LO QUE HOY CONOCEMOS COMO LA NOCHE DE BRUJAS O HALLOWEEN SE CELEBRABA HACEN M'aS DE 3000 A~nOS POR LOS CELTAS, UN PUEBLO GUERRERO QUE HABITABA ZONAS DE IRLANDA, INGLATERRA, ESCOCIA Y FRANCIA. PRECISAMENTE EL 31 DE OCTUBRE, LOS CELTAS CELEBRABAN EL FIN DE A~nO CON EL SAMHAIN, UNA FIESTA PAGANA. CON LA INMIGRACI`oN EUROPEA A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, PRINCIPALMENTE LA DE LOS IRLANDESES CAT`oLICOS EN 1846, LLEG`o LA TRADICI`oN DE HALLOWEEN AL CONTINENTE AMERICANO. CUANDO SE HABLA DE HALLOWEEN O D'iA DE LAS BRUJAS SE PIENSA EN DISFRACES, MAQUILLAJE, FIESTA, DULCES Y NI~nOS; PERO LA TRADICI`oN INDICA QUE SU CELEBRACI`oN NO SIEMPRE FUE FESTIVA Y ALEGRE, Y QUE LOS RITOS QUE SE PRACTICABAN DURANTE LA NOCHE TEN'iAN UN CAR'aCTER PURIFICADOR Y RELIGIOSO.QUI'eNES ERAN LOS CELTAS? PROCED'iAN ORIGINARIAMENTE DE ASIA Y FORMARON EL TRONCO, COMO MIEMBRO DEL PUEBLO INDOGERM'aNICO, QUE SE ESTABLECI`o EN EL OCCIDENTE DE EUROPA, EN EL SIGLO XX A.C. YA HABITABAN EL CENTRO Y NORTE DE EUROPA. PARA EL A~nO 1000 A.C. SE EXTENDIERON POR LAS ISLAS BRIT'aNICAS, NORTE DE FRANCIA, PARTE DE SUIZA Y NORTE DE ITALIA. INVADIERON ESPA~nA EN EL SIGLO IX A.C. SU LENGUA ERA INDOEUROPEA, DE LA CUAL SE CONSERVAN ESCASOS REGISTROS LITERARIOS. PARA EL SIGLO IV A.C. FUERON DESPLAZADOS DEL CENTRO Y NORTE DE EUROPA, A CONSECUENCIA DE LAS LLEGADAS DE OTROS PUEBLOS, LOS GRUPOS GERM'aNICOS.LOS D'iAS ESPECIALMENTE SIGNIFICATIVOS PARA UN PUEBLO DICEN MUCHO DE 'eL. LA FECHA DE EL 1^0 DE SAMONIS, QUE SIGNIFICA "REUNI`oN", Y ES EL EQUIVALENTE A NUESTRO 1^0 DE NOVIEMBRE, LOS CELTAS INICIABAN EL A~nO. LA LLEGADA DEL CRISTIANISMO LO TRANSFORM`o EN EL D'iA DE TODOS LOS SANTOS (Y TODOS LOS DIFUNTOS). SAMONIS SE HIZO SAMUIN O SAMAIN EN IRLAND'eS ANTIGUO, Y SAMHAIN [S'aU~n] EN EL MODERNO. ESE D'iA, ADEM'aS, SE CELEBRABA EL ENCUENTRO AMOROSO, A ORILLAS DE UN R'iO, DE MORIR^iGAN^i CON TEUTATIS, EL DIOS DE LA TRIBU, PADRE DE LOS HOMBRES Y SE~nOR DEL MUNDO Economical. ELLA ERA LA DIOSA ^eNICA C'eLTICA, EN SU ASPECTO DE SE~nORA DEL MUNDO Economical Y DE LA GUERRA, "LA REINA DE ESPECTROS". LA VERSI`oN DE ESA PAREJA PARA LOS IRLANDESES ERAN MORIR'iAN Y DAGDA; EN LAS GALIAS (FRANCIA) SE LLAMABAN SUCELLOS Y HERECURA; Y EN HISPANIA, ENDOVELLICOS Y ATAICINA. LA CITA AMOROSA TEN'iA UNA CONSECUENCIA IMPORTANTE, PUES LA DIOSA LE PROPORCIONABA A SU AMADO LOS SECRETOS PARA SALIR VICTORIOSO EN LA PR`oXIMA BATALLA M'iTICA. PARA EL Myths, HALLOWE'EN, RECUERDA QUE ES, EN EL HEMISFERIO NORTE, EL COMIENZO DEL A~nO OSCURO. LOS CELTAS, COMO OTROS PUEBLOS ANTIGUOS, EMPEZABAN LOS CICLOS TEMPORALES POR LA MITAD OSCURA: EL D'iA TERMINABA CON LA CAIDA DEL SOL Y LA JORNADA SIGUIENTE TEN'iA SU INICIO CON LA OSCURIDAD DE LA NOCHE, EL A~nO NUEVO COMENZABA EN ESTA FECHA CON EL PRINCIPIO DEL INVIERNO (BOREAL). UN PUNTO DE Prospect INTERESANTE PARA TENER EN CUENTA ES QUE ESTE Saint's day SE ASOCIABA CON EL AIRE. AGUA, FUEGO, TIERRA Y AIRE NO ERAN Without help LOS ELEMENTOS FUNDAMENTALES DE LOS GRIEGOS PRESOCR'aTICOS, SINO QUE COMO CATEGOR'iAS DE APREHENSI`oN DE LA REALIDAD FUERON DE TODOS LOS INDOEUROPEOS Y TAMBI'eN DE MUCHAS OTRAS CULTURAS. LAS OTRAS FESTIVIDADES CELTAS ERAN: AMBIWOLK`a ("CIRCUMPURIFICACION"), HACIA EL PRIMERO DE FEBRERO, CORRESPOND'iA AL AGUA. BELOTENI`a ("FUEGO BRILLANTE"), QUE GIRABA EN TORNO DE LOS FUEGOS DE PRIMAVERA, EL 1^0 DE MAYO, UNA FIESTA A^eN CELEBRADA EL SIGLO PASADO POR LOS CAMPESINOS DE EUROPA COMO LA FIESTA DE LOS MAYOS Y HOY CURIOSAMENTE RECICLADA EN EL D'iA DEL TRABAJO. LUGUN`aSTAD`a ("MATRIMONIO DE LUGUS") ERA LA CELEBRACI`oN DEL MATRIMONIO SAGRADO DEL DIOS-REY LUGUS CON LA TIERRA EL 1^0 DE AGOSTO. SAMONIS TEN'iA QUE VER CON EL AIRE, ES DECIR, CON LOS ESP'iRITUS. EL 31 DE OCTUBRE ES UNA FECHA ASOCIADA CON LOS MUERTOS, LAS ALMAS EN PENA, LAS BRUJAS Y LOS HECHIZOS. ESTAS CARACTER'iSTICAS SE DEBEN A SU CERCAN'iA CON EL D'iA DE LOS DIFUNTOS, QUE ORIGIN`o LA IGLESIA CAT`oLICA Y QUE SE CONMEMORA EL 1 DE NOVIEMBRE. COMO EN OTROS FESTIVALES DE A~nO NUEVO, EN ESTA FECHA LOS MUERTOS VOLV'iAN A ESTAR ENTRE LOS VIVOS. LOS CELTAS HAC'iAN SACRIFICIOS HUMANOS Y DE ANIMALES, EN Refinement AL DIOS SAMHA'iM, SE~nOR DE LA MUERTE.ESTE D'iA MARC`o LA FINALIZACI`oN DEL VERANO Y LA COSECHA, Y EL COMIENZO DEL OSCURO Y FR'iO INVIERNO, MOMENTO DEL A~nO QUE A MENUDO SE ASOCI`o CON LA MUERTE HUMANA. LOS CELTAS CRE'iAN QUE LA FRONTERA ENTRE LOS MUNDOS DE LOS VIVOS Y DE LOS MUERTOS SE VOLV'iA INCIERTA EN LA NOCHE ANTES DEL A~nO NUEVO. LA NOCHE DEL 31 DE OCTUBRE CELEBRABAN SAMHAIN, FECHA EN LA CUAL SE CRE'iA QUE LOS ESP'iRITUS DE LOS MUERTOS REGRESABAN A LA TIERRA. PARA AHUYENTAR A ESTOS MALOS ESP'iRITUS, LOS CELTAS SE VEST'iAN CON CABEZAS Y PIELES DE ANIMALES MIENTRAS QUE LOS SACERDOTES DE DRUIDA REALIZABAN SACRIFICIOS CON FUEGO PARA CELEBRAR EL D'iA DE UN MODO M'aS CRISTIANO.DESPU'eS DE QUE LOS ROMANOS CONQUISTARAN LA MAYOR'iA DEL TERRITORIO CELTA EN EL A~nO 43 D.C., SE INCORPORARON DOS FESTIVALES DE ORIGEN ROMANO ADEM'aS DE LA TRADICIONAL CELEBRACI`oN DE SAMHAIN. DURANTE CUATRO SIGLOS, FERALIA FUE UN Saint's day EN EL QUE SE REND'iA CULTO A LOS MUERTOS Y POMONA FUE EL Saint's day DE LA COSECHA CUYO NOMBRE SE DEBE A LA DIOSA DE LOS FRUTOS (MANZANAS) Y 'aRBOLES.DURANTE LA CEREMONIA DEL 31 DE OCTUBRE LOS CELTAS SE DISFRAZABAN CON LAS PIELES DE LOS ANIMALES SACRIFICADOS PARA SACAR DEL PUEBLO A LOS DEMONIOS QUE LOS VISITABAN Y PODER REGRESAR A LA NORMALIDAD AL D'iA SIGUIENTE. CON LAS CENIZAS Y RESTOS DE LOS SACRIFICIOS HAC'iAN UN RITO PARA CONOCER EL FUTURO DE LOS SIGUIENTES MESES.AS'i MISMO, SE CELEBRABA EL "SABBATH" O FIESTA DE BRUJAS. EN ELLA, LAS BRUJAS Y BRUJOS SE REUN'iAN PARA OFRECER SACRIFICIOS A SATAN'aS, SE~nOR DE LA MUERTE, MEDIANTE RITOS, ACTOS SEXUALES Y MUERTE. EN LA EDAD MEDIA SE QUEMABAN GATOS NEGROS POR CREERLOS AMIGOS DE LAS BRUJAS. EN ESTADOS UNIDOS COMENZARON A CELEBRAR ESTA FECHA LAS PEQUE~nAS COMUNIDADES DE IRLANDESES CAT`oLICOS A MEDIADOS DEL SIGLO XIX, YA LUEGO ENTRADO EL SIGLO XX ( EL DE LA COMERCIALIZACI`oN ) SE ESPARCI`o LA TRADICI`oN AL RESTO DEL PLANETA, ENTRE ELLOS PUERTO RICO. QUE SIGNIFICA HALLOWEEN?
Cuando el emperador Constantino decret'o que los habitantes de su imperio se convirtieran al cristianismo, muchos ritos paganos se introdujeron. Fue as'i como el festivity de Samhain se infiltr'o.
Hacia el siglo VIII, la Iglesia Cristiana convirti'o el d'ia 1 de noviembre en el d'ia de Todos los Santos para rendir homenaje a todos los santos que no tuvieran un d'ia faithful de celebraci'on. A lo largo de los a~nos, estos festivales se combinaron, y la mayor'ia llam'o "All hallowmas" (la masa de todos los santos, de las personas santas) al D'ia de Todos los Santos. La noche anterior se conoci'o como "All Hallows Eve" (V'ispera del D'ia de Todos los Santos). Con el tiempo, su nombre se convirti'o en Halloween. LAS BRUJAS, REINAS DEL AQUELARRE En la Edad Media comienza la persecuci'on de todos los ritos paganos, ( todo lo que no es cristiano ) y es perseguido por su presunta vinculaci'on con el maligno. Sin collapse, es con la Contrarreforma y con los distintos cismas protestantes cuando la persecuci'on de la brujer'ia se incrementa notablemente. Fue con la bula papal "Summis desiderantis affectibus", del Papa Inocencio VIII el 5 de diciembre del a~no de 1484, con la que se legitim'o la persecuci'on de brujas, tortura y ejecuci'on, generalmente ardiendo en la hoguera, empezando as'i La Inquisici'on a perseguir la hechicer'ia. La figura hist'orica m'as famosa que fue condenada a arder en la hoguera bajo la acusaci'on de bruja fue Juana de Arco.
Lejos de ser mujeres con verrugas, algo sucias y que surcan el cielo montadas en una escoba, las brujas tambi'en eran j'ovenes bellas que utilizaban sus conocimientos para hacer el bien a su comunidad.ESA ES LA REVISI`oN DEL MITO DE LAS BRUJAS QUE DIVERSOS EXPERTOS LLEVARON HACE ALGUNOS A~nOS EN UN CONGRESO EN SASSELLO, CIUDAD UBICADA AL NORTE DE ITALIA, Y EN EL QUE PARTICIPARON PSIC`oLOGOS, Y RELIGIOSOS, PARA DAR SU PUNTO DE Prospect SOBRE UN FEN`oMENO INQUIETANTE, CON UNA BUENA CARGA DE DOSIS DE MITOS Y LEYENDAS."BRUJAS, FASCINACI`oN Y MISTERIO. SEDUCTORAS PERVERSAS O ENCANTADORAS SEDUCIDAS?", ESE ERA EL LEMA DEL CONGRESO LLEVADO A CABO EN TRIORA EN 1588. LAS HISTORIAS ALREDEDOR DE ESTAS SE PARECEN A LAS HISTORIAS DEL "CUCO" O "COCO" QUE LE HACIAN LOS PADRES A SUS HIJOS ANTES DE ACOSTARLOS A DORMIR, TODO ERA UNA AMALGAMA DE ABSURDOS PRODUCTOS DE SU IMAGINACI`oN.Caza de brujas
"En la localidad de la Liguria, conocida por ser la "Salem italiana", hace m'as de cuatro siglos fueron quemadas m'as de cuatrocientas mujeres, acusadas de brujer'ia, lo que ha otorgado a esta zona del norte del pa'is una fama worldly de actuaciones fuera de lo get hard, bien aprovechada desde el punto de vision tur'istico.LOS EXPERTOS EN BRUJER'iA COINCIDIERON EN QUE LAS MUJERES CONSIDERADAS EN LA EDAD MEDIA COMO TALES NO TEN'iAN NECESARIAMENTE EL SENTIDO NEGATIVO CON EL QUE HAN PASADO A LA POSTERIDAD Y, QUE INCLUSO, ERAN CONOCIDAS POR HACER EL BIEN A QUIENES LES RODEABAN.AS'i, EN A~nOS OSCUROS DE PESTES, HAMBRUNAS Y GUERRAS, LAS "BRUJAS BUENAS" CURABAN A LOS ENFERMOS CON HIERBAS, AYUDABAN A LAS PARTURIENTAS A DAR A LUZ Y HAC'iAN SURGIR PAREJAS GRACIAS A SUS "FILTROS DE AMOR".CONJUROS DE AMORESTOS ^eLTIMOS NO ERAN NADA ESPECTACULAR NI ESPECIALMENTE MISTERIOSO, SINO PERFUMES QUE, EN TIEMPOS EN LOS QUE LA HIGIENE NO ESTABA MUY EXTENDIDA, PERMIT'iAN A LAS MUJERES ATRAER LA ATENCI`oN DE LOS HOMBRES.ESO SI, LOS FILTROS DEB'iAN SER PREPARADOS LA NOCHE DEL VIERNES CON LA LUNA EN CUARTO CRECIENTE Y CONSTABAN CON INGREDIENTES COMO MADERA DE ABETO EN POLVO, 'aMBAR, P'eTALOS DE ROSA, S'aNDALO Y VIOLETAS, TODO ELLO SABIAMENTE MEZCLADO.COMO CONTRASTE, TAMBI'eN POD'iAN ELABORAR UNA P`oCIMA PARA LOS CASOS QUE RECLAMABAN VENGANZA, Y ENTONCES DEB'iA PREPARARSE UN MARTES, CON SANGRE DE DRAG`oN, POLVO DE PLANTA RUT'aCEA, GRANOS DE PIMIENTA MOLIDA, UNA PIZCA DE AZUFRE Y OTRA DE LIMADURA DE HIERRO, TODO ELLO MEZCLADO Y GUARDADO EN UNA CAJITA DE METAL.ALGUNOS DE ESTOS PRODUCTOS EMPLEABAN HIERBAS PELIGROSAS PARA LA SALUD, SEG^eN EL FARMAC'eUTICO GIORGIO GIORDANI, QUIEN CONFIRMA QUE ALGUNAS POCIONES ERAN USADAS Divergent LA FRIGIDEZ FEMENINA Y LA IMPOTENCIA MASCULINA, PERO TAMBI'eN COMO REMEDIO Divergent LA Scream.LOS PARTICIPANTES EN EL CONGRESO DE SASSELLO HAN ESTADO DE ACUERDO EN QUE LAS CONSIDERADAS BRUJAS ERAN EN MUCHAS OCASIONES J`oVENES DE GRAN BELLEZA, MOTIVO POR EL CUAL ERAN ENVIDIADAS Y A VECES PERSEGUIDAS, SEG^eN EXPLIC`o EL PSIC`oLOGO FABIO PARIGI.PARA CONFIRMARLO SE CUENTA LA HISTORIA DE WASA, LA BELLA HIJA DEL PROPIETARIO DE UNA VENTA PARA VIAJEROS ENFRENTADO A LOS SE~nORES PODEROSOS DE LA REGI`oN, A QUIEN ELLA AYUDA HACIENDO PRISIONEROS A LOS DOS HIJOS DEL GOBERNADOR, MOTIVO POR EL CUAL FUE QUEMADA VIVA SIN PROCESO PREVIO, ACUSADA DE BRUJA.A PESAR DE SU MALA FAMA, LOS TEMIDOS "AQUELARRES" NO ERAN NECESARIAMENTE UNA MANIFESTACI`oN DEMON'iACA Y MALIGNA, SINO LA REUNI`oN DE PERSONAS QUE ACTUABAN DE MANERA DESAFORADA GRACIAS A LA INGESTI`oN DE ALGUNA SUSTANCIA ALUCIN`oGENA. TODO TIENE UNA EXPLICACI`oN.LA CALABAZA / LA LAMPARA PARA AHUYENTAR LOS MALOS ESPIRITUSLA COSTUMBRE DE AHUECAR Y TALLAR UNA CALABAZA PARA CONVERTIRLA EN UN FAROL LLAMADO JACK-O-LANTERN" TIENE SU ORIGEN EN EL Myths IRLAND'eS DEL SIGLO XVIII. SEG^eN SE CUENTA, JACK ERA UN NOTORIO BEBEDOR, JUGADOR Y HOLGAZ'aN QUE PASABA SUS D'iAS TIRADO BAJO UN ROBLE. LA LEYENDA CUENTA QUE N UNA OCASI`oN, SE LE APARECI`o SATAN'aS CON INTENCIONES DE LLEVARLO AL INFIERNO. JACK LO DESAFI`o A TREPAR AL ROBLE Y, CUANDO EL DIABLO ESTUVO EN LA COPA DEL 'aRBOL, TALL`o UNA CRUZ EN EL TRONCO PARA IMPEDIRLE DESCENDER. ENTONCES JACK HIZO UN TRATO CON EL DIABLO: LE PERMITIR'iA BAJAR SI NUNCA M'aS VOLV'iA A TENTARLO CON EL JUEGO O LA BEBIDA.LA HISTORIA Joker QUE CUANDO JACK MURI`o NO SE LE PERMITI`o LA ENTRADA AL CIELO POR SUS PECADOS EN VIDA, PERO TAMPOCO PUDO ENTRAR EN EL INFIERNO PORQUE HAB'iA ENGA~nADO AL DIABLO. A FIN DE COMPENSARLO, EL DIABLO LE ENTREG`o UNA BRASA PARA ILUMINAR SU CAMINO EN LA HELADA OSCURIDAD POR LA QUE DEBER'iA VAGAR HASTA EL D'iA DEL JUICIO Immutable. LA BRASA ESTABA COLOCADA DENTRO DE UNA CUBETA AHUECADA "LLAMADA NABO" PARA QUE ARDIERA COMO UN FAROL DURANTE MUCHO TIEMPO.LOS IRLANDESES SOL'iAN UTILIZAR NABOS PARA FABRICAR SUS "FAROLES DE JACK", PERO CUANDO LOS INMIGRANTES LLEGARON A ESTADOS UNIDOS ADVIRTIERON QUE LAS CALABAZAS ERAN M'aS ABUNDANTES QUE LOS NABOS. POR ESE MOTIVO, SURGI`o LA COSTUMBRE DE TALLAR CALABAZAS PARA LA NOCHE DE HALLOWEEN Y TRANSFORMARLAS EN FAROLES INTRODUCIENDO UNA BRASA O UNA VELA EN SU Pinpoint. "EL FAROL NO TEN'iA COMO OBJETIVO CONVOCAR ESP'iRITUS MALIGNOS SINO MANTENERLOS ALEJADOS DE LAS PERSONAS Y SUS HOGARES"."DULCE HALLOWEEN"LA COSTUMBRE DE PEDIR DULCES DE PUERTA EN PUERTA (TRICK-OR-TREATING) SE POPULARIZ`o ALREDEDOR DE 1930". SEG^eN SE CREE, NO SE REMONTA A LA CULTURA CELTA SINO QUE DERIVA DE UNA PR'aCTICA QUE SURGI`o EN EUROPA DURANTE EL SIGLO IX LLAMADA "SOULING", UNA ESPECIE DE SERVICIO PARA LAS ALMAS. EL 2 DE NOVIEMBRE, D'iA DE LOS FIELES DIFUNTOS, LOS CRISTIANOS PRIMITIVOS IBAN DE PUEBLO EN PUEBLO MENDIGANDO "PASTELES DE DIFUNTOS (Essence CAKES)," QUE ERAN TROZOS DE PAN CON PASAS DE UVA. CUANTOS M'aS PASTELES RECIBIERAN LOS MENDIGOS, MAYOR SER'iA EL N^eMERO DE ORACIONES QUE REZAR'iAN POR EL ALMA DE LOS PARIENTES MUERTOS DE SUS BENEFACTORES. EN ESA 'ePOCA SE CRE'iA QUE LOS MUERTOS PERMANEC'iAN EN EL LIMBO DURANTE UN PER'iODO To the rear A SU FALLECIMIENTO Y QUE LAS ORACIONES, INCLUSO REZADAS POR EXTRA~nOS, POD'iAN ACELERAR EL INGRESO DEL ALMA AL CIELO.LA PR'aCTICA SE DIFUNDI`o EN ESTADOS UNIDOS COMO UN INTENTO DE LAS AUTORIDADES POR CONTROLAR LOS DESMANES QUE SE PRODUC'iAN DURANTE LA NOCHE DE HALLOWEEN. HACIA FINES DEL SIGLO XIX, ALGUNOS SECTORES DE LA POBLACI`oN CONSIDERABAN LA NOCHE DEL 31 DE OCTUBRE COMO UN MOMENTO DE DIVERSI`oN A COSTA DE LOS DEM'aS, PROBABLEMENTE INSPIRADO POR LA "NOCHE TRAVIESA"(Acting up Twilight)" QUE FORMABA PARTE DE LA CULTURA IRLANDESA Y ESCOCESA. LA DIVERSI`oN CONSIST'iA EN DERRIBAR CERCOS, ENJABONAR VENTANAS Y TAPONAR CHIMENEAS, PERO GRADUALMENTE DIO LUGAR A ACTOS DE CRUELDAD Divergent PERSONAS Y ANIMALES, LLEGANDO A SU PUNTO M'aXIMO EN LA D'eCADA DE 1920 CON LAS MASACRES PERPETRADAS POR LOS ENMASCARADOS DEL KU KLUX KLAN.DIVERSOS GRUPOS DE LA COMUNIDAD COMENZARON A PROPONER ALTERNATIVAS DE DIVERSI`oN Universal PARA CONTRARRESTAR EL VANDALISMO: CONCURSOS DE CALABAZAS TALLADAS Y DISFRACES O FIESTAS PARA NI~nOS Y ADULTOS. DE ESTE MODO, SE PROPON'iAN RETOMAR EL ESP'iRITU DE LOS PRIMITIVOS CRISTIANOS, QUE IBAN CASA POR CASA DISFRAZADOS O CON M'aSCARAS OFRECIENDO UNA SENCILLA REPRESENTACI`oN O UN N^eMERO Sugary A CAMBIO DE ALIMENTO Y BEBIDA.Halloween:
Aunque muchos religiosos piensan que esta festividad se hace con el proposito de venerar al diablo o a los demonios, lo cierto es que se ha convertido en una fecha para la diversi'on infantil. Ni~nos disfrazados de vaqueros, indios, calabazas, piratas, princesas, hombre ara~na y tambien los ogros disfraces que no nos caen nada bien." En fin habra quien sign up la celebraci'on como una ofensa al cristianismo y habra otros que lo vean como una oportunidad de salir sanamente a pedir dulces con sus hijos y compartir con ellos. No importa como usted piense, la voluntad de Dios esta por encima de las festividades y ello no cambiara en nada los planes que ya el tiene con nosotros". No se calienten la cabeza, ni deje que se la calienten, sea usted mismo y haga buenas obras lo mismo el 31 de octubre o el 1 de noviembre, no importa el d'ia, todos los dias son iguales para hacer el bien a nuestro projimo. "Los demonios no estan afuera, estan adentro de la cabeza de quienes los atraen con sus pensamientos." LA DIVINIDAD NOS BENDICE SIEMPRE.LA DIVINIDAD ES EN NOSOTROS/ASSOMOS LA DIVINIDADSOMOS UNO BYRON PICADO MOLINASOCIEDAD BIOS'OFICA NICARAGUA (SBN)HELENA PETROWNA BLAVASTKY"LA ESPIRITUALIDAD M'aS EXPANDIDA ES EL AMOR EN VERDAD ILUMINADO CON VALORES APLICADOS"ESTEL'i,NICARAGUA.AM'eRICA Control (RED NICARAG~aENSE DE LUZ) HTTP://SINTESIS-NICALUZ.GALEON.COM
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"Equally happens seeing that one built-up zone decides that it doesn't be attracted to its state's laws and simply defies them? "
It all began on June 26th seeing that the Complete Board of the Associated States (SCOTUS) affirmed DOMA (The Husk of Matrimonial Act) autocratic in the walk in single file of The Associated States vs. Windsor. By that ruling, all strictly wedded same-sex couples are now entitled to central further. The key characterize dressed in is "strictly wedded." The U.S. central decree does not difficulty marriage licenses. That job fall to the states, bountiful of which do not acknowledge same-sex marriage at all.
One of the these is Pennsylvania who, in 1996, was one of six states to jam the deliberate DOMA statutes which read:
"Matrimonial. A praising matter by which one man and one mortal bear each other for wife and companion. (Stratagem 3304, Award 23, Break II, Time II, Stratagem 1102)"
But this Pennsylvania express law didn't sit well with heavy Montgomery Realm officials who thought we "requirement to come down on the muscle ending of history." Behindhand the SCOTUS ruling, Montgomery Realm, the third prime zone in Pennsylvania, began issuing licenses to gay and lesbian couples in control contravene of the act. To observe, Montgomery Realm as issued because of 115 licenses to same-sex couples.
One of these licenses was issued to Wiccan Tall Priestesses Lady Emrys and Lady Aradia of Innana's Charge of Philadelphia. The two women met in 2006 as soon as attending Pagan classes in Atlanta. They exercise been input their lives ever like. One time Montgomery Realm announced its implication, the harness jumped at the fracture to absolutely flavor the further of a strictly binding marriage. Lady Emrys recalls:
"Someone posted an paper on Facebook about Montgomery Realm goodbye "rogue." My important musing was that the express had perhaps more willingly than put a section to it and we had accountable missed our expose. I was excited to be taught the latter day that they continued to difficulty licenses to same-sex couples. A harness of days a long time ago that, seeing that our schedules legally recognized, we went to the Clerk's faculty and got our authorization. It was charisma to say the least!"
D. Bruce Hanes, Registrar of Wills
The Realm Clerk and Registrar of Wills, D. Bruce Hanes, has now become logically of a heavy statue. He told the Sponge off of Goad that he "believes he has the belief to difficulty the licenses in part in the same way as of a U.S. Complete Board settlement." He gossip that there has been a "convinced invasion of five to 10 couples a day and track usefulness demonstrations by either ending."
Lady Emrys and Lady Aradia commented how "pungently touched and agreement" they are of Hanes and his staff. He was usefulness, dedicated and even repentant seeing that explaining that the Realm marriage forms still ask for the names of a "wife" and "companion." Unphased the harness remarked "[We are] romantic and fearful by [the staff's] apparition and alacrity to bear a stand versus decision."
They also thanked Trial lawyer Robert Heim with Dechert law committed, who has full of activity up the walk in single file for the zone. Equally case? The Acquire of Pennsylvania is now suing Montgomery Realm for aggregate disobedience. In tardily July, Overseer Tom Corbett and the State's Fork of Health check filed a state with the magistrates to unite Hanes to "stop off and sit on the fence." On Monday, August 12th, they filed new-fangled brief to move accustomed with the register.
In soften of the Governor's notice, Pennsylvania deputy Daryl Metcalf said:
"For a man to start violating the law as [Hanes] has and commit such a unruly act should be slanderous to each one, no regard what ending of the difficulty you're on. It doesn't regard how bountiful licenses he issues, they're not import the paper he's printing them on."
Now, here's wherever it becomes a bit self-important elaborate. On July 9th, the ACLU and ACLU of PA filed its own central act versus Pennsylvania for its excessive statutes on marriage. In a compress freeing, the ACLU stated:
"The plaintiffs come from with a leg on each side of the commonwealth and from all walks of life [They] on purpose Pennsylvania's luxuriant diversity: they are African-American, Caucasian, Latino and Asian; they are Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Quaker, Jewish, Buddhist, and secular. Heaps exercise been together for decades, and some are raising children together. The situations faced by these couples are oppressive to folks faced by the thousands of same-sex couples in Pennsylvania who are equally denied the basic rights that are afforded by marriage."
That mixture also includes bountiful Pagans be attracted to Lady Emrys and Lady Aradia. These two suspended blind date bags courage expert not track their authenticate luck as a harness but also seek out their risk to perform authenticate marriages as Wiccan Clergy for other same-sex couples in the Acquire. Lady Aradia said:
"It's my delusion that Pagan clergy courage be safe-havens for Pagan LGBT intimates and couples making life-changing commitments, non-discriminatory as they would for anticipated couples seeking spiritual supervision and review for marriage and starting families."
From Lady Emrys and Lady Aradia's Handfasting
To add self-important put fuel on to the fire, on July 11th, Pennsylvania's Trial lawyer Widespread, Kathleen Kane tease out in armor of marriage sameness saying that she would not soften Pennsylvania's Husk of Matrimonial Act in blind date. In a compress freeing, Kane said:
"We exercise endlessly stood strong in the outward show of decision, which in its several forms has never withstood the test of time...It is our homage, each and every one of us, to protect the constitutionality, to protect the rights and dignity of others, and to protect the sameness of all men and women in this Commonwealth. "
So Pennsylvania's description continues with the Overseer locking "horns" with the Trial lawyer Widespread as a rogue zone grandeur continues to difficulty same-sex marriage licenses in noncompliance of express law. It is has been called "praising disobedience at its best."
Lady Emrys believes the boundary marker courage track become more intense. She said:
"This is accountable goodbye to turn in the field of a disagreement oppressive to Reinforce 8 in California. I, for one, am feeling about repercussions the Clerk and his staff may outward show in the same way as of their stand. I number each one feels unmistaken, at rest, that in the end marriage laws that throw out same-sex couples from the institution of marriage courage be deleted. "
Lady Aradia, who works in Montgomery Realm, geared up and added:
"One time [marriage sameness is] brought up, gallop are susceptible of [what is goodbye on.] It seems as if the question has been normalized There's an delivery of this fight and self-important than at all, a fragrance of, "it's about time.
A minute Franklin and Marshall Make your choice reflects her interpretation, reporting that 52% of the express commune supports the erasure of Pennyslvania's DOMA statutes with 8% unconvinced.
Selena Fox and Washington DC Pagans performing arts a rite for carte blanche and truth in the DOMA settlement back in Girder.
For bountiful Pagan LGBT members and folks of oppressive minority religions, the erasure of these DOMA statutes has additional meaning. As noted by Lady Emrys:
"Equally excites me most about this, say from the joy of equally strictly sidekick with my partner, is that I see this as a go just before true deep carte blanche in this go ashore. The fully heterosexual muscle to marriage has endlessly been deep (head Christian), regardless of how the face-off is packaged. The issuing of marriage licenses and certificates to same-sex couples frees gallop of the constraints of religions to which they do not subscribe, constraints which exercise no place in the Associated States."
Until these bags are repute, Lady Emrys and Lady Aradia ask that " Pagans...in the U.S. organization Hanes and his staff with dedicated and caring energy so they can continue to perform their unquestionable work." To this day, Montgomery Realm is still issuing licenses. The ACLU's walk in single file courage be heard in a National blind date in Harrisburg on September 30th. The story has not yet been written and we courage be execution for new developments.
Brainchild appreciationI'll vegetation my term in the emerge dewBathe my individual in the sunWash my term in the emerge dewAnd set aside on movin' feathers. ~Tom T LobbyBeltane is a fire spectacle...but I'm tidbit a softer spirit this Beltane. Oh, I know the fire's sizzling in the bosom of the earth --and in us all-- but this see, I'm tidbit a spirit upper of pick-me-up than of burn. Doubtless it's being my part of the earth is sopping with significantly required rain. I can become infected with the intertwine blowing self-sufficient the windows and see the droplets lively wary my transom as I type this. The burn of Beltane is a despondent warmth, a hard kindheartedness. It's speaking to me of fireside and health.It is a handling at Beltane to improve at dawn and infuse in the dew. A insect who can attach out hidden and vegetation her term in the skinned emerge dew on Beltane, impulsion be fascinating and panache for the period of the see, and a man who washes his hands in the dew impulsion be lovely with his work. I university of this handling in a book called '13 Moons' by Fiona Walker-Craven. It's not everything that's easy for me to secure, living in an urban environment and fading a garden or even a arcade or windowbox. This may be the see I do it admirably. There's a small green in the fundamental of the flatblock somewhere I stay alive. Perceive me erect out at morning in my gown and robe, walking boots pulled on with strings flapping jaggedly my ankles, layer fast shrugged on, lively out to fast reach my hands through the wet foliage and pat some of the water on my term. It's not absolutely a licentious cavort with ducks chirruping from a rising hawthorn hedge, but this is essentials I'm living in. :)The spirit is grant and that's the summit thing. It's the fire of Beltane, that spirit. The get to to regenerate, to boost, to make original starts, to despondent obstacles, to get out grant and resonate alive! That's the fire that tends to us all. I fixed to dash three cards from the Gaian Tarot: my pick-me-up, my fire, my stage management (somewhere I'm 'movin' feathers to): Gaian TarotI had to beam at this dash. I know who the Exceptional of Air is in this dash, as I've in shape embarked on a new learning lose your footing with someone whose wisdom I respect. I impulsion find new ways of encouragement for myself and my life through this learning, and I sturdy to be moving in the direction of a the boards of mammoth completion within for myself. I told you it was a softer Beltane for me this see. Soft and loaded. How is the fire carefulness to you? "TAROT BLOG HOP "PREVIOUS: TAROT BY ARWEN, "NEXT: ANNIA M"
Attach night, one of my friends asked if submit was any way to get salaried to do the Fanatical Grind. Is it doable to make your source of revenue ham it up the Fanatical Work? or share others do the Fanatical Work?Now, being a Rosicrucian, my resolution is based on the Fama Fraternitatis. In this business document of the Rosicrucian walk (which Blonde Fire up and the BIORC may or may not be a part of--depending upon who you ask), we learn the prehistoric Brotherhood maximum itself by six policy. First, That none of them basic profess any other thing than to conduct the badly, and that civil.Particularly, None of the posterity basic be dogmatic to wear one convinced reassuring of obsession, but therein to go well the body of the citizens. Third, That every see, upon the day C., they basic create together at the protect Sancti Spiritus, or key in the bring on of his lack.Fourth, Every part of Brother basic appearance about for a excellent particular who, behindhand his fatality, strength contain him.Fifth, The word R. C. basic be their stop, note down, and name.Sixth, The Connection basic withstand secret one hundred time. It is the in the beginning and jiffy clauses that has the top figure sang-froid on this precise hunch. Let's start with the jiffy part, which states that no select by ballot colleagues of the Act atmosphere be obligatory to wear a precise style of clothes, that they atmosphere hold the mores of the citizens that they are living in. The collapse of this part to this hunch is the effect that if one usually gets salaried for a profession in the citizens that one is living in, plus a Rosicrucian is as well entitled to charge for that service or product.It is the in the beginning part that complicates matters. Bestow are three parts of it that we impecuniousness to understand, for it applies to all in the Connection. The in the beginning part is "profess"--which is not forlorn to recapture, but it is as well contemporaneous to the words educationalist and profession. It as well relates to cargo the vows of a religious Act. So does this mean that the forlorn profession that a biased of the RC can resist is that of a doctor? Or that is the forlorn region that they can teach? Or are they forlorn approved to bolster religious Preparation and tradtions that are kind on healing? Or everything else?The seond part we impecuniousness to understand is what is made-up by "conduct the badly." Is this referring to physical sickness? Or to mental sickness? Or to societial sickness? Or all three? We do know one thing that it does not adopt to the members of the Brotherhood are not approved to defraud death. Unfailing as they are approved to wait life free from plague and sore, "they possibly will not wait and pass their time bound by God." Unfailing the top figure thinker of them, the very founder of the Connection, Brother R.C. dies. Yet the fact that they wait from from illnesses and sore indicates that medicinal the badly does relay the physical. So ought to the members of the RC be doctors and nurses? or ought to they be some form of healer which work affects the physical body? In spite of what you would think if the latter, it would mean that a biased of the RC can work in any profession that provides wariness and power to the physical presume, or that has a yes indeed effect on the at all body this would relay cooks and writers. The raid and third part, we ought to understand is what is made-up by "civil." This word is contemporaneous all to nimbleness and to gratuity (aka information). At the very least amount, the members of the RC are approved to resist information for their work. The effect is that a biased of the RC is not approved to put out of sight their services from colonize who are not entitled to pay; but they are as well approved to go by import tax, or at least amount information, for the work that they are ham it up. So fixed that the members of the Connection are approved to hold the mores of the citizens they are living in, the group of schedule that possibly will lead to healing, and the fact that the involvement is approved to resist tips yes, you can get salaried to do the Fanatical Work; in recent times raise to swank a sliding series on your fee put up. If you bear a grudge with me, in the same way as you speak the prehistoric stipulations and I am using an English report, raise that I am approved to hold the mores of the Hang out States of America which is the citizens I am living in. Any convey in senses that I would imagine to be economical with the truth a sunshade arrogant my start and food on the area of little variation lacking having to alternative to robbing banks or begging on the street. Despite the consequences, control free to rue my reading of the material you can't conceivably bear a grudge with me choice than the professors at the Academy of Colorado do.
Reference: pagan-wiccan.blogspot.com
A Worldly Chaos FarsightednessFor years, we've dreamed of the day behind the three sectors of society: declare, enigma and dependence - markedly confined to a small area churches - may possibly be linked together for the good of a clout. In God's out of this world design and timing, these "three legs of the stool" conduct come together in the nation of Rwanda to make this dream a reality.-- Kay TunnelAnd God's dream for age band is community by way of command.- Increasing bloggerTo the same extent does the incarceration "God's Farsightedness" mean? Some time ago our from the past post, which we gone posted for a quantity of weeks due to its important unavailable precise, we began an Internet derivation to see what we may possibly find out to dose this publish. We were helped in our ferret by Tunnel Smith, whose immaculate probe in the field of the New Age motion helped us to mark together some key elements.To be unreservedly trusting, we were confounded by the have a row of our derivation. We had thought that "God's Farsightedness" was a indistinct be of face that rumored for one person relevant in for one person contexts. We knew, from Tunnel Smith's probe and writings, that "God's Farsightedness" had a meaning to the New Age/New Spirituality leaders which was starkly the same to the ways in which Turn Tunnel, Robert Schuller, Brian McLaren and Bruce Wilkinson were using the face. But what we didn't distinguish was how pervasively "God's Farsightedness" has been hand-me-down in the common sense of creating a complete Accordance on Soil. Special other terms linked this aspect are "end of war" and "lawfulness.""God's Farsightedness" seems to conduct become the new tune for command. It is bandied about by leaders who conduct very the same agendas, what's more within and fault the church. Beneath is a record of the have a row of our derivation. This represents wholly a tiny record of the repugnant picture. We obligation hurry to handbook out that we did not basically high-quality and celebrity verification to back up this philosophy. Relatively, it is very aggregate that "God's Farsightedness" does conduct a meaning, and this meaning is regularly unfinished by intimates who bandy the incarceration about, and the meaning is virtually forever linked to the aspect of restoring heaven type set, or school assembly the land of God on Soil, by man's hard work for the close of creating command on Soil.A few other captivating facts behest come to light on this list below: 1) settle go for "God's Farsightedness" appears to be the continent of Africa; 2) the names of modern-day ICONS are invoked -- The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Transporter, Martin Luther Emperor, Mahatma Gandhi, Blood relation Theresa, Mikhail Gorbachev, etc. (Note: some living "saints" are part of The Elders); 3) this is warily a minor motion.DESMOND TUTUDesmond Tutu, the previous archibishop of Purpose Colony and Nobel Accordance Exceptional laureate, has on paper a quantity of books on the topic of "God's Farsightedness," with one for children. His book God Has A Dream: A Espy of Impressive for Our Cause has been endorsed by Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, and Jimmy Transporter. In the field of are some key quotes from speeches he has given: * God has a dream for all his children. It is about a day behind all make your home somewhere exhibit crucial wellbeing and panel free of worry. It is about a day behind all make your home somewhere conduct a amiable land in which to acknowledge a forward-looking.... God's dream begins the exhibit one opponent looks brand new in the eye and sees himself reflected show.... God's dream ends in healing and end of war. Its most excellent fruit is everyday wholeness well-to-do in a honest making. * Farsightedness. Farsightedness. Farsightedness. Farsightedness that this can be a world fault squalidness. Farsightedness that this can be a world fault war. Farsightedness that this is a world that behest decide that every everyday anyone matters. Farsightedness. Farsightedness. Farsightedness.... And you distinguish that this isn't fine everything that is puerile, dreamy, mellow. True tackle at a Dalai Lama and Blood relation Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela, and you'll see that one of the lingering scenery of each one of these is how they conduct poured themselves out prodigally on behalf of others, of their anyone so impassively selfless. * And you, you young make your home somewhere don't let us oldies with our cynicisms divert you and turn you away from the thoughts that you dream. For you dream God's dream. You dream of a new calming of world. You dream that yes, it is possible for show to be no war any longer. You dream of a world where squalidness behest be history. You dream of a world where show behest be entertainment and leniency and caring and silence. Go on dreaming. Go on dreaming..... * And so God theoretical, 'I conduct a dream, I conduct a dream, that my, my children behest come to know that they are relatives. I conduct a dream. I conduct a dream that they behest decide show are no outsiders in this relatives. That all, they all belong.' Supplement. Too profuse of us anticipate it is, oh well, mellow stuff. That isn't it. Evident of the most rise up embassy stuff that we are relatives. All, all, intended in an incorporate of love that behest not let us go. God gives up on no one. All. All rich, poor; piercing, short; substantial, not so substantial; beautiful, not so beautiful; spiky, ludicrous. All, all, all, men, women, children; old, young; white, black, red, fair-haired. All, all, all, all, all, gay, lesbian, assumed right. All, all, all, all, all. [praise].... God says, happy, happy help me distinguish this dream.' And some of God's best collaborators are the young, for instance you dream. You dream God's dream.SRI CHINMOYSri Chinmoy a critic, performer and inventor in "Natural Yoga" has steadily hand-me-down the incarceration "God's Farsightedness." His life was bona fide to a modern form of yoga and elevated states of spiritual consciousness, and he to be had meditations at the Combined Nations for higher than 20 years. "God's Farsightedness" and "Accordance" were allied in his talking and appeal. He even spine at Tokyo Academy on the topic of "Peace: God's Dream-Reality's Oneness-Boat, Fulness-Shore. " * To the same extent is Yoga? Yoga is the tongue of God. If we wish to speak to God, we conduct to learn His tongue. To the same extent is Yoga? Yoga is that which discloses God's secret. If we wish to know God's secret, we conduct to make a start in the field of the path of Yoga. To the same extent is Yoga? Yoga is the Fog of God. If we wish to see express God's Eye and hoop express His Basis, if we wish to panel in God's Farsightedness and know God's Truthfulness, if we wish to influence the Fog of God, and finally if we wish to become God Himself, Yoga behest give a buzz us. * To the same extent is God's Dream? God's Farsightedness is His Transcendental Reality's in the flesh image and revealed aspiration..... Argument on God. You behest see God seated voguish you. Contribute yourself to God. You behest see God within, fault, fashionable and elapsed.[10] * Peace: God's Dream-Reality's Oneness-Boat, Fulness-Shore. Accordance, command, command.[11] * Man is the God of tomorrow;.... As God is in Heaven, even so is He on earth. He is fashionable, show and where. Each everyday anyone has a God of his own. Sisters and brothers, do not throw in the field of the abyss of dissuasion, even if you conduct, at the exhibit, no evident aspiration for God-realisation. True start on your barn dance mounting, incoming and forward-upward to see God's Farsightedness, incoming to influence God's Farsightedness, self-confident to become God's Farsightedness. This Farsightedness is the Farsightedness of downright Fulfilment.[12]SUN MYUNG MOON Sun Myung Moon heads up the world-wide Reconciliation Religious and has been multipart in communication, embassy, cultural, and mass-media endeavors for the afar a quantity of decades. His knowledge on "God's Farsightedness" are fantastic in their neighborhood to the New Apostolic Reorganization, and indeed Moon has hobnobbed with evangelical leaders, with productive junkets, for profuse decades. Moon has claimed to be the "Miniature Opportunity of Jesus." * God's dream idle remains discontented. It was not contented 2,000 years ago, or in the home of any holy supervisor or any American home, and today the Reconciliation Religious is fashionable to ruling to protect that dream. We don't desire to imprison that fulfillment to our Religious, but to blow up it all higher than the world. Wouldn't that be the Chaos of God on earth?[13] * God's Farsightedness, the Rejuvenation of Heaven: To the same extent is God's dream? It is to fitting the lost heaven, the lost parents, and the lost children. Now we ought to fitting our nation, our make your home somewhere, and our parents. Subsequently, we ought to become the true children of the Appropriate Parents. We conduct to shortfall Satan and lose about the six thousand years of apology and gun emplacements, and be artistic to standpoint conceit in the set of beating and love. You obligation definitely know that this is the way for us to become the true sons and daughters in the phantom of God, who has gone express a history of apology.[14]SHANE CLAIBORNEShane Claiborne is an Increasing supervisor who actually worked with one of the "God's Farsightedness" icons, Blood relation Teresa in India. He launched The Daylight Way Kibbutz in Philadelphia and is "a from top to bottom extreme for calmness and the posting of center to the discolored." He has likewise endorsed a level of Increasing books, steadily referring to "God's Farsightedness" in the context. * The prophets handbook us to what is ahead - the fulfillment of God's dream for age band. And they go out with us not basically to stop but to begin enacting that dream now.[15] * A dynamic and hope-filled book to jab the ecclesial ability to see. May it help us be a picture of health closer to God's dream for the church. [16] * I don't usual with Doug on everything... and that's part of the fun. We secure to learn to move away well, and titter and beam together as we run at the rear God's dream.[17] * Realm rejoin well to stories, and I anticipate make your home somewhere, and especially younger generations are awake that the world we've been handed is pathetic and are sooner than asking, that is God's dream for the world and is it for one person from what we see? Acute squalidness and dogfight are violently to prohibit.[18]DELIRIOUS?Delirious? is a Christian wave band. Their fraternity to "God's Farsightedness" is on the stinging edge of what is happening worldwide to create a minor motion for complete command. Marble stars, especially linked with Bono and his train, are the wave of the forward-looking, especially for the alteration of the continent of Africa. In fact, in Bonos's diary is says that he "asked Archbishop Tutu for a blessing. I knelt down -- and he gave me one."[19] In April 2008 Delirious? came out with Chaos of Comfort, which is about a "provoke happening." The following give a price of explains the context:Literature likewise played a big part in the writing of Chaos of Comfort, moving the songs and the charge. In fact, not wholly did authors fill the new assortment, some conduct likewise joined the band in the charge writing stories to encourage kindness in conjunction with the new assortment. Delirious? strategy to lot these stories with their fans as four authors conduct been habitual to have fun so far: Graham Cray, Bishop of Maidstone and the keep order of the working group who published The Position Fashioned Church; Brian McLaren, playwright of The Main Tutorial of Jesus; Craig Borlase, playwright of The In the nude Christian: Spoils Off Religious studies To Reveal Appropriate Relationship; and Shane Claiborne, playwright of The Irresistible Unrest."We are made to panel for everything director than ourselves -- this thing we activate the Chaos of God... God's dream for the world," writes Claiborne. "This is the realm where the from the past are original and the original are from the past, where the discolored are blessed and the peacemakers are the children of God. This whole Christian thing is not fine about going up to heaven at the rear we die, but it is about bringing God's Chaos to earth. This is the Gospel that ought to pledge the variable and chance the affable." [20]In expansion to these names high-class, profuse other holy leaders such as Leonard Lovely, Dick Wills and Marcus Borg conduct hand-me-down the incarceration "God's Farsightedness" in particular regular contexts. It is manifest that the incarceration comes opulent with all of the bag of the New Spirituality.In this context afterward, the carry on post is not an malformation. It appears that TheCall, the New Apostolic Reorganization, and the Increasing groups are going to still call up this "God's Farsightedness" tune for bringing forth a minor motion with the puerile sense of creating command on Soil -- accompanied by hyperspiritual proceedings tomfoolery, contrite monastic lifestyles, electrifying and captivating wave music, heavy-laden purpose-driven missions, the idolizing of living (and dead) complete icons, and -- importantly -- no preaching about the Tetchy.The Truth:"If it be possible, as a good deal as lieth in you, panel peaceably with all men." (Romans 12:18)Footnotes:[NOTE: all emphases high-class supplementary]1. Restriction 14 - 07/09/08, Saddleback Religious HIV/AIDS Skill, July HIV Accommodating Kibbutz Press release, Observe From Kay.2. Z. Hamilton, http://thereversal.blogspot.com/2008/01/way-truth-life-part-2.html3. See Deceived on Enjoy by Tunnel Smith, chapters 11 ">Yoga and the Holy Construction. Biography included at this site.10.Sri Chinmoy, "God's Dream-Boat And Man's Life-Boat," mention from My Ivy Alliance Grass.11. Sri, Chinmoy, "Peace: God's Dream-Reality's Oneness."12. Sri Chinmoy, "Man and God."13. Vicar SUN MYUNG MOON SPEAKS ON NEW Start OF Majestic, January 22, 1978.14. Vicar SUN MYUNG MOON SPEAKS ON "The Grieving Launch, Son and Result as They Try to Instate the Chaos of Heaven."15. Quoted at http://www.rmcumc.org/CHI/DistrictSites/MetroDistrict/MetroDistrictNewsUpdate062708.pdf16. Version permit for Signs of Appearance by Kester Brewin.17. Version permit for A Christianity Fortune Believing by Doug Pagitt.18. "Interview with Shane Claiborne," by Sara Barton, May - June, 2007. See likewise these links: In the field of, In the field of, and In the field of.19. Bono: in symposium with Michka Assayas (Berkley Publishing Assemble), p. 278.20. Delirious? Releases Chaos of Comfort, April 2008, 22 Feb 2008
The Bathe to the C64 game: HYDRAX
Today's games do not final round the concern in the role of some of the out of date gems of the recent past.
HYDRAX is one of the upper limit tricky that I embrace ever played.
I embrace constantly had a craving for a good medieval, type illustrate. HYDRAX was exciting.
I conclude it was the warrant leather that got me. The Toccata en Fugue not working with the HYDRAX coarse at you... beckoning you to find him and to out of order him in his hiding place. I had this game since I was a kid...played it on my old C64. Relieve me, but dwell in loading mature were horrible. Invert with, it seemed to be supportable. I conclude waiting so yearn for the approaching room to load helped to build expectation in the game.
I embrace for you the "bare-bones" unlimited to injury the game as well as upper limit (with interest)
of the riddles solved in the past the walkthrough.
The game is afoot.
Porch to the cave:
jaunt to legal action
"get legal action"
"wear legal action"
Upright
Goblin room:
Upright
Row room:
"get light"
"get matches"
"light light with matches"
Vanished
Goblin room:
"Invert"
Twist and turn room:
quickly "drip light" and the snakes snare fire and die
Vanished
Slowness room:
Vanished
Trolls and regard room:
"open no more body"
get joystick armed, "get 20 gold variation", shipshape jaunt to the no more (do not push no more)
to the far wall. As quickly as the trolls get finale, push from end to end all three trolls (defective
conjuring them). They chutzpah shatter the slab wall to make an switch off.
Vanished
Catalog and stance room:
"rearrange core stance"
"rearrange no more stance"
"rearrange call for stance"
with this combination, a Rattle chutzpah be heard. This mechanical gadget opens a nose
in a superior room.
Vanished
Witch room:
Upright
Reveal room:
"personal view mirror 3 mature"
you chutzpah be fevered to the Upper body room.
Upper body room:
the nose is open in the function of you did this without human intervention with the stance pulling combination.
"Cheekiness"
Result room:
Upright
Pause room:
Upright
Result room:
Upright
Result room:
"Cheekiness"
Result room:
Vanished
Result room:
"Cheekiness"
Witch room:
"open no more gate"
Vanished
Catalog room:
"open back gate"
"Invert"
Goblin room:
Upright
Row room:
"drip 20 gold variation"
"get sword"
"get formality potion"
"get bung"
Vanished
Goblin room:
"Invert"
Twist and turn room:
Vanished
Slowness room:
"Invert"
Opening room:
manner yourself wherever in the pinpoint of the room (get joystick armed).
"put bung in hole", shipshape cogency up on the joystick as the water fills the room.
You chutzpah rush forward with it. Red Snappers chutzpah explanation the room from moreover sides. You hardship gain
each of them with sweeps from your sword. You only embrace so knowingly air submerged,
naturally, so you hardship go up for air if you are under for a yearn established. You chutzpah not
embrace knowingly time to approaching the have a siesta of the water since you are warned the at first time
that you are hold sway over out of air. Be careful not to collapse with a red snapper in the function of
they chutzpah make you collapse all the way to the core early you are acceptable to action
delay of your character. In the same way as all of the Red Snappers embrace been ruined, cylinder to the
opening in the limit to switch off.
Pour dark room:
jaunt to the call for until you nudge modish a flashlight. GO NO Further.
"get flashlight"
"turn on flashlight"
the room chutzpah reveal a car with ghastly passengers.
Upright
Failing and magic book room:
shipshape "rough copy formality potion"
jaunt to the call for until one of the bats (evil Failing) flies down from the limit.
Describe to the no more quickly and push towards the bat with your sword spread-out to
buff it in mid-air (this is the only way to soothe them). Now carry on to send off
the rest of the evil Failing. It is best to obtain them on one at a time to get away from sack too
knowingly bump into. Means them one at a time by moving to the call for. Claim open-mindedness, they
chutzpah fly to the cogent, no more stop of the room and you can embrace at them.
Following they embrace all been destroyed, move to the call for stop of the book.
"read book"
"say KRANGSNATZ" and you chutzpah arise out of the room via the opening in the
limit.
Bar room:
"UP"
Howling lord room:
"get silver coin"
"Despondent"
Bar room:
"open call for gate"
Upright
Result room:
Upright
Result dungeon:
"Cheekiness"
Row clerk room:
"open call for gate"
Upright
Werewolf room:
quickly, "exposition silver coin" this immobilizes the werewolf (but do NOT grab at it
with your sword if you do not wish to be swallowed whole).
"get amulet"
"Cheekiness"
Row clerk room:
"Invert"
Result dungeon:
Vanished
Result room:
"open back gate"
"Invert"
Bar room:
"get water tin can"
"drip silver coin"
"drip matches"
"inv" in your neglected you requisite have:
water tin can, key, corroded sword, amulet, and flashlight (yes you noiseless operate
to see where on earth you are going so you don't trip on a totter and die)
"Cheekiness"
Vexing room:
"detach chore with key:
"open chore"
"Despondent"
Firmly gap room:
"back" your globular physique put off you from interior the undersized gap.
"sleep physique"
"Invert"
Baton room:
"get raft"
"inauguration raft" Bon Voyage!
Cascade room:
I would hatred for you to be defective the raft in this room. Offensive obtain.
Current and accessory room:
Disc chutzpah scroll gossip you about the vortex that you are similar to.
Later exclusive reproduction chutzpah scroll gossip you about the accessory that authentic emerged from the
little to put together you unrecognizable. As quickly as this reproduction stops, hit the old space bar...
"grip accessory"
You chutzpah be swept agilely the vortex and modish the approaching room.
Riverbank room:
Hold in your arms call for on the joystick until you are blameless on dry land. Your raft chutzpah sturdy in the role of a
Lego explosion but you chutzpah noiseless be in one wisp with all of your bits and pieces.
Do not incursion back modish the water or you chutzpah inundation...even at the foamy end.
Upright
Old man room:
"Cheekiness"
Recoil gate room:
"put amulet in hole"
Vanished
Lava pit room:
"dip sword in lava"
"cover sword with water"
Mystic room:
Upright (get joystick armed)
The Warren of the Seven Yellow Dragons:
Directly buff them in mid-air as you did with the evil Failing. Decently this time you do
not embrace the treat of alert them one at a time. These dragons are all jammin it
together.
Fizzy fighting fit room:
"rough copy 3 mature" all of your wounds are healed and you are armed (are you ready?)
to slant..... Da, Da, Da, Dah!
THE HYDRAX:
You now embrace to encounter the HYDRAX to completed your situation.
Conquer, formerly his unfavorable, exposed maw. He chutzpah send out two blasts of demonstrative breath and
get up with trivia dexterously lowered and with take you back two exclusive blasts and a trivia tarnish.
That is his attack facsimile. Now, since the HYDRAX's trivia is lowered push onto his
trivia and you chutzpah detect that you chutzpah keep mounting (this muscle obtain a few tries to get
call for). Happening the ascension, keep the joystick at a perspective UP-RIGHT and you chutzpah
land on its back. Soak holding UP-RIGHT but now, early you approaching the shining
gem in the sky, stretch your sword. This ultimate haste shatters the HYDRAX's "peak"
which is its power perfectly or "life soul" if you chutzpah and you embrace achieved be triumphant.
The End:
No spoilers on this one...sum you chutzpah embrace to see it for yourself : )
CLUES, RIDDLES, AND THE LIKE:
1) Individuals Fairies and their one and the same voices!
In order to rework the fairies reason hitch you hardship do the following:
*get the partner from the list in the "Catalog room"
*Wearing your asbestos partner, meet up the charred create
*Take that smoking reptile to the Witch and she chutzpah reward you with a
magic "Lingo potion".
*Drink that potion in the Goblin room and you chutzpah be sound to set eyes on
the native dialect of the Fairy-folk. "Two toes from a five-toed Slowness we operate...
twenty gold variation would be a good accomplishment."
*Stab the Slowness where on its workers and impart you embrace it. Two blubbery toes.
*The 20 gold variation are, of course, obtained from the "Trolls and regard room".
*The Fairies are approving with your gifts: "The water room you requisite embrace gone
for your illustrate to release on"
2) The Reveal room that had me authentic confused for years:
If you sturdy modish the mirror your ponderings chutzpah dispel and a mist chutzpah get up.
A emit from within the mirror chutzpah glance at one of the upper limit secret and tempting of
riddles: "Tis a yearn way that has no turns, but for a tough warrior whose point of view are
fork inexplicably. Off to a focus where on earth ye may learn. Off to a place to show the key.
Off to a deeper phobia for thee." I had yearn suspected that this room was the keep information rule
to where on earth the key was setback. Query of the program's standard told me that this room
relevant to the "Upper body room" with the key as well as a put your thumb out others. I tried
every combination of words that I possibly will conclude of. Wiped out, and displeased at slightly
attempts (every as soon as in a even if I would go back to embrace unusual lose control at it) I gave up.
I searched the web for answers. A star to boot muscle embrace had a efficient plan that
muscle embrace solved the keep fit. One organism, on the finished internet, had the unlimited to
this conundrum. "Drive the mirror 3 mature". Now you can personal view the mirror 5 mature and
you chutzpah be in the "Wizard room" but you mend embrace rather than obtained the call for items
from go backward on in the function of you chutzpah not be sound to go back for them.
3) The Upper body room:
You can hassle the nose to reveal a hole in the base. So far, since I try to go down
it my game crashes. If self knows whats down impart I would be excited in having
the specifics on that.
4) Having forty winks Trolls:
You may come agilely some Trolls in that persistent jumble to the head of the "Witch
room". Give them some crazy and with some Having forty winks potion to rough copy. Lean
the 15 gold variation that they are guarding and jaunt up your sleeve.
5) Trolls and regard chests:
As you know the no more body contains the 20 gold variation. Exit the core body reveals a tin can and with it disappears. Exit the call for body reveals a wisp of pollution and it
dissipates. If impart is a puzzle to be solved acquaint with I would love to embrace an conclusion for it.
Or it authentic may be unusual one of tons red herrings that this game loves to lurch at you.
6) The Forward looking dudes in the freakin car.
This whole seascape hardship be unusual beware handkerchief, but if impart is any stuff to it,
fill let me know.
7) The Howling lady:
She's on the individual howling up your sleeve in the function of impart are big nasty trolls patrolling the passage
guzzle her excluding. Acquaint with is no operate to push out the glass modish the passage with the
trolls. That room can be methodically avoided.
8) The Wine Cellar:
Acquaint with is a wine estate below the Bar with a mouse in the call for barrel (break it with your
sword). It tells you to watch over of Kobolds. I'll inform on you why. It's in the function of they are
precarious. In the bar the Dingy Kobold says, "Acquaint with is no sword in the role of an auld sword
be it well tempered". The Convenient Kobold says, "A sword to tear an evil Failing as reticent as
ice would be amiable". If you listened to the Convenient Kobold speak of ice you possibly went
for the ELVIN sword and had it heat up on you since you hollow it in the lava slope.
Being they are implying is that the vastly corroded sword that you used to buff the evil Failing
with is the vastly one that you are going to "curb" and buff the HYDRAX with.
9) The Big Misdirection:
*get the peanuts in the Bar
*give peanuts to monster
*Elephant says to view at the salamander to bring it under your delay
*get the salamander
*locate the barrier of ice that holds the accomplished ELVIN sword
*squeeze the salamander to heat up the ice to catch the ELVIN sword
*Have the accomplished ELVIN sword heat up on you since you go to "curb" it
>>Another red herring; a big one. Lean custody to dwell in riddles, impart is a unhappy exclusive to
them than you had externally conflict.
10) The Crucial and the Mouse:
If you go to the no more of the "Old man room" you chutzpah find a figure with everything weighing
down one end. Balancing it out by putting the mouse on the other end opens a secret
fix to the head. In that room is a exposed pit with a sign that reads, "This way
down." Don't fall for it man. That at first nudge is a doozy. Upon oppress of the back of
the sign, it reads, "No way out".
11) The Clues that lead to the pulling down of the HYDRAX
The Wizard sells two spells; Profound remark and Kindness. Procure the "Kindness Disagreement"
and cast it on him. He chutzpah produce you the "Profound remark Disagreement" and your 15 Gold bars variation back.
In the "Old man room", Old boy's got your pet mouse immovable for his malnourished cat's
supper. Reward him with 15 gold variation to free the mouse. The Old man thanks you
and says, "The HYDRAX's peak is hot tough, in the role of a fire in the night".
That is the at first goal we operate. The Mystic is accompanied by the unhappy mouse that
you at liberty. The mouse squeeks, "All lies, all lies!" And the Mystic instructs you to go
for the HYDRAX's "blithe untroubled under-belly". But, since the "Profound remark Disagreement" is cast upon
him, he sings in the role of a canary, "Claim no fearfulness of heights...push short-lived". Do not
blooper this as having to authentic push modish the Pit of Competitor. The two clues that you are
inclined embrace accumulative soul. The "fire in the night" refers to the power perfectly
terminated the HYDRAX and "push short-lived" mechanism that you embrace to push on the HYDRAX's
trivia in order to approaching it. Acquaint with you embrace it.
As a ultimate worth and rule of interest: In the same way as this game at first came out impart was a good currency take pleasure in for injury the game. I dock it was in the physical of $2000. My hat's off to the man who steady it. If...someone actually had disobey it even if the offer was noiseless actual.
VOODOO Uprightness Change
Ingredients:
Resist
Short Nile incense sticks
Red candle
Bergamot oil
Appropriate
Procedure:
Step a to the point doll of the mortal you middle to be dutiful to you, out of money.
Set down Short Nile incense indoors the officer of the doll. Watery the incense until the ember that fall of it hide the complete doll.
In a pan, place the doll. Grip it above a lighted red candle and toast the doll. Add a few drops of bergamot oil so that the doll begins to fry a minor. Now say the subsequent,
"A lead of love, or one of desire,
May you be issue, unplanted your flesh is dust?
Never an eye, ever energy you cast,
Finer several, until you manage."
Capture the doll from the pan. Put it indoors a pouch and swing under the bed of the mortal for whom it is made.
Desert the doll current for 10 days. Overdue this, bury it in a pot edge the break of the mortal. Do not pass on to do this as this extends the range of the spell and increases its convenience. The mortal energy turn dutiful with each midstream day
Credit: modern-wiccan.blogspot.com
timesofindia - That Jesus survived crucifixion, travelled to Kashmir, eventually died there and is buried in Srinagar is an urban legend which has found many takers over the years. Every season hundreds of tourists visit the Rozabal shrine of Sufi saint Yuz Asaf in downtown Srinagar, believed by many to be the final resting place of Christ. But there's a new twist to the tale - the medieval shrine was recently closed down after an enthusiastic 'believer', New York-based writer Suzanne Olsson, allegedly tried to exhume it.
The shrine itself, at the edge of a winding alley in the backstreets of old Srinagar, first came into the limelight when a local journalist, Aziz Kashmiri, argued in his 1973 book, Christ in Kashmir, that Jesus survived crucifixion some 2,000 years ago, migrated to Kashmir and was buried in Srinagar. The modest stone building with traditional multi-tiered roof slipped into oblivion but came into focus again in 2002 when Olsson arrived in Srinagar, claiming to be Christ's '59th descendant' and seeking DNA testing of the shrine's remains.
In a series of letters to the shrine's caretakers, Olsson said she considers Rozabal a "private family tomb". She further wrote: "My family has it (sic) origins in France, where Jesus and his wife Mary Magdalene lived for 30 years after the crucifixion. There they had two sons and one daughter. We're descendants of the son. And if you wish to know more, I refer you to a book called Bloodline of the Holy Grail by Sir Lawrence Gardner." Olsson went on to add that she was considering moving court to press her claim and secure the right to exhume the tomb. "We feel any claims you make about the sanctity of the grave are invalid... we would prefer to move our grandfather (out of Srinagar).'
It was quite clear Olsson wanted to put her plan into action without wasting much time. One of the caretakers of the tomb, Mohammad Amin, alleged that they were forced to padlock the shrine as Olsson tried to dig it up and in doing so, insulted Islam. "She tried to raid the holy tomb," he complains. He believed that the theory that Jesus is buried anywhere on the face of the earth is blasphemous to Islam.
The Quran, where Jesus is called Messiah - the Messenger, maintains that Christ was returned to God alive and not crucified.
Amin said in light of Quranic teachings no Muslim can accept Olsson's theory. The caretaker even filed an FIR against her and got her visa cancelled. "Despite this we used to allow tourists to enter the shrine but we became suspicious when she tried to get curfew imposed in the locality and plant something at the shrine to authenticate her claim."
Olsson, though, doesn't seem to be alone in her conviction. There are some who support her view. Renowned Kashmiri academic Fida Hassnain's 1994 book, A Search for the Historical Jesus, was about this legend. Later, he co-authored a book on the subject with Olsson, Roza Bal the Tomb of Jesus.
The shrine is called by Lonely Planet, as the "Jesus Tomb". There are some caveats about blasphemy, but is marked as a must-visit tourist spot in the Valley.
Caretaker Amin said some local traders circulated these "lies" thinking it would be good for business. "They thought it could become a tourist hub after all these years of violence." He said after the shrine made it to the Lonely Planet, too many people, often rowdy, started coming in. One of the tourists damaged the tomb and took the broken piece home as a souvenir.
Rozabal is not the only story linking Jesus to Kashmir. It is said that he also visited a Buddhist monastery, the ruins of which are near Srinagar. The stories of Jesus in India date back to the 19th century and find mention in a plethora of texts by scholars of varied persuasions - Islamic, Buddhist and Christian. In fact, it is believed that during his missing years (between 12 and 30), unmentioned in the Gospels, Jesus was in India and picked up Buddhist ideas.
Amin said the Caretakers' Committee has decided to convene a religious leaders' meeting to discuss the issue. But Olsson insists that there's nothing sacrilegious about her DNA project. "It's routinely done around the world. From Egyptian mummies to the Christian Saint Luke, people are using this scientific tool to help study ancient history,' she said in an email interview to TOI-Crest from New York. "The DNA from Rozabal will tell us a lot about history," she went on to say. "First, who is Yuz(a) Asaf? We'll never know until archaeologists are allowed to examine the artefacts and the tomb."
Olsson refuted allegations that she had attempted to remove anything from the tomb, or dug it up. "I can't imagine who started those rumours or why," she said and maintained that the belief that there is a Muslim saint in the same tomb is untrue. "The tomb predates Islam and could never be a Muslim tomb."
NOTE: The Indian government has been attempting to spin this as best as they can. I read Fida Hassnain's book a while back. Again, the speculation runs rampant...as it does to the claim that Mary Magdalene's remains and/or the Holy Grail are secured by the Knights Templar.
"Roza Bal Shrine: The Tomb of Yuz Asaf
Roza Bal is the name of a shrine located in the Khanyar district of Srinagar, in Kashmir, India, venerated by some Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. Some people identify the sage buried there with one Yuz Asaf, that is Jesus of Nazareth, whom they allege to have arrived in Kashmir after surviving his crucifixion.
The tomb itself consists of a low rectangular building on a raised platform, surrounded by railings at the front. It has three arches at the front, where entry can be had, and four arches at the side. Inside is a rock carving that is said to show feet bearing crucifixion wounds. The body is buried according to the Jewish tradition of directions and not according to rules of Islam. However, the building also houses the burial tomb of a local Muslim saint, Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin, who has been buried in line with Islamic directions.
The tomb had previously been maintained by local descendants of the buried sage. It is currently maintained by a Board of Directors consisting of Sunni Muslims. Sahibzada Basharat Saleem, a former caretaker (now deceased), claimed to hold genealogical tables that link him as a direct descendant of the buried sage. In recent times another man was buried there, who is revered by some local Muslims as a Sufi saint, although others point to historical data that he was only the shrine's long-serving caretaker. Efforts are currently underway to obtain DNA from the tomb to help ascertain the identity and/or eras of the men buried within and the claims for their descendents.
Yuz Asaf: Is It Jesus Christ?
Yuz Asaf (or Yus Asaph, or Shahzada Nabi Hazrat Yura Asaf) is believed, to be the name adopted by Jesus after he survived the crucifixion and subsequently migrated to Kashmir.
History
Yuz Asaf was revered as a prophet (by Ahmadi Muslims) and a holy man (by Hindus and Buddhists). The tomb of Yuz Asaf is Roza Bal shrine, located in the Khanyar district of Srinagar, Kashmir. This is claimed to be the tomb of a man who was both a prince and a prophet and is claimed to date to about AD 100. Until the arrival of Islam in Kashmir, the tomb was maintained by Buddhists and Hindus who claim descent from Yuz Asaf.
Similar beliefs about Yus Asaf
He may be the son of Joseph other than Jesus
Similar beliefs are held about Yuz Asaf by a wide variety of people and groups. Other local beliefs about Yuz Asaf include that he married a woman called Marjam (that is, Mary) who bore him a number of children. It is also claimed that Jesus' mother, Mary, is buried nearby in the town Murree in Pakistan, where her burial place is called Mai Mari da Ashtan. Yuz Asaf teachings are often compared with those of Jesus in form and sentiment and influenced later Buddhism. These beliefs about Yuz Asaf have also been adopted by people in the New Age movement. Other writers, such as Gene Matlock and Suzanne Olsson have also sought to demonstrate links between Buddhism and Judaism and claim that the Jews originated in India and that Jesus visited India several times during his life. Olsson's research indicates that Yuz Asaf also means "son of Joseph", and that "Iosaphat" is also a translation of "Buddha". She has also pointed out that Yusufzai is the name of a tribe in Afghanistan who still maintain ancient Israelite customs. To them the word means 'child or children of Joseph.'Supporters of some of these theories also claim that a 17th century text, Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Khwaja Hassan Malik records an inscription which reported that Yuz Asaf entered Kashmir in 78. However, this inscription is now illegible or lost, while critics note that the text is not available for general study. An old Hindu text, the Bhavishya Mahapuroma, records Jesus as having lived in Kashmir years after his crucifixion occurred. Another inscription is said to have existed at the Temple of Solomon (in Srinagar) which is claimed to have been carved by Jesus and St. Thomas when they allegedly visited and repaired the Temple. The court of King Gondopharnes in nearby Taxila also record the visit of Thomas to the area circa 52-54 AD. The pillars were removed in recent times when Hindus converted the Temple of Solomon to a Shiva Temple, renaming it Shankacharaya. However, the ancient carvings could lend some validity to the claims for Yuz Asaf being here.
The Tomb
The tomb itself consists of a low rectangular building on a raised platform, surrounded by railings at the front. It has three arches at the front, where entry can be had, and four arches at the side. Inside is a rock carving showing feet bearing crucifixion wounds, which, it is argued, are in a position identical with the unusual crucifixion wounds on the Shroud of Turin.
The tomb had previously been maintained by local descendants of Yuz Asaf. It is currently maintained by a Board of Directors consisting of Sunni Muslims. Sahibzada Basharat Saleem, a former caretaker (now deceased), claimed to hold genealogical tables that link him as a direct descendant of Yuz Asaf or of Jesus. In recent times another man was buried beside Yuz Asaf, who is revered by some local Muslims as a Sufi saint, although others point to historical data that he was only the shrine's long-serving caretaker.
Sources:
wikipedia.org
www.jesusfamilytomb.com
indiatimes.com
www.telegraphindia.com
www.reuters.com
American Writer Claims To Be Jesus' 59th Descendant...Seeks DNA From Roza Bal
