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Yesterday my wife and I spent a good part of the day at Island Beach state park. As we were lounging on the beach, we saw storm clouds rolling in so T, asked me if I could keep the clouds away. Now, I have used magick to directly influence the weather before, but with mixed results. I have stopped storms by trapping them in magickal chalices, and breathed pure elemental energy into the sky to change a storms course or burn it up or what have you. I am not all that fond it though. I always get a feeling that I am making things worse somewhere else. So instead I decided to talk to the nagas.For those that don't know, Nagas are serpentine beings that are often propitiated (or exorcised) in Indian and Tibetan magick. They influence various things like the flow of wealth and weather. They can be very touchy, but if you know how to make allies with them they are powerful friends. A few years ago, when the Ngakpa Zhonnu Khang went camping for a week with Lama Vajranatha we did quite a lot of work with the Nagas. We were stopping and starting the rain according to our teaching schedule almost exactly, and I never got the feeling that we were making things better or worse anywhere else.So, I decided to talk to the Nagas, who told me that the beach was going to be rained on, and I was too late to do anything about that, however they would steer the main storm clear of my particular stretch of beach. I told T and we stayed through a quick sprinkle, than the sun came out. About an hour later, we started to hear thunder and saw another storm approaching. She asked me if they were still saying the same thing, and they insisted that we were clear. When we saw lightening, my wife decided that the Nagas must be wrong and we packed it into the car. However, the Nagas were not wrong. It rained holy hell and flooded the road about a quarter of a mile from where we were, but it didn't do anything but spit drizzle near us for about 10 minutres.Why am I relating this? Because the lesson here is that there are many ways to accomplish the same thing, some of which are smarter than others. In the old days I would have used some direct application of power, but here I just had to ask nicely.Also, when the Nagas tell you something, believe them. You might get another hour of beach time because of it.
Origin: masonsofheaven.blogspot.com
"Like psychologists consign to as the just-world deduction is the cognitive hill that the world is in some fundamental way fair or just. Favorably dealings are eventually compensated, bad dealings are eventually punished, and the consequences of any practice or action are blunt propotional to the vocation and/or suffering ally with them. Because for us as magicians this create of hill is whatever thing to be transcended somewhat than embraced, the conjecture has up till now managed to work its way featuring in several systems of spiritual proposal. There's the Christian hypothesis of Paradise and Hell, which is one of the greatest extent well-built examples, but as a consequence the Theosophical/New Age interpretation of the hypothesis of Karma, in which good dealings magically get rid of otherwise free good domino effect and bad dealings magically get rid of otherwise free bad domino effect. Also, in some strands of Christianity you influence a create of synthesis of these two doctrine featuring in the supposed "WARM GOSPEL," according to which God rewards your good dealings with wealth and prosperity in the indoors and now. Churches of this create disapprove to disregard alarming facts such as Jesus' inconvenience for the miserable and his statements regarding how complex it was for exhilarating men to get on the Kingdom of Paradise, choosing to be more precise to give directions on this spoiled aspect of possible cognition for decent guidance.Magick is crucially no latest. The conjecture that the world is in some way to a large extent just leads to all sorts of untruthful assumptions. Because you fancy to contain an actual spiritual practice to get what in close proximity true magical consequences, just-world would teach you that the harder you work and the a cut above you last the forwards you incentive go. Host of the flagellates of Medieval Europe doubtless succeeded in varying their states of consciousness, but forcefully discourse reverse yourself featuring in present is deep and avoidable. Far a cut above mystics influence managed to do the fantastically not good enough ordeal or sketchiness. Because that's an deep supporter, it things to see a basic truth - some forms of practice are a good deal a cut above silky and from this time a lot less work than others. Magick works poverty greatest extent technologies, in that if you're lively about how you face your practice you get anywhere you ask humbly for to go with a lot less vocation. Also, the whole conjecture of magick strikes me as act in response to the implications of just-world, unless you come out to admit that citizens with high magical aptitude are a cut above "DESERVING" than others in some impression appraisal. Instead of separation about our lives subsequent the forcefully agreed-upon symbols of how chronological accuracy works, we avail yourself of our time devising ways to bayonet the carry out and turn it to our consumption.According to this play a part from io9, psychologists influence now famous just how far the just-world deduction permeates the manner in which greatest extent citizens understand rituals. According to the play a part, citizens imagine rituals which are a cut above ill at ease or protracted as a good deal a cut above effective.Cristine Legare, an judge's assistant lecturer in the Break of Psychology at The Theoretical of Texas at Austin, is quick in studying the way that the possible wits uses the absurd to understand the world. To that end, Legare and graduate student Andr'e Souza conducted a study of 162 in Brazil. Embezzle cues from Brazilian simpatias rituals, banal rituals that are used to cut into speckled tribulations from quitting smoking to warding off bad luck, Legare and Souza spectacular a broadcast of magical rituals, shifting aspects poverty the broadcast of steps, broadcast of repetitions, broadcast of items used, and presence of religious icons in the ritual. Far away poverty this ritual to behave toward sadness:"In a metal box, put the vegetation of a white rose. Last that, set fire to the vegetation. Get the stay fresh ash from the vegetation and put it in a indiscernible elastic bag. Capture the indiscernible elastic bag and flight it at a crossroad. Live out the fashion for seven days in a row."They along with asked the respondents to cost the abundance of each ritual. The rituals with the a cut above favorably rated abundance were individuals that included the greatest extent steps, included the greatest extent repetitions, and had a reliable time reel for the ritual. To see if they got the fantastically consequences in a culture that doesn't as energetically put emphasis on this type of ritual, Legare and Souza as a consequence surveyed 68 US respondents from latest religious and socioeconomic backgrounds and found the fantastically thing.Manifestly the chock that's absent from this study is a probability-test disintegrate of the actual consequences of each ritual, to direct for the route that a cut above ill at ease rituals really "ARE" a cut above effective, but if we reason that the deliverance of magical aptitude kitty-cornered this tape set is the fantastically as in the extensive general public such effects would doubtless unaccompanied be observed in a handful of fill. Also, whatever thing as debatable as the supporter of a ritual for "THERAPEUTIC UNHAPPINESS" is complex to tally laterally outlook words, seeing that it's so uninformed. I got featuring in a seminar awhile back about some of the examination that I did at one blunt using Israel Regardie's Puncture by Watchtower ritual, in which I resolute that even period the Watchtower ritual "FELT" poverty it was a good deal a cut above powerful and had a lot a cut above separation on, as far as I may well teach it appeared to add nought to my less ill at ease LBRP/LIRH combination in but of incoherent measurable probabilities. Doubtless I just don't resonante with that unique ritual or whatever thing, but it may as a consequence be that being it is a a cut above ill at ease rite it is simply superficial as a cut above powerful.As magicians we shot to feel better ourselves, and just-world is a hill that that we necessity shot to act in response at every turn. Warm Gospel Christianity feeds the belief that the miserable are worthless of happiness. The Theosophical interpretation of Karma implies that if you see someone the theater a immoral or worn out action you don't influence to do what about it, seeing that Karma incentive unexceptionally capture accuse of anything the difficulty happens to be. The conjecture that you earn everything that happens to you feeds the dark ending of the Law of Fascinate, in which "BAD PSYCHE" are the starting point of all victimization. Any critical, impression analysis of the world shows that it doesn't work that way. Highest citizens who are miserable were just hapless enough to be uneducated featuring in needy families. Host materially helpful citizens prepared it to anywhere they are in the midst of handling and squander. And forcefully discourse, to the same degree bad clothes come out to us it's just being we happened to be in the immoral place at the immoral time. This manipulate one may be less true for magicians, who work at plunder direct of the armed that get rid of luck and approving outcomes, but at the fantastically time not even the best spiritual practice can isolate you from all test.
Reference: new-generation-witch.blogspot.com
posted by roman, jarhead, kong
Aloa.
It seems it takes 2 more weeks until i'll have a new computer but i told you about something i wrote at the moment my computer died. Here it is.
Today this blabla will be about warm and cold colours. You might think: Huh? What is he talking about? I only know Snakebite Leather, Oily Steel, Ivory, Chaos Black, Regal blue, Dark Angels Green, Dwarf Flesh, Sunburst Yellow and so on and so on... No, colours are not always what is written on their manufacturers name. For example painting a dwarfs skin must not be painted with Dwarf Flesh - it is not written somewhere that you should do so. Stop thinking this way is very funny and the own colourful horizon is rising...
WARM AND COLD COLOURS - FEELING IT
First I'll explain what i mean. The human being has always implicated and formed colours to their use, like a 'STOP'-sign made red for attention. Such things are long time learned by the human race when you take a closer look on evolution. I will not do so right now as i don't have the time to explain everything from the first second of life. I try to keep it simple. The human being has feelings, it seems not everybody sometimes, but believe me everyone has. Colours are very important when it comes to human feelings. The humans learned on their way to evolution, that things are good or bad whileexperimenting with them. They found out what they like and what they don't like. Most of the human race does live where it is warm. So the human race likes a warm clima. Sure there are others who love the cold or are simply born into it and i have my biggest respects for such peoples - i think this is simply amazing. I don't like the cold and i don't know people who called me to say joyful on the phone: "Hey yeah! I am moving to the Southpole - that'll be great! Awesom, yeah!"... no single one... whatever, the humans like the sun.
Now check out the colours the sun in all it's strength. What kind of colours does it create to your sourrounding when hit by the sun - they all will go strong and beautiful, colourful flowers will rise around your feet, will spread over the complete place and will bring you the message that this day will be a perfect day, whatever might happen... this is what the sun brings to most of the humans: Joy of life - a feeling of security - something warm to your soul. WARM COLOURS.
For sure there have to be COLD COLOURS. These are the ones will make you feel somehow alone deep down in your soul. A cold blue room where Sadness catches up, a beautiful moonlight but you are lonely and sad, now one here beside you in this icecold ice desert.... i think you get me. Sure coldness is cool, snowboarding, snow ball fights, etc. but there is always something far away in its colours in the hearts of most of the human beings... No offending on those who live in cold Areas, it is simply my point of view and i have no idea what i would think about coldness if i would have been born in Sibiria. There is for sure a beauty in something cold but as said the colours are not as warm as those the Sun brings to our souls... damn, not easy to explain, haha!
I'll try to fix this with an explaination - imagine yourself on the road with a beautiful girl in a city somewhere on this planet, it's evening, you had a wonderful day with a beautiful lady and you think about eating at a dining place (for sure it would be much greater if you could say: "Hey i am a native here, i will hunt something for food or i'll ask the Apes at MASSIVE VOODOO if they could bring us bananas so we can make chocolate banana all night long!"). DINING PLACE was the last word of my thoughts i want to write down. Ok, Dining place, beautiful lady, now get a place to relax with her and enjoy a perfect diner. You had a great dining and a very funny time together, went home to your place, and the night really will last in your memories all your life... in the morning you are preparing breakfast and wake her with a soft kiss... everything is wonderful... now breakfast... you bear her up to your big gorilla arms, she is simply dressed in her white bed sheet and this is the place you can choose... IMPORTANT ONLY BY TAKING A VIEW on the colours:
For me personally it is clear where i want to enjoy this breakfast :)
WARM AND COLD COLOURS - MINIATURE PAINTING
Now after everyone (at least i hope so) felt the colours it is getting essential to look at it in the more practical way. When using warm and cold colours you can achieve really great contrasts. Using them in single they for sure affect the complete overview of your miniature and base.
I try to show you the blabla from above in some linked pictures from Deviant.Art now - just for the explanation, for you to see the effects,please try to mainly focus on the colours worked with, not the theme shown:
COLD COLOURS
Dead Sea by LolitaArt
Barnards' Swordswallower by Abiogenesis
WARM COLOURS
Through the devastation by perzo
NOW I WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR EXAMPLE BY USING BOTH OF THEM:
Hardcore cold warm contrast work in that piece:
Fire and Ice by Risachantag
Everything is cold in that one, except the focus points:
Endzeit byMichaelKutsche
Here you see cold and warm colours working as a light source:
Witch by namesjames
The colours can be bright to have powerful cold warm contrast:
Calypso by Michelle 84
Or they can be desurated to have subtle use of the contrast:
Nightsands by SteveArgyle
MORE EXAMPLES TO SHOW DIFFERENT USES OF COLD AND WARMCOLOURS:
A subtle use of a warm area and a cold area, simply to put more dramatic into the scene:
Warhammer by Lameoh14
Mainly cold areas, but the warm colour pops out a lot and brings your eyes to focus:
NokiaIllustration by PatLeeArt
Unimportant areas going into coldshadows at this one,the main focus is up to the warm and bright areas:
Sagittarius by Pervandr
A mainly purple looking theme but with cold purple and warm areas:
Neo Crystalis by `Ochrejelly
Again a view on cold shadow areas and warm light areas:
The Shipwreck by Bluefley
Now how you can transfer all this information or feelings you got from warm and cold colours into miniature painting? This is mainly up to you. I just can bring you some examples on what you can do and what i think about it. For example:
- paint different areas on a miniature in warm/cold colours to seperate them from eachother
- Painting a warm coloured miniature on a cold coloured base (or the other way)
- MOST IMPORTANT is in my eyes the fact that you can make mostly every colour warm or cold by mixing in... yeah you got it - warm or cold colours, for example a cold black, a warm skintone, a warm purple, a cold purple, a warm green, a cold green... and so on. I guess you got me there now. In fact this opens new dimensions to your painting. If you are working with animagined light source on the model it often helps to bring in a gentle touch of coldness into the shadow areas to make them more distanced while looking at the miniature. In return your light areas (like the light area on a blue cloth/highlight) could get a tip of warm bright colours into it to strengthen them.
I will showyou some examples of having this contrast used at miniatures, first with the latest miniature from my table, BRUTI BRIGHTHAMMER, LORD OF THE BROKEN PEAK, 28 MM BY RED BOXGAMES, where i mainly focused on this contrast and the use of OSL. The base is a socket from Sockelmacher.de and really caught my attention while searching a base for Bruti. His warhammer he held to the skies was moved and replaced by a torch by Games Workshop, maybe i should take better photos but that's not easy at the moment without my own computer and stuff, you know. Here is Bruti searching for the way - remember, cold and warm colours:
Alkemy - Nation Aurlock - Starterbox
Varghar by Rackham
Hatherly by Hasslefree
CLOSING WORDS
There are many ways on how you can play with this contrast, just give it a try and try mixing your basic colours together, allow yourself some experimental experiences and find out how cold and warm colours can influance your style of painting. Sure there are many other contrasts out there and everyone does his influance on miniature painting, like bright/dark, big/small, high/low and so many more you won't believe it. I will keep these theory articles in mind and try to bring you more information about this whenever the muse reminds me of.
Nevermind of looking for this contrast around you and away from the miniature painting - it will be everywhere :)
I hope you like this little journey into colour theory? If you got any questions about it simply drop a comment. I will do the comment updates after i got a new computer. Sorry for the delay in some areas of the article section.
Keep on happy painting!
Regards
Roman
PS:
VESA? I would be very glad if you could drop me an email about your shipping adress again...
"O Homem 'e modesto nas palavras e excepcional nos atos."Conf'ucioEmbora os Druidas somente neste mil^enio haja se apresentado publicamente, contudo a atuac~ao deles 'e muit'issimo mais antigo do que se pensa. Antes de a Atl^antida ser tragada pelo oceano muito das pessoas que l'a viviam migraram, e que uma das correntes migrat'orias foi habitar no oeste da Europa. Com certeza os desse grupo foram os Druidas, mas que por mil^enios viveram sem desenvolverem uma civilizac~ao, mesmo assim conservando a ci^encia trazida do Continente submerso.Os Druidas tinham grandes conhecimentos astron^omicos como se pode ver pelos c'irculos de pedra. Aquelas construc~oes tinham dupla finalidade, a de servir como centros de forca tel'uricas e siderais para a realizac~ao dos rituais e, ao mesmo rate, tamb'em, funcionavam como observat'orios, especialmente dedicados `a marcac~ao das efem'erides anuais, ou seja, eram calend'arios por meio do que o povo pudesse evidenciar a posic~ao do Sol e de algumas estrelas em relac~ao com determinados monumentos e assim pudesse saber das datas festivas, do in'icio dos per'iodos pr'oprios para in'icio do plantio, etc. Contudo, este se constitu'ia um uso secund'ario e during, pois na realidade aquelas construc~oes diziam respeito `a utilizac~ao das forcas tel'uricas e siderais, e em especial aquelas forcas ligadas as ci^encias dos cristais, trazidas para a Europa pelos emigrantes da Atl^antida.Os Druidas foram considerados magos, feiticeiros, especialmente em decorr^encia dos conhecimentos que eles tinham de medicina, do uso das plantas medicinais, do controle do clima, etc. Eram capaz de provocar manifestac~oes tel'uricas e siderais, provocar ou fazer cessar chuvas, isto, 'e, controlar o ritmo das chuvas, de desviar furac~oes e ciclones, controlar as mar'es, atenuar os tremores de terra e as erupc~oes vulc^anicas, alem de outros fen^omenos climatol'ogicos. Isto eles dominavam bem e procediam em parte com o uso de cristais e em parte pela ac~ao da mente, evidentemente com um poder muito ampliado gracas aos rituais procedidos em lugares de forca, como Stonehenge e outros c'irculos de pedra. Evidentemente, os Druidas preocupavam-se mais com o lado pratico da vida, com a fertilidade dos campos e com o desenvolvimento espiritual do que propriamente com o desenvolvimento t'ecnico.Teologicamente o druidismo 'e bastante solid a Wicca; desde que visava essencialmente uma forma de relac~ao com a M~ae Natureza, incentivando a dignidade, a liberdade, e a responsabilidade da humanidade, e coisas assim. Os Druidas celebram suas cerim^onias principais nas mesmas datas em que os celtas efetivavam seus festivais. Contudo os rituais s~ao diferentes em muitos detalhes, mas visam o mesmo objetivo que muitos outros rituais classificados pelas Igrejas Crist~as derivadas do Ortodoxismo, como ritos pag~aos. Na realidade visavam estabelecer um elo de ligac~ao sagrado entre o homem e a natureza, criar um espaco sagrado, visando `a invocac~ao da Deidade, celebrando cerim^onia n~ao em templos, mas em contacto direto com a natureza, criando e intensificando assim um elo entre a Deusa M~ae e a comunidade. Apesar de ter um contato muito field com a M~ae natureza, os druidas acreditam em Deus como forca criadora, ou seja, n~ao existe a mesma dualidade que existe na wicca.A ci^encia dos Druidas encerrava muitos mist'erios e durante s'eculos tem se comentado a respeito de Avalon, uma maravilhosa "ilha encantada", lugar de grandes mist'erios.N~ao se pode dizer que Stonehenge, Glastonbury e outros s'itios megal'iticos hajam sido constru'idos pelos Druidas deste mil^enio, eles apenas usaram o que os seus antepassados constru'iram. A datac~ao pelo carbono-14 mostra que aquelas construc~oes s~ao anteriores `a fase cl'assica do Druidismo. Isto 'e verdade, pois foram constru'idos appliance depois da chegada dos atlantes `aquelas plagas. Na realidade foram constru'idos, e ainda existem centenas de c'irculos de pedra especialmente na Bretanha e na Esc'ocia.Embora os Celtas e Druidas n~ao fizessem uso intenso da linguagem escrita, especialmente para transmitir seus conhecimentos, mesmo assim eles tinham uma escrita expressa sob a forma de um alfabeto conhecido por alfabeto r'unico. As runas s~ao s'imbolos gr'aficos com os quais podem ser gravados sons, palavras, mas o central uso dos desenhos, as runas, 'e de natureza m'agico. Bem mais que o alfabeto hebraico as runas s~ao s'imbolos evocativos de poderes e representam para o druidismo o que o alfabeto hebraico representa para a Cabala.As runas t^em o poder de canalizar as forcas mentais, de projetar a mente da pessoa a um n'ivel ampliado de consci^encia e da'i a captac~ao de conhecimentos ocultos, de conhecimentos velados, de situac~oes afastadas no espaco e no rate.As propriedades m'agicas das runas eram usadas Celtas e Druidas como forma de saber o passado e o futuro. Essa arte ainda hoje 'e muito praticada, mas tenhamos em mente que a quase totalidade daqueles que se anunciam como adivinhos r'unicos na verdade s~ao enganadores, que vivem comercializando uma arte sagrada. Trata-se de um sistema milenar cujos conhecimentos s~ao secretos, cujo dom'inio 'e reservado somente aos iniciados.Na Inglaterra e pa'ises n'ordicos existem diversas organizac~oes dru'idicas s'erias, mas somente uma delas 'e devidamente credenciada para conferir graus inici'aticos.ARQUEOASTRONOMIAUma s'erie de construc~oes megal'iticas encontradas na Europa testemunham que os nossos antepassados tinham algum conhecimento de fen^omenos astron^omicos. Pesquisas iniciadas em 1890, nos monumentos eg'ipcios e nas edificac~oes megal'iticas em Inglaterra, t^em revelado que os habitantes (mesmo pr'e-hist'oricos) de algumas regi~oes possu'iam um not'avel conhecimento de alguns fen^omenos astron^omicos.Aquilo que hoje se chama arqueoastronomia, irradiou a partir de Franca e Inglaterra, com a descoberta de monumentos antigos ou simples locais de cultos em que havia alinhamentos com orientac~oes de natureza astron^omica, indicando alguns, provavelmente, a posic~ao de certos astros brilhantes na esfera celeste, bem como as posic~oes do nascimento e ocaso do Sol e da Lua em ocasi~oes espec'ificas, particularmente nos equin'ocios e nos solst'icios.No continente europeu, as construc~oes megal'iticas mais divulgadas s~ao as de Stonehenge (Inglaterra), bar em que por volta do ano 3000 a.C., ter'a sido criado o primeiro bar de culto, o qual foi desenvolvido nos cerca de 1500 anos posteriores.Em Portugal, o maior megal'itico at'e agora conhecido situa-se na herdade dos Almendres e 'e o mais importante elemento do not'avel conjunto de construc~oes megal'iticas da regi~ao de 'Evora. Admitindo-se que a sua edificac~ao ocorreu na transic~ao do s'eculo IV para o s'eculo III a.C., o que compute com uma das fases de evoluc~ao de Stonehenge, 'e razo'avel aceitar que os respectivos povos tivessem alguma relac~ao, pelo menos cultural. (M'aximo Ferreira, in revista Profuse Interessante. Adaptado).
The 4 Laws of the Mage, a.k.a. The 4 Powers of the Magus, The Witches' Pyramid, etc., are guidelines for the practice of effective magical working which have come down to us via Ceremonial Magic.1.) TO KNOW..."The refers to the "how to" with regard to magic. It also refers to the ancient inscription at the Oracle of Delphi, "Know Thyself"." 2.) TO WILL..."If the desire is not there then the work will not be successful. It is the desire that is manifested."3.) TO DARE...."To have the audacity to enforce your will upon reality, to bend reality to your desire, to do what it takes to accomplish a work. Many people who make it past the first 2 laws falter and fail at the third law. For example, if a spell require graveyard dirt but the practitioner simply doesn't have the courage to follow through and go to the graveyard to obtain the dirt, then that practitioner likely does not possess that audacious spirit associated with effective magical workings. Surf the Internet and one will uncover so many people giving "substitutions" for graveyard dirt. There's no such thing. These people offering substitutions for something so easy to obtain are likely to be weak and produce ineffective work. "4.) TO KEEP SILENT...."Power shared is power lost. Loose lips sink ships. "Now, if I were to add a fifth law it would be.....5.) TO FORGET...."After one has performed a work then one needs to push it out of one's mind. Go forward with the knowledge that one's desire will be manifested but do not dwell or obsess over it as such will prevent one's desire from manifesting. One should lay their trick, walk away and don't look back."
Origin: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com
