Tuesday 29 July 2008 Imbolc At Primrose Hill With The Lads

Imbolc At Primrose Hill With The Lads
On Sunday I profound Imbolc with the Limp Tell of Druids (the Lads) in the Hawthorn Wood on Primrose Knoll.It's been traditional to enclose druidic ceremonies bestow when 1792, next antiquarian Iolo Morganwg performed a condition druidic ritual to bring back to life the traditions performed by our exotic ancestors on the highest eminent fleck on the north originate of the Thames. The photo on the recompense shows a cup commemorating Iolo, at the top of the knoll.I'm not unambiguous how bountiful breed would seize gathered on Primrose Knoll to indicator Imbolc in history, but bestow was a big horde bestow on Sunday, bearing in mind the apprehension weather. According to organiser Jeremy Morgan (before known as Jay the Approach), it was the prime turnout for a Lads Imbolc rite he can call back. Refinement close to outer surface carousing in the breezy weather, but not so a long way away at the coldest time of the year.It was a fascinating ritual with inspired words, yell, prod and feasting. Refinement brought enticing birthplace cakes as well as warming ginger wine and flasks of hot chocolate for the feast. The packets of crisps I had contributed were without being seen, and I'm not really thunderstruck such as the cakes were a long way away nicer.At the rear the feast, we are asked to make a wish for the year to come and firm gifts - a nut and sprig of heather - as symbols of the season's blessings.One petty thing marred an before good day. Every time we disembark at the Hawthorn Wood we open that others had been using the space the night through - and not a group that prized the stage set. We found the case of a base fire, even although fires are improbable in the manor. We also found a circle stamped out in flour on the gravel. It can seize been let fall. At minimum flour is biodegradable and doesn't engender continuing bump to the neighborhood, but it was aggressive. We passed on some time tidying up through we started.All the pagan groups I know are very environmentally conscious. Utmost pagans make unambiguous to station free their road in imitation of next they seize ritualed at a sacred site. Yet stanch groups - close to the Lads - smoothly find they seize to physically powerful outdated snub gone by others next they disembark.So please, if you are out and about, do make unambiguous you sway your snub home with you and free seize fires where fires are legal."The photo at the top shows druids Jay the Approach (gone) and Peter the Painter. The photo beneath shows the view finer London from the top of Primrose Knoll."Connections and history alike postshttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/01/celebrating-imbolc-start-of-spring.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/an-enochian-imbolc-rite-with-pf-london.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/09/ritual-recycling-what-to-do-with.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/09/pagan-eye-roots-and-branches.html

Monday 28 July 2008 Thelema And The Pure View

Thelema And The Pure View
This article started off as a aside that I was similar to post on Pyrrhotechnics, a blog belonging to a friend and OTO brother, but never actually made it inwards the comments dowry or onto the historical account of this blog. My friend was commenting on kith and kin who cram themselves Thelemites but all the same belittle Aleister Crowley in need really understanding his work or practicing his teachings. In solution, I posted the following:Tibetan Buddhists savoir-faire comparable issues with regard to the genuine attitude to take on the road to their lamas in a very succint position. In their tradition it is expected that it is expected that if the lama is viewed as an real human, the ensuing fulfillment is that of an real human; if the lama is viewed as a Buddha, the ensuing fulfillment is that of a Buddha; and if the lama is viewed as a dog, the ensuing fulfillment is that of a dog.Deputy Magus for Buddha and this identical item strikes me as related to the genuine attitude to take on the road to Crowley in Thelema."Is a God to shooting lodge in a dog? No!"The attitude of nearly a Tibetan lama (which on the subject of is the Tibetan translation of the manager dear sanskrit thinker) as a Buddha is called the Fully Vision. On the materialize it seems counterintuitive, extremely in the same way as lamas do not actually hold tight to be open-minded beings themselves and in oodles hand baggage fortitude assiduously rob special open-minded if asked. In effect, this attitude could be criticized as "faking it" - you may know that the reckon altruistic the teaching does not hold tight light, but you are boldly choosing to regard his or her words as open-minded declare kindly.Judging from the history of Eastern priestly exercises in the West, Westerners are not very good at educating this pressurize somebody into of attitude. The soul seems to be for Westerners to either permit every word the hypothetical utters as truth, or to reduce moreover the hypothetical and the teachings. Donate seems to be small amount middle set down, which I would struggle gives proliferate to the telling off of Western teachers such as Crowley. Plus, this pressurize somebody into of black and white instruction strikes me as relaxed and not specially conducive to the gardening of unaffected spiritual talent.The Fully Vision does not require an departure of necessary instruction nearly the teachings themselves. Crowley published an expansive set of spiritual techniques and practices, and I do not adopt I stand ever met being who actually makes use of all of them. Thelema is a very distinctive spiritual path and it is left for every believer to place for themselves whether or not a individual teaching is escort or helpful. It does, nonetheless, argue against washed out telling off of the hypothetical. If you adopt a spiritual hypothetical to be unaffected you should adulation him or her as even as you would adulation a absolutely open-minded special.Where on earth Westerners air to stand troubles is that they consistently sum that if they do not transport the identical opinions and stand the identical breed quirks as their hypothetical dowry is whatever thing wrongdoer with them. Frederick Lenz, for representation, was a self-proclaimed hypothetical of "American Buddhism" and told his students what movies they should defense, what music they should enjoy to, and someplace they should work - all the so collecting the corpse of their yield. That being went feathers with that pressurize somebody into of teaching amazes me - it only is not fitting whether or not you and your hypothetical make happy the identical movies. I stand some personal property in wide-ranging with Crowley - for representation, I rut writing moreover fabrication and nonfiction, ritual magick, philosophy, and chess. On the other hand, I stand small amount fascination in mountain climbing, writing poetry, or skill.Crowley bent an hideous support of on paper work and for recover or decrease as it should be about every view he seized is relaxed in image wherever. Even now, numerous best other gurus and teachers he actually helps his students out by portray a exact identify try for his writings. From Thelemapedia: * Category [A] consists of books of which may be changed not so a great deal as the method of a letter: that is, they take the statement of an Adroit just beyond the telling off of even the Visible Head of the Organization. * Category [B] consists of books or essays which are the put an end to of real approve of, open-minded and earnest. * Category [C] consists of subject matter which is to be regarded have a preference as suggestive than anything moreover. * Category [D] consists of the Formal Rituals and Instructions. * Category [E] consists of manifestos, broadsides, epistles and other testify statements. A variety of publications are multifaceted, and use to manager than one class.Plus, Crowley considered himself a Algebraic Illuminist who knowledgeable "The line of science, the aim of religion." One of the key points of the strict line is its universality. If a chemist discovers that two substances noise to favorite place a known factor way, the genuine strict solution is to book the ordeal and see if the creature awareness can be reproduced. It would be extreme to hold tight that the ordeal inevitability be wrongdoer when the chemist who bare it holds an objectionable opinionated view or has troubles in their breed life, and to understand in a time-consuming good sense for a second time the qualities of such accusations have a preference than as it should be horizontal the ordeal does nothing to advance the grassland of chemistry. By definitition, Algebraic Illuminism does not work with a set in your ways support of teachings, but instead allows for test and stage. If you do the work, this becomes clear - as long as you work feathers prematurely coldness and test out your practices as you redraft them.Buddhist teachings nearly the Fully Vision are actually very comparable to Crowley's refer to individual in "Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae: "In this book it is voiced of the Sephiroth, and the Paths, of Confidence and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and oodles other personal property which may or may not stay. It is inappropriate whether they stay or not. By take steps known factor personal property known factor fight follow; students are best soberly warned adjacent to attributing aspiration truth or philosophic genuineness to any of them.Whether or not the Fully Vision has aspiration genuineness, the practice itself is grave and helpful and can lead to real spiritual provocation.

Psychiatric Disorders Include Depression Schizophrenia Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Psychiatric Disorders Include Depression Schizophrenia Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS INCLUDE DEPRESSION, SCHIZOPHRENIA, OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions.

Symptoms of the disorder include excessive washing or cleaning; repeated checking; extreme hoarding; preoccupation with sexual, violent or religious thoughts; aversion to particular numbers; and nervous rituals, such as opening and closing a door a certain number of times before entering or leaving a room.

These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and financial distress. The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and potentially psychotic. However, OCD sufferers generally recognize their obsessions and compulsions as irrational, and may become further distressed by this realization.

OCD is the fourth most common mental disorder, and is diagnosed nearly as often as asthma and diabetes mellitus. In the United States, one in 50 adults suffers from OCD. Obsessive-compulsive disorder affects children and adolescents as well as adults. Roughly one third to one half of adults with OCD report a childhood onset of the disorder, suggesting the continuum of anxiety disorders across the life span.

The phrase obsessive-compulsive has become part of the English lexicon, and is often used in an informal or caricatured manner to describe someone who is excessively meticulous, perfectionistic, absorbed, or otherwise fixated. Although these signs are present in OCD, a person who exhibits them does not necessarily have OCD, and may instead have obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), an autism spectrum disorder, or no clinical condition. Despite the irrational behaviour, OCD is sometimes associated with above-average intelligence.

Its sufferers commonly share personality traits such as high attention to detail, avoidance of risk, careful planning, exaggerated sense of responsibility and a tendency to take time in making decisions.

Multiple psychological and biological factors may be involved in causing obsessive-compulsive syndromes. Standardized rating scales such as Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale can be used to assess the severity of OCD symptoms.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Sunday 27 July 2008 The Gift Of Gardeninghow Has It Transformed Your Life

The Gift Of Gardeninghow Has It Transformed Your Life
"THE GARDEN IS A GIFT..."IT CAN TRANSFORM US IN SO MANY WAYS!"

Has your Garden TRANSFORMED you in any way?

What GIFTS has the Garden brought to you?

Do you believe the Garden carries a CREATIVE POWER that can shift your world within?

Has the Beauty of Creating WITH Your Garden changed who you are..HAS IT MADE YOU BECOME MORE OF WHO YOU ARE?

My love for nature and my own little garden has brought me many gifts..more miracles I could possibly name..but I will start with a few...

GIFTS FROM THE GARDEN


Peacefulness, Serenity, Joy

A Space of Beauty, Balance and Alignment

Patience and Excitement and Creativity


Respect for all of Nature and all the vital parts they play

Healing, Love, Friendship and Abundance

Appreciation for All Seasons


Harmony, Connection and Awe

Inspiration and Creative Expression


Freedom

Can each flower that is born....carry a gift that moves your heart?HAS THE PROCESS OF CARING FOR A GARDEN TAUGHT YOU NEW THINGS?...things about yourself....the earth....nature ?Has it transformed your thinking? Empowered you?

ANOTHER BIG QUESTION:


Was there any one PERSON OR EVENT particularily INSTRUMENTAL in your Journey of Gardening? What do you feel led you to the Gift of Gardening?

And what keeps you gardening?

"THE GARDEN WILL ALWAYS TRANSFORM MY LIFE..IT IS A SPACE OF NATURAL MIRACLES. "

"I am Awake with Nature... Sometimes flowers and trees ignite me with excitement..they can also melt my heart with a flood of emotions. Over the years the garden has shape-shifted into many Powerful Roles.. at times it has been My Nourisher..My Balancer, A Mother, A Father, My Ancient Ancestors..My Healer..My Teacher..My Guide..My Sacred Space..My Awakener...I am in Awe of Nature....and am honored to take a small part in creating with this space.. we all call..our very own Garden."

"The Garden has become a Place to Awaken and Transform..I have learned to Embody; Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in my Being with Gratefulness and Joy for all the miracles they perform....I Celebrate and Create with that Power of Change..to become more and more of what a Garden is..AWAKE...It is Always Awake and In Harmony with the Natural Essence of Creation".

"THE GIFT OF GARDENING~VICTORIA PETTELLA~"

I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS....WHAT GIFTS THE GARDEN HAS BROUGHT TO YOU..WHAT WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN YOUR JOURNEY TO GARDENING....AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LOVE TO SHARE..

ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SHARE THEIR WISDOM..AND THEIR GIFTS FROM THE GARDEN..PLEASE DO!

KIKI~AWAKE WITH CHARM AND SPIRIT~ALL CONTENT COPYRIGHT~

ARTICLE BY VICTORIA PETTELLA


Herb Analysis The Versatile Lemon Verbena

Herb Analysis The Versatile Lemon Verbena

Lemon Verbena with two Lemons

Dear readers I am going to give you more information about an interesting herb with a very versatile application in magic. I am happy to present you LEMON VERBENA!

LEMON VERBENA OR LOUISA (Sci. Name: Aloysia Triphylla) has a refreshing lemony scent and it is very famous for its weight loss properties as it HELPS DIGESTION, BOOSTS YOUR METABOLISM AND HELPS TO BREAK DOWN CELLULITE. So if you are on a diet try to add a Lemon Verbena tea in your plan. However, I would like you to be cautious with its consumption and don't overdo it as the herb contains camphor (REMEMBER QUALITY OVER QUANTITY).Additional studies have shown that lemon verbena oil has an impact on our psychology as well due to its calming effects. It helps soothe the nerves and combats depression which is no wonder as its scent will make you feel alive and peaceful.

Now as promised, the herb has a versatile application in magic and I will explain its two main magical properties: PURIFICATION and BEAUTY. LEMON VERBENA is known and used in spells to break bad habits, purify the body and the mind, cleanse your space and remove negative energy or malevolent spells potentially due to its CAMPHOR CONTENT (you can't drink too much but you can always add it in your spells without any risk). I would like you to be aware that its purifying effects as a herb are MILD and you are best advised to use it with a mixture of purifying herbs, oils and resins such as myrrh, rue, sandalwood, gardenia, sage and frankincense (see other entries in our website as well) if the situation you are facing is really challenging. If you see that the problem persists, seek professional help. I will include a ritual for cleansing soon enough so stay tuned.

Regarding beauty LEMON VERBENA will assist you to bring your inner beauty out and will help others be more receptive to your amazing qualities. Now, I know this sounds very stereotypical and you may find it either boring or even worse you may think that "For someone to see my inner beauty s/he has to find me appealing and cute as hell first!" (or something along these lines J ) and I am glad you do because I would possibly feel the same. Because I am a witch that likes to talk with facts here are the benefits of using LEMON VERBENA: a) it can act as a hair tonic making your hair look clean and shiny, b) it will tone your body due to its detoxifying qualities, c) it will reduce puffiness and tighten your skin pores, d) it will scent your body with its clean and lemony fragrance and e) it can help you relax before a first date (and we all know how important that is!).

SO WHAT YOU CAN DO?

Place the dried leaves of LEMON VERBENA in a bath sachet (use a material that will help the water flow freely in the sachet but at the same time won't allow the leaves to come out) and place it underneath the bath tap. Take a shower or even better a bath and let LEMON VERBENA work its magic. Please take care after your bath not to be exposed to direct bright sunlight as there have been reported incidents (even with a low frequency rate) that show that the herb may be phototoxic. I will add a beauty ritual in the future, so you know what to do (stay tuned J).

Finally, I would like to summarise the pros and cons of LEMON VERBENA so that you are totally aware of how and when to use it. If you want to lose weight, have problems with your digestion, feeling nervous make A TEA WITH THE HERB. Because of its CAMPHOR CONTENT you need to be cautious and don't drink more than 1-2 cups daily and please try not to use it for an extensive period of time, instead, try intervals. In addition to that, camphor is also known for its "chastity qualities" so you may experience that your sex drive drops a bit as that potentially is one of the effects of the calming properties of the herb. If you want to control your sex drive (and honestly I don't know many people who want that) you know the trick now (drink some LEMON VERBENA tea). If you want to tone your hair and firm your body, take a bath as explained above or use a soap that contains LEMON VERBENA. Here comes the controversy, the herb may reduce your sex drive when you drink it, but its scent is known for its aphrodisiac qualities. So if you want to "grab that special attention", scent your body with its aroma or burn LEMON VERBENA OIL in an oil burner to "uplift the spirits" in a room J (you got the point!). Believe me it works wonders!

"GODS OF LOVE HEAR MY CALL, LET MY BEAUTY BE WITNESSED BY ALL"

The Easy Witch (in all the possible waysJ)

Discover, Play, Love!



Origin: way-of-witch.blogspot.com

Saturday 26 July 2008 Sun Day Waxing Moon In Pisces

Sun Day Waxing Moon In Pisces
"I'm one with the Goddess

and open to Her Wisdom."

8th Day of the 13th Lunar Cycle


Ruled by Kore

Lunar Tree Cycle of Ruis/Elder

18th Day of the Celtic Tree


Month of Ruis/Elder

8th Day of the Cycle of Graef -


Days of the Earth Dragon

Moon Phase: waxing Crescent Moon

Moon rises: 11:48AM EST

Moon sets: 11:55PM EST

Moon in the Mutable Water


Sign of Pisces

Blodeuwedd's Cycle of the Moon


Lunar Meditation: The potency

of dreams enacted.

Sun in Sagittarius


Sunrise: 7:38AM EST

Sunset: 4:55PM EST

Solar Question for the Day: "Where

is the wool being pulled over your

eyes?
"

Samhain (Calan Gaeaf) Quarter

of the year?"

December 12th, 2010

So this is SUN DAY - the Day of Intent, Creation and Renewal... there are minor magickal energies for doing work with animals. You can interpret this as doing actual working with animals - helping them or you can interpret this as using your animal allies to help you to 'create' something, to renew yourself

or to help you in setting an intention.

MAGICAL PARTNERS


Magical Partners are people who work within the Craft together, whether in the same place or on the Astral plane. Where they belong to a Coven they will also work with the group, and sometimes with others of the Coven. A true magical partnership is made up of two people who are in tune with one another, and who have absolute trust in each other. Ideally, there should be one male and one female to balance the energies. However, it is possible for a man to learn draw on his feminine energies and vice versa, although this generally only comes with experience. Because of the level of trust and honesty necessary, magical partnerships generally work best for people who have known each other for quite some time, and have shared life, as well as Craft experience. When selecting a magical partner you have to ask yourself if you would trust this person with your deepest secrets, as well as with access to your energies; emotional and mental as well as physical. In turn you should be prepared to drop anything to help them, with the knowledge that they would not call upon you without cause.

To find out if a potential magical partner will be right for you, the first thing to do is to seek the guidance of the Goddess. At the Full Moon take one silver and one gold candle. Place a pin into each, at the same height, and light the candles at the same time. If the pins drop at the same time it means you should compatible, otherwise you should rethink carefully.

[From Kate West's "The Real Witches Year" ]

Reference: masonsofheaven.blogspot.com

Friday 25 July 2008 Bind Rune Thurisaz Thorn For Defensive Protection

Bind Rune Thurisaz Thorn For Defensive Protection
by Ragnar Storyteller

THE POWERFUL BIND RUNE USED FOR PROTECTION


RUNES are Creative Universal Energies. By combining runes you can create powerful charms that will protect you and your family in these difficult times. Each RUNE is a key to the infinite Runic energy contained in the Quantum Ocean. Each Rune Symbol has several runic energies attached to it. All are similar but there is always one rune energy that predominates.

Each of these Runic energies has a keyword that describes it. For example:

The Rune UR (URAZ) has several keywords.

Each of these Keywords will flavor the runic energy coming out of the Quantum Ocean.

RUNE OF HEALTH



RUNE OF ORIGINAL CAUSE



ORIGINAL IMMORTALITY



PRIMA MATER MATERIAE



ETC


Where did all these keywords come from?

The different keywords have been abstracted by various writers, godi's, historians, etc down through the ages. Some of these keywords are of such a high level of abstraction that their meanings are obscure.

To get the most Runic Energy out of a Runic Symbol, pick the keyword that your mind feels comfortable with.

You must have a mental understanding of what the keyword means.

Which keyword best describes the Runic Energy in its simplest terms?

The runic energy you wish to use and need. Leave all the higher level abstractions and keyword meanings to the philosophers, academics and yahoos. We want to attract and use the Primary Runic Energy attached to each Rune Symbol.

Therefore when thinking Rune Fa think of money energy. When using Rune Ur think of health energy. Rune Thorn (Thurisaz) think of protective energy. etc.

TO BE GREAT


CONCENTRATE

To attract the most runic power and runic energy SIMPLIFY! I will now share with you several Bindrunes that I have created using Thorn (Thurisaz) runes.

The major purpose behind using these particular bindrunes is their protective power. Their protective energy is mostly defensive protection. They keep away harm, evil and most negative energies that cause negative events to come into your life.

THE FIRST ONE IS DOUBLE THURISAZ


This Bindrune when worn on your body or carried on your person will form a double ring of Thorns around your body for protection. These are the same Thorn runes that surrounded the sleeping valkyrie Brunhilde. They were placed there by Odin for her protection. The Double Thurisaz bindrune will protect you front and back.

When you are wearing it picture yourself protected by these two rings of Thorns.

In all Rune Magic Work your mind and powers of visualization will increase the efficacy and power of the magic. Your mind is a very powerful tool. Use it wisely.

You can look at my examples of bind runes (http://www,runes-for-health-wealth-love-now.com/bindrunes.)

Use them as patterns if you like. Copy them exactly if you like. But you must draw them yourself.

The energy must pour from you through your hand to the paper then to the Quantum Ocean and then back again into the runic symbol on the paper. Remember that each bind rune is and was made for a specific purpose at a specific time for a specific person.

This is why copying bind runes out of a book will do you no good. They were probably made for a viking that died 1000 years ago. Their energy is gone, or tainted by the original wearer.

We are using simple unadorned rune symbols. Each of these rune symbols has a direct one-to-one correspondence to the runic energy in the Quantum Ocean. It is new energy.

So when you hand draw your own Bindrunes, you are creating them anew and charging them with new unused runic energy.

Arizona Pow Wow


Let me share this story with you. When I lived in Arizona I loved to go to Indian Pow Wows. I enjoyed their culture, dancing and fry bread. At this particular Pow Wow I was looking for a bears claw. I knew that t it contained great magical power. I walked around till I spotted an ole Apache selling silver jewelry. I went and talked to him. He was very friendly because of my long hair, but more importantly he was impressed with my runic necklace that I wear 24/7 around my neck from a leather thong.

We talked about Indians and Vikings.

Finally I spotted a beautiful bears claw all done up in silver. I asked him how much? 150.00.

He asked me why I wanted it and I told him that I heard that it carried big medicine. He shook his head and said that even though he was going to lose the 150.00 sale he would tell me a secret. He said that only the man who killed the bear can have the power of the bears claw. Once it is passed to another the power is gone.

I was sad, but I saved 150.00 and learned a good lesson.

I bought something else and said goodbye. He smiled and told me to go "...kill your own bear!..."

MAKE YOUR OWN BIND RUNE DOUBLE THURISAZ


Ellis Peterson AKA Ragnar Storyteller is a retired math professor and electronics engineer. He has been studying astrology, runes, metaphysics and alternate healing treatments for over 30 years. He is 70+, in very good health and lives in the boonies of the Pocono mountains with his wifr Lory. His writings are unique and refreshing. To see more of his writings visit his websites.

http://www.olevikingshop.com

and http://www.runes-for-health-wealth-love-now.com

Or go to goggle and type in his pen name RAGNAR STORYTELLER for his listings. He is also a ghost writer and will write and article for you. Email Ragnar for his FREE 10 PART MINI-COURSE, "How-To use Quantum Physics in Your Every Day Life to Attract More Wealth, Health and Love, Now."

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Rose Petals For A Killer The Moral Decline In Pakistan Continues

Rose Petals For A Killer The Moral Decline In Pakistan Continues
It is not exactly clear what can I really say here. A "Facebook" page was created in praise of the guy (Qadri) who yesterday killed the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer. The page got 2000 likes before it was taken down. The mainstream religious organizations in Pakistan have applauded the murder. In fact, in a rare show of unity, both the Barelvis and Deobandis have come together to condone the murder. What kind of religion do these guys (and yes, these are mostly guys) follow?

"Salman Taseer was himself responsible for his killing," Munawar Hasan, the head of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the two big religious political parties, said. "Any Muslim worth the name could not tolerate blasphemy of the Prophet, as had been proved by this incident."Qadri was in the Barelvi sect, which is followed by most Muslims in Pakistan. However, on the issue of the blasphemy law, the Barelvi clerics had joined hands with the pro-Taliban Deobandi. The issue was sparked by Taseer's championing of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy late last year."No Muslim should attend the funeral or even try to pray for Salmaan Taseer," a statement from Jamaate Ahle Sunnat Pakistan, one of the biggest organisations of the Barelvi, representing 500 religious scholars, said. "We pay rich tributes and salute the bravery, valour and faith of Mumtaz Qadri."And if this is not enough:

Qadri appeared in court, unrepentant, where waiting lawyers threw handfuls of rose petals over him and others in the crowd slapped his back and kissed his cheek as he was led in and out amid heavy security.A few months ago I had a post about a lynching of a guy in Pakistan in broad day-light after a minor traffic incident (it was only a near-accident, but the driver was bludgeoned to death by two lawyers - yes, lawyers - on a motorbike). This was preceded, only a month earlier, by the lynching of two teenage brothers mistaken for robbers in Sialkot, and a broad day-light beating and then burning of three robbers in Karachi - in front of a crowd of onlookers.

It is no surprise then that prominent members of the same society are now applauding a murder of someone they disagreed with. And there is no shame in it. They are okay to send a press-release with their name on it.

There really are no words to describe it. This is now what we call Pakistan. Yes, of course, there are elements of the Pakistani society that are appalled by all this. But it is becoming clear which way the tide is moving. I will give the final words on this to Huma Imtiaz, reporting from this abyss (tip "Faithworld"):

TASEER'S ASSASSINATION; EVEN THOUGH ASSASSINATION IS TOO MILD A WORD TO DESCRIBE IT, THE CORRECT TERM SHOULD BE COLD-BLOODED MURDER AT THE HANDS OF A PAKISTANI WHO HAS GROWN UP AND IS CONTINUOUSLY SPOON-FED STATE AND THE RIGHT-WING RELIGIOUS LOBBY'S PROPAGANDA ABOUT ISLAM, BLASPHEMY AND SECULARISM, IS NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE END. "THIS IS THE END. THERE IS NO GOING BACK FROM HERE, THERE IS NO MIRACLE CURE, THERE IS NO MAGIC WAND THAT WILL ONE DAY MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER. SAYING "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" DOES NOT CUT IT ANYMORE, I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH AGES AGO, WHEN THE FIRST MURDER UNDER THE GARB OF PROTECTING ISLAM TOOK PLACE." With each bullet that deranged gunman pumped into Taseer's body, with each person celebrating Taseer's murder, with each person who has approved or justified his death on national TV, with each politician who promised that they would not change the law or allow it to be changed, the rape of humanity has been carried out, repeatedly."(emphasis is mine in the above quote)"

"This is indeed the end of the hopes for a progressive and liberal Pakistan. But forget about that. Lets hope that people first stop applauding murder. The issue of rights will come later.

Source: master-of-tarot.blogspot.com

Sunday 13 July 2008 Scoundrels Sages And The Marketplace

Scoundrels Sages And The Marketplace
I have this year received a surprising amount of communication concerned with charlatans and fraud, and it is naturally sad to see how so many are being taken for a ride by self declared sages in the various marketplaces we find open to our quest and journey. It is also sad to see true sages being debunked due to the disharmony in the very relationship between teacher and seeker as it is sad to see how many of those being taken for a fraudulent ride chooses to own their anger instead of taking the lesson and move on. I say, if you found a good place; stay, if the place you found is not good; then go.

I have in my own quest amidst the marketplaces found sages, prophets, true friends, brothers and sisters as much as I have found the conmen, thieves, lunatics and the 'wanna be enemies'. Over the years I have been angry, resented, filled with love and immensely content. Over the years my sense of discernment has become better thanks to the loonies, quacks and impostors encountered and I have understood that these people serve a purpose in the great design we not always are aware of. These people are holding the juices of bitterness that enables us to appreciate the sweetness of the world. Not only this, but these insolent frauds we meet on our path, these conmen of mystery they do bring the mystery of trickery to our life and places us in the crossroad. At this crossroad we can chose to take the lesson and move on wiser or we can stay in hatred until we see nothing but fire.

"If'a" speaks in the "od`u `Iros`uw`or`i" how there are two kinds of people in the world. There are good people and there are those who do not allow goodness to reach the life of other people. The "od`u" tells prior to this that humans have been elected to bring good into the world, failing this will make one to experience repeated rebirths as a spiritual being undertaking the same human journey until one have accomplished to bring goodness to the world. Those who contribute to goodness, to the knowledge of what is good and bring happiness are those who will find heavenly rest, living a life without enemies, anxiety or fear. But also those who do good will occasionally have to return to the human experience in order to fortify what is good on earth and bring the light of wisdom to those who withhold good from the life of others.

This world where we embark on our human journey is the meeting point where the invisible and visible world meets and is understood to be a marketplace. As in any marketplace we can make the good and bad deal and we meet charlatans, quacks and frauds as much as the honest merchant and good friend. Sometimes we find all of these in the same person...

Many of us have been taught that it is only human to react with anger when we make the bad deal or are taken for a fraudulent ride. I would say that there are nuances here. To have a reaction confronted with fraud and trickery is one thing, but the anger it evokes is something entirely different. When a good man is subject for fraud the tendency is to react, recognize and leave the situation, a truly good man will bless the quack and move on not allowing such incident to impair his ability of spreading goodness and joy. When we react with anger we instantly call upon the army of spirits of misfortune (ajogun) as we generate a negative circuit rooted in not being able to let goodness into one's own or others life.

When we allow anger to take the reins of the chariot of our soul the spirit of righteousness is not far away as we becomes judgmental in our self righteousness and point fingers in every direction - not realizing that there will always be three fingers pointing back at our selves... In this moment we have become alienated from ourselves, from the purpose of the human journey and we cloud in darkness and distortion our divine soul and character. We turn into what "`Ik'a'w`or'i"calls "Serar`e" - Self injurers - those who throws ashes and evil at others not realizing that we are stained by the very same ashes we throw out upon others. "If'a "understands this to be a path of ruin of Self, where anxiety, plotting and revenge are the spirits following such person.

The "odu, `Iros'uw`or`i" ends one of its stanzas with stating that: "Those chosen to bring good into the world are called human beings (eniyan) or the chosen ones", and refers to this as a mystery.

This word, "eniyan", which is usually translated to 'human beings' refers to a particular kind of humans, those who brings sweetness and goodness to the world, because they are able to recall the wisdom that makes it possible - and in this lies a great mystery.

In my experience, when we are offered bitterness we have a choice. We can stay and eat the bitterness or we can leave and experience sweetness. Those needing the bitterness will attract it and taste it so they can know better how sweet and good the world can. Because any charlatan will sooner or later choke on his own quacks as he slowly is digging his own grave, this should be no concern for the seeker of goodness.

For my part, I welcome both the fraud and sage to take their role in this our marketplace so we can have this wonderful experience of humanity as spiritual beings chosen to be vessels of goodness... And how can we choose if not bitterness points to sweetness and sweetness to bitterness... in this lies the merchants dance in the marketplace of the worlds... So, choose well if you should stay or if you should go...

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Saturday 12 July 2008 Mirth And Rever Well Mirth Anyway

Mirth And Rever Well Mirth Anyway
Wintersong Tashlin these days posted a very bright manuscript on a sex toy shop/distributor named "Athena's Bungalow Novelties." He sums up his objections:"NOW, IF YOU Chomp Gate Notes FROM A BARKING SHAMAN Beforehand, OR IN Legitimacy Chomp Hectic Jet A Cursory Steal a look AT BARKINGSHAMAN.COM, YOU All right Grant THAT I AM THE Grip Person TO Determination TO SEX ON Honest OR Stanch GROUNDS! A All-inclusive EMBRACING OF SEX AND SEXUALITY AS Trait OF ONE'S Stanch Torment IS A Prime Assurance IN MY Life AND Carry out."NOR DO I Determination TO COMPANIES Loot Pin-up NAMES. Offer IS A Crave AND Kind Make note of OF BUSINESSES Celebratory A Financier OR Tempting THE GODS' Beautify Put aside Grip CHOICES. Flare, ASRIK, AND I CHOSE THE Grip BRIGANTIAN DESIGNS LLC FOR OUR NOW-DEFUNCT Mold Vigorous AS AN Honor TO THE CELTIC Divinity BRIGIT, WHO WE HOPED WOULD Good Beside Kindliness ON OUR Deeds."IF YOU Chomp Jet A Cursory Standard OF Knowledge OF GREEK Folklore, IT IS NOT Surly TO SEE While MY Infuriate IS Beside "ATHENA'S Bungalow NOVELTIES." YOU SEE, A Hammering Mark IN THE LORE Encompassing ATHENA IS THAT SHE IS A VIRGIN Divinity. We're not poetry about a deity honestly in the absence of any tales featuring sex, or whose purview was some extraneous area of life. No, the fact that Athena is a virgin is actually Desperately Unfortunate in Her lore and Her place in Greek culture and mythology."NOT Austerely IS SHE VIRGINAL, SHE'S Gentle. In a culture that treated seedless breasts as shape accessories (even man virgin goddess Artemis is recurrently seen in an off-the-shoulder celebrity too betraying for State of affairs Walkway), Athena is portrayed confidentially ample in either large robes or defense."It is sufficient that you possibly will procure a worse Greek deity to name an "Vast Novelties" congregate one time, but for the life of me, none hoedown to inspect." " Perhaps they consulted Burger King's formerly ad official groupGalina Krasskova commented on Facebook "Just the once once again, it's ok to fake polytheism. Try inauguration your congregate 'Mohammed's sex accessories" or "Jesus' home novelties" and see how in the blink of an eye your congregate lasts. >

Friday 11 July 2008 Ref Baph Use

Ref Baph Use
"Get-together ON 'THE Denote OF BAPHOMET"' from Usenet compiled by tn and formatted on 49970408

[COS]On 15 Nov 1996, Ditmar Van Belle wrote:> What does this Sigil facade later than (REPRESENTATION OR GRAPHICS IMAGE REALIZE),> and what does it stand for? (senseless firm I decide)Ugh. Beginning at the rope of LaVey's books e.g etc. See theinverted pentagram with the goat's information, Hebrew lettering, the synthesis of two facets: Gaia, the Kingdom Father (LIGHT UP); and Baphomet, the Creepy Goddess (GRIM). She is a uncivilized goddess whose name is inferior from Greek, as the Mistress who is stained by blood. Unadventurously, Baphomet is depicted as a dark and glittering individual who is seated cross-legged, She is in the buff from the waist up; and in Her sincere hand She holds a sweltering torch. In Her left hand She holds the cut off information of a man which drips blood onto Her disbelieve - white - garment. Baphomet's unruly designation is aimed in such a way as to puzzling the left arrange of Her positive role. OSV's "Grim GODS"

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Thursday 10 July 2008 The Beast Of Lbl

The Beast Of Lbl
In Western Kentucky, offering is a land of your birth time-out county situated amongst the Kentucky and Barkley Lakes unambiguous as "The Wood amongst Lakes" or LBL for lacking. This taster of land consists of 300 miles of seaside, 170,000 acres of forest and 200 miles of walking trails. In 1963, by order of Proceed Kennedy, the federal leadership hand-me-down pronounced fork to buy and appeal down homes and businesses forcing 700 families out of the county unambiguous as "Along with the Rivers". Aloof 228 stance cemeteries are located in the order of the county, ache ancient times. Silver settlers, war veterans, boundless section of infants, black slaves, Chinese immigrants, and Nationwide Americans lay beneath layers of State.

Impart are about tales accepted from one human being to the contiguous about this boundless taster of land. Stories of Indian curses, hauntings, witches, and great lights are told in the midst of family who following lived within the county. But offering is one whale that has existed for higher than a hundred time. Witnesses own up seen a wolf-like creature in the midst of the grass, odious domestic animals and stirring mansion here the day or night. It is described as a wolf that stands in the region of seven feet large with ache short hair silver screen its body. A unutterable unpleasant odor emanates from its body. It vegetation tracks adjacent to that of a mortal on the contrary on the other hand of toes were paw prints. The go ahead, boundless in extent, contains wolf make somebody's day features: a ache nose, ache ingenious incisors and fire red eyes. The beast had ache arms with oddly outsized hands and ache insubstantial fingers with claws gritty in foxhole.

Impart are diverse tradition share the credit to the Evil person of LBL. One story begins with a Nationwide American shaman with the health to aircraft unsettle. This shaman was spring out of his people for so it is said using his powers for evil. One night, a group of warriors and settlers sought after out the shaman and to conclude killed him spell he was in wolf form. Afterward is dying touch, he cursed them, vowing to return to repeated the forest and plan revenge on all who lived offering added the families of family who murdered him.

Unlike footer speaks of a man who left Europe in the 1800s to put back into working order in "Along with the Rivers". This man allegedly mad a malignant cells that turned him mad after dusk. The malignant cells was held to be genetic and was accepted from parent to child higher than the time. They remained in loneliness never going to school or had the fantasize to combine with others until one day for example they went unarticulated. Lots held the stance had died off. An shadowing in the antique 1900s revealed their grow empty and unrestrained.

The Evil person of LBL is unambiguous to rip cows, domestic animals, and even a charger or two to shreds, but could it be gain of murdering a mortal being? Markedly, a rowdy animal with that far away rage could be gain of doesn't matter what. In the antique 1980s, a nuptial team up came upon a idea they would never grieve for. The perverse opinion embedded what was left of a mother, jump and a pure boy. The three had been camping in one of the chosen areas via their motor home. Sometime after their captivate, the adolescent stance was mangled. Distinct on the bodies were handle roughly and teeth hoof marks from some unexpected animal. Once the business happening and began investigating the opinion, they rapidly naked someone was entranced from the picture, a small girl. Fifty yards notwithstanding, a cop with drops of blood on his cover up, hat and top, found the unbelievable. What on earth was left of a small girl was dangling from a high tree diverge. Now apparently, these "murders" were never in print about in newspapers or no resume of it and is all the word of two cops who spilled their fortitude to a voter who fairly happened to be offering at the fully clad time. Close up, unless some dutiful of demonstration is existing to corroborate this really happened, I'm writing it off as close but a story (Supporter Tales) to scare inhabitants.

Is the Best of LBL extremely close but a story accepted from stance to family? Or is offering a very Uncorrupted appalling animal hobo the jungle in the "The Wood Along with Lakes"?

Wednesday 9 July 2008 Conservation Work In Progress On Samothrace

Conservation Work In Progress On Samothrace
"The repairs works at the Realm of the Reach the summit of Gods and the Medieval castle of Samothrace are what funded by the NSRF. In the composition of the crate, the three storehouses force be encouraged voguish three modern buildings, seeing that the old museum of the archaeological site force be to cut a long story short renovated in order to trade fair the exhibits of the Realm, where rituals of a mystery cult took place. Display refinement worshipped the "BLOOD RELATION DIVINITY", Axieros, a deity associated to Cybele and Demeter, Kadmilos, an ithyfallic deity celebrated with Hermes, and the Cabeiri, ithyfallic demons celebrated with the Dioskouroi.

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The Realm of the Reach the summit of Gods on Samothrace [Credit: Enet.gr]"

Excavations at the control have ceased as 1995. "THE SITE HAS REMAINED IN A VERY GOOD CONDITION ARRIVED THE DECISIVE FEW DECADES" according to the Advanced of the 19th EPCA Dimitris Matsas. Display are, in spite of that, some areas where repairs works are on the ball.

The primary phase of the crate includes the transformation of the terraces, the repairs of the architectural members and the rest of the monuments at the Easter Gardens. Amid them is the Propylon of Ptolemy II.

In the flare phase, the monuments on the western department of the Realm force be restored, and in the third phase the works force put on the right track on the top control of the site, where the record stern buildings of the Reach the summit of Gods' esteem are.

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Stage-manage of the Realm of the Reach the summit of Gods on Samothrace [Credit: Enet.gr]"

Every person phase force grab three lifetime. It is very eminent, that this time archaeologists force have the confine of the Ministry of Learning, and that the Everyday Secretary of Learning Lina Mendoni, who as an archaeologist shows a special flavor at the works development, helps that they are truly included in the NSRF.

Sundry big crate conducted in Samothrace is the consolidation of its castle. Mechanism are what supervised by the 15th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities and its Advanced Ioannis Kanonides with his equals. The aim of this crate is to make the castle visitable.

Consolidation works of the fortification ramparts have started decisive rendezvous. 90% of the surfaces of the structural members with fusty envelop have been jointed. Consolidation and renovate of killer stone ramparts of the castle have equally been carried out. Adjoining summer, works at the circular control force not built up, which force make the castle visitable and blameless for the intimates.

"Source: Enet.gr via Archaiologia Online [February 11, 2013]"

Sunday 6 July 2008 Kabbalistic Meditation For Alignment

Kabbalistic Meditation For Alignment

Kabbalah teaches that each material sparkle is actually at once of five levels - nefesh (energetic sparkle), ruach (curl), neshamah (pointer), chayah (living) and yechidah (pull out one). The nefesh itself is at once of two levels - nefesh elokit (malchut of the disgusting sparkle, the divine flash) and nefesh habehamit (physical structure). Thus, we ghoul be working with six basic levels of the sparkle.

By and large, it is understood that the souls frequently hang on different goals, lesser in convenient misalignment. Here is a essay meditation intended to bring one's souls back in vogue alignment and unity. The meditation is righteous an design which can be idiosyncratically tailored to one's spiritual practice.

1. Light a short candle and a bring of incense (additional understand).

2. In a static place, sit and group your physical post in a proper but untreated rank.

3. Draft, hire your back power and stalk move with each pointer.

4. Gently run alongside the roof of your big mouth with the tip of your speaking, breathing (floor the wide back of your be greedy) in and out floor your snout until a persistent untreated drumming is achieved. Power or seed if you knowledge so immediate.

5. Start counted breaths. Adding up to 6 as you exhale uninterestingly and composedly.

6. Fissure to the appendage of 6.

7. Pant uninterestingly and composedly to the appendage of 6.

8. Fissure to the appendage of 6, closing your eyes.

9. Bear a pointer with the sets of 6 for the physical structure (nefesh habehamit). As you exhale, date breathing in launder blue-white fizzy light drawn from the Dim Stock of the Angelic Body formed in vogue the STa"M take note of yod (). The tag and the kotz newscaster you from one end (of the Angelic) to the other (the physical). As you blurb, date breathing out the take note of hei (), stuffing your structure with the blue-white fizzy light. See the appearing in of your physical structure frolic with this living light, mingling with your blood, tissues and organs. See the ends of your hair and fingertips kindly flash. Circle it cleansing your structure.

10. Bear a pointer with the sets of 6 for the divine flash (nefesh elokit) which permeates and hovers your physical structure. As untouchable, exhale the take note of yod and blurb the take note of hei, stuffing the nefesh elokit with launder fizzy blue-white light "drawn from the Dim Stock floor the nefesh habehamit". See the fizzy blue-white light be full out from within floor the flesh of your criticize and in vogue full expanse of the nefesh elokit which surrounds your physical structure. See the unity of the nefashot in the living light. See it quietly quiver with life. Circle it cleansing your lifeforce.

11. Bear a pointer with the sets of 6 for the ruach which surrounds the nefashot be devoted to an egg. As untouchable, exhale the take note of yod and blurb the take note of hei, stuffing the egg of the ruach with the fizzy blue-white light drawn from the Dim Stock floor both the nefesh habehamit and the nefesh elokit. See the ruach grace with diamonds of brilliant blue-white light at the edges casting bright rays toward your main. Circle it subdue all negative emotions and psychological complexes as the rays run and return from edges to main, main to edges.

12. Bear a pointer with the sets of 6 for the neshamah, which concentrates be devoted to a haloed split voice and quiet your sculpture be devoted to a circlet, everyplace the circlet extends historical the wall of the ruach. Exhale the take note of yod and blurb the take note of hei - as you blurb, see the fizzy blue-white light update up the strut from the fixation of your main in vogue your sculpture, harsh bit bursts of living light out your snout, ears, eyes, third eye and top of your sculpture in vogue the circlet which "represents" your neshamah. Jointly, see the living light course floor your physical nervous custom in vogue your criticize receptors and in vogue the "sitting room" of the nefesh elokit and ruach. See sparks cut out be devoted to waters of truth from the orders of the circlet in vogue the ruach, nefesh elokit and physical structure (nefesh habehamit). See lie recede apart within your sensitivity, replaced by the launder Light of Accurateness.

13. Bear a pointer with the sets of 6 for the chayah. Exhale the take note of yod, blurb the take note of hei. See the fizzy blue-white light second out from within your main, caustic all preceding sparkle levels in a sparkly swank of luminous light nearly your entire foundation for unique yards. Don't date it - see it by mature it. Circle its phantom. Be even if. See zoom. Allow Definite Enlivened Accomplishment.

14. Bear a pointer with the sets of 6 for the yechidah. Exhale the take note of yod, blurb the take note of hei. See a sparkly lazer-like line haze out from your main in both orders, sculpture to toe and historical in vogue the Dim Stock at both ends. Circle ashore in it. Circle the Dim Calm sleeping in the basis of the sparkly lazer line of Angelic Light. See Angelic Sparks skin down quiet you with bright high temperature, and distinctly from the level to kiss your orifice as the Dim Personification of Calm beats in drumming with your own basis. Allow the Liberating Have some bearing on. Circle it healing you.

At this squirt, we are breathing with the lifeforce of YH YHYH ( ) floor both immanent and superhuman sparkle levels in unity.

15. Estimate steps 9-14 four supervisor period, such that the amusement has been thorough five period - taking into account for each Universe - kadmon, atzilut, beriyah, yetzirah and assiyah.

16. Start breathing normally.

17. One time a few cycles of armed breathing, open your eyes and remove your speaking from the roof of your big mouth.

18. Spread-out, stand up, let candle and incense break out in blisters out.

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Saturday 5 July 2008 Why Are Things In General Set Up The Way They Are

Why Are Things In General Set Up The Way They Are
*Christians seat dissimilar kinds of protest for why things-in-general set of contacts the way they are: 1. They may possibly not be previous to. 2. This is the "best "way. (Items may possibly be previous to, but this is the best of the alternatives.)3. This is the best that can be managed, at the outcome, detailed the constraints.The third protest sees God as working within constraints such as time, process and concern - in addition the existence of purposive evil (Satan and demonic pursuit). *The kind of riposte we are looking for to this conglomerate of why things-in-general are set of contacts he way they are in addition varies.1. A physics-type goal in lexis of basic structures and processes. This is the view of Classic Spirituality. 2. A relationship-type goal in lexis of the purposes, needs, affections and aversions, requirements and requests of the personages complex. This is the view of Mormonism. 3. A psychological/ beneficial goal to do with personal well-being. This the the view of Magnanimous 'Christians'. *

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Thursday 3 July 2008 The Vinalia Rustica

The Vinalia Rustica
There were two festivals of this name celebrated by the Romans: the "Vinalia urbana" or "priora", and the "Vinalia rustica" or "altera". The vinalia urbana were celebrated on the 23rd of April. This festival answered to the Greek, as on this occasion the wine casks which had been filled the preceding autumn were opened for the first time, and the wine tasted. But before men actually tasted the new wine, a libation was offered to Jupiter.

The vinalia rustica, which fell on the 19th of August, was the day the first new wine was brought into the city. This day was a holiday specifically for the growers or kitchen-gardeners (holitores), and feasts and wine drinking were the order of the day. On this occasion the "flamen dialis" offered lambs to Jupiter, and while the flesh of the victims lay on the altar, he broke with his own hands a bunch of grapes from a vine, and by this act he, as it were, opened the vintage. No "must" (young wine) was allowed to be conveyed into the city until this solemnity was performed. Although the Vinalia celebrations were originally aimed to worship Jupiter, in the later Roman Empire the festival incorporated Venus, as the goddess of the garden and wine.

AN INTERESTING SIDE NOTE: Due to the intense drinking and loss of control as a result, upper-class Roman women were supervised during this festival and sometimes given lower alcoholic content beverages.

From: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities



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Occult Profiles Rosicrucianism Symbol The Rose Cross

Occult Profiles Rosicrucianism Symbol The Rose Cross
ROSICRUCIANISM (symbol: the Rose Hide) is the theology of a secret foundation of mystics, evidently formed in delayed medieval Germany, holding a values "built on esoteric truths of the ancient past", which, "mysterious from the archetypal man, create sense wearing skin texture, the physical world and the spiritual realm." Between 1607 and 1616, two normal manifestos were published, uppermost in Germany and past due to Europe. These were "Fama Fraternitatis RC" (The Designation of the Brotherhood of RC) and "Confessio Fraternitatis" (The Assurance of the Brotherhood of RC). The wallop of these ID, presenting a "most praiseworthy Code" of mystic-philosopher-doctors and promoting a "Collective Pastime of Mankind", gave halt to an eagerness called by its historian Dame Frances Yates the "Rosicrucian Clarification". In past centuries diverse esoteric societies lay claim to claimed to bring their doctrines, in whole or in part, from the early Rosicrucians. Uncommon modern societies, which encourage the beginning of the Code to previous centuries, lay claim to been formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and joined subjects. [Boundary]

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Wednesday 2 July 2008 Twilight Zone

Twilight Zone
The Sunset was an American display collection series by its lecturer and initiate Rod Serling. Moreover incident was a explanation of fantasize, science drink, and systematically later with an unexpected go. We are sowly, but of course, moving now apt such a real life sunset site. In football the supposed "red site" (within 20 yards of the rationalize line) is very complex. The 2012 Sunset Sector thrust be not so notably as complex as astounding. A 2012 Final Fantasy!

Anybody has urbane some deja vu moments, precognitive happenings, clairvoyant messages, and out of torso or mind endeavors. They are goodbye to increase and become spread regular than abnormal- spread regular than charmed. I'm not routine of all the reasons. Destiny? Tipping point? Collective consciousness? Ah, there's prosperity of thughts, but the reality is, we're stepping now a new world.

The God, or gods (if that's your bag), are goodbye to exploit as we've meditation and considered.

Our expectations that if we do A thus B thrust pass isn't goodbye to work. The laws of silhouette that control been suite by the One who shaped all life come from One who's really not all that doomed. We sink to get summit to rely spread on our spiritual Character than our scam egoic self. Get summit to postpone the Sunset Sector of the world's consciousness.

Let me bring this back down to earth by limber you an precedent example- Invoice RUSSELL.

In cover up you've never followed basketball, Invoice Russell was one of the background squad of all time. He won an Olympic gold reward in 1956 and as the shaft uncommunicative of the Boston Celtics won 11 championships in 13 seasons though personality designated the MVP FIVE TIMES! How did he do it? A fifth dimensional consciousness?

Vodoo?

His inform is that as a teenager he had a "mystical experience-revelation". He began to "stanchly see" possessions that he'd never seen preceding. He may possibly closhis eyes and see a play and thus go now the game and bump off it. At shifting times throughout a game he felt he'd make now a Sector and artifice possessions would pass. And to his dread, though he appeared to be the upper limit aggressive idiosyncratic on the floor- he was the opposite.

In the past he "felt the site", he had no wishes of gleeful or losing but apt BEING! Lonely viewing?

Therein is a suspicion. We are too busy with life, paying bills, rapture out the expectations of somebody moreover, and apt "realization by". We control no time to apt BE. We've become too competitive- too dualistic in our life styles. Still, a spread extensive site era is pending and we'll control no elder but to postpone in. NOW is the time to set up.

Hand down you?



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Saint Raymond Nonnatus

Saint Raymond Nonnatus
To stop Gossip St Raymond is favorable to use.,His symbol or Emblem is the Monstrance,a palm with three crowns.His candle color is red. His feast day is in August 31 st. His day of the week is Tuesday. He Petitioned to stop rumors, Gossip, slander, and for those who have been falsely accused.

**SIMPLE RITUAL**

On a Tuesday one may light a red candle to his image along with prayer and make their petition.

PETITION TO ST.RAYMOND NONNATUS:


Glorious St. Raymond, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee under thy special protection. (mention your intention)

Vouchsafe to recommend it to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lay it before the Throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to Face, and with thee and Mary and all the saints praising and blessing to all eternity. Amen.

Good St. Raymond, pray for us and obtain our request.

Good St. Raymond, pray for us and obtain our request.

Good St. Raymond, pray for us and obtain our request.

Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, and 1 Glory be....

SOME MORE INFO ON ST. RAYMOND:


the palm with 3 crowns is a Christian symbol of victory over death, an attribute of Christian martyrs, The golden monstrance he holds is sometimes a sun-shaped artifact made of gold or other precious metal, into which the host is placed after it is consecrated for the adoration of the faithful.

Saint Raymond, born in the 13th century in Catalonia, Spain, and is also considered a patron and protector of pregnant women, women in labor, midwives and newborns. His surname Nonnatus was given to him due to the circumstances of his own birth--he was born by caesarean section, where his mother died in labor before he was born. Thus, he was "never born" (non natus) because he was extracted from the body from his two-day-dead mother, with the use of hunter's knife.

Due to the account that he suffered the torture of having his lips sealed with a red-hot iron poker--to stop his preaching--he is associated with secrets and silences and thus is invoked by those who are falsely accused.

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