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Monday, March 28, 2011
Meatless Fridays Re Established By Bishops Conference Of England And Wales
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
To Heal Physical Pain
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Knights Templar History And Freemason Mysteries
It is widely believed that the Templar Knights were based in or near the original site of the Temple of Solomon and widely spread throughout France in the early 12th century. Being religious templar knights and reporting only to the Church, gave them exemption from many laws and enabled them to receive much land and property throughout the country enabling a network of wealth to be created, which some folk still beleive to be a secret of freemasonry today.
It is thought that the roads to Jerusalem were often patrolled by thieves looking to prey on unaware travelers to the holy city. This gave rise to a need for protection by Templar Knights to the travelers and it is thought that fees were generated by the templar knights in exchange for the protection offered.
This simple Templar system became an exercise of the knights which gave rise to the first form of banking whereby a patron would be able to leave funds with a knights templar preceptory in one city and receive a promisary note which could be exchanged in another city in order to eliminate the risk of having to travel cross country with large sums of money.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR IN FRANCE
THE MIGRATION OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
In the late 12th century the Christian following,including Templar Knights, was removed from the holy city and the Knights Templar were no longer needed and thus returned to France where King Philip governed with the Knights still answerable only to the papal authority.
The King of France had been king since the age of 17 and had inherited much debt from his predecessors. This meant that loans were made from the Jews, the Church and the Knights Templar in order to maintain the country. This inevitably led to poor repayment by the monarchy and caused drastic swings in the economy leading to riots and a call for the removal of King Philip. The Knights templar allowed the king to seek refuge within their preceptory for a few days and it is believed that during this time King Philip forged a plot to arrest The Jews on June 24th 1307 and the Knights templar on Friday 13th October 1307 in order to retain their wealth, property and remove all debts that were owed to them by the monarchy, possibly explaining why Friday 13th is deemed unlucky by some people. It is believed that some of the Knights Templar avoided this arrest tactic and made their way to some of their ships in anchor and sailed for Europe to eventually land in Scotland.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AND ROBERT THE BRUCE
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR IN SCOTLAND
Arriving in Scotland it seems was a choice by the Knights Templar due to the fact that Robert the Bruce had been excommunicated by the church and papal authority did not apply in Scotland. This meant that the Knights Templar had sanctuary from the reaches of the pope in Scotland.
Robert the Bruce was at war with England and was pleased to have the expertise of such battle qualified knights in his army and it is believed that the Knights Templar were integral in the defeat of the English at the battle of Bannockburn. Robert the Bruce is often credited with forming the Freemasons as a means to hide the fact that there were Knights Templar present in his army. This was because he wanted to return Scotland to a state recognized under Christendom and had informed the church that no Knights Templar existed in Scotland. The Knights Templar were then able to continue as they had previously, but now under the name of Freemasonry.
FREEMASONRY AND THE STEPS TO KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
There are various avenues which can be followed in Freemasonry. The three most popular avenues being the Royal Arch, Rosicrucian (Rose Croix) or Knights Templar degrees.
There are 4 world wide accepted degrees which must be completed by a new person deciding to enter freemasonry which shall we say are the basis of understanding to Freemasonry. The other avenues are all different in their teachings and handle different aspects of Freemasonry.
There are many opinions and schools of thought on the dates that speculative Freemasonry came into existence with the most common being 1717.
The Knights Templar were said to have obtained secrets throughout their travels from the ancient mysteries in Alchemy, Magic and Building Techniques scattered through history by the likes of the Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilizations. Perhaps this is myth, however it makes for interesting research reading of the countless number of opinions and conspiracy theories out there in cyberspace.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Samhain All Hallow Eve Night When The Veil Is Thin
This is the time of the year, when according to Occultists, the veil between this and the Other - world ( world of the dead ) is thinnest and both benevolent ancestral spirits and harmful spirits seeking revenge or simply joy in harming others linger all around, walking free. On this very day it is easiest to get in touch, or commune with the spirits, ghosts and all sorts of supernatural creatures.
The very name, translates from old Scotish to "summer end", and the name Halloween is actually shorten(ed) from All Hallows Even, which was the full name. All Hallows eve is a Christian interpretation of the festival, and the original All Hallows day, was "moved" from may to 31st of October, in order to suppress and diminish pagan celebration.
And what does this holliday represent in Wicca ? It is considered by most Wiccans to be the most important of the four 'greater Sabbats'. It is generally celebrated on October 31st
in the Northern Hemisphere, starting at sundown, even though some traditions celebrate it on the first day of the November. Samhain is considered by some Wiccans to be the time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved ones who have passed on/ died. In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of Beltane, which Wiccans celebrate as a festival of light and fertility.
CUSTOMS AND BELIEVES
It was customary to pay respect to the dead on this day, as well as do some cleansing work. Wiccans will not cast spells on this Sabbat, while all sort of other magick practitioners will make sure to use empowering and amplifying energies of the day, as it is said that magick spells cast on this day will be multiple times stronger. Due to that fact and the fact that spirits roam freely on this day,
makes it a good idea to protect Yourself, and Your home on this, powerful and potentially dangerous day.
People and their livestock would often walk between two bonfires as a cleansing ritual, and the bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames
The Gaelic custom of wearing costumes and masks, was an attempt to copy the spirits or placate them. In Scotland the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white Samhnag turnips which were hollowed-out and carved with faces to make lanterns - were also used to ward off harmful spirits
Dumb supper is a Wiccan ritual, where the spirits of the dead were "fed" by setting extra place at the table, extra plate and the meals are ate in silence, sometimes sitting in circle.
Candles are lit on window sills, near homes and hollowed pumpkins are placed around one's dwellings to honor the dead and protect from harmful spirits
JACK O LANTERN, THE IRISH
In old Irish myth, Certain farmer, Jack was a drunk and gambler. One night, after hi s usual card game, he went home and on his way he met a demon, nearby an old tree. Pretty drunk, he was he was not afraid, instead he dared the spirit, to climb the old tree. As soon as the spirit climbed the tree, Jack carved a cross on the tree, imprisoning the spirit in the tree that way. Angry spirit, in retaliation, hexed and cursed Jack to wander and roam on the Nights such as that night ( it was All Hallow's eve ) with the only light he had with his side, a carved beet with candle inside.
Spells for Halloween
DR. SHADOWS SUFFUMIGATION
- 3 parts of Dittany or Crete
- 2 parts of Lavender
- Good pinch of Saffron
- Gum mastic, some
- Dried Amaranth flowers or few buds of Balm of Gilead
This incense will cause spirits to become visible and materialize and is my personal recipe based on European herbalism.
ALL HALLOWS PROTECTION SPELL
" When the white dog is out
And torts all abut
Under the clouds
That cover the Moon
And the hag with her broom
Rides high on the winds
And the cat on the fence
Spits even on friends
Then it is right
To conjure a light
Against every spirit
That shadows the night
Thus say
Let the pumpkin's
Candle glare
Into Darkness
Everywhere
Burn all evil
From the Air
When it is dark
And the black trees roar
Set Jack O' Lantern
To guard by the door.
By Valerie Worth,
"The Book of words"
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SPIRIT FUMES POTION
Infusion of Dandelion roots, and/or Thistle, and/or Lavender, still hot and fuming, on altar or near bed will invoke spirits
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Reincarnation Universal Process Of Application Of The Justice Codes In The Creators Laws
The premature references to the hallucination of renewal are lost in the eternal night of history. We last report from it from on the order of two thousand five hundred duration ago, in the Upanishads [Divine Scriptures of Hinduism], the recipe Indian religion until today. In that playhouse, Pythagoras (1), Greek erudite and mathematic, instinctive on the order of the see 580 B.C., and who was a follower of Pherecydes of Syros - thought that the animation was immortal and, in the past the death of the consider, it occupies other consider - palingenesis - sometimes of an animal - metempsychosis [ill-treat discourse of the mathematician of Samos]. According to pointer sources, it is the premature time that the renewal opinion was mentioned in the West. Vanguard, Plato (429-347 B.C.), also a Greek Philosopher, follower of Socrates, taught that the animation was instinctive haunt epoch, even in vogue ten thousand duration, and, after that, vegetation for the celestial sacredness.
In the premature centuries, haunt majoritarian Christian groups protected the palingenesis, purposely the Gnostic (2), with their acutely instant view of the consider and regard in indiscriminate. The odd Christian Foundation (3) of Alexandria protected the renewal. From his opinion, a group of clever monks appeared and they also started to profess the canon of the pre-existences. For the "owners" of the executive power the supposed "Origenism" became unsuccessful and fearful, essentially Palestine; in view of that the patriarch of the churchof Jerusalem, in the fourth century, asked Multipart Sovereign Justinian to umpire.
The sovereign wrote a sell against Foundation and lead the "property owner" of the church of Constantinople to participant a synod state (4) in 543, which condemned the discourse simultaneous to the pre-existence of the animation and other Origenist positions. Ten duration similar to, in 553, with the tentative concur of Pope Virgil (5), Sovereign Justinian summoned the Microscopic Authority of Constantinople in which he forebodingly definitively removed the so called " Origenist propel", overpower a counterfeit mark your ballot which he won by 3 to 2 votes. And the renewal was definitively barred from the principles of the prophet precisely. (6) Of course! The Church was shielding, in this lavish act, the illusion and hell canon and the eternal punishments like they centered self-important power in its hands. And this way renewal was barred in one of the furthermost important mistakes prepared by the Christianity.
Not later than that, in the third century, piercing Composed of Alexandria remarked in his work called Stromata (Patchwork): "The scheme of Gnostic master Basilides says that the animation, having since sturdy sins in new to the job life, experiences punish in this life.
Also at that time Tertullian, the premature Christian author to write down in Latin, denying metempsychosis, expresses himself haunt epoch about the copy, as in this passage: "The worthier of espousal is our teaching that the souls forward motion return to the dreadfully bodies. And the self-important unattainable is the inherited (pagan) teaching that the secular spirit prerequisite return in a dog, horse, or peacock!" (Ad Nationes, Stage 19). It is noticeable that by the same token to the spiritualists, the clever men of the church did not win metempsychosis either.
The metempsychosis discourse conflicted the organism of some theologians, an occupational that, beyond doubt native tongue, was right clarified with the appearance of the Spiritualism. Let us see: apologist and historian Lactantius, in the fourth century, expresses the inspection of his fresh Christian: "The Pythagoreans and Stoics in the bag that the animation was not instinctive with the consider. Reasonably, they say that it was introduced in the consider and that it migrates from one consider to new to the job." In new to the job part of his works called The Lovely Institutions, he affirms: "Pythagoras insists that the souls migrate from bodies used up by age and death. He says that they are admitted in new bodies and honey. He also says that the dreadfully souls are reproduced sometimes in a man, sometimes in a horses, or in a off your rocker animal, or a bird... That manner of an hardhearted man is unattainable."
Far-flung strong receipt comes from the uttermost theologian of the ancient church of the fifth century, Augustine. He was comfortable with the renewal theories, every Manichaean and Platonic ones, of his time. In a notice about Genesis, he rejected, as against the Christian dream, the hallucination that the secular souls returned in bodies of unique plants, according to their privilege trade (transmigration). In The Local of God (Narrative X, Stage 30), the Bishop of Hippo commentary that, on the other hand the neo-platonic erudite Porphyry has rejected that hypothesis taught by Plato and Plotinus, and did not dither in remedy his masters in that rationale, he inspection that the secular souls came back in other secular bodies. In the order of that regard (metempsychosis) the Spiritualism corrects Pythagoras' bungle.
At present, to some Christians, the "crutch" of the unicity of the secular life is found in repayment 9 verse 27 of Paul's communication to the Hebrews: "to men it is habitual to die fit gone, and in the past that, shrewdness." I miracle if Jesus approved to the stream life a worst gist to the whole time in the past death. In the negotiations, unicity advocates proclaimed the revival, but it is pompous to deem, about that spine-chilling mania, about Jairus's daughter's (Mt.9:18-26), Naim's widow's son's (Lc.7:11-17), and Lazarus' (Jo.11:1-44) hand baggage, if all of them "resurrected" as Christians take into account, how would the evocation of the aforementioned communication to the Hebrews to turn your back on renewal be?" Let us spontaneous that every the "resurrected" would not last died fit gone. By the way, they were not even dead, they were fit disruption from catalepsy. (7)
Jesus in the bag that the truth would set the man free, if the truth (renewal) is at the same time as at the end denied to Christians, it is noticeable that they are not free, or, what is critical, they are enchained to the strong secular dogmas, strew by contumacious deniers of the natural reputation of renewal, forgers of a dream enthroned in the pinnacles of mixture, myth, and celestial dreams of the theological imaginary.
In the significance "to be instinctive, to die, to be reborn, and to without stopping hill, that is the Law" we find the furthermost indisputable ubiquitous hutch of petition of the codes of impartiality in the Creator's Law.
Jorge Hessen
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(1) Pythagoras of Samos (VI century B.C.), Greek erudite and mathematician. His buddies, the Pythagoreans, who, from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C., rigid in philosophic-religious communities, multiplied overpower Magnum Greece, constituted the supposed Italic Educate in or Pythagorean Educate in. Pythagorism is meticulous by two tendencies: The mystic-moralist one, interconnected to the Orphism and the Shamanism, and the philosophic-mathematic one, which resulted in a powerful patrimony of algebraic, arithmetical, astronomic and acoustic knowledge, incorporated by the obtain of numeric correspondences together with countless tell of devotion.
(2) It is thought of, or skilled of, Gnosticism, a philosophic-religious leaning which appeared in the premature centuries of our age and diversified in countless sects, which hypothetical at conciliating all religions and read between the lines their furthermost intense meaning overpower Gnosis (exoteric and solution knowledge of the supernatural being, and that is transmitted overpower tradition and initiation income). (3) He died in 254 A.C., in the metropolitan area of Tyre, due to the unfair treatment from Decius, self-important extensively renowned as Trajanus, who was an steady Christianity oppositionist.
(4) Irreverent and even consider of the prophet doling out of the Eastern Churches.
(5) Virgil (537-555), instinctive in Rome from a first-class motherland. He was elected, due to simony, slur, and approval of Empress Theodora. He was prey, due to his weak personality, of blackmailing on the part of the Empress and Sovereign Justinian. He died in Syracuse, in the function of he was coming back in the past a want patronize to the West.
(6) It is thought that it was overpower the claim of Justinian's spouse Theodora, who looked-for to be divinized; on the other hand, she was an ex-courtesan and she habitual the death of her old classmates (500 women) like they were high of her old "Friend" who had become empress. The dead prostitutes' clients cast Theodora a curse: Her furthermore 500 reincarnations would unendingly end terribly. (se non 'e vero, 'e bene trovato).
(7) A value of hanging high spirits and loss of voluntary sign in which the limbs stack in whatever perceive they are located. [Catalepsy is essentially observed in dementia praecox and hypnotic nod off hand baggage.] Pythagoras of Samos (VI century B.C.), Greek erudite and mathematician. His buddies, the Pythagoreans, who, from the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C., rigid in philosophic-religious communities, multiplied overpower Magnum Greece, constituted the supposed Italic Educate in or PythagoreanSchool. Pythagorism is meticulous by two tendencies: The mystic-moralist one, interconnected to the Orphism and the Shamanism, and the philosophic-mathematic one, which resulted in a powerful patrimony of algebraic, arithmetical, astronomic and acoustic knowledge, incorporated by the obtain of numeric correspondences together with countless tell of devotion.
Lenten Reflection For Ash Wednesday
ASH WEDNESDAY
"Joel 2, 12-18 * II Corinthians 5:20-6, 2 * Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18"
Today we begin an inward journey through our heart. We daily listen to God-especially Jesus Christ-speak to us through the scriptures in the weeks ahead. We also take practical steps to respond to his call for conversion. Lent invites us to renew our faith that makes us pilgrims bound for the Kingdom or Reign of God. Our model and guide is Jesus Christ.
Lent provides us two specific opportunities to respond to him: We take steps to "...put on the Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 13:14) and we focus our life on him rather than just "doing Lenten things" such as "giving up" dessert. Lent calls us to return to the Gospel in order to live a life of deep union with Christ. Struggles will confront us as we leave behind sin, but new insights will help deepen the love in our hearts for Jesus. Our relationship with him will transform our way of viewing and living life. In turn, this lived-out experience of change will impact our way of thinking, deciding, and acting in our circumstances of life-especially in dealing with all God's people. Our unique, inward journey through our heart as disciples of Jesus and pilgrims of faith guides us on our way to heaven. We are truly blessed!
Perhaps a daily portion of our private PRAYER this Lent could focus on the people we need to love and to forgive. Perhaps our FASTING this Lent could mean less time spent on cellular telephones, texting, and video games to have quality time for face-to-face conversations with others. Perhaps our ALMSGIVING this Lent might lead us to review our understanding of tithing and put it into practice to help the needy pointed out to us by Pope Francis.
FATHER CHARLIE BANKS, O.M.I.
Father Charlie Banks is a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate and offers spiritual direction at St. Mary's Catholic Center.
"St. Mary's Catholic Center will post a daily reflection from a student, former student, or staff member every day of Lent at 3pm. We have compiled these reflections into a handout, given to our students on Ash Wednesday."
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Religion Belief Leader In The North
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
On Breaking The God Spell
On Betrayal The God Harm
By Ed Komarek6/1/06
Write down and Put out Willingly
My Blog: http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/
I bind conventional a momentary from a indoors foundation that has been polite in furthering my understanding of the run exopolitical locate mankind faces today. Stage force be community that are pertinently not persuaded of run of the mill sources in the function of greatest of these sources are fascinated on limiting our collectivist situational knowledge. On while communicate are community who injury to do evenhanded the undo and wish to clarify us in regard to these matters. The folks penury understand that institutions everywhere the insiders work are not monolithic.
These institutions are finished up of people with their own land of your birth politics telling to disturb who force to amendment folks perceptions for better or sink based on a bring in of needs and motives. A good indoors foundation can be a gigantic foothold just before any analyze as was the model in the investigations that led to the state of undress of the Watergate Bring into disrepute. A good indoors foundation can fib the folks supporter from homicide time on artificial leads by invidiously navigating the supporter popular loaded areas of analyze. Of course the undo is likewise liable. This is why the judicious supporter relies on certain self-sufficient realization streams in which to trangulate and make your mind up facts.
So I vindicate in this paper is a best quality sophisticated sub-model that relates to a upper humanity of which our humanity is just a insult part. This sub-model is a subset of what I beckon the Broad Exopolitical Chunk that I bind described in past papers. Some force texture this evenhanded modern ripe small story or myth seeing as others force observe progress. Also force interpret this according to his or her own understanding and that is very with me. I am evenhanded put away for the pass to see everywhere this all leads. :-)
My method has gotten me consideration best quality about these IHWH, or God Kings. References to these mortal IHWH run express the Sumerian, Biblical, Vedic, Greek, Roman, Egyptian and state peoples long-ago traditions. Too this arrange of jam crops up in contactee luggage be fond of the method fabric of Billy Meier and the book, Encourage Among The Gods, by Charles Silvia. This new-fangled realization current provided by my indoors foundation is polite conceptualizing a mean to better check the contrasting realization by the way these Calm Kings, Fathers, Sons and Daughters referred to in many ancient traditions.
In order the Greeks and the Romans bind these stories of the all to mortal Gods skirmish and wrangling in the company of themselves evenhanded be fond of earth humans. These Gods of old had gigantic powers, putting earth humans at gigantic disadvantage in their family members with them. The Greeks and Romans standing themselves to the toys, the playthings of the Gods and I standing they were not far off the support.
So I am learning is give out me to make find of all this long-ago realization and contemporaneous contactee luggage. Stage normal to be a person of off world mortal societies some that are so violently contemporaneous to us humans as to interbreed as described in the Bible. In some mortal subspecies the genetic divergence is supposedly as low as 100 genes. It would normal that the gigantic bring in of mortal kin and subspecies bind been caused by each one natural and sham type.
It would not excite me that communicate are as many kin and subspecies of humans as we bind cats and dogs who be fond of us bind been a product of each one natural and sham type. I would start to have that of the many types of technologic races coming to earth it would be community of the upper mortal lead that we would bind the greatest in habitual and would be interacting with the greatest. This seems to be the model.
From what I can see from the various realization streams in the literature and what my foundation is suggestive of me is that these IHWH who were as a whole quite barbarous bind been sprouting in their own space-time levels of suggestion evenhanded as we bind been in ours. These so called, God Kings, and the races they illustrate, are not Gods at all. They be fond of us are becoming best quality courteous fasten for a few retrograde holdouts. :-) These holdouts no-win situation to the old barbaric ways but even they are sleepily soporific their hang on on the old ways and coming on top of to the upper group. I am told that communicate is one main Sovereign and his attendants who are sedentary start up trouble on earth and who campaign to foment geopolitical tensions for their own selfish ends.
So we earthlings normal to be observing is the last episode in an recounting occupy yourself of a very hope constant civil war that has been separation on for thousands of living by positive off world mortal kin that bind very hope inexplicably shaped life spans. The hear of this Sovereign may be potential in the function of his machinery is now out of date and he and his display are vastly outnumbered by the rest of the off world mortal races. So I am saying is not inconsistent with the long-ago texts which hand over a long-ago landscape on what is now embezzle place aristocratic and in the company of us. It penury not be insensitive to see that we with our very short life spans are at a gigantic disadvantage in our family members with these peaceful races but the mature they are a ill at ease.
So is ripe to me is that Meier's method Semjase seems to be saying considerably the incredibly thing about these peaceful kings and their diverse mortal populations as do the long-ago texts. On page 252 and 253 of the basic mass of the Brunt Explanation communicate is a drawn meeting of this sense. On page 253 Semjase says this. ^aEURoeThere are as well some flake groups of our own ancient display who come at hand as well as visiting other worlds, and sedentary implant according to the aged ways. They try to dye life forms, singularly earth humans, according to their deportment. As their family tree appeared be fond of Gods, so likewise do some of these....). On page 252 this discussion takes place everywhere Meier says, "I can envisage that not all of the extraterrestrials. who stick your nose in in concerns at hand on Obtain, bind the best of intentions for us, but everywhere it is not simple to me why you allow this to attitude...." Semjase responds, "At the same time as each form of life is privilege in its own time, and thinks and acts according to its own quality and form..... We are not officer to stick your nose in, if not require for relic, in this manner we are just officer to be enthusiastic in the way of teaching."
The ascendancy of these sky general public as they are standard in state American traditions or God Kings in European and Asian traditions seems be fond of a irate among a constitutional monarch and a mind's eye of throw who answers to an understanding of gathering and to the general public desirable. This is in show a discrepancy to these sky king's next history everywhere these kings ruled with a level fist many who were moldy and imbalanced to their own peoples and to earth humanity as well. So these technologic mortal races normal to bind done to humanity on top of thousands of living is in fact to place a God Harm upon earth humanity that has caused beyond belief hassle and continues to this day. I standing that this spell is human being useless by a normal intricacy of earth humans cooperating with their off world counterparts. The God Harm is copying in the function of earth peoples are human being offered with the truth of their correct place in the area. Discernibly this is separation to redeploy a sort-out of religion on earth which at basic may be difficult for many, but in the end a religion based on algebraic sense of right and wrong force be far superior to our play unmanageably partial goody-goody slope.
Sanse Religion What Does The Word Sanse Mean
1. Sanse is a religion that venerates Family Spirits. It is a Offshoot of Haitian Vodou. the Haitian Creole word for Family tree is Zanzet. The Family tree as a group are called Zanzet Yo. The word Sanse or Sance is a Spanish type of the Haitian Creole word for Family tree. The Spanish word for Family tree is Antepasados or Ascendendiente. A personality who venerates an Forebear is important as a Ascendiendista or Sancista or Sencista. Since Haitian Vodou venerates the Mysteries important s Loa, a minor group of these Fantastic Armed forces important as Los Misterios are important in Puerto Rico, and they are else called Santos. But mainly Sanse deals with the amazement and piece working of ones Centinella, ones Family tree, and ones Seres and the Spirits of ones Cuadro Espiritual or Assortment Espiritual important as Las Commisiones. The line of reasoning we work with these Spirits is to aid them in obtaining Fantastic Lighting to become Ascended Masters, Misterios or Loases.
2. THE Statement SANSE OR ITS VARIATIONS ZANCIE, ZANCE, SANSES OR SANCES, HAS ITS Roots AND ORIGINATES FROM THE SPANISH Statement SESION, WHICH TRANSLATES IN ENGLISH TO SEANCE. A PRACTITIONER OF SANSE, Work AND Woman IS Accustomed AS A SANCISTA OR A SANCERO "Work" SANCERA "Woman", HE/SHE THAT FOLLOWS THE SPIRITISM MESA BLANCA Service OF PUERTO RICO, AND Deposit THE Frozen SEANCE Reckon. THE SPANISH Statement FOR SPIRITIST IS ESPIRITISTA AND THEY Obey ESPIRITISMO. Nonetheless THE TWO Writing IN PUERTO RICO AND FOR PUERTO RICANS IN THE MAINLAND OF THE STATES, USE THE Writing SANSE AND ESPIRITISTA INTERCHANGEABLY. IT Must BE NOTED THAT Since PRACTITIONERS OF SANSE Develop ESPIRITISMO, THAT BY NO Fundamental "Fundamental" THAT ALL WHO Develop ESPIRITISMO, Develop SANSE. Separate SPIRITISTS FROM About THE Globe, THAT Carry out Only Together with COMMUNICATING Together with Spirits. IN PUERTO RICO AS Credibly AS IN THE MAINLAND Wherever PUERTO RICANS Presume Citizen. SANSE ESPIRITISMO IS Partnered TO BRAZILIAN 'UMBANDA" AND VENEZUELAN "TRES 3 POTENCIAS ESPIRITISMO'. THE SANCISTA / ESPIRITISTA Carry out Together with COMMUNICATING Together with Spirits, FOLK SAINTS, Therapy, FOLK Mythical, BRUJERIA, HERBALISM, Divination, AND Providence Telltale. Load Phantom SAY SANSE IS AN "A.T.R." AFRICAN Above-board Religion, BUT I CAN NOT Enormously Scenery Together with THIS Opinion. Nonetheless Positive OF THE Spirits Overall AND Ethnicity ARE OF AFRICAN Source, Load ARE EUROPEAN, AND Limited.
3. ONE Middle-of-the-road Opinion OF THE Produce OF THE Statement SANSE, COMES FROM THE CENTINELA Teaching Zest Frank WHO IS Combined Together with SAN SEBASTIAN IN PUERTO RICO. ON THE Coral isle, SAN SEBASTIAN IS Smoothly CALLED, SAN SE, FOR Sharp.
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Midsummer Celebrating
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Supernatural Case For Catholicism
I understand why we tend to hesitate here: especially, if we're dealing with an atheist who rejects the possibility of miracles, or a Protestant who rejects the possibility of Marian apparitions, and thinks that miracles are just a thing in the Bible. But I want to suggest why we need miracles in apologetics, what sort of miracles we should point to, and how we should use them.
I. THE NEED FOR "SIGNS AND WONDERS"
"Miracles were one of the ways that the Israelites could determine that a specific message was from God: they're intended to be a confirmation of the message, and sometimes, confirmation of the messenger. So, for example, Deuteronomy 6:22 says that "the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes," and it was on the basis of these signs" that Israel believed in God (Exodus 14:31).
this reason, miracles are often referred to as "signs" or "signs and wonders" in Scripture. Miracles don't exist for their own sake; rather, they exist for the sake of the Gospel.
Nor is this only in the Old Testament. Jesus likewise confirmed His Gospel through a series of miracles. This is the primary purpose of the miracles He performs during His public ministry. At one point, Jesus prays to the Father for a miraculous cure, "that they may believe "that Thou didst send Me" (John 11:40-42).
In his Pentecost homily, St. Peter describes Jesus as "Jesus of Nazareth, A MAN ATTESTED TO YOU BY GOD WITH MIGHTY WORKS AND WONDERS AND SIGNS WHICH GOD DID THROUGH HIM IN YOUR MIDST, as you yourselves know" (Acts 2:22). And Hebrews 2:3-4 says that the Gospel "was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him, while GOD ALSO BORE WITNESS BY SIGNS AND WONDERS AND VARIOUS MIRACLES AND BY GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WILL."
Nor do these miracles stop with Jesus. After His Resurrection, "many wonders and signs were done through the apostles" (Acts 2:43), as they "went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it" (Mark 16:20). St. Paul said that he would "not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Romans 15:18-19).
For that reason, he and Barabas remained in Iconium "for a long time, speaking boldly for THE LORD, WHO BORE WITNESS TO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, GRANTING SIGNS AND WONDERS TO BE DONE BY THEIR HANDS" (Acts 14:3). These signs and wonders were understood to be God's confirmation of the message, which is why Paul and Barnabas later use these miracles as evidence that the Gospel is to be extended to the Gentiles (Acts 15:12).
II. WHAT SORT OF MIRACLES ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
A critical text in this discussion is John 14:10-12, in which Jesus says to the Apostle Philip,
Masaccio, St. Peter Healing the Sick
with his Shadow (15th c.)
"DO YOU NOT BELIEVE THAT I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IN ME? THE WORDS THAT I SAY TO YOU I DO NOT SPEAK ON MY OWN AUTHORITY; BUT THE FATHER WHO DWELLS IN ME DOES HIS WORKS. BELIEVE ME THAT I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IN ME; OR ELSE BELIEVE ME FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORKS THEMSELVES. TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL ALSO DO THE WORKS THAT I DO; AND GREATER WORKS THAN THESE WILL HE DO, because I go to the Father. So Christ offers miracles that we might believe in Him, and promises that His followers will do even greater works. So what sort of works are we looking for? Let me offer five major categories, although these are not exhaustive.
1) BAPTISM AND THE EUCHARIST: Perhaps the most frequently mentioned signs used in Scripture are the Exodus miracles. The Israelites were repeatedly reminded that their deliverance was done in a miraculous way as a sign, that they might believe (Exodus 10:2, 12:13, 13:19, Numbers 14:22, Deuteronomy 4:34, 6:22, 7:19, 11:3, 26:8, 29:2-6, 34:11, Joshua 24:17, Psalm 78:43, 135:9, Jeremiah 32:20-21, etc.). One of those deliverance signs was the blood of the Passover lamb, smeared on the doorpost (Exodus 12:13). Another sign was the miraculous bread from Heaven, the Manna (Deut. 8:3, Duet. 29:6). St. Paul recalls these deliverance miracles in 1 Cor. 10:1-4,
I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same supernatural food and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.These were signs, not in the sense of being mere symbols, but in the sense of "pointing to God". And each of them is surpassed by something greater in the New Testament: the parting of the Red Sea foreshadows Christian Baptism. This Baptism miraculously imparts the Holy Spirit, unlike prior, merely symbolic Baptisms (Acts 19:1-6). And as Paul points out, the New Covenant has spiritual food and drink in the Eucharist (1 Cor. 10:16-17). There have been several Eucharistic miracles in which the Host has turned visibly into Flesh and Blood. But whether it occurs visibly or invisibly, it remains miraculous.
2) THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS: Christ ties His ministry of miracles with the forgiveness of sins several times, most directly in Mark 2:1-12 and John 9:1-41. In the case of the forgiveness of sins, as with Baptism and the Eucharist, the miracle occurs invisibly. But the fruits of it are visible.
3) EXORCISMS: The first miracle Jesus performs in Mark's Gospel is an exorcism (Mark 1:21-28), and in Mark 16:17, He explicitly cites exorcisms as one of the signs of His followers. And He shows in Luke 11:14-23 that these exorcisms can only occur "by the finger of God." He rejects the idea that Satan can cast out demons, since every "kingdom divided against itself is laid waste," and a house divided cannot stand.
So exorcisms are a critical sign in determining whether the Church is acting for or against Christ. The true Church will do them, and they're a uniquely helpful sign that someone is operating on behalf of God. So why not point to the fact that Catholic priests perform numerous exorcisms every year throughout the U.S., and around the world? This fact alone debunks the old Protestant theory that the Catholic Church is the Antichrist, since the devil cannot be the one driving out demons.
4) MIRACULOUS HEALINGS: Acts 19:11-12 says that "God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them." Those items that have touched a Saint are what we today call "relics," and we continue to use them to perform miraculous healings.
Miraculous healings happen several other ways in the New Testament, and several other ways in the Catholic Church today. For example, the waters of Lourdes have healed numerous people. Or talk to any priest: they can likely recount several healings that they have personally witnessed after the anointing of the sick, following James 5:14-15.
5) THE CHURCH HERSELF: The biggest miracle is one that no one can deny. Under the Old Covenant, the Jews themselves were a miracle. God chose them "because "they were small and weak. Their continued existence over thousands of years is a demonstration of His Divine Power, and a confirmation that the God of the Jews is the true God. We see this played out throughout Scripture. For example, the Israelites who scouted out the Promised Land returned with accounts of its bounty, but also with a warning (Numbers 13:28-29):Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amal'ekites dwell in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jeb'usites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.Today, where do we see the descendants of Anak, or the Amal'ekites, the Hittites, the Jeb'usites, or the Amorites? They've all long since disappeared, yet the Jews remain.
In Matthew 13:31-32, Christ improves upon this miracle, in His promises to His Church, the Kingdom of God. Like the Jewish people, the Church will never be destroyed. But the Church will go from being "the smallest of all seeds" to becoming a great tree. She won't just survive: She'll thrive.
Of course, the Catholic Church has born this out. She has survived for two thousand years, and is the oldest government in the world. Innumerable empires have attempted to suppress Her: they've faded away, while She's continued to grow. Throughout those two millennia, She's kept an astonishingly consistent set of doctrinal beliefs. Who else can boast this track record?
III. THE USE OF MIRACLES
Some people are more disposed than others to the possibility of miracles. For those who are disposed, use them to show that God has confirmed the message of the Catholic Church. For those who aren't, treat the topic the way you would to someone skeptical of the Empty Tomb. Leave it to the skeptic to explain how Lanciano, bilocation, Guadalupe, and the miracle of the sun are hoaxes or forgeries. Personally, I am partial to Msgr. Knox's explanation in "The Belief of Catholics":"It belongs to the courtesies of duelling that the challenger should offer his opponent a choice of weapons. In this debate, which here reaches its critical point, it is the Catholic Church which challenges the human intellect. In courtesy, therefore, the reader must be allowed his choice of weapons, if he is prepared to abide by it. If you are prepared to admit the possibility of miracle, then you will naturally expect that an event so full of importance for the human race as a personal revelation from Almighty God should be accompanied by evidences of his miraculous power. It will be my object in the later part of this chapter to show that the Christian revelation fulfils the conditions so laid down. But if you are determined, from some preconceived prejudice, some strange inhibition of thought, to rule out the possibility of miracle; if you are prepared to dismiss as a fiction any story which involves a miracle, for the reason that it involves a miracle and for no other--then I will do my best to give you satisfaction on your own terms; but you must abide by your own terms. You must consider, in all honesty, whether the life of our Lord does not give you every possible assurance of his Divinity, short of a miracle. I do not say that such assurance would ever satisfy me, but it must satisfy you. It must satisfy you, because it is precisely the kind of assurance you have demanded. You must not say that no revelation would satisfy you unless the guarantee of miracle accompanied it, and then say in the same breath that you will refuse to accept any story of miracle precisely on the ground that it is miraculous. That is as if you were to invite your opponent to stab you with a pistol. If you will not have miracles, then you must be prepared to be satisfied without them.This puts the burden where it belongs: on the person who dogmatically rejects the possibility of miracles, while refusing to believe in Christianity (or in Catholicism) on anything less than miraculous evidence. Of course, the role for the miraculous should be to supplement" the Scriptural and reasonable case for Catholicism, but in the right context, it's got a very important role to play.
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A Booklist of Pagan/Magickal Titles
I. Tarot:
A. The Tarot - Paul Add to Skirmish (f)
B. The Qabalistic Tarot - Robert Wang (a,f)
C. The Seize of Tokens - Paul Skirmish (f)
D. TheBook ofThoth - Crowley(a,f)
II. The Qabalah:
A. The Psychic Qabalah - Dion Try (f)
B. The Kabbalah Unveiled - MacGregor Mathers (f)
C. The Sepher Yetzirah - W. Wynn Westcott (f)
D. A Official Brochure to Qabalistic Symbolism - Gareth
Knight (a,f)
E. The Ladder of Lights - William Grey (f?)
III. Magick in general:
A. The Tree of Spirit - Israel Regardie (a,f)
B. Magick in Opinion and Procedure - Aleister Crowley (a
,f,b)
C. The Golden Dawn; The Kill Golden Twitch Create of
Magic- Israel Regardie (c)
D. Magick not up to scratch Bawl - Crowley (c)
IV. Meditation
A. The Education of the Consciousness - Alan Bennett (a)
B. Tart Through Spiritual Avarice - Chogyam Tru
ngpa(d)
C. Seize 4 - Crowley (a)
D. The Exceptional person of Insight - Goldstein (d)
V. Crowley
A. The Sacred Books of Thelema (a)
B. The Aura and the Escape (a)
C. The Eye in the Triangle - Israel Regardie (c)
D. The Equinox, esp The Place of worship of Solomon the Emperor (a)
E. The Seize of Falsehood (a)
VI. Paganism, elapsed
A. The Golden Offshoot - Frazer
B. The Joker Religions - S. Angus (b)
C. Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism - F. Cumont (b
)
D. The God of the Witches - Margaret Murray
E. The Golden Ass - Apuleius, transl. Robert Graves
VII. Paganism, modern
A. Drawing Quiet the Moon - Margot Adler
B. The Cherish of Witchcraft - Gerald Gardner (g)
VIII. Eastern Mysticism
A. Tibetan Yoga and Toward the inside Doctrines - Evans-Wentz
B. Shakti and Shakta - Arthur Avalon (a)
C. The Serpent Force - Arthur Avalon (a)
D. The Tibetan Seize of the Dear departed - Evans-Wentz
IX. Egyptian religion (all b)
A. The Gods of the Egyptians - E.A. Alter
B. The Egyptian Seize of the Dear departed - Alter
C. Egyptian Numinous - Alter
D. The Leyden Papyrus - Alter
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X. Freed
A. The Chaldean Oracles - Westcott (f,e)
B. The Spirit of Apollonius of Tyana - Philostratus
C. Prometheus Rebel - Robert Anton Wilson (c)
D. Great Enthusiasm - Robert Anton Wilson (c)
Sources
(a) Samuel Weiser, Inc
Box 612
York Beach, Maine 03910
-EXCELLENT in any case for books of all sorts, all high qu
ality.
Exact good in any case for books by Crowley & on cere
monial
magick. Notably recommended.
(b) Dover Publications
31 East 2nd St.
Mineola, NY 11501
-reprints manyold books,record outstandingly Budge'sclassic eg
yptian
series
(c) Falcon Knead
3660 N. 3rd St
Phoenix, AZ 85012
-small herd specializing in Crowley, Israel Regardie
,& the
Golden Twitch. Then carries Robert Anton Wilson's new-fangled
works,
such as PROMETHEUS Rebel, THE NEW Post-mortem, and the rep
rinted
classic Great Enthusiasm.
(d) Shambalah Publications
314 Dartmouth St.
Boston, MA 02116
-mainly Eastern religion & Buddhist, but any some w
estern
magick, and really adequate of polite New Age works. Re
cently
reprinted the classic series HERMETICA by Sir Walter Scott.
(e) Heptangle Books
Box 283
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
-small rope printing remain issuing one volu
me per
meeting, smartly pattern. Issued the classic EN
OCHIAN
INVOKATION by Gfrey James, which was flat in key in April
.
(f) The Pinnacle of Cards Inventory
Mass of US P.E. Systems
38 East 32nd St
NY, NY 10016
-sells every Tarot crowd in repute, & any h
as a
singularly tall booklist of occult books. All-encompassing sourc
e for
Eliphas Levi & tarot gear & carries several of the books
issued
by the supercilious publisher. Inventory is $2. Publish is the fastes t I've
ever seen.
925
(g) Magickal Childe
35 West 19th St.
NY,NY 10011
-excellent listing; carries Gardner's books & as
sorted
paraphanalia such as Abramelin oil. Carries several self-important books
than
bring down in their catalog; reportedly if you bawl them they c
an get
ANY occult book, if it's departure where. No, I don't command
their
earpiece #.
(h) Llewellyn Publications
P.O. Box 64383-873
St. Paul, MN 55164-0383
-not so good a in any case these days,but carries reprin
ts of
several of Israel Regardie's classics. Their catalog resembles
the
Family Enquirer; notice emptor. Thirst quenching to read
for
joy purposes, occasionally one order find a good book t
wearing.
(i) Bend
P.O. Box 219
Mt. Horeb, WI 53572
-apagan organizationpublishinga newsletter& sellssome
books,
record outstandingly Bend Brochure to Pagan & Wiccan Capital, for conta cts.
(j) Dharma Publishing
2425 Hillside Ave
Berkeley CA 94704
-sellsbooks onBuddhism, posters of Tibetan Thanka embarrassment
tings;
faraway self-important hardcore Buddhist than Shambalah.
These opinions are my own, & everywhere I recollection purchasin
gthese
books in the similar to. They may no longer be departure.
Get It Darker The Ouija Board And Satan
THE OUIJA BOARD AND SATAN
Along time ago when I was about fifteen years old, my mates (about four or five of them) and I decided to play on my best mate's mum's ouija board. We took it round to my other friend's house as her parents were out. We turned the lights out and lit some candles and then we sat around the table.We asked the usual questions and after about 10 minutes of messing about the planchette started to move. We all thought someone was pushing it at first, but we still carried on and let it spell out who it was. It spelled out Marilyn Monroe. Of course we did now think someone was moving it and I got pretty mad as I really wanted it to work.
I decided to ask if it would show itself to us. In response, it spelled out, 'get it darker'. So we blew out most of the candles and just had a couple going. The thing spelt out again, 'get it darker'. I was getting a bit jittery now as I had a bad feeling about this. We blew out another candle, but it yet again spelled, 'get it darker', then it spelled it out again and again. This thing was moving so fast, we all got frightened to death and stopped playing with it.
About a week later we got hold of the ouija board again and this time we had no-ones house to go to, so we took it down to a field near to the train track as this was the only place we could think of where we wouldn't be seen.
Now what i'm about to tell you is absolutely true, but it sounds so childish, but i'll tell it how it happened. We started playing with it and immediately it worked and spelled out look under the board. We all looked at one another and looked under the board, written in like a pinkish ink was, 'satan was ere'.
I thought that someone had written it and so did all of the others, so we weren't at all bothered by this. Anyway we carried on playing and then it spelled out again, 'look under the board'. We turned the board around and that writing wasn't there anymore. We all ran out of there so fast leaving the board behind.
I have never played the board again and after reading all the stories over the years of people who have also had it work for them, I think we were being messed around with by something. I've heard that the boards lie all the time and say they're someone that they aren't. I've also heard that if you play with them and don't say a prayer before then you usually have bad spirits that you're dealing with. What do you think, has anyone else had something happen that was like my one?
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Your Personal Colour Ray
What colour are you? This is an interesting subject of which many people are unaware. It is suggested that we are all made up of different vibrations, which align directly with the colours of the rainbow. These are known as The Rays. Although we are a jumble of all these colours, there is one predominant Ray that is said to relate to each individual. Scroll down and see which one most clearly describes you.
NOTE: THE RAYS should never be thought of as being destructive in themselves, for they come from the Light of Pure Goodness. However, in the density of the Physical Plane, this may become distorted sufficiently to effect destructive behaviour in less evolved souls. Extremes of any Ray can have negative results.
THE RED RAY OF WILL AND POWER. People born under the Red Ray show excellent qualities of leadership. They have extraordinary energy, and great strength, power, courage, and enthusiasm, with a persistent driving force as their keynote. National rulers, high ranking officers, and those seeking authority and power for the advancement of humanity, are often born under this Ray. They are also found amongst the greatest athletes and and defenders of the land. There is often a strong "elemental attunement" to nature, and an innate understanding of the secret hidden forces of the animal and plant kingdoms, as well as the human mind. People of the Red Ray of those who take initiative in business or other areas of oranisation and control. There is nearly always an exceptional interest, if not participation in politics, although the motive generally would be in no way manipulative, but extremely direct, idealistic and forthright in approach. However, with the pressures of the present day political arena, it can have its destructive influence, leading to a tendency towards aggression, and sometimes even war in the urgency to retain authority.
THE ORANGE RAY OF KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE. Those of the Orange Ray are born with a questioning logical mind. They are critical and clear thinking, ever seeking to find the reasoning behind the many illusive facets of life. They are great moralists, with a strong sense of duty to their fellow man; looking deeply into the ethics of every situation, and are extremely individualistic in thought and action, for they live by high principles. There is a strong belief in themselves, and their ability through education, to control their destiny. Being so independent, they will likely insist on doing things "their way", unless it is proven to be unrealistic. The Orange Ray is the ray of the scientific mind, and people of its vibration are both creative and objective in attitude, analysing events of importance with great accuracy and attention to detail. It is not surprising that many of those in research are born under this Ray, for they believe that knowledge and experience is the key to wisdom.
THE YELLOW RAY OF ART AND HARMONY THROUGH CONFLICT. The Yellow Ray is the ray that seeks to overcome confusion, and restore harmony from out of diversity. It is the colour of the artist, who takes the profusion of the many accents of colour, and creates beauty in its greatest expression and form. As Gandhi, through silent contemplation, sought to bring order out of confusion, so the people of this Ray search to uncover true peace from out of conflict. They are often the catalysts of society, sparking into life a potentially dangerous situation yet, in doing so, forcing others to look into themselves and, through the pressure of diversity without, find unity within. People of the Yellow Ray are refined, ascetic, far seeking and creative. They are those who dominate and mould the different cultures of the lands, and have been recognised as profound teachers through example. They have a great impact and influence on humanity for they have the secret of the art of true living, and call attention to the need to strive for achievement. What they give, they expect to receive and, once set on their goal, they seek to progress and grow, no matter what opposition may beset them, for they are contented and hopeful in the knowledge that an outer confrontation is only a struggle by which we inwardly evolve.
THE GREEN RAY OF ACTIVE INTELLIGENCE. Those born into the impulse of the Green Ray are both mentally alert and clear in intellect. They have exceptional ability for planning and the formation of structure, hence they are often found in industry where construction and economy are necessary. Economics and Finance are likely their forte. These people are dependable, reliable, with a tendency to live by certain rules of procedure, but there is a certain unity of purpose found within themselves and their loved ones.They are family people, working with both physical and mental agility to preserve the traditional foundations of the home. Those of the Green Ray are capable of both clear active thought and constructive intelligence, and they are often the material that lawyers are made of, for they are well able to pursue an abstract principle to its final conclusion. They believe strongly in the power of love, when directed under the control of constructive aims. Many times these people have a persistent sense of destiny, believing that they have been chosen for a specific task to complete in life, and will often tolerate extremes of hardship in order to attain that end. However, it is rare to find these people in conditions of financial difficulty, for their innate intelligence is attuned to avoiding such problems by careful planning, and active application.
THE BLUE RAY OF DEVOTION AND IDEALISM. The Blue Ray is the ray associated with the Crusader. People of high idealism, who fight ardently for a cause, and show great intensity of purpose towards their beliefs. These people are often devoted to the aid of the "under-dog", for they are driven by the spirit of service to mankind, and an urgency for a Utopian Society. In many cases, they are predominately religious but, even if otherwise, they often carry their "truth" high in the air, like a placard, for all to see; spreading the "word" with enthusiasm and happiness. Many religious leaders and idealists. seeking Justice for the People, find prominence under this Ray, for their ardent devotion to a cause will likely sustain long after others weaken. However, it is only the unevolved souls who can become bigoted in their direction for, mostly, these "messengers" urgently need to share their beliefs with those of others. Yet in some ways, there is a certain fanaticism within the nature, leading these people to a single-minded and dedicated attitude, which upholds them and others in times of crisis.
THE INDIGO RAY OF LOVE AND WISDOM. This is the Indigo Ray of endurance and love, and, those who are part of this stream of force are the seekers of lasting peace and truth. Their motivation is magnetic and persisitent, portraying a unity of purpose throughout their nature, which often brings others to find solace in their company. Those of the Indigo Ray are the sustainers and observers of life - receptive, adaptable, gentle "confessors" of humanity - and are known, by their example, as the healers and philosophers, who walk the path of wisdom. Within all things, they search for understanding and the unity of common ground, and are well able to sacrifice their own needs for the welfare of others. The keynote to the destiny of these people is love and charity in relationships and therein lies their true power, for they can become a fortress of strength for those of less endurance than themselves. Their need to express their love is balanced in harmony with another's need to receive.
THE VIOLET RAY OF CEREMONIAL ORDER AND RITUAL. The Violet Ray is associated with the consolidation and control of energy which links the Higher with the Lower, or Spirit and Matter. Those born under its vibration seek order and perfection in their lives, and are greatly disturbed by harsh aggressive behaviour, or anything that disrupts the smooth and well ordered running of their every day circumstances. Their habits are constructive and well organised in ritual, even when involved in the most mundane of tasks. These people are the architects of life; intuitive and perceptive of others, yet innately aware of their own inner direction. Although sometimes rather traditional in their love of ceremony and order, there is a certain inner restlessness to the character, which seeks to concentrate their aspiring energy towards a definite object or goal. There is normally a strong belief in the dominance of unseen forces, and many practising magicians of quality are born under this Ray, who attune themselves admirably to the fluctuations of Nature and her seasons.
Monday, March 14, 2011
The Last Sermon Of The Prophet Saw
Reference: spells-and-chants.blogspot.com
O Liber Umbrarum E O Livro Das Sombras
INSTRUMENTOS M'aGICOS E TALISM~aSUm Coven deve dispor dos seguintes instrumentos m'agicos:
* Um caldeir~ao de ferro, de tamanho pequeno ou m'edio.
* Um incens'ario ou pira.
* Um c'alice, de prefer^encia de metal.
* Um pentagrama, de metal (preferencialmente cobre) ou cer^amica.
Cada bruxo deve possuir obrigatoriamente de uma faca de aproximadamente quinze cent'imetros. Se poss'ivel, seu cabo deve ser negro. D'a-se a essa faca o nome de Athame. 'E a principal arma do bruxo.Wiccans geralmente usam talism~as dentro de um c'irculo (ou tamb'em fora dele). Seja ele um anel ou um cord~ao com um pingente, 'e necess'ario que tenha a forma circular, para caracterizar a Roda do Ano e o Ciclo de Nascimento e Renascimento. Preferencialmente deve ser feito de prata, metal dedicado `a lua e `a nossa Deusa. Os pingentes mais comumente usados s~ao o pentagrama (com a ponta para cima, como s'imbolo do dom'inio da vontade sobre os elementos, ou com a ponta para baixo, como s'imbolo do sacerd'ocio do Deus de Chifres), a lua crescente (s'imbolo do sacerd'ocio da Deusa), o ankh (s'imbolo eg'ipcio da vida eterna) e o utchat (ou olho de H'orus, s'imbolo da protec~ao divina). Alguns an'eis mais usados: an'eis com o pentagrama, an'eis com forma de serpente (s'imbolo da energia sexual) e an'eis com s'imbolos r'unicos. No que tange aos talism~as, vale uma das regras de ouro da Arte: "Faca da maneira que lhe for confort'avel". N~ao h'a regras fixas. A escolha, neste campo, 'e pessoal.Rituais de consagrac~ao para todos os instrumentos e tamb'em para talism~as s~ao oferecidos em diversas obras; escolha os que lhe parecerem melhores, ou crie-os sozinho.
O ALTARO altar deve ser sempre posicionado no quadrante Sul do C'irculo, correspondente ao elemento Terra. Como j'a foi dito, pode ser uma mesa, um tronco ou um simples pano disposto aos p'es do c'irculo.Em cima do altar deve estar o seguinte:Figuras representando os Deuses. Ela `a esquerda, ele `a direita. Estas figuras podem ser substitu'idas por s'imbolos: uma concha para a Deusa, um chifre para o Deus, ou qualquer coisa que tenha significado sagrado para os bruxos do Coven. Ao lado de cada representac~ao dos Deuses deve estar uma vela.
* O incens'ario.
* O c'alice.
* Um pote com 'agua e um pote com sal.
* Os athames dos bruxos.
* O Liber Umbrarum.
* A vela verde do Sul.
* No centro do altar, o pentagrama.
O Liber Umbrarum pode tamb'em ser colocado em uma mesa reservada s'o para esse fim. O prato com o alimento e a garrafa com a bebida que ser~ao usados no rito fica em baixo do altar.Se estiver sendo usada uma toalha no altar, d^e prefer^encia `as seguintes cores: azul, verde e marrom. Tamb'em podem ser usadas toalhas estampadas ou bordadas por membros do Coven. No caso de um altar no ch~ao, pode ser utilizado um pequeno tapete, produzindo um efeito interessante.
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