Moses WAS a murderer; he slew an Egyptian for mistreating a Hebrew slave and his face carried the record of that deed ever more…but Moses, like each of us, had the same potential to change his soul in spite of his face. It is wise to remember that we are not bodies with souls, but souls attached to temporal bodies.
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