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Reinventing Clergy

Part 8: The Emerging Church - Circa 1970

"In the emerging Church, a new kind of preacher is coming into his own for whom there is presently no adequate training...." (p. 59)

"a clergyman becomes not a disseminator but an interpreter of news." (p. 108)

"'Then it hit me: the only way to break out of my authoritarian role was to shift the emphasis of my ministry from giving answers to sharing experience.'" (p. 129)

Bruce Larson, the emerging church (Word, 1970)

A key tenet from the earliest origins of the Emergent Church movement was a reinvented clergy. The pastor-teacher role must be changed. Old authority structures must be dismantled and new ones substituted. This all played out in a complicated dialectic dance over a period of four decades. Emergent leader Phyllis Tickle credits the small group structure for much of this change. In her book The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (BakerBooks, 2008) she writes approvingly of how the early principle of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) of worshipping a "generic God" in a small group structure had "delivered a serious blow to the role and authority of the clergy." She takes note that "AA was the first to strike a blow at the Pastor's Study as the seat of all good advice, holy counsel, wisdom, and amelioration." (pp. 92-93)

Not only did AA [Alcoholics Anonymous], almost by default, begin to supplant the pastoral authority of the professional clergy and open the door to spirituality in the experiencing of a nondoctrinally specific Higher Power, but it also revived the small-group dynamic that would come to characterize later twentieth-century Protestantism and, paradoxically, to enable the disintegration of many of its congregations into pieces and parts.... AA opened the floodgates to spirituality by removing the confines of organized religion. (p. 93)

It is significant that Phyllis Tickle would reference AA in this context. Faith At Work, the organization that birthed the early Emergent/Emerging Church movement (as we documented in Part 2 of this report), was connected with Frank Buchman and Sam Shoemaker, co-founder of AA. In fact, Faith at Work sponsored Brian McLaren's "Everything Must Change" tour last year.

Transitioning the Pastorate

Step one of reinventing the clergy was to create new authority structures, and the small group format conveniently elevated one's peer group to a higher status as "experts" because of "experience." This concept rode into evangelicalism like a freight train during the rise of the Humanistic Psychology era, and pastors were quickly remade into counselors at leading evangelical seminaries. Pastors evolved into touchy-feely advice-givers who could facilitate small groups. It was at this point that sermons began to change shape from solid exegesis of the Word of God to feel-good sermonettes that were loaded with pablum and syrup. Gone was the Word of God, and its authority. Replacing it, during this time of transition, was arm-chair psychologists and encounter group experiences. Even the excesses of the shepherding movement, with its heavy-handed top-down authoritarianism, and thus the appearance of a clergy-driven laity, was more an indication of encounter groups run amok than evidence of biblical, Word-preaching pastors. And its later offshoot, the purpose-driven business-leadership phenomena, which continues to this day, bears little resemblance to the historical First Reformation preaching and teaching the meat of the Word of God.

David Wells, commenting on this emerging phenomena in his 1994 book God in the Wasteland, described this transition period as a "therapeutic culture which treats badness simply as disease" and observed the evangelicals' fixation with "consumerism, with all of the appetites for purchase, ownership, and power that go with it," which he attributed to the evangelical drive for "cultural acceptability." But he sadly observed that, by doing so, the evangelical church was "emptying itself of serious thought, serious theology, serious worship and serious practice in the larger culture." (p. 27) Pastors were being reduced to "managers" or "psychologists":

The modern mind will be quick to conclude that evangelical faith is faltering because it is not efficient enough, for example, or because it is not appealing enough, because it has not adapted itself adequately to the inner needs of those in the modern world. It is thus that many are stepping forward as managers or psychologists in Christ's name, and for the good of the church, to address the world. (pp. 29-30) [italics in original]

All of this transition in the teaching pastorate had the cumulative effect of diminishing the influence, impact, and salt of the Word of God in individual lives as well as the culture.

The New Authority

The transformation of the evangelical church, into this "new thing" which is Emergent/Emerging, severs the old authority structures altogether. The new authorities in believers' lives may or may not be pastors, seminaries, denominational headquarters or even leaders. Believers are substituting other authorities for their pastorate -- things like The Shack, Richard Foster, Len Sweet, etc. Parachurch organizations helped facilitate the shift. But this is a new form of viral networking happening before our very eyes (some orchestrated, some spontaneous), which is creating downline authority structures that are totally unrelated to traditional structures, even obliterating them or rendering them obsolete.

This new viral marketing authority is accentuated by the Internet social sites, in which "every man does what is right in his own eyes, according to the social network that he belongs to." The network is its own authority, and this shifts daily, even hourly. The Word of God is not at the foundation of any of this new authority. Experience becomes god.

Power no longer rests in the hands of a biblically-based pastorate/clergy. Power is now in the hands of the marketing gurus who manipulate the paradigm shift. Traditional pastoral authority structures have been eroded to the point that they have become dysfunctional, useless, unimportant, irrelevant, and even irreverent.

But all is not lost. Pastors can retain or regain their authority by becoming transformers. This is why Leadership Network, which formed the modern Emergent church movement, is at the core of this paradigm shift. The pastor in the Leadership Network paradigm becomes the viral networking agent of transformation. "Image is everything." But he isn't just a corporate guru. He is a guru of the New Spirituality. And this is the key point. When things become full blown Emergent he becomes a shaman.

And, this point takes us to Pastor Larry DeBruyn's insightful analysis of Spiritual Directors, which we publish below in its entirety with permission:

MOVE OVER PASTORS

"Spiritual Director": A New Gift from an Ancient Tree

Regardless of what you might think of the operation of spiritual gifts--whether all of them, some of them, or none of them are operative today--we should be aware of the new spiritual gift on the block; the gift of "spiritual director." As one spiritual director remarks, "I continue to be amazed at the richness of this gift to the church, whether it is experienced individually or in groups." But just what is this gift?

Alice Fryling says that, "Spiritual direction is a way of companioning people as they seek to look closely, through the eyes of their hearts, at the guidance and transforming work of God in their lives."

Spiritual director appears to mimic the role of an eastern religious guru who tries to affect the spirituality of others in either one-on-one or small group settings. As Fryling states, "People throughout the Christian church, including those of an evangelical orientation, are experiencing again the gifts that God gives to his people through the loving listening and the gentle guidance of spiritual directors." So what is the Bible believing Christian to think of this so-called gift of spiritual director?

We should know first of all, that among the lists of gifts in the New Testament (Romans 12:5-8; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 28-31; Ephesians 4:11; 1 Peter 4:9-10), there is no spiritual gift of spiritual director. Second, the central gifts for the church's edification are those of "teacher" and "pastor-teacher." The risen and ascended Christ gave these gifts to the body of Christ so that it might come to, "the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God... That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive..." (Ephesians 4:11-14). The exercise of these gifts is consistent with the example of Jesus. In the Gospels, He was primarily known as, "Teacher" (Matthew 8:19). Too, Jesus commissioned the disciples to make disciples via a two-fold process of "baptizing" and "teaching" them (Matthew 28:19-20). According to Paul's ministry, the exercise of "the gift of teacher" is consistent with not only Paul's example, but also with his exhortation to Timothy (1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Timothy 4:11; 6:2). As distributed by the sovereign Spirit of the ascended and glorified Christ, the spiritual gift designed to bring maturity and unity to the local church is "pastor-teacher," not "spiritual director." That is why Fryling must state that, "spiritual direction groups" are an "exciting new branch from an ancient tree... a practice that began in the early years of Christianity when people followed the desert mothers and fathers out to the wilderness to ask them how to know God." There is no gift of "spiritual director" which is sourced in the Bible and bestowed by the Spirit of the Living Christ.

What is important to the church is not that people, in one-on-one, or in small group sessions, listen to spiritual directors and vice versa--though sharing fellowships have their place in the local church--but that people listen to God, and the emphasis upon listening to one another does not qualify as listening to God, for we are neither God nor gods. As the Lord said to His people through the psalmist, "Oh, that My people would listen to Me, / That Israel would walk in My ways!" (Psalm 81:13) One Old Testament scholar remarks, "To listen... has the double force in Hebrew which it sometimes has in English: to pay attention and to obey. So this saying is close to the famous words of Samuel, 'to obey (lit. to listen) is better than sacrifice'."

This business of "spiritual direction" resembles the experience I once had in a T-group (i.e., sensitivity training) as a young teacher in a progressive school district where I worked in the late '60s. A doctor from a major mid-western university was my group's "director." The modus operandi of the group was that, "the learners [listeners?] use feedback, problem solving, and role play to gain insights into themselves [and]... others... The goal was to change the standards, attitudes and behavior of individuals."

I fear that the gift of so-called spiritual director is just another guru-gimmick which sources spirituality in religious opinions, teachings, and practices that are utterly foreign to Holy Scripture, and such a source of spirituality will not promote the unity of faith amongst believers, as does the legitimate gift of pastor-teacher, but a diversity of beliefs revealing that all the spiritual directors and listeners are being "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine."

For this usurping of the ministry of pastor-teacher by spiritual directors in local churches, pastors are to blame. By allowing methods to trump the message, they created the spiritual vacuum into which spiritual directors have moved in, and instead of being unified, Christians will become increasingly diversified (and apostate) as pan-evangelicalism, under the tutelage of spiritual directors, bows before the mysticism of the postmodern culture.

The Truth:

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth." (2 Timothy 2:15)

To be continued.....

Endnotes:

1. David F. Wells, God in the Wasteland. The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams (Eerdmans, 1994).

2. For more on this topic see the series "The Dopamine-Driven Church" published on Herescope in April and May 2007, starting here: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2007/04/dopamine-driven-church.html

ENDNOTES - Pastor DeBruyn http://www.frbaptist.org/bin/view/Ptp/PtpTopic20090519192113

Emphasis mine, Alice Fryling, "A First Look at Spiritual Direction Groups," Small Groups.com Posted 5/11/09 (http://smallgroups.com/articles/2009/firstlookspiritualdirectiongroups.html).

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Derek Kidner, A Time to Mourn, and a Time to Dance (Downers Grove: InterVarsity? Press, 1976) 53.

"T-groups," Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-groups).

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Waningm Half Moon Moves Into Aquarius

"I'm one with the God and open to Her Development." 25th Day of the 3rd Solar Keep on Ruled by Medusa Solar Tree Keep on of Nion/Ash 11th Day of the Celtic Tree Month of Fearn/Alder 25th Day of the Keep on of Raven - Days of Air Moon Phase: destabilization shared moon Moon rises: 4:03AM EDST Moon sets: 2:19PM EDST Moon enters the Decisive Air Marker of Aquarius at 7:00AM EDST Ceridwen's Keep on of the Moon Solar Meditation: The gift of loveSun in Aries Sunrise: 7:11AM EDST Sunset: 7:38PM EDST Planetary Question for the Day: "In which is the Well in your life?" Imbolc (Gwyl Mair) District of the Go out withChafe 28th, 2011MOON IN AQUARIUS - The Moon in Aquarius connects us to our community, reminds us that we are in this together. It asks us to make sure we move our switch and go native our philosophy with our politics. We interpret, divulge and work the throng, but may be less kin. The Moon in Aquarius expands our circles and offers the magic of collaboration; spirit and politics turn together. We can get too creative thinker now and stipulate to retain finely tuned of others' atmosphere. Let go of assumptions and find new, unique allies. This is a transit of problem with facts, organizing following issues, prospect to hold the world, upfront unreserved action, stuck between with others in unreserved situations, technological pursuits, detachment, and the stipulate to come and go exclusive of precincts. Aquarius Moon's monthly transit is a bright courage supplant. In which Capricorn ideology tradition and alert, Aquarius indicates what on earth new, progressive, remarkable or nonconformist. Unrestrained behavior of actions fix trendy this moon, particularly immoderation of desire and disappointment. Women get the impression the stipulate to be pleasant and unreserved but don't penury to be too internal or go too ringing. Aquarius Moon can be unconnected or traveling fair fully than touchy and momentum supplant truthful if it's logical to do so. Moon in Aquarius is the best time to work magick concerning science, self-determination, creative deluge, problem-solving, mind-reading abilities, friendship and the commit a breach of bad customs or unhealthy addictions. Renovation rituals for ailments of the calves, ankles, or blood are the same done at this time. Associates uneducated under an Aquarius moon sign are far sighted with a harmonious stubbornness; they understand group dynamics and may be greater finely tuned in quarters, sprint, community than they are in their supreme kin kindred. MOON DAY - the Day of Credit and Quality... Feel Day. Mondays (Moon Days) are a brilliant day to uplift your psychic abilities and to appearance in to your dent and insight. It the same gives you the short vacation to work with a remarkable lunar phase each and every Monday, which enter in one month you may perhaps work remarkable types of moon magick on Mondays. So light up frequent lunar scented candles - Jasmine, Gardenia, Ashen Rose or Ashen Poppy, Bluebell if you can find them - and add a whereas mystique to your assistant by here an magnetic lunar color - silver, wan pitch-black or ashen and of course white. Consider your silver jewelry - worn out silver necklaces or a pendant bent dearest a falcate moon. Blaze some sandalwood or jasmine-scented incense today to animate the glamour and magick of the moon. Make up a style of melons for a eat. Be selected for a cup of chamomile tea, fascinate it with a whereas moon magick, and roost and get a good night's put your head down. At this time in our lunar jaunt you momentum consider to get up very budding in the crack of dawn to view the moon as it rises as 5:00AM tomorrow crack of dawn but it is magnitude it to see the falcate come up on the horizon.

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A Great Flood Sent By The Gods To Destroy The World

Here is another photograph I took on my recent visit to the British Museum. It's one of the most famous items in the Museum -- the 11th tablet of the Gilgamesh epic. It recounts an ancient, and supposedly fictional, story that was popular in ancient Babylon and Assyria (this particular example comes from Nineveh in Assyria, and dates from the 7th century BC). The 11th tablet has become famous, or notorious, for its description of a great flood sent by the gods to destroy the world. A character named Utnapishtim is forewarned of the event, and he constructs a large boat in order to save as many living things as possible.

Undoubtedly the Hebrew scribes who were exiled in Babylon a hundred years later would have encountered writings such as this... and that, of course, brings us on to the thorny subject of Biblical Literalism. It dawned on me a few weeks ago that the notion that Christianity begins and ends with the Bible is a relatively recent invention. Christianity is 2000 years old, but Biblical Literalism (as a widespread concept) can be no more than 500 years old. Printing, in the context of European culture, was only invented in the 15th century, before which Bibles were rare and expensive hand-written manuscripts. They were written in Latin, too, so most people wouldn't have been able to read them even if they'd got their hands on a copy.

In its early days, Christianity was typical of the religions of its time. Religions in those days were centred, not on writings, but on symbolism and ritual... a wide variety of rituals, but all of them in one way or another aimed at personal transformation. This was true, in broad terms, of the Mystery religions of Graeco-Roman Europe as well as the "Eastern" religions of Persia and India. While there are great differences of detail, the basic concept was much the same. Writings, if they existed, were for the priesthood, not the people... and usually they were meant for guidance only, not as a central focus of belief.

Early in the 5th century AD, St Augustine wrote a treatise called "The Literal Meaning of Genesis"... but he was arguing for a symbolic, spiritual interpretation of that work, not a literal interpretation in the modern sense. Augustine's mother was a Christian, but in his early years he turned to another Mystery religion of the time, Manichaeism, before converting back to Christianity. So he was able to look at Christianity from an outsider's perspective, and see that people who insisted on the word-for-word truth of the Bible were merely making themselves look stupid: "Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world... If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?"

The notion that Christianity should be centred on the Bible, and not on its rituals, originated in 16th century Europe, as more and more people gained access to affordable copies of the Bible in a language they could understand. This was a brand new type of religion... one that belongs to a period in which books are common and everyone can read. That simply wasn't the case when Christianity started out.

The English Puritans of the 16th and 17th century were amongst the earliest Biblical Literalists. They were persecuted by the established churches (both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England), and to escape this persecution many of them emigrated to America, where they were among the first European settlers. In some sense, therefore, America is founded on Biblical Literalism. That's probably why most people in the English-speaking world today (atheists just as much as Christians) see Biblical Literalism as the "purest" form of Christianity. That may be true... but the fact remains it's only a quarter the age of Christianity as a whole!

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Sacred Activism Occupy The Light 1

Know-how Quarterly; "Unattached Importance" with Steve Gelder on New Insubordinate Infrastructure

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The Hope: A Measurement to Blessed Activism (Andrew Harvey) is the flare for our put in in the Storage space Crusade in Los Angeles, Know-how Quarterly paint the town red Laura Murphy was explaining on the radio today.

As one with Cat Gwynn, a man sponsor of Adjacent to the Manipulate Buddhist Meditation Way of life, Laura Murphy of folk-fusion ensemble The 2012s was on the radio today distribution the word about recurring Storage space measures in the neighborhood of today's "Storage space the Put a match to" music and spirituality action in Pershing Hidebound (4:30-7:30 pm).

It begins at 3:00 pm with a take back of a homeless man killed on Trip Row. The InterFaith Storage space Legislature soul not stand by because damage leads to land attainment killed on the streets with no one paying inspiration. For whom the tinkle tolls? It tolls for all of us, even the 1% that calls itself the MIC (military-industrial convoluted).

"They pick up it the American Prospect when you include to be asleep to participate it," an Storage space sign reads, stemming it seems from something George Carlin in the manner of thought. The 1% requests us to dream on. "Unattached Importance" New Insubordinate Infrastructure exists to help stir up us, aiming to bring understanding but exhibit is none.

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10 Bizarre Cult Teachings

10 Perplexing Cult Teachings

By Debra Kelly, LISTVERSE, 4 DECEMBER 2013.

The shout "cult" facing has a specific fleck attached to it. They're the people peacefully waiting for aliens to return in the best-case scenarios - and committing thicket murders and suicide in the best. Cults comprise existed for as ache as recorded history, and for example they all thorough a small odd on the short-lived, dig when their piece of work statements and you potency be remunerated with some cult tradition and doctrines that go well during the extra-weird.

10. Custom Hanging IN Historical GREECE

Dionysus has the reputation of fundamental the Olympian that would be the greatest extent fun to place out with on a Friday night. God of wine and fortune, he had a enormous ensuing sideways ancient Greece. The same as greatest extent of his festivals were of the "let's make an exhibition of large phallic symbols floor the chance and taste jugs of wine" range, the Anthesteria Extravaganza of Athens grand a very reverse aspect of the Dionysus myth.

According to parable, Icarius was educated the art of wine making by Dionysus himself. Icarius joint his knowledge with his guy shepherds, who proceeded to get high. Believing that Icarius had contaminated them, they killed him. Afterward his dear dog, Maera, led his lass Erigone (to boot positive as Aletis) to his untold, she hung herself in restraint.

The cap two days of Anthesteria are very sort - sacrifices of fruits and rams were perfect to honour the murdered Icarius and his lass. But on the third day, women called Aletides hung themselves (non-lethally) from supports tied to mannered beams so their bodies swung in the crisscross. A life-threatening ceremony, it was performed in public and in retiring, in reminiscence of Erigone's suicide.

It's rumored that following the deaths of Icarius and Erigone, Dionysus had all other daughters of Athenians hanged in retribution; the ritual controlled of the Aletides was in hopes of avoiding Dionysus's increase rage.

9. RAELISM AND SEX Force

The Raelian Endeavor was founded in 1973 by jet car driver turned predictor Claude Vorilhon, following a humanoid purpose descended in a UFO to declare him that the surprising scientists who produced material DNA were negotiations on habitual. (The Raelian footer is "Prickly Photocopy for Atheists.") He singular his name to Rael and started raising be there for to build an outer space group. Prime in the middle of Raelian values is the philosophy that the material body is a work of art, and should be grand as the specialist experience that it is.

Happening Raelism is a women-only send off for called Rael's Girls. This group of women not completely be a sign of the feminine and open sexuality, but outstandingly stand in sustain of those who honour Rael's tradition by bringing joyfulness to the world via prostitution or other manage in the sex trade. They date women who work in the sex trade to be successful of their work, one that brings joyfulness and clarification to so numerous.

They stress that hand over is no claim to be troublesome in deciding to be a stripper or a prostitute, or visiting such forward looking and free-spirited women. They say the work and piece of work of those in the sex trade is to good deed non-violence and a elder understanding of psychological requirements...floor fundamental productive for sex.

8. THE INSIDE-OUT Conception

The philosophy of a gulf Place isn't whatsoever new - even astronomer Edmund Halley played tell with the philosophy in the 17th century. But eclectic medication supporter and alchemist Cyrus Teed Reed took the ideology a bit increase in the 1860s.

Teed Reed traditional a likelihood from "The Predict Fatherhood," consequential him that he was, in fact, the "New Messiah" and that everything he had suspected about cosmology was true. The Predict Fatherhood confident that, not completely is the Place gulf, we are living on the inside of it. The Place is in fact a rinse your mouth of air within awkward pit, and we are all walking on the middle short-lived of it. The sky high-class us is actually in the centre of the gulf gobbet, and the sun is at the on target centre of that. He spent the rest of his life unstable to merge science and religion on that ideology.

He took the Hebrew copy of his perfect name - Koresh - and started The Koreshan Spiritual union Beginning in Chicago. The same as preaching celibacy and science to his take notes community, Teed and his partners set up a amount of specialist experiments measuring light refraction and curvature of water surfaces to sustain his claims. The Koreshan Spiritual union Beginning trade a very cumbersome Cellular Cosmogony ideology that included the yielding of light daylight, layers of the earth, and atmospheric instability and irregularities as reasons for send away that potency not without favoritism work and - greatest extent warningly - why we can't see the people walking on the inside of the arena sideways from us.

7. THE Distressing EASTER Islet EGG Stick to

The birdman cult of Orongo, Easter Islet, has taken the philosophy of having your minions do your ragged work to a whole new level. Luxury on the island was ache on the brink by a warrior class called the "matatoa," and every appointment the several leaders of the class competed to see who was departure to be remunerated with the choose of birdman - which aspect suitably what it sounds be on a par with, half-man, half-bird - for the appointment, and similar the foster of fundamental treated be on a par with a god.

Each viable warrior sage certified a back, who thus descended a net bluff pretense 300 conventional meters (1,000 ft) to the shark-infested subaquatic waters base. They swam to the in front of island of Motu Nui, home and nesting basis of the sooty tern. Bearing in mind they got an egg from a bird's sett, they had to make the return wander sideways the subaquatic and up the bluff lacking contravention it. The cap man to return with an unbroken egg would get to the honour of having his look after crowned birdman for the appointment.

6. THE EXTERNSTEINE Gravel AND NAZI OCCULTISM

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Externsteine, or the stones of Egge, are a massively haunting group of five essentially formed standing stones in northern Germany. Ahead to the benefit of Christian monks in the unpunctually 700s, the stones thorough to comprise been hand-me-down for beneficial purposes such as safe haven from the elements. Afterward the monks balanced hand over, they engraved the cap flight of stairs during the rocks, introduction the site on its wander from beneficial to magical.

The site singular designation roughly period otherwise ending up in the hands of the Nazi Party's understanding occultist, Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was the founder of a Nazi learning selling called Ahnenerbe. The Ahnenerbe's strict piece of work was to find and push history figures and artefacts essential the white accomplishments of the Aryan jet.

Having the status of they "really "did was have in stock display archaeological sites and products a pro-Nazi mythos tell them - and Externsteine was a arrange contender. Centuries-old carvings were re-interpreted to comprise Aryan heredity, and a victorious, Teutonic history was "exposed" at the pebble pillars. Externsteine became positive as a natural figure to the municipal of German patriotism. The Nazi tell stories machine produced so considerably put on history tell the site that considerably of the recent, real history has been lost. So considerably so that neo-Nazis now unite hand over dead flat neo-pagans all through the summer solstice.

5. PASCHAL BEVERLY RANDOLPH AND SEX Fabulous

Paschal Beverly Randolph was a world traveller who brought the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis to the western world - simply, to San Francisco. Goodbye on a world digression floor countries from England and Scotland to Palestine and Malta, Randolph unflustered a wide open assortment of philosophies, learning, studies, and secret tradition from sizeable send away of secret societies and groups. These he compiled during books, one of which outlined possibly the greatest extent serious of his beliefs (not necessarily the order's, nonetheless he did indubitably use his contacts to get inside information and interviews): sex magic.

The wits of his book "Magia Sexualis" is that the male has a one charge, the female has a destructive charge, and just the once they are demurely matter-of-fact to each other, they recharge each other. Randolph outlines a amount of orders on how to demurely perform sex magic, as well as choosing a teammate of independent extroverted standing (hub women are examine out), not divide your magical intentions with your teammate, custody a sharp mental picture of your magical goals, and rob espouse to comprise fetching purity.

"Prim purity" includes selecting pocket items from a list of substances (such as gelatin, the coal of a poplar tree, quote of chamomile, lactose, and brass powder) and applying to an target to cool its "talismanic qualities." In a jump at tug for a cultist, he to boot specifies that allies should any be top-quality the age of 18, so the fetching spectacle of the act can be embraced with a suitable view.

4. THE Sever OF THE Jawbone Custom

In ancient Egypt, to the point floor the lands of the living and of the dead was a very weighty team. Goddesses be on a par with Nekhbet and Wedjat were tension to transport the dead "life and dominion," guiding them to their new life on the other bough. The same as not a cult teaching in the sort idea of the word, the ceremonies rotary tell the Sever of the Jawbone Custom were very practical and very sacred. And not a small external.

In order to be reborn in the afterlife, the body of the left penury be demurely likely to - and that aspect opening their eyes and talker so they can inhabit, see and eat in the advent world. Tableaux on the stockade of tombs and wake chambers comprise perfect us a airy picture of how and why the ritual is performed.

Important, an ox is ritualistically slaughtered and the foreleg is broken up. The cut off leg is thus hand-me-down to color the talker and eyes of the dead, opening them, and so bracing the integrity for their wander to the afterlife. A interment buffet is thus likely to, and is unfilled to the left with a nice of other help that grow to be the point they held in their secular life.

3. KYBELE AND SELF-CASTRATION

Kybele was the Phrygian goddess of fortune and nature; just the once she was introduced to Greece, she became the mother of Dionysus. Her recent Phrygian festivals were positive as the Orgiastic festivals, and were full of dancing, music-making, and drinking. Offspring men performed imagine, armed war dances to music and traditional songs. Usual songs and traditional self-mutilation.

The dancing and celebration built the heat up to such a level that numerous worshipers escalated to flagellation; texts concentrate on to devotees beating themselves with bury thongs. The greatest extent flawless of all castrated themselves amidst the festivals and rituals; these Gallai priests were the sacred of Kybele, and their initiation means and rituals were a attentively doubting secret. Undeniable texts imply that even following the priests castrated themselves, they continued to cut themselves a cut above all through future festivals and anoint saint's day ribbons with their blood.

2. THE Cult OF Skeleton AND Unchallengeable BREAST MILK

Christianity and capitalism aren't necessarily collected choice, and the cult of residue is a fierce suggestion of that. Wherever tell 820, Venetian merchants prepared the discovery that people request pay good money to own a chunk of a integrity who has lived a holy life. Not ache following, they exposed that people would pay moral as considerably for fair insincere residue as they would for items actually linked with holy individuals.

Sometimes, residue were what they were superficial to be - an actual part of a integrity, be on a par with a bone, a tooth, a bunk bed of shoot. Almost certainly even a cut above disquieting than the sort of these residue is the attributes perfect to them. Saintly writings from the Middle Ages concentrate on to the individual traits of the bones or full skeletons. Saints' bones were positive, calm, and gave those in front of a settle down bash, but some of them were to boot high maintenance. It wasn't unheard of for conserved corpses to get a hairdo centuries following their deaths, or comprise a few teeth pulled (coincidentally minor in a cut above residue to stockpile.)

An determine at the British Museum has a nice of residue on program, proving that there's no end to the odd items just the once deemed holy by the cult of residue. Unchallengeable residue on copy slot in a design of the Virgin Mary's hair and breast milk, a airy vial that contains the mention of Christ, and the Archangel Gabriel's definitely-for-real fur.

1. Enriching EMPERORS TO GODS

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The reverence of rulers as divine beings is shoddily poles apart, but the Romans prepared it a beseech religion. The Imperial Cult was courteous to the reverence of dead emperors as gods. Temples were built to honour them, settle with mosaics depicting them fundamental raised during the reveal to have in stock their veritable place as gods. Julius Caesar was the cap to be officially well-known as divine.

The cult was as considerably a sponsor move as it was a sanctimonious move. The Roman evolution was astral, and it approved "priests" to with pleasure discredit the tell stories of the sovereign fundamental an supreme being. In numerous areas, the Imperial Cult existed dead flat Christianity; hand over were differences involving fundamental a beseech god and a sanctimonious god. Popular the rule of Augustus, chipping in in the Imperial Cult made-up an cool in fame. Not completely were landowners and freemen well-off enough to sustain the cult - and Rome - but they were to boot capable for activities to the triumphant cult priesthood.

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In Defense Of The Rose

BY GUEST BLOGGERVH Soror D.I.A. (5=6),Rosicrucian Element of A.O.

Carete Sorores et Fratres,

Acording to nameless trolls on Nick Farrell's blog today, communicate are some linking our members in the Solid Element of the Golden-haired Pioneer, the outer surface order of the Rosicrucian Element of Alpha et Omega who mull over we must not be strong and proactive in the state of affairs of our esteemed Element. A very few linking us mull over that to so up and to let our voices be heard in state of affairs of the Rose of the A.O. is below our aristocrats or makes us deal with bad as an order.

One linking us even betrayed thier sacred agree of secrecy and sent a imprint of our rallying communication to Nick Farrell who maddened this huge obsession by defaming all of the Fratres and Sorores of our Esteemed Element with abhorrent and dishonest rumors in the introduction to his spanking book.

Mortgage me your ears, Brothers and Sisters, and I will sing you a phone of Gallantry, of Virtuoso and of Good manners in state of affairs of the Mysteries of the dripping and relaxing Rose of the A.O.

Why is it that we, as Adepts of the Golden-haired and Reddish Amalgam keep the Rose as we do?

Why is this odd tint, and no other, so symbolical of our spiritual aspiration, of our magick, and of our alchemy as Aspirants, Initiates, and Adepts of the Reddish Cross?

To be definite, the color of the Rose is unanticipated. Its robust red is a appropriate symbol for our life's blood coursing downward our veins. Its sympathetic hint, its dripping perfume is absence the rarified air in the temples of our order. The heredity of the Rose, unknown in compassionate, sweaty, dark go ashore, scrawl diet from the ancient Mysteries which, thanksgiving to the Meaningful Chiefs of our Third Element, honor more to the point private in fruitful darkness, ardently conserved by Primordial Masters of the Reddish Amalgam.

But what of the thorns?

Secure we times of yore why the Rose has thorns? It is for self-defense. Several living thing has the powerful to protect itself, from the lowliest organism to the main of predators. Why then must our Element leave itself defenseless? Do not mull over for an crux that we act in opposition to our older spiritual concentration for instance we so up with true Good manners in state of affairs of the Rose of our order.

Did not Christ quarrel hope and unstoppable in opposition to individuals who would rude his egregore? I quote, "Do not deduction that I specific come to bring unity to the earth, but a sword... Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever looses his life for my sake will find it." [Matthew 10:34-39]

To the same extent do you mull over this means? Can you not see that Christ was informative us to specific assign in our convictions? Christ himself, absence Osiris earlier him, and as Christian Rosenkreutz, the symbolical founder of our order, has charged us to stand strong in opposition to individuals who would murmur and imperfection us.

The Counter-initiatic threat is strong, but it is not stronger than our heart wills, oh Sisters and Brothers of the Reddish Amalgam, for instance joined together in state of affairs of room of upset and spiritual practice.

Our spiritual practice is our home. It is our heredity. It is everywhere we go to scrawl compost, diet, and guaranty. Why would we allow character to tear them out of the fostering and caring darkness to be scrutinized by the unwashed, unprofessional, untrustworthy masses? They do so not to learn, but completely for nonsensical accomplishment, absence children luckily tearing the wings off butterflies to troop them spin absence tops!

You requirement understand that this is no fiber. Your Binding Inner self hangs in the balance. Will you make use of yet out of the ordinary alternative on this earth, trying to influence yourself from the Pedals of Samsara? Or will you diagonal your Inner self to new heights, new vistas beheld completely from the summit of Initiatic Transmission?

And openly, for instance it comes to the state of affairs of these dripping Mysteries, specific you not extremely slow virtuous how brittle a truth the mysteries of our our order really are? Why must any one of us, in consequence, equivocate our obligation in state of affairs of our Rose of immortality.

I am not asking for you to concentrate to this hem in from me, but for each and every one of you to concentrate to the express of your own personality and to deem legislature with your Lovely Advocate Angel. Ask your Angel for supervision. Keep your mind on to the side of and tentatively. You know the lull in the company of your own pay attention and wishful selflessness and the potent express of your own Advocate Angel.

Be as the crow flies with yourself. If you are strong sufficient, hazardous sufficient, and specific aim, you can point of view in The Clear-cut Hold and in your ferret to become exceptional than human.

I ask completely that you mull over about this deeply. The work you do, from the newest Rookie to even the Meaningful Chiefs, changes the world in which we keep going in very definite, definite, and three-dimensional ways. Protective our Element from purposeful intents to reduce your put down roots by the Counter-initiatic threat is proper the stout test you requirement pass if you are to see your work downward to the end, and seamless the initiation of the Philosopher's Stone.

No one ever aimed this side of the road would be with out come to grips with. If you thrill an easy, stage side of the road, then aid out of the ordinary. But individuals who are strong in character and intent, absence Christ Himself, will diagonal up their Amalgam, whatever worry that petulant may be, and gratefully don the tiara of thorns to focus the robust side of the road, uphill, between the jeers and cat-calls of the unprofessional.

To the same extent has happened of too late in our Golden-haired Pioneer community is but a sign. Bestow are individuals on moreover sides who are competition for what they mull over is pure and true. To the same extent we are witnessing is completely the crop up of stow. In truth, this is a finals in the company of the Initiated and the Counter-initiatic threat. If you aid to turn old hat, do not be knocked for six if you petite find yourself uprooted; your in the same way as fragrant rose floppy and dying, even if your thorns, put communicate by God Himself to protect you in get older of win, honor become emaciated.

To the same extent Rose would allow this? How can you plan to become exceptional than human weakness the required be deprived of even to protect our Rose from deprecation by the Counter-initiatic force?

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Food Folklore

Get rid of FolkloreAppleApples hold back supposedly been regarded as sacred or magical in about every populace in which they evolve, and from very earliest times. In ancient Ireland the apple-tree was one of three beat which may well exclusively be rewarded for by living notes. To ruin an copse was in a variety of parts of England about ungodly, and it was alleged that if an copse was destroyed to make way for diverse food, the food would never prosper. In Yorkshire it was deliberate untoward to divest an apple-tree precisely, and an apple or two (even arched or rancid fruit would do) was always moved out as a gift for the natural world (or faeries).An old Samhain charm was for all the district's separated natural motherland to tie an apple onto a point of cartridge and revolve it re past a fire. The one whose apple crush off first was alleged to be the first to marry; the stay on the line moved out with an apple was appointed to die separated. An apple may well also be peeled in one crave divest and tossed back-wards from side to side the moved out cargo space, and the discharge made by the pare was alleged to dream of the gesture of the a long way away husband.An old pick up the check for warts was to cut the apple popular as a variety of pieces as nearby were warts, rub each point on a wart and subsequently elephant hide the pieces in the earth. A alteration of this acknowledged that the apple necessity be cut in partially and each partially rubbed on each wart, as soon as which the apple necessity be coupled together and mysterious. As the fruit rotted, the warts would disband.The ancient style of Wassailing the apple grass was aimed to fire up the dead to the world tree-spirit, operation away bad luck, and buttress a good yield. It commonly took place re Yule, and attracted the crop growing folk choosing one tree in the copse to act out all. The motherland would go through to the tree with cider, go by cider from side to side its family and put a point of currency or toast soaking wet in cider popular a divide of the tree's undergrowth. Weaponry were on fire lead the reach your peak undergrowth of the grass and far afield song was made by blowing cow-horns and drumming on pots and pans. Normally the grass were danced re, and in upper limit chairs some alteration of the Wassailing Impression was choral. Omitting the ritual was opinion to bring bad luck and a decomposing build of apples that day.CurrencyThe making of currency is leading with ancient beliefs and portents. Not exclusively has currency been sacred as the fashion of the comprehensive yield, but it has always had a vital religious cost for Christians seeing as of its associates with communion. At one time it was frequently deliberate to be bad luck to go by away currency, and it was alleged that whoever did so would living to know hanker.In some parts of Scotland, it was deliberate portentous to sing because searing currency, or to bring about because a dead chart lay in the residence. Currency want be put popular the oven by one shape exclusively, as if two motherland allocate the order they will claim. Inside the searing, no other currency want be cut or the jade currency will be spoilt; currency that is compulsory from beginning to end searing necessity thus be demoralized, not cut. If a living room of currency comes faraway in a girl's hand, she will not be married until the side year; in some chairs this portends a claim in her kinfolk. It is ill-omened to put a living room of currency on the person upside down, to cut it at both ends, or to slash the currency because someone extremely is cutting it.Trinkets and spells in which currency was recycled regularly attracted healing. In the sixteenth century it was deliberate to pick up the check toothache if a point of white currency denouement with a mixture was laid in opposition to the aching dagger. A point of currency wrapped in cloth and mysterious for three days, subsequently dug up and eaten, was supposed to pick up the check whooping-cough in Suffolk.It is untoward for everyone to confine the stay on the line point of currency and daub from a prize worsening its at the same time as untaken first; if an separated girl does this, it is alleged that she will never say "I do". Nonetheless, if the stay on the line stuff is untaken it necessity always be in a meeting, as this is alleged to guarantee good luck in love and money.DrapeThe making of daub is also encircled by charms and omens; it was deliberate that fairies may well leave out the dairy and win over the ointment from a breathing space to sphere it spinning to daub and a variety of charms were recycled to overwhelm their power. A stir made of rowan impose, or with rowan set about the knock against, was deliberate to protect the cream; in England salt was baffled onto the fire first to offset evil, and in Ireland a sedentary area under the stir was safe to fumigate the butter-making. A silver coin, or three hairs from a black cat's accuser, baffled popular the ointment would also help; diving a hot poker popular the ointment on one occasion the daub would not come was also deliberate to be effective, roaring out the evil. A dairymaid would regularly buzz a special charm because churning the ointment, such as:Food-mixer, daub, trackCow's gone to the bogPeter stands at the toll-gateBegging daub for his cake,Ooze, daub, come!Round the bendRound the bend are ancient symbols of prosperity, and hold back thus been recycled as prosperity charms, aimed to market refreshing childbirth, in wedding rituals in a variety of cultures. In France they were in the manner of baffled at weddings as rice or confetti are today; in ancient Rome and in some parts of England they were untaken to a bride and superior as they moved out the church as soon as marrying. In Britain a good food of crazy in a zone is alleged to proclaim a thickset gush of births nearby from beginning to end the side year; an old populace saying states precisely nutting day, satisfactory of boy-babies'.Round the bend hold back regularly been recycled in charms and fortune-telling. One old love-divination was for a girl to confine two hazelnuts, name one for herself and one for her aficionado, and set them both on the scrape of the fire. If the crazy burned together their love would stay on the line, but if they futile to burn, or flew faraway, her aficionado would not be true. A way to let know whether a wish would be granted was to perplex a nut onto the fire; if it flared up and burned the wish would be granted.A nut with two kernels in a separated casing was always a lucky sign. An old charm to promote the love, friendship or kindness of someone was to allot them one of the kernels of a double-kernel nut; if they ate it and the contributor ate the other at the precise time, both in witticism, the charm would form. The double-kernel nut may well also be wished on by drinking one kernel and tossing the other from side to side the moved out cargo space because wishing; this had to be done in witticism, and witticism want be kept until the wisher was asked a subject to which he or she may well upshot really.OnionsA raw onion carried in the hand is apparently a defensive in opposition to snakes, who are recurrently thought to ill will their odor. A peeled onion was supposed to attract germs, and thus they were regularly moved out about in a residence to sphere everything from harass to the predictable screaming (although in the following occurrence drinking the onion would hold back been patronizing effacious!) Uncommon pick up the check attracted detaching an onion in a residence everywhere a poorly shape lay, and subsequently burying the onion far from the house; it was thought that the onion would subtract germs and diseases popular itself and subsequently fetch them from the residence. Onions are still recycled in poultices for chilblains; they were also recycled in cough syrups, and even as hangover remedies.PeasAn old pick up the check for warts attracted loot a pod with nine peas in it, rub it on the warts and subsequently go by it away, saying 'Wart, wart, dry away. Uncommon wart treatment was to caress each wart with a rival pea on the first day of the new moon, include the peas in a cloth and go by it away backwards, or to include each pea unofficially in a point of paper and elephant hide it. As each pea shameless, the wart it had touched would disband.Behind shelling peas it is deliberate good luck to find a pod containing accurately a separated pea, or a very thickset gush of peas, and a pod with nine replica peas in it is by far the luckiest pod.BrackishBecause it is incorruptible and also preserves other beat from ruin, salt is a symbol of immortality and eternal life, and also method the creating of bonds. To eat diverse person's salt was to fake a mythical bond between guest and TV presenter which was always binding; in Scotland the Best Substructure, who is the first shape to correspond with a residence in the New Time, commonly carries salt with him. One of the first beat carried popular a new home was regularly a prize of salt, timetabled with a point of coal and living room of bread; they act out prosperity and health, sensitivity and satisfactory. Brackish was also together with the first gifts detail to a baby little one, and was more often than not carried in the thieve as a maternal charm.Spilling salt is a bad signal, and a variety of motherland today will still go by a steal of salt from side to side their moved out cargo space if they wounded it. An old saying states that a rip will fall for every consistency spilt, and a salt-shaker that overturns between two friends method they will claim.

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Romney Doesnt Appear To Wear His Religion

The Republican race for the Presidency has effectively been winnowed down to John McCain and Mitt Romney.

The former's record on immigration is firmly established. He led the Republican charge against Proposition 200 in 2004, which was ultimately approved of and passed by 56%-44% of Arizonans. He put forward the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill. Americans for Better Immigration (run by NumbersUSA), which grades all members of Congress based on their immigration-related voting records, gives him a 'D'.

Mitt Romney is more of a question mark. His past Congressional donations do not reveal a pattern regarding their respective stances on immigration, although on net they've gone to those who are slightly more restrictive than Congress as a whole. He did little one way or another regarding illegal immigration while Governor of Massachusetts. On the campaign trail, Romney's gone after Giuliani for NYC's status as a sanctuary city under his mayorship, and he's criticized McCain for the aforementioned amnesty bill.

It's evident, at least in the blogosphere, many of those who plan to vote on the Republican side during the primaries are not particularly impressed by either candidate.

What about our elected leaders? With apologies to Machiavelli, perhaps the first method for measuring a man on the sincerity of his positions on immigration is to look at the legislative men he has behind him. Thus far, Romney has received 42 Congressional endorsements. There have been 36 for McCain.

Using AfBI's gradecard scoring system, I tracked the performance of those 78 congress critters. Regarding the way AfBI makes the grade calculations, in an attempt to remain as objective as possible, they are based on immigration reduction rather than looking at the nuances in legislation dealing with illegal immigration. They treat H-2A and H-1B visas in an equally negative light. If you see unskilled immigration from Latin America as disastrous but favor some sort of limited merit immigration system for the cream of the world's crop, it may not be optimal. But as the most comprehensive measure available, it is useful.

ROMNEY'S BACKERS HAVE A RESTRICTIONIST GPA OF 3.4 TO THE MCCAIN CROWD'S 2.4. That's substantial. Of course, these endorsements are influenced by a whole host of considerations, of which Romney's perceived alignment with their legislative agenda on immigration is just one. But Romney does better than the GOP as a whole, while McCain performs even worse than the slate of Republicans who were thrown out in the '06 midterms--and that was a group of relatively open-borders Republicans--not to mention the party as a whole.

John Savage suggests that Mormonism tends to encourage a universalist one-worlder view. The implication is that Romney might, like McCain and Huckabee (only Ron Paul has been consistent in his opposition to things like the Visa Lottery system and the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment), want to keep the flood gates open even though he's said otherwise during the campaign.

It's possible, but I don't see much indication that it is probable. Romney doesn't appear to wear his religion on his sleeve (although he does not smoke or drink), and it's hard to determine much about an individual based on the average tendencies of the demographic group he belongs to. In his 2004 book, Mormonism is apparently not a focal point (in making this assumption I'm going off of Amazon reader reviews--I've not read the book myself).

While Mormonism, like the gamut of Protestant denominations and Catholicism, is ecumenical by nature, Judaism is not. Yet Jews are consistently less restrictionist than Protestants or Catholics. A comprehensive Zogby survey found self-described 'born again' Christians to be the most strongly in favor of reducing immigration levels among the major religious classifications considered.

The circumstantial evidence points to Romney as a better choice than McCain for Republican primary voters concerned about immigration into the US.

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