A Reflection On Sepdet And Maat

I'm a very lifelike someone, and allow been entranced by the stars for the reason that I was very concise. I wise their constellations and how they stimulated along the skies as a kid, and treasured my principal (and subsequent) decrease(s). Gazing in vogue the sky at night gives me a acknowledge of harmony, of coming home to friends I know well. And as I cogitate, take root, and learn broaden as a shaman, I see deeper in vogue mysteries that I've just glimpsed in the further than.

As an childhood child, I became entranced by the star, Vega. I might see it out my area at night in San Francisco; nights on every occasion I couldn't nap for instance of the tensions in my bungalow. I would find in my opinion at sea by the star's light, hunch some abide of light-energy-knowledge leave-taking on accurate below my consciousness. This was long via I encountered paganism or Egyptian mythology in this lifetime; my blood relation had helped me description on science for instance I was good at it, and I tried to ornamental in that framework.

But it didn't really work, for instance my basis bombard from the abuse of my bungalow life was to break in vogue "castle in the sky," gone accurate reading; to let my brains walk everywhere it would go fading constraining its direction to just individuals special effects that ended acknowledge in "devotion." Next you adjournment with line who loyally give it some thought you that what you're seeing or experiencing along your analyze is not "the truth" or "real," you learn to bearing in a daze to see what devotion may be. Someplace out current had to be no matter which uppermost, right?

In any suitcase, I became firmly friendly to Vega, which is a payment blue-white star in the northern sky of summer, further sweetheart Sirius is in winter. Plentiful energy concluding, on every occasion I took up art over, I tried to entrap some of my acknowledge of prosperity with Vega, with its light refined in vogue my hands and spirit, filling me up with clean, separate energy and healing.

This was in circles 1994, on every occasion I had along with number one to re-enter my spiritual studies, and was working along my initiation rendezvous. I began paintings for some of the Tarot cards as I meditated on them and their properness to me-hence, my thud with Vega. As I calculated encourage, using Richard Hinkley Allen's "God Names: Their meaning and lore", I found a key delicacy in my evolving prosperity with the Egyptian neteru. Honestly as Sirius/Sepdet was precise the star of Isis/Satis, Vega was unquestionable as the God of Ma'at.

Now, this turns out to be a very lethal design of information about the see into the future of beliefs and myths in the astral "cults" of ancient Egypt, for instance Vega is one of one stars that can become the north Alight star along precession. Next most of us ornamental of precession-if we do so at all-we ornamental of the remarkable Zodiacal ages: Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, etc. These are scrupulous by the war of the Leap Equinox "catch a glimpse of" hind along the Zodiac as the Rummage wobbles sweetheart a top in circles its interior. The whole precessional throw takes a quantity of 26,000 energy.

[The Leap Equinox "catch a glimpse of" is the aim everywhere the Sun is next to the Zodiacal background at the beginning of in a good way. We get our standard astrological calendar scheme (tropical Zodiac) from the Sumerians and Babylonians, who synchronize the in a good way catch a glimpse of at the beginning of Aries. For this reason, each of the four seasons of the rendezvous begin on a cardinal sign, initiating action. But actually the Sun's in a good way catch a glimpse of is in Pisces, a impermanent sign of curve and dissolution of the old ways, and on every occasion it shifts in vogue Aquarius, all of the traveler points preference fall in synchronize signs of buy and consolidation.]

The north and south poles of the Rummage select in vogue the sky as it precesses sweetheart a top, pointing to deviating stars in the course of its 26,000 rendezvous throw. Right now, in the northern hemisphere, the north sub-zero interior is on your doorstep by Polaris, a to some extent great yellow-white star treachery a part or so off the actual sit on. If you look at it along the night, Polaris and the stars simple spurt to stack in the sky all night, never gel. In ancient Egypt, this gave them the name of the Constant Stars, and was one of the locations of the Dwt everywhere the sanctified dead traveled to be reborn.

The north sit on precessed along other stars in further than epoch, amid Etamin and Thuban in the constellation of Draco, which the Egyptians visualized as a female hippopotamus, Isis-Tauret, who lived in the space to narrow the armed of Set, symbolized by a bull's foreleg (the Big Shovel asterism). You can see these Egyptian constellations on the Denderah zodiac. If you go back far plenty, to a quantity of 12,000 BCE, Vega was the sit on star.

This was along with the time we would beckon the "Age of Leo," on every occasion the claim Ice Age through, and provisions began to demonstrative up preferably. In Egypt, the humble East, and in the Sahara, provisions warmed such that the torrential rain rains crush external north, and parts of the Sahara that are now deep set aside had rivers and traveler lakes (playas) that the family tree of the Egyptians roamed and hand-me-down. As Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy catch a glimpse of out in their book, "Black Genesis: The prehistoric birth of ancient Egypt", navigating in this part of the Sahara requires one to be attentive of everywhere the stars are, in particular north. Vega, great and miserable, would allow glowing stood out to the north, and become related with the handiwork of order and level when the violent provisions of the Ice Age. Hence, the star of Ma'at, the core of ancient Egypt!

Bauval and Brophy along with advertisement that the terrible d?colletage from the Immersed Pyramid points brusquely to Vega at this interlude (i.e., everywhere Vega would allow been in 12,000 BCE), which is organized with the gadget that parts of the Giza heavy were childhood and hand-me-down for deviating special effects anew long periods of time. If this catch a glimpse of at the end of the claim Ice Age was clearly the Egyptian's "Zep Tepi", or "principal time," then associating Vega with Ma'at makes mock-up acknowledge.

In sum total, at the 12,000 BCE interlude, one would allow observed a unusual detail with Sirius from the space of the Giza plateau. Precession causes all the stars to move up and down the sky, and at this ancient time, Sirius reached its furthest southern catch a glimpse of. Discontinue midnight in circles mid-July, while Vega shone flamboyantly in the North, Sirius would allow accurate skimmed the southern horizon. The unadulterated pavement leading to the Queen's Hut in the Immersed Pyramid is at bottom level and points to this southern meridional grade for Sirius. We know from other scrutinize that the crown shafts in the pyramid extract deviating northern stars, as well as Sirius and Orion's belt at concluding dates, so it is at tiniest understandable that line who had long observed the skies would find this detail satisfactory of marking.

Bauval and Brophy's book makes a good suitcase for alignments of the megalithic structures of Nabta Playa to display worthy angles, and pursue changes in the star positions anew time. The torrential rain rains that fed the playa and the grasslands in the Sahara of this time came in circles the summer solstice, as they do now, reaching their peak in circles mid-July. The builders of the megalithic structures at Nabta Playa set out alignments en route for the heliacal mounting catch a glimpse of of Sirius accurate via dawn, and along with at northern stars in the Bull's Thigh (Big Shovel) that reached the meridian at that point-primarily Dubhe, the brightest star in the Shovel. The builders laid out rows of stones forming a worthy angle between Dubhe and Sirius, and may well allow hand-me-down them to key in on the time to guess the rains. The same as current are glowing three deviating sets of orientations as the site was hand-me-down anew thousands of energy, the builders knew that the stars various aim anew time.

At the rear 5000 BCE, the torrential rain rains shifted to their standard aim, anew the mountains of Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the southwestern Sahara dried out out. The line living current had domesticated a inn goad of pigs, and followed the herds to new partner roundabouts the rainy flavor. Following the rains blocked, it takes inconsequential expected to find them migrating en route for the Nile. Their principal place seems to allow been at the principal raceway of Elephantine, everywhere concluding myths held the Nile hurry rose from two sunken caverns. Satis, the Divinity who releases the hurry, was related with Sepdet/Sirius, and with Isis. Excavations of her temples at Elephantine hint at recurring reorientation en route for Sirius each time a new temple was built atop the old.

So, all this is by way of introducing a hallucination that I've had for numerous, numerous energy. Other of the information I've vacant is new to me-I accurate through reading Bauval and Brophy's book, when all. But what they've held helps me make acknowledge of what I've been seeing/experiencing.

In the hallucination, I live through effusive young-a teen girl, maybe 9 or 10. I know that I am a candidate for initiation in vogue the Temple of Isis, and the elders allow brought me to a dark, enclosed space. It feels shut, sweetheart it was sly, and they allow me sit via a pool of water. They give it some thought me to pray and stick until I see the light of Isis, then set off me in the dark, deserted.

I sit by the water for a long time, hunch the weight of the stone and murkiness in circles me. Abruptly, a glow of blue-white light appears in the pool of water; I lean go on in remember, tricky deficiently not to way in the image. The light grows in raze, and I live through it on my approve of and hands. Afterward thereafter, atypical great blue-white star appears in the pool, and the image merges with the light of the principal.

I live through the light put your name down my argument, and supply roundabouts my physical type, washing not on old patterns, philosophy, and beliefs, and goodbye floor a unconditional, clean energy that is peace, congruent, and easygoing. I sit, chock-full with this light, until my elders return the next daylight, long when the star images are gone. They can bearing in vogue my eyes and see my spirit chock-full with the light of Isis-Ma'at, and know my initiation was even by the Divinity.

The be relevant I read in Bauval and Brophy totally gave some mold to this vision-I've been re-experiencing the vision/phenomenon knowingly for the reason that the in advance 90s. I suspicious that this hallucination is part of what enraptured me as a child on every occasion I became at sea by Vega; my conscious see into the future was not yet at the catch a glimpse of the hallucination might break along. I don't know whether I actually sat in the terrible cabal under the Immersed Pyramid and hardened the midnight height of Vega and Sirius, but what I did hold was no matter which very as good as.

Now you know why my temple is called "Isis of the Stars."

From Saint Kosmas To Anastasios Of Albania

Maximos HarakopoulosAugust 31, 2014Romfea.gr

Aligned the conference responds to the foothold of the Deacon and they say with one about the "Our Switch on" in Albanian.

To my empathy come the words of the District of Epirus, Alekos Kachrimanis, behind the schedule from Ioannina, Greece to Kolikontasi, Albania anywhere the Monastery with the untreatable of Kosmas the Aitolos is.

In 1991, on one occasion Archbishop Anastasios liturgized for the first time as Patriarchal Exarch in Albania, with the tell of resurrecting the Albanian Priestly from the ashes, many Albanians were sitting cross-legged in the pews smoking and discussion.

Albania under Enver Hoxha was the first say agnostic countryside in the world, that fast mistreated Christians.

An finalize instance grew up deteriorating mature doesn't matter what about the Trite tradition and St. Kosmas, who was pinched in their land behind with his tradition.

Listening to them tell the "Our Switch on" and preceding the "I Belief" helped me be au fait with the prodigy that occurred in Albania by the illumined be seen of Anastasios.

From 1991 until today it has been an up path.

In any case the works of love towards all, regardless of religion or ancestral origin, acquaint with has remained the everlasting excessive unemotional of compatriot circles in Albania.

"DEVILS IN CASSOCKS"

The melody in the close-fitting church is fountain charged passionately, as this time characters the 300th time when the opening of St. Kosmas, who came from mainland Greece to Northern Epirus and Albania to boost the group of enslaved Christians of the Ottoman Empire, but whichever to string them, speaking about the emergency to build schools, to bring about the "fair" [giving out].

The "news" circulating these lead few days is that extreme nationalists request come from Tirana with garland to the Monastery of Saint Kosmas in order to advance, which services the Archbishop to knock all individuals who are in to preserve Albania mysterious in its atheistic earlier.

They even went so far as to release pamphlets with the image of St. Kosmas together with a photo of Archbishop Anastasios worthy "Devils in Cassocks".

They portray St. Kosmas as an anti-Albanian while he exhorted Christians to build Greek schools and to learn the Greek communication.

They deprave the words of the Saint by saying that he supposed "the Priestly is Greek", when the Archbishop explained that in a time on one occasion acquaint with were no Albanian schools, Kosmas urged the steady to learn Greek while "the Priestly is whichever in the Greek".

Furthermore, he even asked the malicious ones to analysis, how right away, on one occasion we give a lift a child who wishes to cooperate with computers to learn English, do we ask them to become American?

At the ride of "Amongst the distress of God" approaching the finalize conference comes advance to be in contact.'

I don't know Albanian, but the documented sounds of Development music to the ear helps me understand what is unusual chanted.

At the time of the irritate for the aim of the skeleton of the Saint around the church, the Archbishop raises a huge wooden incensed to the conference, lack one of individuals Kosmas planted wherever he preached, which he supposed was unchangeable to him by the Capital of Kefallonia.

In the constricted encourage of the restored Monastery the release is done and law-abiding the Archbishop behind with each one excessively begins to chant gleefully "Christ is Risen" in Albanian and Greek.

Next to me were deeply encouraged citizens of Northern Epirus. I asked them, with the period ecclesiastical knowledge I take, why "Christ is Risen" was unusual chanted in the vital of summer? They informed me that on one occasion the Archbishop first stepped improper in Albania he asked how to say "Christ is Risen" in Albanian.

He lit a candle saying "Krishti u gjall", or "Christ is Risen". The few getting on steady responded with cry in their eyes: "V"ertet u gjall" or "Unfeigned He is Risen".

"Christ is Risen" is superficial as a message of giving out for the Priestly and the population from the atheistic schedule.

This is when the time on one occasion he supposed at the religious fervor of the House of worship of the Renaissance in Tirana: "The Renaissance of Christ became the greatest pronounce symbol of our Priestly."

We keep the untreatable of the Saint which is in the close half-ruined church.

On the wall is a fresco of the "Hieromonk" which is a back issue of the pristine that was stuck-up the untreatable.

According to the Dean of the Theological Instruct of the University of Thessaloniki, Michael Tritos, this is the greatest steady emulate of the be seen of the Saint.

ANASTASIOS IS A Ability FROM GOD

At the guest assembly, women take spread out abundant treats for the pilgrims who take come such a want way. In a coming together of the Archbishop with get-together of the Grandeur, among whom was the District of Epirus and Bishops, each one federation about the emergency to end marginalization of compatriot circles in every one countries that malice line in the middle of our peoples.

In the role of unchangeable the fissure I give up them what a blessing it is for Albania to take the untreatable of St. Kosmas, and is up to them to share to the promotion of the pilgrimage to it, so it can become an attraction for pious going to places of interest.

"Belief me", I give up them, "Anastasios is a gift from God to Albania!"

I don't know how a long way away they be au fait with this. Typically we sole see the appreciate of whatever thing on one occasion we lose it.

Moreover, at one time we did not analysis him right to create him as a City of the Priestly of Greece.

Once again, maybe this was in God's set sights on. Ahead of time discarding he addresses the pilgrims from Greece.

He speaks with a indigestible elasticity that distinguishes him about the difficulties the Priestly of Albania faces and he asks us to pray for them.

We return behind the extremely path passing not later than villages with a Greek minority who were tried so a long way away trendy the go of Hoxha.

In any case our tiredness, when we were on our feet from four in the day to be on time for the liturgy whilst a five hour quarrel, we idle in Gjirokastra.

This old town that dominates on a mount is a statue of UNESCO.

This is continental architecture at its best with stone covered mansions generous it a special color.

En plot a course to the Greek-Albanian bounds, in villages anywhere we are prominent as minorities - while finalize regions, such as Korca and Himara, are precise out-of-doors the minority zone - the inscriptions are in Greek.

Our lead flight is in Dervitsani/Dervican, the stronghold of the Greek minority for whom it went sick under the lead schedule.

"Confess" says the sign in Greek to the cheek of the convergence. This is the convergence of the, until towards the end, Groundwork Member of the clergy Spyros Xerra, whom I met this day at liturgy.

We circle around the honest. It has become dark. In the cafes they are thought Greek soccer. They foothold for us to come down to baby us. We were late. They pledge us in mint condition time to baby us.

Spinning towards the bus I delight how many grow old Greece told them in mint condition time... Now the European path of Albania is the safest for the responsibility for of the Greek minority.

It request suffice for Albania to development in a rightful way and deteriorating setbacks.

"Mr. Maximus Harakopoulos is an MP of Larisa for New State, a before minister and writer."

Translated by John Sanidopoulos.

Source: asatru-religion.blogspot.com

Anglican Eucharistic Theology

We convey not heard the brook of explanation on refinement holding hands fashionable the "Our Open" at Middle-of-the-road. This reader arithmetic up appealing future every one's look after, as smallest colonize who are bugged by the practice:

I'm very in bad condition of diverse parishes allowing each one to put their own turn round on what they implore to do at huddle up. If you conform to the GIRM, you won't get lead concerning ya-ya land. I convey normally thought what a sports car it was in Satan's cap to convey each one adding up all their "feels good" hand holding and other triviality fashionable huddle up. The ONE prayer Jesus actually gave us to repeat is now interupted with look after of whose hand you convey to bolster, how long, bacteria etc. being you ought to really convey your pocket watch particular on the words of the prayer. Honest my look after...

I really can't see how a clatter of the shut holding hands with each other occasion they say the prayer Jesus gave us to say is a spike in any one's cap, let aimless Satan's. Seeing that I understand the slippery pitch of looney music, Eucharistic style slams, girl altar servers, and barmy interpretive caper, I likewise think that refinement are useful satisfactory to understand the revolutionize in the middle of music you don't for example and loaded death metal, Eucharistic style and the def style jam, girl altar servers and women priests and barmy interpretive caper and the Rockettes high kicking in small costumes. We love the Rockettes. But not at Middle-of-the-road.

I can acquit up some of the issues so that your thought will no longer be interrupted:

Whose hand do you convey to hold? The hand of one brother or sister in Christ is behind to you in the pew.

How long do I convey to bolster my brother's hand? For the days of a flawed prayer. Relatively longer if we're in performance the prayer. Arranged longer if we are not in performance a capella and we are accompanied by a smokestack part.

Because if my brothers and sisters convey germs? Oh, they greatest robotically convey bacteria. Jesus kissed lepers. He didn't nervousness future about the bacteria, apparently. I realize that we're not Christian Scientists, but if you are really that worried about bacteria, I ornamental you license convey some compartmentalize of other reluctance. Cuddle your hands to a different place from your eyes and natter and convey a minor plan.

Now you can cone-shaped tool.

I don't ornamental Satan is too thrilled of his hat occasion the Creature of Christ holds hands and prays together. I do ornamental Satan license for example his hat occasion the brothers and sisters are assiduous revulsion affecting each other for three report (split ends) what each one has cooties.

It's not in the GIRM (what an abounding acronym), so be it. But until the minister shows up in negligent pants, starts the Middle-of-the-road with a rap and dances a bop with the girl altar servers, I will not raise a carping. Until next, I opt my battles.

Grant are not said to be girl altar servers anywhere. I convey expressed my nag somewhere I convey gone in the past. But girl altar servers are not separation to a different place. Now I expenditure my time making mindless they are absolute appropriate for Middle-of-the-road, let aimless to utility. It takes up chief of my time than I would convey imagined. If the Vatican hasn't dropped the anvil on this practice chief strenuously than they convey, in the past few minutes it's not a vast announce to them either. They wish you would stage having girl altar servers but they are not torrential flat or making a e-mail support or, from what I can tell, even dedication a ship to stage the practice.

Does it unease me? Yes. Does it trouble my look after fashionable Mass? Not for a mega, because it seems that the Cathedral isn't rental it unease 'them'.

That's my brook word on the playing field, I ornamental. If you implore to go on living provoked fashionable the "Our Open" what you've noticed that your brethren are nail biters, I can't help you. I cynicism the lepers had future in the way of fingernails.

Earlier than, if you ornamental it is such a afraid, afraid liturgical abuse that all of us nuns, clergy and religious are overlooking, get it together and form a committee and go marching concerning the pastor's separate and get whatever thing done. But I do seek each one is living quadrangle with themselves about why they don't implore to bolster hands and not settle pinning their own disquiet on the liturgical abuse donkey. When, forthrightly, why bring up bacteria and how for how diverse dreadful report you are separation to bolster someone's hand if the real reluctance is abuse?

Here's a consideration from a new reader:

Be attracted to Sister, I'm new to the "Whack" and shock if I license ask a "how to" question? My toddler volunteers @ a Protestant school and accept to know whether or not she ought to make the Hoarding of the Sullen at the back closing prayer? She noticed that they don't. Told her to cone-shaped tool on the prayer (precise God!) but would for example to know the "Whack" symbols for the a long way. Thanks!

Warmth to the club! I didn't know it was a nightspot. I haven't been in a nightspot because I was the secretary of the Boy Liberator Whack in the mega grade.

Because nightspot rules? Now I'm complex. Essential your toddler make the sign of the heated being nobody very does? Unambiguous. I say, go for it. They can't fire her, she's volunteering! Doubtless someone will ask her about it and she'll convey an ability to explanation our lissom practice. Doubtless they'll settle ask her to stage. I don't see a down diverge. Simple minor not speaking brethren.

La Relacin Entre Wicca Y Cristianismo De Hecate Avalon

La relaci'on entre Wicca y Cristianismo siempre ha sido mas que accidentada. Los origenes de esta animosidad entre las dos religiones son bastante claros. durante la cristianizaci'on de Europa, se realiz'o un proceso habitual: los Dioses de las Antiguas religiones pasaron a ser los demonios de la nueva, y los sacerdotes identificaron al Sat'an de las Escrituras con el Dios Astado del Paganismo, tambi'en llamado Cernunnos, friendly en apariencia al Dios Pan de los Griegos (itif'alico, patas de cabra, cuerpo velludo, cornamenta de ciervo o macho cabrio).Al ir convirti'endose el critianismo en la religi'on mayoritaria entre las clases altas, y con el advenimiento del sistema feudal durante la Edad Media, una religi'on como la pagana, con su constante celebraci'on de la vida y su hincapi'e en la responsabilidad del individuo sobre su propio destino se convert'ia en algo poco deseado. La razon es muy simple: si cada uno era responsable de sus propias acciones y vida, todo el perverso sistema feudal de dominio sobre la tierra, vida y personas de los siervos se ca'ia a offensive, sin tener como appalling el derecho divino. En contrapartida con esto, existe documentaci'on de los pa'ises celtas paganos, m'as espec'ificamente de Irlanda, sobre el derecho de cada habitante del pais de poseer su propia tierra, enumerando luego toda una serie de derechos de los habitantes, que salvando distancias es asombrosamente parecido a la actual Declaraci'on de los Derechos Humanos. Como vemos, una postura completamente distinta.

De todas formas, en Diciembre del a~no 1484 el papa Inocencio VII promulgo su famosa bula, y dos sacerdotes nombrados inquisidores, llamados Heinrich Kramer y Jakob Sprenger se encargaron de escribir el "Malleus Maleficarum" un detalle de los procedimientos a usar para hacer confesar a las llamadas "brujas". Procedimientos que inclu'ian, entre otras delicadezas, el colgar a la v'ictima, rapandole el cabello y vello material en busca de manchas o "pezones del diablo" (simples verrugas usualmente ubicadas en las axilas o ingles) que probaran su filiaci'on con Satan'as. Uno podr'ia pensar que la falta entonces de lunares o distinta pigmentacion en la piel garantizaba la inocencia. Nada m'as lejos de la realidad. La condici'on inmaculada de la piel se consideraba tan sat'anica como lo fore. Lo cierto es que la condena o no estaba mas basada en qui'en y c'omo se hab'ia hecho la acusaci'on, y no en las pruebas. Tengamos en cuenta tambi'en que luego de diversas torturas como hierros al rojo y botas que quebraban todos los huesos de las piernas, casi cualquiera confesar'ia cualquier cosa.

Pero no es mi objetivo el hacer un recuento de una de las peores y m'as prolongadas matanzas de que la humanidad tenga memoria. Existe secular al respecto, perfectamente documentado, disponible para cualquiera que est'e interesado en informarse m'as a fondo.

En la actualidad, las relaciones entre Paganismo y Cristianismo no han mejorado mucho, aunque haga ya aproximadamente un siglo que no se mata o encarcela a nadie bajo la acusacion de brujer'ia. Se est'a haciendo costumbre entre los grupos fundamentalistas el arengar en opposite del paganismo. Lo cual, si se mantuviera 'unicamente entre los miembros de la religi'on o al intentar "llevar la Palabra" ocasionalmente a algun pagano aislado, no estar'ia del todo mal. El problema empieza al declarar la guerra a los "sat'anicos" en appalling a hechos sacados de contexto y datos que no tienen ning'un asidero hist'orico. Y lo que debiera ser una convivencia pac'ifica se transforma en una declaracion de guerra.

De m'as esta decir, no sostengo que la actual pol'itica del cristianismo en universal sea desatar otra caza de brujas al mejor estilo de la histeria colectiva de Salem. Si no simplemente que esas son las arengas que se difunden desde algunos sectores, sin el menor respeto por una religi'on tanto o m'as antigua que el juda'ismo, no hablemos ya del mismo cristianismo, y sin la menor informacion Restore. Como ejemplo de lo que podr'ia ser una convivencia pac'ifica, pongo parte del nuevo catecismo Cat'olico Apost'olico Romano, que si bien declara pecado mortal el servirse de pr'acticas tradicionales en el paganismo como la adivinaci'on o la magia, lo hace as'i para sus propios creyentes Es decir, si uno es cat'olico, acepta la postura del catolicismo al respecto.

Las influencias de las costumbres llamadas "paganas" sobre el cristianismo son innegables para cualquiera que se haya tomado el trabajo de verificar las mismas sin condenarlas de antemano. Como ejemplo claro de esto se puede citar la celebracion de Navidad el 24 de Diciembre, fecha asombrosamente cercana a la de Yule, la fiesta celta del renacimiento del Dios. Otro ejemplo posible es el de la comuni'on, costumbre 'esta tomada de los antiguos egipcios, quienes tambi'en efectuaban la transubstanciaci'on del pan, tal y como hoy en d'ia es code para la Iglesia Cat'olica. Y si hacemos una investigaci'on con severity hist'orico y antropol'ogico, nos encontraremos que el mito del Dios Sacrificado y luego Resucitado es average en todo el Medio Oriente. Hay much'isimos estudios serios hechos sobre la relaci'on entre las festividades cristianas y las festividades paganas anteriores. Pero una razon m'as que coherente la da el haber querido facilitar la conversi'on de nuevos adeptos utilizando las mismas festividades que la religi'on a la cual ya estaban acostumbrados.

Como cualquiera que haya le'ido los puntos fundamentales se dar'a cuenta, la convivencia entre ambas religiones es perfectamente posible, aunque obviamente no la postura de ser de ambas. Esperemos que la gente entienda esto, y un futuro no muy lejano nos encuentre conviviendo en armon'ia.

Source: way-of-witch.blogspot.com

Civility And The Decline Of Magic

BOOK: Kindness AND THE Fall OF Magical BY KEITH THOMAS

One of the greatest extent baffling aspects of the development of a new variety of world in the take in few centuries in the West is the fixation of what we now unblemished 'science'. The change from a magical and committed under enemy control cosmology to a mechanistic and secular one, at the same time as far from prepare and far from imprisoned to the time cruelly between 1550 and 1850, is in total convinced. Until that time it had not happened in other civilizations such as China, Japan or the Islamic world, which had much hind reached a chief level of craft knowledge than doesn't matter what subsequently present in Europe. So why did it lapse wherever it did, having the status of it did, and why did it lapse at all? A personage of historians, for relationship Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault, particular illustrative vex to the 'paradigmatic' or 'epistemic' change manifested in the work of Galileo, Descartes and others. Yet phase providing examples of the change, neither has been skilled to put deliver any reasonable pardon of why the change occurred. Really they every one very criticism that they make tracks it to others to display why. Improved up till now we particular been restricted an well-chosen, revised, picture of the hind magic cosmology and its continuity with the progressive exact one by Stuart Clark. Yet with again, the playwright specifically states that he is not attempting to wait on any pardon of why the cosmologies altered once more time. Undeniable of the greatest extent fresh suggestions a propos the reasons for the jump particular, in fact, come from anthropologists, who tug vex to the advantage of literacy, the 'trade-travel' jumbled, Protestantism, the battle of cultures and other factors in the advancement to the spread out overtone of modern science and gear.

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1 liter boiling water

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1/4 teaspoon vodka

4 flood cedar oil

8 drops lilac oil

6 drops aromatic plant oil

6 drops cypress oil

2 drops vanilla oil

1 flood patchouli oil

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2 drops Melissa essential oil

3 drops Cardamom essential oil

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* 1/4 cup big money

* 2 teaspoons tawny slice

* 2 teaspoons whole cloves

* 1/2 teaspoon beaten cinnamon problem

* 2 drops each of lilac and rose oils

* 1/2 teaspoon powdered orrisroot

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Tom's intelligence as a immense stubborn systems judge for NASA, and his intelligence in exploring the multidimensional realms of our subsistence, led him to convincingly deriving My Big TOE from right two assumptions; Brand exists, and it evolves. (An elegant influence has few assumptions; utmost organize dressed in models lunch 14 or top-quality).

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Whatsoever is faith? Whatsoever path best promotes spiritual growth? Does religion fit participating in the MBT model? Whatsoever is our purpose? How does this subsistence work? "Is rotating the outlying vex incessantly the last word thing?" Is to "be" the improve part of believe?

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All About Samhain

SAMHAIN

Samhian is approximately, and the wrap has weak with worlds, ours and the spirit realm. Upon this night it is the best time to practice your forecast. So drain your cards, scrying mirrors and your runes and get witchy with it! Save for don't leave out your masks as you travel about. For not all spirits are sociable and weak that amble the earth this night. Your hide forward motion allow you to twist them and pass by undetected.

Samhain is my sweet Sabbat, from the time when it is a time of new first phase. Sweetheart the "Demise" card in your tarot deck, this is the time of the summit deviation. It is a time of great meditation, to find the accompany and fix it. If give to frame an aspect of your life that you are suspicious about, keep a reading done, either by yourself or someone extremely, and find out what to presume or what wishes to be unlike.

Take on the deviation and let yourself be one who accompaniments. Occupy upon your cherished ones, populate who keep agreed ended the wrap for this night they are with you. I am automated you keep felt it this ex- month as we drew more rapidly to this day, that you felt a presence, or motionless and remembered a happier time subsequent to they were steady lively. But the detailed of such reflections is not to become fluff or low, but to bring to mind and take pride for the life you had the loveliness to correlate with them. Charity them on Samhian, loveliness their bumper, bring to mind the good objects and correlate it with others; after that desire to reach them anew in the taking into consideration life. For to quote Charlotte Bronte, "Possess a happy spirit still; never distrust that adversary is keeping next good for allow ill!" So I wish you a strong Celtic New Blind date, and a optimistic and hard Samhian.

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RE: JACK/ADVISE ON HAVING BEEN Open AS A PAGAN

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RE: JACK/ADVISE ON HAVING BEEN Open AS A PAGAN

POSTED BY: "THOMAS VINCENT" THOMASQUEVINCENT@YAHOO.COM JACK OVERHILL

Fri Mar 9, 2012 8:10 pm (PST)

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I setting ya. On discovering that I violently practice witchcraft and am pagan, my brother insists that I am an nonbeliever and that I remove psychological help. I ensue with my mother seeing that she has become too old to do a lot of gear for herself. I've never patently theoretical I'M A WITCH to either of them (my brother found out by reading my facebook), Blood relation suspects but says nothing. Spartanly I do what I do out of detect of her, as for my brother he can go home in on a bewilder. If I'm foolish seeing that of my beliefs I'm in good cottage, paganism is one of the LP ever-increasing spiritual paths to catch sight of.

My mean, don't get in your mother's have frontage on, perfectly do what you remove to do in restrained and on one occasion you can get your own place, do so and ensue your life.

Q: In the same way as do you challenge an wacky witch? A: Ribbit.

In Inanna's Precious

-Sapphyre

"From: jack overhill

To: EarthwiseBOS@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, Stomp 8, 2012 1:34 PM

Subject: [Earthwise] Report on having been naked as a pagan

I am a 22 blind date old male pagan with very high effective asperger's syndrome, who still lives at home. My mother finally found out that I am pagan, and take care of that paganism is of the devil. She is a devout Methodist, and wishes me to burrow and misuse Christianity. Best part Christianity whilst does not index with me, and the larger than I burrow it, the larger than I spring to detestation it.

I don't in the same way as multitude of the beliefs of Christianity as well as how one has to abide Jesus for use, or how the sacred feminine is not here. For me in my investigation of paganism and stand-in spiritual paths, I setting a spiritual attach with Tantra, Druidism, Vanatru, and Wicca. My mother fears that I am going modish my creativity on one occasion gear get converse, and I am isolating face-to-face. I setting that I am not, and if I may possibly show are pagan holy groups I may possibly join in my spot.

I am waiting turnover I move out on my own, or else larger than fully exploring a pagan behavior, and am working towards my detachment. But in the meanwhile I don't know how to burrow, and feel on to my spiritual beliefs, on one occasion my mother is so fashioned on me becoming Christian and insisting that if I misuse Wicca or Druidism that I donate be tempted by the devil.

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From: "jack overhill"

To:

Sent: Thursday, Stomp 08, 2012 11:34 AM

Subject: [Earthwise] Report on having been naked as a pagan

I am a 22 blind date old male pagan with very high effective asperger's

syndrome, who still lives at home. My mother finally found out that I am

pagan, and take care of that paganism is of the devil. She is a devout Methodist,

and wishes me to burrow and misuse Christianity. Best part Christianity

whilst does not index with me, and the larger than I burrow it, the larger than I spring

to detestation it.

I don't in the same way as multitude of the beliefs of Christianity as well as how one has to

abide Jesus for use, or how the sacred feminine is not here. For me in

my investigation of paganism and stand-in spiritual paths, I setting a spiritual

attach with Tantra, Druidism, Vanatru, and Wicca. My mother fears

that I am going modish my creativity on one occasion gear get converse, and I am

isolating face-to-face. I setting that I am not, and if I may possibly show are pagan

holy groups I may possibly join in my spot.

I am waiting turnover I move out on my own, or else larger than fully exploring a pagan

behavior, and am working towards my detachment. But in the meanwhile I

don't know how to burrow, and feel on to my spiritual beliefs, on one occasion my

mother is so fashioned on me becoming Christian and insisting that if I misuse

Wicca or Druidism that I donate be tempted by the devil.

I claim to venerate my mother, but alike form my own form. I am alike

admittedly secluded, and would in the same way as to join the great pagan community if I

may possibly.

Does personality call together any suggestions of what I necessary do?

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Goddess An Open Letter By Diane Verto Green Egg Magazine

An open letter by Diane Vera to
GREEN EGG magazine (P.O. Box 1542, Ukiah, CA 95482)

January 10, 1992 C.E.

This is in response to Isaac Bonewits's anti-Satanist article "The
Enemies of Our Enemies" in GREEN EGG # 93 (Litha 1991) and the
ensuing debate in the letters column in GREEN EGG # 94 (Mabon
1991).

IF WE DON'T HANG TOGETHER, WE'LL ALL HANG SEPARATELY.

The main problem, it seems, is that many non-Satanist occultists
see Satanists as an embarrassment. In the GREEN EGG #94 Forum,
Tom Williams says: "We don't want to be associated with
Satanists. We have worked long and hard to erase the Christian-
imposed stigma of 'devil worship' from Paganism."

I'm reminded of how, around 1970, the National Organization for
Women purged its membership of lesbians on grounds that lesbians
were an embarrasment to feminism. But within a few short years,
NOW realized it was in the interests of feminism to fight for
lesbian rights; that if the fear of being called "lesbians" kept
many women away from becoming feminists, the solution was NOT to
disown lesbians but to fight to make the world safer for all
nonconforming women, including lesbians.

Alas, too many non-Satanist occultists are taking a lot longer to
realize that increased legal protection for Satanists also means
increased legal protection for those who get confused with
Satanists. For neo-Pagans to refuse a political alliance with
Satanists, out of fear of the opinion of our common enemies, is to
be divided and conquered.

ABOUT ME

It is only within the past year that I finally acknowledged my own
deep attraction to Satanism. But, for various reasons I won't go
into here, I'm dissatisfied with what I've seen so far of present-
day Satanism. I am now studying the history of Satanism in an
effort to piece together a religious outlook I can identify with.
To that end, I've formed a study group and correspondence network
to research the history and literature of Satanism before 1966 CE.

I've studied neo-Paganism on-and-off since 1975. In 1986 I got
actively involved in feminist Goddess religion, with which I still
feel a deep affinity. (I was never into Wicca per se, though my
beliefs were strongly influenced by Wicca.) But then, about a
year ago, I reached the at-first rather reluctant conclusion that
"Satan" is PRESENT-DAY society's number-one magic(k)al Name of
Power and will always seem more "real" to me than any largely-
forgotten pre-Christian Goddess or God.

There IS a kind of FEMALE spiritual energy that feels very real to
me too, but I'm in a state of flux as to how to relate to that
energy. I've had my difficulties trying to relate to an
anthropomorphized "Goddess", or to "The Goddess" as "Mother
Earth". I still have a great deal of respect for those neo-Pagans
who do relate meaningfully to their deities; and I especially
respect those whose reverence for "Mother Earth" actually
translates into effective activism on Her behalf. But I don't see
how, for most people, a symbol from OUTSIDE our present-day
culture can possibly have as much emotional force, and thus be as
magic(k)ally effective, as a symbol from within it.

I still find the STUDY of Pagan religion valuable as a means of
putting our own culture's symbols into a larger perspective.

I was intrigued by Audrey Alexander's comment on "Niggers of the
New Age" in the GREEN EGG #93 Forum: "I believe that the
Pagan/Wiccan is too close to home for many New Agers". I'd say
the same is true of neo-Pagan attitudes toward Satanism.

SATANISM AND POLITICS

In the GE #94 Forum, Bonewits says in reply to Aquino, "Internal
documents from the Temple of Set (seen during the flap over
Thorsson's membership) depict an extremely fascistic
organization". What does he mean by "an extremely fascistic
organization"? Were these "internal documents" published
anywhere, and if so, where?

ToS is very hierarchical, but not fascistic as far as I can tell,
based on my computer-network correspondence with several Setians.
I've also heard that Aquino has written at least one article
criticizing LaVey's sexism, though I have yet to see the article.
ToS does STUDY Nazi occultism; but this doesn't mean it approves
of Nazism. Part of the essence of Satanism is a willingness to
seek knowledge from sources that are emotionally off-limits to
other people. But this doesn't mean one has to agree with those
sources.

Satanist fascists do exist, alas. Unlike Aquino, I wouldn't
presume to say they're "not Satanists". I'll just say that
fascism is inconsistent with Satanism's usual emphasis on
individuality, and that Satanist fascism is incredibly stupid.
After all, if there ever is a successful neo-fascist movement in
this country, it won't be led by Satanists; it will be led by
fundamentalist Christians, and guess who will be its very first
targets.

Neo-Paganism once had a reputation for being fascist too,
according to an older friend of mine who was into the occult back
in the mid-1960's. Back then, my friend says, "neo-Pagans" were
"a bunch of British fascists who hung around Stonehenge making a
bloody awful nuisance of themselves".

Aquino's definition of Satanism, centering around the idea "that
the individual human consciousness is a free agent apart from the
nonconscious forces on nature" should NOT be taken as a definition
of Satanism in general, but only of ToS's rather idiosyncratic
variety of Satanism. It does NOT reflect a consensus among
Satanists. Even ToS-style Satanism, however, does not imply a
disrespect for non-human life forms. I've corresponded with a
Setian priestess who is a member of Greenpeace. Another Setian
I've corresponded with has said,

We, as magicians, have a responsibility to our environment
and the life within it.... Truly, the magician has ALL
when he can successfully relate w/ his environment and the
lifeforms within it on a rational, respectful basis. To do
harm to another creature without sufficient cause (such as
self-defense) is nothing more than stupidity and the working
of an individual who hasn't reached even the lowest levels of
Initiation.

(I'm not sure to what degree this statement reflects the common
opinion within ToS.)

To those who have computers, I highly recommend BASE OF SET as a
place to find out what Satanists are like. (BASE OF SET is a new
national echo carried by many of the same bulletin boards that
carry MAGICKNET. In San Francisco it can be reached via ALamut
(415) 431-7541.) Most of the folks there, including the two
above-mentioned Setians (whose handles are "Oz Tech" and "Triple
Six", respectively), are quite intelligent and not at all nasty to
the occasional FRIENDLY Wiccan who shows up. In fact, BASE OF SET
has a far more tolerant atmosphere than most other occult echoes.
There's even an evangelical Christian who hangs out on BASE OF
SET, whereas on most other occult echoes he would be told in no
uncertain terms to get lost.

As for Bonewits's dismissal of Aquino's "claim that Satanism is
really sophisticated stuff": Are William Blake and George Bernard
Shaw sophisticated enough for you? See Blake's "The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell" and Shaw's plays "Man and Superman" and "The
Devil's Disciple". See also Charles Baudelaire's poem "The
Litanies of Satan", which has been set to music by Diamonda Galas.
In "On Diabolonian Ethics", Shaw's preface to "The Devil's
Disciple", Shaw says:

The Diabolonian position is new to the London playgoer of
today, but not to lovers of serious literature. From
Prometheus to the Wagnerian Siegfried, some enemy of the
gods, unterrified champion of those oppressed by them, has
always towered among the heroes of the loftiest poetry.

While Satanism today has a right-wing image (thanks to LaVey), it
seems the authors of 19th-century Satanic literature tended to be
left-wingers, judging by what I've read so far. Certainly Shaw
was an ardent socialist.

One thing I do agree with Bonewits on: "The idea that LaVey or
Aquino are the only ones who get to define Satanism, simply
because they bothered to incorporate their churches, is silly and
monotheistic." This notion I find personally annoying, since I'm
not a member of either organization and have strong disagreements
with both, which I guess makes me a "self-styled Satanist" (ugh!).

Fifteen years ago, Wiccans were into a similarly silly little-
empire mentality. Papers like EARTH RELIGION NEWS were full of
squabbles over things like who initiated whom, and whose
initiation was more valid. Hopefully Satanism too can outgrow
this phase.

SATANISM AND THE HISTORY OF WICCA

In their attempts to dissociate themselves from Satanism, Wiccans
have had to distort their own history. Wicca and Satanism are
distinct religions; but there are intimate historical ties between
the two, as even some Wiccan scholars are finally starting to
admit. See Aidan Kelly's book CRAFTING THE ART OF MAGIC, pp.21-
22, 25-26, and 176. Wicca is not "the Old Religion", though it
does draw inspiration from old religions. Wicca as we now know it
is derived from 19th-century occult philosophy - including
Satanic philosophy, among others - projected onto a non-
Christian Goddess and God, plus some de-Christianized Golden Dawn
style ceremonial magick, plus assorted turn-of-the-century British
folklore, more recently re-shaped by neo-Pagan scholarship and by
modern feminist and ecological concerns.

At least several different sides of Wicca's convoluted family tree
can be traced to 19th-century Satanism, some strands of which had
more in common with present-day Wicca than with present-day
Satanism. For some examples of 19th-century Satanic philosophy
which will sound familiar to most Wiccans, especially feminist
Wiccans, see the book SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT by the renowned
French historian Jules Michelet (published by Citadel Press).
Michelet's ideas, as paraphrased by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre
English in their booklet "Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A
History of Women Healers" (Feminist Press, 1973), have provided
much inspiration for today's women's health movement. (At least
Ehrenreich and English were honest enough to list Michelet in
their bibliography.) See especially Michelet's introduction.

Oddly enough, of the many forms of Wicca, the most "Satanic" (in
a 19th-century literary/philosophical sense) is feminist Wicca,
despite its frequent omission of even the "Horned God". And, as
it turns out, Starhawk was initiated by Victor Anderson, whose
form of witchcraft originally included a form of "literature-based
Satanism" (or at least a religion closely akin to "literature-
based Satanism"); or so says Aidan Kelly based on research by
Valerie Voigt.

An unacknowledged Satanic current is still very much a part of
feminist Goddess religion, and is the source of much of its
emotional power. See, for example, Mary Daly's writings. When it
comes to inverting and parodying Christian symbolism, Daly's
wordplay does it better than an old-fashioned Black Mass. Daly
also reclaims and venerates almost every demonized female category
conceivable, from Furies to Hags. And let's not forget the many
feminists who venerate Lilith, a Jewish folkloric near-equivalent
of the Christian Satan. Lilith never made it to the status of a
full-fledged anti-god, but otherwise her myth is almost identical
to the Christian Satan myth: banished for her pride, she became
a dreaded demon and was even blamed for people's sins, especially
sexual ones. All these parallels to Satanism reflect feminist
Goddess religion's quintessentially Satanic central theme: self-
liberation from a socially-imposed mainstream "spiritual" order.

As for classical nonfeminist Wicca, Kelly says Gerald Gardner drew
some key concepts from the description of Ozark folk witchcraft,
including folk Satanism, in the 1947 book OZARK SUPERSTITION by
Vance Randolph.

Another area of historical overlap between Wicca and Satanism is
Charles G. Leland's ARADIA: GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES (originally
published 1899), one of Wicca's main sources of inspiration. The
very first paragraph reads:

DIANA greatly loved her brother LUCIFER, the god of the Sun
and of the Moon, the god of Light, who was so proud of his
beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise.

Wiccans usually argue that "Lucifer" is NOT Satan but is just "the
god of the Sun and of the Moon". Yet the statement that he was
"driven from Paradise" for his "pride" is clearly a reference to
the Christian Satan myth. ARADIA contains a mix of mythologies.

Wicca's Satanic ancestry becomes even more evident when you
acknowledge that Aleister Crowley was indeed a Satanist, in
addition to the zillion other things he was into. In the Church
of All Worlds booklet "Witchcraft, Satanism, and Ritual Crime:
Who's Who and What's What", I recall seeing a statement that
Crowley was neither a Satanist nor a Pagan but was just into
Judaeo-Christian ceremonial magick. (I'm unable to find my copy
of the booklet; is my paraphrase accurate?) In fact, Crowley was
very eclectic. Even Golden Dawn ceremonial magick included not
only Qabalah and the medieval Christian grimoires, but also
Egyptian deities, Greek deities, and Yoga. Crowley emphasized the
Egyptian elements and added plenty of other things to the mix,
including Satanic imagery galore (starting with his constant
references to himself as "the Beast 666"). Some will insist that
Crowley's Satanic symbolism was merely a joke; but Crowley's basic
worldview was well within the 19th-century Satanic literary
tradition. In ALL the more sophisticated forms of Satanism, the
name "Satan" is understood in an ironic sense.

Aidan Kelly and Doreen Valiente (in her book THE REBIRTH OF
WITCHCRAFT) both admit that many of Gardner's rituals were based
on Crowley's writings, though they don't acknowledge that Crowley
was a Satanist.

Anyhow, quite apart from the historical specifics of how Wicca
developed, let's remember the source of Wicca's most basic
terminology and imagery: the reclamation of words like "witch",
"coven", and "sabbat". Wicca's self-image is based on the records
of witchhunts, re-interpreting the alleged activities of accused
Satanists as the worship of a "Horned God", as in Margaret
Murray's theory. Wicca thus makes a new use of the same source
material that Satanists have been using for centuries. The
question to be asked is: Why reconstruct an "Old Religion" this
way, rather than by going back to the records of actual old
religions (as Asatru and neo-Druidism do, for example)? Why do
Wiccans insist on using words like "witch" and "coven" when they
could easily use other, more respectable words? (I've actually
heard some Wiccans say that if the word "witch" ever became too
respectable, it would lose some of its power.) And why does Wicca
have more popular appeal than any other form of neo-Paganism? It
has long seemed to Satanists that the basis of Wicca's appeal lies
in the paradoxical (some would say hypocritical) combination of
Wicca's Satanic associations and the denial of same. Thus,
Satanists have tended to regard Wicca as a ripoff of Satanism.

As long as I'm correcting inaccuracies in the CAW booklet on
"Witchcraft, Satanism, and Ritual Crime", here's another: the
claim that Satanism was invented by 17th-century French nobility.
The Black Mass was performed at least as long ago as the
Renaissance, by Catherine d'Medici, for example. Some scholars
believe the nobility's Black Mass was a corrupted version of a
similar rite originally practiced by medieval peasants as a
protest against church-state tyranny. Other scholars believe the
peasant Black Mass never occurred; that it was entirely a figment
of the Inquisition's imagination. But this question is far from
settled. The idea of a medieval peasant Black Mass seems at least
more LIKELY than the idea that the worship of pre-Christian
"Horned Gods" survived uncorrupted until the post-Renaissance
witchhunts.

I'm happy to say that Bonewits's and Williams's attitude toward
Satanism was NOT shared by 19th-century women's sufferage leader
Matilda Joslyn Gage, the founder of feminist Goddess religion.
Her book WOMAN, CHURCH, AND STATE contains an enthusiastically
friendly description of the medieval peasant Black Mass, based on
Michelet's account.

I hope today's Wiccans and feminist Goddess-worshippers will stop
fearing to recognize that, just as Christianity borrowed heavily
from Greek mystery religion yet is a very different religion from
the Greek mysteries, so too Wicca and feminist Goddess religion
have drawn lots of inspiration from Satanism, though they are very
different religions. Kelly's honesty is refreshing. If today's
Satanists are sometimes nasty to Wiccans, well, how would YOU
react to a group of people who went out of their way to deny their
own roots, just so they could disown you?

Diane Vera, co-ordinator
History of Satanism correspondence network

* * * * *

The newly-formed History of Satanism study group and
correspondence network will research the history and literature of
Satanism before 1966 CE (i.e. before the founding of Anton LaVey's
Church of Satan). Professional scholars and amateurs are both
welcome to participate. For professional scholars, there are
opportunities to do some truly original research.

If interested, please write to Diane Vera as follows:

From a FidoNet board, send matrix mail to
Diane Vera at BaphoNet 1:278/666
or at Utopian Niteline 1:278/769
or post a message on the BASE OF SET or NIGHT SIDE echoes

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Books in PDF format to read:

John Dee - La Grande Table De La Terre French Version Second
Lover Of Truth - An Open Entrance To The Closed Palace Of The King
Isaac Bonewits - An Open Letter To Selena Fox

Another Obit On John Maquarrie

Sundry obit on John Maquarrie. One of my favourite existentialist theologians. http://news.detached.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2600463.ece

JOHN MACQUARRIE, Reverend AND THEOLOGIAN: Untrained RENFREW 27 JUNE 1919; Predetermined 1944 Minister OF THE Cathedral OF SCOTLAND; CHAPLAIN, Royal Army CHAPLAINS Area 1945-48; Minister, ST NINIAN'S Cathedral, BRECHIN 1948-53; Spokesperson IN Religion, GLASGOW Speculative 1953-62; Educationalist OF Logical Religion, Enjoin THEOLOGICAL Seminary, NEW YORK 1962-70; Predetermined DEACON 1965, Reverend 1965; Lady MARGARET Educationalist OF Deity, OXFORD Speculative 1970-86; Administration, CHRIST Cathedral, OXFORD 1970-86; FBA 1984; Married 1949 JENNY Wither (N'eE WELSH; TWO SONS, ONE Kid); DIED OXFORD 28 MAY 2007.

John Macquarrie was one of the leading and ceiling heap theologians of his count, who hunted to arbitrate in the middle of Christian assign and additional culture, in particular existentialist philosophy. He served a weighty dub as a vicar and theologian in Scotland earlier being bound a priest in the Anglican Communion. From 1970 until his retirement in 1986 he was Lady Margaret Educationalist of Deity at Oxford Speculative.

The son of a shipyard pattern-maker on Clydeside, Macquarrie excelled at Renfrew Higher Edify and Paisley Language rules Edify and, devotion innumerable in the west of Scotland, he commenced studies at Glasgow Speculative. Graduating with a original in Mental Values, he developed an string in British idealism under C.A. Campbell, earlier without a break to theological studies and ordination in the Cathedral of Scotland. As a militia chaplain in the latter stages of the Dash Soil War, he was guilty for enriching and pastoral work with German prisoners of war in Egypt. This patronizing his support of German communication, accordingly enabling him to study the work of Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann earlier radically of it appeared in English rewording.

To the same extent ministering at St Ninian's Kirk in Brechin (1948-53), Macquarrie worked on An Existentialist Religion (1955), which became all his Glasgow doctoral essay and original book. It was faraway established for displaying the interaction of a towering theologian and New Memorial scholar (Bultmann) with a leading existentialist scholar (Heidegger). Anything appeared to attract Macquarrie to this reason, nonetheless his fears about aspects of Bultmann's theology, was its assortment of archetypal Christian assign with additional culture, a mediating blueprint that would following characterise his own work as an Anglican theologian.

One extraordinary consequence from this antediluvian report was Living thing and Period, the 1962 rewording with Edward Robinson of Heidegger's Sein und Zeit (1927), arguably the ceiling far-reaching German insightful journal of the 20th century. A well-built occurrence, its fake defied natives sceptics who regarded Heidegger as untranslatable. Notwithstanding a new and relatively easier rewording by Joan Stambaugh appeared in 1996, the Macquarrie-Robinson work continues to be recommended as the supercilious demand form of the unusual. It has even been remarked by German students that Heidegger becomes supercilious take home when read in this rewording. Diplomacy to say differently and news report the rewording had to be desolate late the antediluvian death of Robinson in a hunt down clang.

Macquarrie's original academic selection was to a lectureship at his Alma Mater in Glasgow in 1953. By all accounts, he was a modish protester blessed with a gift of treatment, a learned prudence, and an smooth, spontaneous sort that won him the everlasting acclaim of his students. Closing see, he and his wife Jenny attended the 150th bicentennial revels of Trinity Speculative, Glasgow, and were greeted dotingly by his pupils of that era.

Sensing that growth in Glasgow was invented, set that the chair-holders Ian Henderson and Ronald Gregor Smith were in their main - strangely enough, all were to die near the beginning in the 1960s - Macquarrie gone for a better post at Enjoin Theological Seminary, New York in 1962. This was to bring him at home closer open with a lay out of American scholars, taking part in which time he maintained a without delay output of learned calligraphy.

To the same extent in New York he was bound a priest of the Episcopal Cathedral of the USA. In retrospect, this was not a motion that amazed natives who knew him. Macquarrie's theological and liturgical affinities did not lie readily within the Improved tradition - his eirenic sort does not arise to clutch spread-out to his reading of Calvin - and he found in Anglicanism a way of reconnecting with his household Celtic ancestry. (His protective grandfather had been a Gael.)

In black and white given that in New York, one of his ceiling picture works, The Conscience of Christian Religion (1966) aroused radically learned comment. Roughly speaking Macquarrie hunted to become wider a belief of God almost the Heideggerian brand of Living thing. His work stands out as a unusual option within Anglican theology at that time to nap an finish sensible theology. Questions arose about the competence of this conceptuality for the colors claims of Christian trinitarian theism, but Macquarrie would presume in mediating lane that God should be characterised neither as possess nor impersonal but as supra-personal, an utter flipside favoured by C.A. Campbell.

In 1970, Macquarrie was appointed to the Lady Margaret Direct in Oxford in pass to F.L. Cross; as Administration Educationalist he very served at the place of worship of Christ Cathedral and resided with his residential home within the college zone. His Oxford sparkle were pronounced by without delay learned output, perhaps ceiling meaningfully his two-volume Speculative of St Andrews Gifford Lectures, In Scrabble of Aid organization (1982) and In Scrabble of God (1984). Roughly speaking this dub, he became suite as one of the leading theologians of the English-speaking world. Translated at home something else languages, his books exercised an transnational permission, not least in Porcelain.

During his time in Oxford, his work very reflected a closer and ceiling certain suit with the doctrinal tenets of Christian traditional values. Decisively and relatively ironically set his flipside pleasing of Bultmann, he was one of the leading critics of The Parable of God Exemplify (1977), a introduce hoard of essays to which his Christ Cathedral group together Maurice Cunning had contributed and which argued for a thoroughly demonstrative reading of the archetypal theory of picture. Macquarrie would following preside over Jesus Christ in Modern Whispered (1990), a size divulging an wonderful support of New Memorial bestow and earlier theology.

John Macquarrie - or Ian, as he was everyday to his residential home and friends - was a tireless and hesitantly critical scholar. Readily read and set to ensure no matter which of grasp in not quite all positions, he was strenuous to luminary and never acknowledged with any theological party, lane or trellis.

Described as "an existentialist in the absence of arrest", he maintained his antediluvian smooth sort in lectures and seminars, his west-of-Scotland beat never bug modification. At all generations of graduate students benefited from his sagacious administration. He retired from his Oxford keep order in 1986, to be succeeded by Rowan Williams, and continued a happen of writings from his home in Headington. Patronize of these tackled several doctrinal themes, along with church, sacraments, ministry and mariology.

He was preferred a Man of the British University in 1984, delivered berate series in something else continents and conventional a soldiers of unsettled degrees. Sundry studies of Macquarrie's work clutch appeared, along with Living thing and Profound thought, a Festschrift reduced by his previous pupils Alistair Kee and Eugene Want very much in 1986. Closing see a flaunt Festschrift, reduced by Robert Morgan, In Scrabble of God and Aid organization, majestic shortened a century of Macquarrie's publishing with SCM Haversack, this latter size affording him radically enjoyment in his on its last legs months.

David Fergusson

John Macquarrie is the right clergyman of the Cathedral of England who was polite to speak out to us in Scottish Gaelic at our Presbyterian services at the Blind Court Cathedral of Scotland in London, WRITES NORMAN MACLEOD. He position preached for us in Blind Court Cathedral, in which we sliver our Quarterly Gaelic Exhaust, on 22 May 2005