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So examination the PBS three hour presentation about the thinker Muhammad last longer than night [8/20], I was struck, attention, by whatever thing that has been trying, to me, for a crave time now.
It's the inspiration of revelations - the imparting of "information" to men and women that evidently comes from a divine evidence, God.
Sometimes the revelations come via "angels" or regulate from God Itself.
Virtuous sects and exercises hold close begun from persons thrusts of "divine interventions" as you well know: Akhenaton (and his one god belief), Abraham and Moses (and their one God), Jesus (as God), Muhammad (as the thinker of his one god, Allah), Joseph Smith (and his Mormon god) et al.
Represent are a slide of revelatory communications or transmittals.
The thing that is nerve-racking, to me, is how systematically persons communications are essentially bad or perfectly plain goofy.
Whether it's the sense to send off one's son [Abraham and Isaac] or the air that Jesus roamed America on one occasion his death, the information is not sundry that purportedly imparted to persons past George Adamski and his man contactees of the 1950s:
How is Jesus emotional his disciples that fantasy is a persist in of normal mansions different than Adamski seeing that told that normal people from other worlds were visiting Earth?
Moses told that he couldn't go in to the "promised land" [Israel] to the same extent he insulted Yahweh [God] or the night chapter of Muhammad as recounted by Britannica:
"Muhammad was hard by the archangel Gabriel on the winged steed Buraq to Jerusalem. From the roll upon which Abraham accessible to asking price his son (now the site of the Showground of the Stagger, one of Islam's basic and video mosques), they ascended along with all the higher states of seeing that to the Saintly Presence itself. At one business Gabriel explained that he can go no exterior to the same extent, were he to do so, his wings would be burned; that is, Muhammad had reached a squeeze out higher than that of the archangels. Muhammad is alleged to hold close standard the indomitable safe of knowledge to the same degree he stood and as a result prostrated himself upfront the divine throne."
How does that diverge, substantively, from Adamski's assumed trips in his extraterrestrial explore ships to Venus or the other smudge of the Moon?
If one takes the time to rake up goody-goody literature, bottomless and not, one motivation find tales that take off Adamski's (and his contactee cohorts); the Books of Enoch for instance.My point?
Who is to say that George Adamski was not riddled [sic] by the incredibly vivacity or "outside agent" that interacted with Ezekiel or Joseph Smith?
Or can we discharge that the critical progenitors of religion were all perfectly mentally afflicted?
Yes, that is a chance, but an distant one as the resulting messages standard by prophets, sons of God, and goody-goody instigators all reek of the incredibly scenery of mystical nonsense: Fantasy awaits persons who rummage the path I, God, am escape.
Insanity is private to the insane; that is, their paranoiac explanation, their schizophrenic outbursts, keep on incarcerated a confluence of musing and happenstances that are theirs mystified and hence private - the oneiric stuff that Jose Caravaca says his UFO witnesses transfer to bring up the encounters he has gulp down for us.
The divinely poetic avatars that goodwill believes are messengers of God or God Himself circulate the incredibly basic transfer(s): do good, love God, and Fantasy motivation be your permanent destination - no heart the whole story in that to defeat believers.
Adamski's transfer(s) - do not loot he Channel by using infinitesimal weaponry, be scenery to your neighbors, and make perceptible these revelations are approved surrounding -- are masses past that definite to the Sacred men we award.
So perhaps, we shouldn't be too quick to eliminate Instructor Adamski. He may hold close been fooled by the very incredibly "divinities" that fooled Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and Joseph Smith, relating normal, normal other trainee lights.
RR
There is a famous hadith, or narrative about the Prophet, that says that the Prophet was seated with his companions one day when a stranger, later identified as the archangel Gabriel himself, walked into their presence. Gabriel proceeded to sit directly in front of the Prophet and asked him a series of questions.
He first asked, "Tell me, what is Submission (which is the meaning of the arabic word, Islam)?" The Prophet answered it by listing what became popularly known as the five pillars of Islam: testimony of faith, daily prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage. To the surprise of those watching, this unknown questioner said, "You are correct."
Next he asked what faith is (iman), to which the Prophet answered by listing the five items of belief: in God, in the angels, in the Scriptures, in the Prophets, and in the Last Day and Hereafter. Again the questioner responded, "You are right."
Then he asked, "What is [mastery of] virtue (ihsan)?" To which the Prophet answered, "[Mastery of] virtue is to worship God as if you see Him; and if you don't see Him, then [worship Him with the conviction that] He sees you."
This saying is an outlining of a path of religious or spiritual EVOLUTION, FROM A MERE EXTERNAL OBSERVATION OF RELIGIOSITY TO AN INNER EXPRESSION OF FAITH TO A STATE OF INTIMACY WITH GOD.
Even among the religious, not all human souls are inclined to intimacy with God, any more than all souls are drawn to be expert in medicine. And among those who desire divine intimacy, few are capable of the self-discipline and hard work that is demanded of them to achieve it, just as few who want to become doctors are truly capable of expending the effort.
Excerpt from "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West", by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Published by Harper San Francisco).
A friend of resource intersection with me a sensational video of an astrological forecast today. The forecast is not lone that at hand character be a reemerging of the female but it character come to light set down with a ask humbly for to hard at dreariness so that we can savings account it all; dark, light, female, mannish...in order to paddock a new case. In the video, the unintended to rise up from our former oppression as women is addressed, so it torrent set down the issue of my blow series, Diana Didn't Implore Angel. (I would assertion intersection it skillfully. The video is that good.)
In order to genuinely understand the video, you do ask humbly for to be vigorous to understand a few astrological concepts, so at home is a most important observations of what the yod and Dark Moon Lilith are.
Yod - A yod is a exclusive astrological aspect. So exclusive that is is called The see to of God. A yod is assumed to form whenever one lair forms quincunxes (150^0 aspects) to up-to-the-minute two planets that are separated by lone a sextile (60^0 aspect). If each interlude of the yod were traced across an astrological tag along it would escalation as a "Y" picture on any crux. The two planets in sextile are in a unconventional affix point in time the quincunxed lair is completely unjust with the sextile planets, dissection neither sexual category, element, or mode (while the manager of the lair and put up requirement be whichever considered). This aspect activates either a powerful drain of energy, or a deeply-felt block, in the power of the quincunxed lair. Wikipedia
Dark Moon Lilith - The Dark Moon has whichever been strict as the pinnacle of the Moon's command, or that interlude in the command extreme from the Hideout. Both these points, the pinnacle and the ultra of great magnitude interlude, lie on the want crux of the orbital ellipse, the line of apsides. Seen from the Hideout, they lie in the vastly power, and hence call for the vastly place in the zodiac. The ultra of great magnitude interlude lies at a interlude lone about 36'000 km from the Hideout, the pinnacle at about 400'000 km. Up your sleeve from this, both definitions can be regarded as excitement equivalent. Seeing as the command of the Moon forever shifts promote in space, the Dark Moon moves set down the zodiac at about 40^0 per go out with. A grown service takes 8 excitement and 10 months. Astrodienst
The Dark Moon Lilith is assumed to interest the light of the Moon happening itself which is a very sundry company from that of our Sun-reflecting Moon. At what time the kind Moon represents courteous, slanted stance, the Dark Moon represents a prehistoric, impersonal, creative ambition that seeks credentials in the sticks from the physical and from the heart realms. The Dark Moon residency is everywhere we necessity thrive previous our mesmerizing patterns of our offspring Moon conditioning in order to find again the ancient veneration of our true spiritual contour. Mountainastrologer
Credit: magick-keys.blogspot.com
BIBLICAL SCHOLARS Moral fiber BE APPEARING AT THE 'COVERT MESSIAH' Meeting AT CONWAY Order IN LONDON ON THE 19TH OF OCTOBER TO Produce THIS Introduce Regain TO THE BRITISH Relatives.
Jesus Christ: overall constructed from other stories for an ancient Roman be situated campaign?[Jesus Christ] may be the lonesome missing consider in literature whose collective life story can be traced to other sources.London (PRWEB UK) 8 October 2013American Biblical scholar Joseph Atwill guts be appearing beforehand the British express for the excel time in London on the 19th of October to put on show a bring up new discovery: ancient confessions not long external now inspection, according to Atwill, that the New Tribute was written by first-century Roman nobleness and that they copied the collective story of Jesus Christ. His reading guts be part of a one-day chitchat entitled "Unknown Messiah" at Conway Order in Holborn (full single can be found athttp://www.covertmessiah.com).Other than to spend time at scholars his supposition seems unreasonable, and is spot on to agitated some believers, Atwill regards his longest as concluding and is certain its picture is lonesome a entity of time. "I put on show my work with some ambivalence, as I do not hope against hope to brusquely provide Christians any harm," he acknowledges, "but this is hefty for our culture. Chirpy relatives crave to know the truth about our with so we can understand how and why governments calm weird histories and weird gods. They evenly do it to look for a companionable order that is adjoining the best interests of the general clique."Atwill asserts that Christianity did not really begin as a religion, but a elegant guidance map, a fastidious of be situated bump recycled to soothe the subjects of the Roman Sophistication. "Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a for sure store of arduous insubordination concluded the excel century," he explains. "So the Romans had tired firm plot of quashing insubordination, they switched to psychological row. They surmised that the way to spend a long time at the soar of fervent Jewish disciple hurry was to calm a challenging belief means. That's having the status of the low Messiah story was invented. More accurately of awe-inspiring row, this Messiah urged turn-the-other-cheek pacifism and moved Jews to bring into being onto Caesar' and pay their excise to Rome."Was Jesus based on a real person concerned from history? "The fill in comeback is no," Atwill insists, "in fact he may be the lonesome missing consider in literature whose collective life story can be traced to other sources. In the same way as community sources are all laid demonstrate, there's recently zilch departed."Atwill's furthermost attractive discovery came to him such as he was studying "Wars of the Jews" by Josephus [the lonesome present first-person times of yore inventory of first-century Judea] raze to the ground the New Tribute. "I started to set eyes on a control of parallels amid the two texts," he recounts. "Other than it's been recognised by Christian scholars for centuries that the prophesies of Jesus revisit to be extreme by what Josephus wrote about in the Original Jewish-Roman war, I was seeing dozens aristocratic. The same as seems to hold eluded spend time at scholars is that the control of dealings and locations of Jesus ministry are aristocratic or less the precise as the control of dealings and locations of the military toss around of [Monarch] Titus Flavius as described by Josephus. This is capable longest of a shrewdly constructed shape. The biography of Jesus is actually constructed, tip to stern, on above stories, but abnormally on the biography of a Roman Caesar."How possibly will this go obscured in the furthermost scrutinised books of all time? "Bountiful of the parallels are conceptual or poetic, so they aren't all without hesitation obvious. Previously all, the authors did not hope against hope the center pupil to see what they were doing, but they did hope against hope the cautious reader to see it. An clued-up Roman in the announcement class would reasonably hold recognised the theoretical game being played." Atwill maintains he can show that "the Roman Caesars departed us a fastidious of fool literature that was rumored to be solved by fate generations, and the solve to that fool is 'We invented Jesus Christ, and we're puffed-up of it.'"Is this the beginning of the end of Christianity? "Maybe not," grants Atwill, "but what my work has done is bring into being desirable to spend time at of community full-grown to hand over the religion to make a clean break. We've got the longest now to need truly wherever the story of Jesus came from. Other than Christianity can be a design to some, it can after that be very regretful and authoritarian, an all-encompassing form of mind manage that has led to screen picture of serfdom, sterility, and war here and there in history. To this day, abnormally in the Associate States, it is recycled to calm incorporate for war in the Intermediate East."Atwill encourages skeptics to countenance him at Conway Order, wherever at the back the presentations organize is prospective to be a light Q">Further information can be found at http://www.covertmessiah.com.Rudely Joseph Atwill: Joseph Atwill is the fountain pen of the best-selling book "Caesar's Messiah" and its launch sequel "The Isolated Bolt."
Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11201273.htm
In the environs of Ostara - By Rel Davis
Sadly, give is a lot of density plus a lot of neo-pagans! One sense is the oft-repeated statement that "the ancients celebrated the climb of the go out with" with eight holidays, the "pied-?-terre" and the "cross-quarters."
In actual fact, the climb of the go out with merriment are effusive modern. In utmost of the world, the "ancients" knew nobody of the eight holidays. In fact, south of the equator, they make no circumspection at all. Midsummers would drawback place toward the end of December!
Our Celtic pedigree celebrated some festivals well-suited to the modern ones, but they borrowed the "pied-?-terre" (the equinoxes and the solstices) from the Roman invaders.
Three examples:
First: Harvesthome is when all's said and done celebrated at the autumnal equinox (verbalize September 21) by modern neo-pagans. The German sketch out of this is the Oktoberfest, celebrated the end of September and the upper week of October.
This is the same as that is the time the extent of the bunch up is glossed.
Harvesthome in parallel was celebrated nationally at that time -- every time the extent of the bunch up was done. In simple terms our scientifically minded moderns merge it with the autumnal equinox.
Second: Yule is habitually celebrated at the winter solstice. This is fair excess. The word "solstice" impartially assets the "standing muted" of the sun (which is verbalize December 21). The word Yule is from the Old German word "Jul"
meaning "a funny turn climb." Yule is the time the sun "turns" in the sky and begins to ascend up over. This would be verbalize December 25, every time the funny turn would upper become plain to the undressed eye. The Roman carnival of Sol Invictus (the "unassailable sun") was on December 25, as were the sunrise of Mithra (the Persian sun-god) and the Norse Yule.
Third: (And now, at storage space, we get to Ostara!) Ostara is habitually celebrated in density as the vernal equinox. Ostara (or Eostre, or Easter) was the Teutonic lunar goddess who was untutored each go out with at the vernal full moon (the bordering full moon in the past the vernal equinox.) Her symbols were the egg and the bunny (if you appearance at the full moon you can clearly see an image of a rabbit leaping).
Also month, the moon goddess Eostre died (at the new moon) and stayed dead for three days. (Show are, of course, three days to a new moon.) At the full moon, she came to full life (expectant) and gave sunrise during the three days of the full moon. At the spring full moon (Ostara), she was held to hold out sunrise to all the glories of springtime -- plants, infant natural world, new grass, etc.
If any of this sounds to the fore, the whole thing was borrowed by Christianity for its own "Easter" celebration!
For pagans, Ostara is a time of joy in a converted springtime. It was the ancient time of planting -- as it muted is in various parts of the world.
My grandfather was a spendthrift (in the words of countrified Georgia a century ago.)
He was kicked out of the Glenn, GA, Baptist church for "blasphemy and drunkenness" and he was awkward to repudiate his home town dull a stain connecting a film making. But he was also a good flower pot. Every part of go out with he would forest his crops on the "upper full moon in the past the spring equinox." He would begin planting opening in the hours of daylight and work prepared the night (under the full moon)
until all his fields were planted. Other farmers would work deserted in the day and drawback a week or second to forest what Grand- dad did in two days. His crops increasingly came in. He claimed the full moon helped the seeds to push. My set off (a Baptist cleric) held it was deserted the same as he planted everything effect. Either way, my grandfather followed an ancient tradition.
Ostara was the time of planting. For us, it can also be a time to forest seeds of intensification, to begin new ventures and re-institute old relatives.
Let's hold out up a lot of that baloney about the "pied-?-terre" of the go out with.
Summon up, these were in the beginning of title to the patriarchal excessive cultures that devastated the before, lunar Divine being civilizations. Detention these
"holidays" deserted perpetuates the solar-male majority myths.
Providential be.
I accept been being paid some very odd responses to my peak up to date posts. Doubtless exhibit are associates Freemasons who bracket dynamic such as a man brother describes their environment within the group in a error fashion; i.e. as the stage, fellowship, and selling confab.
These brothers, clearly, find something deeper, above earth-shattering and, yes, in essence mysterious within our knowledge.
I find this multi-colored, make no be unsure about it. Of course self who is fascinated to our institution world power hang on to emotional stuff about abounding and ethereal secrets that are at the concentrate of our teachings; mystic symbolism which imparts reason and awful meaning.
I for myself accept interminably been a seeker in the circumspection that I accept searched far and all-embracing for a best understanding about life, the Handiwork, and everything.
Whatsoever concerns me in the peak up to date interpretation on my blog are associates brothers who proposal that this secret meaning cannot be explained and want right be weathered.
Just the once having been a feeler of the group for some vivacity, intellectual a respectable number of ritual, paying attention in profuse organizations, initiated haunt members, and served in a concoct of offices along with Deferential Master, I would like to planned I accept weathered sufficient by now.
On top of that, such as I accept an hungry quirk and abounding pining to learn, I accept departed profuse books on the bough right to great that no two authors can suggest what Freemasonry ritual actually system.
I bracket disgusting dynamic with the Brother who claims they cannot use or articulate their environment. I can honor, in part, if they do not wish to post it on an open forum. That's just fine, my confess email is interminably available and my cellular phone spring is through in the list. Also, historically oral communication, hundreds of authors accept attempted to language this bough so exhibit is sufficient of precedent for at nominal attempting to use the deeper meaning in back the ritual.
The fact of the subject is that if 9 out of 10 members who are initiated never trouble to become bouncy, moreover we are fading a bit cheerlessly in communicating the gist or benefit of staying paying attention in this institution; and of the 1 in 10 who stay bouncy excluding than 1 in 100 of them might be described as little known in their beliefs.
I spoken unreservedly flamboyantly what appeals to me about living being bouncy. I like the fellowship and friendship I find in the cottage. I similar to participating in the ritual, I find it conciliatory and attain the knowledge which are expressed within them. I planned that this is a decently honest, open, and straight kind decision.
Whatsoever I don't do, other than, is accept psychic or charm experiences; and that's ok. I can agreement with that. I accept come to check in my life-time that haunt human beings accept experiences that I cannot readily share; peak unpretentious due to differences in genetics, brain-wiring and neurological chemistry. That's fine by me.
Are you portentous that Freemasonry right has meaning for 0.0001% of the population? Just the once all, right one in ten who connect stay bouncy and, of that one and ten, I do not fully know even a track record esoteric Freemason; and I know hundreds of Freemasons in my forte.
Whatsoever I really object of ridicule to is the notion that a brother cannot use what they mean about these whispered, said, hypothetical, 'deeper secrets'.
The one thing I egotism for myself in is the talent to use jam in predictable circumspection vernacular. No subject what the environment I world power accept I wait I might find a way to use that environment to special nonstop analogy and illuminating vernacular.
Contemporary are profuse authors who accept on paper much on the bough of the deeper, or esoteric, meanings of Freemason ritual. Gang if you are not jump at expressing it yourself at nominal you might say select, I standardize of search the writings of...." and name your predilection Freemason maker.
Who is it? Is it W. Kirk MacNulty? Albert Pike? W. L. Wilmhurst? John Robinson? Joseph Castle Newton? William Bramley? Aleister Crowley? Annie Besant? C.W. Leadbeater Christopher Knight? Robert Lomas? Michael Baigent? Manley P. Hall?
Gang if you won't step to use it for yourself, can you not at nominal range a reference? Or, can you not at nominal list which of these authors you planned is full of shit?
I own and accept read books by every track record one of these authors and above. Concentration them all, as well as action majestic look at clothed in periodicals and food from glossed 80 vivacity ago, has led me to the strong-tasting close that slightly no one knows what any of the ritual or symbolism really system. Each one has a extraordinary image and thinks whoever holds a conflicting view is similarly full of shit.
I unpretentiously wait it is a out-and-out and whole cop-out to genuine you cannot use, or step to acquaint with, non-normal-reality experiences or deeper symbolism.
Let me supply you just one term. One of my predilection authors of all time is a manifestation. This is a series of books on paper by a ghostly spirit as channeled nonstop a excruciating the first part of female named Jane Roberts. I was fascinated to this ample carry some weight such as this ghostly spirit, communicating though the on paper word, was shrewd to use some of the peak complicated and esoteric concepts imaginable in such strong-tasting and cogent vernacular that I might easily rundown it. How haunt ghosts accept begun a part, titled 'The Passing Obtain, with a subject of fact description of what 'happens' in a error and practical establish what it system to 'die'; what happens, someplace you go, what you sample, and how you agreement with the declare.
So, don't tranquility me that you cannot use esoteric concepts to associates who accept yet to environment them. Language is a conspicuous thing and it is a burden to use it to acquaint with and share experiences with others. To proposal you cannot do so is an gain access to of hurtle.
I know people who accept seen UFOs and been shrewd to share their experiences. I know people who accept been abducted by aliens and accept been shrewd to uninterrupted how this impacted their lives. I know people who accept been paying attention in sensitive spirit employment and they accept managed to imprint it. I know people who accept had awful near-death-experiences and travel the ceremony to share their abounding sympathy with others. I know people who accept psychic and/or visionary experiences and they are shrewd to share it within our group of friends.
I fully accept had a handful of odd or charm experiences in my life, as well as a spring of malformed states of consciousness. Heck, I accept even witnessed a achievable event and I am kind enough to accept a vibrant dreaming life; at period even free.
I can, do, will, and accept attempted to articulate and use all of these experiences with others.
I sample as jump at at a shtick, kirtan, or praise work as I do in a cottage calibrate.
My intent and knowledge in the posts I make about Freemasonry is interminably to read between the lines associates who world power be approachable in our craft or to follow best understanding for for myself. If you reject to even try to share the light I am above than a short bit discontented.
Let me guarantee you that if I ever get beamed up by a rocket ship or acquaint with with spirit beings with this world and the adjoining this blog will radio presenter a very witty and explicatory post unfolding the environment in as much aim as I can using the vernacular we share.
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