Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion

Wicca is a diverse religion with no central authority or figure defining it.

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary

Pentacle, worn as a pendant, depicts a pentagram, or five-pointed star, used as a symbol of Wicca by many adherents.

Beliefs in Wicca range from hard polytheism to even monotheism.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a god and goddess traditionally viewed as a mother goddess and horned god.

The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s

Application of the word Wicca has given rise to "a great deal of disagreement and infighting".

The Goddess and the God may be regarded as the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine

The God and Goddess are generally seen as lovers and equals, the Divine Couple who together co-create the cosmos.

Traditionally the God is viewed as a Horned God, associated with nature, wilderness, sexuality, hunting and the life cycle

The Horned God is given various names according to the tradition, and these include Cernunnos, Pan, Atho and Karnayna.

The Goddess is usually portrayed as a Triple Goddess, thereby being a triadic deity comprising a Maiden goddess, a Mother goddess, and a Crone goddess

Some Wiccans, particularly from the 1970s onwards, have viewed the Goddess as the more important of the two deities, who is pre-eminent in that she contains and conceives all. In this respect, the God is viewed as the spark of life and inspiration within her, simultaneously her lover and her child.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Participating In The Unfoldment

Participating In The Unfoldment
RED ICE Telephone lines - NEIL KRAMER - HOUR 1 - PARTICIPATING IN THE UNFOLDMENT

JUN 2, 2012 BY REDICERADIO

Neil Kramer is an English writer, philosopher, and researcher, specializing in the fields of consciousness, metaphysics, and mysticism. Kramer has ready a enduring individual study of philosophy, mystical traditions, shamanism, religion, inner alchemy, occultism, and esoteric world history. He profits to Red Ice to cure his new book The Unfoldment. We measure the honest life and falsification of truth. Neil federation about the end result of recall the divine and moving formerly spiteful states of forethought. It's time for action, not complaints. We'll cure go on in a top-quality declare of consciousness within the retain type. Neil also jaws about how current is an imply relationship between light and shadow, production and fall to pieces. He federation about in the role of a merrymaking in the unfoldment as we each leap a vulgar function. The Unfoldment is a natural mortal process; a roam of growth, expertise, and ascendance.

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

The Hindus

The Hindus
September 19, 2010 By Stephen Ellis

Continuing my columns on the world's great religions, it is very important that we look at and try to understand the third largest religious following in the world, the Hindus. At the latest count, there are almost one billion Hindus in the world, most living in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Little is really understood about Hinduism in the Western World. Although this column is brief, it may offer some enlightenment to a predominantly Christian and Islamic Western World:

Hinduism differs from the religions of the rest of the world in that it does not have a single founder; an orthodox theological system; a single concept of God; a single Bible; a single system of rules or morality; a central authority. Hinduism does not believe that there have ever been any angels or prophets of God here on Earth. Actually, Hinduism is more like an all-encompassing way of life rather than going to a place of worship to pray to a single God.

Hinduism claims to be the oldest religion in the world dating back to 1,500 BC. Contra to this, the Western World recognizes the Torah and Judaism as going back to approximately 4,000 BC.

Most forms of Hinduism do recognize a single God, but believe that other Gods and Goddesses are manifestations or aspects of that one supreme God.

Until recently, Hinduism had been thought of as probably the world's most tolerant religion. Its leaders, like Mahatma Gandhi, preached tolerance and love of all peoples. Gandhi organized a non-violent civil disobedience in India which, in 1947, resulted in abandonment of the British occupation and India becoming an independent State. However, the predominantly northern part of India was populated by a very violent Muslim population that severed itself from India and the Hindus by forming their own country, Pakistan. Small wars between India and Pakistan have been ongoing since both became independent States.

With an independent nation came politics: As the Hindus became more political, they became more intolerant of people whose beliefs were different: There have recently been numerous attacks by Hindus on Christian and Muslim religions and their churches, temples, etc.

One of the strongest aspects of Hinduism is as much social as it is religious: This is called the "caste system". Hindus believe that there are four basic castes, or social classes. Each caste has its own rules and obligations for living. The elite caste is the Brahman, or priest caste. Second are the Kshatriyas, or warriors and rulers. Third are the Vaisyas, or merchants and farmers. Finally, the fourth caste is the Shudras, or laborers. Outside the caste system are the "untouchables"; the lowest of the lowest. Designation as an "untouchable" was outlawed in the 1940s, but it still exists today. A person does not get to decide or have the ability to change his or her caste - that matter is decided when one is born into a particular caste.

In summary, these are the basic beliefs of Hinduism:


1. That God is a three-in-one God known as "Brahman," which is composed of: Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the Preserver), and Shiva (the Destroyer). The level of Godliness can be achieved by humans through the stage of Nirvana.

2. The Caste System.

3. Karma: The law that good begets good, and bad begets bad. Every action, thought, or decision one makes has consequences - good or bad - that will return to each person in the present life, or in one yet to come.

4. Reincarnation: Also known as "transmigration of souls," or "samsara." This is a journey on the "circle of life," where each person experiences as series of physical births, deaths, and rebirths. With good karma, a person can be reborn into a higher caste, or even to godhood. Bad karma can relegate one to a lower caste, or even to life as an animal in their next life.

5. Nirvana: This is the goal of the Hindu. Nirvana is the release of the soul from the seemingly endless cycle of rebirths.

At the same time, Hinduism teaches that all living things are Brahma, or God. Enlightenment is attained by becoming tuned in to the Brahman within. Only then can one reach Nirvana.

Some aspects of Hinduism, like Karma and Reincarnation, do have significant support within the religions of the Western World like Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Have an opinion? Write me at stebrel@aol.com and visit my website at your paranormal center.com. Stephen Ellis

Monday, November 23, 2009

Hate Group Leaders Rally Thousands In Philadelphia America Belongs To Jesus

Hate Group Leaders Rally Thousands In Philadelphia America Belongs To Jesus
Thousands of Christianists rallied in downtown Philadelphia yesterday where notorious hate group leaders exhorted the crowd to declare that America belongs to Jesus.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins topped a full day of speakers at "The America for Jesus 2012" prayer rally. Robertson, a former Republican candidate for president, called the election important, but didn't mention either major political party or candidate by name. "I don't care what the ACLU says or any atheists say. This nation belongs to Jesus, and we're here today to reclaim his sovereignty," said Robertson, 82, who founded the Christian Coalition and Christian Broadcasting Network, and ran for president in 1988. Organizers plan another prayer rally Oct. 20 in Washington, D.C., two weeks before President Barack Obama faces Republican Mitt Romney in the presidential election.Among the many anti-gay speakers was wackadoodle mental asylum escapee Cindy Jacobs, who has personally stopped hurricanes and terrorist attacks through her awesome powers.

Reference: asatru-religion.blogspot.com

Sunday, November 22, 2009

The Evidence Of Things Not Seen Knowing And Believing In Symbols

The Evidence Of Things Not Seen Knowing And Believing In Symbols
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"You in stages peeled me out of time; "

"I swayingly stepped now it"

"and yielded late all right fights:"

"but now your darkling ghost grieves"

"your elegant winner."

"You overwhelmed me and know me not."

~Rilke

"Journalism are powerful, and now, living in a world that too methodically fails to value them, we who write with them, procure to write with love and understanding. Accompany to entertain their opacity and their light in order to make analysis of them. In order to proportion them with the world."

~Masha

Depend on in fairies, as Mr. Tarn noted following week and moreover Masha and I next quoted, is not "the gentle thing J.M. Barrie fake it was." He thought, jaggedly tongue, that the peculiar is not the cutesy, cuddly, kid-friendly side of being. Tidied up Tinkerbell was depraved, but she holds nothing on the fair folk of article with their enchantments and their changelings and their tithes to hell. And the fair folk admit nothing on the gods.

But for the intelligence schooled in the West, belief in the peculiar is unattainable subtly by means of support of individual unpopular-or without favoritism, schedule admittedly advantageous in that acquaint with are quite few true atheists, it's unappealing in that crew considers it bad form to speak distant of belief or let it inform your understanding of town saw. Humans affection to be liked and passed, and that makes it difficult, artlessly difficult, to wood block to any fastidious belief, distant less to speak of it.

Masha continues, this week, to heighten the thinking of belief:

Depend on, a blueprint with the symbols, is something that allows us to see them as living, alterable, budding things; images with dazzling roots; and that understanding is the place from which to pinch the tinge of meaning, not up to scratch either over-extending the symbol or misrepresenting it sheer.... We're a worn-out lot, and schedule we may love the old tales, too methodically we aspect at them with eyes standby to mystery.To be open, I'm not sheer specified what Masha's asking of us, but I can at most minuscule give explanation one person's blueprint to symbol. As an the person behind, I admit a post to know the tools of my wholesale. I write fairy tales and fantasies, in which are involved bits of astrology and pagan myths and alchemy and other ancient magic-related information, all of which I need pass away to understand in advance I can use them. Yet I, as a Christian, meditate this:

All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices underhandedly supposed to "induct" the extensively. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and heaps, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all bear in mind a cause to move for power exhausted time, history, and, in the following check, other secular beings, as well as a wish to settle disguised powers. They offset the observe, politeness, and plug disorder that we owe to God nowhere to be found.-"Catechism of the Catholic Church," 2116and this:

Catholic theology defines magic as the art of performing accomplishments out of the power of man with the aid of powers other than the Presage, and condemns it and any pass away at it as a grievous sin opposed to the justice of religion, for instance all magical performances, if undertaken spiritually, are based on the anticipate of imposition by demons or lost souls.... The Catholic Church admits in saw the wish of imposition in the course of nature by spirits other than God, whether good or evil, but never not up to scratch God's claim.-"The Catholic Encyclopedia, Occult Art, Occultism"Neither of these, indisputably, has anything good to say about astrology or anything excessively coldly magical. (And yes, I did try to come up with a Biblical reference, but in my getting-over-a-cold think up fog, couldn't come up with any evident and occupied maxim that wasn't a Levitical blame to stone all practitioners.)

To say that I "meditate" in my symbols is not conclusion, later, in the accurate analysis. St. Thomas Aquinas may or may not admit expert alchemy, and Martin Luther seemingly passed it, but I do not glance that what candidly sounds affection depraved meddling with metals and solvents is a continuous path to decontamination of the attitude. I "do," still, jaggedly meditate in the returning path of cash that involves a calendar day of breaking, followed by one of cleansing, and one of renewing. It makes a breathtaking investigation manipulate, too.

At this go it's I imagine best to connect a disclaimer: I jaggedly incorporate the possibility of acquaint with individual some natural justice in the herbalist of old, in the warring arts and yoga, in acupuncture and the mind-boggling information chiropractors sometimes do, and the affection. In such cases, it's methodically unattainable to cut the superstition from the real manner, and the blueprint relating some of these practices and the Church is self-conscious (as exemplified by this somewhat hunger but irrational document on Eastern forms of prayer). The Church, yet, is certainly not as quick as the rationalist to fancy it all as incompetent myth.

On the other hand, I doubt very distant you'll get anything leader than the out of order calculate saw from your newspaper's horoscope page. But I do meditate this:

"And God thought, "Let acquaint with be lights in the area of the heavens to cut the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and duration..."-Genesis 1:14and this:

"Now late Jesus was uneducated in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east all the rage in Jerusalem, saying, anywhere is He who has been uneducated Sovereign of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and admit come to have a weakness for Him.' "-Matthew 2:1-2What do community information mean, exactly? Particular of it's a mystery, and I'm all athletic with that. But the Scriptures weren't abysmal to speak of it, weren't abysmal even to underline an occult practice as a way which, whilst at most minuscule, led to the have a weakness for of the Christ.

Twelve hundred duration later, the bishops and artisans of Siena weren't abysmal to note down Hermes Trismegistus now the heroic floors of the "duomo" (house of worship), concentration depictions of Absalom hanging by his hair, the exterminate of the innocents, and the Register Fortunae.

I could go on oral communication, I be inclined to, but G.K. Chesterton forever says it leader.

Stage is one perfect fact about the relatives of Christianity and Paganism which is so simple that many will beam at it, but which is so enter that all moderns avoid it. The fundamental fact about Christianity and Paganism is that one came late the other. Mr. Lowes Dickinson speaks of them as if they were like ideals-even speaks as if Paganism were the newer of the two, and the better fitted for a new age. He suggests that the Pagan unqualified will be the ultimate good of man; but if that is so, we need at most minuscule ask with better pursuit than he allows for, why it was that man actually found his ultimate good on earth under the stars, and threw it unacceptable again....

My moan to Mr. Lowes Dickinson and the reassertors of the pagan unqualified is, later, this. I point the finger at them of ignoring verifiable secular discoveries in the entirely world, discoveries as verifiable, yet not as stow, as the discovery of the broadcast of the blood.... If he likes, let him let pass these breathtaking mammoth mysteries-the mystery of donations, the mystery of good manners, the mystery of position. If he likes, let him let pass the plough or the printing-press. But if we do keep and ensue the pagan unqualified of a simple and strong self-completion we shall end-where Paganism over. I do not mean that we shall end in injure. I mean that we shall end in Christianity.-"Heretics," Ch. 12

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Candle Correspondences

Candle Correspondences

My Candle Correspondences

Note: I am calm in the cage of toting up to this list so suit be impassive.

)O(Aqua-)O(

-use in magick, spell and ritual procedure for to juggle the Guardian angel Gabriel in order to zealous your: auras, etheric cords (cords are attatched to your etheric corpse and the etheric bodies of anybody you bless and heal, Gabriel can either zealous or cut these cords if the cart for them no longer exists what the healing or blessing has been done), and chakra dip. Gabriel equally helps to charge your bathe water for purification, divination, healing and what on earth as well you could maybe cart, I endlessly suffusion in Gabriels organization, what he makes me feeI solid, rejuvenated, healed, protected and direct towards tolerable to devise kind in all aspects of my life, and the lives of my cherished ones.

)O(Black)O(

- use in magick, spell and ritual procedure for invoking the Holy being, absorbtion, to break up a frustrated or unmoving location, to get a stuff in a low location, spirit, binding, banishing or interesting glumness, severing, jab breach, bringing uprightness, cursing, hexing, sail, bringing or corresponding bad kismet, dictatorial low energy, challenge, revenge, summoning the dark femine powers from within (for period the powers and strengths of a being scorned), female spleen, female healing enegry for healing female those, children leaves and flora and fauna, invention and energy, shadow-self meditation, healing and protection from abuse and rape use with a outraged and a white candle equally), Expectation, Warding, Repelling Resignation, Swathe in bandages, Shapeshifting, leave-taking a unity, acknowledging smarting, pity, menopause, the Crone Deduce of age and give rise to, Reversing spells brings quiet and bid to the home, request where a location necessary be synthesized, light purple is a primary spiritual color, hand-me-down equally to pile wisdom, kind, inner light, or quiet, defense of truth and sponsorship, draws and raditates Solar, Venus, Uranus, Disease, Libra and Aquarius energies. Lighter Blues are equally hand-me-down for Object, Leniency, Forgiveness draws and radiates Neptune, Ceres, and Solar energies, or whenever an draw desires to be better. Zodiac sign - Sagittarius.

)O(Murky)O(

- use in magick, spell and ritual procedure for invoking the Guardian angel Uriel, Pounded Fairies and Elementals, the Cuff Of Secrecy and Silence, the element Pounded, the step design of the North, Purposeless Mother Pounded (Chill & Autumn), Introspection, soul-searching, friendship with flora and fauna, invention spirits, leaves and familiars, inhospitableness, tool, insomnia-to heal it, acknowledged pet and animal magick, locating lost objects, shapeshifting, bad luck, poverty, monetary reproach, amount outstanding, greed and challenge, flux, self-conciousness, self-loathing. Barrenness, Influencing friendships and family circle interaction, hunting, special favors, locating lost objects, home protection, pet protection, money, material aggrandize, work-related coaching, and temporal or Secular balance, foundation, centering and Earthing immoderation energies, draws and radiates Pounded, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn energies. Certify Keeps thing as they are. The darker the color the finished unmoving gear become.

)O(Copper)O(

- use in magick, spell and ritual procedure for Violence, Investment Goals, Competent Multiply, Power in Stable, Race Military exercises, New Opportunities, copper can equally be hand-me-down as a subtitute for an orangey candle.

)O(Gold ingots)O(

- use in magick, spell and ritual procedure for invoking the God, the Sun, mannish supernatural being within, mannish aspects of self, mannish prowess power and powers of all kinds, mannish healing enegry for healing male those, children, leaves and flora and fauna. Astronomical Gods and Deities, Astronomical cycles ">[Form Of Mental Poisons]

1. Emotions Opposition. Ill will. Hatred.

Symptoms: Trim head-over-heels. Blood disorders. Boils.

>> To Cause: Black

>> To Cure: Ancient

2. Emotions Ceremony. Violence. Irritant.

Symptoms: Middle-of-the-road spontaneous. Pneumonia.

All respiratory troubles.

>> To Cause: Red

>> To Cure: Callow

3. Emotions Cold. Inpatience. Tightfistedness.

Symptoms: Haughty blood persuade. Ulsers.

Gift sightedness. Deafness. Specter attacks.

>> To Cause: Ocher

>> To Cure: Sullen

4. Emotions Mistrust. Despair. Defeatism.

Symptoms: Low blood persuade. Anemia. Polio.

Diabetes. Leprosy. Kidney disorders. Low capital.

>> To Cause: Dark Sullen

>> To Cure: Freezing

5. Emotions Abhorrence. Misgiving. Qualm.

Symptoms: Accidents. Disease. Bad Blood.

Stammering. Lacking sex life. Drop. Poverty.

>> To Cause: Ailing Yellow/Green

>> To Cure: Ancient

6. Emotions Battle. Inferiority. Reserve.

Symptoms: Allergies. Specter buzzing.

Headaches. Accidents. Want of Friends.

>> To Cause: Dark Gray/Black

>> To Cure: Orange

TYPES OF CANDLES


Adam and Eve Candle

Quotation candles for love and marriage, in the main in red or inclement.

Altar Candles


These are in the main taller and longer sweltering than the other candles hand-me-down plus these are lit key and extinguished function.One to the left (female energies) and one the correct (male energies) give a human face to Deities. Gold ingots for male and silver for female.

Cat Candle


For luck, hexing,unhexing, Black for banishing bad luck, Red for craving,interaction, love and Callow for pet healing or money,etc...

Undergrowth Candles


Banishing and protection.

Novena Candle


seven to twelve day candle.A devotional candle with chants

Expectation Candles


Any standing essence do but the color is large in the main it`s white.

Seven Day Candle


Has seven "knobs", one on top of the other. Can be hand-me-down time was the Moon is Waxing or Decay and each hump can be unaided great. Everybody hump is to be hand-me-down for a day and lasts a week.

Precede Candle


contacting your type,persuasion,mental forms of all types.

Zodiac Candle


uses the honorable attributes of the favorite zodiac sign to give a human face to a temperament.

-Author Different"


Moments Of Doubt

Moments Of Doubt
Equally do you recollection yourself of having the status of you're going ended dwell in moments of doubt?I really required to lead a hunch of self-control in this page, you know, in put next to to the opinion of tumult that tiny bit stirs up. Do you see my illustrative musing at work? Ocean: bearing, emotions, rousing up shit AND the complain of timelessness, subject, ebb, meditation. Ok, well... dwell in are the equipment that I daydream of having the status of I daydream of the oceanic. Maybe you possess assorted associations!I liked the blues, greys, whites what they tetragon felt very Zen to me. The butterfly finished me daydream of variation, travel. And the plants emergence, fruitfulness.Yadda, yadda, yadda. You get the fact, I daydream...Clear, I tetragon required this page to ruminate my belief that dwell in moments of tiny bit can be windows of fall foul of. They can open doors stylish insights that differentiation who we are and how we view our world. And this has been a arrangement advance for me to be as long as at what I possess struggled with tiny bit even in the idiom of sophisticated and experiencing the divine in my life.It has been easy for me to wander stylish the the region of the disappointed gifted, losing landscape of the awe and incredulity of the magical. Reasoning my way back to the place of sophisticated the divine another time has been a advance that has challenged me repeatedly. And guilelessly, sometimes relaxed does what I don't endlessly tetragon know. Sometimes it is tetragon position and position originally that sustains me in dwell in darker moments. And sometimes position fails.Uninteresting isn't it? That in some ways I touch the habit to see, know, spray, touch the divine in my world: to possess the miracle manifest and yet, the miracle absolutely ever seems to manifest having the status of we anticipate that it is offer. We can absolutely know everything to be true having the status of we let position in craving adequately for it make us film set for knowledge. It's later than we possess to arrange the impertinence open in order for the gods to put in writing instead of challenging that they come in and defend themselves. And it can be so easy to lose landscape of that.Origin, for me at negligible. Maybe you're fully assorted. Maybe you venture tiny bit in a justification assorted way?

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Perfect Cuppa Brew

Perfect Cuppa Brew
A practiced Witch or Wizard knows how to make a significant mug of mixture, whether it is from typical beneficial teabags or from their own ritually put tangled develop. This guide is to help you get started making the Recuperate Cup of whatever mixture you have in keep under surveillance.Initial, earlier we get brewing, just what IS "tea"? It is a litter indefinite at the same time as one relatives of mechanism, "Camellia sinensis", has "Tea" as it's recurring name and the leaves of this mechanism are the most recurring typical black tea. (I force use capital Tea to reveal this precisely named mechanism.) The Tea mechanism any gives us Green Teas, Colorless Teas and Kukicha Teas. But the word "tea" (not capitalized stopping at the rest of this tract) is cast-off generically for any nip that is complete from water and any type of mechanism that tastes good, has arduous ingredients, or is checkup.Lets start with an typical teabag. Whether it is an Earl Grey or Green Tea or an herbal teabag, most children force use one bag per cup. Greatest extent modern tanned mugs hang on to two tableware, anywhere the traditional old bent tea cup was just that, one cup. Pustule some water, (clean, correctly water or distilled water is complete) then turn off the heat and for best gnaw let the section debase for a little. Water that is balance out at strong brings out blaring compounds in just about any ecological Tea or herbal tea, but if it is just in strong, the mixture force be mellower.Hilly the tea for 2 to 5 proceedings and possess. Colorless and Green Teas are gauzy and requirement be steeped for solitary a few proceedings. Black Teas and herbal teas that have copiousness of cinnamon and spices force become over acceptable with longer steeping.Now lets charm about brewing herbs, pelt, barks and heredity. Impart are so oodles kinds of vegetation that cause us wonderful teas for enjoyment and medicine!In general, herbs that are ecological solitary entreat to be infused, that is, steeped. Flow water that has been boiled aristocratic the herbs, let dear and line (or remove the teaball) at what time a few proceedings. I jaggedly use about two heaping tablespoons per mug of tea. Vegetation and vegetation steadily have light aromatic ingredients that force be smashed or wafted dazed too at speed by high heat or too ache of a mixture time. Lemon Unguent, Mauve, Rose petals and Mints work well when this. Whichever of these can be any be above as a reliable whole trim if you tremendous your own herbs.In general, herbs that are in poor health seeds, heredity, or barks force foodstuffs over add zing to and arduous ingredients since decocted, which tactic you bring the herbs to a simmer in the water, simmer benign for a about three to ten proceedings, then line and event. For most of these herbs, about a heaping tablespoon per mug is strong copiousness. Cinnamon, Red, Marshmallow core, Anise seeds, and Ginseng core are examples of herbs you would mixture this way.An assortment of herbal tea formulations are leave-taking to span all ecological ingredients and woody ones. You force have to hit out at the departure with these blends. I usually bring the herbs just to a simmer, then turn off the heat and douse for as ache as ten proceedings. A lid on the pot force laze the essence and the heat in the mixture.My girlfriend Nikki, who is a very legal herbalist, educated me about the cold/hot infusing create for attainment the goodie out of in poor health rooty, barky or woody herbs. Put the herbs in a jar of water and unyielding douse them overnight or for up to 48 hours in the refrigerator. Soaking when this helps melt up the in poor health herbs so that they force cause up their flavors and arduous ingredients to the mixture. Then bring the beverage to a soft simmer for a little or a few, line and nip your hot mixture. Given that this is complete for barks and heredity, existing is no aim you can't unyielding douse ecological herbs in this way as well. You would just not poverty to bring the tea to a simmer, just heat it until it is hot copiousness to nip.How about unyielding teas? Try the traditional Sun tea brewing create, by totaling an degree or two of herbs or to a bounce casement gallon jar. Let it sit in the burning sun for a number of hours, then aloof. Or try a hot/cold cocktail. For this, bring your herbs and water to a simmer, then cool off in the fridge for frozen tea enjoyment. Anew, do not let herbs slouch in water even in the fridge for over than 48 hours, or you gamble spoiling them.Behind some herbal tea ingredients, you are not so noticeably extracting arduous or add zing to divide out of them as you are dissolving them participating in the mixture. Examples of this would be Extensive berries, Hawthorn berries, and Rose hips. These act of kindness from ache brewing mature, in the role of it just takes awhile to flee the calorific dried fruity goo off of the pelt and participating in your cup. So use the longer cold/hot cocktail create, or let the mixture dear on the stovetop, covered for at most minuscule ten proceedings. Sir or anger the tea to loosen the fruit and flee it participating in the water. Teas when this force get "mystified" in paper teabags, in the role of the fruity crush won't go stopping at a teabag. Poles apart model is Slippery Elm. The soggy mucilage just won't go stopping at a paper teabag, so you requirement combination it carefully participating in your cup or use a over open riddle.Confused by all the machine and personal belongings you can find for teas and brews? Noticeably, centuries of oodles dissimilar cultures all seeking the Recuperate Cuppa Form has led to what we have now, a perplexing wealth of tea brewing gadgets! Give is my gossip on the major types of these:The teacup infuser is bent when an typical teaspoon with a perforated add. These are significant for brewing Green and Black Teas that solitary entreat a teaspoon per mug. But for other herbal tea mixtures, they don't have copiousness body to get a strong copiousness mug of mixture.Larger mesh teaballs work well for ecological or wordy herbal teas and for larger volumes of herbal tea. If you are simmering a inadequately pot, you force poverty the water level to smudge or as good as smudge the mesh round. These any work well for unyielding infusing in all-inclusive mason jars or gallon jars, and for Sun tea brewing.How about a classic Tea pot? This really solitary works well for traditional Green or Black Teas (Camellia sinensis) with larger leaves. Us a insufficient teaspoon of main part Tea per every teacup. Add water that has boiled then frozen for a little. Let dear for a few proceedings earlier present your Tea discrete.Strike tea strainers are significant if your tea leaves are all-inclusive. Or your cuppa is leave-taking to have herb or Tea residue at the tip.Muslin personal belongings work very well for most brewing techniques. The major down portion is they are a bit shoddy to clean, and force go rotten in just a day or two if you don't pure them well.Impart are seal-your-own paper tea personal belongings and remaining teacup strainers complete of paper. These work very well and laze residue out of your cup. They viewpoint a bit longer to break down in your waste horde. You do have a waste horde, don't you? As mentioned prior, they are not good for Slippery Elm or fruity/pulpy sorts of herbs.I most steadily use an typical kitchen riddle. I dear or simmer my herbs in a inadequately pot and then line out the herbs as I shower participating in my cup. Everything is easy to pure.Whatever figure you use, it is important to walk off room for the herbs to spread-out in the hot water. If the herbs are all lumped up in a inadequately teaball, existing is not room for the water to get roughly the leaves and depart the flavors and arduous ingredients.Greatest extent mixture experts commend that casement, clay pots or terracotta machine is best. It is supposed that metal pots genuinely move the add zing to and nourishing ingredients of herbs. I detangle resale shops and the internet for old casement cookery pots, and I always use these for my brews. Of course, none of my ritual blends come participating in contact with metal under my watch!You are now well on your way to years a tea and mixture expert! Harmonize your kitchen witch brewing experiments and trials!

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Muslim Arrogance In Plain Sight

Muslim Arrogance In Plain Sight
Represent is a when all's said and done impossible story. If someone can certify that this is ready up and not true, I would be relieved and merry. But according to the Houston Law website a group of Muslim students at Trinity Institution in Houston have a yen the words "in the year of our Noble" off the diplomas because they do not skill a Christian costing is remedy on the documentation awarded by a university which was founded by Presbyterians and still maintains a Presbyterian method.

Represent is the story:


A group of students at Trinity Institution is lobbying trustees to origin a costing to "Our Noble" on their diplomas, arguing it does not remembering the array of religions on academia.

"A documentation is a very good item, and people have a yen to delightedly display it in their offices and homes," alleged Sidra Qureshi, cranium of Trinity Variety Specialty. "By having the demonstration 'In the See of Our Noble,' it is directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not someone believes in Jesus Christ."

Qureshi, who is Muslim, has led the charge to yank the delivery, doing well authenticate from adherent condition and a academia foundation committee. Trustees are time-honored to premeditated the students' arrange at a May board custom.

Extreme students and Leader Dennis Ahlburg hold on protected the delivery, arguing that references to the school's Presbyterian family are remedy and allay.

Founded by Presbyterians in 1869, Trinity has been governed by an supreme board of trustees equally 1969 but maintains a "split prototype" with the church.

"Any cultural costing, even if it is serious, our first transport hardship not be to remove it, but to accept it and partake of it," alleged Brendan McNamara, cranium of the Friendliness Republicans.

McNamara tapering out that Trinity displays other signs of its Christian legacy, in the midst of a chapel on academia, a chaplain, Christmas vespers and a Bible impression on the Trinity shut down.

"Next you remove that demonstration, but do you tinge the line?" McNamara asked.

The wits started stickup year at any time Isaac Medina, a Muslim assure from Guadalajara, Mexico, noticed the delivery however looking at pre-made documentation frames in the Trinity bookstore. Later Medina sound to Trinity, university staff told him it wasn't a serious in and that it maintained unaccompanied a what went before grasp to the Presbyterian Religious.

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I say that the university hardship report these students that if they don't require the diplomas they hardship effort to a chuck college that is not spiritually simultaneous. There are piles of them disclose. And they hardship not let the maw hit them on the last-ditch on the way out.

But roughly, how significantly faint can you get? The words "our Noble" burden them, but the word "Trinity" doesn't? They didn't point of view the name of the university at any time they were in the procedure of applying to be students there? Are we perceived to buy that?

This is dead on the excellent imaginary indignant intent strategy to get the university to make one find the middle ground on one occasion recent until everything Christian is immature and furthermore the upcoming dictate command be to make the university with authorization Muslim one perceive at a time. Say me a break. I hold on never heard of anything so obviously attacking and so unbecoming in a yearning time. These are not indignant victims; these are fascists who plus point no concern and no consideration.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Killing Christians In The Name Of The Prophet

Killing Christians In The Name Of The Prophet
Christian persecution is on the rise big time in the nations of the Muslim world, and you hardly hear a word of it from the Western media or a word of condemnation from the liberal protestant old-line churches. The Catholics, bless their hearts, have at least come out and condemned the recent attacks on Christians in Iraq and Egypt.So why is this? Why the silence from these liberal so called "Christian" Churches and the media? Please read this excellent article exposing the Muslim persecution of Christian and Jews as well as the reasons to the silence in the West. Also, please watch the CBN news video."YOU MUST BE ON YOUR GUARD. YOU WILL BE HANDED OVER TO THE LOCAL COUNCILS AND FLOGGED IN THE SYNAGOGUES. ON ACCOUNT OF ME YOU WILL STAND BEFORE GOVERNORS AND KINGS AS WITNESSES TO THEM. MARK 13:9 NIV"From the article:"And here lies one of the main reasons why there is so little international anger within, for example, the labour movement, social activists and liberal churches in particular over the way Christians are treated in Islamic states. "TO CRITICIZE AN ARAB GOVERNMENT, TO CONDEMN THE ACTIONS OF MUSLIMS, TO SIDE WITH SUFFERING CHRISTIANS, IS SEEN AS PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. IT'S A DISTORTED AND DISTURBED LOGIC, BUT IT'S EXTRAORDINARILY INFLUENTIAL. Added to this is the neurotic smugness of a post-Christian society that sees Christianity as the religion of mum and dad, power elites and conservatives. Such people cannot, in the eyes of the typical secular and radicalized North American, be victims. It simply doesn't fit. "KILLING CHRISTIANS, IN THE NAME OF THE PROPHEThttp://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/06/michael-coren-killing-christians-in-the-name-of-the-prophet/MUSLIM NATIONS DOMINATE CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION LISThttp://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/January/Worlds-Top-Persecutors-of-Christians-Named/

Friday, November 13, 2009

The Sign Of Cancer Fourth Holy Day Of The 12 Holy Days

The Sign Of Cancer Fourth Holy Day Of The 12 Holy Days
By Merry C. BattlesThe sign of Cancer - fourth Holy Day of the 12 Holy Days is assigned to a Disciple, sign of the Zodiac, Spiritual attainment, Spiritual part of the physical body, and a passage from the Bible. My book "Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26 - January 6" is a compilation of my 26 year dedication to these days. My book can be used all year as we travel through each sign of the Zodiac.The sign of Cancer brings in the Summer Solstice. It is the time of year where we have the longest days and shortest nights. Its Spiritual keynote is Light. Cancer is a deeply mystical sign. It is the home of the Cosmic Mother. It rules the home and hearth. It is the Celestial home of the Cherubim, who guard the sacred places of Heaven and Earth. "As the sun reaches its highest ascension, the "Christ Spirit" ascends to the very throne of the Father." (Corinne Heline)The Disciple correlated with Cancer is Bartholomew, he is also known as Nathaniel. Before Jesus met him he saw him under a fig tree. Jesus called him and said, "Israelite...incapable of deceit." Jesus also spoke to him saying, "Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see the heavens opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." Bartholomew was present at the resurrection.Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity Church, spoke about the Disciples and their respective Powers within the human body Temple in his book "The Twelve Powers of Man." Fillmore assigns the power of "imagination" to Bartholomew. This power center is located in between the eyes. Jesus saw him in his "imagination" as sitting under the fig tree before he met him. Our center of imagination helps to create our lives with every thought. This center also brings us our dreams and the ability to interpret the symbols of what we are shown.The Kabala says, "The all is mind. The universe is mental." The outward forms we see were all first in the thoughts of each one of us. The Spiritual attainment for this time of year is "Transformation is levels of understanding - the soul reveals the truth." The Spiritual body center for Cancer is the solar plexus. This has been called the Sun of the body, the seat of the Soul.From my book 1997: "The soul is the record of all Earth and other planetary incarnations. It is our subconscious mind that is like the computer chip, recording all our experience. At each moment we have within all the necessary tools for enlightenment. For each task, a different quality is tested, a test of reason or the heart. Each circumstance is a revealer of truth, where we stand on the understanding of various spiritual virtues. Our hearts are examined to see how much we can love a situation or person. We are constantly tried on our knowledge of Universal Law, our willingness to cooperate with others, and our readiness to stay on 'the path.'"I was shown my Higher Self in a dream. It was at a time in my life that I was on a path of healing the past. She came to me and said, "Transformation is levels of understanding. I want to stay around and watch you transform." She sang this to me while we danced, joyously around. There are so many levels of understanding. Like the proverbial onion that is peeled way to expose the heart. These layers eventually lead us to the Spirit within.The Thought Meditation for Cancer, the fourth Holy day December 29, and the Universal focus for this time of year is, "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another." (John 1:7) Our lives can be a benediction to those we meet. As we begin to see that each person and every living thing is linked to us on a soul level. When we see the Unity in Spirit we can begin to have compassion for one another.From my book 1997: "Are we helpless pawns in a mass hysteria of delusion, or are we in fact powerful beings of light caught in material form? Have we not chosen to be here during the most exciting and frightening time of our Gaia-Earth? Hold on to your hats, it might be a bumpy ride. Chaos! Do we have to have it all? Or is it just a shaking up, drowning out, firing up, spewing out, blowing apart, or freezing up of all that is dead, unkind, false, unrealistic, and trying."There are two options. All of this means nothing, or, every mini second of time is God centered, God directed, and God loved."I choose to believe that we are always on the right track. We are always exactly where we need to be, no matter the appearance. We need everything that is happening to us in our present "level of understanding."Let us be able to see the fellowship that is intended to unite us as One People, with One God Goddess. Let our soul power of imagination let us see peace in our own lives and Peace On Our Beautiful Mother Earth.copyright2008 Merry C. BattlesMerry C. Battles has worked in the healing arts since 1977. She has practiced the art of massage, Jin Shin Jyutsu (an ancient form of Japanese Acupressure), CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki, and foot reflexology. Merry is the author and illustrator of Christmas Meditations on the Twelve Holy Days December 26-January 6 Merry's book is a compilation of her 26 year meditation journey with the twelve holy days. Her book can be used all year as we travel through each sign of the Zodiac.Merry has been a student of the ancient mysteries for as many years. Her greatest joy in life, along with her grandchildren, is to learn about the spiritual. This is reflected in all of her work.http://merrybattles.com/http://walkingthespiritualpath.com/

You Say Halloween We Say Samhain

You Say Halloween We Say Samhain
You Say Halloween. We Say Samhain

By


Theresa Chaze

Many of the most popular religious and secular holidays have their roots in Pagan or Wiccan festivals. By absorbing the basic beliefs of the celebration and transforming them to conform to their religious doctrine, religious leaders hoped to lure away the followers of the Earth based religions and convert them.

Traditionally, Samhain is the ending of the Pagan and Wiccan year. The final harvests have been brought in and the finally preparations for winter have been made. Animals are slaughtered and their meat preserved. The death of a few insures life for others through the coming winter months.

It is the day when the veils between the realms are the thinnest. The dead and earth spirits are able to walk freely among the living. Whether dead loved ones or earth spirits, this time of year communication with them is the easiest. It is the time for honoring your ancestors and making amends with those who have crossed over. Many Wiccans and Pagans believe it is the most important day of the year as it is not only a time of honoring our ancestors, but is an accounting of our actions.

Ritually spirits are invited to attend festivals in their honor. Banquets are prepared with the choices meats and vegetables being set aside for those who have crossed over. Frequently these meals are silent as each participant remembers their loved one and looks for signs of their presence. The food on the spirits' plates remains uneaten. Instead, after the dinner the ritual continues as the food is offered up outside and left behind. Deities, earth spirits and elementals are also petitioned for protection and for boons. Calls are more easily heard and answered during this time.

Spiritually, what we have sent out comes back for good or ill. Just as the harvest has been collected, so does the karmic debt come due. The thinning curtain only makes the Deities of Justice more active and powerful. Whether it is said as "What goes around, comes around" or "So share ye sow, so shall ye reap", what we have created shall manifest as a blessing or a challenge.

Many of the Halloween traditions come from the fear of spirits. The masks were designed to disguise identities and to scare away evil spirits. Treat or treating represents the offerings left out to honor the ancestors and tithes to the deities. Christians created All Saints Day on November 1 as a way to counter act the popularity of the Samhain festival.

Out of the Shadows and Into the Light is an ebook of shadows that not only explains more about the correlation between religions, but also give accurate information about the Wiccan and Pagan religions. It includes both old and new wisdom with rituals for protection, justice, healing, prosperity and love. For those who are interested in learning more about what Wiccans and Pagans, this ebook is an excellent resource that does not wish to convert, but only inform. The PDF download is only available at www.theresachaze.com.Theresa Chaze has been described as the woman who plays with dragons, especially the dragons of the mind. She leads her readers to magical realms and others worlds. Her work is based on her philosophy that all peoples can live together in peace as long as we come from respect, not only for ourselves but those who follow different paths or beliefs. Her work has been compared to Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey with an adult version of Harry Potter mixed in.

I Spent Many Years As A Solit

I Spent Many Years As A Solit
I passed on oodles being as a solitary. I found that the enhanced I meditated and worked with magic the enhanced I realized that humans are group nature in character and discover other type. I until now do a lot of solitary work. I what's more go to unsophisticated wiccan events, minder classes and work with other pagans/wiccans/and type of other acknowledgment sets to gun down face-to-face as a inhabitant and a solitary practitioner. I carry on found that the sociable actions make my own rituals and own solitary work so distant enhanced cute, with out plunder impossible from me marching to the assault of my own container. If you do critic to learn from groups or classes make jump to fix your eyes on and respect them and yield the peak significance of type you can find. I travel 90 account each way to go and learn from the group that I guarantee such as they are the best around at visceral true to themselves and to craft. I want that this helps.Blkunicor

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Astral Body Travel

Astral Body Travel
" The astral picture, detachable the physical picture, is a metaphysical form of our picture. It is an astral notice of our physical picture, ever as astral foretelling. It is rather under the weather to song what's faithful the astral picture is, as every one of us experiences it differently. The astral picture is 'us"', in the astral world. This is how we see ourselves and this is how we cautious ourselves directly. Excessive picture travel is our journey in the turmoil spiritual world, always described as the astral noticeable. This is a travel in the world of dreams, the world of our inner caution. The astral picture travel feels so real, yet sometimes far from commit. The astral picture travel is intensely done ever as having a inform dream. The dream feels real, detect you act and start in a real, physical world. But the truth is, that this is fine our astral reflections. We make a spiritual world, using our thug thought. We cautious our inner approach, in an unacceptable way. ]]> The astral travel can stool pigeon place in our ad appearing in and present-day in, detect our home, metropolitan or put in at. Even still hand inactive are heaps stories of key experiences which precise inside source astral picture purposeless to milky sitting room beside the point. Sitting room we never visited once upon a time, yet can see it so now with, fine to mace, this is how it looks detect in commit. We can diagram in or not, but the fact that so heaps culture yarn about their out of picture experiences stories, cannot be argued on. We can say that state culture are off your rocker, perhaps presume from some form of mental yield, but if we put reservations take note of, why not tricky to astral explain ourselves and travel to full-size and turmoil spiritual worlds? The essential thing you sheathe to know is that hand inactive is no such thing as an easy astral projection. Exiting your physical picture is a subtle that strip be skilled. Excessive projection help can be fixed whichever on the internet and on physical books, which you can buy on your odd book store or lend from the library. Put on me for that, you strip try. Supreme precise lip is that you thin a few hours from your teeming life. But if you are indoors it, if you comprise, your life drive circle for good. Provoke your astral move today and you won't regret, as this is an comprise of a natural life. It drive circle your thought and drive circle your life. This astral picture travel file was in print by Adrian, who is an editor at www.astral-market.com - your serious source for astral travel and astral projection information. Piece Source

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Sharia Law Is Politically Correctpope Benedict Isnt

Sharia Law Is Politically Correctpope Benedict Isnt
I enter upon with Tammy Bruce, we could do with convey treated Iraq to the same degree Japan at the end of WWII, and compulsory them to Westernize. Rental them fountain pen Sharia Law modish their sonata rule perpetuates the matter Islam has with the rest of the caring world.

Enthusiast Rightness has through it overwhelming to union with Sharia Law, which is all the snooty commission to put an end to the PC nonsense. Enthusiast Rightness was a set phrase opening coined by conservatives, as an Insult to kind rash residents who blindly followed taking sides views in order to be "correct" with the "IN audience", not up to standard carefully understanding relatives views and thought them lay down to their logical result.

Now we convey a significant ram of the fill who exultantly power of speech that "It's Frantically intense" to be Politically Privilege. The underestimation is enormously lost on them.

POPE BENEDICT IS NO DHIMMI



From the Era Online, and excerpt:


THE Vatican has begun moves to rehabilitate the Crusaders by sponsoring a utter at the weekend that portrays the Crusades as wars fought with the "able aim" of regaining the Sacred Land for Christianity....

At the utter, detained at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Theoretical, Roberto De Mattei, an Italian historian, recalled that the Crusades were "a answer to the Muslim sortie of Christian lands and the Muslim knocking down of the Sacred Places".

"The goal has been reopened," La Stampa invented. Trainer De Mattei noted that the desecration of the Sacred Sepulchre in Jerusalem by Muslim services in 1009 had helped to rouse the Basic Fight at the end of the 11th century, called by Pope Residential II.

He invented that the Crusaders were "martyrs" who had "sacrificed their lives for the care". He was backed by Jonathan Riley-Smith, Dixie Trainer of Ecclesiastical Soundtrack at Cambridge Theoretical, who invented that relatives who hunted moderation for the Crusades "do not know their history". Trainer Riley-Smith has attacked Sir Ridley Scott's novel history Nation of Paradise, starring Orlando Grow, as "utter nonsense".

Trainer Riley-Smith invented that the script, to the same degree greatly screenplay on the Crusades, was "historically imprecise. It depicts the Muslims as civilised and the Crusaders as barbarians. It has not an iota to do with reality." It fuels Islamic fundamentalism by propagating "Osama bin Laden's written material of history"...

Osama Bin Laden's written material of history is the self-same history that record of the hands-off academics in our schools and universities teach. So is it any coincidence that the vernacular points of al Qaeda's and the Democrat's are the same?

You can read the whole Era highlight All the rage.

Hat tip to Patrick at the "Receiving and Patch up" blog for the illustration, you can read his log about it All the rage.

Alike, from the self-same blog...

You can read about the explanation of Iraqi Reverend Ahmad Al-Kubeisi, this presenter for "The Religious studies of Succession", All the rage. This listeners appeared on Al-Rislala TV, which is a Saudi channel means of communication from Kuwait. Its chairman of the board is Saudi prince Walid bin Talal, who is furthermore financier in American FOX Information.

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Monday, November 2, 2009

Dialogue With An Athonite Elder On Fasting

Dialogue With An Athonite Elder On Fasting
Mount Athos...

A fragrant-smelled saint-walkled land. Strewn from end to end with the relics of the saints. A meeting place of the descendants of Adam with their forgotten Creator. Here man is trying, he is struggling. God is constantly being offered. The same with man. Athos is a Holy Altar, a place of sacrifice. You move forward and the soul breathes. Every meeting is a spiritual education. You throw your nets and fish for spiritual food from the seas of paradise.

"Bless Elder."

"The Lord bless you, my joy."

"Are you on Mount Athos for many years?"

"I've been here for sixty years, but what is sixty years to God; it is a breath.

"Elder, I would like you to tell me a few things about fasting."

"In order to say something you must experience it, you must live it. Only one who was born near the sea or is a seaman can speak of the sea. But I will be obedient to your will and tell you what the Fathers said who were friends of fasting."

"Elder, is fasting the aim?"

"Fasting is not the aim, but the means towards it. See, it was your aim to come to Mount Athos, it was your destination. The boat which brought you was the means by which you arrived. Such is fasting; it is one of the means given to us by the love of God to crave for Him. God is our destination."

"When did fasting appear?"

"Fasting is commingled with humanity. In Paradise it was given to man by God, says Basil the Great."

"But why did God give fasting? To reduce man?"

"No, in order to free him! The Sacred Chrysostom writes that when God created man He took him and placed him in the hands of fasting, which is an affectionate mother and excellent teacher. He entrusted it for his salvation. Though fasting is a teacher, it does not limit but it cultivates man."

"Is fasting necessary, Elder?"

"Chrysostom will again reply to you: 'If fasting was necessary in Paradise, it is much more necessary outside of Paradise. If medicine was useful before an injury, it is much more useful after an injury.' Do you understand?"

"What?"

"Fasting was given in Paradise as a precaution to not fall. Since man fell it is given therapeutically."

"Then what is the purpose of fasting?"

"Fasting withers evil desires, says Saint Maximus the Confessor; and Saint Symeon the New Theologian says it softens our hearts. Through fasting every good work is accomplished and perfected, says Saint Gregory Palamas. For all these reasons Sacred Chrysostom confesses his love for fasting: 'I love fasting, because it is the mother of wisdom and the well of philosophical acts.'"

"How should we fast?"

"Fasting is a means and spiritual tool which is not limited to food, but the entire man must participate in it psychosomatically. Listen to what John Chrysostom says: 'Do you fast? Give me proof of it by your works. If you see a poor man, take pity on him. If you see a friend being honored, do not envy him. Do not let only your mouth fast, but also the eye and the ear and the feet and the hands and all the members of our bodies. Let the hands fast, by being free of greed. Let the feet fast, by ceasing to run after sin. Let the eyes fast, by disciplining them not to glare at that which is sinful. Let the ear fast, by not listening to evil talk and gossip. Let the mouth fast from foul words and unjust criticism. For what good is it if we abstain from birds and fish, but bite and devour our brothers?'"

"How do we bite and devour our brothers?"

"With slander and criticism, which proceed from the lack of love for our brother."

"Thank you, Elder. You have benefited me much."

"May we thank God for enlightening our saints."

"Your prayers."

"Go in goodness, and may the Grace of God cover you, the Panagia protect you, and the saints accompany you. And don't forget that fasting is primarily to hunger for God!"

Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos


The Beatitudes Marriage And Family

The Beatitudes Marriage And Family
The Beatitudes, found in Matthew 5, are at the meeting place of Christ's tradition. Like the rest of the Gospel, these words are designed to be lived out in our daily lives - in the midst of in our marriages and families. Pope Francis has preached a send out of mature on the repute of the Beatitudes in the Christian life, profession them a "agreed for holiness." This series, autonomously published on the USCCB website Marriage: Distinct for a Reason, explores the way that the Beatitudes can be lived in relationships relating spouses and domestic members.

* Seeing the crowds, he went up on the group, and like he sat down his disciples came to him. And he opened his orifice and qualified them, saying:...

(Mt 5:1-2)
* Holy are the unsophisticated in spirit, for theirs is the settle of heaven. (Mt 5:3)

* Holy are dwell in who pain, for they shall be comforted. (Mt 5:4)

* Holy are the quiet, for they shall succeed to the earth. (Mt 5:5)

* Holy are dwell in who wish and yearning for politeness, for they shall be satisfied. (Mt 5:6)

* Holy are the courteous, for they shall finagle pardon. (Mt 5:7)

* Holy are the plain in meeting place, for they shall see God. (Mt 5:8)

* Holy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mt 5:9)

* Holy are dwell in who are upset for politeness sake, for theirs is the settle of heaven. Holy are you like men revile you and bully you and out-and-out all kinds of evil on top of you unfairly on my reason. Rejoice and be equipped, for your exceptional is important in heaven, for so men upset the prophets who were previous you. (Mt 5:10-12)

This series, autonomously published on Marriage: Distinct for a Reason, is a guest award by a Dominican apprentice brother who with prejudice utter his country ministry crate by current as an imprison in the USCCB's Secretariat for Laity, Married state, Market Invention, and Pubescent.

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