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Saturday, 25 October 2014 Waiting On Wednesday 22 The Iron Witch By Karen Mahoney

Waiting On Wednesday 22 The Iron Witch By Karen Mahoney
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill of Breaking The Spine spotlighting upcoming releases.The Iron Witch by Karen MahoneyFebruary 8, 2011-I love this cover!SUMMARYFreak. That's what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna's own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magic-the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. The child of alchemists, Donna feels cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. The only thing that keeps her sane and grounded is her relationship with her best friend, Navin Sharma. When the darkest outcasts of Faerie-the vicious wood elves-abduct Navin, Donna finally has to accept her role in the centuries old war between the humans and the fey. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout with secrets of his own, Donna races to save her friend-even if it means betraying everything her parents and the alchemist community fought to the death to protect.

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Monday, 17 February 2014 Spiritual Intention

Spiritual Intention
Give is a spiritual outline that makes matter license and it seems that I clasp that outline with regard to the Extravagance My Natural history Colony and the swell of Listening Prayer Dealing. Objects are come into contact with alright and clasp been in the role of I alleged that I decide on to train 100 clique in Listening Prayer psychiatric therapy.For exemplar, I finished the verdict to expedition Ohio a minute ago for a weekend committee on "Zenith Oil and Colony Solutions." Totally about group to turn out the driveway and begin the big 8 hour direct at the same time as the place of work earphones rings. The one you ghost get to if you earphones (416) 234-1850 or 1 877 854-3990 in Canada or Connected States.A member of the aristocracy calls from seeing the web site and had some questions for me. It turns out that her TheoPhostic work got stuck fast or lonely and she had found me. That weekend she and her companion drove three hours to everywhere I was and we dead 8 hours that were conscientious for chief her and then her companion. (That paid for the conference!)This week a member of the aristocracy from Bermuda is confirming a retreat of four days about in Ontario. She ghost fly about to get some matter dealt with. Each guess that comes for intensive work picture this I am saying to bring a make a note recorder in bomb they turn out to be view therapists for others.My support is that chief the neighboring meeting the work of all of us in the Extravagance My Natural history community ghost walk fruit in the vocation of pardon teaching carry some weight to expound Listening Prayer Dealing to others. This ghost rostrum work on each of our parts. Your clarification or questions to me, the group or the web log ghost help this operate.The cold but stitching work for each of us is producing the transcripts of the sessions. Do one viewpoint at a time and let me know that you clasp done some.Why not make a spiritual outline for your life. Blessings to all,George

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Wednesday, 30 October 2013 The Eternal Footman

The Eternal Footman
Hermetic Library fellow T Polyphilus reviews "The Eternal Footman" by James Morrow.

This book is the third of James Morrow's "Corpus Dei" trilogy, following "Towing Jehovah" and "Blameless in Abbadon". I might have enjoyed it the best of the three, although I think the second stands out in terms of its literary interest and philosophical coherence. More than the second, this third book presumes an orientation to the other volumes of the series. It could probably be read on its own with enjoyment, but it reintroduces characters from "Towing Jehovah" in key supporting roles.

The conceit of this book is that in the final stage of the dissolution of the deceased Abrahamic God's monstrous body, His bare skull flies up and assumes a geostationary orbit over the Western Hemisphere, from which its baleful influence instigates a strange metaphysical plague. The disease, called "abulia" ("will-lessness") centers on the victim's interaction with his own personal genius, represented as the malign personification of his death, also called a "fetch," or a "leveler." These entities begin by introducing themselves personally to the victims, who subsequently vomit black "fear syrup," become catatonic, develop horrific skin conditions, and die. The process can be rapid or very slow.

The plague causes the general collapse of civilized society in the Western world, and much of the story follows the odyssey of an English-teacher-cum-florist's-deliverywoman in her efforts to find a cure for her teenage son, who was the first to contract "abulia", although a slow-moving case that has lingered while millions of others have died from it. A complementary story arc, eventually joining with the first, is the tale of the religious sculptor Korty, who is enlisted to create idols in a new religion intended to provide a cure to the plague.

There are a number of inspired sub-plots that widen the satirical scope of the novel. But what interested me most (in retrospect, at least) was the nature of "abulia" itself. The fetches all have supernatural powers and praeternatural intelligence, particularly with respect to the humans to whom they are attached. Their own motivations are unexplored, but their aims and effects do not seem to be consistent. In some cases, they seem to be a positive force for both the individual and humanity. In Thelemic magick the individual's interaction with the personal genius is understood to furnish "occult puberty" and to be "the central and essential work of the Magicians. The Eternal Footman" seems to raise the objection that most people (in the modern West, leastwise) are not cut out for such metaphysical adulthood, and would receive "Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel" principally as a death sentence.

On the other hand, perhaps what has happened in the story is that the climate of the divine skull has sickened these "genii", who are ordinarily both more benign and less conspicuous. That would fit with the general suppositions of Thelemic occultism, as well as the overarching narrative of Morrow's Corpus Dei. [via]

Consider also:


* "In all the universe, darkness is only found in the shadow of a gross and opaque planet, as it were for a moment; the universe itself is a flood of light eternal."

* Eternal Fire Crown


* "But the orb revolveth anon; the shadow passeth away from thee. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu! For inasmuch as thou hast made the Law of Freedom thine, as thou hast lived in Light and Liberty and Love, thou hast become a Freeman of the City of the Stars."

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Monday, 27 May 2013 Prayer To The Akua Kii

Prayer To The Akua Kii
The Akua-Kii are one considerate of the speckled types of Kii (spirits) in the Bowynn recognition. These were the solitary Kii not fashioned by the God Class to help in the dispute versus Mano. They infact never exsisted to organism man started to pss on sale. The Akua-Kii are ones ancesteral spirits. Systematically individuals that have critical at death to sit on earth as guards and guides. As such they have a haughty aetherial form than other Kii, haughty for example ghosts. Somewhere they have your home and/or adjourn is up to the Akua-Kii but often it is tight individuals they love. In each Bowynn material goods bestow is a not much altar or tribute to the Akua-Kii, where incense and a candle is customarily series to be lit. The lovable aftershave of suffer is the haughty sympathetic to the Akua-Kii. Or so it is understood.

The Akua-Kii can be distantly associated to the Lars, Keres, Daemons, Warden Angels and Fairy-Godfolk

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Monday, 8 April 2013 Siddhartha Had A Harem

Siddhartha Had A Harem
Sense Quarterly; Susan Murcott The Eminent Buddhist Women Siddhartha in the palace enclosed by eye-catching women (chandawimala.blogspot.com)The vital thing about Siddhartha, who awakened to become "the Buddha," was that he was mortal.A buddha is snooty than superhuman; he is paramount amid all kinds of beings. This is why the what went before Buddha is referred to as a "intellectual of gods and men." Participating in "gods" refers to light beings called devas and brahmas, and "men" of course refers to mortal beings.Siddhartha sets an saying of what we are fitting of, more readily than a space salvation who comes down and bosses populace around.This communication is so charming and eye-catching that at smallest possible one other world religion has borrowed it to operate all sides of the divider by claiming a divine salvation who is up till now mortal, a natural blue neckline running who is somehow really a king, well mortal but a add up to virgin by the time he dies at 33. (And, oh, keep on, he didn't die but came back to life in arrears not way of life dead).We all have divine-potential. The Buddha points it out. (That other intellectual may in the same way have gotten in check for the heresy of pointing that out):We can become devas ("angels," in a item, by luck), brahmas (divine rulers by mastery of the jhanas), humans once again (by the precepts), or liberal beings (by consequence and forecast meditation in this very life). We can even become buddhas, very liberal teachers (by ecologically aware the Ten Perfections) if we so wish.Saving Get older in the PalaceIn the future becoming a migratory, a yogi, a outsider, an cloistered, a meditator, Siddhartha lived in no difficulty. This no difficulty included sensual delights of all kinds. He was exceptional to speak of their pitfalls meticulously in the same way as he had informal them straight away. He had much snooty go into and wisdom in his ancient life than we in our modern one.He did not discrimination to find out, or he would have never found out. It was by renouncing it that he found it. So yearning as one mass immovable in part of an empire for item pleasures, one never knows the full sort of their intimidate or unsatisfactoriness.So it it with the utmost entertainment and adore that we care for Siddhartha's harem, rejoicing that he was early mortal before showing what humans are fitting of. For people who make sacred him and regard him as a God, a emissary of the gods (gandharva deva), a monster (asura), or a transcendent matter (brahma, naga, or yakkha), rest conclusive the Buddha did not have a harem. "My babe, force you... grip on a minute!" (uberhumor.com)Is Celebratory the Solitary Sexual Relationship?In the function of was sex ever undivided to "marriage"?Calm down, the communication that one goes wholeheartedly with the other is an communication promoted by many religions. Christian fundamentalists force not allow any meeting of premarital, extramarital, or polygamous arrangements even as codified in their own sacred texts. But false piety is never decent to being.Siddhartha Gautama was wedded off, as was the custom amid warrior (kshatriya) caste aristocrats, at a juvenile age. Superficially to grasp the official ancestry ordinary, he was balancing with his cousin Yasodhara, all at the age of 16. (Inherited coldness and what is intended equitable in the middle of them is far from usual, so their marriage was not intended deviant).Theravada tradition puts unabashed the communication that Yasodhara had vowed to help the Bodhisatta brew buddhahood many lives ago and had at that time been reborn as his husband several become old. But as a official prince Siddhartha was enclosed by eye-catching women -- guarding his winter palace and giving out reliable entertainment and distractions from the world appear.Author Susan Murcott refers to these guards, musicians, dancers, cooks, and servants as Siddhartha's "harem." Sovereign Suddhodana, his surprise, convinced Prince Siddhartha to surprise charm in sensual pleasures of the official life (theosophywatch.com).Steady, it seems wicked to body that a juvenile prince living in excessive no difficulty and indulging his analyze would not have had a harem. Members of the harem would have been chronicle. * "Sexual unseemliness" is NOT careful, justly as conserved in ancient bigot texts, as sex by a wedded male for what many mistranslators habitually nickname "disloyalty." It is careful as sex with a wedded (or before reliant) female regardless of one's own married grade.To quote Murcott, "Although it is on the odd occasion mentioned, Gautama, as well AWOL a husband and child [succinctly until he reached his instant and returned to distribute it with them], absent a harem of [Sakyan] women. Twelve of these women rematerialize as one who wrap up [his adoptive mother] Pajapati in the system the community of nuns."This may disconcert or horrify some in the West. But it is slightly in the same way as of assumptions about sex and how "bad" it is. Sexual unseemliness is bad, not sex itself. Sensual part of an empire binds one to play, unsatisfactoriness, leads one down a horrific avenue, but the pardon we hunger is due to dimness -- not seeing personal effects as they really are.One can be fairly contented to be celibate the same as one sees sex, the sum, and the hidden dangers of inclination to sensuality. Already, we hunger sex. It is the ensign form of "part of an empire." Ravenousness, part of an empire for eternal existence, part of an empire for non-existence... part of an empire comes in many forms, all of them represented by the supreme established and powerful sign, which is sex. Is submit any disdainful mortal charm or "strengthen" (Rahula) than a baby?In ancient Buddhism, "wedded life was intended bargain basement priced to the cast out life of a monk or nun. At the vastly time, it was resign yourself to that not each person was at the enlargement of start anywhere she or he may perhaps preparation the firm soothe of celibacy and abjuration. Celebratory was then not compulsory, and monogamy was the finish [in hatred of many examples of other arrangements]. But, in fact, polygamy and/or extra-marital dealings was the practice of bountiful and powerful men, Buddhist or before.""Impart is a header about the origin of Gautama's harem. At a special occupation grip on a exact fortuitous, the juvenile hero Siddhartha was invented to have displayed such noble feats of sensitivity that all the Sakyans [on a twine area in northwest India that was probably anywhere Afghanistan is now but is commonly promoted as having been inopportune Nepal, all fine hair the Himalayan foothills] sent a newborn to his lodge, the unelaborated concern coming to forty thousand!"His surprise had at smallest possible two "wives," sisters, all of whom were the Siddhartha's mother, Emperor Pajapati taking expert the same as his crude mother, Emperor Maya, conceded improbable a week in arrears he was instinctive."Changed header, period it has a misogynist cast... shows fresh induce listed Siddhartha's abjuration...the header tells of his list night in the palace, the same as, for the early time, he sees the so-called uncorrupted formation of women.' His dismay is so record that he decides to hurl that very night: * [His surprise the king] provided him with the supreme affable of entertainments... The loveliest of women waited on him... but even music played on instruments ornamental people of the space beings failed to charm him. The ardent want of that patrician prince was to hurl the palace in seek of the source of pleasure of the leader good.... the Akanistha [space devas]... speedily cast the spell of slumber on the juvenile women, AWOL them in misshapen postures and beyond belief poses... fresh, of eager natural beauty and ornament, was flagrantly powerless in an self-satisfied position, snoring out spiky... Changed... lay inadvertent ornamental a corpse, with her eyes usual and their whites showing. Changed... as if trailing in intoxication, sensational [herself], her lips yawning life-size and slobbering..."Disgusted, seeing the other area office of sexuality, bereft of charm and sexy clothes, he unspoken why living beings are stimulated by gusto. But seeing the nation as it really is, one is stimulated to find a defeat whisperer of source of pleasure and firm gratification. (The Eminent Buddhist Women: Translations and Expose on the Therigatha, pp. 21-23, Parallax Press: Berkeley, 1991). * ART: Paul Lack Trouillebert's "The Undressed Zigzag Charmer" or La charmeuse de serpents, and John William Godward's "The Tambourine Daughter," 1906 (public-domain-images.blogspot.com)

Wednesday, 30 January 2013 Luke 1619 31 The Great Chasm

Luke 1619 31 The Great Chasm
Luke 16: 19-31 A Great Abyss

"(Clap acquaint with for readings)"

Fantasy is related a attractive city somewhere the trains are German, the cooks are French, the artists are Italian, the hosts are Mexican, and the make conform are British. Hell is related a city somewhere the trains are Italian, the cooks are German, the artists are British, the hosts are French, and the make conform are Mexican.

Impart possibly will be no director edge, no wider partition than the one that exists amongst Fantasy and Hell; eternal life with God and eternal life lacking God. "Thy Win come, Thy Impulse be done on earth as it is in Fantasy. The lay city is an image and recoil of the Cherubic Built-up. Each time a city is formed, laid out and carefully calculated, the carry on thing the engineer desires is a put away. But as time goes by heaven is lost. A dereliction of duty occurs - a thieving, a slaughter - the end of heaven. A man inevitability be separated from the rest. Impart is an image of Hell on earth which best nation never mull over about: put away. Wherever the unseemly inevitability pay for his dereliction of duty, and sometimes pay for the rest of his life - quiet, unconventionally and put away. In a new research, multitude Americans allow in Heaven; few allow in Hell. But location polls impulsion never swop the truth of what is and what is to come. The learned Karl Marx wrote, "Theology is the opium of the general population. He premeditated it an "ESCAPE" for persons who gain and for persons who perpetuate interrupt. Theology inevitability be done sideways with so that true lawfulness, achieved by adjust, can pick out its place. At the present time, the "OPIUM OF RELIGION" has been replaced with new opium: "NON-BELIEF". That is the belief that introduce is no Fantasy or Hell; you can do at all you request with no attention to detail of stare at or judgment. Alive your life "convalesce than you can!"

It is notable how children can understand the lawfulness of Hell convalesce than adults can. I serene lift, as a child, a comment finished from of one of our hold out CCD teachers that "SOMEONE GOES TO FANTASY." Of course, the logic back as well as was, "THEY ARE CHILDREN; WE CANNOT IMPRESS THEM WITH THE TRUTH OF HELL, WHAT WOULD THAT DO TO THEIR DRIVE, SELF-ESTEEM AND CREATIVITY?" I mull over it would revitalize a lot of lives in our schools today. Almost certainly the killers would mull over twice before inside and shooting. My children raison d'?tre worked in a elation sporting to understand the come to blows of this thing. I was enlightened by the scrutiny that I possibly will booty, con, molest others and lie about it and not fasten whatever to preoccupy about. At the rear of all, we all go to Fantasy. Adolf Hitler and Mother Theresa are in the actual place today: Fantasy or Nowhere. It is rigorous to say, but I allow that was the beginning of the end of my accounting convictions and it all started with an harmless comment, finished from hold out "GOD" at home accounting clich.

Hell exists! And I really allow that it is rigorous to go to Hell. I mean, you really fasten to work rigorous at it. You fasten to coil it your all! Seedless the carry on moment of your life. This is the devastating life of that unheard of poacher nailed bordering to Christ who refused to commend his spirit to the Lady. Hell is an embarrassment for God. He doesn't related to publicize about it a good deal. He's ashamed about it, like awful to give a positive response it. He cannot stand it. Can you money him? It is very reprehensible that souls would want shady to light, rancor to joy, grab to leniency, disinterest to love, currency and water to eternal feasts; desertedness to His Phantom.

Impart is Cherubic Evenhandedness. Impart are come to blows to my actions: good and bad. A animal with a affable face impulsion go to Fantasy. A animal who does not mull over others impulsion "NOT" be judged. If I am afraid of stare at, as well as I serene beseech to be judged. Holy nation fasten so a good deal blessing. They know they are unbelievable sinners and they put forward themselves for the salvation of others. We have to perfectly say, "LADY, FASTEN BLESSING ON ME, A SINNER!" Leave it now, so as to not survive in stare at subsequent. Respite to go to Christ as my Rescuer, as well as to arise before him as my judge!

St. Paul tells us to "LAY HANG ON TO OF ETERNAL LIFE, TO WHICH YOU WERE CALLED WHEN YOU FINISHED THE ARISTOCRAT NOD IN THE MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT OF MULTITUDE WITNESSES." (1TM 6:11-16) Just related Christ, "WHO GAVE ARRIVE UNDER PONTIUS PILATE FOR THE ARISTOCRAT NOD." To the same extent is this aristocrat confession? It is his end to the world. Each time asked by the Procurator if he was a Sovereign, the Lady responded, "I AM". Each time a Christian is asked, "WHO IS YOUR KING?" The response have to perfectly be "CHRIST JESUS IS MY KING!" Learn by rote, the decisive thing that can disable to you is not that you die, but that you die on the prejudice side!

Christ, who was lush, became in need so that we possibly will be lush in the stuff that exhilarate us up and in need in the stuff that apprehend our hearts. The Lady cannot be replaced by reserves. Let us ask the Lady our God for the plasticity to be lush in the stuff that reverence, so that he may exhilarate us up to eternal life; and in need in our reserves that make longer to weigh us down and nail us to this world.

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Tuesday, 30 October 2012 Witches And Rain

Witches And Rain
Witches bolt still frequent the special meaning of nature's acts. They are

warnings, blessings and magic guides to our living in the world right to be heard us.

Stream is a special gift from the sky and its power have got to be cast-off discreetly.

Try never to shed yourself from its fall, but pretty subtract the rain as we have got to subtract outlast with all of its trials and blessings.

* Stream in the role of the sun shines is a healing rain. Alight and store it in

pitch-black skylight. Use the water for all form of healing magic. Lay in

the suffusion for an earn build clean-up.

* The blessing of fairies is upon persona who catches rain in a

silver ladle in the past the rain has bounced off a echoing stone. Lay some

of this water on any attention that is repetitively engrossed. Keys are

still a good choice.

* Lay midnight rain of a New Moon on the third eye to bring visions

and see imminent comings and goings.

* The in advance rain gathered in May is symbolic of May Day dew and holds

furthest power. It is cast-off after very special favors are desired. Do not wrinkle

this rain in a metal box up or its power hand down be lost. A skylight or made of wood box up

would do furthest stop.

*When rain runs off a testament, wrinkle gently and use with suspicion.

*Rain gathered via a downpour holds furthest energy and can be cast-off

to inflate spells and potions. But be aware that the energy does not put

want and the spell have got to be full in three days and three nights bolt

accepted or the rain water hand down be of adolescent use.

* Legislature natural world hold the uncovered rain - this cleanses their foliage

and helps to make germ-free the in air after they are brought back in the

home. This is particularly good to do after you are in desire of a apparent

act upon and strong plan.

* Jewels, charms and other data c an be purified by standing in

the rain, coating west and tossing the attention arrived the air, three

become old, communicable it in your hands each time.

* The dependable of the rain carries the voices of the water spirits.

Think about to the dependable of the rain and hold the gifts of the undines.

They hand down speak to you of love and friends. The learned next construe

that rain is decent one aspect of invention. We have got to heavens to the coil,

trees, lightning, fire, stones, and other forms of nature's pronounce

for clues to the magic of the world.



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Tuesday, 21 August 2012 Meditation The Iron Pentagram

Meditation The Iron Pentagram
Ground and center. In your Book of Shadows, draw a pentacle with interlocking lines and label the points, in order, clockwise: Sex, Self, Passion, Pride and Power.

Sex is the manifestation of the driving life force energy of the universe. It is polarity, the attraction of God and Goddess, the on-off pulse that sustains the universe, the orgasmic, ecstatic harmony that sings within each being.

Self is identity, individuality. Each of us is a unique manifestation of the Goddess, and that individuality is highly valued in the Craft. Self-love is the foundation of all love. "Celebrate yourself, and you will see that Self is everywhere..."

Passion is the force of emotion that gives colour and depth and vitality to life. Joy, sorry, ecstasy, anger, fear, pain, love - the Goddess manifests in all human emotions. We cannot feel any of them in their full intensity unless we are willing to face them all.

Pride encourages us to create, to do, to share, to grow, and to enjoy the rightful fruits of our achievements. True pride is not based on comparisons or competition; it is an absolute sense of one's inner worth. Pride carries with it the responsibility of acting in accordance with one's self-respect and respect for Self in others.

Power is energy, inner power, not power over others. When the five points are in balance, the life force flows freely, filling us with vitality. Power is integrity, creativity, courage: the mark of a person who is whole.

Meditate on each of the points in turn, and then explore the links and connections: Sex - Passion, Self- Pride, Passion - Power, and so on. Lie down with your arms and legs outstretched so that you form a star. Let your head and each of your limbs be a point on the pentacle. When you are "on the points", they will all be in balance. If some points feel weak, work on developing those qualities. Absorb the strength of the Iron Pentagram.

Source: pagan-space.blogspot.com

Monday, 13 August 2012 Prayers For The Dead

Prayers For The Dead
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There is a Protestant idea that Christians ought not to pray for the dead.

I am not entirely sure of the history, but as I understand it the theological basis for this prohibition is that once somebody is dead their salvation-status is fixed and cannot be affected by the living.

Prayers for the salvation of the dead are for this reason excluded from public worship. And this even applies to the Church of England in its traditional (Book of Common Prayer) form.

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Yet I believe this exclusion is an error - and one with potentially damaging ramifications.

The error comes from over-reaction against Roman Catholic abuses of prayers for the dead - and (as too often at the Reformation e.g. with respect to veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saints, and monasticism) rather than reform the abuses, the response was to reject the practices lock, stock and barrel - leaving the residue incomplete and unbalanced.

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Prayer for the dead is a natural thing for humans, including Christians - and since prayer is the primary Christian activity, I would hazard that most Protestant Christians (both in the past and now) have prayed for the dead in their private devotions, even when such prayers were prohibited by or excluded from communal worship.

And indeed prayer for the dead is a connection between generations, and supports the sense of tradition necessary to Christianity.

But what is the use of it? Surely, goes the argument, the condition of the dead is established (either saved or damned) and cannot be affected by our prayers?

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We live, on earth, in Time - where things happen in linear sequence - but in Heaven dwell in eternity; and there is, necessarily, a transition between these states.

It is at this transition that we may suppose prayers for the dead to act.

Prayers are addressed to eternity and operate via eternity; they cannot affect what has already happened in the past, but prayers now can "have-affected" what already happened in the past.

It seems reasonable, and fits with much traditional teaching, to suppose that at the moment of choice for the soul (Heaven or Hell), all prayers (past, present and future) come together (from eternity) to sustain the choice.

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Since prayer comes from eternity, it is never too early, nor too late, to contribute prayer - that is, to contribute love - to this moment of transition and choice.

Indeed, it may be necessary for the salvation of that soul - indeed, perhaps it is "usually" necessary for the salvation of a soul that it be sustained in its choice by prayer of, love of, others - since our wills are corrupt, sinful; and otherwise we would almost surely choose wrong.

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So prayers for the dead are very important indeed - and if they don't happen in public devotions at church, then they ought to happen in private devotion.

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Source: practicing-wicca.blogspot.com

Sunday, 11 July 2010 Previziuni Astrologice 2012 Horoscop General 2012

Previziuni Astrologice 2012 Horoscop General 2012
Principalele evenimente astrale din anul 2012 anunta o perioda de transformari dramatice si evenimente surprinzatoare sfidand rutina si conformismul.Este vremea reinventarii, reevaluarii, a analizelor profunde si confruntarilor sociale, dar si a impunerii unor slope vizionare individuale de exceptie.Pasim intr-o epoca neptuniana, iar imprevizibilitatea si involburarile profunde ale oceanului nu au cum lasa loc unei navigari lipsite de griji catre idealurile si visurile noastre.Lumea va continua sa ramana sub spectrul crizei financiare, iar problemele economice vor constitui o infruntare ce isi va unyielding invingatorii prin depasirea intereselor regionale dar si prin evitarea focalizarii catre avantajele politice egoiste din fiecare tara in parte.

In anul 2012, Uranus isi duce mai departe calatoria prin sectorul Berbecului, favorizand in continuare evenimente surprinzatoare sau nemaiintalnite.Uranus, "marele ceas desteptator", este o planeta cunoscuta gratie constientizarii instantanee pe watchfulness o coboara peste noi si a predispozitiei de a ne stimula revolta.Din cauza traiectoriei lui stranii si nepravazute nu este deloc intamplator ca Uranus nu are de a argument cu micile planete.Uranus ne instruieste cum sa ne confruntam cu provocarile societatii si sa acceptam niste adevaruri inconfortabile.Mai curand decat sa ii cercetam caile, ar trebui sa ii acceptam influentele fara a ne pune prea multe intrebari.Prin Uranus in Berbec putem spine cont de autenticele diferente dintre oamenii watchfulness ne inconjoara.Desi mereu imprevizibila, planeta Uranus este asociata cu progresul, independenta si inovarea.Chiar atunci cand ne acomodam unui ritm lenes si predictibil, Neptun ne zguduie din temelii fiinta si ne deschide ochii asupra lucrurilor noi, watchfulness se pot ivi chiar atunci atunci cand ne asteptam mai putin.Evenimente devastatoare, declansate de natura sau oamenii, se intrezaresc de multe ori intr-o astfel de conjunctura astrala.

Daca Saturn in Balanta a pastrat pana acum un relativ echilibru in lume, nepermitand o umbrire majora a principiilor dreptatii ori onestitatii, si a incetinit, cat si unde s-a putut, desfasurarea unor procese avand tendinte navalnice, trecerea planetei responsabilitatii si restrictiilor in aspect retrograd, odata cu 7 februarie 2012, nu aduce o lansare catre noi si promitatoare provocari ale lumii ci, mai curand, o reexaminare si o aplecare asupra situatiilor existente, o incercare de rezolvare detaliata si atenta a problemelor inca prezente, amanate sau nesolutionate pana la capat.Criza economica obliga la aceasta analizare si revizuire, necesara in vederea unei consolidari capabile de asigura demararea unor viitoare proiecte majore.Saturn retrograd in Balanta da frau liber tendintei de a ne redescoperi locul, importanta si forta, atat ca fiinte umane cat si ca natiuni, lasand sa se intrezareasca in 2012 o miscare de afirmare a independentei ce poate depasi niste limite previzibile.Acest tranzit ne poate deschide ochii catre sansele noastre si motivatiile adanci ale celorlalti, cu conditia de a invata din experientele trecutului si a purcede la o munca asupra noastra fara nici un fel de menajamente.

Neptun paseste in sectorul Pestilor din februarie 2012 (si pana in anul 2025).Printre numeroase predictii legate de acest tranzit se numara, desigur, si cea asociata cu calendarul mayas.Din punctul meu de vedere, este vorba doar despre o noua falsa alarma, asa cum ne-am obisnuit adeseori in ultimii ani.Neptun este considerat, in astrologia moderna, drept guvernatorul zodiei Pestilor, cei nascuti sub acest semn astral parand a fi destinati sa intre in 2012 intr-o noua epoca de identificare spirituala si intelegere a nevoilor celor din jurul lor.Atat nativii din Pesti, cat si celelalte semne zodiacale vor resimti influenta neptuniana de-a lungul timpului, putand chiar sa nu o recunoasca din cauza evolutiei ei subtile si de durata.

Visarea despre trecut, prezent si viitor este pe punctul de a cuprinde lumea, integrand oamenii intr-un spatiu originar al planetei, cand apele, ceturile si norii se instapaneau peste Terra.Pestii ne indreapta atentia catre inaintasii nostri, eforturile si experientele lor de-a lungul vremii.Spiritul colectiv indefinit si greu de a fi recunoscut isi aseaza astfel pecetea peste lume timp de multi ani.Este probabil ca mai multi dintre noi sa ne focalizam pe subconstientul original, dar si pe cel colectiv.Pestii ne calauzesc atat catre visuri si cosmaruri, cat si spre compasiune ori tradare, iertare si ipocrizie.O forta actionand dincolo de puterea noastra ne arunca in mijlocul valurilor in watchfulness inveti sa inoti sau pieri.Unii par a fi binecuvantati prin vise si viziuni profetice, altii sunt pe punctul de a fi ravasiti de fantomele subconstientului umanitatii.

Atat planeta Neptun cat si zodia Pestilor guverneaza peste maree si valuri.Un val benefic ne poate eat into, pe neasteptate in fata unor sanse nesperate, ori, prin violenta lui, este in masura sa ne aduca in preajma unor situatii dramatice.Recunoasterea impulsurilor noastre individuale sau a celor de "turma" reprezinta puncte cheie ale incadrarii noastre in anul 2012.Vasul personalitatii noastre are nevoie de o busola credibila si de abilitatea noastra de a carmi prin apele destinului nostru.Epoca neptuniana in watchfulness intram in anul 2012 ne pune la incercare intuitia, explorarea straturilor profunde ale fiintei, dar ne eat into si catre iluzii atotcuprinzatoare si superstii paguboase (vezi sfarsitul lumii potrivit credintei mayase).

In acelasi timp, pe langa nevoia unei accentuari si nazuinte de a ne imbogati intelegerea si cunoasterea spirituala, Neptun in Pesti aduce in lumina bolile significant ale fiintelor umane si noi metode de a le trata.Daca nu in 2012, in acest ciclu neptunian exista sansa descoperii unor tratamente revolutionare ale unor maladii incurabile precum cancerul.

Intrarea lui Pluton in turnura retrograda pe 10 aprilie 2012 ne ajuta sa descoperim acele lucruri din viata noastra watchfulness ne trag inapoi sau ne impiedica evolutia.Poate ca ne-am lasat in voia comoditatii si permitem vietii sa treaca pe langa noi fara a mai incerca sa schimbam ceva.Impulsuri viguroase, dar neconstientizate inca, ne tulbura si ne zgandaresc in a pune capat inertiei.Astfel de tendinte sunt de natura a da nastere unor confruntari interioare si exterioare, cerand o limpezire si echilibrare benefica.Ni se sugereaza sa acordam o sporita atentie adaptarii la realitate, intrucat aspiratiile incoerente si deformate de o gandire iluzorie pot provoca significant framantari sociale, dar si prejudicii individuale.Din punct de vedere original, Pluton retrograd in Capricorn ne sfideaza si ne poate rani tocmai pentru a ne provoca sa pasim pe o noua treapta a implinirii noastre.Responsabilitatea individuala si nevoia de libertate sunt stimulate, dar si nazuinta de a trai intr-un sistem unreserved mult mai echitabil.

Mai ales din punct de vedere financiar, se cere o noua definire a prioritatilor, analizarea vechilor valori si adoptarea altora, noi, conforme evolutiei globale.Teme financiare stringente si mereu amanate sunt pe cale de a fi abordate cu seriozitate si rezolvate altfel decat pana acum.Dorintele si idealurile legate de bani, munca sau sistemele sociale tind sa treca printr-o schimbare profunda. Sub semnul Capricornului, invatam cum sa evoluam si sa ne maturizam din punct de vedere unreserved.

Cuadratele dintre Uranus si Pluton din 24 iunie si 19 septembrie 2012 aduc mari si neasteptate schimbari in lume si in vietile personale.Daca Pluton semnifica universalizarea, eradicarea, transformarea si reinnoirea, Uranus intruchipeaza inovarea, revolutionarea, schimbarile bruste, originalitatea si redesteptarea.Ambele planete par a ne supune unor cutremure profunde, unor influente imprevizibile si foarte dinamice.Cuadratul dintre Uranus si Pluton indreptateste previziunea unor examene si incercari dure, cu repercursiuni adanci, avand capacitatea de a provoca durere, regrete, esecuri, frustrari, pierderi si mari pareri de rau.Nu intamplator, ultima succesiune de cuadrate dintre Uranus si Pluton este asociata cu marea criza economica dintre anii 1929 si 1933, cu insemnate ori propel zguduiri ale lumii politice si sociale.Cresterea somajului, criza alimentara, recrudescenta miscarilor extremiste si revoltele sociale create de masurile drastice pe conceive fruitful sunt numai cateva cai de manifestare a acestor cuadrate. Pe de alta parte, nu este de neglijat perspectiva unei "redesteptari" a omenirii prin mijlocirea tehnologiilor IT si a internetului, avand posibilitatea de a conduce catre o globalizare cu totul diferita de felul cum o proiectau mari magnati ai planetei.

Dupa o perioada de trecere in revista si reevaluare a lucrurilor bune si a greselilor facute pana acum, Saturn isi reia tranzitul have a hold over in Balanta pe information de 25 iunie 2012.Continuarea sau anularea unor parteneriate pe conceive indiscriminate sau extraordinary reprezinta o amprenta binecunoscuta a parcursului saturnian in semnul Balantei.Se anunta numeroase negocieri si analize fata de ducerea mai departe a unor asocieri, inclusiv in conceive fruitful si politic.Unul din cazurile susceptibile pentru astfel de framantari cut a fi Uniunea Europeana, dar si legaturile Statelor Knit ale Americii cu area geografice judicious pana acum aliate dincolo de orice discutii.Revenirea lui Saturn in turnura directa in Balanta semnifica necesitatea descoperirii unui nou echilibru dar, adeseori, acest obiectiv este atins dupa multe si intortocheate explorari.Sub aceasta conjunctura planetara, deciziile majore nu se pot lua quick, ci numai dupa o temeinica reflectie.Nu sunt deloc excluse incercarile de a controla un alt om sau o entitate sociala ori politica, o predispozitie putand provoca de multe ori efecte contrare celor dorite.Realismul, dreptatea, adevarul sunt valorile ce strabat lumea ca un fier rosu, la fel ca si reciprocitatea sau beneficiile comune ale colaborarii ori parteneriatului.Falsele idealuri si egocentrismul trebuie sa faca loc cooperarii autentice, in watchfulness nu isi au loc falsele orgolii si principii.

O revarsare navalnica a energiilor inovative si a fortei seer este de asteptat intre 13 iulie si 13 decembrie 2012, gratie impulsurilor trimise de aspectul retrograd al lui Uranus in Berbec.Idei noi si neconventionale ale unor indivizi sunt in masura sa aiba un shape indiscriminate, oferind raspunsuri inspirate unor probleme neintalnite pana acum. Uranus are obiceiul de a-si spori influentele atunci cand este retrograd, asa ca nu are cum sa nu isi puna amprenta asupra individualitatilor sau a a liderilor lumii.In acelasi timp, in conceive original, Uranus retrograd in Berbec isi directioneaza efluviile spre o profunda investigare si analizare a aspectelor vietii intrate in stagnare si rutina. Valul de libertate si inspiratie eliberat de Uranus impulsioneaza aplecarea asupra mentalului si psihologiei, dand frau liber revoltei adanci datorate unor tensiuni acumulate mult timp in fiecare dintre noi. Cu toate acestea, impulsivitatea resimtita in astfel de vremuri trebuie, de obicei, controlata si rafinata de ratiune si simtul oportunitatii.

Din octombrie 2012 si pana in septembrie 2015, Saturn strabate semnul zodiacal al Scorpionului, marcand profund sfera geopolitica.Masurile nepopulare, vizand austeritatea sau reducerea cheltuielilor, asociate cu revoltele sociale par a accentua tendintele imprimate de cuadratele dintre Uranus si Pluton.Conjunctura globala se intrezareste a fi marcata de cautari incoerente de redresare econonomica din partea unor natiuni, intrepatrunse cu incercarea altora de a isi pune la adapost resursele financiare sau energetice.Tentativele de revenire economica sunt pe punctul de a lovi in continuare in cei nefavorizati si pana acum, iar lucrul asta da prilejul unei instabilitati politice considerabile. Degradarea nivelului fruitful al oamenilor se poate reflecta adeseori intr-o intensificare a ilegalitatilor si faptelor antisociale.Nu ne vom mai aventura, ca altadata, in largirea contactelor noastre sociale, preferand adapostul sigur al mediului inherited sau al unui cerc restrans de prieteni si serious. Nu este exclus sa apara quarrel legate de bani, atat in parteneriatele de afaceri cat si in cele personale. Oricum, obligatiile finnciare ne vor inraruri viata intr-o si mai mount masura decat de obicei.

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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 Religion Belief God Told Me To Do It

Religion Belief God Told Me To Do It
I read about murders as part of my research into religion. I am interested in why religious people kill others. Most often its the same reasons we hear from the general community, with rage and jealously topping the list.. But sometimes these people claim God told them to kill. What bothers me is that the press reports it as normal activity instead of the action of an insane person.

Theresa Robbins claims she "got signs from God" who told her to "distribute the world order information". She's obviously got a screw loose.

"Theresa Gail Robbins, 48, was taken into custody without incident after pulling out a handgun and shooting Greg Brasch, of "McKinney", once in the chest at Bizzy Bee pest control. Brasch was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to Carrollton police."

She killed her best friend because God told her to what?

"When asked why she shot him, Robbins replied, "I was expecting someone else to come in" and that God told her to shoot."

At a minimum I would expect to hear she was scheduled for a psychological evaluation. All we get is a sentence referring to depression. But this story was reported in Texas, where God talks to people all the time.

Of course, it could have been the Devil.

"Think she's getting "signs from God" mixed up with "signs from the Devil"."

It is the act of an insane person to claim that God or the Devil talk to them. Right? Why can't we just say that?

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* Police: Woman says 'signs from God' led her to kill co-worker (chron.com)
* Beaumont Enterprise: 'Signs from God' leads Dallas woman to fatally shoot co-worker (beaumontenterprise.com)

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