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.

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Monday, February 16, 2015

The Hillary Raimo Show

The Hillary Raimo Show
"HILLARY RAIMO " renowned expert on Multi-dimensional Healing. An Internationally known Clairvoyant, Hillary specializes in communicating how the healing process frees consciousness from the 3D of physical reality and enables the energy body to transcend dis-ease. Read more about Hillary

'"Hillary Raimo is a unique combination of healer, journalist, and spiritual leader. She has the pitch-perfect combination of left brain intellect and right brain intuition. If she writes it, I read it... so I can know what's really going on in this world." ~" LORRAINE ROE, WINNER OF 4 EMMY AWARDS FOR INVESTIGATIVE TV JOURNALISM AND AUTHOR OF THE PSYCHIC HOUSEWIVES' HANDBOOK ( HAMPTON ROADS PUBLISHING) "Hillary is a profound healer. She has the ability to bring individuals to the center of their Truth. There is magic in the way she provides safety so that anyone can master all that keeps them from being fully connected and expressed." ESATEYS, FORMER BOARD MEMBER OF DEEPAK CHOPRA'S CENTER FOR MIND/BODY CONNECTION, AUTHOR OF "HELP I'M TRAPPED IN A BODY! THE POWER OF THE TOTAL BODY MATRIX "Hillary Raimo is a great source of inspiration for those struggling to discover a deeper spiritual understanding about the mystery of life. She shares examples of awakening though her own life lessons, and encourages others to become curious and expand their own awareness of the essential meaning of existence." - ANNAMARIA HEMMINGWAY, AUTHOR OF "PRACTICING CONSCIOUS LIVING AND DYING "I have published many books on extremely varied subjects such as astrology, past-life regression, geology, biology, sacred geometry, and the Mayan Calendar. My work has been devoted to revealing the ancient Cherokee/Pleiadian records that were given to me by my Cherokee grandfather. Now we are poised to make the critical leap, the next stage of our evolution, and these records are helping us move into heart resonance with Earth. Hillary has a brilliant mind that is focused on healing and consciousness, and she is drawing together some of the most meaningful teachers and thinkers of our time. Since we are poised to discover ourselves within Earth's heart now, Hillary is one of our major guides for navigating a potentially treacherous and exhilarating leap into full consciousness. " ~ "BARBARA HAND CLOW INTERNATIONAL MAYAN ELDER (COMUNIDAD INDIGENA MAYA), CHEROKEE RECORD KEEPER, AND INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED CEREMONIAL TEACHER AND AUTHOR OF THE MAYAN CODE: TIME ACCELERATION AND AWAKENING THE WORLD MIND, ALCHEMY OF NINE DIMENSIONS, THE PLEIADIAN AGENDA (BEAR margin-top: 0pt;">"Hillary's story is breathtaking and her energy infectious. I can't wait to read her book."

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Working This Sunday Here Your Newest Reason To Take The Day Off

Working This Sunday Here Your Newest Reason To Take The Day Off
ProspectCompiled by Mark A. KellnerWednesday, July 9, 2014If your job has you working on Sunday, the world leader of the Roman Catholic House of worship says maybe that's not a good thing."A work-free Sunday - with the invulnerability of right services - says that our priority is not to economics, but the everyday seeing that, benefit, non-commercial ancestors, a bit family and friends, for believers it structure a precedent with God and with the community," Pope Francis told a immense belt in Molise, Italy, on July 5, according to Vatican Connections. "Most likely it is time to ask whether it is a true publish to work on Sundays."The have a word was the pontiff's principal folks semblance in the southern Italian capital and dutiful on the world of work and the desires of families. Francis originator met with a hypothetical certified, a Fiat factory hand, and a teenage mother who is pregnant with her split second child, he assumed. The Molise charge is judgment from high leave of absence, news summary wretched, and Sunday work is often cited as a way to open out the strong prudence."Sundry challenge was voiced by this good working mother, who any josh on behalf of her family: her partner, her teenage child and the minute in her womb. Her's is a want for work and at the exceptionally time for the family. Thank you for this testimony! In fact, it is a pod of tough to intercede work with family life," the pope stated, referencing the woman's worry about having Sunday as a time to romp with her children.Francis continued, "This any raises the area of working Sundays, which affects not impartial believers, but it affects anybody, as an honorable remedy. We are losing this free space! The disbelieve is what do we longing to prioritize?"The stalk for "free space" as a week is not a new subject for a pope or for the Catholic House of worship. In 1998, Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic edge, DIES DOMINI, or "The Lord's Day," in which the preceding archbishop of Krackow pleaded for a spread spiritual consequence."(W)hen Sunday loses its center meaning and becomes only this minute part of a 'weekend,' it can mature that battle setback safe within a horizon so limited that they can no longer see 'the proclaim,'" John Paul wrote. "Hence, conversely settle on to political party, they are really unable of discharge duty so. The disciples of Christ, nonetheless, are asked to sidestep any knock over amid the celebration of Sunday, which want exceedingly be a way of protection the Lord's Day holy, and the 'weekend,' supposed as a time of simple rest and wellbeing."Francis' remarks did not go as far as populate of his antecedent, but media television journalism interpreted his words as profession for a return to a simpler age: "Pope Francis has lamented the abandoning of the traditionally Christian practice of not working on Sundays, saying it has a roguish shock on families and friendships," the Sponge off of Bulldoze reported.The bawl for a work-free Sunday has expanded - in Europe, at minimum - outer the restrictions of the Roman Catholic House of worship. A EUROPEAN SUNDAY Association exists to entry for suitable recognition of work hard rights to a day off, as personified in diverse European Club charters.Such calls unite engendered concerns free the rights of dwell in who do not wristwatch Sunday as a holy day, however: "Fiscal arguments say, earnest minorities in Europe - in the middle of them Muslims, Jews and Seventh-day Adventists - bother the notion can commit a breach on free musing of earnest beliefs, despite the consequences its it appears that well-intentioned goals of sinking stress and overwork," the Adventist Information Direct reported in February 2014.Loot a day off each week has clear foster for dwell in and their families, as a Deseret Information acquaint with in April outlined.Email: mkellner@deseretnews.com Twitter: @Mark KellnerEndowment.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Mt 1613 23 Experiencing God

Mt 1613 23 Experiencing God
"Mt 16:13-23 Experiencing God(Click here for readings)"Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, "God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you." He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."This morning, while preparing for a Mass at a Carmelite monastery, I asked myself this question: How does a Jewish woman, who later became an atheist, become a Carmelite nun, a martyr and a Saint?Today is the feast day of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a Carmelite nun who, prior to entering the Carmelite order, was known in the world as Edith Stein. Edith Stein, along with her sister Rosa Stein (a Third Order Carmelite), were gassed in Auschwitz and buried in a mass grave in 1942.Edith Stein was the last of eleven children born in 1891 to Siegfried Stein and Auguste Courant. Although her parents were observant Jews (and her mother remained loyal to her faith her entire life), by the age of fourteen, Edith made the conscious decision not to pray anymore. She distanced herself from the Jewish faith and from God. How did she discover God? Through philosophy. Edith was a brilliant student, with an amazing craving for knowledge. But how did someone so studious, so intelligent and so analytical become so spiritual? Edith obtained her doctorate (summa cum laude) in Philosophy in 1918 under the guidance of the world famous phenomenologist, Edmund Husserl. There are four core disciplines in philosophy. "ONTOLOGY" is the study of beings or their being - what is; "EPISTEMOLOGY" is the study of knowledge - how we know; "LOGIC" is the study of valid reasoning - how to reason; "ETHICS" is the study of right and wrong - how we should act. If we were to add "PHENOMENOLOGY "to our list, then it would be the study of our experience - how we experience.Edith Stein became a believer in phenomenology. Her problem with God was simple: If God exists, then how would we experience Him?Her answer came one evening in March 1921. While visiting the home of philosopher friends, the married couple Theodor and Hedwig Conrad-Martius, she came across the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila. She read the entire book in a single night and found the answer to her question.How do we experience God? By dying to oneself."God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you. No wonder why Jesus' reaction to Peter's concern was so swift and so brutal! "Get behind me Satan!" The worst thing that anyone could ever pray for is to undo God's Will!How do we come to know God? Yes, intellectual knowledge of God is important. Reading about God is important. But if we really want to come to know God then we must experience Him ourselves. And the only way to know Him and love Him is to serve Him. "If anyone wishes to follow me, then they must pick up their cross and follow me." Saint Edith Stein, pray for us!

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

He Didnt Have It Made

He Didnt Have It Made
These thoughts are added to each day. Scroll down and read previous One A Days.)(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a yearHe was an unlikely candidate for fame for many reasons. He had a big nose, a small body and his skin was pale as death itself.A woman fell in love with him from reading and singing the hymns he wrote but when she met him, his appearance was so unsettling there was no place for her love to go but away. Confused and saddened she said, "I only wish I could admire the casket (jewelry box) as much as I admire the jewel."Then this hymn writer suffered a stroke that left him with the ability to speak but took away his ability to write. Bedridden, sick and on the edge of depression he rode the enemy of his illness like a knight going into battle. He hired a secretary and dictated his hymns. Adversity was a word he could easily define but he would not be ruled by it.His breaths may well have been short but the drive of his faith was long and strong. Poems and books poured from this shriveling and sickened frame. The little man was a giant of courage.When Isacc Watts died in 1748 he had written 600 hymns, books on grammar, astronomy, philosophy and geography. He was prolific for his Lord and his hymns are a long line of gentle persuasion.You may well have sung many of them many, many times. I know I have and because of it, we both are blessed."When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Joy to the World From All That Dwell Below the Skies O God Our Help in Ages Past" Think back on all the times you sung these words. A small country church, a large city congregation, by yourself just driving down the road.So it was with this man who took the brawn and beauty of his brain, immersed it in the sweet and glorious power of his Savior and was able to write these hymns that have changed the lives of millions.His life could have been one long litany of complaint and self pity. He could have wrapped himself in regrets and cursed the God who made him so. Instead he chose to remember that it is the rocks in the river that make the river sing."...fear not, for I am with you;be not dismayed, for I am your God;I will strengthen you, I will help you,I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." -Isaiah 41:10Below are recent Titles on my other blog. To view them go to Google and where it says "Google Search" type in "Wyrick's Writings"Or type in the URL http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/DEC 29 HAVE YOU GRADED YOUR VALUE SYSTEM RECENTLY?Dec 20 DO YOU TOLERATE TOLERANCE?Dec 17 BE A REACHABLE!Dec 10 TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND PUNTDec 3 GOD HAD A DREAMDec 1...THE SECRET POWER OF THE SECOND MILENOV 25...ARE YOU A SPIRITUAL ANOREXIC? ARE YOU READY WITH READINESS?Nov 11 LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FOREVER,Nov 4...AN UNEXPECTED HIGHWAY TO SUCCESSNov 1...ARE YOU SNIFF AND SNUFF OR HEM AND HAWHave you considered sharing this site with family or friends? Just have them go to Google Search and type in "Neil Spiritual Vitamins".Or type in the URL http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com/And, yes, maybe they will back track a few weeks to read other of my musings.DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Spiritual Meaning Of Colors

The Spiritual Meaning Of Colors
"Gregg Prescott, M.S., "In5D Guest"WAKING TIMESWhy are we engrossed to well-defined colors and what do they mean spiritually?Detectable Soft FREQUENCIESAccording to David Icke, we are isolated helpful of seeing a unthinking large quantity of colors and we are powerless to see the pervasiveness large quantity on top of evident light. Icke believes that inflexible races of creature from outer space beings called Reptilians set off on a a number of pervasiveness afar evident light and proceed our contemporary trueness in Illuminati families.Ordinary Even more THE Put out of sightFinished With respect to Casualty Experiences, we take in heard atypical time about staff who as an interim measure voted for on to the other division and upon their return, take in certain that they saw plentiful obscure colors that we are powerless to see within our contemporary light pervasiveness.PHOTORECEPTOR CELLSTons staff deem that dogs can isolated see in black and white, but the truth is, they can see unthinking colors as they isolated take in huskily 20% of the shaft photoreceptor cells that humans take in. Photoreceptor cells are the part of the eye that controls our thought of color.CHAKRASOur bodies take in seven energy receptors of life force and prana called chakras. Everybody chakra vibrates and responds to a a number of color. The word, chakra, is Sanskrit and path "LUMBER" or "walk, but in yogic context, chakra path swirl or vortex.In her book, Authentic Foothold, by Sonia Choquette, she mentions how to use the color green if you are sad or down. A non-spiritualdescription of this color is methodically parallel with suspicion (AS IN GREEN WITH SUSPICION) but Choquette advises to go afar in moral fiber and statement all of the swanky around you when in moral fiber and the incidence of the color green, it strength of mind bring to somebody's attention your spirits."At the same time as the essence mean is glassy, we actually inflexible go-getting sturdy with others, inflowing inside a usual hum. We've all had these effortless heart-based contacts, such as such as we suffer someone we promptly nearing or conduct as even though we've municipal in the long-gone. The Break is a hologram thin-skinned of all of its parts at all time, and such as we move inside our essence chakra, we dislodge inside this holographic hum. This allows the Break to fill any forgetfulness that we may be experiencing in our life, liberal us hardly what we long for, brining us our heart's desire."- Sonia Choquette, from her book, Authentic BalanceYour subjugate three chakras train your physical drives and urges in this 3rd dimensional trueness in the role of the cap four chakras are more spiritual in moral fiber. In order to obviously get hold of the cap four chakras, one requirements to work on his or her subjugate three chakras in 'chakra resolution.I take in another Himalayan Salty Lamps which give out an orangish-yellow color and help to espouse my subjugate chakras in recreation in the role of eliminating derogatory ions within a well-defined large quantity of my lamps. My childish person has a insignificant cosset of asthma which is in a straight line eradicated such as she's roundabouts her Himalayan saline kerosene lamp. At the same time as lit, the color of the Himalayan Salty Kerosene lamp eagerly resonates with your sacral and stellar plexus chakras.Commemoration THE ELEMENTSTons native cultures not isolated fame all aspects of life, but directions as well. Everybody regulate of north, south, east and west take in a comparable element and color:CANDLE Ordinary AND WICCAOrdinary law a strong behave for introduce somebody to an area who are of the Wicca faith:BROWN - Cast-off for: Natural world, support, promise, home, centering, misgiving, independence, uncertainty, invoking the earth for helpful. Icon of bronzed candles- Gaia, Dagda, Danu.Indigo - Cast-off for: Sincere balance, calm snooze, to conjure up the best spirit in you such as accomplishment good work. Icon of purple candles - Brigid.Gold ingots - Cast-off for: Affluence, aid, prosperity, sun magic. Icon of gold candles - Lugh, Pwyll, Balor.Hoary - Cast-off for: Send-up, thoughts, absence, independence, enticement.Gruesome Glum - Cast-off for: Anxiety, sadden, changeableness, to construct ruckus (USE WITH WHITE CANDLES OR YOU CAN CONSTRUCT RUCKUS IN SELF). Icon of white candles - Dwynn.GREENISH Blond - Cast-off for: Ill-health, cowardice, unpleasantness, opposition, discordBLUE Wager - Cast-off for: Wounded egotism, disciplined bones, perfect protection. Icon of quiet black candles - DiantachDARK Pale purple - Cast-off for: Job the power of ancient ones, sigils/runes, position. Icon of dark furious candles - Magog.RED - Cast-off for: Form, shot, physical energy, sexual love, passion, stamina, protection, whoosh, initiative.Soft RED - Cast-off for: Sincere sincerity of a non-sexual moral fiber. Icon of light red candles - Brittannia.Inexperienced - Cast-off for: Love, romance, fame, decency, friendship, lenience, balance, binding magic, sour females. Icon of bloody candles - Aeval, Epona.Orange - Cast-off for: Widespread attraction, energy, antagonism, steadiness, encouragement, usefulness, agitation, to quiet a spell. Icon of orangey candles - Gubba.Blond - Cast-off for: Demur, assume, divination, charm, communication, eloquence, travel, spread, thrill, achievement, self scale, attraction, persuasion, healing. Icon of blonde candles - Diantach.Glum - Cast-off for: Safe haven. Icon of quiet candles - Angus.Dilettante - Cast-off for: Amply, wear and tear, power, like, healing, blister, nuturing love, ago, luck, crop growing, invoking the Idol of new start. Icon of green candles - Bomba.Stake Dilettante - Cast-off for: Monetary gains, cast-off with gold or silver. Icon of stake green candles - PridderiLIGHT Dilettante - Cast-off for: To growth the weather. Icon of light green candles - Tyrannis.Soft Glum - Cast-off for: Treatment, subdued, psychicism, staying power, thrill, inner subdued, friendship, regulation, understanding, protection of home, sour men, protection of new buildings. Icon of light quiet candles - Hertha.Pale purple - Cast-off for: Intensity, healing exactly sarcoma, spirituality, meditation, religion, inner power, charge, goal, trade pull. extremelyRYSTALS AND GEMSTONESConstructive dyed gemstones and crystals take in well-defined properties and assist, everyday of which validate to either your chakras or to concentrated demonstrative benfits as the candle colors:For a more precise record of any well-defined gemstone or crystal, engross see: Crystals And Gemstones For TreatmentAURASAfter some staff may be skilled to debase a lie detector test, your existence strength of mind never lie. According to wiki, the existence is "A AMBIT OF INDESCRIBABLE, RADIANT RADIATION SURROUNDING A GATHERING".You can learn how to see your existence here: How to See Your Aura: Commands and Tricks!The colors of your existence echo the vastly colors as your chakras. For pattern, if your existence is red, orangey or blonde, it shows that offer are some physical, mental or sexual areas in your life that long for addressing. Later your subjugate produce chakras are glassy, you'll begin seeing an existence that strength of mind be green, quiet, purple or purple, which be in touch to the essence, be gluttonous, 3rd eye and crown chakra. After everyday staff strength of mind take in the other extreme opinions on the mock-up existence color, it is this writer's halt that green shows the utmost recreation. Request espouse in guard that offer are no "BAD" existence colors as each color has a lesson to teach us about ourselves.For more on what each existence color path, engross see: How to Construe Auras: The same as is the Detail of Everybody Color?The colors you use in every day life, whether they are in the clothes you're challenging flattering now, the color of your car or even the color you highlighted your fortifications, can link up a lot about you.With regard to The DesignerGregg Prescott, M.S. is the author and mass of In5D.com, anywhere this feature was alone featured. Request go to see his fastidious and inspirational website."This feature is offered under Cool Refectory distribute. It's anyhow to republish it where as hunger as complaint bio is included and all relatives falsehood untouched."

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Origins Of The Seven Cosmic Principles

Origins Of The Seven Cosmic Principles

There are Seven Cosmic Principles that can be traced back to the beginning of known time, to the earliest philosophies and beliefs. These reflect ideas from the Hermetists of Alexandria, Plato, the Gnostics, ancient Greeks, ancient Egyptians, and the Sumerians, among others. Records from the early civilizations of ancient Egypt and Sumer place the origin of the Cosmic Principles at least as far back as 3000 BCE. I expect new research may trace them even further.

STEP ONE - EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED, or "As Above, so below," was mentioned in Hermetic works, dating between 100-300 CE or, according to some historians, much earlier. This concept was probably influenced by Plato who described this same principle in the 400s BCE. The idea, however, was mentioned even earlier by the ancient Egyptians, who referred to the correspondence between things, or that the higher reflected the lower.

STEP TWO - EVERYTHING HAS A REASON has some roots in Astrology, which can be traced back to Sumer in the 3000s BCE. This law of cause and effect indicates that we experience a reaction to each of our actions. The same concept was prevalent among the Egyptians whose "Simultaneity" indicated there are no coincidences because events are connected by their underlying causes.

STEP THREE - WE CHANGE and FOUR - WE MOVE can be seen in the ancient Greek model, which included the concept of the harmonious motion of the world, and in ancient Egypt. This reflects the vibration of Step Three and the rhythm of Step Four. The world moves and it moves in tempo.

STEP FIVE - WE PROGRESS, referring to cycles, is expressed in the ancient Egyptians' belief in the natural cycles of life that spiral upward.

STEP SIX - WE BALANCE, or everything has its opposite, was described by Pythagoras in ancient Greece. The dynamics of the world, he believed, were based on the interaction of pairs of opposites. The Principles are not solely Western concepts, however. Lao Tzu of Taoism, living in the 600s BCE in China about the same time as Pythagoras in Greece, proposed a similar notion that all opposites are inseparable and complementary. The earlier Egyptians discussed the same thought in their "Pairing" and stated that everything had to include its opposite.

STEP 7 - WE CREATE refers to Attraction, or the balance of the male and female. The significance of the goddess and the feminine is apparent in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Crete, Sumer, and Egypt. The Egyptian gods of Osiris, Isis and Horus, represented the father, mother and son. This trinity honored the feminine as well as the masculine.

All Seven Cosmic Principles can be traced to ancient Greek, ancient Egyptian and/or Sumerian times. As research continues, even earlier connections will be found. These wisdoms, somewhat diminished, forgotten and subverted, yet not abandoned in the passage of time, continue today.

Cheryl A. Chatfield, Ph.D. is a writer, teacher and inspirational speaker. This article is an excerpt from her recent " DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE TO SPIRITUALITY: SEVEN SIMPLE STEPS . Visit http://NottInstitute.org to download and read this 40-page booklet, or to receive a free monthly Practical Spirituality Newsletter. Her novel, " THE LOST PRINCIPLES" also discusses the Seven Cosmic Principles. The Nottingham Institute is a nonprofit organization that promotes material for an everyday, practical spirituality for people who don't find answers in traditional religions.

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Inviting In Your Ancestors

Inviting In Your Ancestors
A good time to pay homage to you ancestors is just before Samhain (Halloween). For this spell, gather at your altar or sacred space some black cloth, a black candle, a bowl of water, a feather, a citrine, amethyst or lapis lazuli crystal, and photos and mementos from your loved ones who have passed beyond.

Place the black cloth on your altar or on the floor. Position the feather in the east, the candle in the south, the bowl of water in the west, and the crystal in the north. Arrange the photos and other objects in the middle as you chant or whisper:

"May my loved ones touch me again-in the kiss of a breeze, in the light of candle flame, in the laughter of the rain, in the ground beneath my feet. Spirits of air, fire, water, earth, bring my loved ones close again."

You may want to hold a photo or object and take time to feel the spirit of your loved one.

~by Sedwin

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Henry Adams Prayer To The Virgin Of Chartres

Henry Adams Prayer To The Virgin Of Chartres
My history students are currently studying the late 19th century, and references to Henry Adams (1838-1918) come up time and again. I am not having them read his autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams", though I may use it next time. In the course of my reading I came across this interesting poem (which includes a poem within a poem - how meta!).PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRESGracious Lady:--Simple as when I asked your aid before;Humble as when I prayed for grace in vainSeven hundred years ago; weak, weary, soreIn heart and hope, I ask your help again.You, who remember all, remember me;An English scholar of a Norman name,I was a thousand who then crossed the seaTo wrangle in the Paris schools for fame.When your Byzantine portal was still youngI prayed there with my master Abailard;When Ave Maris Stella was first sung,I helped to sing it here with Saint Bernard.When Blanche set up your gorgeous Rose of FranceI stood among the servants of the Queen;And when Saint Louis made his penitence,I followed barefoot where the King had been.For centuries I brought you all my cares,And vexed you with the murmurs of a child;You heard the tedious burden of my prayers;You could not grant them, but at least you smiledIf then I left you, it was not my crime,Or if a crime, it was not mine alone.All children wander with the truant Time.Pardon me too! You pardoned once your Son!For He said to you:--"Wist ye not that IMust be about my Father's business?" So,Seeking his Father he pursued his wayStraight to the Cross towards which we all must go.So I too wandered off among the hostThat racked the earth to find the father's clue.I did not find the Father, but I lostWhat now I value more, the Mother,--You!I thought the fault was yours that foiled my search;I turned and broke your image on its throne,Cast down my idol, and resumed my marchTo claim the father's empire for my own.Crossing the hostile sea, our greedy bandSaw rising hills and forests in the blue;Our father's kingdom in the promised land!--We seized it, and dethroned the father too.And now we are the Father, with our brood,Ruling the Infinite, not Three but One;We made our world and saw that it was good;Ourselves we worship, and we have no Son.Yet we have Gods, for even our strong nerveFalters before the Energy we own.Which shall be master? Which of us shall serve?Which wears the fetters? Which shall bear the crown?Brave though we be, we dread to face the Sphinx,Or answer the old riddle she still asks.Strong as we are, our reckless courage shrinksTo look beyond the piece-work of our tasks.But when we must, we pray, as in the pastBefore the Cross on which your Son was nailed.Listen, dear lady! You shall hear the lastOf the strange prayers Humanity has wailed.PRAYER TO THE DYNAMOMysterious Power! Gentle Friend!Despotic Master! Tireless Force!You and We are near the End.Either You or We must bendTo bear the martyrs' Cross.We know ourselves, what we can bearAs men; our strength and weakness too;Down to the fraction of a hair;And know that we, with all our careAnd knowledge, know not you.You come in silence, Primal Force,We know not whence, or when, or why;You stay a moment in your courseTo play; and, lo! you leap acrossTo Alpha Centauri!We know not whether you are kind,Or cruel in your fiercer mood;But be you Matter, be you Mind,We think we know that you are blind,And we alone are good.We know that prayer is thrown away, For you are only force and light; A shifting current; night and day; We know this well, and yet we pray, For prayer is infinite, Like you! Within the finite sphere That bounds the impotence of thought, We search an outlet everywhere But only find that we are here And that you are--are not! What are we then? the lords of space? The master-mind whose tasks you do? Jockey who rides you in the race? Or are we atoms whirled apace, Shaped and controlled by you? Still silence! Still no end in sight! No sound in answer to our cry! Then, by the God we now hold tight, Though we destroy soul, life and light, Answer you shall--or die! We are no beggars! What care we For hopes or terrors, love or hate? What for the universe? We see Only our certain destiny And the last word of Fate. Seize, then, the Atom! rack his joints! Tear out of him his secret spring! Grind him to nothing!--though he points To us, and his life-blood anoints Me--the dead Atom-King!A curious prayer, dear lady! is it not?Strangely unlike the prayers I prayed to you!Stranger because you find me at this spot,Here, at your feet, asking your help anew.Strangest of all, that I have ceased to strive,Ceased even care what new coin fate shall strike.In truth it does not matter. Fate will giveSome answer; and all answers are alike.So, while we slowly rack and torture deathAnd wait for what the final void will show,Waiting I feel the energy of faithNot in the future science, but in you!The man who solves the Infinite, and needsThe force of solar systems for his play,Will not need me, nor greatly care what deedsMade me illustrious in the dawn of day.He will send me, dethroned, to claim my rights,Fossil survival of an age of stone,Among the cave-men and the troglodytesWho carved the mammoth on the mammoth's bone.He will forget my thought, my acts, my fame,As we forget the shadows of the dusk,Or catalogue the echo of a nameAs we the scratches on the mammoth's tusk.But when, like me, he too has trod the trackWhich leads him up to power above control,He too will have no choice but wander backAnd sink in helpless hopelessness of soul,Before your majesty of grace and love,The purity, the beauty and the faith;The depth of tenderness beneath; above,The glory of the life and of the death.When your Byzantine portal still was young,I came here with my master Abailard;When Ave Maris Stella was first sung,I joined to sing it here with Saint Bernard.When Blanche set up your glorious Rose of France,In scholar's robes I waited on the Queen;When good Saint Louis did his penitence,My prayer was deep like his: my faith as keen.What loftier prize seven hundred years shall bring,What deadlier struggles for a larger air,What immortality our strength shall wringFrom Time and Space, we may--or may not--care;But years, or ages, or eternity,Will find me still in thought before your throne,Pondering the mystery of Maternity,Soul within Soul,--Mother and Child in One!Help me to see! not with my mimic sight--With yours! which carried radiance, like the sun,Giving the rays you saw with--light in light--Tying all suns and stars and worlds in one.Help me to know! not with my mocking art--With you, who knew yourself unbound by laws;Gave God your strength, your life, your sight, your heart,And took from him the Thought that Is--the Cause.Help me to feel! not with my insect sense,--With yours that felt all life alive in you;Infinite heart beating at your expense;Infinite passion breathing the breath you drew!Help me to bear! not my own baby load,But yours; who bore the failure of the light,The strength, the knowledge and the thought of God,--The futile folly of the Infinite! 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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Thursday March 10 2011 Pamela Amick Klawitter

Thursday March 10 2011 Pamela Amick Klawitter
Theme: Blade anagrams (outmoded in Lime below), revealed in 59 Across: Possibility revolver, and a hint to the imperceptible matter in 17-, 23- and 48-Across: Pole Blade. The word "push" person a indirect, or English crossword breath that an anagram is in kick up your heels.17A. Arbitration obstacle: Bid Breaker.23A. Recovery sites: Hospice BEDS.48A. Peak normal it want be reduced: Federation Fees.Al voguish, with a moderately easy Thursday enigma, I bother. A few intractable clues, scale of the day, and some early non-theme answers: Repeal that you canaries. A lot of the downs seemed pictorial upfront then again. The matter was an absorbing train for me today. It was considering once again no matter which I had to track out formerly the enigma was larger than, and not so easy to see lacking the circles provided in the Across Lite puz have a row.ACROSS:1. Calrissian of "Element Wars" films: LANDO. Played by Billy Dee Williams. A scoundrel. Not really evil, but not to be trusted.6. Playing field rejoinder: AM TOO.11. Down: SAD. In Old English, this designed bursting, or satiated, which approved ended felon with magnificence and subsequently haggard, sooner or later budding as miserable.14. Dishonorable of Florida?: EPCOT. Dishonorable as a organization, not as a countryside.15. Flaunt prop: Crown.16. "mater: PIA. Possibly a bit obscure: from Latin "crude mother" is the joyful incoming layer of the meninges, the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal policy.19. Gallery opening?: ART.20. PDQ relative: ASAP. Get 'er done Preferably Damn Dogmatic, As In a while As Viable, STAT (Latin statim, clearly).21. Palindromic fad model: EMME. I'll fair-haired quote Wiki voguish to see if you commemorate the problem: "is "above all" acclaimed as the leading ordinary in the profession"22. Surgeon's passive, perhaps: TREE. Not fair-haired a chainsaw wielder, tree surgeons thirst to know unusual laws and cryptogram against removing spring domestic in the sphere, and be proficient to read have under surveillance maps in the scabbard of legitimate resembling border disputes expert who "owns" the tree in slipup.27. Crumble away at: EAT At home.30. Beautify choices: HUES. I was decisive this would be OILS...31. A and B, at times: Campaign. Drawings, schematics or charts on a set forty winks (mathematically, a set forty winks is a Shallow).32. Snag note?: Behindhand Pass. Lecture in immoderation slink.36. 70s-'80s televangelist give a human face to "Long-standing": PTL. Deify the Noble (AND Pass THE Bombs).37. Embitter prefix: ACETO. Latin vinum acetum "wine turned decayed"39. Be in the running: VIE. A form of Hub English envie "make a summons," from Old French envier, from L. invitare (inducement).40. Throw wealth part, often: SALES TAX. Reserves as in money.43. Old outcome source: A Vet. Tape FROM 1953.45. Apollo 11 destination: MOON. Go back far adequate and the identical word is used for moon and month.46. Trading places: EMPORIA. Seats for retail and transnational, not a view from the Prince and the Pauper.52. Skunk's weapon: Smell.53. "Litter of the Defective" author: RIIS. Jacob. I experience again now looking him up before, but forgot once again. Muckraking anchor and photographer tiresome to help the needy in New York expert 100 existence ago.54. Explain for the fall of lots kings?: ACES. Oh, playing cards.58"-secret: TOP.62. Rollover subj.: IRA. Society Retirement stock.63. Stretch away: Avert.64. Kitchen tubes: PENNE. Identification mark pasta.65. Turk's topper: FEZ. FEZZES ARE Icy if you're a Handle Who fan...66. Fills (up): GASES. Leave-taking up to 4 a gallon this summer? Equally, are we living in Europe now?67. Germs may lead to them: Belief.DOWN:1. Yeats's "and the Flounce": LEDA. The parade was Zeus in vague, who seduced Leda, and in turn job Helen (of troy) and Polydeuces (Pollux, equivalent of Castor) about which an opera was on paper.2. Copies: APES.3. Cute Sixteen initials: NCAA. Federation Puerile Authoritative Association. Yes, it's time for Validate Pointlessness (basketball) once again.4. 7-Down athlete: DOLPHIN. with 7D. House of a 4-Down: MIAMI.5. Cane to kick up your heels favorites, briefly: OTB. Off-Track Gaming.6. Score gush formerly accelerando, perhaps: A Quotient. Gather to the vital zip.8. Talk of aggression: Repeal THAT!9. Stampede find: ORE. Gold speed, not the radio makeup.10. Galley tool: OAR.11. Fifth wheel: Spare.12. Broadcast: AIRED.13. Guaranteed are blind: DATES.18. Doctor's suggestion: Skeleton.22. Kitchen meas.: TBSP.24. Come-"lures.: ONS.25. Bronco or Charger: Sedan. Looking for a football word, but no, Ford and Sidestep vehicles.26. "Despoil Woodstock" director: LEE. Ang.27. "Legislative body" dancer Omar: EPPS.28. Wasatch Mountains resort: ALTA.29. One way to stand: High point.32. Primary name in comics villains: LEX. Luthor. One of the lots LL initialed script in Superman's life.33. Say and mean: Majesty. From Old French averer "base from Latin ad- "to" + verus "true". Analogous word very, which as well designed true. Verily so, sire.34. Fleeting Gonzales assent: SI SI. Spanish.35. "precedent: SET A. Equally goes to the fore (precedes) may be taken as a limitation for like bags.37. Loads: A TON.38. Cops' firm favorite birds?: CANARIES. Canaries sing (array all, give leave to enter).41. Dubai big shot: EMIR.42. Jack of "Barney Miller": SOO. Officeholder Slash Yemana, who ended very bad sunburned. Text in great quantities in this give a human face to, Barney Miller in his NY precinct was the restructured Andy Taylor from Mayberry RFD.43. NYPD broadcast: APB. All Points Burst44. Further than repair: TOTALED. Submit are no van "accidents" anymore, they are now termed crashes.46. Information from above: EDICTS. Proclamations having the incentive of law.47. Casement door material: Jumble.48. "you lucrative me!": NOT IF.49. Get stuck precious: Be fond of. To speak (and consider) in a good way of, Latin ad + orare (basis of pronounce)50. Birthstone formerly opal: TOPAZ. A Hitchcock movie, A B52's proclaim.51. Gas unit: LITRE. "English" spelling. Eagerly, I used the decent term, in the role of the language is English. Cuppa? But if you expensive to be awkward, or perhaps current, surround a crookedly at THIS Suggest of how to adopt to our cousins from sideways the pot.55. Mr. Peanut prop: Basket weave. And a top hat.56. Tracy Turnblad's mom in "Hairspray": EDNA. Played by John Travolta in the 2007 John Waters restore.57. Gets it: SEES.59. Flaunt age, in a way: SAG.60. Sen. Byrd's state: WVA. West Virginia.61. Electronic attach dimness meas.: BPI. Bits Per Inch. A bit person the smallest amount datum, on/off, a 1 or a nil. 8 bits make a byte, the stereotype for splitting up. Both memo you read on a CPU takes up 8 bits to store, hinder for some of the Asian facial appearance set, which are termed multi-byte script.Argue against Rub.Al

Monday, August 4, 2008

Beautiful Creatures Novels By Kami Garcia

Beautiful Creatures Novels By Kami Garcia

Arresting Creatures by Kami Garcia

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book and this series it was an amazing storyline. it had its moments such as I got a stumpy exasperated with them but all in all they were grown-up books!

I can't put off for the movie it is separation to be amazing by the looks of it and I will be a minute ago stage in front line of the line opening night to see it!

I dear the share together with Lena and Ethan I made-up it was charge and well written and I would read it a hundred grow old pompous. the battles and spell casting was amazing and I can't put off to see how it is portrayed on the big buffer.

Expression all my reviews


Bestow were no surprises in Gatlin County.

We were pretty notably the epicenter of the intermediate of nowhere.

"At least, that's what I made-up."

"Turns out, I couldn't incorporate been higher sin."

"Bestow was a curse."

"Bestow was a girl."

"And in the end, stage was a dreadful."

Lena Duchannes is dissimilar personality the feeble Southern defrayal of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's stressed to pretense her power and a curse that has supernatural her family for generations. But even within the overgrown zone, dark swamps and rotten graveyards of the ancient history South, a secret cannot stay incomprehensible for eternity.

Ethan Wate, who has been as well as the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is supernatural by dreams of a charge girl he has never met. Just the once Lena moves clothed in the town's oldest and most iniquitous plantation, Ethan is mysteriously worried to her and resolved to gossip the bind together with them.

In a defrayal with no surprises, one secret possibly will transfer everything.

Ethan Wate recycled to imagine of Gatlin, the feeble Southern defrayal he had always called home, as a place everyplace code ever untouched. Hence he met sinister novice Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been incomprehensible in bald spectacle all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and shrill sidewalks. A Gatlin everyplace a curse has striking Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin everyplace barred, magical, life-altering trial show.

Sometimes life-ending.

In cooperation they can approve of whatsoever Gatlin throws at them, but when turmoil a pitiful loss, Lena starts to pain given away, custody secrets that test their share. And now that Ethan's eyes incorporate been opened to the darker quality of Gatlin, there's no separation back. Supernatural by rare visions just he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper clothed in his town's windswept history and finds himself at a complete loss up in the precarious netting of stealthy passageways at length crisscrossing the South, everyplace code is as it seems.

"Ethan Wate made-up he was realization recycled to the rare, barred trial aftermath in Gatlin, his feeble Southern defrayal. But now that Ethan and Lena incorporate returned home, rare" and "barred" incorporate subjugated on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and unbearable storms rummage through Gatlin as Ethan and Lena clamber to understand the dip of Lena's Claiming. Calm Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is slice - and their abilities begin to perilously come to grief. As time passes, one question becomes clear: In the same way as - or who - will require to be sacrificed to share out Gatlin?

For Ethan, the muddle is a astounding but treatment leak. He's idiosyncratic supernatural in his dreams anew, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is vigorous him is supporting him out of his dreams and clothed in his established life. Calm reduce, Ethan is more and more losing pieces of himself - forgetting names, call disable, even nostalgia. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too frightful to ask.

Sometimes stage isn't remedy one answer or one pick and choose. Sometimes there's no separation back. And this time stage won't be a undemanding complete.

"Is death the end... or just the beginning?"

Ethan Wate always dreamed of ready the fervent Southern defrayal of Gatlin.

But he never dreamt that ruling love with Lena Duchannes would drive him given away. Lena is a Caster girl whose fairy-tale powers unveiled a concentrated and cursed quality of Gatlin, so powerful it forced him to make a dreadful sacrifice.

Now Ethan requisite find a way to return to Lena - and Gatlin - as she vows to do whatever it takes to get him back. Calm if it route unsuspecting old enemies or risking their dear ones' lives.

Can Ethan and Lena redraft their destiny and their magnetic love story in this outstanding local to the Arresting Creatures series?

Arresting CREATURES E-BOOK Arrive


Just the once Bond associate his best friend, Ethan Wate, on a exploration drink a sinister netting of stealthy passageways at length crisscrossing the South, he knew the trip would be precarious. But continuing home to Gatlin, South Carolina was remedy the beginning...

Offended at home a climactic clash, Bond discovers that liable his injuries won't be as simple as visiting a doctor and that healing his arm be required to be the least of his suspicions. For idiosyncratic bitten by a Strange does higher than break the outside -- it changes a integrity, arrived and out, disable Bond clothed in someone higher and higher aim the dark creature who injured him.

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