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Brihat Beeja
(Great Seed)
The Jyotish classics by famous 14th century Andhrite Astologer Shree Venkatesh Sharma gives the following combinations as Brihat Beeja in respect of a natal birth chart:
(A) Langa lord with Rahu, Mars and Saturn
(B) Lagna lord with Rahu, Saturn or Mandi and 8th lord
(C) lagna with Rahu and Mars in the 8th house and saturn or mandi in a trine from lagna
Generally this combination for greatness(Rahu), endurance and longevity(Saturn) and high potential energy (Mars) gives rise to greatness related to subject matter with which this combination is associated in a house in a natal chart
If associated with a watery sign along with lagna or lagna lord or 8th house it may lead to enlargement of testicles ( Andokosha Virdhhi) or the prostrate glands.
Associated with 6th lord and lagna lord in any house in a earthy sign it may give rise to elephantatitis or enlargement of the related organ.
As three malefics are associated this combination gives a lot of sufferings and hardships to the native. The sufferings and hardships can be deciphered from the lordship of the houses where these three malefic planets are placed. The houses and karakatwa owned by other associated planets also suffer.
If either Saturn or Rahu or Mars becomes functional benefic or yogakaraka for a natal chart, then the person overcomes all the suffering getting unscathed of the disease, poverty, relationship problem and personal image and becomes highly famous for his (her) noteworthy contributions to humanity.
Although it is very difficult to find this exact combination in a good number of charts, using the rasi drishti as the strongest forms of association (influence) and the principle of Rasi Tulay Navamsa we can get a good number of charts having this yoga.
Let us see how this yoga influences matters of various houses.
Bhagwan Shree Krishna:
In the Birth Chart of Bhagwan Shree Krishna Mars and Rahu are placed in the 3rd house along with lagna lord venus and saturn placed in the 7th house of scorpio. The signs scorpio and cancer aspecting each other with rasi drishti.
Sufferings:
As this combination is also aspecting moon in lagna mother of Lord Krishna had to suffer a lot till his birth in the hands of his uncle demon king Kamsha.
Rasi Drishti and association of malefic rahu upon venus is a strong combination for Balarishta he has to suffer from the beginning of Moon's Mahadasa till the end of Mars Mahadasa.
In the Rahu Mahadasa he left for Dwarka towards west from Mathura (his birth place).The west direction signified by yogakara Saturn brought him lot of prosperity and fame.
The association of 3rd house(behaviour) and 7th house of (interpersonal relationships) are highly fortified by their lords being in kendra and getting cancellation of debilition and association with yogakaraka houses and planets.
The great seed :
The yogakaraka planet Saturn participating in Brihat Beeja Yoga shows the purpose of reincarnation of lord was to uphold the principle of dharma, spread the message of bhakti ang jnana
Augustus Caesar:
Sufferings :
Rahu and Mars are in his 8th house of death shows death through treachery.
8th house is sign Taurus showing his continuouse suffering from throat trouble.
5th lord saturn along with association of 7th lord mars with this combination shows dissatisfaction and dissappointment in relationship with spouse and children.
The great seed:
The 3rd lord and 6th lord Jupiter exalted in the 10th house of Karma indicates his fame for great control over the temptations of the senses and introduction of much needed financial and administratives reforms into the contemporary Roman society for which he is remembered as a genius and great personality of history till today.
Shree Adi Shankaracharya:
The Navamsa Chart of Shree Adi Shankara has this yoga in the 3rd, 8th and 11th houses.
Sufferings:
As the houses of longevity 3rd and house suffered much. The Acharya has to leave his mortal coil in his thirties.
He has no younger or elder brother or kins and clan men supporting him.
4th and 7th lord jupiter's association with this yoga made him have no permanet place of stay (house) and permanent relationship(7th house matters). However it shows his stupendous attainments in learnings and unfathomable wisdom.
The involvement of 8th house/scorpio/mars gave very painful and prolonged suffering(8th house/saturn) due to piles.
The great seed:
Involvement of lord of navamsa lagna Mercury and 3rd house and 4th lord jupiter made his the greatest social and religious reformer of India after passing away of Lord Buddha.
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JAMES GUNN
The Academic Viewpoint
James Gunn, author and professor of English at the University of Kansas, who began his writing of science fiction in 1948 and has since done some seventy stories and sixteen books while editing three more, is a master of two difficult disciplines. One is writing and the other is teaching. For over twenty years he has successfully accomplished what many a writing teacher and many a teaching writer has found impossible, the harnessing of these two highly creative occupations in one working tandem.
With all this, he has found time to serve as regional chairman of the American College Public Relations Association, and on the Information Committee of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. He has also won national awards for his work as an editor and a director of public relations. He has been awarded the Byron Caldwell Smith prize in recognition of literary achievement and has also been president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Science Fiction Research Association, and was presented with the Pilgrim Award of SFRA in 1976. Also, he has been given a special award by the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention for his book ALTERNATE WORLDS.
He has written articles, verse, and criticism. He has done radio scripts, screen plays, and television plays. A number of his stories have been dramatized in both mediums. One, "The Immortal," was an ABC-TV "Movie of the Week" in 1969 and became an hour-long series, also titled THE IMMORTAL, in 1970. Meanwhile, his written work has been reprinted worldwide.
Consequently, if there is one writer in science fiction who is fully qualified in both areas, that of the writer and that of the academic scholar of science fiction, it is James Gunn. He is a professional behind the typewriter and equally a professional in the academic area, and as such, no one is quite as qualified as he to deal with the subject of the article that follows....
When the dean of basketball coaches, the late Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, was asked by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, what he intended to do with his life, Allen replied, "Coach basketball." Naismith responded, "You don't coach basketball; you just play it."
For many years a similar opinion existed about science fiction: you don't teach science fiction; you just read it.
As later events demonstrated, both opinions were incorrect. The first regular course in science fiction was taught at Colgate University in 1962- by Prof. Mark Hillegas, now at Southern Illinois, and Sam Moskowitz organized evening courses in science fiction at City College of New York in 1953 and 1954.
Since then science fiction has spread into thousands of college classrooms and tens of thousands of high schools, and even into junior high schools and primary schools.
This surprising interest of academia in science fiction has aroused suspicion and alarm among science fiction readers, writers, and editors. Their attitudes have been summed up by Ben Bova's editorial "Teaching Science Fiction" in Analog (June 1974) and Lester del Rey's "The Siren Song of Academe" in Galaxy (March 1975), and symbolized by Locus coeditor and co-publisher Dena Brown's comment at the 1970 organizing meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, "Let's take science fiction out of the classroom and put it back in the gutter where it belongs."
Part of what frightens science fiction people about academia is the danger that it will be taught poorly, dustily, inadequately, or drably. But even if taught with knowledge, skill, and enthusiasm, science fiction may be perverted by the academic viewpoint, some of them believe.
Teachers, they suspect, look at books differently from ordinary readers, and, like Medusa, their look turns things to stone. Science fiction readers point at their own high school experiences of hating Shakespeare or Dickens because they were forced to read them.
Even at the college level, professors encounter the frequent student attitude: "Why do we have to analyze fiction or poetry? It ruins them."
These are the concerns of the science fiction world How does academia respond?
First, the notion that all science fiction teachers are alike is simply lack of knowledge about what is done in the classroom. Science fiction is taught for a variety of reasons, at all levels. In colleges, for instance, it often is taught for its content to help teach political science or psychology, anthropology, religion, future studies, or even the hard sciences. Anthologies for these specific purposes multiply in publishers' catalogs. Most objections to the teaching of science fiction, however, do not concern themselves with this use, although a bit of feeling adheres to the exploitation of science fiction for some other purpose than the one God intended.
Even within English departments, teaching approaches vary. Some professors teach the ideas; some,.,' the themes; some, the history and the genre; and some, `' the great books. In general, all of these may be dismissed from the concerns of the science fiction vested interests; if any of the subjects are taught knowledgeably and capably, the judgments of their teachers about approaches ideas, themes, definitions, history, and great books need not coincide with those of any held within the science fiction world, where there is, after all, almost as great a diversity of opinion as may be found outside it.
In addition to the approaches listed above, some.j teachers may include one or more science fiction books in a course in contemporary literature, popular literature, or the literature of women, or of children, or of some other area of experience. And some professors teach science fiction as if it were any other kind of literature, and apply to it the same critical concerns they apply to other books.
Here, perhaps, lies the greatest possibility for a break with science fiction tradition. What values do teachers of literature search out when they teach science fiction-or, for that matter, fiction of any kind?
Surprising as it may be to critics of the teaching of literature, the first consideration is story. Story is as appealing to professors as it is to lay readers. "Pleasure ` in fiction is rooted in our response to narrative movement-to story itself," Professor Robert Scholes wrote in his essay, "As the Wall Crumbles," in Nebula Ten.
But story is relatively unambiguous, at least in a work of fiction in which story predominates, and teaching at all levels tends to gravitate toward those works. whose qualities teaching can enhance. This is not to say that these works are necessarily best in some abstract sense, but that they are teachable. Many persons outside academia suggest that at this point science fiction is in danger: qualities in a piece of fiction may be overvalued simply because they are less accessible.
The danger is real. In some academic circles, as among a certain group of avant-garde writers, story has been discarded as too obvious or too easy. Susceptible students and readers have been persuaded that story is a lesser art, if it is an art at all, and difficulty, ambiguity, and obscurity are essential to good fiction. The critics of academia suggest that if these aspects of fiction are highly valued in classes, authors will be seduced into such corrupt practices.
The danger is real, but it is not as great as the doomsayers fear. Authors are not as susceptible as all that (if they're not doing their own thing they aren't worth much as authors), and the teaching of literature is not as pernicious as all that. Story still counts for much in a literature class.
Witness the fact that the books most frequently taught by academics (as reported by Jack Williamson in 1972) were Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, Wells's The War of the Worlds, Pohl and Kombluth's The Space Merchants, Herbert's Dune, Huxley's Brave New World, Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Silverberg's Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Wells's The Time Machine, and Asimov's I, Robot. Other books among those a bit less frequently taught would reveal none unfamiliar to the average science fiction reader; the total list represents, with a few arguments, a reasonable "best" list for any knowledgeable fan, and even the arguable, titles have been honored by science fiction critics and readers.
Admittedly, the list may reveal some bias toward what passes for excellence in writing, skill in characterization, or verisimilitude in description. Few teachers include "Doe" Smith or Edgar Rice Burroughs, from whose science fiction adventures a generation of readers were weaned (though I, for one, always include A Princess of Mars, and I would be surprised if some teacher somewhere does not teach The Skylark of Space or Grey Lensman).
What then do science fiction teachers look for in a work of science fiction?
They are concerned, of course, with teaching the art of reading and the skills of criticism (along with
the ability to communicate) rather than merely the specific work at hand. They apply principles to texts, both to make the piece of prose, poetry, or drama more accessible but also to enable students to apply similar principles to reading they may do in other classes or outside of classes. They want students to get more out of their reading, to read more alertly, more knowledgeably, more enjoyably.
Critics who complain that this kind of approach to literature kills enjoyment are restricting the enjoyment of literature only to those natural readers who understand intuitively what is not immediately observable, or to those works that have no depths.
What is not immediately observable to a casual reader of science fiction? The best way to answer that question might be to list the aspects of fiction that a good teacher looks for.
1. CONSISTENCY OF STORY
2. STORY PREMISES
3. APPLICATION OF THE PREMISES
4. CREDIBILITY OF THE CHARACTERS
5. CONSISTENCY OF THEME
6. IMAGERY
7. STYLE
8. TOTAL ARTFULNESS
9. CHALLENGE TO THE IMAGINATION
10. OVERALL IMPRESSION
1. CONSISTENCY OF STORY. A good reader continually adjusts his expectations of a piece of fiction as the author gradually reveals the directions in which his characters are moving, or are being forced to move. A well-written work handles the reader's expectations skillfully, confidently, neither changing directions nor disappointing expectations previously aroused. A careless reader may never notice inconsistencies in various parts of a work, and a casual reader may forgive them. An author should be held to the highest standards of accountability, both for the improvement of reading and the improvement of writing; an author is not at liberty to do what he wishes without accepting the consequences.
2. STORY PREMISES. A good reader picks up the clues an author plants about the foundations on which his world and his story rest. In a science fiction work, this includes the science and the sociology the answers to the question: how did we get there from here? In a skillfully written work, if the reader grants the author's premises, he must grant the conclusions, but part of the tension of the work always exists between the conclusions and the premises. The casual reader misses an important part of the dialogue in which the good writer hopes to engage him, and allows the lessable writer to pass unchallenged.
3. APPLICATION OF THE PREMISES. A good reader challenges the writer at every point, debating the working out of the author's thesis, his arrival at the conclusions, checking back continually against what he already knows, theorizing that any discrepancy must be significant. This is not a tedious process but one that, once recognized, becomes automatic with the alert reader.
4. CREDIBILITY OF THE CHARACTERS. Are the characters real people? Should we take them seriously? Are they meant to be realistic? Do they react consistently? It is my thesis (see my chapter in Reginald Bretnor's symposium The Craft of Science Fiction, Harper & Row, 1976) that characters in a science fiction work should be judged differently from those in mainstream fiction (often they are more important as representatives than as individuals), but characters should be understandably motivated. They should not act arbitrarily or inconsistently; they should act for their own reasons and not for the author's convenience. This is not because of any abstract literary morality but because the fiction is better if they do.
5. CONSISTENCY OF THEME. Does the story have a message? Not all fiction has anything to say other than to reinforce the assumptions basic to the culture from which the fiction springs, such as: good will prevail, or good will prevail only if men and
women of intelligence and character work at it hard enough. But some fiction attempts to say something more-about the nature or goal of life, the nature or difficulties of society, or the nature or problems of people. The good reader asks what the work means besides its obvious story line. Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, for instance, is about not only whether the world of Winter joins the Ekumen, not only whether Genly Ai is successful or even survives, but about the ways in which sex shapes our society and its institutions. Another question is how well the theme is woven into the fabric of the story, not appended to it like a sermon.
6. IMAGERY. One way in which meaning emerges from fiction is through the imagery implicit in the work, often without the conscious knowledge of author or reader-the literal images, the symbols, the similes, and the metaphors. Once teachers begin talking about images, symbols, and metaphors, the ordinary reader turns his mind off, and authors have been known to object to teachers reading something into their writing that they did not intend, often accusing teachers of falsifying what they were trying to do. As in most criticisms of teaching, there is some truth to the charge; some teachers and some critics build a mountain of interpretation out of a molehill of evidence, and many ignore the author's intention-indeed, it was a tenet of the so-called "new criticism" (now almost fifty years old) that considering the author's intention is a trap, called "the intentional fallacy." Nevertheless, images do occur in works of fiction, and they do influence the reactions of readers to the work. Examples abound, even in science fiction, from the power imagery of technology to the guilt imagery of the mad scientist in whatever his contemporary guise.
7. STYLE. Style is the manner in which words are chosen and put together. Complexity or uniqueness is not necessarily good. Sometimes simplicity or transparency are superior. What we term style is often mistakenly reserved for "high style," for individual mannerisms, for that which calls attention to itself, but what a careful reader notices is the suitability of style to subject and the appropriateness of language and sentence structure-whether what is said is enhanced by the way it is said. Innumerable would be writers have been misled by teachers who told them, "Before you can be a successful writer, you must find your own style." Fred Pohl is fond of quoting a French saying, "Style is the problem solved."
8. TOTAL ARTFULNESS. The different parts of a piece of fiction do not exist in isolation, though they often must be discussed in this fashion if they are to be understood. Few skills-from the golfer's swing to the dancer's routine-can be understood by watching them in their entirety. The separate acts must be broken down into understandable units that can be learned and then reassembled into the whole. All the considerations about fiction that have been discussed up to this point may in themselves be well done but they may not together form a coherent work, and then the good teacher points out why the whole is larger than the sum of its parts.
8. CHALLENGE TO THE IMAGINATION. A piece of fiction might have every virtue the teacher can describe and still be dull; and a piece of fiction can lack almost every virtue and still rise above its circumstances by the way in which it challenges the imagination. The teacher and the reader may wish that great ideas were matched by great execution, but it is not always so, and the good teacher recognizes the appeal of works that are otherwise deficient. This is not to say that the public is always right, but to recognize, as Professor Leslie Fiedler pointed out to an audience of science fiction writers a few years ago, "For too long critics have tried to tell readers why they should like what they don't like; they should be trying to discover why people like what they like."
10. OVERALL IMPRESSION. After a work has been analyzed which means, literally, separated into its constituent parts-it must be put back together. Students object to having what they like dissected as if it were something dead, almost as much as they
object to being forced to study something they consider dead. After the good teacher has helped his students analyze any work of fiction, then, the teacher should help them regain their vision of the work in its entirety-its overall impression of readability, of narrative excitement, of fictional pleasure. The teacher should bring it back to life. It is a difficult task but not an impossible one.
Properly done, the study of literature does not diminish the enjoyment of reading; it enhances that enjoyment, just as a good critical article about a short story or a novel illuminates. the work for the reader, who goes to it with new appreciation and understanding. To believe otherwise is to uphold the blessings of ignorance, to maintain that the individual's enjoyment of any complex art-and fiction is a complex art-depends upon how little he knows about it.
Science fiction has not achieved as much as it might because it has enjoyed few good critics. A critic is more than a reviewer; a reviewer discusses his personal evaluation of a work, while a critic relates his evaluation to larger principles and theories, to standards he or others have established for the greater body of work to which the piece at hand is related. Critics raise standards for writers as well as readers; we can be thankful for the work of Damon Knight, James Blish, D. Schuyler Miller, and a few others in its past, and the current work of Alexei and Cory Panshin, Lester del Rey, Joanna Russ, Barry Malzberg, the writers for Delap's F&SF Review, and A Budrys.
Their judgments have not always coincided-there is no reason they should-but science fiction is better because they have judged and made their criteria plain. The judgments of academia may not be the same as those of science fiction critics or its readers, but, without having read Budrys's contribution to this volume, I would hazard the guess that his criteria for judging a work of science fiction are not much different from those I have set down here.
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Lecturer and folklorist Ken Rees is running two courses looking at witchcraft and magic this autumn.
MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE AND WITCHCRAFT
This programme looks at the new paganism, the contemporary revivals of witchcraft and druidry, Goddess spirituality and environmental concerns. The course will focus on:
* Continuities between spiritualities of the past and renewed interest in them today as reformulated for modern life
* The return of the Goddess - the role of spiritual feminism
* The new paganism and the varieties of witchcraft emerging over the past 50 years including the Wicca, traditional witchcraft and hedge witchcraft. Emergent druidry, and especially its links to sites such as Stonehenge, will be explored
* Mystical ecology - ecopaganism and the rebirth of the tribe.
These topics will be critically evaluated throughout the course using the tools of the social sciences.
The course begins on 22 September and lasts for 10 weeks, every Thursday evening from 7pm to 9pm, at Hortensia Centre, Hortensia Road, London SW10 0QS.
Fees are lb124/lb93 discount rate/Conc. lb38. For more information call 020 8671 6372 and to book a place call 020 7573 5333/5277 quoting course code: 11EHC005-01. You can also email enquiries@kcc.ac.uk or visit http://www.kcc.ac.uk/
THE MAGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
This course looks at the long and honourable tradition that has existed across cultures of alternative ways of thinking and being to the dominant paradigm of Western rationality. These ways of knowing have been expressed in many forms, including Renaissance Hermeticism, the Rosicrucian enlightenment as well as the various angelologies deriving from the Judao-Christian matrix.
Such perspectives can be summed up by the term 'the magical consciousness' and have their underpinnings in symbolic discourse, mythology, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism. Alchemy, the Jewish kabbalah and theurgy, for instance, all ultimately share similar philosophies of magic that had innumerable devotees throughout the ages and have never fully died out, only being partially submerged by the tides of scientific thinking and Western rationality.
Increasingly, the 19th and 20th centuries saw a revival of interest in such traditional thought forms and practices informing esoteric spirituality. This has found its expression in a variety of cultural phenomena including groups, lodges and schools of which examples will be given.
This course runs from 27 September to 1 November, every Tuesday evening from 8pm to 10pm at The Mary Ward Centre, Queen Square, London WC1N 3AQ. Fees are lb44/lb15. For more information call 020 8671 6372 and to enrol call 020 7269 6000/6005 quoting course No: 436.
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From Arutz-7:
18:12 Sep 28, '05 / 24 Elul 5765
By Ezra HaLevi
A council of non-Jewish observers of the Seven Laws of Noah has been selected and will be ordained by the reestablished Sanhedrin in Jerusalem this January.
B'nai Noach, literally "Children of Noah," known as Noahides, are non-Jews who take upon themselves the Torah's obligations for non-Jews - consisting of seven laws passed on from Noah following the flood, as documented in Genesis (see below).
Until now, Noahide communities and organization had been scattered around the globe, with a particular concentration centered around the southern United States. The communities themselves are a relatively recent phenomenon bolstered by the fact that the Internet has allowed individuals sharing Noahide beliefs to get in touch with one another.
The court of 71 rabbis, known as the Sanhedrin, which was reestablished last October in Tiberius following the reinstitution of rabbinic semikha, decided, after numerous requests from the Noahide community, to assist the movement in forming a leadership council.
Rabbi Michael Bar-Ron, with the Sanhedrin's blessing, travelled to the United States to meet with representatives of the Noahide movement and select members for the High Council. Bar-Ron, an ordained student, talmid samukh, who currently sits on the Sanhedrin, is also one of the Sanhedrin's spokesmen.
Bar-Ron organized a small conference in California where six of the council's future members were selected and also addressed the annual convention of the Vendyl Jones Research Institute - one of the Noahide organizations represented on the council. At the VJRI convention, Bar-Ron met five more of the Noahide leaders who will be joining the council.
The purpose of the council, which was the brainchild of Rabbi Avraham Toledano, is to assist the B'nei Noach in their struggle to observe the word of G-d. "The goal is to unify, serve and organize all kosher B'nei Noach communities of the world under a single body that can operate under the direct authority and supervision of the Sanhedrin," the decision to establish the body reads. "To form a vessel through which the Torah, from Zion (via the Sanhedrin) can effectively serve non-Jewish communities around the world."
A third goal of the creation of the High Council and the Sanhedrin's efforts in regard to the Noahide community, is to "transform the Noahide movement from a religious phenomenon - a curiosity many have not heard of - into a powerful international movement that can successfully compete with, and with G-d's help bring about the fall of, any religious movement but the pure authentic faith that was given to humanity through Noach, the father of us all," said emissary Bar-Ron.
To that end, one of the primary functions of the council will be the creation and development of effective outreach materials for the world. Although Judaism does not require or encourage non-Jews to become Jewish, the observance of the Seven Laws of Noah is incumbent upon humanity and widespread observance is to be worked toward, even through active proselytization, something that is anathema to Judaism.
The council is also seeking to identify and contact communities around the world who observe the Seven Laws of Noah in order to invite them to learn more about the movement. B'nei Noach in India and Brazil are already in touch with Noahide leaders.
Asked why the Sanhedrin would reach out to B'nei Noach before concentrating on outreach within the Jewish community, Rabbi Bar-Ron answered: "There was no conscious choice to ignore the issue of outreach toward other Jews, but there is a Torah principle that a mitzva, positive precept, that comes to your hand should be fulfilled first and should not be put off. It happens to be that the group that showed the most outward display of support and genuine concern for the success of the Sanhedrin - contacting us from the very outset - were the B'nei Noach. One of the great responsibilities of the Jewish people is to spread the laws of Noach."
Bar-Ron said he had mixed feelings as he departed for the meetings with the B'nei Noach leaders, as he left the day the forced expulsion of Jews from Gaza began. "I was in such a horrible heart-wrenching pain about leaving - I almost felt like a traitor to our people. But I realized then that although the government was detaching itself from the Land of Israel - a partial annulment of our covenant with G-d, similar to the sin of the ten spies - there is another aspect of the covenant that has not been pursued. That aspect is our obligation to be a nation of priests unto the nations. This is the core of the covenant with Abraham and it is something the Jewish people as a nation has not involved itself in since Second Temple times. So as the government disengaged from the covenant, I was participating in the reengagement with an aspect of the covenant that has been dormant."
Bar-Ron was very impressed with the B'nei Noach leaders he met. "Each of them had a different unique talent. One was an extremely talented media coordinator, two were great scholars of Noahide law, one was secretary of a large successful Noahide community and research institute and one was a law enforcement officer for a number of years. Each had the wisdom and experience that will help them lead the movement.
All of the prospective members of the High Council are obligated to appear in Jerusalem this coming January, at which time they will be ordained by the Sanhedrin as members of the High Council. "One of the things I thought would be more difficult was implementing the fact that the Sanhedrin's steering committee unanimously voted that the High Council members must appear personally before the Sanhedrin to be ordained as such," Bar-Ron said. "But the level of commitment of these people is so high that it is not posing a problem at all.
Each member was screened very carefully and accepted not only on the basis of their high reputation, wisdom and experience - there were many dedicated and talented B'nei Noach who we would have loved to have accepted into the council - but for their role as representatives of entire B'nei Noach communities or as experts in a particularly field.
The acting head of the Sanhedrin, Rabbi Yoel Schwartz, has set up a Beit Din for B'nei Noach to serve the needs of B'nei Noach worldwide. At this point, the council will not serve as a adjudicating body.
"It is our sincere hope that in years to come, the knowledge of the halakha, Torah law, of the Seven Laws of Noach will grow to such a degree that there will be true Noahide judges," Bar-Ron said. "One of the goals is to delineate clearly the seven laws and their applications according to the Mishneh Torah of the Rambam."
"Never before in recorded history have B'nei Noach come together to be ordained by the Sanhedrin for the purpose of spreading Noahide observance of laws," Bar-Ron said. "This is the first critical step of bringing about the ultimate flowering of the brotherhood of mankind envisioned by Noach, the father of mankind."
The Seven Laws of Noah are:
Shefichat damim - Do not murder.
Gezel - Do not steal or kidnap.
Avodah zarah - Do not worship false gods/idols.
Gilui arayot - Do not be sexually immoral (engage in incest, sodomy, bestiality, castration and adultery)
Birkat Hashem - Do not utter G-d's name in vain, curse G-d or pursue the occult.
Dinim - Set up righteous and honest courts and apply fair justice in judging offenders and uphold the principles of the last five.
Ever Min HaChai - Do not eat a part of a live animal.
For more information email the Sanhedrin's secretary at: dbtc@actco.com
The Birth of Venus - Botticelli
Why Beauty Matters by Roger Scruton, BBC2, 28th November 2009.
Modern art
Scruton's argument is that modern art has completely lost its way. It is self-centred and never looks beyond the basic biological animal existence of mankind, often having a puerile obsession with excretory functions.
The art of desecration and self-disgust
Mechanistic modern architecture is similarly anti-human. It attempts to reduce people to mere components of ugly utilitarian machines.
Scruton believes that all great art has a 'spiritual' dimension, even if it is not overtly religious. It is this transcendence of the mundane that we recognise as 'beauty'.
Graeco-Buddhist Art being destroyed by Jihadists
A path out of the spiritual desert.
In Buddhist terminology we would say that true art, even when it reflects samsara (the realms of chaos, addiction, squalor and suffering), shows that there is a path out, and often acts as signposts along the path. However most of modern art merely reflects, and often wallows in squalor, without acknowledging any possibility that there may be other states of existence. It has turned its back on beauty and wanders aimlessly in a spiritual desert.
Tantra and art
We could go further and say that great art is a 'tantric' practice in its widest sense, where tantra is the mental transformation of the ordinary environment to the environment of a spiritual being. Scruton emphasised this aspect in the transformation of lust (attachment) into Platonic love, where the energy of carnal desire is channelled into spiritual objectives.
Brutalism
Modern architecture reflects a materialistic philosophy which generates an environment fit only to be inhabited by automata, and is thus an expression of the philosophical doctrine of materialism, which rejects any possibility of a spiritual dimension of existence.
Brutalist Architecture - Demoralising and dehumanising to live in.
Modern art engages the mind on a purely superficial level by its constant attempts at 'originality', which usually end up as scatological attempts to 'shock' some imaginary strawman of middle class public opinion ('Epater la bourgeoisie').
But this public opinion has actually long since become jaded by the antics of the self-appointed avant-garde, which may have been shocking the first time round, but have become boring and vacuous with repetition.
Zen - Meditational art
Procedural and Mechanistic Cult of Ugliness
Scruton also attacked conceptual art and the cult of ugliness. Sculptor Alexander Stoddart claimed that conceptual art is word-bound and exhausted in its verbal description. After you have had the idea of putting half a cow in a tank of formaldehyde, the object itself can be dumped as irrelevant.
Conceptual art is mechanistic and procedural:
The concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions. This method was fundamental to LeWitt's definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print:
"In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual art
In contrast, real art engages the deeper levels of the mind by invoking qualia - qualitative experiences of beauty that are non-material and go beyond mere mechanistic proceduralism.
- Sean Robsville
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One of the biggest fitnah of the last time will be the arrival of dajjal. Dajjal, popularly known as anti-Christ will be the one eyed human with immense power, the like of which has not been exercised by any human being. Dajjal will be a fitnah so great that Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.w said that if HE s.a.w.w found hi, HE will fight him and kill him.
The word dajjal is derived from the word dajl which means falsification. In Arabic, the word dajala means 'to mix', this word is used for the things or events where the deliberate falsification is done. And therefore the word dajjal is given to that one eyed creature because of his lies, falsification and kufr.
The most important thing about the ummah of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.w is that we are told about dajjal, while no other prophets told Their people about him. We are told about him because there will not come any prophet after Muhammad s.a.w.w till the last day. there are some ahadith indicating how will dajjal look and what will he do and why is he the biggest fitnah. Below are given those ahadith.
It is narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Umar that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I found myself one night near the Ka'bah, and I saw a man with wheat complexion amongst the fair-complexioned men that you ever saw. He had a lock of hair the most beautiful of the locks that you ever saw. He had combed it. Water was trickling out of them. He was leaning on two men, or on the shoulders of two men, and he was circumscribing the Ka'bah. I asked, What is he? It was said: He is al-Masih son of Mary. Then I saw another person, stout and having too much curly hair, and blind in his right eye as if it was a full swollen grape. I asked Who is he? It was said: He is al-Masih al-dajjal.
(Sahih Muslim, Book #001, Hadith #0323)
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir told that he saw Jabir ibn Abdullah swearing by Allah that Ibn as-Sa'id was the dajjal (Antichrist). I expressed my surprise by saying: You swear by Allah! He said: I heard Umar swearing to that in the presence of the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him), but the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) did not make any objection to it. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book #37, Hadith #4317)
Narrated Fatimah, daughter of Qays: The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) once delayed the congregational night prayer. He came out and said: The talk of tamim ad-Dari detained me. He transmitted it to me from a man who was on of of the islands of the sea. All of a sudden he found a woman who was trailing her hair. He asked: Who are you? She said: I am the Jassasah. Go to that castle. So I came to it and found a man who was trailing his hair, chained in iron collars, and leaping between Heaven and Earth. I asked: Who are you? He replied: I am the Dajjal (Antichrist). Has the Prophet of the unlettered people come forth now? I replied: Yes. He said: Have they obeyed him or disobeyed him? I said: No, they have obeyed him. He said: That is better for them. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book #37, Hadith #4311)
And there is a ling hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book #041, Hadith #7015), which describes the dajjal, his appearance and how will he be killed. This liar will be killed by the hands of ESA a.s. this falsifier will be so confident and people will obey him so much that they will even believe him as god when he will say that he is god. Those who will reject him will suffer but for them is the true reward of ALLAH swt waiting because they will be the people who will not fell prey to that liar.
All we need is to fear that time of tribulation and test in which many people will not pass. The present system is preparing for the arrival of dajjal. We live in the world run by interest money. Rich are getting richer and they are preparing to welcome their master, the dajjal.
It's time for another Frightful Fridays! feature. I apologize for missing last week's update due to illness, but it was for the best, since my thoughts would have turned to evil phlegm monsters or something. Instead, this week, you get an evil monkey monster and another not-so-evil kaida. The akumasaru is a monkey from Hell that takes the idea of the mischievous monkey to an extreme. I envision an adventuring party stopping in a town where everyone is carrying around these cute, little critters (they can shapechange) and being weirdly protective of and doting towards these pets. If the party uncovers the truth, the akumasaru-influenced villagers threaten the characters and make it clear that the characters will have to kill them to get to the akumasaru. The flask kaida is Neutral, rather than Good like its page kaida cousin, but that's due to the fact that sometimes it ends up protecting poisons as well as potions. Despite its somewhat corrupt morality, a flask kaida is a wonderful addition to an alchemist character or an arcane spellcaster who might get a friendly potion-maker to accompany her.I hope you enjoy these latest Fright Fridays! creatures, and I'll be back next week for another installment.When the facade drops on this innocent-looking monkey, it reveals vicious claws and fangs, as well as eyes that hold nothing but malice.Akumasaru CR 5XP 1,600LE Tiny outsider (evil, extraplanar, lawful, shapechanger)Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +14DefenseAC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 16 (+3 Dex, +4 natural, +2 size)hp 52 (7d10+14)Fort +4, Ref +8, Will +9DR 5/good; Immune fire, poison; Resist cold 10; SR 16OffenseSpeed 30 ft., climb 20 ft.Melee bite +12 (1d3-2 plus curse of subservience), 2 claws +12 (1d2-2 plus poison)Space 2.5 ft.; Reach 2.5 ft.Special Attacks curse of subservience, poisonSpell-Like Abilities (CL 12th; concentration +16)At will-charm person (DC 15), detect thoughts (DC 16), nondetection3/day-suggestion (DC 17)StatisticsStr 7, Dex 17, Con 14, Int 16, Wis 18, Cha 19Base Atk +7; CMB +8; CMD 16 (20 vs. trip)Feats Agile Maneuvers, Deceitful, Persuasive, Weapon FinesseSkills Bluff +16, Climb +11, Diplomacy +16, Disable Device +10, Disguise +16, Intimidate +14, Perception +14, Sense Motive +14, Sleight of Hand +10, Stealth +21Languages Common, Gnome, Infernal, Sylvan; telepathy 60 ft.SQ change shape (monkey; beast form I)EcologyEnvironment anyOrganization solitary, pair, or troop (3-40)Treasure incidentalSpecial AbilitiesCurse of Subservience (Su) bite-injury; save Will DC 17; frequency 1/week; effect 1d4 Wis drain and victim automatically fails Will saves against the akumasaru's spell-like abilities. An akumasaru can only apply this curse to one victim; if something frees the victim from the curse, the akumasaru becomes instantly aware of this.Poison (Ex) claws-injury; save Fort DC 15; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d2 Wis and Cha; cure 2 consecutive saves.An akumasaru is a monkey-like creature from Hell that delights in controlling humanoids and leading them to increasingly self-destructive acts. An akumasaru measures a mere foot in length, including its 4-inch long tail, and weighs two pounds. Hunted and tormented in Hell, an akumasaru happily escapes its miserable existence when an interplanar portal leading to the Material Plane opens up. The creature immediately looks for safety in the form of a suitable, easily manipulated humanoid who will take it as a "pet." An akumasaru that first arrives does not understand how unsettling its appearance is to the local populace, but its abilities to detect thoughts and shapechange quickly allow it to assume a more pleasing form. It acts playful when it finds a victim and puts on an act where it accidentally bites its new owner in order to inflict a curse of subservience. In due time, the unfortunate victim will carry the akumasaru around and become overprotective of the creature. After a few weeks of this, the akumasaru goes from feeling secure to feeling complacent and finally to boredom, at which point its curse has made its victim highly suggestible. The akumasaru suggests that its "owner" perform bizarre acts, each more dangerous than the last, until the creature's victim perishes.A troop of established akumasaru plays a sadistic game where they invade a village and the individual creatures latch onto as many villagers as they can. They then work to drive out those who resisted their influence-or surplus villagers in the case where there are more inhabitants than akumasaru. Then, for their amusement, the akumasaru divide up the village into factions and coerce the villagers to fight each other to the death. After wiping out the village, the akumasaru force the survivors to travel to another community where they can start their game over again.Illustration found hereLiquid flows out of an open vial and forms into a tiny dragon; mere seconds after it emerges, almost completely solidifies, with the exception of moisture dripping from its claws, fangs and tail.Flask Kaida CR 2XP 600N Diminutive dragon Init +6; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +9DefenseAC 17, touch 17, flat-footed 14 (+3 Dex, +4 size)hp 25 (3d12+6)Fort +5, Ref +6, Will +6Immune magic paralysis, poison, and sleep, dragon traitsOffenseSpeed 10 ft., fly 30 ft. (good), swim 20 ft.Melee bite +5 (1d3-2 plus poison), claws +5 (1d2-2 plus poison)Space 1 ft.; Reach 0 ft.Special Attacks poison, spraySpell-Like Abilities (CL 3rd; concentration +5)Constant-detect poisonAt will-create waterStatisticsStr 6, Dex 15, Con 14, Int 11, Wis 17, Cha 14Base Atk +3; CMB +2; CMD 10 (14 vs. trip)Feats Brew Potion, Improved InitiativeSkills Craft (alchemy) +14, Fly +16, Knowledge (arcana) +12, Perception +9, Sense Motive +9, Spellcraft +5, Stealth +20, Swim +10, Use Magic Device +6; Racial Modifiers +8 Craft (alchemy), +8 Knowledge (arcana)Languages Common, DraconicSQ amphibious, apply potionEcologyEnvironment any urbanOrganization solitary, pair, lab (3-8)Treasure incidentalSpecial AbilitiesApply Potion (Ex) A flask kaida can store a single potion within itself (either one it drinks or one it creates with Brew Poison); it can feed this potion to a willing or unconscious creature as a full-round action.Poison (Ex) Due to exposure to a variety of liquids, including poisons, a flask kaida can poison a foe using any injury poison. The frequency, effects, and cure remain unchanged, but the Fortitude save DC is based on the kaida's Constitution (a typical flask kaida requires a DC 14 Fort save).Spray (Ex) A flask kaida can spew stored water in a 20-foot line at an opponent. This deals 2d6 bludgeoning damage (DC 14 Reflex save for half), and a victim who fails his Reflex save is stunned for 1 round. The kaida can use this ability once every 1d4 rounds. A flask kaida charges itself with the protection of potions and other liquids. It makes its home in the same places as the fluids it protects and takes on the properties of those fluids. When it is fully exposed to air, it gains a solid shell around its otherwise liquid body; this shell varies in color depending on the liquid it guards, but it always measures 1-foot in length from snout to tail. The shells adds no appreciable weight to the dragon, so it weighs as much as a typical potion.This odd dragon finds a home in alchemist laboratories or other places where any sort of brewing takes place. Having accumulated a fair bit of knowledge regarding the potion production, a flask kaida enjoys working with skilled craftspeople to create new formulas. A flask kaida sometimes travels with those it enjoys working with, and it provides a boon to its erstwhile companions with its ability to create water seemingly out of nothing. A flask kaida might pair up with a page kaida where the latter provides arcane formulae to the former, so it can brew new potions from spells it had not previously been exposed to. This species of kaida is friendlier than others, but it still desires a lot of time alone in its container. A well-adjusted flask kaida can thrive for 250 years before dissolving utterly-usually breaking down into a powerful potion at the time of its death.A spellcaster can choose a flask kaida as a familiar. The spellcaster must be at least caster level 7th, have the Improved Familiar feat, and provide a potion containing a 2nd-level or higher effect. The kaida usually requires a container where it can rest or assume liquid form.
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As I was having my daybreak tan this daybreak, I read two really gauzy prayers. One was posted by a friend on Facebook and one I found in Henry Nouwen's book," The Bound of Manufacture". If you haven't exposed Henri Nouwen, go keep an eye on him out. He really touches the ransack of thump spiritual and what it's care for to be material. I conflict. I started lost in thought about prayers and how powerful and gauzy they are.
My blog on "THE ROCKET SWING OF LECTURE" last longer than week touched on how words warning me, and prayers are no immunity. We get pleasure from prayers that are handed down for generations that stand the test of time. One of my favorites is "THE CALM CHARM".
God Give Me The Stillness
to convey the thump I cannot change;
audacity to tidy up the thump I can;
and wisdom to know the maturity.
Vibrant one day at a time;
Enjoying one indicate at a time;
Relaxed hardships as the causeway to peace;
Spoils, as He did, this sin against world
as it is, not as I would get pleasure from it;
Pure that He fortitude make all thump blameless if I collapse to His Will;
That I may be dead on pleased in this life and outstandingly pleased with Him
Once and for all in the contiguous.
Amen.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
It has helped myriad the general public obsess bad habits, addictions, prickly anxiety and solely about what on earth that is troubling. I know that prayer is directed to God, but isn't it directed at me as well? It's regularly a powerful message to me of anywhere I yearn for to sequence. It makes texture that if God lives in me it would go both ways.
The magic of prayer to me is that they sequence me on the ransack of what I yearn for. It hand-me-down to be that I prayed about the thump I pleasing. And, now and then, I do ask for what I pressure. But, as my look-in has deepened, I get pleasure from really embraced the fact that everything I wisdom fortitude get pleasure from some gifts. The weaken is while open to that incredible than obsessing about the clumsiness of the indicate and stopping it. So, my prayers are outlying supercilious about measure me see what I yearn for to see and to be who I yearn for to be.
The beauty of anxiety is that it forces me to pray supercilious and to pray supercilious violently. Once upon a time I was in hot express grief at the back my miniature marriage inferior, I was by a hair's breadth hovering on. I was grieving a lifetime of dead that I had inferior to cry for in their indicate. I prayed a lot. The Calm Charm was my chant all day want very much. Sometimes, I would use it as a chant. My Christian decline not compulsory that I go to a Catholic bookstore and get some CDs of Gregorian Chants to furrow to as I chop under and like I woke up in the daybreak. She assumed that even period I don't understand the words, they would tidy up my conceive at the same time as of their impact to God. That speaks to the metaphysical power of prayer.
I start to have prayers create an summation "SEARCH" in the middle of me and God-even if I'm not judicious of it. I start to have God lives in my moment, but I don't regularly uniformity Him existing. I see a prayer as a campaign impact to God, and it allows me to really rest in that peaceful place if barely for a jiffy. Any connections I get pleasure from with God that is this campaign and exclusive, deeply moves me.
Make use of this prayer that stimulated me this daybreak by Henri Nouwen:
THE SEA OF Partiality
Appreciated Peer of the realm, today I misfortune of the words of Vincent van Gogh: "IT IS TRUE EXISTING IS AN EBB AND JET, BUT THE SEA BANG THE SEA." You are the sea. In the face of I wisdom multitude ups and downs in my emotions and habitually uniformity gigantic shifts and changes in my inner life, you pass the time the especially. Your consistency is not the consistency of a prize, but the consistency of a steady lover. Out of your love I came to life; by your love I am sustained; and to your love I am regularly called back. Give are days of sensitive and days of joy; existing are inner health of guilt and inner health of gratitude; existing are moments of delay and moments of success; but all of them are embraced by your unwavering love.
My barely real fascination is to shame in your love, to pipe dream of myself as over the variety of your love, to remove myself from the healing circle of light of your love. To do these thump is to move hip the dark of despair.
O Peer of the realm, sea of love and politeness, let me not pressure too outlying the storms and winds of my piece life, and let me know that existing is ebb and jet but that the sea bang the sea. Amen.
The slowly Gerald L. K. Smith was one of the best-known and peak popular anti-Semites in modern American history, but attractively has been tiny remembered as a lovely speaker and an upright and arranged man regardless of what one thinks of his bookkeeping and taking sides row, which were all rather uncaring in vocabulary of here solutions rather than problems. Smith was the move of the famous Christian Nationalist Clash which was at the peak of its prominence in the 1940s and 1950s so it published its journal: "'The Petulant and the Signboard". This prominence has helped in the writing of various speculative biographies of Smith: the best of which is Glen Jeansonne's here. (1)That prominence was principally based on Smith's subliminal thorough knowledge of the essentials of good be positioned, his own crucial personal magnetism and his shape to work badly even so all seemed lost. I publication popular a uncooked band of Smith's "'Christian Nationalist Clash" (from my own personal hodgepodge of anti-Semitica) that was mailed out to promise cohorts and current members of the subject in the middle of 1962 and 1963 (indicated by the references to the fall of Khrushchev and Lead Kennedy idle individual in bough).It may help to evince to individuals who use Pierce's" 'Who Policy America'" that their spat would be far advanced powerful if they took their reader back not lately to the churn out citizen of jewish power but now its like contact to evince that this is not lately not a new make a difference (excluding Smith is wrong with perception [Khrushchev's progeny] in some his assertions but in others he is eerily inventive [Kissinger's power in the U.S. shape]), but that jewish power has been at its growing and is at its zenith in America at a time so America is at its intimate splash by current mis-governance and the lobby-based politics favoured by countless of individuals liable for its precipitate citizen (who upgrade to be further jewish I rule add).To wit:"consumption Noting""A Jew, Arthur Goldberg, initial Secretary of Groundwork, only predetermined to U.S. Supreme Time. Is idle the determining reflection in the Groundwork Field. A loyalist of the Moscow-trained Reuther.""A Jew, Douglas Dillon (acquaintances name, Lapowski) is Secretary of the Chest in authority of all American money. Comes from worldwide banking neighborhood of Dillon-Read ">REFERENCES(1) Glen Jeansonne, 1988," 'Gerald L. K. Smith: Cleric of Gripe", 1st Collection, Yale University Press: New Haven. Future significant work on Smith is his own record of sorts Gerald L. K. Smith, 1978, "careworn Patriot'", 1st Collection, Self-Published: Eureka Springs; Isabel Export tax, 1965, "'Gerald L. K. Smith and anti-Semitism'", Unpublished MA Thesis: University of New Mexico and Leo Ribuffo, 1983, "'The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Cup from the Magnificent Depression to the Unconcerned Fight", 1st Collection, Holy place University Press: Philadelphia.(2) Gerald L. K. Smith, n.d.," 'Jews in Positions of Magnificent Force", 1st Collection, Christian Nationalist Crusade: Los Angeles
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CHATTANOOGA, TN-With standing room only, 540 people packed into the Hamilton Community Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., and came together for one purpose: worship. It was the vision of Rick Anderson and Brooks Pruehs to bring the community together through worship in music. "No One Higher" was the theme for their second Night of Worship, strategically planned to generate interest in the community to look only to ONE, to lift voice and heart to ONE who alone can change lives.
Members of the Hamilton Community Church invited their neighbors, co-workers, family, and friends to come experience one hour of powerful praise. Many Southern Adventist University students attended and brought friends as well. About half of those who came were non-members.
Dave Ketelsen, Hamilton Community Church pastor, gave a 10-minute stirring message reminding us all how we need to move from a behavior-centered religion to a Savior-centered relationship, where doing good by not doing bad is not good, and being right by not being wrong is not right-because it's not about performance or behavior, it's about connection and relationship with our Friend, Jesus Christ.
On Sunday, Ketelsen received a call from a young man who had come because his girlfriend invited him. He's not a member of any church and knows very little about Adventists, but he asked if he could join the church; he's now preparing for baptism and going through studies.
A Sunday pastor, who has been attending the Hamilton Community Church, also went to the Night of Worship.
"This was one of the most inspirational worship services I've ever been to," he said. "Next time, I'll invite more friends to come."
Written by Dave Ketelsen, Hamilton Community Church pastor
Photos by Grady Sapp
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17th Day Of The 4th Vast Pass
Ruled by Gaia
Vast Tree Pass of Fearn/Alder
5th Day Of The Celtic Tree
Month of Saille/Willow
17th Day Of The Pass Of Annwyn-
Time of Avalon
Moon Phase: decline Gibbous
Moon sets: 7:16AM EDST
Moon rises: 10:28PM EDST
Moon In The Normal Hose Down
Indentation of Scorpio
Rhiannon's Pass Of The Moon
Vast Meditation: The broadcast
of kindness
Sun In Aries
Sunrise: 6:37AM EDST
Sunset: 8:02PM EDST
Solar Require for the Day: "At the same time as
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understanding? How do they aim
your covering understanding?"
Imbolc (GWYL MAIR) Region
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April 19th, 2011
MOON IN SCORPIO - The Moon in Scorpio gives us attitude and brings out our prehistoric side; it sharpens our prying and our edges, our base to the image of fascination. Nominated doesn't cut it; get real or let it go; praise shelter, don't multitude. This transit is the time to learn, dig resolute, weed, do action, hem in secrets and love each other up. Moon in Scorpio is the best time to work magick linking sexual matters, power, psychic growth, secrets and principal transformation. Medicinal rituals for ailments of the reproductive organs are also done hip this time of time. Those who were born under a Scorpio moon are stately, brilliantly spectacular, and force to encourage detachment with precisely grounds more readily than discrimination.
TIU'S DAY - Mars Day, the Day of Business and Physicality, Work and Get-up-and-go.....
Schoolwork THE TAROT - While you get a new deck of Tarot cards, crowd-puller them from the box and replacing any promotion cards and the brief book, stole them in a silk or cotton cloth. Forty winks with them under your protect for three nights to make them yours. During the days shuffle them, state them and present yourself with their stowage. While you reaction place, start to use them. At this show it is beneficial to restrict a supercomputer airless to help you mind the cards.
Respectively nightfall, shuffle the deck at the same time as focusing on the following day. Take into custody 3 cards and place them fringe down in advance of you. Now turn ended the ruler, which denotes the morning, letter it in your book and addendum any manner and feelings which come to you. Tell again this with the flare for the afternoon and the third for the nightfall. Fix the 3 cards within the book until the end of the day. At this time face once more at each of the cards and your notes: how did the cards pinpoint to the goings-on of the day? Were the relevant you completed appropriate? Now return the cards to the plug and restate the control taking into account in the week. If you are very firm you may possibly do this every day, but be attentive that it is easier to learn your cards if you do not soak you fraternity.
While you reaction that you are beginning to know and understand your cards well, it is time to move on to added involved spreads, at least one of which force apparently be in that brief book you placed to one halt in the beginning.
Go on this whenever you like learning about your tarot deck: "Skills fortune having crowd-puller time to remodel.
[This brief application and information come from Kate West's book "The Geological Witches' Blind date"]
Origin: way-of-witch.blogspot.com
THE TRUE ORIGINS OF HUMAN BEINGS - CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
Starting with the Sumerians, the first great culture 6,000 years ago that spawned the Bablylonians, Persians, and Assyrians, through ALL subsequent "Intelligent advanced civilizations" and "non-advanced" indigenous cultures including the American Indians of North America, Mayan and Inca empires of South America, Aborigines of Australia, ancient Chinese and Hindu text scriptures from the Far East, Egyptians, of the Middle East, Dogons of Africa, and the Greek and Roman Gods of "mythology", every culture accepted for a fact that heavenly beings (Or Gods) had created Man kind - homosapiens- (In their own likeness, no less). Some coincidence to be a "myth", huh? To read more about the above mentioned myths, and view petrographs/petroglyphs from around the globe,
Native American folklore, where legends of "Star Beings" can be harvested from the American Southwest to Tierra Del Fuego. In story-telling traditions dating back to antiquity, the gods once descended from heaven to impregnate barren females in remote villages. Mothers bearing these strange seeds would then nurture and raise the "Star Children" until the age of six or thereabouts, when the gods would return to reclaim their progeny, leaving villagers staring up into the infinite night. Every pre-christian culture has a similar tale.
The "Missing Link" has evaded science to date. The ultimate enigma in seeking the answer to mankind's most puzzling question: Who are we, and where did we come from? The orthodox explanation, largely derived from Charles Darwin is that humans evolved from apes by way of some intermediate species.
But evolution cannot account for the appearance of *Homo sapiens*, which happened virtually overnight instead of the millions of years evolution requires and with no evidence of earlier stages that would indicate a gradual change from *Homo erectus*. The hominid of the genus *Homo* is a product of evolution. But *Homo sapiens* is the product of some sudden evolutionary event. He appeared inexplicably some 300,000 years ago, millions of years too soon. The scholars have no explanation. But I do. The Sumerians and Babylonian texts do, the Old Testament does. *Homo sapiens*-- modern man-- was brought about by the ancient gods.
SO WHY NOT REVEAL THE TRUTH? COULD YOU HANDE IT?
A peek into the mind of government relating to the UFO/ET phenomenon and the processes at work on the community of nations is best described by Dr. Pierre Guerin an astronomer associated with the French GEPAN (Study Group Into Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon). Dr. Guerin feels there is an intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon and it is not human. Governments of earth understand that this intelligence coexists on the planet with humanity. There is a very high possibility that this intelligence is responsible for the creation of humanity. The impact of this truth on the world community if it became widely known would undermine the ability of the nations of Earth to maintain geopolitical order.[27] Dr. Pierre Guerin's reflections if true, compromise humanities evolutionary and historical self-perception and undermines all major human institutions worldwide. Dr. Guerin's views give us insight to the common denominator that allowed a worldwide cover-up of the UFO phenomenon's reality to evolve and the reasons for the continued maintenance of this policy.
Former CIA official Victor Marchetti spelled out indirectly in 1979 everything the American people needed to know about the UFO phenomenon. His reflections are not far distanced from what Dr. Pierre Guerin described as the reason for the coverup. According to Marchetti, "We have, indeed, been contacted......and the U.S. government, in collusion with other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public..."
"The purpose of the international conspiracy is to maintain a workable stability among the nations of the world and for them, in turn, to retain institutional control over their respective populations. Thus, for these governments to admit that there are beings from outerspace... with mentalities and technological capabilities obviously far superior to ours, could, once fully perceived by the average person, erode the foundations of the earth's traditional power structure. Political and legal systems, religions, economic and social institutions could all become meaningless in the mind of the public. The national oligarchical establishments, even civilization as we now know it, could collapse into anarchy... Such extreme conclusions are not necessarily valid, but they probably accurately reflect the fears of the 'ruling class' of the major nations, whose leaders (particularly those in the intelligence business) have always advocated excessive governmental secrecy as being necessary to preserve national security.
If beings from another world did visit our ancient ancestors, those offworld entities would have certainly been included in the legends of civilizations the world over and, sure enough, strange visitors are found in legends and religions from every corner of the earth be it Biblical angels or the warring sky people from ancient India. These "gods" had seemingly magical powers, unsurpassed wisdom and brought special gifts and experiences to those with which they came into contact.
What actually transpired was that the original Mesopotamian writings were recorded as history. This history was later rewritten to form a base for foreign religious cults--first Judaism and then Christianity. The corrupted dogma of the religions then became established as 'history' and because the contrived dogma (the new approved history) was so different from the original writings, the early first-hand records were labeled 'mythology.'
But that would mean challenging the very traditional Judeo-Christian-Muslim concept of "God"! No easy task, given the power, properties, money and 'god-spell attitude' presently existing on Planet Earth. Maybe the Buddhists, Hindus, American Indians, Tibetans, Mayan, Inca, Aztec and other theories of creation could also be added. An Intercultural Institute of Evolutionary Creationism - IIEC! Yeah, that's it!
All over the planet, you find the ancient legends and accounts of "gods" from another world who interbred with humanity to create a hybrid network of bloodlines. Many claim that they actually created humanity by splicing their genes with that of neanderthal to make you and I. Certainly would solve the "missing link" debate as the timeline is right on. The Old Testament, for example, talks about the "Sons of God" who interbred with the daughters of men to create the hybrid race, the Nefilim. Before it was translated into English, that passage read "the sons of the gods", plural. But the Bible accounts are only one of so many that describe the same theme.
The Sumerian clay tablets, found in what we now call Iraq in the middle of the 19th century, tell a similar story. It is estimated they were buried around 2,000 BC, but the stories they tell go back long before that. The tablets talk of a race of "gods" from another world who brought advanced knowledge to the planet and interbred with humans to create hybrid bloodlines. These "gods" are called in the tablets, the "Anunnaki", which apparently translates as "those who from heaven to earth came."
The ancient accounts tell us that these hybrid bloodlines, the fusion of the genes of selected humans with those of the "gods", were put into the positions of ruling royal power, especially in the ancient Near and Middle East, in advanced cultures like Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt. Now, 20 years ago, had I discussed this, it would have been immediately perceived as nutty. But now that we've mapped the human gnome, we actually have the same technology that could perform the exact same scenario. We can now fuse genes and make countless new species, and make clones of anything with a DNA strand. Doesn't seem so far fetched anymore, would you not agree?TADA! Missing link explained! And no donation required! :)
COULD THE ANCIENTS FLY?
Throughout history there have been many common myths and legends of flying machines or devices, the familiar flying carpets of ancient Arabia; Bi-lical figures such as Ezekiel and Solomon flying from place to place and the magical chariots, or Vimanas, of ancient India and China.
There are many Chinese legends of flight, including a legendary flying chariot belonging to an ancient Chinese prince and the more recent Wan Hoo--of the 15th century A.D. or so. He allegedly built a sturdy wooden framework around a comfortable chair and attached 47 skyrockets to the back of the seat. Atop it he fastened two large kites. After strapping himself to the chair, he raised his hand and servants carrying blazing torches advanced toward the vehicle and ignited the skyrockets. A moment later there was a mighty blast, followed by an impressive cloud of black smoke. Wan Hoo vanished, leaving nothing behind but a legend.
Among the more famous ancient texts that mention aerial cars (Vimanas) are the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Other lesser known texts include the Samarangana Sutra-dhara, the Yuktikalpataru of Bhoja ( 12th century A.D.) the Mayamatam (attributed to the architect Maya celebrated in the Mahabharata), the Rig Veda, the Yajurveda and the Ataharvaveda.
According to the Indian historian Ramachandra Dikshitar who wrote the still classic text on ancient Indian warfare, other texts which mention aerial vehicles and travels are the Satapathya Brahmanas; the Rig Veda Samhita; the Harivamsa; the Makandeya Purana; the Visnu Purana; the Vikramaurvasiya; the Uttararamacarita; the Harsacarita; the Tamil text Jivakocintamani; and the Samaranganasutradhara. In the Manusa, the most elaborate details for building aerial machines are set down. The Samarangana Sutradhara says that they were made of light mterial, with a strong, well-shaped body. Iron, copper, mercury and lead were used in their construction. They could fly to great distances and were propelled through air by motors.
The Samarangana Sutradhara text devotes 230 stanzas to the building of these machines, and their uses in peace and war: Strong and durable must the body be made, like a great flying bird, of light material. Inside it one must place the Mercury-engine with its iron heating apparatus beneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky in a most marvelous manner.
Similarly by using the prescribed processes one can build a vimana as large as the temple of the G-d-in-motion. Four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure. When these have been heated by controlled fire from iron containers, the vimana develops thunder-power through the mercury. And at once it becomes a pearl in the sky.
Moreover, if this iron engine with properly welded joints be filled with mercury, and the fire be conducted to the upper part it develops power with the roar of a lion. The Ramayana describes a vimana as a double-deck, circular (cylindrical) aircraft with portholes and a dome. It flew with the speed of the wind and gave forth a melodious sound (a humming noise?). Ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous it would take several books to relate what they have to say. The ancient Indians themselves wrote entire flight manuals on the control of various types of Vimanas, of which there were basically four: the Shakuna Vimana, the Sundara Vimana, the Rukma Vimana and the Tripura Vimana.
The Vaimanika Sastra is perhaps the most important ancient text on Vimanas known to exist. It was first reported to have been found in 1918 in the Baroda Royal Sanskrit Library. Baroda is located north of Bombay and south of Ahmedabad in Gujerat. No earlier copies have been reported, however, Swami Dayananda Saraswati in his comprehensive treatise on the Rig Veda dated 1875 references the Vaimanaik Sastra in his commentary, as well as other manuscripts on Vimanas.
The Vaimanika Sastra refers to 97 past works and authorities, of which at least 20 works deal with the mechanism of aerial Flying Machines, but none of these works are now traceable. Says Sanskrit literature professor Dileep Kumar Kanjilal, Ph.D. of the West Bengal Senior Educational Service, Since the transcripts of the work date from early 20th century the authenticity of the Vail Sastra may be pertinently questioned. On careful analysis it has been found that the work retained some antique features pertaining to an old Sastra. Like the Sutras of Panini the rules have been laid down in an aphoristic style with the explanation couched in Vrittis and Karikas.
The Sutra style is to be found in the earliest works on grammar, Smrti and Philosophy, while the use of Karikas is as old as Batsyayana, Kautilya and others of the early Ch-istian era. Bharadwaja as the author of a Srauta Satra and Smrti work is well-known and a sage Bharadwaja as the seer of the 6th Mandala of the Rig Veda is also well-known. Panini also referred to him in VII. II.63. Kautilya had also shown that Bharadwaja was an ancient author on politics. The Mbh. (Mahabharata, Santiparva Ch. 58.3) refers to Bharadwaja as an author on politics. Authors on politics have very often been found to have written on the technical sciences also. The genuineness, therefore, of any treatise on technical sciences composed by Bharadwaja cannot be ignored.
Says the Vaimanika Sastra about itself: In this book are described in 8 pregnant and captivating chapters, the arts of manufacturing various types of Aeroplanes of smooth and comfortable travel in the sky, as a unifying force for the Universe, contributive to the well-being of mankind.
That which can go by its own force, like a bird, on earth, or water, or air, is called Vimana.' That which can travel in the sky, from place to place, land to land, or globe to globe, is called Vimana by scientists in Aeronautics. The ancient manuscript claims to give:
* The secret of constructing aeroplanes, which will not break, which cannot be cut, will not catch fire, and cannot be destroyed.
* The secret of making planes motionless.
* The secret of making planes invisible.
* The secret of hearing conversations and other sounds in enemy planes.
* The secret of receiving photographs of the interior of enemy planes.
* The secret of ascertaining the direction of enemy planes approach.
* The secret of making persons in enemy planes lose consciousness.
* The secret of destroying enemy planes.
The India of 15,000 years ago is sometimes known as the Rama Empire, a land that was contemporary with Atlantis. A huge wealth of texts still extant in India testify to the extremely advanced civilization that is said by these texts to go back over 26,000 years. Terrible w-rs and subsequent earth changes destroyed these civilizations, leaving only isolated pockets of civilization.
The devastating wa-s of the Ramayana and particularly of the Mahabharata are said to have been the culmination of the terrible -ars of the last Kali Yuga. The dating process is difficult, in that there is no exact way to date the yugas because there are cycles within cycles and yugas within yugas. A greater yuga cycle is said to last 6000 years while a smaller yuga cycle is only 360 years in the theory expounded by Dr. Kunwarlal Jain Vyas. His papers said that Rama belongs to the twenty-fourth small yuga cycle and that there is an interval of 71 cycles between Manu and Mahabharata period, which comes out to be 26,000 years.
The legacy of Atlantis, the ancient Rama Empire and Vimanas reaches us up to today. The mysterious airship wave of the 1890s may well have been a sighting of ancient craft, still in working order, meandering slowly over the pre-flight world of late 19th century America.
In the late years of the last century, a number of unusual airship sightings were made which may well have been of Vimana craft. In 1873 at Bonham, Texas, workers in a cotton field suddenly saw a shiny, silver object that came streaking down from the sky at them. Terrified, they ran away, while the great silvery serpent, as some people described it, swung around and dived at them again. A team of horses ran away, the driver was thrown beneath the wheels of the wagon and ki-led. A few hours later that same day in Fort Riley, Kansas, a similar airship swooped down out of the skies at a cavalry parade and terrorized the horses to such an extent that the cavalry drill ended in a tumult.
The great Airship Flap of 1897 actually started in November, 1896 in San Francisco, California when hundreds of residents saw a large, elongated, dark object that used brilliant searchlights and moved against the wind, traveling northwest across Oakland. A few hours later reports came from other northern California cities; Santa Rosa, Chico, Sacramento and Red Bluff, all describing what appears to be the same airship, a cigar-shaped craft. It is quite possible that this craft was heading for Mount Shasta in northern California.
The airship moved very slowly and majestically, flying low at times, and at night, shining its powerful searchlight on the ground. It is worth noting here, as Jacques Vallee did in his book Dimensions, that the airship could do exactly as it cared to, because unlike today, it ran no risk of being pursued. There were no jet squadrons to be scrambled after the aerial intruder, nor anti-aircraft guns or surface to air missiles to shoot down this trespassing craft in the sky.
A question sometimes asked by Vimanas researchers is whether the ancient Indians and Atlanteans ever went to our moon or to Mars? If mankind had such craft in ancient times, would they have created bases on the moon and Mars just as we are planning to do today? If they had set up permanent bases, would they still be occupying them today?
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