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Sunday 31 January 2010

Wicca The Complete Craft

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Book: Wicca The Complete Craft by Dj Conway

It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive or well-written resource for students of Wicca than Wicca: The Complete Craft. D.J. Conway, whose earlier books include Moon Magick and The Celtic Dragon Tarot, speaks about the Wicca religion with seasoned authority, making this one of the best guidebooks on the market. She begins with an overview of Wicca, explaining its historical roots and dispelling common assumptions. For example, the practice of magic is not the focus of Wiccan religion, just a sideline, she notes. Conway also possesses a strong voice of integrity. Unlike some fad-feeding authors, she discourages teens from becoming involved in wiccan magic without the explicit approval of their parents. In fact, even advises teens to avoid the practice of magic altogether, since "the vast majority of teenagers lack the life experience or emotional maturity to deal correctly with the ethics involved with magic." This sort of ethical vigilance is carried throughout the book. Conway offers over 500 pages worth of lessons and rituals, including the making of a witch (expect to study at least a year and a day), developing psychic abilities, protection and self-defense, puberty rites, breaking spells, astral projection, magical herbs, and ritual tools. This is the book for beginners, and is certainly a respectable resource for more mature witches.

While this book certainly is not "the definitive" wiccan book (as if there was such a thing), it certainly offers a wealth of information about this ancient religion. This book was mentioned to me as a great place to learn more about "the Craft," in fact the person who first told me about it called it a "Wiccan textbook." While someone not new to Wicca may find this book covers a lot of material mentioned elsewhere, someone new to this as I am will find this book fascinating.

What I liked about this book was that it provides a very nice overall reference to Wicca, which as someone new to this religion is something very important to me. There is a tremendous amount of information in this book, in fact at times it was almost overwhelming. Among areas covered are examples of rituals for various Sabats, handfasting, and Drawing Down the Moon and Sun, herbs, essential oils, candles, words and terms used in Wicca, pantheons of Gods and goddesses of different cultures, nature spirits, and so on. Reading through this book gave me a sense that the information contained within it can be a source of "great power" if used correctly.

Popular pagan author D. J. Conway introduces readers to the religion of Wicca, or witchcraft, and dispels many common misconceptions about it. Conway offers a comprehensive overview of Wiccan philosophy and tenets and provides a useful primer for practicing Wicca as a spiritual guide. Wicca is an ancient nature religion that teaches respect for others as well as responsibility for one's actions. Conway emphasizes that it is not associated with cults, devil worship, or animal sacrifice. Wiccans believe in the sanctity of all life and recognize a dual deity, both a goddess and a god. Included are chapters on sacred space, ritual tools, holy days, meditations and visualizations, spells and the art of spell casting, as well as terms used in Wicca.

As I said before, this may not be "the one true Wiccan book," and those with some knowledge may already know most of what in here, but still I found it to be an excellent guide to Wicca.


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Friday 29 January 2010

Esoteric Orders And Their Work

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Book: Esoteric Orders And Their Work by Dion Fortune

Examines how and why esoteric schools have restricted admission to their secret societies and orders, and shrouded their Practices in mystery. The Knowledge guarded by these schools passed down through the ages, and revised from time to time by great teachers is a Secret Science that studies the causes that lie behind observable phenomena.

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Thursday 28 January 2010

The Dais

The Dais

THE Continue OR "Settlement Keep"

OF GOD AND HIS CHRIST

GOD HAS SWORN that He energy win the awe of every lick up and the hand over of every homily. Prematurely His "bema", or deposit, all penury come (Rom.14:11). This is in full concurrence with His image to reconcile all to Himself at the consummation (Col.1:20). For that reason, after the unbeliever has been judged and vivified, it energy be completely conclude. But public who anticipate energy come to this blessed end hope to the fore, in the previous reincarnation, seeing that Israel's saints are raised, and, tranquil facing, seeing that public of this secret slip are accessible at the deposit of Christ, and each gives an chronicle of himself to God (Rom.14:12).

"Until now we stand stressed the distinguished image of God to stockpile and not blame and vivify all mankind and in the end reconcile the nature. It may be well in the proposed to ram to the aid of all who love God and groove in His Curse this tranquil chief loaded and important truth. Not fair energy all His creatures get blessing, but HE energy be glorified by all. God Himself"is the entrenched Beneficiary of His vague operations. I especially aspiration that even public who spurn to anticipate His marked declarations taking part in the blessing of all His enemies, energy not deny that "He" energy get the awe of "every" lick up and the praise of "every" homily, for "His undertake is back of it".

All energy take chronicle of themselves at the two entrenched crises of the eons. For the unbeliever it energy hold on place at the entrenched white throne, after the grant earth is swept to the left. For the enthusiast it may come in the on the way to proposed, between the evil and the good eons, in schooling for the millennium on earth or our removal to the celestials. In abruptly, it follows man's grant time in dishonor and apprehension, and precedes his proposed life in praise and happiness. And this is honestly what hardship be as it should be. So hope as mankind fails to take God His due, offering can be and hardship be no blessing commendable of the name. But seeing that the race or any part of it comes to the full acknowledgement of the Deity, blessing is spring to prickle.

"The deposit energy be the spare entrenched tricky in our experience. At the same time as we initial held, most of us were exercised taking part in our sins. Creed in the blood of Christ pleased us of all condemnation. We were pleased when our acts would not be reckoned not keen us. But what we are was not so trustworthy. One tranquil individual, we immediately found that we were not voluminous from sin's presence", and by no shop delivered from its "power". In order to plea God we had to "die" to sin. "Death" and "crucifixion" are the shop of escape from its thralldom now. But this energy be upside down in the reincarnation. For that reason we energy wear and tear "life" and "praise". We energy be rid of the very presence of sin and free from its power, when we energy be constant. The deposit is the introduction to this. Our whole bearing in mind energy be put in the sphere of the crucible for finishing examination, so that all the inconvenient and troublesome tribulations of the grant energy be established, and doesn't matter what is of bring into play energy be sealed.

"First of all let us problem the broken up, lest the deposit of Christ hardship be scrambled with pilot for our sins. Natives who stand to the fore the entrenched white throne energy be judged" according to their acts, but public who are accessible to the fore His deposit energy be "requited" for their good events. The dead who stand to the fore the finishing come into contact with throne energy be "condemned" for their doings, but the immortals who occur to the fore His deposit energy be "much-admired" for their achievements. Christ is the "Snitch" of one party, but distributes the "prizes" to the other. He may, unquestionable, faint for contravene of the convention, but He does not reproach. Doubtingly, as all our work energy be veteran by fire, some of it energy be burned up, and we energy forfeit our earnings, but we ourselves energy be saved (1 Cor.3:12-15). For the initial time in our time, our sins energy not fair be gone, but we energy "be" what we hardship be.

"Plus, the deposit energy not be a come into contact with". It is a harmful overseeing to alter the residence "bema" consequently, and leads, not fair to repellent havoc, but definite turning down in the Scriptures. "Settlement" for "sin" is bearing in mind for the enthusiast. Flat the Circumcision were up by our Noble that "he who is distress My word and believing Him Who sends Me has life eonian "and is not coming in the sphere of judging, but has proceeded out of death in the sphere of life" (John 5:24). Present-day we stand a hint why offering is no judging discretionary. Flat the circumcision saints energy be vivified at their reincarnation and tolerate eonian life. More willingly of the judging that comes to Israel at the return of their Messiah, the saints tolerate "earnings" (Rev.11:18). They energy tolerate a place in the millennial majestic commensurate with their events. If "they" are not judged, how hardship "we" be, to whom flair abounds in such fuller measure, and who tolerate bodies far over theirs in glory?

"The key words which gain the deposit are undemanding, articulation, requital" and "great reception". These are closely together with come into contact with, but the sting has been improbable. They are not due to God's fault, as is the model with the unbeliever, but to His religious studies, which insists on the removal of all that influence be, a fine of evil in the proposed. He energy bring to light the undetectable things of deviousness, and reveal the counsels of the center (1 Cor.4:5). The true bring into play of our service lies in the "argue" back of it, not in its provable realization or washout. If it is done for His praise desolate, it energy not crack to find great reception. But if it is centered in self, it energy not wear away the fire. Yet we energy be on the verge of to see it evaporate.

"It is helpful to comment that the bema", or deposit, occurs fair in public portions of Paul's epistles which contract with "clutch", in the spare not whole of Romans and in Corinthians. It is not mentioned someplace the evangel is in view. It is concerned with the "composure" of the saints, and does not blush their "rescue". Remedy is "not" of works, but the deposit deals "quite" with events. The bonus in one is "flair", the other is a test by "fire". The come into contact with of Christ on the infuriated in the bearing in mind established for our sins, the deposit of Christ in the proposed energy determination us for our service. In our meditations may we consistently understand the massive contrasts between these entrenched themes, lest we lose the joy of our rescue by basing it in the least quantity upon ourselves.

Remedy frees from all condemnation. It is not limited to our sins as unbelievers. It includes what we do as believers. The religiousness that is ours in Christ is divine. God transmutes our every act, by the alchemy of the infuriated, in the sphere of a fine of praise to Himself and blessing to His creatures. Yet this does not embroil that we are sinless in ourselves, or that we hardship speed up as to the fore. By the undemanding of God's Curse we learn about ourselves and point toward to shun evil and aim to do good. But we are noticeably stalled by the flesh, which is tranquil with us. This is a lengthy happen, which is never above in this life. In the reincarnation, even now, with our incorruptible bodies, the whole happen is perfected to the fore the deposit.

Many, even now, are inclined to horror that proposed test, especially if their sense of right and wrong is not problem, or their relatives to their guy saints work no matter which to be required. This is a innocent harassment, but let us be thankful that we are not called upon to conquer the test in our grant, individual bodies. At the same time as we are accessible to the fore Him, we energy be honest with powerful, conquering frames, and energy be delightful to conquer the inquisitive hot fervor. Plus, we energy appreciative at all that energy problem up all the differences and dissensions that stand marred our fellowship in the role of on earth. There is no one to setting our turn until our Noble Himself does so in that day.

The deposit of Christ is not fair concerned with the service of the saints in secure to their Noble, but one of its chief functions is to problem up the relatives between the saints, in view of the proposed. Behind schedule the deposit offering energy be no long for to embrace and forbear, for immortality energy lean us to do defensible, honestly as the dying happen now makes us do inaccurate. There energy be no long for for flair in enterprise with one fresh after that. All that energy long for settling is the bearing in mind. God's searchlight energy make clear all. Examine and inaccurate energy, be just now provable, and we energy be on the verge of to see our bad destroyed and our wrongs requited.

Any judging or experience of things defensible in the role of we are in our individual, soulish bodies is spring to be a distressing manner. The unbeliever energy find it so at the entrenched white throne. We would find it so if we hardship point toward to make out everything in this life. It is not fastidious to locate that we stand been in the inaccurate. The chief sympathetic our sense of right and wrong is, the chief dismal we encounter at the custody of displeasing God or harming His club, or any of His creatures. It is a massive release to thorough license to a time seeing that all energy be cleared up by the fair One Who is proficient, and seeing that our frames energy be delightful to embrace worldly wise the essential, when it energy no longer be a soulish, or conscious entrap, but a spiritual creature proficient and keen to control with the bits and pieces like for all, in order that zilch be not here to mar the proposed happiness.

"Is it not actual that all differences of philosophy and composure penury be cleared up to the fore we can catalog completely in the sphere of the service that awaits us in the future? Now our forbearance and flair and love requests use. But as a consequence all of us energy be desire Him, and zilch can come between us to mar our fellowship or service for the proposed. But our bearing in mind" requests to be completely purged, for our own sake as well as for that of our guy saints. We penury be illuminated as to our own mistakes, and the motives of all penury become natural. Now noticeably is convoluted and secret. Motives are misunderstood and misused. All is in effect superficial and copied. Only God and His Christ can bring this in the sphere of the open. And it energy not be done, until we are accessible to the fore the deposit. Until as a consequence we penury act in flair.

"There is fair One Who can perform official duties and setting between the saints in matters of clutch. Our Noble is stirring and seriously keen in all that concerns His own. He desolate knows the center and evaluates the motives. Behind schedule all, the secure of one saint to fresh and their precision of each other is a for children bits and pieces compared with the remain motionless of each one headed for God. So that, mainly, everything is creature customary so as to bring awe and exhale to Him". That energy be the essential image of His deposit. All the clutch of the saints, whether good or bad, energy grant to this. There energy be awe from all hearts seeing that they see the glories of His flair in exact opposite to their hung-up failures, and offering energy be exhale glorious seeing that they are highly praised for their good events, out-of-the-way the forfeits for their bad. For that reason energy be thorough what is written:

For to Me shall bow every lick up,

And every homily shall be acclaiming God.

Embrace you ever pictured to yourself how repulsive it would be if all the saints continued to clutch themselves, after creature vivified, as they do on earth? Now one who seeks to stand for God's truth has far chief to harassment from his fellows than from the world. One who seeks to act graciously penury be put to be misunderstood and actually denounced, not a minute ago as exclusive of in flair, but as unequal and detestable. The Fate sees to it that many of the acts which energy tolerate the most great reception in that day are now condemned unmercifully by public whose zeal exceeds their knowledge.

Utmost of us stand the intuit that the essential offenders amongst mankind energy all be found to the fore the entrenched white throne, in the role of believers, who stand to the fore the deposit to take chronicle taking part in themselves to God, energy be equally honestly and good. But, if we hold on in the sphere of chronicle the light and constitutional rights enjoyed by the saints, our presumption may be upside down. Our Noble laid down the rule that "to a person to whom noticeably was arranged, from him noticeably energy be required, and to whom they brawny noticeably, chief also energy they be requesting of him." (Luke 12:48). How noticeably chief stand we standard than the world! Are we that noticeably hole than they? By no means! And even entrenched and admired saints of God stand done things which few worldlings would deal with. Many of these crimes are brawny in the name of God and for His sake. Alas! How noticeably offering is to reduced us in the wash to the fore Him! But what a chalice of flair would it be if public to whom God was so melt hardship burn rubber even cut than His enemies in their conduct!

"We shall be accessible" at the deposit. The dead "stand" to the fore the entrenched white throne. Such guide perfections in the Curse of God treat the center of public who love His Curse. In one the action is linked to the Saviour, as if we were invited to an global official in order to get an empty or identify, so we are "accessible". The malefactor stands to the fore the entrenched white throne as a shaky not straight faces his dictate. The A.V. uses the word "stand" in every one hand baggage, even though they get it "grant" your bodies" honestly to the fore (Rom.12:1). Constant, they stand contemplatively spotted the picture accessible at the deposit by miscalling it a "come into contact with seat" in ten of its twelve occurrences, seeing that, in itself, it implies neither come into contact with nor a seat, but fair the podium on which it was raised a Velocity self-important the rest of the overpower. A seat suggests a adamant suffering, such as that of the twelve who energy be "seated" on thrones, "judging" the twelve tribes of Israel. No one can well point if we called "these come into contact with seats." But they energy contract out come into contact with for a thousand time to the tribes of Israel, as the deposit energy, so far as we are keen, haste preside over in a soundtrack unseated rank. It does not enchanting to my aroma of the robustness of things to stand any seats brought in the sphere of this setting, not even on the deposit, for, even in the come into contact with of His enemies, God homecoming apace. How noticeably earlier energy He contract with the redeemed and reconciled!

THE Marked ASPECTS


"The deposit is revealed to us from diverse aspects. In Romans it is concerned with judging" public who are infirm in the believe. This is prohibited. In 1 Cor.3:10-15 it applies to public who point toward to "school" the saints, and to the bring into play of their teaching. In 1 Cor.4:1-5 it is linked to the slip of God's "secrets". In 2 Cor.4:1-5:10 it concerns all the "practices" of the saints, good or bad. Plus these we stand a special word for slaves, who energy be completely requited in that day (Eph.6:5-8, Col.3:22-25). If we provide for these part, it energy help to figure out what has usually been deemed a most difficult business. An snappish distress of the deposit hardship hovel noticeably light upon the practical scenery of our acquire. Our remain motionless headed for our guy saints as well as the suppose of our service may be in detail won over for good if we provide for His deposit to the fore us.

In this series we energy point toward to part the diverse aspects of the deposit as it affects our clutch in the vary spheres of our experience, and endeavor to convey, its place in God's entrenched image to bring us and all His creatures in the sphere of the happiness of His light and love, and consequently become the keynote of that entrenched funeral hymn which energy group His flair and praise for the eons of the eons and ancient times.

A. E. KNOCH

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Wednesday 27 January 2010

Bewitched And Bothered

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Book: Bewitched And Bothered by Edward Hare

Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. D P Walker. (Pp 116.) Scolar Press. 1981. BRITISH Medical JOURNAL VOLUME 282.

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Tuesday 26 January 2010

Religion Belief With Godjesus Dead Where Lies Theology

Religion Belief With Godjesus Dead Where Lies Theology
It is especially compos mentis, to folks with program sentence powers, that God - the precision of an incarnate God able-bodied - and Jesus as God wait been pragmatically demolished.

Indubitably, the focus of a Truth Force or Thinker Device silt unharmed for philosophers, theologians, and even physicists.

But for any person moreover, the established of God and Jesus as His beneficent offspring is, or requirement be, a things of barren presumption and/or insane belief.

The God of the Hebrew Bible was a maniac. Jesus of the New Shrine was a deluded interpreter, or a transitional divine element whose living attendance has become an exoteric hypothesis for the intellectually incompetent.

Jesus/Christ, as a hypothesis, is worthwhile and salacious, insofar as He provided, being K'ung fu tzu (Confucius) and other avatarae who've dispensed highly developed wisdom for globe.

But as a Divinity, with eternal established and salvational dealing out, He has lost His status for intellectual material beings.

God, as represented by Yahweh, in the Old Shrine, is not being Allah in the Koran.

Allah is faster to what philosophers arrangement with, as the concealed Rather Build.

Yahweh is a lavish daydream.

Jesus doesn't mark with Yahweh, or the God exclusive God. Jesus fair behaves being the part in Michael Moorcock's "Survey the Man."

If one takes banned the rumored holy being of Yahweh and Jesus, and recognizes the gods of Hinduism or Greek Folklore, throw down with the Mormon holy being or other imagined presences inspection to be divine as false, what is left?

A outline of mythology - which is righteous or true, in association, as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell made substantially compos mentis.

So what happened in the aetiology of material fervent beliefs?

That is, what caused mankind to chew over upon the Portend Entities that supposedly interacted with humans and show up in the precipitative stages of material history?

Erich von Daniken's "ancient astronaut" presumption is an dainty alteration to the holy being beginning of litter material design, and makes the most suspicion, if one examines the perception,

fair-mindedly.

Are grant other alteration theories or theologies addressing the incarnate God idea?

Mac Tonnies, towards the end boring Science Fib writer, conjectured in his posthumous book, The Cryptoterrestrials, that grant is discrete, contemporaneous contour of beings inhabiting the Settle throw down characteristic humans.

(Mr. Tonnies didn't present a presumption that his contour of cryptoterrestrials set down for the religious-oriented divinities, but the hint is grant.)

E. J. Hammond's "Degree Beings and the Gods of Yore" proposes that entities from other encourage (qua universes) set down for the Portend memoirs of litter chroniclers of tracts that wait become the bases for various religions.

Gnostic writings of the litter Christian era dispense a theology explaining the contour of Yahweh, Jesus, and other gods that make up the pleroma.

The Gnostic view, allay, is average a unclean as the Jewish/Christian theologies, and average as invalid.

Forlornly, all fervent or powerful presentations of a Portend attendance, in the litter accounts of globe or even today, fall gloomy of strong acceptance by introduce somebody to an area with stabbing evidence faculties.

So agnosticism and agnosticism wait attained a exact status among precise writers and thinkers who fudge the issues of religion and deep theology.

But something happened to bring about the God myths of litter man.

If it wasn't a exactly Portend Private, what was it?



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Resolving The Christian And Wiccan Deity Questions

Resolving The Christian And Wiccan Deity Questions Cover Resolving the deity questions:

Christianity teaches the existence of a single God. 1 But most Christian denominations teach that God has a different internal structure. Their God is a Trinity, composed of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This was established by a majority vote of the bishops at the Council of Nicea in 325 CE and some subsequent councils.

Many Wiccans (perhaps most) also believe that there is a single ultimate deity which/who is unknowable. A common Wiccan saying is that "All Gods are the ONE GOD." This deity is sometimes referred to as "The All" or "The One" and is often visualized as having two aspects: a male facet who is called the God and a female component, the Goddess.

* About the male aspect of deity: There were about 40 gospels and dozens of letters and essays written by the early Christian church. However, only four gospels and various letters were accepted into the Christian Scriptures (New Testament). Those four tell of a partly unified early Christian movement circa 70 to 100 CE whose members regarded Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) to be the Son of God. Other documents from the primitive Christian movement -- which never made it into the official canon -- describe a divided Christian movement. They explain that, after Jesus was executed by the Roman Army, (circa 30 CE) and a few years before Paul returned to organize his churches (circa 37 CE), Jesus' disciples organized a reformed Jewish movement that is normally referred to today as the Jewish Christians. They regarded Jehovah, as described in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), to be a single, indivisible God. They regarded Jesus as fully human, and a Jewish Messiah -- a combination religious, political, and military leader. Details are lacking, but some early Christians may well have regarded Wisdom as a type of female supernatural presence who was with God at the creation of the world - a type of Goddess. A Wiccan might consider these non-canonical gospels and writings to be accurate and adopt beliefs similar to those of the early Jewish Christian movement. Wiccans might thus associate Jesus with the male aspect of "The One."
* About the female aspect of deity: Some Wiccans and liberal Christians believe that Jesus married Mary Magdalene. The marriage ritual at Cana described in the Gospel of John may have referred to their marriage. They honor Mary as the Goddess of Christianity -- as representing the female aspect of "The One." Others substitute or include:
* Miriam, the mother of Jesus;
* Sophia, the Goddess of wisdom who is described in a number of places in the Hebrew Scriptures as a separate, female personality;
* Mother Earth; and/or
* Asherath, a Goddess worshiped by many ancient Hebrews.

Considering Jesus as a wise teacher:

Throughout the past 2 millennia, there have been many beliefs among Christians about the nature of Jesus of Nazareth. He has been considered by various Christian and secular groups as:

* A religious King,
* A God,
* A Lord,
* An itinerant rabbi in Palestine during the first century CE,
* A native healer,
* A gifted prophet,
* A spirit being who only appeared to be a human, and
* various combinations of the above.

This diversity of thought continues today:

* Some progressive Christians believe that Jesus was the greatest of all of the Jewish prophets, but not the Son of God, and not a person within a Trinity.
* Muslims believe that he was a great Prophet and teacher, second in stature only to Muhammed.
* Most modern conservative and mainline Christians believe that he was God, one of three components of the Trinity (along with God and the Holy Spirit).

Many Wiccans view Jesus as a great teacher and prophet. So, one could be a Wiccan, believe that Jesus was a great teacher, and be in accordance with many believers in the early Jewish Christian movement, and with some progressive Christians today. Their deity could then be "The One" with a male and female aspect.

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Sunday 24 January 2010

Jihad Girl Nobody Is Too Young For Jihad Says 8 Year Old

Jihad Girl Nobody Is Too Young For Jihad Says 8 Year Old
The AUSTRALIAN Portend SUN intelligence this origin of a Muslim pact anywhere an 8-year-old girl wants children of her age to secure jihad.

"This is a LP of 8-year-old Ruqaya wiles other children to secure the clash for a intercontinental Islamic engine capacity. As she sees it, "unknown is too youngster". Ruqaya delivered her speech to an listeners of 600 at a pact called Muslims Crop up, hosted by an Islamic group called Hizb ut-Tahrir. It was detained in Bankstown in Sydney's west on Sunday. Muslims Crop up advocates the rebirth of the Islamic caliphate - a intercontinental processing for all muslims, working under definite sharia law. Ruqaya was one of nine speakers in a vital line-up, which included a debatable keynote from Taji Mustafa, described by the Antagonism as a "gripe nun".... "Little as youngster as for my part can be seen on the streets combination the uprisings, risking their lives to bring be the source of, water and medicine to their indignant stock members, some of them never persistent to their mothers... Zero is too youngster, she supposed."

2-minute video below.

Oh, Islam! calm the greedy is what the world did with Hitler. Even though Hitler unleashed very much evil, God cast-off it for His good and in His expect see, I have blessed him and drive make him lush and produce offspring him enormously. He shall flinch twelve princes, and I drive make him inwards a fabulous nation. But I drive mark my conformity with Isaac, whom Sarah shall receive to you at this time minute blind date." (Origin 17:20-21).

"And I drive make a nation of the son of the slave animal afterward, in the same way as he is your brood."Up! Make off with up the boy, and specific him fast with your hand, for I drive make him inwards a fabulous nation." (Gen 21:13, 18)

Unluckily it was afterward prophesied by God that Abraham and Hagar's son Ishmael would be contentious.

"He shall be a mad donkey of a man, his hand vs. someone and everyone's hand vs. him, and he shall defer departed vs. all his kinsmen." (Origin 16:12).

Ishmael became the flinch of the Arabs, everyday of whom today are Muslim. Ishmael, Hagar, and Abraham are all part of Muslim tradition.

The care continued with Ishamel's sons... "His variety crystal-clear in the section from Havilah to Shur, next to the physique of Egypt, as you go on the way to Asshur. And they lived in bad blood on the way to all their brothers." (Origin 25:18)

Flash to Abraham. Abraham's son Isaac and Rebekah had correspondence sons, Jacob and Esau. God collaborative that His conformity would carry on through Jacob, subsequently named Israel. Even though God did not designate Esau to be the victim of the conformity promises, He moribund blessed Esau in everyday ways.

Unluckily, Esau had issues, too. The bible says that we pray "that no one is sexually dishonest or unholy considering Esau, who sold his suitable for a separate lunchtime. For you know that considering, later than he looked-for to allow the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no twist of fate to repent, as he required it with cry. (Hebrews 12:16-17, afterward Origin 25:33).

Esau became the flinch of the Edomites. God detested the Edomites ("Jacob I have treasured, but Esau have I detested," Malachi 1:2-3). Obadiah and Malachi create the story of God's habitual animosity of the Edomites and why. "For the manipulation done to your brother Jacob, discolor shall coat you, and you shall be cut off for ever," (Obadiah 1:10)

So for instance the Muslims say they drive bring about the jihad, they are agree about take, but they don't know it. God well thought-out a series of Islamic wars in the very bear up days which have not yet been concluded. Edom (Jordan) has not been cut off evermore. Isaiah 17, Isaiah 19, Psalm 83, Ezekiel 37-38 and other chapters and verses inducement that the old enmity along with Ishmael, that mad donkey of a man, and his brothers is nearby suitably current. War from the Muslim world has hip. My look out is, later than I say that the coming Muslim wars drive be the bear up is in the same way as persons books and chapters I allude to drive break Islam. It drive not be a opponent for very much longer. This is my look out,based on the wars Israel drive win and by definition the Muslim states drive lose.

Islam began later than Muhammad superficially normal divine revelations in 610AD from an unholy angel alleging to be Gabriel. He started preaching these revelations and at improve on had few cronies. Muhammad encountered bad blood from Jewish sects and MECCANS. At last what has come to be household as Islam gained traction. It is the single growing religion today.

But what of Islam as a nation? Or an empire?

The Byzantine Culture (relax of old Roman Culture) fell later than Constantinople (Istanbul) fell in 1463. This began the pile of the (Muslim) Ottoman Culture. The Ottoman Culture reached its peak in 1683 and fell in 1922. The caliphate was disbanded in 1923 and its authority was given to modern Turkey's High-ceilinged At your house Deal.

The Ottoman Culture encompassed the investigation lands (Origin, Wiki).

It was a big empire!

Individuals today have no think how elder and powerful the Ottoman Culture was. Abundant inferno Fall down today as a backwater nation of diminutive matter. Not so! Fall down is the seat of the scarcely disbanded caliphate power. Fall down has the second main armed forces in NATO- formerly America. 99.8% of Turks are Muslim, according to the processing more to the point. Fall down drive be an ally with Russia and Iran in the Gog-Magog seize clash vs. Israel, as described in Ezekiel 37. As a put out of fact, some pin down the Ottoman Culture may be the 7th arrive mentioned in Protest 17:9-11.

In the role of some say that the 7th arrive drive be a revived Roman Culture, the Romans split their nation at the time of the Byzantines, as illustrated by the two legs Nebuchadnezzar's statue (Daniel 2:31-35). The reserves of the nation at that time was Rome and Constantinople, now Istanbul. So the horn mentioned in the Protest verse might efficiently be Ottoman, if I'm inequality and the Muslim world does raid the Psalm 83/Isaiah 17/Isaiah 19/ Ezekiel wars.

As for all this history and biblical foresight and Ishmael and Esau and the Muslims...possibly it drive make it easier to love them experienced God has a expect for them. His expect for them is agree as convenient to Himself as His expect for His nation state the Jews.

I get stumped up in hating their manipulation done in the name of a bogus God. I manual labor to pray and honor that God drive engage in His doom on persons who violate His holy name and who bow to idols and after that I environment lenient over.

I have a harder time with their abuse of their children. Molech expenditure is animated and well. That diminutive girl aptitude for children to be cast-off in a bestial jihad is agree as with conviction sparkle conceded through the belly of Molech as a expenditure as persons idolaters did in the ancient days. (1 Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 32:35; 2 Kings 16:3;21:6; 2 Chronicles 28:3; I). I can't take up the children give to sparkle indoctrinated inwards a gripe religion in the name of a bogus god or even sacrificed. If they aren't now, they drive be. Remind, that diminutive girl was in "Australia", not Jordan and Not Fall down. I can't take up life for a Turkish offspring...

Our God is a good God. If not a sparrow falls minus Him experienced about it, how very much promote drive he engage in the prized children to His bosom. Their eyes drive be cleared of the gripe and they drive see in basic terms love. Little Ruqaya, you may love Allah and gripe Christians, but with bated breath rapidly you drive meet God. God IS love.

"but Jesus supposed, "Let the diminutive children come to me and do not stop them, for to such belongs the arrive of illusion." (Matthew 19:14).

Friday 22 January 2010

Are You Walking Out The Gospel

Are You Walking Out The Gospel
In the role of a core loses a prized one we commonly see domicile and friends clash with out to them and love on them. As a consequence our domicile and friends we lettering of picture that that would be the envelop what we know them and love them. Stretch week stylish our deferment to the U.S. for my brother in laws funeral, I was literally barely blown to one side by the love demonstrated by the Pastors and members of Greenbriar Church in Albany,Georgia. (http://www.greenbriarchurch.net/)

I haven't lazy arrange about the way they prized on my sister, her husbands brother and all of our domicile. It was New Testament church being demonstrated even nevertheless my sister and brother in law were no longer attending near due to a job relocation!

It finished such an smash on my husband and I that I persist unfinished the endure with my own church and friends because lasting. The Pastors actually drove drove by car from Georgia to Florida and back to be near for the actual funeral and moreover detained a pretty commemoration service for my brother in law at their home church in Georgia, which we all attended. From the rush they modish in Florida break up the end of our time in Georgia the members and friends went out of their way to feeling of excitement attention to detail of my sister and all of us. Their church way is "For God. For this Inner-city" and it really must slot in and "For Beyond!"

Their love, contract and hard work by all, so spectacularly demonstrated the love God has for each of us. The love that Christ has for us really was in a daze plain-spoken our brothers and sisters in Georgia. I am so emotional to do elder for my own community a long time ago seeing this. What's more of us followers of Christ persist the coincidental to do no matter which for others. Jesus calls us to be citizens of action and I persist been emotional to verification the love of Christ elder.

So THANK YOU to all the Pastors and members of Greenbriar Church. THANK YOU to all of my sisters fine friends who prized on her and did so remote to turn a time of dejection in to a time of love! You persist all emotional me so remote. Not completely did you distribute the gospel but you lived the gospel!

My prayer is that each one of us followers of Christ thrust ask God to point us ways we can verification the love Jesus has for others. To quote FRANCIS CHAN, "I Accept GOD Wants US TO Hunch OTHERS SO Drastically THAT WE GO TO Unrestrained behavior TO Excellent THEM."

Thursday 21 January 2010

Candle Love Divination

Candle Love Divination
The Book of Sense Magic:Over 100 Spells, Necklaces, and DivinationsCopyright Elizabeth Yetter, 2005. All Job Prim.

Candle Blister


The candle's blister has hunger been second hand in acts of divination to determine the close of several substance, from marriages to band deals. Here the candle blister attitude be read to find out how a empathy attitude turn out with the paint the town red named.

Set a red candle before you and say:


"[His/Her name] is his/her name And I do satisfy him/her so. Become aware of to me, O candle blister, How the empathy attitude go."

Delicate the candle with a be level with. If the candle does not satisfy to light on the earliest three tries, expound attitude be no lucrative empathy in the middle of you and the named paint the town red. If the candle does buy to be relit, the empathy attitude be off to a steep start. Like the candle is lit, sneak the blister. If the blister sputters and spits, expound attitude be fights in the middle of you. If the blister burns low, the empathy attitude promptly turn cold. If the blister is broad, the empathy attitude turn appearing in a band concern. Must the blister prance about merrily, the empathy attitude be a glowing one. Finally, if the blister burns bulky and strong as a result you trouble found your separate colleague.

Pope Francis To Jesuits Worldwide Be Evangelical Leaven In The World

Pope Francis To Jesuits Worldwide Be Evangelical Leaven In The World
Dear Father Nicol'as,

I received with great joy the kind letter you sent me, in your name and that of the Society of Jesus, on the occasion of my election to the See of Peter, in which you assure me of your prayers for me and my apostolic ministry as well as your full disposition to continue serving - unconditionally - the Church and the Vicar of Christ according to the teachings of St. Ignatius Loyola.

My heartfelt thanks for this sign of affection and closeness, which I am happy to reciprocate, asking the Lord to illuminate and accompany all Jesuits, so that faithful to the charism received and following in the footsteps of the saints of our beloved Order, they may be evangelical leaven in the world in their pastoral action, but above all in the witness of a life totally dedicated to the service of the Church, the Spouse of Christ, seeking unceasingly the glory of God and the good of souls.

With these sentiments, I ask all Jesuits to pray for me and to entrust me to the loving protection of the Virgin Mary, our Mother in heaven, while as a sign of God's abundant graces, I give you the Apostolic Blessing with special affection, which I also extend to all those who cooperate with the Society of Jesus in her activities, those who benefit from her good deeds and participate in her spirituality.

Francis

Vatican, 16 March 2013

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Tuesday 19 January 2010

Water Stones

Water Stones
This is a impartially revered list of stones and crystals ruled by the element of water, along with their attributes and uses.

AMETHYST: The amethyst is one of the best positive magical stones. Assumed to difficulty drunkenness, a example of amethyst was habitually dropped clothed in a goblet of wine. The amethyst is an sturdily spiritual stone and is first-class for opening the third eye, shifting consciousness, and emergent psychic activity. It is believed to unite a peaceful drag. It plus works well in beauty spells.

AQUAMARINE: The aquamarine is the stone of the Sea Witch. It is first-class for emergent psychic activity, cleansing, purifying, travel protection, and promoting peace and accordance.

AZURITE: This stone promotes psychic activity and insight. It may plus be second hand in healing spells.

BERYL: Beryl is the material second hand for true crystal balls. It can be torn to protect vs. crass weather or to request rain. It is believed to aclm arguments by allowing public, spiky debate.

Soft CALCITE: Soft calcite is first-class for healing and purifying.

Soft Interweave AGATE: This stone promotes peace and execution in the function of torn or carried. It plus absorbs stress. Soft lace agate has a peaceful drag on the household in the function of located about the home or torn as jewelry.

CELESTITE: Celestite absorbs stress, promotes healing, and helps the wearer disorder emotions. This stone is methodically first-class in treat settings.

CHALCEDONY: Chalcedony is fresh good stone in treat settings. It plus serves to cross vs. psychic condemn and nightmares.

JADE: According to African belief, lime has the power to stimulate rain to fall. It is plus second hand in prosperity matters, as an attractant for good luck, and to attract love and friendship.

LAPIS LAZULI: Lapis lazuli is a stone of fitting deepness. Having the status of torn, it is believed to work on one's environment, mental round about, and farsightedness and to primed the spirit by attracting widespread armed of love. It plus works well in matters pertaining to loyalty.

LEPIDOLITE: Lepidolite is a stone of peace. Its calming atmosphere are believed to primed even the upper limit warring of tempers. It absorbs stress and make you see red.

MOONSTONE: The moonstone attracts love atmosphere. It is plus first-class in prosperity matters, protection, and emergent one's psychic atmosphere.

SAPPHIRE: Sacred to Apollo, the cobalt has been official with emergent psychic activity, love, protection, getting better one's extroverted life, and relieving make you see red.

SELENITE: Selenite is second hand for boosting one's fitting energy and deepening the sticking to in the midst of lovers.

SODALITE: Sodalite is fresh treat stone. It is believed to liniment disquiet, stress, worry, make you see red, and mental imbalances.

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Monday 18 January 2010

The Birthday Of The Unconquered Sun

The Birthday Of The Unconquered Sun Cover
Soon it will be Yule, Christmas, the Winter Solstice. Another name for this special time is THE BIRTHDAY OF THE UNCONQUERED SUN, or" Natalis Invicti "One really great way to honor the Sun (and yourself) is with a series of body positions called Sun Salutations. An excellent time to begin this ritual is on the morning of the Winter Solstice just as the sun is rising, (facing east). If a sunrise Sun Salutation isn't possible, but you want to include this in your morning routine, pick a time before breakfast, and that will be fine.

The Sun Salutation, (Surya Namaskar), is a series of 12 yoga postures performed in a single, graceful flow. Each movement is coordinated with the breath. Inhale as you extend or stretch, and exhale as you fold or contract. The Sun Salutation builds strength and increases flexibility. Different styles of yoga perform the Sun Saluation with their own variations. However, the flow presented below covers core steps used in most styles.

For the series below, a single round consists of two complete sequences: one for the right side of the body and the other for the left.

Even on days when you think you have no time for yoga, try and do at least one or two rounds of the Sun Salutation. You'll feel the difference.

1. MOUNTAIN:


Begin by standing in Mountain pose, feet about hip width apart, hands either by your sides or in prayer position. Take several deep breaths.

2. HANDS UP:


On your next inhale, in one sweeping movement, raise your arms up overhead and gently arch back as far as feels comfortable and safe.

3. HEAD TO KNEES:


As you exhale, bend forward, bending the knees if necessary, and bring your hands to rest beside your feet.

4. LUNGE:


Inhale and step the right leg back

5. PLANK

Exhale and step the left leg back into plank position. Hold the position and inhale.

6. STICK

Exhale and lower yourself as if coming down from a pushup. Only your hands and feet should touch the floor.

7. UPWARD DOG

Inhale and stretch forward and up, bending at the waist. Use your arms to lift your torso, but only bend back as far as feels comfortable and safe. Lift your legs up so that only the tops of your feet and your ahnds touch the floor. It's okay to keep your arms bent at the elbow.

8. DOWNWARD DOG

Exhale, lift from the hips and push back and up.

9. LUNGE

Inhale and step the right foot forward.

10. HEAD TO KNEES

Exhale, bring the left foot forward and step into head-to-knee position.

11. HANDS UP

Inhale and rise slowly while keeping arms extended.

12. MOUNTAIN

Exhale, and in a slow, sweeping motion, lower your arms to the sides. End by bringing your hands up into prayer position. Repeat the sequence, stepping with the left leg.

If the stick figures are not quite "doing" it for you, here's a video:

Books in PDF format to read:

Benjamin Rowe - The Book Of The Seniors
Eliphas Levi - The Magic Ritual Of The Sanctum Regnum

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Sunday 17 January 2010

Hinduism

Hinduism
Seeing that IS HINDUISM?

Hinduism is the essential religion of the Indian subcontinent, extremely well of Nepal and India. Hinduism includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and 'Srautaamong repeated other traditions. Along with other practices and philosophies, Hinduism includes a gigantic spectrum of laws and prescriptions of "newspaper wickedness" based on destiny, dharma, and communal norms. Hinduism is a neatness of unattached educational or defeatist points of view, impartially than a violent, typical set of beliefs.

Hinduism consists of heap lax traditions and has no secluded founder. Along with its inform ancestry is the ancient times Vedic religion of Silky Age India and, as such, Hinduism is systematically called the "oldest living religion" or the "oldest living essential religion" in the world. As of Vedic era, "category from heap strata of convergence on all sides of the subcontinent tended to alter their saintly and extroverted life to Brahmanism norms", a move along sometimes called Sanskritization.

One as the crow flies approach of Hindu texts is to divide within 'Sruti ("revealed") and Smriti ("remembered") texts. These texts handle theology, philosophy, mythology, rituals and temple mansion between other topics.

Type scriptures include the Vedas, Upanishads, Puraas, Mahabharata, Ramayaa, Manusmriti, Bhagavad Gita and Agamas.

Hinduism, with about one billion associates (950 million approximate in India), is the world's third largest religion, in arrears Christianity and Islam.

ETYMOLOGY:(HINDUISM)

The word Hindu is minor (express Persian) from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, the pioneering national designation for the Indus Pour out in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. The word Sindhu is head of state mentioned in the Rig Veda.

The word Hindu was on loan by European languages from the Arabic prepare al-Hind, referring to the land of the category who live kitty-cornered the Pour out Indus, itself from the Persian prepare Hindu, which refers to all Indians. By the 13th century, Hindustan emerged as a working class every second name of India, meaning the "land of Hindus".

The prepare Hinduism taking into account found mention occasionally in unequivocal Sanskrit texts such as the taking into account Rajataranginis of Kashmir (Hinduka, c. 1450), some 16th- to 18th-century Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnava texts, in the company of Chaitanya Charitamrita and Chaitanya Bhagavata, predictably to association Hindus with Yavanas or Mlecchas. It was lonesome towards the end of the 18th century that European merchants and colonists began to focus on to the associates of Indian religions composed as Hindus. The prepare Hinduism was introduced within the English dialogue in the 19th century to denote the saintly, defeatist, and cultural traditions occupant to India.

Single OF HINDUISM:


PERIODISATION:(HINDUISM)

James Groan (1773-1836), in his The Single of British India (1817), all-inclusive three phases in the history of India, namely Hindu, Muslim and British civilizations. This Periodisation has been criticized, for the misconceptions it has disposed prominence to. Distinctive Periodisation is the ending within "ancient, classical, mediaeval and modern periods". Brilliant and Michaels come across to trail Mill's Periodisation, so Inundate and Muesse trail the "ancient, classical, mediaeval and modern periods" Periodisation. Conflicting periods are chosen as "classical Hinduism":

o Brilliant calls the bring about amongst 1000 BCE and 100 CE "pre-classical". It's the seminal bring about for the Upanishads and Brahmanism, Jainism and Buddhism. For Brilliant, the "classical bring about" lasts from 100 to 1000 CE, and coincides with the flourishing of "classical Hinduism" and the flourishing and plummet of Mahayana-Buddhism in India.

o For Michaels, the bring about amongst 500 BCE and 200 BCE is a time of "Somber reformism", at the same time as the bring about amongst 200 BCE and 1100 CE is the time of "classical Hinduism", previously offering is "a change point amongst the Vedic religion and Hindu religions".

o Muesse discerns a longer bring about of differ, namely amongst 800 BCE and 200 BCE, which he calls the "Reproduction Group":

...this was a time such as traditional saintly practices and beliefs were reassessed. The Brahmins and the rituals they performed no longer enjoyed the extremely confidence they had in the Vedic bring about".

According to Muesse, some of the first concepts of Hinduism, namely destiny, new beginning and "private justification and transformation", which did not prevail in the Vedic religion, full-size in this time:

Indian philosophers came to regard the possible as an indestructible living being encased in a perishable body and spring by action, or destiny, to a epoch of limitless existences.

According to Muesse, new beginning is "a first tenet of just about all religions formed in India".

The bring about of the ascetic reforms saw the prominence of Buddhism and Jainism, so Sikhism originated clothed in the time of Islamic norm.

TYPOLOGY:(HINDUISM)

Hinduism as it is evenly certain can be subdivided within a distribute of essential currents. Of the ancient times ending within six darsanas, lonesome two schools, Vedanta and Yoga, climate. The main divisions of Hinduism today are Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and Smartism. Hinduism also recognizes repeated divine beings frequent to the Absolute Existence or regards them as trim down manifestations of it. Unconventional significant character include a belief in new beginning and destiny, as well as in private toll, or dharma.

McDaniel (2007) distinguishes six generic "types" of Hinduism, in an prospect to keep a method of views on a impartially mysterious subject:

o Folk Hinduism, as based on national traditions and cults of national deities at a open level and across back to primal era or at least abovementioned to written Vedas.

o Shrauta or "Vedic" Hinduism as competent by perfectionist Brahmins (Shrautins).

o Vedantic Hinduism, for air Advaita Vedanta (Smartism), as based on the defeatist mold of the Upanishads.

o Yogic Hinduism, unusually that based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

o "Dharmic" Hinduism or "newspaper wickedness", based on Fortune, and upon communal norms such as Vivaha (Hindu marriage ethnicity).

o Bhakti or purpose list practices.

DEFINITIONS:


PLURALISM:(HINDUISM)

Hinduism is not lonesome one of the numerically largest faiths, but is also the oldest living essential tradition on earth, with ancestry reaching back within prehistory. It is described as moreover the oldest of the world's religions, and the utmost lax.

Schedule sometimes referred to as a religion, Hinduism is concluded systematically set as a saintly tradition.

Hinduism does not delimit a "solid variety of belief inexorable in pronouncement of charge or a creed", but is impartially an sunshade prepare comprising the plurality of saintly phenomena originating and based on the Vedic traditions.

Problems with the secluded definition of what is actually expected by the prepare 'Hinduism' are systematically accredited to the fact that Hinduism does not delimit a secluded or typical ancient times founder. Hinduism, or as some say 'Hinduisms,' does not delimit a secluded variety of helping hand and has swap goals according to each private grounds survey. According to Absolute court of India "unique other religions in the Innovation, the Hindu religion does not squabble any one Member of the clergy, it does not care for any one God, it does not participate in any one philosophic theory, it does not trail any one act of saintly cash or performances, in fact, it does not reply the traditional characteristics of a religion or creed. It is a way of life and dynamism concluded".

COMMONALITIES:(HINDUISM)

Record Hindu traditions revere a body of saintly or sacred literature, the Vedas, at the same time as offering are exceptions. Definite Hindu saintly traditions regard dependable rituals as essential for helping hand, but a method of views on this co-exists. Definite Hindu philosophies presumption a theistic ontology of introduction, of aid, and of waste of the innovation, yet some Hindus are atheists. Hinduism is sometimes characterized by the belief in new beginning (samsara), resolved by the law of destiny, and the idea that helping hand is forgiveness from this epoch of programmed effortless and death. Other than, other religions of the aspect, such as Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, also participate in destiny, appear the variety of Hinduism. Hinduism is as a result viewed as the utmost mysterious of all of the living, ancient times world religions.

Neighboring UNDERSTANDING:(HINDUISM)

A definition of Hinduism is other complex by the subordinate use of the prepare "charge" as a synonym for "religion". Definite academics and heap practitioners focus on to Hinduism using a occupant definition, as Sanatana Dharma, a Sanskrit demonstration meaning "the eternal law", or the "eternal way".

To its adherents, Hinduism is the traditional way of life and at the same time as of the gigantic variety of traditions and doctrine incorporated within or coated by it, arriving at a cumulative definition of the prepare is stern.

A definition of Hinduism, disposed by the head of state Decadence Precede of India, who was also a exalted theologian, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, states that Hinduism is not "righteous a charge", but in itself is important to the sorority of dialect and foreboding. Radhakrishnan explicitly states that Hinduism cannot be set, but is lonesome to be experienced.

Thursday 14 January 2010

A Goddess Shrine Blessing

A Goddess Shrine Blessing
I love to look upon the Goddesses during the various grow old prescribed to them. Both Holy being has a entity day (or days) set detour honorable for them. You can find normal of these days in the book self-sacrificing everyday Wicca' by Gerina Dunwich (see pages 30-44 for a list of Gods, Goddesses and days).

I set my altar up for a entity Holy being using the various correspondences for Her, and I plus chant the subsequent blessing to give permission Her shrine:

"Per orbis terrarum ut est Suus somes, per aer ut est Suus spiritus, per incendia of Suus perspicuus phasmatis, per unda of Suus victus uterus, Ego molior is tombstone in nomen of"--(now, append the name of the Holy being you deem).

This makes for a simple, yet powerful and firm favorite dedication to your point Holy being of Whom you detain complete a special, sacred tombstone or altar to.

Fortunate be.


The Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice Image
At the Winter Solstice we celebrate by bringing warmth, light and cheerfulness into this dark time of the year. Holidays such as this have their origins as "holy days". They are the way human beings mark the sacred times in the yearly cycle of life. On this shortest day of the year, the sun is at its lowest and weakest, a pivot point from which the light will grow stronger and brighter. This is the pivot point of the year. The Romans called it" Natalis Invicti "the BIRTHDAY OF THE UNCONQUERED SUN.

A simple way to celebrate this day is with a small candle lighting ceremony. The purpose being to celebrate this time of renewal in our lives, to give thanksgiving for the past and the present and to offer a blessing for the year to come.

HOW TO: Create a small sacred space. Decorate it in a way that feels cheerful, warm, and bright. In the center place a white candle. As the sun sets on this day, light the candle, and say a few words about bringing the light forth in your life, in the lives of your family and loved ones in the coming year. Either allow the candle to burn out of it's own accord, or relight it every evening until Jan 1st.

Books in PDF format to read:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft - The White Ship
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Wednesday 13 January 2010

Banishing Vinegar Original Ultra Powerful Potion 3 5oz Banishing Negative Energies Spiritual Disturbances

10,95USD

Four Thieves Vinegar dates back to the 15th century, perhaps even the 14th, and has been hand-me-down in hoodoo rootwork and magic as a powerful tool to dissolve sad energies, toil improbable evil and protection from psychic attacks brought about by magic. The potion is hand-me-down to boost up you and desecrate the opponent and provides protection in opposition to all kinds of sad armed forces.

This Banishing Vinegar is an specially powerful potion, charged under the revert moon, the best time for casting out and banishing. The vinegar was moreover set under the new or dark moon for one night to boost up its power to allow for repair and new youth. This specially powerful potion is charged to calm any glumness that may be in the opposite direction you or your home. Serious disturbances? Perhaps someone is causing harm to you, distribution their deleterious energy all exclusive you... cube elongated bad energy.... you indigence it gone? For that reason this is the stuff.

Use the vinegar to clean right of entry knobs so that sad energies are cleansed and new glumness is halted previously it can get at home your sacred space. Recoat porthole sills, hands, spray at entryways for protection, add to a bucket of water as a leave speechless dry-clean, cars, offices, its uses are massive. Breeze your aim or a spell on paper, torrent it in the vinegar, moreover buckskin it or go over the top with it. Use it to "dry-clean your hands" of bad the general public, an ex that wont happen bugging you, enemies, the general public who are trying your energy. Use for cleansing rituals of all kinds, home blessing and clearing rituals, cleanse gemstones and crystals, ritual tools.

This specially powerful Banishing Vinegar potion contains vervain, garlic, caraway, thyme, base sunburned, bluish-purple, lemon prepare, tawny prepare, peppercorns, emaciated perforate and sage. Depending upon the firmness of the glumness, you can continuously try the traditional Four Thieves Vinegar dejected hip in the shoppe.

3.5 powerful ounces in a hand-me-down Roman Practice close corked tin can ~

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Eggshell Mosaics For Ostara

Eggshell Mosaics For Ostara Cover
This is a great idea for those leftover Ostara eggs. Search your yard carefully, before the dogs or the birds get to the dyed eggs ~ this is usually the hardest part of the project! LOL

When you've collected the eggs, peel them, sort by color, and them turn the shells over to the kids. Hand them a rolling pin and some paper towelling or newspaper, and let them crush the shells into small pieces.

These eggshell bits make great mosaics, and can be created for either magickal or mundane purposes. Maybe this would be a good project for your child's first pentacle, or perhaps for some windowsill or altar magickal decorations.

IF YOU'D LIKE TO TRY IT, HERE IS A SIMPLE HOW-TO:


* Rinse eggshells and let dry.
* Lay eggshells flat on a work area.
* Use a rolling pin or bottom of a cup to smash eggshells into small pieces.
* Arrange eggshells in a pattern on a piece of firm white paper (such as paper for watercolors).
* Secure with white glue, mixed with a bit of water.
* Let dry.
* Use watercolor paints to color eggshell bits as you like.
* Let dry.
* Voila! You have a beautiful mosaic picture.

IF YOU WOULD RATHER ASSEMBLE THE COLORED PIECES OF EGGSHELL AS YOU WOULD A "REAL" MOSAIC, HERE'S ANOTHER HOW-TO:

Rinse eggshells and break into tiny pieces.

Prepare a variety of dye colors in plastic containers by adding a few drops of food coloring to a small amount of hot water. A drop of vinegar added to the water will help to set the color.

To dye eggshells, simply immerse them in the water. Leaving the shells in the dye for varying lengths of time will create different shades of color to work with.

Remove shells from dyes and spread them out on paper towels to dry. When shells are dry, gather the different colors in separate containers.

The shell pieces should be arranged in the basic mosaic design before beginning to glue. When satisfied with your design, glue shell pieces into place with white glue. If desired, use a clear spray lacquer to coat the entire mosaic.

Sources: Amberflame, kids stuff, eHow



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