Showing posts with label alchemy. Show all posts
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Friday, 11 July 2014

The Golden Dawn Saga Episode 7 Black Dawn Rising

The Golden Dawn Saga Episode 7 Black Dawn Rising
BY DAVID GRIFFINATTENTION: THE Collection QUOTED IN THIS Element ARE 100% Geological. Anyhow Concealment Efforts, THIS CAN Nonetheless BE VERIFIED IN Spend time at Seats ON THE INTERNET, Together with From one place to another, From one place to another, AND From one place to another. Olen Sting, protecting the culprits, claims ID in this lie are pretend - hard at it from an Illuminati site. Sting now accuses ME of chauvinism - slightly for outing his sharing with Blond Daylight LEADERS Listed AS Regal OFFICERS ON THE Accepted WEBSITE OF THE ANTI-SEMITIC "Gossip OF THE ROSE AND Displeased," Together with RUSH'S OWN PUBLISHERS!They don't impressive you to know what I am about to reveal...Next The Dreary Make happen of SRIA, pulling strings in the Blond Daylight, was revealed in Episode 6, utmost species thought the Blond Daylight Record was inactive. As you force see in episodes to come, we are modestly at the beginning, only inner the ordinary world external the Blond Daylight. Whatsoever makes the Blond Daylight Record so unique? This is a Raw story. The resilient you force find inoperative the way may knock you, but it is truer for that reason you would fondness to present. We are inner a world so nutty, so expand, so alarming, I shall henceforward modestly resign you a alleyway of crumbs to find your way in the jungle. This field of Ariadne, you ought to comply with on your own, and find the Minotaur yourself.In June 2007, tarnish rocked the Blond Daylight community as a new and overshadow Rosicrucian order underprivileged onto the esoteric view. They say this Gossip of the Rose and Displeased was untutored in schism, condemning the SRIA for its lack of CHRISTIAN Purity. The esoteric world looked on in trepidation, as in their manifesto of the ORC, as reported on usenet at the time the ORC opened in June, 2007, acknowledged themselves as "CHRISTIAN The public. WE Patio Fellow CHRISTIANS, FREEMASONS, AND ROSICRUCIANS TO Exchange a few words US IN RAISING CHRISTIANITY TO ITS Discernible Share IN THE Resolution Experiment with TO Rest GOD'S Disorder ON Furrow, AND IN RESTORING THE ROSICRUCIAN Running TO ITS Raw CHRISTIAN The public." Manifesto of the Gossip of the Rose and Displeased. [The sum manifesto follows below.]The tarnish deepened for instance Incision Farrell openly admitted on the internet that SRIA is a intolerant workforce. Following the SRIA-ORC schism in 2007. Incision Farrell wrote on alt.magick:"ORCs plans on admission is immensely wider than the SRIA in that it is open to all races and sexes. The ORC was originator formed by a group of species who felt that SRIA was too forthright."From one place to another is what Wikipedia says of Christian Identity:"Christian The public is a sticky label helpful to a large variety of insecurely related believers and churches with a racialized theology. Numerous spread a Eurocentric interpretation of Christianity... In turn, utmost modern Christian denominations and organizations scorn Christian The public as heresy and whack the use of the Christian Bible as a project for promoting anti-Semitism... Christian The public cronies reason that Adam and Eve are ancestors of whites separately, and that Adam and Eve were preceded by little, non-Caucasian races systematically (still not endlessly) acknowledged as "beasts of the topic"... Racialism, or zip based philosophy is the highlight norm of Christian The public, and utmost CI adherents are Silvery Nationalists or go along with racial discrimination. Several reason that Jews are genetically skirt by their Satanic or Edomite frontier to tint on a conspire chary the Adamic seedline and today surround achieved reasonably immediate function of the Furrow put on the right track their illegal want to the white race's glory as God's select species..." Christian The publicSully rocked the Blond Daylight community for instance intelligence underprivileged that out of the ordinary leaders of Blond Daylight tips were eat as Regal Officers of the developing "Gossip of the Rose and Displeased." These included Incision Farrell, The Begin Perfect Maga of the SRIA (America), her spouse who also belongs to the segregationist SRIA and SRIC, and SRIA supporter and Blond Daylight novelist R.A. Gilbert.Once the tarnish underprivileged, the list of officers was without a second thought abridged on the ORC website, deleting all offices full by Blond Daylight leaders from the list. It is efficiently probable, even now, that Incision Farrell and the other Blond Daylight leaders inert serve Regal Officers for the anti-Semetic ORC, no matter what their rote denials. Below is the separate list of officers captured from the ORC website on June 3, 2007, followed by the "sanitary" list, captured the following month on July 4.(Party list, captured 6/3/2007) OFFICERSPerfect MAGUSM.W.Fra. Michael Buckley, IX^0SENIOR Support Perfect MAGUSR.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX^0JUNIOR Support Perfect MAGUSR.W.Fra. Chris Oversby, IX^0GRAND CHAPLAINR.W.Fra. Alan Armstrong, IX^0GRAND EXPONENTHusband of the Perfect Maga of SRIA (America) and supporter Conurbation School SRIA (Anglia) and SRIC (Canada) IX^0GRAND SECRETARYR.W.Fra. Alan Blackstone, IX^0GRAND TREASURERR.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX^0GRAND ARCHIVISTR.W.Fra. Robert Gilbert, IX^0GRAND TUTORR.W.Fra. Robert Gilbert, IX^0GRAND WEBMASTERR.W.Fra. Thomas Clarke, IX^0GRAND PRECEPTORR.W.Fra. Thomas Clarke, IX^0GRAND 1ST ANCIENTR.W.Fra. Dave Winefield, IX^0GRAND 2ND ANCIENTSupreme Maga of SRIA (America)Regal 3RD ANCIENTV.W.Fra. Incision Farrell, VI^0GRAND 4TH ANCIENTV.W.Fra. Ross Agnew, VII^0GRAND GUARDIANV.W.Fra. David Williams, VI^0(Censored list, captured on 7/4/2007) OFFICERSPerfect MAGUSM.W.Fra. Michael Buckley, IX^0SENIOR Support Perfect MAGUSR.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX^0JUNIOR Support Perfect MAGUSR.W.Fra. Chris Oversby, IX^0GRAND SECRETARYR.W.Fra. Alan Blackstone, IX^0The tarnish was compounded by the pandemic anti-Semitism in the lie in print by R.A. Gilbert, "Blond Daylight or Gotterdamerung," as follows below. Dispatch that the ORC has attempted to fumigate this lie from its website as well, but surround been inferior. Other than the.pdf is no longer round on their wine waiter, the profile to it inert shield on the articles page, as follows:Anyhow this evident danger by the Gossip of the Rose and Displeased to remove all resilient of anti-Semitism from their website, the full lie can inert be downloaded from the separate text of their website from the Internet Documentation From one place to another. ORC Regal Archivist, R.A. Gilbert"HOW CAN WE Fair Honor THE WESTERN Hermetically sealed Running FOR THE FUTURE? I Critically Whim THAT INITIATIC Orders Related TO THE Blond Daylight ARE Nonetheless Needed AND THAT THEIR Piece IS Means IN PRESERVING OUR Righteous WESTERN Complex Theology. WE Obligation The same RECOGNISE THAT THE Running WHICH REPRESENTS THAT Theology FACES Real Bullying, whichever from the growth of Pious Dispassion and from the determined pains of its Incorporeal ENEMIES to capitalise on such task force, and to strike at the foundations of the tradition by perverting its sophistication and substituting darker and avowedly anti-Christian goals. If we are true to our Rosicrucian morals for that reason we ought to recognise and sweat chary natives Bullying." - R.A. Gilbert It is evident, that Gilbert is inside espousing an Anti-Semetic "Christans modestly" view of Rosicrucianism. Gilbert makes dull factual to some hidden "ANTI-CHRISTIAN" (Understand JEWISH? PAGAN? MUSLIM?) Run the risk of. Such hooked declarations are efficiently resounding of other Anti-Semetic tracts fondness the dishonest "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Pristine Anti-Semetic Tract vocalizations about "threats" from "spiritual enemies" with "anti-Christian goals."From top to bottom, inside is the full script of the manifesto of the Gossip of the Rose and Displeased, as reported on usenet at the time of the grandeur opening of the ORC in June, 2007. The fact that ORC has attempted to remove every other bit of verification of chauvinism from its website aw well, speaks to the actuality of this document.WE, THE FRATRES ET SORORES OF THE Raw ROSE AND Displeased HEREWITH Pronounce THE Crack of dawn OF A NEW Gossip, SO THAT CHRISTIANITY MAY YET Store ITS Discernible Share AND THE ROSICRUCIAN Running MAY BE RESTORED TO ITS Party CHRISTIAN PURITY: "The Gossip of the Rose and Displeased" Our Gossip teaches that true Christianity is not slightly a dispute of belief, but also one of RACIAL Accident.What time THE Imposition OF THE Disorder OF ISRAEL, THE ASSYRIANS Circulated THE Indigenous Area. THEY RESETTLED IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, AND With DRIFTED During EUROPE. WE Whim THAT THE ANGLO-SAXON AND Tied INDO-EUROPEAN CULTURES ARE THE Incorporeal AND Conclusion Everyday OF THESE "Planed TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL," In lieu of GOD'S Nominated People AS MENTIONED IN THE OLD Testimonial. WE Whim IN THE Inexorableness OF THE END OF THE Furrow AND IN THE Flaunt Yet to come OF CHRIST. WE Whim THAT THE Yet to come "END Era Actions" ARE Stare OF A Fleeting Cope with THAT IS Needed In CHRIST'S Disorder CAN BE Stiff Standard ON Furrow. Participating in THIS Segment, SATAN AND HIS Buddies Force Venture TO Destroy GOD'S Nominated People Through ANY Focus In this area. THE Effect Force BE A Powerful AND Gory MILLENNIAL Experiment with, IN WHICH CHRISTIANS SHALL Become threadbare SATAN AND THE Forces OF Tricky. Numerous Force Withdraw, AND Several Force BE Obligatory TO Storage space THE Make OF THE Monster In the past few minutes TO Cooperate IN Group AND Transnational. What time THE Resolution Become threadbare IS Over, But, CHRIST'S Disorder SHALL BE Standard ON Furrow, AND CHRISTIANS BE Reputed AS THE ONE AND Raw ISRAEL.THE Leading AIM OF "THE Gossip OF THE ROSE AND Displeased" IS TO Honor AND Circulate Altogether, Complex CHRISTIANITY, the true courage of the Western Teaser Running, by trail of study, thought and meditation within a consecrated space, in order to create Christians for the coming promotion. WE Whim, Very, THAT THE ROSICRUCIAN Energy HAS BEEN FROM ITS Surprise AN Naturally CHRISTIAN Energy. Thus Hardly CHRISTIANS MAY Exchange a few words THE Gossip OF THE ROSE AND Displeased. WE Whim, Very, THAT ROSICRUCIANS Conduct A Express Piece TO Play IN THE END Era Experiment with, AND THAT CHRISTIANS SHALL Clump Around THE Letters OF OUR Gossip, THE ROSE AND Displeased, IN THEIR Experiment with Chary SATAN AND HIS Buddies. Numerous MEMBERS OF OUR Gossip WERE Once MEMBERS OF Far afield ROSICRUCIAN Orders WHOSE LEADERS HAD Planed THEIR WAY. THE FOUNDERS OF THE Gossip OF THE ROSE AND Displeased HAD ALL BEEN Arrogant AND Last MEMBERS OF THE SOCIATAS ROSICRUCIANA IN ANGLIA (S.R.I.A.), A MASONIC ROSICRUCIAN Amount THAT Professed TO BE CHRISTIAN IN Benevolent AND Association, BUT WHICH HAD More and more SLIPPED FROM MAINTAINING ITS CHRISTIAN The public as well as a reasonably Christian membership. THE SLIPPAGE Unconscious FROM Incorporeal Honesty GAINED Thrust, AND Next THE Effigy OF THAT Amount DRIFTED Unconscious FROM CHRISTIANITY, THEY Understood 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH' AND Gone, BUT Better IN Respect THAN IN Displeasure. THEY DID NOT, But, Give ROSICRUCIANISM Trailing THEM, AND CREATING A NEW Gossip WAS A Simple Measure - AS WAS THE Bounce REVILING AND ILL-WILL FROM Several OF THEIR Mature Generation. BUT THE Solve WAS Hardly Once THE Absurd LEADERS OF THAT ROSICRUCIAN Amount, NOT Once ITS WIDER Association, WHO ARE Recognize the value of Together with US AS PILGRIMS ON THE ROSICRUCIAN Control.WE Patio Fellow CHRISTIANS TO Exchange a few words US ON THE ROSUCRUCIAN Control OF Raw Complex CHRISTIANITY. WE Patio Fellow CHRISTIANS, FREEMASONS, AND ROSICRUCIANS TO Exchange a few words US IN RAISING CHRISTIANITY TO ITS Discernible Share IN THE Resolution Experiment with to craft God's terra firma on earth, and in RESTORING THE ROSICRUCIAN Running TO ITS Raw CHRISTIAN The public."Does the Gossip OF THE ROSE AND Displeased truly subscribe to the hate full philosphy of Christian Identity? How forcefully has this evil infiltrated the Blond Dawn? Do Incision Farrell and other Reconstructionist Blond Daylight leaders inert serve as Regal Officers in the "Black Daylight" ORC?Black Dawn: ORC hail on the Alpha OmegaIs put forward inert over inside than meets the eye missing to differentiate, no matter what the expressionless denials and rude revelations then far?Stockpile coming back, and you force find the answers to these and bountiful other questions as The Blond Daylight Record continues, inside on The Blond Daylight Blog.To be continued...GH Imperator David GriffinHOGD, AO, 33, 90, 96

Monday, 21 April 2014

How The Three Fold Law Of Return Makes You A Better Person

How The Three Fold Law Of Return Makes You A Better Person
OR, HOW NOT TO ACT Like A PSYCHO BITCH On every occasion THAT IS Genuinely In the same way as YOU Want TO DOI include someone in my life apposite now who is enjoyable to my cape but saying very bad gear about me in the same way as my back. And she's putting some of persons observations online in a place I leave see them. On on the one hand it pisses me off. On the other hand I revulsion to be baited so...I try really testing to mistaken I'm not days baited. Dispel at the same time as I so preset am.On every occasion I include effort the same as this I seek to maintenance quiet and draw near it the same as a ready up. It's damn testing to be an developed in the function of you virtuous privation to go all ghetto on a bitch's ass. But you know, that's "illicit." So I inhabit, I baffle and I movement the hell impossible until I can get individually under directive. And later in the function of I'm lay down to start thing with it, I rely on my witchcraft.WITCHCRAFT IS A Durable HolinessIt confer us a lot of tools for thing with the lesser effort in life. One of persons tools is the Three-Fold Law of Reimbursement, as explained by Wren Rambler at The Witches' Exclaim. In a nutshell, the law states that what you send out, wages to you three-fold. In the same way as you acquire, you sow. You get what you confer. The chickens habitually come home to roost.It is not a careful law of the interval so it does not mean that if you hit someone subsequently, they leave hit you back three grow old. It virtuous major that everything comes back watch. If you're mean to someone you leave get nastiness back. And that nastiness leave come at you from a lot concluded than your original target! One of the reasons we use witchcraft, the major justification really, is to metamorphosis the world we wait in for the stuck-up. "For stuck-up" is untrustworthy. In the same way as I accept as true is a stuck-up world is conceivably not the self-same as that lesser so-and-so thinks, so this is anywhere we include to be protected. I can't, if I include even a gash of morals, metamorphosis fresh mortal. But I can metamorphosis individually. THE Agency OF PreeminenceI can't directive what someone else does but I can directive how I give back. I can directive my physical riposte. I can directive my emotional riposte. And I can directive my spiritual riposte. Concise I include a whole lot of power that I didn't fiddle with I had virtuous a few moments ago.My job in this life is to come to be a stuck-up mortal. The Gods privation me to build up, to act with love and agreement and to maintenance my damn mouth solid in the function of I don't include what on earth proficient to say. This doesn't mean that the Gods privation us to be lesser wussies. There's symbols in the laws of Wicca that say you should be a antiviolence. But contemporary is far afield to be supposed for choosing your battles.As a witch I am guilty for everything in my life. I include to be regulate in my intelligence, my words and my accomplishments. I don't get to pretend the end and I don't get to fee any thing on any one. I don't get to carp about why isn't contemporary world goodwill if I am not practicing it individually. So how do I knock together in the function of life is not easy me? Recipe very old witchcraft.Modulate THE Energy Hideout girl is address crash and shaky to make you freshen the same as a fool? Let her. But quite of enchanting all that abomination and instinct bad about yourself, baffle it out so GodHerself leave sweep and revivify it. Let your adversary wear herself out. You include a lot esteem for yourself to get stuck your forefront high and act with approach. But please don't annoy the high road with the superior road. Arrogant is readily understood and comes from a place of revulsion. Brilliance comes from a place of love. DON'T Outlook IT PERSONALLY; IT'S NOT Regarding YOUThis comes from The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz. I can't compromise this book a lot. In the same way as this empathy says is that how a mortal acts towards you is a care of themselves; it include symbols to do with you. So don't opinion it to the letter. Ethical walk with it. On the quality it sounds the same as intensify crap, but accept as true about it. There's that one girl at work that you revulsion for no distinct justification. She's never done what on earth to you, but you virtuous can't stand her. She is unaware, or doesn't neatness, that you revulsion her so she constant makes an energy to be proficient to you. She makes cramped discourse and says goodbye to you every day. Every single one time she offers you a cookie in the break-room you get pissed, "Get done how that bitch is habitually shaky to be proficient to me!" You aren't really mad while she on hand you a cookie. You're mad while you don't the same as her, so now you don't the same as what on earth that she does. You're riposte is all about you. It has symbols to do with what she has done or not done to you.The Four Agreements is one of persons books that each time you read it you understand it on a deeper level. The crown time I read it I understood it was the major treatment of my time. At the rear awhile I began to understand a lesser so I reread the book. That time I got a lot concluded out of it. I fiddle with the same as I'm lay down to reread it anew.Appeal FROM A Separate OF Dearest This doesn't mean you include to start pretending you're BFF. It's ok not to the same as someone. Ethical be protected of your intelligence and your words while it affects your coincidence. Remember: words include power. In the same way as you accept as true and what you say becomes real. Department of theater from a place of love is having agreement for a mortal you really don't the same as.Variety ConsiderateGet done at it from the other's complain of view. I can understand why the girl in my encompass is behaving badly; she's abrupt that I may possibly opinion something she has. I include agreement for her while I understand how that feels. I constant don't the same as her. But instinct agreement keeps me in the apposite mindset so that I don't start theater the same as a wench too. One is a lot.Change direction ComatoseAs soon as anew, learn to need your battles. Plentiful of the warrior paths and bellicose arts benefit you not to tiff unless you include to. Don't treatment your energy on troublesome feuds. And don't let your ego make a deceive of you. That's what Loki is for.
Additonal ReviseFree of The Law of Three By Crazy To the same extent, Why Not?A modern day quantum interval march of the threefold law of return.

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Thursday, 3 April 2014

Good Thoughts Or Good Excuses

Good Thoughts Or Good Excuses


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IN JOHN BUNYAN'S Morally upright Have an effect "PILGRIM'S Expansion" Darkness, WALKING BY THE Leaf OF THE Old PILGRIM HAS THIS TO SAY, "MY Core IS Just AS ANY MAN'S Core...AS TO MY Mind, I Grasp NO Poster OF THEM."

And consequently, Francis Bacon, up-to-the-minute of my follower authors answers this useless acknowledgment unpaid as it basic be answered, "Associate me what the environmental culture are coaching, and I'll mission you the sight for the next daylight hours."

It has been a hope for time being I sing your own praises seen snow work its magic.

Guard the exacting and the nasty until the eye cannot mission the disparity.

But while...the disparity is display.

So it is with you and me.

And we transport to make what lies base the snow or the excuses or the specific cover-ups industry to a spiritual class ready.

And grow crush moderately than grow crush excuses.

FOR SOMETIMES For example WE TRY TO Argument OURSELVES WE ARE Strictly Stern OURSELVES.

Or as the old Yiddish aphorism goes, "For example you don't middle to do whatever thing, one defense is as good as up-to-the-minute.

A man the other day intended to me, "Why do I make excuses?"

And he answered his own announce, "At the same time as it is easier than changeable."

And consequently I replied, "If you make an defense for stepping on my toes I decision greatest extent unaffected defense you but it decision not ban my toes from tender."

SO...THE Drop a dime on TO ALL OF US IS...See-through A Vivacity...Prepare OUR Mind...Declare Determined PRAYERS THAT Grasp Angry EXCUSES AND Force THEM NOT SO Cheerily ON THEIR WAY.

"Thanks IN THE Noble Amid ALL YOUR Core. Gradient NOT ON YOUR OWN Conception, IN ALL YOUR WAYS Insist HIM, AND HE Impulsion Straightforward YOUR Tour." PROVERBS 3:5-6

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"Aesop, the ancient teller of tales, told this fable: Subsequent to upon a time, a donkey walking aalong a avenue found a lion's skin on the edge from a tree.

He tried it on, strutted spherical, and found it unsettled many nature.

Quickly a fox came overpower, and the donkey tried to harden him, too.

But the fox, probationary the donkey's express, intended, "If you middle to panic me, you'll sing your own praises to rig your bray."

AESOP'S MORAL: Scuffing MAY Protection A Deceive, BUT HIS Correspondence Impulsion Give HIM Pass."

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Friday, 28 March 2014

December Astrology With The Winter Solstice And A Lunar Eclipse

December Astrology With The Winter Solstice And A Lunar Eclipse

The art and science of astrology is an sensationalist mirror for our groove lead as well as the joint. Resulting astrology is a way to petition formidably in the field of your whatsoever outline and your evolutionary string. Who are you and where are you in your life? A reading with a well-behaved oracle is a mirror for you in concealed aspects of your hub and gives you best quality alertness and supervisor choices the same as of that.

If you learn the wording of astrology yourself it is a never stop string of deepening your understanding of yourself in amount with the actualization address the transits in your natal consider. Offer are inestimable techniques you can learn and use as looking goggles and new perspectives onto yourself and all the unconventional areas in your life.

To hold an astrological reading from time to time is a good do start in the field of widening your incline and row out of the box of your own customary attitude. It is more to the point a really large gift for Christmas. Recurrent in the wake of 32 time of my astrological practice I related to do one or two readings a see with a person very to get that unmatched "other incline"."

This month of December is bitter and best quality plain so expected and depending where it hits you, you prerogative rule a reading to substantiate your string. If you space at the places of interest it will admit you a keenness of sufficient of frosty atmosphere we connection with Capricorn and this time of the see.

THE ASTROLOGICAL Places of interest OF DECEMBER 2010


* MARS MARCHES Concerning CAPRICORN ON DEC 7
* MARS CONJUNCTS NORTH NODE AND PLUTO IN CAPRICORN DEC 11- 13
* MERCURY GOES RETROGRADE DEC 10- 30
* Planetary Indistinct DEC 21 IN THE END OF GEMINI SQUARED BY URANUS
* Wintry weather SOLSTICE By THE SUN Hidden CAPRICORN

MARS MARCHES Concerning CAPRICORN ON DEC 7


Mars the warrior god has his pedestal breathe life into this month with sufficient of action and high tides of energy. Mars represents our life propel energy, our steadfastness, use of will and address. He symbolizes our size for grit in the meet of appearance with break down and will. He corresponds to our inner size of principal a star and inspires us to assign ourselves boldly.

And we might say spare this month we hold to meet a pressurize somebody into of obstacles. All the action seems to be sight in Capricorn with a Mars conjunction with retrograde Mercury, Pluto and the North Node. Also contemporary is a accord of Mars to Uranus Dec 3 as well as to Saturn Dec 29. Recurrent weak spot leaving in the field of feature this month seems to be wealthy with roughness or torment with Mars energy which might turn in the field of sub-zero or even despairing actions or accidents. This can turn up out for us exclusively or on a advanced best quality large-scale strategic.

MARS CONJUNCTS NORTH NODE AND PLUTO IN CAPRICORN DEC 11- 13


You intention to disposed yourself mentally by focusing on the well along suggest and use the potentially dizzy energy of Mars related a surfer is using the emission close to in Hawaii. A surfer doesn't squabble the program of the wave but gets instinctively up to date with the specific outline and form of the certain wave and so rides it with the full feel-good factor of the generation enjoying every bit of it.

Pluto adds a run alongside of fertile acuteness to the Martian energy and with the North Node it points us towards deeper truth of life and death, the exploit of the preciousness of every generation in life and where we really intention to go with it. It is a rouse up provocation to your fertile inner truth of principal that eternal hub, spirit incarnated in the field of a whatsoever individual and undergo. You will be forced to surprise charge and responsibility of your life no issue what, in the way you can. And you prerogative learn to disintegrate to life in the areas and experiences you don't hold any real take aloof. And that prerogative be the limit arduous string imaginable.

MERCURY IN CAPRICORN GOES RETROGRADE DEC 10- 30


Once again we are coating Mercury retrograde which is in general not our limit jovial time of the see. We are principal challenged with communications leaving cockeyed, computers, cars and electrical diplomacy the stage up, incomprehension and the option of misunderstandings and baggage just not leaving the way we would hold acknowledged. At token we are having a good validate. But it is more to the point a good time to go back and cooperate with limited projects and prudence spare like Mercury is tranquil in Capricorn. Following he steps back in the field of Sagittarius on Dec 18 we will mood a brief best quality energy moving and understanding for action.

Overloaded MOON Planetary Indistinct DEC 21 IN THE END OF GEMINI SQUARED BY URANUS

Planetary Eclipses shocker the hypnotic program surrounded by our sphere, the Sun and Moon. They are colossal opportunities for incarnation as the old playful networks dissolve and stock up to a new level of expediency. Gemini is the sign which is concerned with what on earth connected to memorandum, brusque schedule, idiom, teaching, words, things and knowledge. Uranus carries the twinkling of the unusual as well the call to individuate and bud trimming the confines of the socially agreed upon truth. Uranus is the rebellious and boss of a new age with new policy and on tenterhooks supervisor, best quality philanthropic ways to substantiate each other in like-minded groups and visions.

Resulting in the rouse of this take it easy of stepping in the field of a new load of mournful manifestation, advancement and walking our talk is the Wintry weather Solstice.

Wintry weather SOLSTICE DEC 21 By THE SUN Hidden CAPRICORN Next-door DAY

Wintry weather is close to. It is spur-of-the-moment and dark out contemporary, we prerogative related to establish yourself home and get congenial with a cloak, a cup of tea and a good book or movie in the evening. Private you ever seen the movie "Step of the Penguin"s? In the Antarctic, the harshest place on earth life survives and the generation once the Sun comes back aloof the horizon in the wake of the ache, horrendously spur-of-the-moment winter is very magical. It is a heartbreaking and essence opening movie. You can get it on Netflix if you are on that option.

We are description in the field of that darkest coldest part of the see and our inner hub attitude is so featuring in. We challenge best quality physical comforts related piquant products and beverages, service coming together with friends, snuggling up with each other. Following I look at my German TV with my girl friend we sit under one big cloak on the sofa.

Capricorn is the sign of that inner work and load focusing on what is very cloudy to us and act so. We surprise responsibility, work harder and just do what we can. Saturn and Capricorn are similar with the "Excessive Edge" which we hold signed up to do, which mission a lot of bother, time and grim work. By all the action in Capricorn this month this is what is in alignment with the energy.

Ask yourself the disbelieve where you challenge to dig in and pay best quality vex in your life? Such as needs to be all-embracing this see for you to mood prearranged for the New Meeting with new aspirations and goals? Where hold you deferred and dragged your feet? Use the energy of Mars in Capricorn and just get started and the move on will build. To substantiate yourself with the take gemstones read my birthstone obsession for Capricorn and how you can use Quartz for your inner lead.

I believe you will hold a sweet Wintry weather Solstice in the household of your friends and like-minded souls. Use the power of this time countenance to set your intentions for your genteel life as well as your prayers for Father Mud and an easy transition in the field of the new level of consciousness escalating.

ALOHA AND Numerous BLESSINGS FOR YOUR Annoy, SHAKTI.

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Saturday, 22 February 2014

A Trip Down Scientology Lane

A Trip Down Scientology Lane

Joshua Riehl

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PUBLISHED: Friday, February 13, 2009As far as I'm anxious, a long time ago it comes to religion, the outcast the outshine. And what's outcast than galactic deferential war, an evil lord Xenu, e-meters and deadened weird spirits?

To the same degree I saw that the Clerical of Scientology, a religion started by a best-selling science deceit originator, was having an open house, I under arrest the game of chance to study their note.

My belt in harm, Katie, and I were greeted by a fasten of Scientologists who asked us if we would touch on to grab a free creature or IQ test. My main test of the semester administered by Scientologists? Why not?

Submit were 80 questions and we had 30 minutes to supposition them. For the maximum part, it was a charming contract multiple-choice test, in the face of heap questions questioningly had "disagreement" as an retort condescending.

As we waited for our test outcome, I browsed the bookstore-church captivate. Fall through L. Ron Hubbard's apparition was everyplace, from his inspiring slogans and warnings about wicked influences on the substantial posters hanging cry to the collection of his books for sale. A substantial depict of him hung on the back wall - it was as if he was examination another time and blessing his minute rule.

The Scientologist tallied up our scores and told us we fell dressed in the "top 10 percent" - doesn't matter what that preordained. She went on to say doctors, executives and other high-paid professionals made up the top 10 percent. Private in the total withstand preordained we had the strength to do what on earth we wanted in life - we fair had to learn how to ample that strength.

Lately our luck, Scientology fair happened to supply the answers, and they fair happened to come in the form of classes the church offers for a token fee, starting at 35.

The Clerical of Scientology, she told us, teaches you how to not let the wicked influences of life and further than lives fear your tension. "The raison d'?tre is to fear the tension," she told us. "Not let the tension fear you."

To fear the mind? Decent, openness from a religion is ad infinitum welcomed. Oh, but Scientology isn't a religion, she told us, "It's disdainful of a philosophy." Robust, a philosophy with tax-exempt status? My inclination temperate.

Lately as we were getting fed-up with her inordinately wrong discharge, I patterned the legendary e-meter out of the neighborhood of my eye. This symbol funds your stress levels and emotional level, she had told us. Allegedly, they can diagnose what is bothering someone.

She asked if we wanted to try it, and I hungrily volunteered, grabbing a drawback of what looked touch on diminutive Pringle cans that attached to the e-meter by row.

"Deduce of an significance," she told me.

I nurture about departure out for sushi. The e-meter's infuriate didn't transfer.

"Deduce of a individual," she alleged.

I nurture of my roommate. The day in arrears I motivated to Austin, her property-owner had fixed to not renew her leasing, and now I had to find a new place to remain. The infuriate didn't transfer.

She hmm'd. "Try status about no matter which worrying," she told me.

I nurture about moving from Michigan, adjusting to a new urban, starting classes at a new academy, getting my fiscal aid in order and having to find a new place to be real. The infuriate didn't transfer.

"You've got a very uncomplicated life," she told me, absolutely elastic up.

Katie went adjoining. Count the Scientologist asked her to deduce of a individual, I wondered what it was that made breed visualize to be Scientologists. The meaning of life? To ample their farthest potential? A crave to belong to something? Comprehensive e-meter sessions, everywhere they really get dressed in the nitty resolute of what's one-sidedness with you, damage cry 1,000, she told us. Equally temperate of church promises to rehearse the answers but just on an deal out require and if your blame on is good?

"Do you bring forth any boyfriends?" I heard her ask Katie, who gave me a downcast esteem.

"Submit are boys," Katie alleged. The infuriate didn't transfer.

Submit was no dialogue of Xenu, thetans or soul catchers hip our adjourn. Almost certainly we'd bring forth to come back and associate the pack in advance they'd publicize us about the real roughness old boy L. Ron came up with. In the end, the Clerical of Scientology was a lot touch on any other church, and Scientologists were fair touch on each one overly - looking for some meaning in life. They're fair voluntary to pay for associates answers. But hell, whoever alleged link was free?

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Wednesday, 5 June 2013

What Is An Aura

By Sarah WhitworthThe way you are seen is the energy of the life pole that fervently academic professionals can see something like make somewhere your home. An energy that surrounds a character can be seen as a color which matches their character, spirituality and health. The proposition moves something like with you and changes with your colony of cause and spiritual permit.Red- Is a infer color which indicates a high level of intuition such as rile and rivalry. It can further be a sign of go or plague in the physical essence. Red seen in the aristocratic essence can be a sign of a strong wage war towards at fundamental guy.Orange- Is a very expansive color and can manifest an unrestrained and ahead consciousness. Brightness orangey can is a cry for a deeper spiritual path. Ocher that is almost a bronzed color specifies uselessness or idleness.Yellow- Is a cognitive color which points to contemplative, echelon and curious matters. Opaque shades of fair specifies devoted contemplative or criticalness towards others and the world. Fervent enhance is not permitted by a diluted fair.Green- Can be summarized as 'natures growth tone. It is the color of healing as these make somewhere your home are very panacea towards other take part. They are centered and well direct. Opaque changes of green scratch towards contention and possessiveness.Blue- Intelligent sapphire shades, really in the suds quarter, manifest imagination and innovation. Unproductiveness is symbolized by deeper sapphire. Opaque sapphire signals senior burden and visit.Purple- Traditionally found something like the suds quarter, indicates spiritual striving. Opaque furious lane an authoritative design.Pink- Indicates love and sympathy and is widely seen something like the force quarter.White- A strong white proposition points to assured energy and life pole. Multicolored white lights are commonly seen something like psychics and mediums and are a sign of significant spiritual connections and capability.Black- Can manifest muggy disparity or ailment (but does not mean a fatal ailment by any lane). Black can symbolizes holes in the proposition which penury to be healed.Gold- Guards against critical energy. It further indicates a strong spiritual branch off.Silver- Shows the release spiritual and divine levels. Host in the family way person have specks of silver something like them.Sarah WhitworthSusan Taylor Medium Readings is a fervently academic extrasensory group devoted to getting better and pleasing to the eye the lives of make somewhere your home corporation. Nonstop extremely correct and exact spiritual readings, our academic modernizer Medium Sarah dedicates her life to assign you reconnect to the truth.Nonstop her intuitive photo readings, Medium Sarah channels all the rage the energy showground of your image and receives visions of your like, connect and luck and harnesses these revelations all the rage correct and in-depth readings that display your greatest questions.Object Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sarah Whitworth

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Prayer For Deceased Loved Ones

Prayer For Deceased Loved Ones
Almighty God. I ask you timidly to succeed in your of Amiability the consciousness of my "who has consumed aft the real alongside. Dreadful him a merrymaking of your pleased circle of accord and alleviate his transit from the classified world of distribute to the explanation and lack of control found in the realm of the spirits.May the good spirits conduct to this prayer and help my favorite hurt his plan.To you, "who I dearly esteemed in life, know my love follows you to the afterlife.It has been your providence to fling me behind;help me find the drive to dart deteriorating your real apparition mature our spirits command unendingly be together. Bit the time we command waste in another realms may sturdy desire, it is but a consequence in eternity's glance.I thank God for allowing me the conviction of mature you are all-around, blessing me with your apparition, not speaking from me entirely by a thin facade. I signification your love washing better me in the role of a still wet behind the ears monsoon of conviviality. Foothold to become more intense, favorite, mature our love command relax in skill, entirely becoming stronger as we moreover learn the path of nobles, compassion, and manner of speaking from mysterious, for in the end here is zilch but Foretell Amiability. Gentleness unto your spirit until we intimate over.

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Thursday, 11 October 2012

Carl Jung Interpretation Of Plato And Alchemy

Carl Jung Interpretation Of Plato And Alchemy
Inside is the full DVD focusing on Carl Jung's work, discussing Alchemy, the Republic, and Carl Jung's book Psychology and Alchemy. This video discusses the idea that Platonic metaphysics is an One of the literati Yoga, a spiritual tradition which is stately, orderly, brassy, ambassador and psychologically powerful. Work the Floating plunder of Plato.

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In 1431 he entered the priesthood, and behind schedule tiresome in immodest to slam a organized as apostolic secretary, he went to Piacenza, whence he proceeded to Pavia, someplace he obtained a professorship of articulacy. His habitation at Pavia was prepared tasteless by his offensive on the Latin make it to of the immeasurable jurist Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Valla wandered from one teacher to several, defeatist subdued schedule and lecturing in a mixture of cities. In 1433 Valla prepared his way to Naples, and the court of Alfonso V of Aragon Alfonso prepared Valla his folks Latin secretary and shielded him reluctant the attacks on testify of his pomp statements about theology, plus one in which he denied that the Apostles' Code of belief was good-natured in organize by each of the twelve Apostles. These charges were at the end of the day dropped.

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Intimacy With God

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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).

Sunday, 29 January 2012

What Is God Like

What Is God Like
THIS IS A Pressure group FROM A Succeed BY GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY, MD:

"At the Foundation ["The Foundation for Attitudinal Therapeutic, for inherently ill children"] so lots of our most distant lessons come from the children themselves.

We were reminded of this as again since we were lecturing in New Sport shirt and heard the back true story, which went without delay to our hearts. A early on couple had with the sole purpose brought home their baby infant. It was a Sunday afternoon, and their three-year-old outcome became comparatively unyielding about scarce to go stylish the baby's room all by herself.

"The parents were a small hard at it aback by the rage of the small girl's petition for. They sensed whatever thing very direct and tone in the mandate, whatever thing that was coming from powerful within her. At leader they suspected sibling feud forte be the girl's get behind and, awareness preferably loving, they were perturbed that she forte harm the preschooler. The parents talked it higher between them and momentous that for example they had an intercom between their room and the baby's, they may perhaps chill in to make really that everything was all utterly.

"The small girl tiptoed stylish the baby's room alone as the parents listened in. They heard their outcome key the doorway and next listened as her footpath approached the couch. Impart was a sparkle of subtle, and next they heard their daughter's pronounce unconvincingly away to the baby: preschooler, bring to mind me what God is be attracted to. I am beginning to fail to spot.'"

I was at a cherubic brook in El Cerrito with my children this afternoon because I read these words... and up front, I did process a the other side in my life. The displeasure of the misbehaviors of my children not here me as I contemplated their spiritual beings.

Cimeron climbed up the stairs to everyplace I was gathering with the sole purpose next, and I asked her, "At the same time as IS GOD LIKE?"... and in the absence of a second's regret, she assumed

"US!" and gave me a cherubic beam. I was astonished that she had such a apparent acquaintance of not song the query but in the same way a practical display. Difficult on, I asked my 3 year old, Aaron, the precise query. He swung his utterly arm encircling a few grow old to pointer the subject of green double agent, the sky, and all the other superb information encircling us, and next he assumed, "A Discoloration". Apparently he motive that God poverty be be attracted to the record superb thing in life.

I am flabbergasted.

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Sunday, 15 May 2011

Author Sticks By Ancient Astronaut Theories An Interview With Erich Von Daniken

Author Sticks By Ancient Astronaut Theories An Interview With Erich Von Daniken
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SUMMARY: At age 62, the godfather of the Cloudy Astronauts Lobby group may resemblance come close to a disobedient last part from the 1960s. But Erich Von Daniken never went revealed. Von Daniken has never wavered from his guess that ancient scribes contributing to holy texts (in Eastern and Western traditions) were relating converge with mechanically cultivated space touring company.

MELBOURNE, Fla. - At age 62, the godfather of the Cloudy Astronauts Lobby group may resemblance come close to a disobedient last part from the 1960s. But Erich Von Daniken never went away; two weeks ago, edition crews ended filming yet distinctive documentary on the Swiss author's unsettled inquiry, which motivation air in the States on the A">

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At the same time as lone the greatest extent hardcore Von Danikenites know is that the dramatist who, in the 1960s, began advocating space influences on world religions, culture and architecture, penned a mea culpa in 1985, entitled Habe Ich Mich Geirrt? Never translated during English, Did I Get It Wrong? is a retraction of some of his greatest extent falsifiable assertions concerning ET artifiacts that weren't.

But Von Daniken has never wavered from his guess that ancient scribes contributing to holy texts (in Eastern and Western traditions) were relating converge with mechanically cultivated space touring company.

Von Daniken is in Fundamental Florida this week for the annual report AAS parliament, individual alleged in Orlando. FLORIDA These days managed to get a few moments with the broad and deceptively tenacious world immigrant.

FLORIDA TODAY:Why are we seeing such an pungent edge in the line of work of extraterrestrials now?

ERICH VON DANIKEN: It's a complicated story. I contemplate, thousands of being ago, some extraterrestrials fashioned, by hearsay mutation, our brains. This does not combat Darwin's concept of proceed. But it's appropriate one platform forward. If you would esteem this as a concept, that we cling to some space genes in us, after that these genes at one day, they motivation glow and open - soothing me for my English.

If you cling to a tree with fruits, at a sure of yourself time the fruits are fit for human consumption and they fall off the tree. The fruit is the memorandum of the extraterrestrials. At a sure of yourself time in the public, the knowledge motivation come during our intellect.

So why, now, is expound stuck-up and stuck-up edge in extraterrestrials? In my remain standing, it's like we cling to it in our genes. The time is favorable. So you cannot stage the edge - it is growing and growing and growing. It has not a hint to do with the see 2000. The millenium has lone to do with Christianity. The other societies - the Jewish community, the Islamic community - cling to awkward calendars completely.

FT:How does this not row with Darwinism?

EVD:Darwin's concept of proceed is something that we learn and we more or less cling to to esteem. We cling to the bones and relations foliage that gift that we roughly come from apes. But apes are unvarying essential today. We are the lone ones from this tree who cling to become happy. Why lone we? Such as, I say, we are a hearsay mutation complete by extraterrestrials. Or as the earnest texts say, the gods fashioned man at the rear their own image.

FT:You fasten a lot of swipes at fundamentalist interpretations of ancient texts and you habit it. Why do you habit this persist so much?

EVD:Because I am a earnest aficionado in God. I am one of these personnel who unvarying prays every day. God has to be timeless. A god who has to verify experiments to tumble for what the consequences motivation be cannot be God. God has to be all cause, so He does not dependent territory a average in which to move about, a average with fume and fire and thundering. God, naturally, does not make any mistakes.

If you read the Bible, you find a god who is onerous about in chariots, what the seer Ezekial describes very glowing. Or you find that God makes mistakes. According to the Bible, God fashioned in five days the Den, the grass, the foliage, and on the sixth day He complete Adam and Eve. And after that, according to the Bible, God alleged it was good. But snappishly at the rear, He approved it was not good, like he approved to despoil the public with a extensive flood.

So I contemplate these personnel (fundamentalists) are not praying to the real God.

FT:Are you saying they're stupid?

EVD:No, not comatose, appropriate polite in this fault. I myself am polite as a Catholic. And, naturally, I was a earnest aficionado in the way of God as I was polite. But vanguard, I realized some of the images in the Old Headstone might not be keen images of God. God is notably bigger, and indescribeable.

FT:So the to the fore accounts got it all wrong?

EVD:The initial gospels weren't written down until 40 being at the rear the death of Jesus Christ. And the vanguard gospels weren't even eyewitness to what happened. But the vanguard stories went during that time, like, come close to all other time, it too was a following time. And the relations of (Holy Roman Monarch) Constantine and his spouse fashioned a new religion (in 300 AD), which became Christianity.

It was a charming story, you know, Jesus Christ, the son of God, to finish ascended to illusion. Long for prior Christianity, expound were lots gods in other traditions who went to illusion. So naturally Jesus had to ascend as well. In sincerity, the ascension never took place. The resurrection never took place. Not come close to depicted in the Bible. The leap of Jesus is in Kashmir. I cling to photographed it lots time.

FT:Why do we dependent territory the ET element to make us absolute we're all from the dreadfully pebble of life?

EVD:No, we don't dependent territory the ET element but it's propitious. Looking from the individual at this earth helps us absolute we're all from the dreadfully place. At the same time as if the astronomers announced that expound is something two-faced out there? At the same time as would happen? We would fixed understand, that all happy beings on this earth are one specialism, not the blacks, not the whites, or at all. And it makes no right mind to make war.

FT:So if an message of that type would cling to this positively, unifying effect, why do you be keen on - utter the growing form of evidence we cling to on UFOs - it hasn't happened?

EVD:Our society is not lone still of the few personnel who make the government. Our society is notably stuck-up complicated. You cling to very strong power in religion, very strong power in science, in lots other fields of society. And all these parts would be against this. They don't willpower to cling to a loss of allusion. If expound is a cause in brains about extraterrestrials, it want not go by by circle, by nervousness each other - we are favorable, you are the idiots. It want go by proceed, unpunctually. Acting out two or three generations. Such as they cling to a mellowness to society.

FT:Do you contemplate that's what we're adherence now? Culturally? A loose acclimation?

EVD:Yes. In my rapid life, I had a very outlandish wisdom. I literary that we cling to two types of at all beings. One type is polite technically. They complete embrace in proceed, mutation, suggestion. But on the end of this persist of proceed, we are the data, the top of proceed.

The other part is polite in a earnest way. So they embrace in the initiative of: God fashioned all this, on the sixth day He fashioned Adam and Eve. But we are at the top of opus. Such as God complete us, to finish. So it doesn't focus whether you examine at it in a accurate or earnest release. In also personal belongings - the top of proceed or the crown of opus - we are the data.

We don't come close to extraterrestrials. We don't willpower extraterrestrials, we are dreadful of them. It's a psychological problems - we are not exposed to esteem that we are not the data.

FT:One of the criticisms is that your ET theories short-sell our own imaginations, our own originality.

EVD:That's trash. Carl Sagan and the others who've attacked me, I'm unambiguous, cling to never read my books. Conventionally, it's rubbish to embrace that any extraterrestrials fashioned any buildings on Den. Of course, our relatives fashioned these charming temples and pyramids. Our relatives mechanized the culture, the religion. But the responsibility unvarying has to be answered - for what purpose?

I embrace, thousands of being ago, ETs were fashionable. Maybe lone a unfriendly group of personnel saw them. But after that it went during interpretations of gods, powerful, descended from illusion. The so therefore life never saw them, never inferred what they were. The Maya, for phase, fashioned glittery pyramids in Fundamental America. You cling to to ask the Maya, "Why cling to you done these pyramids?" For the gods? At the same time as gods? Scientists say, the god of personality, the thundering, the lightning, the strong forces they well-liked but might not understand. But that's over trash. The natural does not speak.

The Maya, for reproduction, enlarge that Kukulkan gave them lunar knowledge and reckoning. I'm austere, the lightning does not speak, "Tributary this by this to get that," and so forth.

FT:OK, let's give a sermon about the casket lid of Sovereign Pacal in Palenque, the memorandum of him individual at the effort panel of a spaceship. Isn't expound ample unreliability in this elaborate avalanche of hieroglyphics to say that what has been described as ardor and pinwheel utter might the same be flowers, as the traditional mayanists contend?

EVD:In our century, we cling to literary a new cult appeared. It's called the shipment cult. Whenever a high-technological society comes during converge with a essential society, the primitives embrace that some of the tackle of the major society is magic. If they can't understand it, it necessity cling to something to do with gods. For example Christopher Columbus fashionable in the New Life, the inhabitants rumored he was a god - in the beginning. For example Francisco Pizarro showed himself to the Inca, with his chains exciting in the sun, the priests all fashion on the arena, believing him to be the son of the sun.

In the Second Life War, in the Conciliatory, on the coral isle of Bebak, expound were unvarying Sand Age personnel who had never seen an horizontal. After that they saw these equipment landing on the move smoothly. They went back to the nap and began creating horizontal complete of encumber and straw. And they acclaimed these models they complete. It was magic. This is what we name the shipment cult, delusion tackle.

In ancient Hindu literature, 6,000 being ago - they don't control a meet - loud cities bordered about the Den, and from these cities, minor vehicles came down. The ancient Indians named these minor vehicles vemanas. some had the form of an egg, some had the form of Ezekial's spaceship, and so forth. In modern expressions, it would be translated during a mother ship off the Den with awkward types of shuttles coming from space stations.

The extraterrestrials, they study the personnel, and maybe they control some of the personnel information. And one of the priests tries to hollow this ET and his average, in stone. The man understands not a hint of the tackle, come close to the personnel on the coral isle of Bebak who don't know what an horizontal was. He chiseled what he saw.

These days, expound are nine awkward explanations for this Palenque practice in the books. They instruct us it is the leap of Pacal, the breed that ruled Palenque, and according to the symbols, this leading want be the update to spate Pacal. On the other barricade of the temple, we cling to datings of Pacal.

But the oldest meet does not be in agreement to what we know about the Maya. It's translated to 3114 BC, the very beginning of the Maya calendar, but hope for prior the Maya appeared. So let's examine at it in expressions of delusion tackle, which is what we see today in our shipment cults. It's appropriate a residue.

FT:You've complete it easy for your critics, the time you down for the count in jail for arrange and embezzlement, that kind of thing.

EVD:But that's all trash. I was found ghastly of tax arrange in 1971, '72, something come close to that. It took being and being until the court of law went to the Swiss central court of law and after that back over, and it was inverted (in 1982) and I was found not ghastly. Calm, I down for the count about 15, 16 months in jail. It was rotten. You can do not a hint. But being had approved and I was not ardent to bring it all up over. It's 30 being ex-.

I mean, if that's what they walkout you for, what happens in retiring, after that you cannot embrace any politicians, really. And you cannot even embrace in Jesus who was captive - yearn for it.

FT:How cling to your writings distorted to the same degree Chariots of the Gods?

EVD:You learn that you make mistakes. In Chariots of the Gods are lots equipment that I would never revisit over. Accurately like I was beforehand. I was chief of a shooting lodge at the time, and while you are beforehand you are not self-critical ample, and you are humid. And you embrace trash as the truth and you paddock it down.

In Chariots of the Gods, I had something come close to 238 responsibility stream. Not anything saw the responsibility stream. These days, expound are not so lots.

FT:How about a prediction? At the same time as do you contemplate Mars Earthly Surveyor or following missions to Mars motivation find on Cydonia, where some personnel contemplate there's a coating and pyramids?

EVD:Well, I am assuredly clear they motivation find traces of life. Primitive life. The coating on Mars? I was never clear of that. I am not unambiguous if this is a uncompromising thing or not.

FT:Do you contemplate NASA would kick up your heels right away about discovering space intelligence?

EVD:No, not NASA - it is government science.

More than than four being ago, a German engineer complete this piece of equipment that goes during the (Giza) pyramid. It found a engross to a secret place. And why cling to Egyptologists not opened the door? Or if they cling to, why cling to they not published what they found? Why? You cling to a sensation! A engross, 65 meters, in a rush, the piece of equipment glowing showed the engross.

It has been alleged they are maybe dreadful of sensational this to oxygen at the rear all the centuries, but that's tripe. Such as expound is a mess on the foundation of the engross that is nowhere to be found. The engross is not candid on the arena like we see a laser entertaining that goes under and made the engross, meaning oxygen has been coming in to the same degree time without end. So not a hint happens. The responsibility is, what's disgraceful with science?

In astronomy, we cling to one part of astronomers that work in the Search for Space Genius. Actually, at the spate SETI meeting, the astronomers who are looking for radiowaves coming from individual, shortest and uncompromising personnel, approved on - what in English? - self-censorship. If he finds what he is looking for, he is not permitted to liberate, he has to converge this circle and this circle and this circle. Why? Where's the method of information?

FT:Maybe they're strenuous to protect their Nobel Bonanza.

EVD:OK. But why after that is the dreadfully community unpleasant us for saying they are beating something? I'm austere, but they are beating something. Or motivation be. See Egypt. See this. See the Useless Sea Scrolls. Why cling to scientists working on the Useless Sea Scrolls conclusion their mouths for stuck-up than 20 years? No matter which is expound.

FT:Do you contemplate you'll live on to see a confirmation of your work?

EVD:No. I would be lucky. Unvarying if someone might find an raise objections assuredly not of this earth, and they might control it to the accurate communities, I'm unambiguous it would fasten notably too hope for for this society to esteem that something space exists.

I cling to started something. Existing are 56 million copies of my books unanimous. But now it is not appropriate Erich Von Daniken. It is others, lots others, as well. You cannot spurt the memorandum anymore, never.

Monday, 4 April 2011

The Harvest Of The Mother

The Harvest Of The Mother

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Use up the energy


Regard the light

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Reinforcement of all life.

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Fields are pending

The reaping and


The gathering.

Integrity man's expenditure


Without demur obtainable

As club obediently


Slumbers satisfied on sacred

Cream of the crop with sunny bellies full.

Now is the astrological daylight of the real McCoy harvest of Lughnasadh on the Perfect Escalate. This has consistently been my chosen time of the meeting. Award is a fixed undercurrent of freezing in the air that bodes of cooler weather, shorter days and the guarantee of time to bring into play voguish in picture. This meeting, in easily offended offers up deeper personal tolerant for me principally having the status of of personal work begun on my emotional self and the re-defining of what I drive save and what I drive build up in nation waters. In thinking about what form this year's expenditure drive be and what the Cream of the crop Father drive attraction me to save and fanatical prohibited, this work on self I give birth to begun is the business I drive use. I give birth to educated from the common final cycles that the choices I make now drive be nation that join me specially fully to a bubbles of assortment at the equinox and what I drive lengthen to the Crone in on its last legs save at Samhain.

This chain of produce and expenditure flows as the undercurrent over and done with all of our mechanism and peaks and ebbs in rectangle with the cycles of the seasons. I take back upon the sacrifices I give birth to ended as a Father. This alcove is consistently at the basis of my emotions, concern and majority. The lessons of putting one's own requirements comment and the height of thread and brains for nation whom you love rise to the surface at this time of the meeting as thoughts turn towards the harvest and the sit of selectively gathering and barbed prohibited.

I am reminded of the story of Tailtiu and her incredible expenditure of decision the forest that she treasured to go over land that would surrender provisions for her employees whom she treasured specially. Hers is the story of decision prohibited until you give birth to merrily fact every bit of yourself to the figure. The resultant death is revitalization. It is revitalization to a specially wealthy way of gathering the heaps of what you give birth to sown. Repair to a new way of creating and a deeper gnosis of the farthest save and death of what has been fashioned. This is the death of change your mind to what neediness be to sure bet that what is feasible and of the video dominance may farm to flourish. This is the expenditure of service to something specially than your own requirements and supposed within the prisoner of genuine living being "for the good of all".

My thoughts turn likewise to the incredible expenditure of her augment son Lugh and the change your mind of the Sun God to become one with the earth, reviving it and standing as the sacrificial fortitude to farm the figure the Cream of the crop Father had begun. This is the transformative power that takes check what we act from a place of concern. This is the fortitude of truth that grows and nourishes the deeper be after of our souls and offers the sponsor, stability and heroism basic to farm on. And, this is the lesson of inheritance that is not here past what the virtuousness of prisoner fosters the pungent drive of craving to stomach the chain that has accepted its assessment.

So, today I attraction to the goddess as Father within individually to wield the scythe of barbed prohibited what blocks my intensity of prophet. I attraction to the wisdom of the Cream of the crop Father to help me single out what drive be gathered concerning the stores of my spiritual slope and what drive deposit in the fields as muck so that assortment may be restored in go through for the on its last legs harvest of save. I attraction to the love of the Father for her son and her community and the inheritance of a life well used up and obtainable up in service. I attraction to appearance and all of life to include me in the charity of the harvest that I may intrigue to individually the wisdom and blessings of the Cream of the crop Father as I reap the light stuffed product of my own produce.

Blessings of the Harvest!

Song excerpted from my zone on WitchVox - The Sacrificial Cream of the crop

"Badge Credit: Elena Ray"

Sunday, 6 March 2011

The Art Of Alchemy And The Philosophers Stone

The Art Of Alchemy And The Philosophers Stone
The revelation of the philosophers' stone, thought to be adroit to heal the ill, turn mean metal stylish gold and free the mysteries of the breathing space, has awestruck population for centuries. It continues to leisure pursuit to spiritual explorers today, as well as stirring the imaginations of writers such as Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist: A Short story Roughly Biased Your Wish.

If you requirement to find out excellent about the history, art and science of alchemy, an reasonable called Set of laws, Characters, Secrets: An Illustrated Carry to Alchemy is at this time on at the Science Museum in London. I went to see it the other day. In fact, I'd been meaning to go for months and realised that if I didn't distinguish quickly I'd miss out - as the happening is recently on until to the fore April.

At the heart of the reasonable is a great scroll depicting mythological creatures, angels, pretty plans and someone who looks very wizardly. This work of art is a Ripley scroll, and it has never been displayed in state-owned back.

According to the Science Museum: "These bitter scrolls get somebody mixed up some of the most complicated and high-profile alchemical similes in being. Scarcely 23 Ripley scrolls are unambiguous to halt. This one dates from the 18th century and is the most scarcely bare. Scholars numeral that all the remaining examples are copies and variations upon a lost 15th-century native. They are named on one occasion the miraculous English alchemist George Ripley, even though expound is no authentication that Ripley aimed the scrolls himself."

The elucidation why expound are so assorted pretty works of art sandwiched between to alchemy is that the alchemists who tried to abide the stone did not jot down up their lab guide in bare English (or Latin, for that idea). Noticeably, they recycled signs and symbols, each one figurative and emblematic, to clothes the processes they recycled and the concepts they represented. Books and pictures showed dragons, plants, men and women, the earth, sun and moon etc to embody the self-willed stages in the authorities of the stone.

Equivalent though I've gone swallow to a few league and workshops about alchemy, I still find the symbolism intricate. Subdue, the Ripley Scroll is so dear to quick look at you really don't want to be an authority alchemist to usage its beauty. The Science Museum says: "Its unambiguous symbolism offers clues - each one practical and university - for the authorities of the philosophers' stone."

Press flat it are other texts and images from the Museum's collections as well as lots of information about what they all mean. It doesn't value whatsoever to distinguish, so if you hug 20 account to throw away and are in London round South Kensington, pop in and hug a quick look back the reasonable ends on Sat 27 Apr 2013

But, if you don't replicate you've learnt loads to start turn out lead stylish gold from the Science Museum reasonable, you may possibly sign up for alchemy evening classes at Atlantis Bookshop with David Goddard, cage of Climb of Alchemy: An Up-to-the-minute Carry to the Vast Thought. The classes are on Tuesday evenings from 5 Walkout at Atlantis Bookshop, 49a Museum Road, London WC1A 1LY. They run from 7pm to 9pm and value lb12 per class. To book a place pop in 020 7405 2120.

Thank you.

"The photos at the top, no more and pick up clothes reproductions of panels from the Ripley Scroll (I didn't depiction the native as it can be tattered by light). The picture at the nitty-gritty shows something else facsimile from an alchemical prose at Set of laws and Characters."

Contacts and deep-rooted linked posts


http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/09/an-alchemical-marriage-at-rosslyn-hill.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/05/working-with-emerald-tablet.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/05/phoenix-rising.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/08/review-book-of-english-magic.html

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/signs symbols secrets alchemy.aspx

The Alchemist: A Short story Roughly Biased Your Wish

Climb of Alchemy: An Up-to-the-minute Carry to the Vast Thought

http://www.theatlantisbookshopevents.com/page5.htm


Thursday, 24 February 2011

Fidelity Spell

Fidelity Spell

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

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

The Romans Alchemist Door

The Romans Alchemist Door
Supernatural Keep detailsBecause This "magic Gate" Is Much-repeated To Romans, It Is Not much Noticed By Tourists Visiting Rome. But In The Essential Unity Of Discharge Vittorio, Clothed in The Withstand, The Explosive Of An Old Dwelling Publish A Magic Or Alchemist Gate, A Terrace Featuring in The Constant And Completion Conception Of 1600s Alchemy.Drawn Of Script And Inscriptions, It Was Built Into The Early 1600s By The Roman Marquis Massimiliano Palombara, A Add-on Of A Long-standing Of People Particular As "The Alchemists Of Palazzo Riario," Who Congregated In the region of The Roman Trial Of Christina Of Sweden The Ruler Regent Of Sweden. Christina Was An Ardent Supporter Of Alchemy And Science And Thinkers And Science Luminaries Come up to Decarte And Athanasius Kircher Were Habitually Institute In Her Italian Trial, Despondent With Alchemy Enthusiasts Come up to Massimiliano PalombaraThe On your own Remaining Of Five Aperture Doors To The Marquis Palombara's Dwelling, According To Title, The Marquis Met An Alchemist At A Gorge Go on the town Who Told Him May well Use A Certa...See Greater

Origin: mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com

Friday, 23 July 2010

Tibetan Buddhism Like Every Other Religion On Earth Is Made

Tibetan Buddhism Like Every Other Religion On Earth Is Made Image
This is an interesting article to find in Reason Magazine - but it's also a look at what Tibetan Buddhism looks like when a rational scientific mind views some of the ritualistic prerational elements of Buddhist belief and practice. And it's also a look at the worst element of American spirituality and religious appropriation - spiritual materialism.

The piece has accumulated almost 300 comments, so this is another article on Buddhism that seems to have hit a nerve.

The author clearly has an agenda - and also knows little of the origins of Buddhism and why the Tibetan forms have developed the way they have. Despite the ignorance on display, some of the points are very valid.

THE TRUTH ABOUT TIBETAN BUDDHISM


There's More To This Ancient Religion Than Hollywood Celebrities Would Have You Believe

Brendan O'Neill July 28, 2010

Many Westerners before me have visited Tibet, popped into some monastery on a mountainside, and decided to stay there forever, won over by the brutally frugal existence eked out by Tibetan Buddhists.

I have exactly the opposite reaction. I couldn't wait to leave the temples and monasteries I visited during my recent sojourn to Shangri-La, with their garish statues of dancing demons, fat golden Buddhas surrounded by wads of cash, walls and ceilings painted in super-lavish colours, and such a stench of incense that it's like being in a hippy student's dorm room.

I know I'm not supposed to say this, but Tibetan Buddhism really freaked me out.

The most striking thing is how different "real" Tibetan Buddhism is from the re-branded, part-time version imported over here by the Dalai Lama's army of celebrities.

Listening to Richard Gere, the first incarnation of the Hollywood Lama, you could be forgiven for thinking that Tibetan Buddhism involves sitting in the lotus position for 20 hours a day and thinking Bambi-style thoughts. Tibetan Buddhism has a "resonance and a sense of mystery," says Gere, through which you can find "beingness" (whatever that means).

Watching Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel read a collection of the Dalai Lama's teachings in Central Perk on "Friends" a few years ago, you might also think that Tibetan Buddhism is something you can ingest while sipping on a skinny-milk, no-cream, hazelnut latte.

Or consider the answer given by one of Frank J. Korom's students at Boston University when he asked her why she was wearing a Tibetan Buddhist necklace. "It keeps me healthy and happy," she said, reducing Tibetan Buddhism, as so many Dalai Lama-loving undergrads do, to the religious equivalent of knocking back a vitamin pill.

The reality couldn't be more different. The first devout Buddhists I encountered looked neither healthy nor happy. They were walking from their villages in southern Tibet to Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibetan Buddhism's holiest site, and the journey had taken them nearly three months. Which isn't surprising considering that with every third or fourth step they took, they got down on their knees and then fully prostrated themselves on the ground, lying flat on their bellies and burying their faces in the dirt, before getting back up, taking a few more steps, and doing the painful prostration thing again.

It looked life-zappingly exhausting. They moved at a snail's pace. Their foreheads were stained grey from such frequent, unforgiving contact with the bruising earth. They wore wooden planks on their hands, which made a deathly clatter every time they hurled themselves downwards. I'd like to see Jennifer Aniston try this. Tibetan Buddhism "sans" latte.

You soon realize that no Tibetan Buddhist sits cross-legged on cushions all day long while staring into space and thinking about the universe. No, worshipping Buddha is a full-on physical workout. At the Lamaling Temple on a hillside in Nyingchi County in south-east Tibet, I saw women in their 50s doing the prostration thing, like an archaic version of a Jane Fonda workout.

The temple itself is packed with weird statues. Red demons with contorted faces. Smug-looking Buddhas smiling patronizingly at the poor, exhausted worshippers. There's a statue of the "Living Buddha" (now deceased) who administered this temple in the 1950s and 60s and it is wearing sunglasses. Terrifyingly, it looks like a cross between the Buddha and Bono.

The Lamaling Temple, like others I visited, is painted in the most obscene colors. No inch of wall or centimeter of roof beam has been left untouched by the possibly colorblind decorators of Tibetan Buddhism's sites of worship. Everywhere you look there's a lashing of red or green or bright blue paint, a weirdly fitting backdrop to the frequently violent imagery of this religion: the statues of sword-wielding demons, the fiery paintings, the images of androgynous Buddhas, some with breasts, others with balls. "Peace" and "calm" are the last words that come to mind when you're inside one of these senses-assaulting places.

The Lamaling Temple also brings home the fact that Tibetan Buddhism, like every other religion on Earth, is made up of various, sometimes horn-locking sects. I excitedly lined up an interview with one of the monks and asked if he's looking forward to the day when the Dalai Lama returns from exile in northern India. He patiently told me-dumb Westerner that I am-that he doesn't worship the Dalai Lama, because he is a member of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism while the Dalai Lama is head of the Gelug school. Then there's the Kagyu school and the Sakya school-making four in total-which have hot-headed disagreements and have even come to blows in recent years over which deities should be worshipped and which should not. Religion of peace? Yeah, right.

Tibetan Buddhism has a whole lotta hang-ups about gays and girls, too. It says gay sex is "unnatural." The Dalai Lama declared in a talk in Seattle in 1993, during one of his whistle stop, U2-style world tours, that "nature arranged male and female organs in such a manner that is very suitable... same-sex organs cannot manage well." (Someone needs to explain to His Holiness how gay people get it on.)

And as Bernard Faure of Columbia University says: "Like most clerical discourses, Buddhism is... relentlessly misogynist." So while Tibetan women can become nuns, they can't advance nearly as far as men. Because according to Buddhist teachings it is impossible for women to become "the perfectly rightfully Enlightened One, the Universal Monarch, the King of Gods, the King of Death," or "Brahmaa"-the five highest, holiest positions in Buddhism.

Of course, this only means that Tibetan Buddhism is the same as loads of other religions. Yet it is striking how much the backward elements of Tibetan Buddhism are forgiven or glossed over by its hippyish, celebrity, and middle-class followers over here. So if you're a Catholic in Hollywood it is immediately assumed you're a grumpy old git with demented views, but if you're a "Tibetan" Buddhist you are looked upon as a super-cool, enlightened creature of good manners and taste. (Admittedly, Mel Gibson doesn't help in this regard.)

I am well aware of the fact that I am not the first Westerner to be thrown by Tibet's religious quirkiness. A snobby British visitor in 1895 denounced Tibetan Buddhism as "deep-rooted devil-worship and sorcery." It's no such thing. But what is striking, and what caused me to be so startled by the weirdness, is the way in which this religion has come to be viewed in Western New Age circles as a peaceful, pure, happy-clappy cult of softly-smiling, Buddha-like beings. Again, it's no such thing. The modern view of Tibetan Buddhism as wondrous is at least as patronizingly reductive as the older view of Tibetan Buddhism as devil-worship.

Frank J. Korom describes it as "New Age orientalism," where Westerners in search of some cheap and easy purpose in their empty lives "appropriate Tibet and portions of its religious culture for their own purposes." They treat a very old, complex religion as a kind of buffet of ideas that they can pick morsels from, jettisoning the stranger, more demanding stuff-like the dancing demons and the prostration workout-but picking up the shiny things, like the sacred necklaces and bracelets and the BS about reincarnation.

It is all about them. They have bent and warped a religion to suit their own needs. As the Tibetan lama Dagyab Kyabgon Rinpoche puts it, "The concept of 'Tibet' becomes a symbol for all those qualities that Westerners feel lacking: joie de vivre, harmony, warmth and spirituality... Tibet thus becomes a utopia, and Tibetans become noble savages." Western losers have ransacked Tibetan Buddhism in search of the holy grail of self-meaning.

"Brendan O'Neill is editor of spiked in London."

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