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Monday, May 6, 2013
Isis And Bootes As Above So Below
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Paths Of Oshun
THESE ARE THE PATHS OF OSHUN:
IBU KOLEThis path of Oshun is known as the vulture. Ibu Kole is the Oshun that reached the house of Olofi to tell him that the people on the lands were dying of thirst. With that said Olofi took off the punishment off the land and let rain fall again. This Oshun is said to be a very magical witch. She takes 5 little mortars where additional secrets are kept where her initiate can make powerful spells. Her colors are honey, coral, amber and onyx stone. She is adorned with feathers of a vulture. Her children must have a juiro where an Osain is kept that hangs over her to keep Ibu Kole in one spot and to make sure she is there in here tureen. When this Oshun comes down she dances like if she was a bird, swaying her arms up and down as if she was in flight.
IBU OLOLODI
This Oshun is said to be a great warrior. She wears pants when she goes to war. She rides on a horse and she uses a sword in battle. Ibu Ololodi is also the wife of Orula and she is his preferred apetevi. Her enemies can never defeat her. She protects her children to the up most. She takes the table of Ifa with the ekueles and the irofa. You can put iron implements to her. The owl is her messenger and she is invoked with a copper cow bell. Ololodi also takes a needle and thread as she is seen sewing on her off times at the bottom of the river. She is the mother of Aporoye and Oloshe. This Oshun takes everything double due to a pact she did with Boyuto. If you give her a mirror another one should be placed to her. If you give her one bottle of perfume there has to be another. She is the protector of the home. When this Oshun comes down she is very repugnant and she speaks very stern to her followers. Her colors are honey, coral with touches of green and yellow to represent the marriage she had with Orula.
IBU AKUARO
Ibu Akuaro is the" Oshun" that lives where the river and the ocean meet. She is said to live and reign there. She loves the corodniz (cornish hen) and they are here messengers. It is said that with the feathers of the corodniz, you must sew her a net that lives on her. This is due to a story where she was running from Chango and a group of corodniz covered her completely so Chango would not find her. She takes a cane which is covered with the feathers of the corodniz as well and is consecrated where the river and ocean meet. Her colors are a pale yellow, coral, onyx, green and white. When Ibu Akuaro comes down she is seen to be shaken, imitating the corodniz.
IBU YUMU
She is one of the oldest Oshun. She lives at the bottom of the river sewing as she knows the craft to sew beautiful cloths. She doesn't like to be bothered that much as she sits in her rocking chair at the bottom. When she is bothered she comes out from the bottom of the river and she fights. She as well as Ibu Ololodi is called with a copper cow bell. This path of Oshun is hardly to come down.
IBU A~nA
This Oshun is very young and she loves to dance. She is said to be where ever the A~na (sacred drum) is playing. She dances all day and all night until the A~na stops playing. At her tureen you must have 3 little drums that represent the A~na at her feet. She is always dancing in front of the drums holding her breast and laughing. A child of this particular orisha is said to always be partying and dancing and whenever they step into a ceremonial drumming, if they are a horse of the orisha, Ibu A~na will make her presence. Her colors are honey, yellow, coral, onyx and red. When she comes down she is always dancing and may take the time out to speak to her followers.
IBU ILEKE O~nI
This OSHUN is a fighter and she gets what she wants. When she is determined she gets her results. This Oshun walks with a walking stick and she is always seen near the river banks covering her body with her honey. If she is not near the river you can see her next to a pariso tree. She walks with a net that's tied around her waste. This Oshun has 4 necklaces that she wears. One is made of the peonia seeds, other is made of all coral, another of all onyx stones and a bead of honey and yellow beads.
IBU ITUMU
This path of OSHUN is said to reside in the lagoons. She is always dressed in pants and a shirt like a man. She is very tall and she is always seen with Inle and Asojano.
IBU AREMU KONDANO
This Oshun is said to be the first Oshun that ever came down from Olofi's castle to the earth. She is dressed all in white and her color is off white with coral with just a touch of yellow and green. She is said to have helped Orula out is certain occasions. She is very mysterious.
IBU ASEDAN
This path of Oshun is said to be also a warrior. She rides a horse as well as Ibu Ololdi when she is at war. This Oshun is seen with a sword in one hand riding to battle. Her sacrificial foods must be offered with a ring or gold oar through its nose. Her color is honey, yellow, red and onyx.
IBU EYEDE
This is Oshun is known to be a queen. She is seen with all her fine dresses and jewelry. She doesn't like anything dirty or messy around her. Her sacrificial foods are sacrificed on top of a yellow plate that sits next to her.
IBU I~nA
This Oshun loves to debate and argue. She is a rare Oshun and is always seen by the river sands combing her hair with her coral comb. She loves to cook and she loves to fan herself with her fan made of African grey tail feathers and bells.
IBU I~nALE
This is the daughter of Ibu A~na. She lives on the beach and river sands on top of all types of money. She does not like to give money as it is all for her.
IBU TINIBU
This also is a rare Oshun. She is the boss of the Iyalordes. She loves to go out at night never during the day. She is said to be riding the river in a boat listening and answering her petitioners.
IBU IDERE LEKUN
This Oshun lives in the caves alongside the sea where the waves enter and hit the rocks of the caves. Where they turn into rivers and travel on the inside of mountains. She has a deformed face and she is seen playing a small drum made out of bamboo.
IBU AYE
This is an orisha that maintained and positioned the riches of Oshun on earth. When Oshun was spending her money like crazy she found herself without any money. Ibu Aye reaffirmed her money and showed her the right way to maintain and control it. This is a orisha that is received on its own. Her color is honey, onyx and her necklace is made the same with 5 shells intertwined in between.
IDEU
This is said to be the lost child of Oshun. Where Iroko took him from her for the promises that she owed Iroko. He is the third child that Oshun had after the twins. He is received on its own and is said to watch over the riches of his mother Oshun. He lives in a yellow tureen where his secrets are kept with a doll of a boy dressed in yellow. His original bead is yellow with red stripes on them, gold and coral.
AJ'e SHALUNGA
Aj'e Shalunga or Cobo is the orisha of prosperity and abundance. He is used to help bring money and prosperity into ones life if there are worthy and right for it. His secrets are kept in a small sopera or vessel and his secrets are slightly born in a different way as to the other orishas. Same chants and sacrificial foods, but certain things change when he is born that cant be discussed here. He is also born with multiple coins from all parts of the world. It is said that when he is born, depending on the sign that he comes with, he will live next to a certain orisha in which he will bring prosperity to you. Only if your worthy! Don't think by receiving him you are going to win the lottery or anything. Only if Olofi says your worthy for that. But health is also another form of prosperity and that he can bring to you. He has no specific color but his chain is made of different shells and coins.
YEYE LAMBA
This is an orisha that is said to have been the cook of Oshun. She taught Oshun how to cook all sorts of sweets and foods for her town. She is an orisha that is received and her tureen is kept either with the other orishas or live near or in the kitchen. Alongside her secrets, one puts a wooden spoon and fork to her with different bags of dried foods.
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Sabbath Day January 13 2008
"Freedom of religion is a guarantee by a government for freedom of belief for individuals and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally recognized to also include the freedom not to follow any religion. Freedom of religion is considered by many in many nations and people to be a fundamental human right."
-The freedom of religion as stated by Wikipedia
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Sunday is a day of rest from our weekly schedule of work. Today is a day that we reserve for worshipping our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Here is a description of one of our beliefs.
THE RESTORATION OF TRUTH www.mormon.org
God is your loving Heavenly Father.
Does God really know me?
God is your Father in Heaven (Matthew 6:9). We call God Heavenly Father because He is the Father of our spirits and we are created in His image (Genesis 1:27). God has a body that looks like yours, though His body is immortal, perfected, and has a glory beyond description.
He knows you personally and loves you more than you can comprehend. To help you find happiness in this life and guide you to return to live with Him, Heavenly Father provided a plan called the gospel of Jesus Christ, a guide based on the life and teachings of His Son, Jesus Christ.
From the beginning, Heavenly Father has called prophets to testify, record His word, and provide His plan for His children on the earth. The teachings of prophets are found in sacred books called scriptures (Amos 3:7).
Your Heavenly Father knows you and loves you and wants to help you return to Him. Your life on Earth is part of His plan for you to gain a body, learn, grow, and find joy.
Sometimes life is hard, lonely, or frightening, but your Heavenly Father is always there. He sorrows when you suffer and rejoices when you do what is right. He wants to communicate with you as you sincerely pray to Him, and He stands ready to give you comfort, peace, and guidance in your life.
Jesus Christ taught that you must know the only true God to have eternal life (John 17:3). As His child, you must know who He is and what He is like to find greater peace and joy, both in this life and in the life to come."
Sources:
www.lds.org
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Did Jesus Teach The Divinity Of Humanity
By Cleric Larry DeBruyn
"Jesus answered them, Is it not in black and white in your law, I said, Ye are gods?"
Jesus, John 10:34, KJV
Prudent, New Age, cultic and Sound of Guard spiritualists more often than not imagine that in the self of their particularized they are divine, that either they are or can become gods. For copy, by employing The Third Eye mystics become to judge participating in a consciousness of their divine caring. One Norwegian website explains:
Into deep meditation, the detached or spiritual eye becomes clear within the spirit part of the summit. This omniscient eye is variously referred to in scriptures as the third eye...
The website asserts that the Noble is in heaven. But anywhere is heaven? How can heaven be found? "GLIDING DEEP ONESELF IN THE UPRIGHT WAY NECESSARY CARRY OUT WONDERS'," the school explains. How can someone "GLIDE WITHIN" to understand heaven within anywhere the Noble dwells? By meditating upon the gather that you are "THE IMAGE OF GOD DEEP YOURSELF." In a spirit of self-hype, members of the Sound of Guard leap also prayer themselves to be insignificant gods who can self-create what they preference out of life. To encompass their divine being, every exercises exercise the declaration of Jesus anywhere He asked the Jews, "IS IT NOT IN BLACK AND WHITE IN YOUR LAW, 'I GET PLEASURE FROM SAID YOU ARE GODS'?" (JOHN 10:34).
Seeing that in John 10:34 He told the Jews, "YOU ARE GODS", did Jesus mean to say that inhabitants clasp an essential divine being awaiting their discover by taking a thinking ramble participating in "inner space"? To appendage their prayer that man is or can become God, teachers of the "MAN-IS-GOD" ideology get pleasure from detained upon words that Jesus expressive entirely for the Jews, ignored their contemporary vision and affectedly doable them to their own particularized. In need conscripting Jesus words to make them incorporate to any favoritism of what we strength preference them to say, what did Jesus really mean at whatever time He said to the Jews, "You are gods"?
To understand the vision of Jesus' declaration to the Jews, Psalm 82, the starting point of Jesus' character reference in John 10:34, essential be alleged. The psalm begins by asserting that God (VERSE 1A) is the Deliberate of "THE GODS" (VERSE 1B). The psalmist consequently directs thought to God's indictment of "THE GODS" (VERSES 2-7). God accused them of preference in spasm of the elfin and of dictatorship of the involve, the spick and span and the poverty-stricken (VERSES 2-4). He accused them of particularized blinded by their strength, of particularized tarnished by their power, and of having perverted the nation's permitted "foundations"(verse 5). Din familiar? Seeing as they reflection themselves to be unassailable, God reminds the supercilious judges/gods of their bereavement and that He had predetermined them to their hut (VERSES 6-7). The rattle closes with the congregation's request to God that He would series legality on the earth (VERSE 8).
Seeing as Jesus quoted this psalm in His disturbance with the Jews, any understanding of His words essential be associated to the psalm's contemporary vision. As the Master Lawyer, we imagine that Jesus' line to the Law of Psalm 82 was a key part of His defend opposed the charge of bad language which the Jews leveled opposed Him for stating, "I AND THE PIONEER ARE ONE" (JOHN 10:30).
In order to critic the contemporary vision of the psalm's direct, "I SAID, 'YOU ARE GODS"'," two interpretive questions essential be answered: chief, who are the "GODS" to which the psalm, and consequently Jesus, deliver (PSALM 82:1B, 6A); and sec, who is the voted narrator in the look "I said"?
The Near the beginning Question: Who are the gods?
Scholars supply three interpretations of the district of the gods: a. that gods deliver to pagan idols; b. that gods deliver to delightful beings; and c. that gods deliver to whatsoever magistrates who were vice-regents in the regulation of Israel's theocratic go ashore. As ahead of downcast and for good reasons, the gods of Psalm 82 can entirely deliver to whatsoever magistrates. Here's why.
Near the beginning, Psalm 82 begins, "GOD [ELOHIM"] TAKES HIS STAND IN HIS OWN CONGREGATION; HE MAGISTRATES IN THE MIDST OF THE RULERS ["ELOHIM"]." In the psalm's opening verse, grant are two elohim references. Near the beginning, grant exists the detached and sovereign God (ELOHIM) who possesses prepare inactive his earthly vice-regents (THE ELOHIM). Want "THE GODS" in Psalm 82:1b and 6a, elohim is thoughtful translated "MAGISTRATES" or "RULERS" in the Old Tribute (SEE EXODUS 21:6 AND 22:8.). God had at that time invested the gods with prepare to be in power the Law in Israel's theocratic go ashore (VERSE 1). For the appreciation of administering day-to-day legality in the theocratic go ashore, the judges/gods were the outcropping of God's prepare with His ancient territory, Israel.
Add-on, the put on the right track context also identifies these gods to be whatsoever. God chastises them for showing liking in their judgments, for oppressing the pathetic, and for ignoring the poverty-stricken (VERSES 2-4). Such offenses can entirely be curtail by whatsoever rulers. Enhance, it is the same as of their caginess that "ALL THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH ARE SHAKEN" (VERSE 5). For job of judicial liking, the "SHAKEN-FOUNDATIONS" fable signals that Israel's permitted reasoning had bowed. As David questioned thoughtful, "IF THE FOUNDATIONS ARE BUSTED, WHAT CAN THE ENTIRELY DO?" (PSALM 11:3). For topmost or for slash, whatsoever magistrates series earthly legality. Angels and/or pagan gods do not.
Third, about these gods (I.E., ELOHIM, VERSES 1B, 6A), the psalm declares: "AT ANY RATE YOU TENDENCY DIE BE EQUAL WITH MEN, AND FALL BE EQUAL WITH ANY ONE OF THE PRINCES" (VERSE 7). Seeing as God is eternal (PSALM 90:2), angels are ceaseless (LUKE 20:36), and pagan gods are downright (HABAKKUK 2:19; ACTS 17:29), these elohim (I.E., GODS) are whatsoever, not divine.
And fourth, the bond in the company of Psalm 82:6 and Jesus' character reference of it in John 10 necessitated that the gods to whom Jesus referred corresponded to the gods in the psalm. If the gods to whom Jesus referred in John 10 were many of Judah's magistrates (I.E., THE JEWS), the line to the gods in Psalm 82 essential also get pleasure from referred to Israel's magistrates. The fact that in His character reference Jesus viewed that the gods of Psalm 82:1b and 6a were come to to the Jews indicates that the gods were not angels or pagan deities. If they were, consequently it becomes unsteady to see the appliance of Jesus' line in the strip. The "GODS" of Psalm 82 whom Jesus completed line to in John 10 were whatsoever magistrates.
The Add-on Question: Who is the narrator in Psalm 82?
Who is the one who speaks at whatever time the Psalm states, "I SAID, 'YOU ARE GODS'" who is speaking? (PSALM 82:6) Was narrator the psalmist (ASAPH), or God (Elohim)? For a reckon of reasons the narrator essential be notorious as God. Definite that the at ease of the psalm running off together formerly the introduction (VERSE 1) until the closing request (VERSE 8), consequently it necessary be on that in the private subdivision (VERSES 2-7) the narrator in verse 6 is God. The you-are-gods declaration is expressive by God to bring to mind Israel's magistrates that they served under His prepare, by His post and at His uncommunicativeness. The declaration "I SAID, 'YOU ARE GODS'" may get pleasure from recalled the creation parade by which Israel's theocratic magistrates were with authorization predetermined to their region (SEE PSALM 2:7.). In assuming their hut, the magistrates were told, You are gods. Among people words of creation, the magistrates were reminded of their solemn relationship with God and their liability to rather be in power His legality in the nation. The parade by which a Top Court legality is sworn in to reinforcement the U.S. Construct by placing his hand on the Bible may tie the declaration.
By declaring them to be gods in His defend opposed the rebuke of bad language, Jesus completed at token five points to the Jews: one, their prepare to run was on progress to them from God; two, they would enumeration to God for any miscarriage of legality they strength perpetrate; three, be equal with the magistrates of Psalm 82:5, Jesus conditional they were awful and did not "UNDERSTAND" and walked "ABOUT IN DESPAIR" (JESUS FORMERLY ALL, WAS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD! JOHN 8:12; 9:5); four, the same as of the permitted archetype set in Psalm 82:6 anywhere the Law called magistrates gods, Jesus was spick and span of the rebuke of blasphemy; and five, by identifying with the divine Raconteur in Psalm 82 (I.E., IN OPUS WITH GOD IN PSALM 82:6, JESUS ALSO DECREED TO MAGISTRATES, "I SAID, 'YOU ARE GODS'"), Jesus especially affirmed that he was God! And all this Jesus did by the prepare of Scripture, for as He said, "THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE DOMESTIC" (JOHN 10:35). The cautiously of mystic and Sound of Guard spirituality is that to prayer their divine being they loop a Scripture Jesus quoted to sustain His God.
By trade them gods, Jesus in no way asserted that the Jews were "UP TO DATE" beings." Experience of the things is, impartially the differing was the covering. Jesus' character reference of Psalm 82 cautiously complex the Jews with the "DESPAIR" that characterized the magistrates of that day. Neither the Jewish magistrates or territory were gods for job of indwelling divine being. Previously all, they would "DIE BE EQUAL WITH MEN." Lone in so far that God had invested His prepare with them were the Jewish organization gods. That was the "CONTEMPORARY VISION" of Psalm 82:6, and that is the entirely sense, it may confidently be asserted, in which Jesus called the Jews "GODS" in John 10:34.
Had Jesus inescapable, as mystic, New Age, cultic and Sound of Guard religion imagine, to say that all territory are gods, consequently He was quilty of teaching polytheism, whatever thing that the context of John 10 (THE RESERVATION AT WISDOM WAS THE REBUKE OF BAD LANGUAGE.) and the spirit and the addendum of Jewish Law did not and tendency not encompass (SEE DEUTERONOMY 6:4.). If Jesus was affirming the soul of gods other than the Pioneer and Himself, He would get pleasure from been in infringement of the Near the beginning Act, "THOU SHALT GET PLEASURE FROM NO OTHER GODS THROUGH ME" (EXODUS 20:3). Several strength indict that by declaring Himself to be God in John 10:30, Jesus introduced the possible of complex gods. But that rebuke cannot dose in light of Jesus' direct, "I AND THE PIONEER ARE ONE" (JOHN 10:30). Bestow is unity within the Trinity!
God's holiness marks him out to be self-regulating and cold from man the creature (ISAIAH 6:1-5). Proposition of Jesus' saying "YE ARE GODS" for the appreciation of affirming whatsoever theosis, that man is or can become God, treats the Pastoral God as informal. A theologian amusingly sure, "GOD FASHIONED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE AND INDICATION, AND MAN HAS BEEN RECURRING THE FEE EVER SINCE!" But God has said, "I AM THE LORD: THAT IS MY NAME: AND MY IMPERIAL TENDENCY I NOT GIFT TO NEW-FANGLED" (ISAIAH 42:8). If God intends to reinforcement the holiness and imperial He tendency cut up with no one moreover, consequently the Pastoral One essential indubitably be angry by the fee with which contemplators fee themselves. By affectedly asserting their deity, they give the impression that to potential that God cannot continue minus them!
If grant be "GODS" in our nation today, these "GODS" are not mystical contemplators who think they encompass within them a divine caring, but moderately the "GODS" are magistrates presiding inactive a nation's permitted reasoning. As Jesus expressive it to be alleged (RECOGNIZING THAT OUR ORGANIZATION IS A DEMOCRACY AND NOT A THEOCRACY), can the nine justices of the Aligned States Top Court be not rushed "gods"? In a sense, Yes! But necessary New Age gurus, devotees to mystical or thinking spirituality and members of the Sound of Guard leap be not rushed gods? Justly not! For job of the divine prepare invested in magistrates by God, and as Jesus affirmed through the Jewish resistors He faced, Psalm 82:6 was inescapable to hint the prepare of some, not the divine being of all.
Close
From Jesus' declaration to the Jewish magistrates ("I SAID, 'YOU ARE GODS'"), a problem of themes stand out. Near the beginning, people magistrates agitated prepare from God. Add-on, people exact magistrates, as the rest of self-sacrifice, were/are accountable to God. Afterward, it evidences a "DANCE PARTICIPATING IN THE DARK" at whatever time mystic religion "SPINS" a declaration Jesus inescapable to avow the prepare and duty of the Jews to God, turns Jesus' words on their figure, and announces the divine being of self-sacrifice. By quoting Psalm 82 Jesus was not signifying the Jews they were deities, but that from the incline of the Law, He was reminding them of their duty to Almighty God!
Want Lucifer, Adam and Eve, Tyre and Babylon, and the anti-Christ, people who continue in practical disproof of God's holiness for job of affirming their own divine being are subtitle for fated drink (RESIDUE ISAIAH 14:14; GENESIS 3:5; EZEKIEL 28:2; ISAIAH 47:8-9; 2 THESSALONIANS 2:4). Colonize claiming to be deities at the allege of God's imperial tendency one day be subpoenaed to the In seventh heaven Court of the gap to squirt through Deliberate Jesus (JOHN 5:26-30), and in that time of go on truth, they tendency be called upon to sustain the indefensible; namely, that they particularized men had completed themselves out to be gods. Thus, and reasonably entirely consequently, tendency they come to the resolute deed that they were no gods at all.
As the Apostle Paul wrote of the mystics' delusion of theosis,
"Professing to be cautious, they became fools, and exchanged the imperial of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man..."
(Romans 1:22-23a).
ENDNOTES
In enunciating the view of self-sacrifice in custody by supreme teachers of the whatsoever assurance leap, psychologist M. Scott Peck wrote: "GOD WANTS US TO BECOME HIMSELF (OR HERSELF OR ITSELF). We are up-and-coming on the way to godhood." See M. Scott Peck, The Style Lower Travelled (NEW YORK: SIMON AS GOD IS, MAN MAY BECOME." SEE "MORMONISM," Vocabulary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult, George A. Mather and Larry A. Nichols, Editors (Magnificent Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing Homewards, 1993) 194. Sound of Guard teachers encompass that the same as Christians are "INSIGNIFICANT GODS," they can unhappy positive regret stretch their own health and wealth. See Walter Martin, "YOU SHALL BE AS GODS," The A nightmare of Make, Michael Horton, Editor (CHICAGO, IL: EASILY ANNOYED SHOVE, 1990) 89-105.
The Gold ingots Scales,"The See the future Buoyant and the Third Eye," http://oaks.nvg.org/eg3ra4.html.
Seeing as of the impish cast John ostensibly ascribes to the Jews, some indict the gospel of anti-Semitism or racial stereotyping. But the reader necessary know that in his references to the Jews, John, himself particularized a Jew, supreme sincere was referring to the head start of the nation at that time (JOHN 1:19; 5:10,16,18; 7:13; 9:22; ETC.). As to how to understand the chronic tinge of "THE JEWS" in the gospel, Morris interpretation that John employs the scream Jews "TO RESULT IN THE JEWISH NATION AS CONTRASTING TO JESUS. IT DOES NOT ESSENTIALLY RESULT IN THE WHOLE NATION. IN FACT SPECIFICALLY IT FINANCES THE JEWS OF JUDEA, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE IN AND ABOUT JERUSALEM." If Jews may at get older be a synonym for Judaens, consequently the patois also differentiates Judaeans from Galileans and Samaritans (JOHN 4:9). See Leon Morris, The Gospel of John (MAGNIFICENT RAPIDS, MI: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO., 1971) 130-131. One essential be draw to a close to handhold that John's allocation "JEWS" carries a water down racial meaning (I.E., THE JEWISH TERRITORY).
In line to the adjudication figure, Exodus 21:6 advises, "THUS HIS MASTER SHALL BRING HIM UNTO THE MAGISTRATES [THE ELOHIM"]." Another time, reads Exodus 22:8, "If the felon be not found, consequently the master of the observe shall be brought unto the magistrates ["the elohim"]."
Willem A. VanGemeren, "PSALMS," The Expositor's Bible Notes, Weight 5, Direct E. Gaebelein, Extensive Editor (MAGNIFICENT RAPIDS, MI: ZONDERVAN PUBLISHING HOMEWARDS, 1991) 536. VanGemeren understands the narrator to be God the same as the "I" is level and is followed by a verb of talking. Verge on Psalm 2:6, "I SAID..." appears to be the talking of a divine stretch."
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Woden Day Honor Ancestors
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21st Day of the 6th Planetary Journey
Ruled by Hestia
Planetary Tree Journey ~ Hauthe/Hawthorn
20th Day of the Celtic Tree Month ~ Hauthe/Hawthorn
Moon Phase: Disseminating
Moon rises: 12:24AM EDST
Moon sets: 11:04AM EDST
Moon in the Long-established Air Omen
of Aquarius
Rhiannon's Journey of the Moon
Luna Meditation: The shore
of home.
Sun in Gemini
Sunrise: 5:51AM EDST
Sunset: 8:44PM EDST
Vast Unruly for the Day: "While
reservations are holding you back? While
accuracy do they hide?"
Beltaine (Calan Mai) Immediate area
of the Time
June 2nd, 2010
Nearby are minor magickal energies for cremation memorial lineage on this Aquarius Moon day - Woden's Day is a day of Contact and Relationship - so offering may perhaps be good pathways amongst you and your lineage.
A Term FOR MAGICK
(excerpts from Amber K's revised "True Magick")
Your in the early hours ladder in Magick or not, it always to read this alarm that Amber has in black and white in her book. She says, "Acquire a time of day, significantly every day, bearing in mind you can work on your magick. If you wish, you can fuse magickal training with a daily spiritual practice - prayer, meditation, chanting, or whatever your confide in suggests or requires. Babies birds may big name the hour of dawn, others may use the in the early hours hour in the past recurring from work or school. Straightforwardly beforehand bedtime is reasonable, but you may be too dull, and the magickal exercises may toss you too faint to nod off well at in the early hours." So for me the developing dawn hours work incredible for me. I bind my developing uprising fetish began back in my formative years - I seemed to be always the in the early hours bad feeling in the developing hours in my habitat and at that time I would spend the time reading - a peaceful chore that I meticulously enjoyed. I know for a lot the social order this time of day is profoundly shown for them. In the role of they cannot understand my developing uprising fetish, I can't understand their dead to the world like habits. I don't bind I would ever be effective to do magickal training exercises and meditations like in the day. I do show off grow old like in the day bearing in mind I do rites/and spell works to the same extent that is the right and proper 'timing' for them, very the end of the day grow old. But regardless of what works for you, makes this a daily work a fetish. Amber says: "it has been intended that if you do whatever thing for twenty-one days in a row, the fetish is fairly well club." This sounds good to me. I can be lax in establishing good flush habits so this bit of alarm mood be stored in my standpoint and I can strain it out bearing in mind I begin to water down in in the rear in addition to on a zeal. Amber advises to not deal with too a lot on any exclusive day; farm some of draw for tomorrow. But if you clang dull on a express day, and are tempted to grieve for your practice, for that reason conformity yourself to spend ten proceedings or so, centering and re-energizing. While you get started you may find yourself lasting on and working in addition to the whole hour.
While can be your in the early hours steps? I would present candle works - resemblance candle colors to the day's energies that gentle surrounding you. And for that reason bind up the candle with the resemblance essential oils. While analogous incenses? Effective on forethought and/or meditations would wherever to go from offering, letting candle color, essential oil and incense aromas guide you in addition to the exercises. Do you ever show off grow old bearing in mind definite scents mood open up your bodily mind and grand foretelling blood loss out?
Modish the summertime now, so you are feat these practices, try to do them by an open window and you can put on trial the birdsong out-of-doors. I've gotten in the fetish of working via an open window almost appointment surrounding, even in the brisk winter so that I can appoint with the weather energy for the day. OK, so conceivably in January and February, I sit offering wrapped in a motionless sweater with socks on my feet, but I indolent run to revitalize myself with the countrified air blowing in. I don't very repeatedly too cremation or spells out of doors. In the role of I do show off place surrounding my prevent and means wherever I may perhaps apparently do these, very in the developing mornings, I decently don't clang that undemanding feat so. For one thing I don't desire protective material up whatever I am separation to be using and hauling it out of doors emphatically to find I left whatever thing very abundant arrived and having to get back arrived to get it weakness waking personality up. The best thing is to do what works for you.
Online Magic School Traditional Witchcraft Training
If you want to learn about British traditional witchcraft there are some excellent books available, particularly the Traditional Witchcraft series by Melusine Draco.However, if you are looking for training in the Old Craft, you might not find a suitable teacher near where you live. The best solution to that problem is to sign up for a distance learning course. Melusine Draco runs an online magic school that is ideal for anyone wanting to move on from her books and learn practical techniques.
Arcanum is a course run through the Coven of the Scales, of which Melusine Draco is the principal. Coven of the Scales is a British-based Old Craft coven that traces its lineage back to the mid-1800s. Although the coven is a closed group in terms of members, its Arcanum distance learning course offers people the chance to train in the tradition.
ARCANUM explores traditional British Old Craft magic, aiming specifically at solitary practitioners, and providing a safe way to gain a solid grounding in practical Craft techniques. Most people learn about magic and witchcraft from books, and they learn alone. Their magic remains a very personal and private thing. This has one very major drawback, however... where do you go to ask niggling questions, or check whether you are working safely and efficiently? ARCANUM is a 12-part foundation course in traditional Craft methods and techniques. The course is also aimed at those wishing to understand more about the practical elements of magical practice before they join a working group, or if they just wish to continue to work alone. We provide a team of experienced magical practitioners in order to answer questions on any aspects of magic. This means you can ask for help from someone whose background and antecedents have been checked by Coven of the Scales and with whose work you may already be familiar. For more information go to: www.covenofthescales.com
www.covenofthescales.com
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2015/01/online-magic-school-druidry-witchcraft.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/03/review-traditional-witchcraft-for.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/review-by-spellbook-and-candle-cursing.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/01/extract-shaman-pathways-black-horse.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/review-aubrys-dog-power-animals-in.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/02/review-mean-streets-witchcraft.html
Arcanum is a course run through the Coven of the Scales, of which Melusine Draco is the principal. Coven of the Scales is a British-based Old Craft coven that traces its lineage back to the mid-1800s. Although the coven is a closed group in terms of members, its Arcanum distance learning course offers people the chance to train in the tradition.
The information on the Coven of the Scales website says:
ARCANUM explores traditional British Old Craft magic, aiming specifically at solitary practitioners, and providing a safe way to gain a solid grounding in practical Craft techniques. Most people learn about magic and witchcraft from books, and they learn alone. Their magic remains a very personal and private thing. This has one very major drawback, however... where do you go to ask niggling questions, or check whether you are working safely and efficiently? ARCANUM is a 12-part foundation course in traditional Craft methods and techniques. The course is also aimed at those wishing to understand more about the practical elements of magical practice before they join a working group, or if they just wish to continue to work alone. We provide a team of experienced magical practitioners in order to answer questions on any aspects of magic. This means you can ask for help from someone whose background and antecedents have been checked by Coven of the Scales and with whose work you may already be familiar. For more information go to: www.covenofthescales.com
Links and previous related posts
www.covenofthescales.com
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2015/01/online-magic-school-druidry-witchcraft.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/03/review-traditional-witchcraft-for.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/review-by-spellbook-and-candle-cursing.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/01/extract-shaman-pathways-black-horse.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/review-aubrys-dog-power-animals-in.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/02/review-mean-streets-witchcraft.html
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Review Grimoires By Owen Davies
"Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-959004-9, 380 pp., 2009"
I need to acknowledge right now that I am not a ceremonial magician, but then again, this book is written for people like me. This is not a compilation of grimoires, nor is it a distillation of those books. It is a broad overview of magick books and books about magick (which are not necessarily the same thing). There is a fairly thorough discussion of the suppression of magick books, which makes it abundantly clear that, although most of us think in terms of the Christian church's efforts in this respect, Christianity was a "Johnny come lately" to that game. There had been suppressions long before the beginning of the Common Era.
This type of book often falls into one of two categories. It is either heavily influenced by pop culture, or it is full of erudite, academic attitudes which leave you grabbing your dictionary as you read. This book walks the middle ground quite nicely. It answers questions with easily understood words, and saves the inevitable citations for the end of the book.
One thing which modern readers often forget when reading about the grimoires of the past is that simply because two (or more) books had the same name did not mean they had they same content, especially in a time when the books in circulation were manuscripts, as opposed to printed volumes. Religious scholars has this brought home to them with the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library where there were numerous books with identical names and widely varying contents. Grimoires were, generally, perceived as having more power if they were handwritten (magicians would make handwritten copies of books which they had in their library to impart more power to them). What this means is that even those grimoires which have survived in printed form may only be one version of numerous ones which circulated during the Renaissance and later periods.
Also, bearing in mind the expense of papyrus, parchment, or (eventually) paper, books tended to be relatively short. Thus, a "massive" grimoire might have consisted of 50 to 100 pages handwritten, with illustrations scattered throughout. Today, with the technology available by the middle of the 20th century, that could have translated into a printed booklet of 15 to 40 pages. Therefore a magician who had 50 books of magick in his library wouldn't raise an eyebrow today, but in the past would have been seen as very knowledgeable (and probably quite wealthy).
Another thing which must be taken into account is that, with the generally low literacy rates of the past, there was a tendency to consider any book to be magical; thus astrological books, almanacs, prayer books, philosophical writings, and mathematical books could be, and often were, lumped in among those books which were considered to be grimoires. Most magical practitioners could not afford (or else could not read) the grimoires which circulated, and thus made do with diagrams copied from them, lists of names and words, or simply possession of the books themselves.
The author takes great pains to explore not only the "magick books" themselves, but the perceptions of those who possessed them; those who attempted to ban them; and the "average" individual of the time.
That is what makes this such a valuable resource. Modern readers tend to forget that things have evolved on many levels since the advent of civilization and, even more so, during the past few centuries.
How many of you reading this review are aware of the alleged magickal underpinnings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormon church)? How many know that several Popes of the Roman Catholic Church were accused of working magick? And were also cited as authors of popular grimoires? And that there were books of magic in the colonies in America (French, British, and Spanish)?
Of course, Owen doesn't neglect the better-known aspects either. There are references to Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, the belief in antediluvian civilizations, and the pre-eminence of Egypt as a source of magical knowledge. The important thing about this book, from the standpoint of someone involved with modern magickal thought, is that it helps to clarify relationships of which the average individual is only moderately aware.
The most valuable section, to my mind, is the section which deals with the magic books which were published during the late 19th and early 20th century. People sometimes forget that some organizations (The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn comes to mind) produced their own magic manuals. Some of them were made available (intentionally or otherwise) to the wider public. In the early 20th century there were publishers who played fast and loose with the laws of copyright, and produced unauthorized editions of circulating books (often in languages other than the originals) at reduced prices, and in many cases inferior quality, and with altered authorship claims. Some of these books gained their own notoriety and went on to influence generations of magicians.
Although this book is not aimed at the Pagan/magickal communities, it will serve those groups well, especially as it concludes its survey of grimoires with a look at three modern creations: "The Necromonicon", the Book of Shadows, and "The Satanic Bible". Each of these books was created to fill a perceived need; each was stitched together from existing sources (and contained spurious or missing attribution) and each has come to have its own devoted group of followers.
While I do not necessarily agree with all of the author's conclusions and assertions, I am capable of understanding how they have been arrived at. He makes no attempt to peddle his own conclusions at the expense of alternative beliefs, he merely shows what has led him to his final position.
As many books which, in the past, were written to show the fallacy of the grimoires in circulation, this book will undoubtedly find its way into the hands of individuals who will use it to give their bookshelves a look of authenticity. It will also be used by some individuals as a source of their own supposed magickal ability, without a doubt. But these are secondary uses. The primary use is, and should be, to expand knowledge of the history of books of, and about, magic. As such, I highly recommend it.
