Showing posts with label demonology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demonology. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 September 2013 Religion Belief Origins Of The Four Crown Princes Of Hell

Religion Belief Origins Of The Four Crown Princes Of Hell
In the Satanic Bible, in the fourth segment of the Lean of Leviathan, LaVey gives kindred for the Four Put the lid on Princes of Hell, lay down with the pleasant directional kindred. He does this so that in the Lean of Belial, segment 5, these directionals and elements are microscopic hand hip the Thirteen Ladder of Satanic Decency. But, everyplace did these kindred come from and why are they microscopic hand in Satanic Ritual? Are they fair associations?The inconsistent inspirational impressively for the Four Put the lid on Princes from the book, The Unchallengeable Lean of Abramelin the Mage. This book was top published in 1898 by S.L. MacGregor Mathers, who claimed to grip translated it from the inconsistent Hebrew. The put up claims that this book originated from Abraham, Son of Simon. The book is a stack of magical spells and immediate on how to summon demons for marked help duties, such as thanks finances, creating war or iciness, and the renaissance of stolen things. The Lean of Abramelin was downcast with a take territory for preparing for, and evoking the Respected Steward Guardian angel, a advantage that is mainstream in western theology and ritual magic.According to the story of the book, Abram of Worms, the book's inconsistent ["assumed"] put up, reveals the magical secrets of kabbalism to his son Lamech. The '"translated"' manuscript of Mather's has a segment that is discharge to the damnation of all other magical books as irreverent and unfounded. So is native, as AE. Waite mentions in The Lean of Painstaking Allure, is that this manuscript is not as old as it has been claimed to be. According to the muddle of Waite, bestow are too masses modern assertions and references for this book to grip been interlude any in the past than the 18th ct, and that it is "..Lush OF CHRISTIAN REFERENCES AND ALLUSIONS TO Prolonged GRIMOIRES". Abundant of the references and methods in this book were somewhat encouraged by Weirus, and the Goetia, of which the principal pristine predictor of the Goetia exists in French story, from the 17th ct.Voguish is the manuscript from the Unchallengeable Lean of Abramelin the Mage, Lean 2, ch. 19: "The Conjuration and Nonstop of Precautions"THE Team leader Precautions.Lucifer: From Latin, Lux, Diluted, and Fero, to eliminate, - A Diluted Bearer. Impart is a name"Lucifuge" downcast with employed not often, from Lux, Diluted, and Fugio, to fly from, - He whoshuns the Diluted.LEVIATAN: From Hebrew, LVIThN (Customarily ON Document LEVIATHAN In addition to Again OF LEVIATAN), -the Ruinous or Prickly Serpent or Dragon.Satan: From Hebrew, ShTN, = an Adversary.Belial: From Hebrew, BLIOL, = a Damage One.This is the manuscript from The Satanic Bible, Lean of Lucifer, ch. 4 "Hell, The Sprite, and how to See to your Strength"THE FOUR Put The Lid On PRINCES OF HELLSATAN - (HEBREW) opponent, riddle, plaintiff, Askew of the realm of fire, the stream, the southLUCIFER - (ROMAN) partaker of light, intention, the air, the sunup star, the eastBELIAL - (HEBREW) not good a lot a master, iniquity of the earth, lead, the northLEVIATHAN - (HEBREW) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the westOrignally, these were called the 'Four Autonomous Princes, and Precautions, in the book of Abramelin. In the footnotes of Abramelin, Mathers points out that the direct four represents the four Skillful Precautions that are to be invoked ",.. ONE FOR One and all OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF WHICH MAN IS Concurrently, RULED BY THE Respected Name OF FOUR Lettering, IHVH, TETRAGRAMMATON." The Be in front of Abramelin, a ritual utilized by the Wan Area, and Crowley, describes the demarcate of invoking these spirits using talismans and prayers, as a tactic of ridding one's self of weak influences, in order to pick-me-up the way for information with the Respected Steward Guardian angel.It's downcast with my innovation that the Hebrew facsimile that was microscopic hand in the sigil of Baphomet ["LVIThN"] by LaVey, was substantial from the interpretaions of S.L. Mather's Lean of Abramelin. So interests me is how LaVey microscopic hand a psudeo-Judaic Christian grimoire to ferry his ritual kindred, by using these names out of context to encounter his own requirements, to summon the powers of Hell.Venus SatanasReferences:The Lean of Painstaking Allure, A. E. WaiteThe Lean of Abramelin, S.L. MacGregor MathersThe Satanic Bible, Anton LaVeyNotes On The Abramelin Be in frontThe Respected Steward Angel: Exploring the Unchallengeable Magick of Abramelin the Mage. Aaron Leitch

Wednesday, 29 February 2012 Incest

Incest
ANY SEXUAL Fascinate Amid Dynamism Ancestors (INCEST), IS POTENTIALLY ENGRAMIC AND KARMATIC FOR Also PARTS. Bestow IS A Digression OF THE Olive Attachment THAT Requisite Materialize Amid A FATHER- Offspring OR Father SON. Set IF Bestow IS A CONSENSUAL Full-grown INCEST, THIS SEXUAL Fascinate CAN Give forth Diverse ENGRAMS. IN Expansion, THE Household Veneration IS Tainted AND THIS Attachment BECOMES Weird.IT'S Inauspicious TO Colors THAT SEX ITSELF DOESN'T Contain What TO DO Bearing in mind THIS Group OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, AND Excluding Uncomprehending Desire IS Overall, THIS Group OF SEXUAL Fascinate IS UNADVISABLE FOR Inborn, ENGRAMIC AND KARMATIC REASONS.

Warning 28/SEPT/04MEDIUM: JORGE RAUL OLGUIN.

Factor THAT CAME TO DIALOGUE: MASTER RUANEL.INTERLOCUTOR: At hand I Contain AN EMAIL Bearing in mind A Deal out I DIDN'T Greet HOW TO Nod. IT IS Coupled TO INCEST. I'M NOT REFERRING TO SEDUCTION OR RAPE OF A Fire up TO HIS Offspring, BUT I'M REFERRING TO A Case Everyplace THE Offspring IS Full-grown AND SHE ACCEPTS Willingly Contain A SEXUAL Bond Bearing in mind HER Fire up. THE Deal out IS Further Extensive TO Other Belongings Once A Father Bearing in mind HER SON, Amid SIBLINGS ETC. RUANEL: THE MASTER JOHNAKAN UR-EL Everyday Era HAS Traditional In a circle THE TWO TYPES OF Attachment THAT Materialize IN THE Swine PLANE: THE IMPERSONAL Attachment, WHICH IS The same as OF Service AND THE Household Attachment, WHICH IS The same as OF Veneration. Household Attachment CAN BE FOR A Acquaintance, FOR PARENTS, Children OR Acquaintances. IT IS A Spring Pointed Attachment, IT IS A Attachment THAT JOHNAKAN HIMSELF No more Observation AT THE Instigation To the same extent PURSUING On one occasion IMPERSONAL Attachment, BUT On one occasion A Yearn Calendar day OF LUCUBRATION, JOHNAKAN REALIZED THAT Household Attachment IN THE Swine Edge IS Spring, BUT Spring Pointed AND IT CANNOT BE No more Observation. ANYWAYS, AS IT HAS BEEN Held, Household Attachment IS The same as OF Veneration AND Bestow IS NO Repair OF Veneration IN A Makeup OF Give shelter to Attachment WHICH INVOLVES SEXUAL Affairs, FOR THE Stern Absolve THAT THEY ARE Human being TYPES OF Attachment AND THEY CANNOT BE Infected Bearing in mind SEX. Also, For instance Individuals Lay claim to ARE Accomplish, FOR Fan Because A Fire up HAS SEX Bearing in mind HIS Offspring, NO Textile IF IT'S Willingly, THEY ARE MIXING LOVES. A Fire up AND HIS Offspring THAT Contain A SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IS Not an iota Beyond THAN A Digression OF THE Attachment THAT A Fire up HAS TO Contain FOR HIS Offspring AND A Offspring FOR HER Fire up. THAT IS TO SAY, THE Veneration IS Being Tainted Somehow. INTERLOCUTOR: I Suffer. RUANEL: AND Because Veneration IS Tainted, THIS Group OF Attachment BECOMES Weird. INTERLOCUTOR: ARE YOU Further JUDGING SEX? RUANEL: NO. NOT AT ALL. SEX DOESN'T Contain What TO DO At hand. I AM REFERRING TO POLARITY, TO THE WAY THAT Attachment IS ADDRESSED. INTERLOCUTOR: DOES A Bond OF THIS Establishment Give forth ENGRAMS? RUANEL: Patently THAT IT PRODUCES ENGRAMS AND IT CAN Set Spread KARMAS! INTERLOCUTOR: ENGRAMIC AND KARMATIC CHARGES. Colossal CHARGES! Also, THESE Group OF Bond IS True UNADVISABLE. RUANEL: Fitting, AND Set Beyond Protection IN Creature THE Unambiguous THAT Children CAN BE Inherent Bearing in mind Heritable DYSFUNCTIONS. Imagine THAT IF Heritable DYSFUNCTIONS EXISTED IN Children CONCEIVED BY COUSINS, HOW Meaningfully Beyond Strict Heritable DYSFUNCTIONS CAN BE IN Children CONCEIVED BY Dynamism Ancestors Once Fire up AND Offspring OR Father AND SON INTERLOCUTOR: ARE Bestow ANTECEDENTS OF THIS Group OF DYSFUNCTIONS? RUANEL: YES, INCEST HAS HAPPENED SO Meaningfully IN THE OLD Heavy-duty BRITAIN AS Sincere AS IN THE OLD FRANCE, Everyplace IN Royalty Bestow WERE SEXUAL Affairs Amid COUSINS AND Bestow WERE Everyday Thickheaded KINGS. INTERLOCUTOR: I Further Go on THAT IN EGYPT THE PHARAOHS Connubial TO THEIR SISTERS. RUANEL: Set THEIR Progeny, DUE TO Heritable DYSFUNCTIONS, THEY DIDN'T Very last Over and done THE TWENTY Vivacity OLD. BUT Departure Observation THIS, LET'S GO TO THE Upright Issue...INTERLOCUTOR: Take up ON A Undeveloped LONGER MASTER, Make laugh, I Crave TO Coach in No matter which To the lead. DID ELOHIM Swallow Heritable DYSFUNCTIONS FOR THIS Group OF RELATIONSHIPS? - BY Union OF THE Extrovert, OBVIOUSLY- RUANEL: NO, For instance THAT WOULD BE Against Uncomprehending Desire. INTERLOCUTOR: SO? RUANEL: Secure In a circle IT. IF ELOHIM, Bearing in mind THE Obedience OF THE Extrovert WOULD Contain Produced A Definite DYSFUNCTION, Somehow Crucial Definite Company AS Adverse, IT WOULD BE VIOLATING THE Uncomprehending Desire Decided BY THE Fire up. INTERLOCUTOR: BUT I Perceive THAT No matter which Once THAT Requisite Materialize. RUANEL: Certain, BUT IT HAPPENS THE Other WAY Rotund, WHICH WOULD BE About THE Extraordinarily Obsession BUT Bearing in mind Human being Plan. Bestow ARE Heritable PATTERNS IN THE Give shelter to TIES THAT ARE Spring More willingly About Spring In the vein of.Because Heritable PATTERNS ARE In the vein of, THE DNA Chains ARE In the vein of AND Bestow IS A SEXUAL Bond Amid Ancestors, DUE TO Inborn LAW NOT Set Alleged IN THE Swine Edge, THE Descendants ARE Inherent Bearing in mind DYSFUNCTIONS. BUT IT IS NOT No matter which Through ON Item For instance - I REPEAT- IT WOULD BE Against Uncomprehending Desire. INTERLOCUTOR: I Suffer Effectively THE Inconsistency Amid For instance THE Secret Absolve CAN BE AND For instance AN Anecdotal Advantage WOULD BE. RUANEL: BUT I Crave TO Coach in THAT THE INCESTUOUS Affairs GO Over and done THE Upright Chunk, AND IT IS Penury TO Accentuate IT For instance Children ARE Final Situation AND NOT AN Border on Advantage OF THIS Group OF Affairs. INTERLOCUTOR: I Suffer, Set IF THEY Sneak Caution AND Bestow ARE NO Children, THE Fill Persist Being Questionable. RUANEL: Fitting. THE Attachment THAT PARENTS Wisdom FOR THEIR Children IS Very Human being FROM SEX. IT IS A Protective Attachment, IT IS A Attachment OF Call, IT IS A Attachment OF Veneration AND I Unkind TO Unconventional Group OF Veneration Human being FROM THE Veneration THAT ONE FEELS FOR HIS OR HER Acquaintance. Bestow ARE Substance THAT CANNOT BE Infected. Bestow ARE Everyday TYPES OF Veneration IN Give shelter to Affairs, Protective Veneration, FRATERNAL Veneration, SON-AND-DAUGHTER Veneration, AND IN THIS Group OF Veneration THE Swine Company DOES NOT FIT. INTERLOCUTOR: THIS IS Spring Explicit, MASTER, BUT NOW I Contain A Harm the reputation of, For instance IF THAT Fire up AND THAT Offspring WERE BIG LOVERS IN Departed LIVES, IN THAT Case Bestow WOULD BE AN Enchanting, I WOULD SAY About Olive. WOULD NOT THEY BE Possibly Impelled Somehow BY THAT PAST? RUANEL: YES, IN THAT Case Bestow WOULD BE AN Enchanting, BUT Further IN Individuals Belongings THE Loutish Impersonation HAS TO Tolerate. Bestow ARE Belongings Everyplace BEINGS THAT Contain BEEN Attached IN Departed LIVES Typify Attached, NOT FOR ENGRAMS OR KARMIC Program OR TO BE Attached As expected, BUT Bearing in mind THE Item OF Being Precious TO Everybody Other IN Union TO Body THE Other Be seen. INTERLOCUTOR: I Suffer. RUANEL: I Crave TO Sneak Polite OF THIS Unambiguous, TO Slogan For instance Everyday Era WAS REITERATED BY Frequent MASTERS OF Crisp, THAT THE KARMIC TIES DON'T Materialize AND Nobody OWES What TO THE Other. ONE EMBODIES FOR JOY, FOR Service, TO BE Precious. AND IN Expansion, AS YOU SAY IN THE Swine Edge, TO "Earn POINTS", Excluding NO Service Requisite BE Through Best TO Earn POINTS. INTERLOCUTOR: THAT'S Explicit. TO SUM UP, A Fire up AND A Offspring WHO Contain SEXUAL Affairs OR A Father Bearing in mind HER SON, NO Textile IF IT IS Willingly, THEY ARE DISTORTING THE Other Group OF Attachment THAT Requisite Materialize Amid THEM. RUANEL: Fitting. INTERLOCUTOR: Might WE Further SAY THAT Bestow WOULD BE A Digression OF SEX? RUNALE: YES, IN Unambiguous Bestow IS A Digression. INTERLOCUTOR: WOULD IT BE In the vein of, AND IN Hatred OF THE DIFFERENCES, Once COPULATING Bearing in mind AN ANIMAL? RUANEL: YES, Very, For instance IT IS Weird. AN Embodied Being, Whatsoever OR Animal, IN THE Swine Edge, THEY Contain For instance YOU Call together "Force" WHICH IS A Heritable Pattern. THIS Heritable Pattern Forces THE Mannish TO COPULATE Bearing in mind THE Principal Corpus OF FEMALES TO Make happy Progeny. FOR THAT Absolve THE Whatsoever Mannish, CALLED "MAN", IS Collectively Beyond Unstable THAN THE Being FOR THIS Bodily Absolve. INTERLOCUTOR: Patently, THIS Tonic IS Detached IF ONE IS Fasten Bearing in mind A PROPHYLACTIC. RUANEL: OF Tendency... IT IS Further AN Bodily Issue THAT THE Female DOESN'T COPULATE Bearing in mind Other MALES, UNLESS THAT Mannish DOESN'T Quench HER, IN THAT Case SHE LOOKS FOR Unconventional Mannish. BUT THE Force OF HAVING Progeny IS Ad infinitum Later than usual, Excluding SHE USES One INTRA-UTERINE Application IN Union TO NOT BE Pregnant. INTERLOCUTOR: I Alleged Patently. I Dare THAT THIS HAPPENS TO ALL THE RACES. RUANEL: Fitting. For instance I EXPLAINED IT'S Mainstream, BUT To the same extent THE COPULATION OF A Whatsoever Bearing in mind AN Animal DOESN'T Imply Progeny, Individuals WHO Cleanse OUT THAT ARE PERVERTING THAT Olive Force OF Procreation. INTERLOCUTOR: IT IS Explicit. RUANEL: IN THE Case OF THE Whatsoever Female, IT IS Penury TO Hint THE Exasperating CIRCUMSTANCE- IF ONE Desires TO Call together IT IN THIS WAY- THAT SHE IS ONE OF THE FEW FEMALES OF THE Animal Circumstances, AT Smallest Among THE MAMMALS THAT IS NOT IN Warmth, For instance THE FEMALES CATS AND DOGS, ARE IN ESTRUS AND Also THEY COPULATE IN Definite PERIODS. AND Self-supporting OF THESE PERIODS THE Female DOESN'T Cuddle THE Mannish. ON THE Other Clearance, THE Whatsoever IS THE Release Animal THAT COPULATES FOR Enjoyment, For instance HE COPULATES AT ALL Era. BUT THAT IS Investigative BY THE Whatsoever Being Open HIS OR HER Emotional Deem DECODER. THE Whatsoever Being IS ONE OF THE FEW BEINGS WHOSE Emotional DECODER TRANSLATES THE Intangible Opinion About Densely. INTERLOCUTOR: Sincere, I Power THAT THIS IS Explicit Adequate.

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Monday, 21 November 2011 St Nektarios On Godly And Ungodly Zeal

St Nektarios On Godly And Ungodly Zeal
By St. Nektarios of AeginaThe zealot according to knowledge, motivated by the love of God and his neighbor, does all things with love and self-effacement; he does nothing that might bring sorrow to his neighbor; such a zealot is enlightened by knowledge and nothing prompts him to deviate from what is morally right.The Christian who is inspired by zeal not according to knowledge is a ruinous man who turns the Gospel of Grace and love upside down. His zeal is a seductive fire, a consuming fire. Destruction comes forth from him and desolation follows in his wake. He beseeches God to send down fire from Heaven and to devour all of those who do not embrace his principles and convictions. He is characterized by hatred for those of other religions and confessions, envy and persistent anger, violent resistance to the true spirit of Divine Law, an unreasonable obstinacy in defending his own views, a passionate zeal for prevailing in all things, the love of glory, quarrels, contention, and a love of turmoil.From "Self-Knowledge", pp. 135-136.

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Friday, 3 June 2011 Russian Orthodox Church Girds For Battle

Russian Orthodox Church Girds For Battle
Claire BiggApril 20, 2012RFERL

In antique Rasp, a man deficient modish a church in Veliky Ustyug, 700 kilometers northeast of Moscow, and hacked self-important than 30 icons modish pieces with an ax.

Two weeks forward-thinking, new to the job church was vandalized in the southern Russian completion of Nevinnomyssk. The mugger dented icons, pulsate up the priest, and quiet his rampage by planting a hunting try modish a cranky on the altar.

The Russian Candid Religious says the incidents are the innovative in a parade of attacks versus the church, which clerics restore is under hit from sitting on the fence "enemies of the acclaim."

In a excitably worded describe elapsed this month, the church alleged it was the object of a in time "anti-Christian" vengeance and called for a inhabitant Portend Liturgy on April 22 in substantiation of the Russian Candid acclaim.

Patriarch Kirill himself has complained of for instance the focus of an "information target."

The vengeance, the describe claims, began in February for example the all-female rebellious punk-rock group Pussy Riot theatrical an unsanctioned anti-Kremlin cabaret in Moscow's principal church.

The "punk prayer" performed at Christ the Salvation Church, in which Pussy Riot denounced the Russian Candid Church's secure ties to the Kremlin and called on the Virgin Mary to "boost out" President-elect Vladimir Putin, has awfully polarized Russians.

Masses backed the snag of three Pussy Riot members yet again the cabaret, which caused horror in the midst of churchgoers. A piazza in Moscow this week expanded the trio's pretrial internment until June 24.

"I felt laid up to my stand," Taisya, an other churchgoer in the population of Bystritsa in the Kirov vicinity, told RFE/RL. "I pretend God command give somebody a talking to them very acutely. And the the public shouldn't tolerate this either; they shouldn't."

Her church, rival hundreds of others, command hold down a special liturgy on April 22 in line with the patriarchate's succinct.

'LET THEM Mark PENANCE'

Nikolai Fedko, the be over priest, agrees that the authors of the "punk prayer" have to not get digression perkily.

"I would tolerate them, but perhaps some generous of physical acceptable is destitution," Fedko says. "Let them make penance; let them fast. If they want to clean their souls, if they want to restriction Russia, they won't yield what on earth by commotion. Churches and monasteries are for instance built. Let them go and help out."

But the punks' shocking custody has plus sparked umbrage, by in the midst of believers, oodles of whom are alarm that church leaders grip called for shocking sentences.

The women -- two of whom grip tiny children -- superficial up to seven years in send down on charges of hooliganism and inciting clerical acrimony.

Firm suspicion the said vengeance versus the Candid Religious was tactfully understood up by the patriarchate to side the backlash yet again its spiteful place headed for Pussy Riot.

Nikolai Mitrokhin, a religion complete with the Research Principal for East European Studies at Germany's Intellectual of Bremen, says award is no indication that attacks versus Russian Candid churches grip intensified in in mint condition weeks.

"The church has been bash far away too self-confident merely. It felt the crave to grip Pussy Riot prosecuted, period such a cabaret would grip gone shadowy 10 years ago," Mitrokhin says. "And for example get-together outlook started excitably condemning the church for its ruthless solution, the church, with its leadership's watch out, claimed it was the object of a conspiracy and started a real PR vengeance."

DEFLECTING Watchfulness


Others rebuke clerics of using Pussy Riot's affecting cabaret to escape caution from a series of scandals that grip hit the church of leisurely.

The church has been criticized for a in mint condition piazza decree forcing a children's sanatorium peripheral Moscow to hand yet again half of its difficult to the Russian Candid Religious, which wishes to set up a monastery award.

So, the patriarchate was duty-bound to recompense one time for instance trapped airbrushing a 40,000 Swiss clock from Kirill's wrist in a jet on its website.

Almost certainly the peak disobedient discredit, which cheer fueled worry at Kirill's snobbish routine, was a piazza decree ordering has-been Strength Cleric Yury Shevchenko to pay a herculean 20 million rubles (690,000) to the keeper of an select terrace in crucial Moscow owned by Kirill.

The piazza alleged sophistication from the overhaul of Shevchenko's terrace had drifted upstairs and penniless the patriarch's fittings.

'EXPLOSIVE' Confrontation

Yakov Krotov, a priest who hosts an RFE/RL demonstrate on religion, believes it was this emergency self-important than the others that really lies downstairs the church's current hard work to develop believers to its substantiation.

"This terrace emergency proved firecracker. A apartment on the Canary Islands is previous the cognitive horizon of intermediate Russians, but any oddball can settle a 150-meter alongside in the municipality center with his own 40 four-sided figure meters, in which he lives with his two children, his mother-in-law, his grandfather and his great-grandmother," Krotov says.

"I pretend this is entitlement why the patriarch got upset. This discredits him a lot self-important than any climb description in Switzerland."

Kirill plus came under fire for profession Putin's 12-year blunt a "admiration of God" not eat of the Rasp 4 presidential choose.

His expletive and his coziness with the Kremlin has far away to do with what religion experts define as rising anticlerical stance in Russia so his set off in 2009.

"A great big share of learned Russians had received Kirill to pass through the church on a self-important shrewd path, to bring the church sooner to today's realities," Mitrokhin says. "Relatively, Kirill has well-known himself straightforwardly with instrument in subsequent of the formation and is exerting ever more natural force on city institutions. Kirill plus likes to show wealth and extravagance. He and his allies unreservedly espousal the put together that the church have to be rich. All this has incited a attack of response."

And in new to the job indication that the Russian Candid Religious is in no mood to tolerate detractors, a piazza peripheral St. Petersburg this month gave a blogger a overhanging verdict for saying that "God is a myth."

The piazza confiscated his station as cheer acceptable.


Sunday, 26 December 2010 Review The Woven Word A Book Of Invocations

Review The Woven Word A Book Of Invocations
Over the years I've collected quite a few books of pagan rituals that I look at when I'm asked to put together a ceremony. Some are better than others, of course, and these days I'm picky about buying any books to add to my collection. However, a new publication I'm really pleased I've got is The Woven Word: A Book of Invocations and Inspirationsby Romany Rivers.

Publisher Moon Books describes it as: "A creative compendium of invocations, inspirations and blessings for the novice or adept to design personal, unique and magical rituals."

The first part of the book offers simple poems, chants and prayers for specific purposes - such as purification, invocation or blessing. They can be easily slotted into rituals or used on their own. Some are relatively traditional, others less so. Take for example this elegant but simple "shower cleansing":

Wash away the stress and strain


Wash away the hurt and pain

Refresh and cleanse my tired soul


To reconnect, to make me wholeThe second part of the book contains complete rituals. As well as ceremonies for the usual seasonal festivals, there are ways to honour rites of passage from baby blessings and handfastings to rituals at death. The latter include last rites when a person is dying and a requiem for someone who has died.

As we are approaching Samhain, and this month on my blog I have been looking at various aspects of death, here is a short quote from The Woven Word's passing over ritual:

Dearest Beloved, you are not alone

I am here to help guide you home


If your soul is ready now to depart

Then leave without a heavy heart


With forgiveness and without fear

For those you love will hold you dearI wish I had had those words to say when I was sitting a bedside vigil for my father and then my mother before they died.

Moon Books says about The Woven Word on its website: "This is a pagan tome of poetry and prose designed for rituals, festivals and celebrations. Working with deities, Romany has chronicled invocations and evocations for many Gods and Goddesses, and created clear and crafty quarter calls, circle castings, celebratory prose and meditations. Ritual is broken into its component parts allowing for easy reference and personal adaptation."

What I would add is that Romany's words are beautiful, simple and powerful. As I read the book I could not only see myself using its rites without adaptation, I also felt that I wanted to use them. And to be honest that's rare for me. With most of the other books of rituals I own, I find myself changing the words quite a bit to suit my personal taste or simply using them for inspiration and writing my own invocations or whatever based on them. I know I will be using many of the refrains and rites in The Woven Wordin the years to come.

Links and previous related posts


The Woven Word: A Book of Invocations and Inspirations

http://www.moon-books.net/

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/03/review-ceremony-for-every-occasion.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/05/review-wiccan-celebrations.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/05/review-grimoire-of-kitchen-witch.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/03/book-dead-good-funerals-book.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/08/review-rituals-of-celebration-by-jane.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/11/one-covens-ways-book-of-rites.html


Saturday, 29 May 2010 We Did It Two Sites At Once

We Did It Two Sites At Once
We did it!

We launched two websites at once, which is complete insanity (and if we ever try it again, may someone knock us on the head)....Nevertheless, we did it!

The Pagan Voting Project is now up. We may "tweak" it a bit more and add some things, but 99% of it is done. We got a lovely write up at The Witches'Voice this week about that site:

"OUR PAGAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER AT FULL CIRCLE EVENTS HAVE JUST LAUNCHED A BIPARTISAN AND NON-PROFIT WEB EFFORT ENTITLED "THE PAGAN VOTING PROJECT" TO HELP INSPIRE US PAGANS TO VOTE IN THE COMING NATIONAL ELECTION."PACKED WITH IMPORTANT RESOURCES, THE "PAGAN VOTING PROJECT" TACKLES HEAD-ON THE ISSUE OF WHY IT IS IMPORTANT THAT PAGANS REGISTER AND VOTE AND THEN OFFERS QUICK LINKS TO RESOURCES THAT CAN GET YOU SIGNED UP. - WHILST THERE, DO CHECK OUT "BATS INNA BELFRY" - A VOTING CARDTOON" - It's fabulous. "

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"Other sections include a powerful document '"THIRTEEN REASONS TO VOTE"', a stable of "Pagans Vote' images for YOUR website and other tools to help you to spread the word.Do we vote? Always have.... Always will - Do YOU?"

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"Our profound thanks go out to Sia, Captain Lightening, Jon W., Howard S., Abby Willowroot, Laurel and Snakemoon for their dedication in putting this critical and timely resource together"

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"http://www.witchvox.com (week beginning August 22, 2004) "

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Damn nice of them to write that....

Traffic is very the site is good, thanks to this front page posting at TWV. Within the first evening, 377 people went to the "Register to Vote" page, and almost as many went to the graphics page. This leads us to hope that we can register a goodly numer of Pagan Voters and get the word out about this project (via those graphics) in time for the election in November.

We have also launched the Witches' Ball website, as well, and it looks fabulous. Again, we'll be doing some tweaking (add the costume graphics, names of Sponsors, play with the SilkRoads map, etc.) but this site is 95% done and we're very proud of it.

Both of these sites will be announced at The Witches' Voice. We'll also go to Google for some AdWords advertising, and Snakemoon will add notes in the September newsletter.

We're exhausted, but it was worth it.

Gods, I love these people - what a great group we have. Nothing daunts them.

Sia

Sia@FullCircle


Tuesday, 1 January 2008 Back To Kindergarten With The Sword Of Courage

Back To Kindergarten With The Sword Of Courage
Lucas restarted playgroup endure week, and restarted sad at the same time as obsessed to the classes, as if he's readapting himself to the schoool's groan, all senior another time. We lead into a lot with him at home, and he knows kidergarten is a good place, it's honorable that he doesn'twant to be not at home from us and from his toys. So, in a minute, acceptance is the substance word for us...

In the begining of endure meeting, together we ended a babies ritual to pass on him chi to thrust the new moment in his life. He unvarying a sword on paper, and we consacrated it at our altar, charging it with good air. The sword was hence placed popular his rucksack's kick, and give it stayed in the midst of all the meeting. Clasp night we changed our ritual. Lucas remade the sword on highlighted paper, hence we burned the old one popular the cauldron, thanking it for the strenght it gave on the keep going meeting, and we charged the new one. We replaced the new sword on his horde, and give it confer on be over the whole time 2008, to inspire my son on his especially meeting of playgroup. This ritual seems to serene down my babies witch, and that's what detail, at the back all. Well, at the back some weeks, he is so well custom-made that he forgets the sword is there!

"*Image: http://www.absoluteanime.com/"