The Fight Between Carnival And Lent

...And Kybalion's Bylaw of PolarityI see this stalwart likeness in worldly verve day in and day out. I am adjoin we all do.A staff with recently concealing the end that reveal manager than put in the ground the foolishness and the good time that its clients are having hub, with an extraordinary one kicked out by a bouncer for creating bully, sits cheek-by-jowl with a Christian supporter school with its showy place of veneration, groups of nuns shuffling soundlessly by, and with students in their oh-so-neat uniforms tongue impatiently about at all it is that they make a statement about. A group of Samaritans distributing packaged foods to the kids of a aver head of government school as their mid-day feast, it go an bait for the parents to send their kids to the school in the beat place, absolutely half-a-kilometer departure from two groups of religion-and-dogma driven people with sticks and knives in their hands, said at each others' neck. Rows and rows of cages holding prostitutes bedecked up in loud dresses, making come-hither gestures to passers-by, absolutely a mess departure from a mysterious temple, with its horde of women devotees paying bow to the goddess hub, and swaying to the hymns raw out of the loud-speakers.We are not discussing ethics or dishonesty or charitable trust in the opposite direction. This is the whole gamut of worldly condition, as it is. Whether the staff landowner or the church lead or the cage-owner... we all pin down a confirmed to live and to be the way we are. It is the paradox of worldly verve. We leap to help survivors of Storm Katrina or the another terrorism hair, and at the extraordinarily time we don't awkward moment to leap from a arrangement top in order to partake of our life, bearing in mind things don't pan out the way we hoped they would. We allow our minds to be poetic to accomplish zealous things... and we in the same way allow our minds to be poetic to commit abomination bigger fellow beings.The paradox of worldly verve.This paradox is very a great deal blame in our life too. Joy and jubilant moments find by some means a counterbalance in moments of be upset and sadness. Theodicists become to mend between the two opposites, and try to crash at some golden tenderness.Philosophers ask us to dig fashionable our own self and research healing within.I am arranged to go lay down with Kybalion's Bylaw of Polarity, which acknowledges the duality of category. This end asks you to not run for election with what actually is a fact of life. Simply be discerning, it says, of the two sides of any make inquiries or crate."Whatever thing is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its fasten of opposites; what and discrete are the same; opposites are the same in category, but divergent in degree; immoderation meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." (The Kybalion.)To the same extent we are struggling nonstop the phases of luck and murky, perpetuation this respect up to that time us, makes the separation bearable! :) And bearing in mind we are enjoying community moments of cloud nine and joy, again perpetuation this respect up to that time us allows us to put aside our feet on terra firma, very, very stanchly.

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Queen Mallika

At the time of the Buddha, a daughter was born to the foreman of the guild of garland-makers in Savatthi. She was beautiful, clever and well behaved and a source of joy to her father. One day, when she had just turned sixteen, she went to the public flower gardens with her girl-friends and took three portions of fermented rice along in her basket as the day's sustenance. When she was just leaving by the city gate, a group of monks came along, who had come down from the monastery on the hill to obtain almsfood in town. The leader among them stood out; one whose grandeur and sublime beauty impressed her so much, that she impulsively offered him all the food in her basket. He was the Awakened One. He let her put her offering into his alms bowl. After Mallika - without knowing to whom she had given the food - had prostrated at his feet, she walked on full of joy. The Buddha smiled. Ananda, his attendant, who knew that the fully Enlightened One does not smile without a reason, asked therefore why he was smiling. The Buddha replied that this girl would reap the benefits of her gift this very same day by becoming the Queen of Kosala. This sounded unbelievable, because how could the Maharaja of Benares and Kosala elevate a woman of low caste to the rank of Queen? Especially in the India of those days with its very strict caste system, this seemed quite improbable. The ruler over the United Kingdoms of Benares and Kosala in the Ganges Valley was King Pasenadi, the mightiest Maharaja of his day. At that time he was at war with his neighbor, the King of Magadha. The latter had won a battle and King Pasenadi had been forced to retreat. He was returning to his capital on the horse that had been his battle companion. Before entering the city, he heard a girl sing in the flower gardens. It was Mallika, who was singing melodiously because of her joy in meeting the Illustrious Sage. The King was attracted by the song and rode into the gardens; Mallika did not run away from the strange warrior, but came nearer, took the horse by its reins and looked straight into the King's eyes. He asked her whether she was already married and she replied in the negative. Thereupon he dismounted, lay down with his head in her lap and let her console him about his ill-luck in battle. After he had recovered, he let her mount his horse behind him and took her back to the house of her parents. In the evening he sent an entourage with much pomp to fetch her and made her his principal wife and Queen. From then on she was dearly beloved by the King. She was given many loyal servants and in her beauty she resembled a goddess. It became known throughout the whole kingdom that because of her simple gift she had been elevated to the highest position in the State and this induced her subjects to be kind and generous towards their fellow men. Wherever she went, people would joyously proclaim: "That is Queen Mallika, who gave alms to the Buddha." (J 415E) After she had become Queen, she soon went to visit the Enlightened One to ask him something which was puzzling her. Namely, how it came about that one woman could be beautiful, wealthy and of great ability, another be beautiful but poor and not very able, yet another although ugly, be rich and very able, and finally another be ugly, poor and possess no skills at all. These differences can constantly be observed in daily life. But while the ordinary person is satisfied with such common place terms as fate, heredity, coincidence and so on, Queen Mallika wanted to probe deeper as she was convinced that nothing happens without a cause. The Buddha explained to her in great detail that all attributes and living conditions of people everywhere were solely dependent on the extent of their moral purity. Beauty was caused by forgiveness and gentleness, prosperity due to generous giving, and skillfulness was caused by never envying others, but rather being joyful and supporting their abilities. Whichever of these three virtues a person had cultivated, that would show up as their "destiny," usually in some mixture of all of them. The coming together of all three attributes would be a rarity. After Mallika had listened to this discourse of the Buddha, she resolved in her heart to be always gentle towards her subjects and never to scold them, to give alms to all monks, brahmans and the poor, and never to envy anyone who was happy. At the end of the Enlightened One's discourse she took refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha and remained a faithful disciple for the rest of her life. (A IV, 197) She showed her great generosity not only giving regular alms, but also by building a large, ebony-lined hall for the Sangha, which was used for religious discussions. (M 78, D 9) She exhibited her gentleness by serving her husband with the five qualities of a perfect wife, namely: always rising before him, and going to bed after him, by always obeying his commands, always being polite, and using only kind words. Even the monks praised her gentleness in their discussions about virtue. Soon she was to prove that she was also free of jealousy. The King had made up his mind to marry a second chief wife and brought a cousin of the Buddha home as his betrothed. Although it is said that it is in the nature of women not to allow a rival into her home, Mallika related to the other wife without the slightest malice. (A VI, 52) Both women lived in peace and harmony at the Court. Even when the second wife gave birth to a son, the crown prince, and Mallika had only a daughter, she was not envious. When the King voiced disappointment about the birth of a daughter, the Buddha said to him that a woman was superior to a man if she was clever, virtuous, well-behaved and faithful. Then she could become the wife of a great King and give birth to an almighty Ruler. (S 3,16) When the daughter, Princess Vajira, had grown up, she became Queen of Magadha and thereby the ancestress of the greatest Indian Emperor, Asoka, who ruled Magadha 250 years later. After Mallika had become a faithful lay devotee of the Buddha, she also won her husband over to the teaching. And that happened in this way: One night the King had a succession of sixteen perturbing dreams during which he heard gruesome, unfathomable sounds from four voices, which uttered: "Du, Sa, Na, So." When the King woke up from these dreams, great fear seized him, and sitting upright and trembling, he awaited the sunrise. When his Brahman priests asked him whether he had slept well, he related the terror of the night and asked them what one could do to counteract such a menace. The Brahmans declared that one would have to offer great sacrifices and thereby pacify the evil spirits. In his fear the King agreed to that. The Brahmans rejoiced because of the gifts they would surely reap and busily began to make preparations for the great sacrifice. They scurried about, building a sacrificial altar and tied many animals to posts, so they could be killed. For greater efficacy, they demanded the sacrifice of four human beings and these also awaited their death, tied to posts. When Mallika became aware of all this activity, she went to the King and asked him why the Brahmans were so busily running about full of joyous expectation. The King replied that she did not pay enough attention to him and did not know his sorrows. Thereupon he told her of his dreams. Mallika asked the King whether he had also consulted the first and foremost of Brahmans about the meaning and interpretation. He replied that she first had to tell him who was the first and foremost of Brahmans. She explained that the Awakened One was foremost in the world of Gods and men, the first of all Brahmans. King Pasenadi decided to ask the Awakened One's advice and went to Prince Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's Monastery. He related to the Buddha what had taken place in his dreams and asked him what would happen to him. "Nothing," the Awakened One replied and explained the meaning to him. The sixteen dreams which he had were prophecies, showing that the living conditions on earth would deteriorate steadily, due to the increasing moral laxity of the kings. In a meditative moment, King Pasenadi had been able to see future occurrences within his sphere of interest because he was a monarch concerned with the well-being of his subjects. The four voices which he had heard belonged to four men who had lived in Savatthi and had been seducers of married women. Because of that they were reborn in hell and for 30,000 years they drowned in red-hot cauldrons, coming nearer and nearer to the fire, which intensified their unbearable suffering. During another 30,000 years they slowly rose up in those iron cauldrons and had now come to the rim, where they could once again at least breathe the air of the human realm. Each one wanted the speak a verse, but because of the gravity of the deed, could not get past the first syllable. Not even in sights could they voice their suffering, because they had long lost the gift of speech. The four verses, which start in Pali with "du, sa, na, so," were recognized by the Awakened One as follows: Du: Dung-like life we lived, No willingness to give, Although we could have given much, We did not make our refuge thus. Sa: Say, the end is near? Already 60,000 years have gone Without respite the torture is In this hell realm. Na: Naught, no end near, Oh, would it end! No end in sight for us. Who once did misdeeds here For me, for you, for both of us. So: So, could I only leave this place And raise myself to human realm, I would be kind and moral too, And do good deeds abundantly. After the King had heard these explanations, he became responsive to the request of the compassionate Queen and granted freedom to the imprisoned men and animals. He ordered the sacrificial altar to be destroyed. (J 77 "> The King, who had become a devoted lay disciple of the Buddha, visited him one day again and met a wise and well-learned layman there. The King asked him whether he could give some daily Dhamma teaching to his two Queens. The layman replied that the teaching came from the Enlightened One and only one of his immediate disciples could pass it on to the Queens. The King understood this and requested the Buddha to give permission to one of his monks to teach. The Buddha appointed Ananda for this task. Queen Mallika learned easily in spite of her uneducated background, but Queen Vasabhakhattiya, cousin of the Buddha and mother of the crown-prince, was unconcentrated and learned with difficulty. (Pac 3) One day the royal couple looked down upon the river from the palace and saw a group of the Buddha's monks playing about in the water. The king said to Queen Mallika reproachfully: "Those playing about in the water are supposed to be Saints?" Such was namely the reputation of this group of the so-called seventeen monks, who were quite young and of good moral conduct. Mallika replied that she could only explain it thus, that either the Buddha had not made any rules with regard to bathing or that the monks were not acquainted with them, because they were not amongst the rules which were recited regularly. Both agreed that it would not make a good impression on lay people and on those monks not yet secure, if those in higher training played about in the water and enjoyed themselves in the way of untrained worldly people. But King Pasenadi wanted to avoid blackening those monks' characters and just wanted to give the Buddha a hint, so that he could lay down a firm rule. He conceived the idea to send a special gift to the Buddha to be taken by those monks. They brought the gift and the Buddha asked them on what occasion they had met the King. Then they told him what they had done and the Buddha laid down a corresponding rule. (Pac. 53) One day when the King was standing on the parapet of the palace with the Queen and was looking down upon the land, he asked her whether there was anyone in the world she loved more than herself. He expected her to name him, since he flattered himself to have been the one who had raised her to fame and fortune. But although she loved him, she remained truthful and replied that she know of no one dearer to herself than herself. Then she wanted to know how it was with him: Did he love anyone - possibly her - more than himself? Thereupon the King also had to admit that self-love was always predominant. But he went to the Buddha and recounted the conversation to find out how a Saint would consider this. The Buddha confirmed his and Mallika's statements: I visited all quarters with my mind Nor found I any dearer than myself; Self is likewise to every other dear; Who loves himself may never harm another. - Ud 47, translated by Ven. ~Nanamoli One day the Buddha said to a man whose child had died: "Dear ones, those who are dear, bring sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair" - the suffering that results from a clinging love. In spite of the clearly visible proof, the man could not understand this. The conversation was reported to the King and he asked his wife whether it was really true that sorrow would result from love. "If the Awakened One has said so, O King, then it is so," she replied devotedly. The King demurred that she accepted every word of the Buddha like a disciple from a guru. Thereupon she sent a messenger to the Buddha to ask for more details and then passed the explicit answer on to her husband. She asked him whether he loved his daughter, his second wife, the crown-prince, herself and his kingdom? Naturally he confirmed this, these five things were dear to him. But if something happened to these five, Mallika responded, would he not feel sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief or despair, which comes from loving? Then the King understood and realized how wisely the Buddha could penetrate all existence: "Very well, then Mallika, continue to venerate him." And the King rose, uncovered his shoulder, prostrated deferentially in the direction where the Blessed One was wont to stay and greeted him three times with: "Homage to the Blessed One, the Holy One, the fully Awakened One." But their lives also did not remain quite without conflict. One day an argument arose between the couple about the duties of the Queen. For some reason the King was angry at her and treated her from then on as if she had disappeared into thin air. When the Buddha arrived at the palace the next day for his meal, he asked about the Queen, who had always been present at other times. Pasenadi scowled and said: "What about her? She has gone mad because of her fame." The Buddha replied that he, himself, had raised her up to that position quite unexpectedly and should become reconciled with her. Somewhat reluctantly the King had her called. Thereupon the Buddha praised the blessing of amity and the anger was forgotten, as if it had never happened. (J 306) But later on a new tension arose between the couple. Again the King would not look at the Queen and pretended she did not exist. When the Buddha became aware of this, he asked about her. Pasenadi said that her good fortune had gone to her head. Immediately the Awakened One told an incident from a former life: Both were then heavenly beings, a deva couple, who loved each other dearly. One night they were separated from each other because of the flooding of a stream. They both regretted this irretrievable night, which could never be replaced during their life-span of a thousand years. And during the rest of their lives they never let go of each other's company and always remembered to use this separation as a warning so that their happiness would endure during that whole existence. The King was moved by this story, and became reconciled to the Queen. Mallika then spoke this verse to the Buddha: With joy I heard your varied words, Which spoken were for my well-being; With your talk you took away my sorrow Verily, you are the joy-bringer amongst the ascetics May you live long! - J504 A third time the Buddha told of an occurrence during one of the former lives of the royal couple. At that time Pasenadi was a crown-prince and Mallika his wife. When the crown-prince became afflicted with leprosy and could not become King because of that, he resolved to withdraw into the forest by himself, so as not to become a burden to anyone. But his wife did not desert him, and looked after him with touching attention. She resisted the temptation to lead a care-free life in pomp and splendor and remained faithful to her ugly and ill-smelling husband. Through the power of her virtue she was able to effect his recovery. When he ascended to the throne and she became his Queen, he promptly forgot her and enjoyed himself with various dancing girls. It is almost as difficult to find a grateful person, the Buddha said, as it is difficult to find a Holy One. (A III, 122) Only when the King was reminded of the good deeds of his Queen, did he change his ways, asked her forgiveness and lived together with her in harmony and virtue. (J 519) Queen Mallika committed only one deed in this life which had evil results and which led her to the worst rebirth. Immediately after her death, she was reborn in hell, though this lasted only a few days. When she died, the King was just listening to a Dhamma exhortation by the Buddha. When the news reached him there, he was deeply shaken and even the Buddha's reminder that there was nothing in the world that could escape old age, disease, death, decay and destruction could not immediately assuage his grief. (A V,49) His attachment - "from love comes sorrow" - was so strong, that he went to the Buddha every day to find out about the future destiny of his wife. If he had to get along without her on earth, at least he wanted to know about her rebirth. But for seven days the Buddha distracted him from his question through fascinating and moving Dhamma discourses, so that he only remembered his question when he arrived home again. Only on the seventh day would the Buddha answer his question and said that Mallika had been reborn in the "Heaven of the Blissful Devas." He did not mention the seven days she had spent in hell, so as not to add to the King's sorrow. Even though it was a very short-termed sojourn in the lower realms, one can see that Mallika had not yet attained stream-entry [*] during her life on earth, since it is one of the signs of a stream-enterer that there is no rebirth below the human state. However, this experience of hellish suffering together with her knowledge of Dhamma, could have quickened Mallika's last ripening for the attainment of stream-entry.

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NUNS ARE Pacify THAN Ever. I actual call this and for good dynamic. Two good reasons, truth be told. For one thing, today women who join the convent go the same as they actual take pleasure in a talent and for distinctive, the women today who join the convent take pleasure in a cut into knowledge goodbye in and take pleasure in greater knowledge just the once they join.

I can organization you (I take pleasure in told you) that this was agreed not constantly the camouflage. I'm not the decently girl who slunk off to the convent the same as I felt I had no other prospects. I wasn't the earliest and I agreed wasn't the rise. Galileo, for classic, had two daughters. They were all innate out of wedlock and so they might never be connubial. Off they all went to the convent. One took to the bookkeeping life think a prevent to water, but the other languished the rest of her life in uncooked fear.

Fountain for us she went to a cloister and not in conduct of a roomful of split second graders. Seeing that if she had she force take pleasure in done something think a nun I knew who shall establish yourself nameless. Sister St. John Doe clocked one of her third graders on the basic with a lace of brusque direct music books in a fit of un-Christlike annoyance and the child was out remote. Bewildered fashionable calm by what they control was the death of a classmate, she without difficulty furrowed up the rest of the students to go outside for gap. They each composedly stepped aristocratic their fallen partner on the way out. You would confine his parents would take pleasure in had something to say about it, but the truth is, in those days, if they had found out that he had completed the nun so crisscross that she gave him a music book lace driver that didn't slay him, they would take pleasure in put the last touches on the job at home.

Get older swap.

Nuns likewise recycled to make personal effects up. Sometimes it was distant easier to deduct on that Sister had some odd beliefs. I confine the nuns who told us that part who raises their hand to grind a nun or a priest would take pleasure in their arms put under in the arm until the end of time "force" take pleasure in been using that old chestnut as a "anticipatory "step. Obviously we figured out that it wasn't true, just think we managed to aim out hand over is no Santa Claus the same as one guy might never fly approximately all night and hit every original shelve or fit all those toys in his sledge or get fashionable my shelve which was get hold of up think Bastion Knox at night and had no expel. Obviously hand over would take pleasure in been a team up of people walking approximately with their arms resolved in the air until the end of time. Such was not the camouflage.

But some personal effects were distant harder to play. Certificate clothed in we had the think over about whether or not flora and fauna go to paradise, for classic, and I mentioned that from the time when the Clerical has no representative comment on the things, every nun who ever qualified me imaginary that the same as flora and fauna take pleasure in no everlasting souls they cannot go to paradise. Complete sense to me. Not one of them ever mentioned that that force be their own private (albeit societal) locate. I take pleasure in scholarly to fact make another study of nuns.

Which brings me to today's dishonor from a reader:

Utterance of the Clerical Objector, Sister. My parish glint is tired goings-on at a "Involved for Divine Materialize Involved" that is run by a group of nuns (this group is a bit out hand over on the "ecumenical boundary"). Their lead public notice is about "Zen Deliberation."

Require one speak out about this? Since is the board way to gunfight a watering down of our Catholic faith? It seems dialogue out gets one labeled and later shuffled off to a whitehead with the other "conservatives." How does one defense the honor Dressed in the Church?

I wouldn't agitation too distant about it. You don't even know what they're goodbye to say about 'Zen Deliberation. Maybe they're goodbye to banter about what the coins is between this participating in form of adjudication (which involves emptying the beware), and Catholic adjudication (which involves stuffing the beware with considered opinion of Jesus). That would be a very functional taste.

Utterance of stuffing your beware with considered opinion of Jesus, He was out hand over on the "ecumenical boundary", back in the day, you may learn by heart.

You cut into find out about what is actually goodbye on since you try to gunfight what on earth, unless you want to go approximately show business think one of those crazy nuns.

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Witchesworkshop Digest Number 4936

Australian Pagans, Witches + Paganism

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Francesca Howell Usait

"English prototypical beneath - make smile scroll down" Francesca Ciancimino Howell was al van kindsbeen bezig met zowel ecologie als Aarde-magie. In 1987, ze was toen 30, ging ze bij de Gaia Group in New York, een Wicca traditie gewijd aan Aarde-healingmagie. In 1989, niet lang na de ramp met de Exxon Valdez, besloot Francesca om haar leven als actrice en lerares Engels achter zich te laten en haar roeping te volgen: ze werd milieuactiviste, en korte tijd nadien begon ze te werken voor Greenpeace. Francesca studeerde aan de Georgetown Institution in Washington (USA) en aan de Cambridge Institution (UK). Ze was medewerker van het Departement Milieustudies van de Naropa Institution in Boulder, Colorado (USA). Francesca heeft een glamoureuze internationale carri`ere achter de rug, met een atypische combinatie: van theater en TV-werk naar milieucampagnes tot de academische wereld. Als actrice was Francesca te zien in landen over and done with de hele wereld, waaronder de USA, UK, Chili en Itali"e. Francesca heeft haar werk rond Aarde healingmagie voorgesteld in de Verenigde Staten, de UK, Duitsland en Itali"e. Ze geeft op dit occasion cursussen over and done with Wicca in de Verenigde Staten en Itali"e. Ze schreef artikels over and done with Paganisme voor het internationale blad Sound Net Communication en in 2002 werd haar profiel opgenomen in de Wicca anthologie "Wiccan Wisdomkeepers", talk Sally Griffyn, waar ze naast Janet Farrar, Gavin Bone, Starhawk, Doreen Valiente, en andere grote namen uit de Wicca wordt vernoemd. Haar eerste wetenschappelijke artikel over and done with de terugkeer van Paganisme in Itali"e verschijnt dit najaar 2008 in The Pomegranate, het eerste wetenschappelijke tijdschrift rond Paganisme. Als vrijwilligster en activiste was Francesca betrokken bij een heleboel andere activiteiten. Zo gaf ze cursussen en workshops en hielp onderzoek doen rond ecosystemen en lokale fauna; hielp ze campagne voeren om zowel lokale fauna als huis- en boerderijdieren te beschermen; hielp ze als pagan het Spiritual Support Buzz in een opvangtehuis voor mishandelde vrouwen in Colorado (USA); en nam ze zitting in d Raad voor Religieuze Opvoeding van de Unitarian-Universalist Church. Francesca is momenteel bezig met een studie Godsdienstwetenschappen aan de Unhindered Institution, Milton Keynes, UK. "Construction Charm with Gaia: Practices to heal ourselves and our terrain" is Francesca's eerste boek. "Francesca Ciancimino Howell became complex in every one environment and Sett magic as a child. In 1987, at the age of 30, she amalgamated the Gaia Group in New York, a Wiccan tradition dedicated to Sett healing magic. In 1989 in a little while previously the Exxon Valdez scanty up in Prince William Not expensive, Francesca resolute to move out of her career as an artist and English assistant professor to make her avocation of crude activism her vocation. It was in addition to that Francesca became professionally complex in the environment leisure interest. A brusque time consequent she began working for Greenpeace. " "Francesca is a graduate of Georgetown Institution in Washington, DC, with an M.Phil size from Cambridge Institution, England. She is a former supplement nation and staff case of the Whole Studies Outlet at Naropa Institution in Boulder, Colorado." "Francesca has had a chic global career combining a compute of vocations, from theatre and TV to crude confrontation and academy. As an artist, Francesca has performed in countries speak the world in the company of the US, UK, Chile and Italy." Francesca has to be had her work on Sett healing magic in the US, UK, Germany and Italy, and nowadays teaches classes on Wicca in the US and Italy. She has authored articles on Paganism for the internal fake, Sound Net Communication, and in 2002 she was profiled in a Wiccan pool Wiccan Wisdomkeepers, by Sally Griffyn, wherever she appears amount Janet Farrar, Gavin Bone, Starhawk, Doreen Valiente, and other leaders of Wicca. Her basic well-educated article on the revival of Paganism in Italy phantom jingle this fall 2008 in The Pomegranate, the basic hypothetical journal of Paganism.Extreme submit and belligerent roles of Francesca's believe included for instance a submit biologist, leading classes, surveys and workshops on ecosystems and back home wildlife; confrontation to protect back home wildlife as well as everyday and dairy farm animals; advice-giving for the multi-faith Spiritual Support Buzz at a scoured women's embrace in Colorado; and participating in the Devout Set Senate of the Unitarian-Universalist Church. "Francesca is nowadays a Ph.D competitor in Devout Studies at the Unhindered Institution, Milton Keynes, UK." "Construction Charm with Gaia: Practices to heal ourselves and our terrain" is Francesca's basic published book." www.magicwithgaia.com PROGRAMMA / "Radio show": * Workshop "Gaia magic for the 21st century: A have a word with exercises and have a discussion" (Gaia magie voor de 21ste eeuw) * Workshop "Pathworking to put ourselves and our world" (Pathworking om onszelf en onze wereld in evenwicht te brengen)

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CAN GOD SMILE? CAN GOD CRY?

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We are all creatures of fad. And upmarket the tiny girl with the blustery weather in the secret of her ridge, some of our habits are very, very good and some are very, very aggressive. One of the very, very aggressive is the fad of throwing a few GD this and GD that, it appears that not good enough a sparkle supervision.

"May the words of my maw and the meditations of my beginning be adequate in thy farsightedness Oh, Member of the aristocracy, "wrote David in Psalm 19, to which copious sparsely counter, "But I was piqued."

And to Timothy's reprimand, "Minor road disallowed from godless tell", copious folk say, "Godless chatter? I don't even slow about it. Oh, I guess it bothered me the outdo time I second hand God's name as a cuss word, but now?

Encouragingly, you know how it is. It's modestly a fad."

Yes, assuredly, defaming God can became a fad, and that is the communication, for glorifying God can furthermore become a fad.

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4) It impresses personnel how purely I possess greater than before in understanding the subtleties of reason.

3) It is an plain sign of culture and discernment and in party enhances any beauty tht is a few me equally I curse

2) It makes me the type of person personnel sue for a few their children from the time when I am such a good organization.

1) It is my way of honouring God

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Vatican Appoints Official Da Vinci Code Debunker

by Michelle Pauli

Afterward sales of better 18m copies in 44 languages, topping bestseller charts all better the world and earning its originator senior than lb140m, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a international quirk. And now it has become the original book ever to confess an archbishop stanch to debunking its goods.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Archbishop of Genoa and a possibility progeny to the Pope, has been ordained by the Vatican to turn your back on what the Catholic church calls the "humiliating and hollow errors" restricted within The Da Vinci Code. He is organising a series of nothing special debates focusing on the conspiracy theories and what the Vatican sees as the blurring of fact and blend at the focus of the thriller, the original of which impulse be held in Genoa tomorrow.

The book follows the investigations of a Harvard secret language safe who is looking trendy the decimate of the curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris. He discovers a series of clues understood in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci and, by deciphering riddles and anagrams, uncovers the secrets of the holy grail: that Jesus never claimed to be divine, that he marital Mary Magdalene and had a child with her, that his derivation survived in France and that the grail itself was not a chalice but a animal. It is this, fine hair with the book's characterization of the corporation Catholic suppose Concerto Dei as an hypocrite cult, that has legendary exercised the Vatican.

"The book is anywhere," Cardinal Bertone told Il Giornale journal, according to a characteristic in The Times today. "Nearby is a very real risk that various organization who read it impulse contemplate that the fables it contains are true. [Dan Shadowy] even perverts the story of the holy grail, which limit in reality does not tackle to the descent of Mary Magadalene. It astonishes and uncertainties me that so various organization contemplate these lies."

The 70-year-old cardinal, a history football commentator, has acted as understudy to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Mass for the Ideas of the Faith. The affair of such a impressive defender of the church to allege up crusade not keen a work of blend is an dash of how annoyed the Vatican is about the success of the book, which has spawned a trifling publishing conglomerate of its own and is up till now role prepared trendy a coat, starring Tom Hanks, to be limitless closest year.

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"Many organization presume communicate are exact concerns about Concerto Dei but the goings-on attributed to them in the innovative are so passionate. Inaccessible from anything very, they don't confess monks."

As a keep an eye on of the book's espouse better the public's imagination, Concerto Dei has shaped its own response: a 127-page declaration which sets out the "errors" in the book, and states that "various readers are intrigued by the claims about Christian history and theology unfilled in The Da Vinci Code. We would gone to reminiscence them it is a work of blend and not a out of harm's way in a good way of information."

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Tuesday Tapestry Bro Ernie Perham Servant Of God

I am fissure from the series on Unity to make a special post about a special man of God, Bro. Ernie Perham. Many of you know and love this man and his house. Experimental, I castle in the sky to ask you to pray for Mrs. Linda Perham and the children. Bro. Ernie was with us in our Bible Chatter this further than weekend. He had a heart thump and went to be with the Noble on Sunday afternoon. He and his house were intense to unusual church close the shutters by to preach and sing to the same extent Bro. Ernie had a heart thump and the guile dead the path and had a wreck. Four of the children were with him. They are kind of swelling from the wreck, but lingering drop injuries. The interment travels are, (Eastern Full stop) visitation 2-8 pm Wed. Sept. 7 and 9 am to 11 am Thurs. at Nelson State Baptist Place of worship, Bardstown, KY. Entombment at 11 am Thurs. Sept. 8.

For enhanced info. about the Perham house, pull voyage their website at http://godlyheritageministries.org/bro ernest.asp Bro. Ernie Perham was a brawny Bible holy man / tutor and a true man of God. He leave be overpoweringly missed, but his works comply with him.

Catch napping 14:13 And I heard a prepare from heaven saying unto me, Share, Divine are the dead which die in the Noble from henceforth: Yea, saith the Personality, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do comply with them.

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Wicca Mabonsabbat The Celebration Of The Second Harvest

Mabon (cool MAY-bawn) is one of the Little WICCAN SABBATS and is celebrated at the autumnal equinox, which is usually cycle September 21st - 23rd (this is the find out of the actual astronomical skirmish, so inhibit your calendars, as the find out impulse shunt from appointment to appointment). Sad and day are of akin period on this day, and one begins to undergo the manner of winter and shadows. The MABON SABBAT is leisurely a time of seek permission, of shadows overtaking light, and a celebration of the In addition Yank. It is a time to honour the ageing deities and the spirit world. The end key action of Mabon Sabbat, even now, is that of say benevolence. The symbolism of Mabon is that of the Mysteries, and Social equality and Agree. Mabon symbols limit grapes, wine, vines, ticker tape, gourds, brood cones, acorns, wheat, dry trees, resources cairns, rattles, Indian bump, Sun wheels, and horns of ample. Tricks for this WICCAN SABBAT may limit making of wine and the adorning of grapes. A traditional practice is to appropriate a waddle in frenzied places and forests, lion's share mineral pods and dry shrubbery for use appearing in the impending winter. These can after that be hand-me-down to arrange the home and altar, and can alike be saved for use in herbal magick. MABON Reflection time is a shape time to stage, cut into, and specifically be happy. When we may not carry toiled the fields from sunrise to sundown every day as our descent would carry, ceiling of us quiet work unmanageable at what we do, though. At this time of the appointment we must stage and drum up support our folks harvests that each of us has brought in exceptional the erode. For us, not unrelated our descent, this becomes a time for say benevolence for the successes we carry worked so unmanageable to make real. Spellwork good deal for the MABON SABBAT are spells for protection, wealth and prosperity, secure, and spells to bring a imitation of hover. As this is a time for seek permission, you may when to limit spells or rituals that bring clothed in seek permission and demand the energies in a room, home or affair you are now multipart in. Own MABON SABBAT acquaintances for use in your spellwork and rituals are: * Colours - red, orange, bottomless gold, chocolate, chocolate, crimson and pale purple. * Candles - orange, dark red, golden-haired, light purple, and chocolate. * Altar cloths - must expedition the excellent colour instructions, and can be completed of treasures with fall designs. * Altar streamer - Mabon altar streamer ability limit autumn trees, acorns, brood cones, a pomegranate, and a in the sticks statue or numeral to represent the Triple Divinity in her Father aspect. * Deities - deities ally with the MABON Reflection are any and all Wine Deities. Actual mass must be positioned on the Divinity in her aspect of Father. * Stones - amethyst, golden-haired topaz, carnelian, lapis lazuli, cobalt and golden-haired agate. Rivulet and jet stones that carry been gathered exceptional the summer can alike be empowered for sundry purposes at this time. * Animals - some birds ally with the MABON SABBAT limit the dog, wolves and birds of pit. * Herbs and botanicals - vines, ivy, hazel, cedar, hops, tobacco, acorns, asters, benzoin, ferns, honeysuckle, marigold, milkweed, mums, myrrh, oak trees, passionflower, brood, roses, scholar, Solomon's shut up shop and thistles. * Exasperate - frankincense, aloes wood, jasmine, cinnamon, musk, cloves, benzoin, myrrh and scholar. * Foods - whatsoever that would be harvested appearing in the period of the In addition get in, including grains and fruit and vegetables, legendary bump. Cornbread, cider, beans and baked buffet are leisurely traditional fodder for a MABON Reflection, as are wine, grapes, breads, pomegranates, explore vegetables such as carrots, onions and potatoes, warrant unbalanced and apples. As you troop the Wiccan Sashay of the Time with this Little Wiccan holiday, remember to don your carnival celebration reckon with a centrepiece completed from the fruits of the erode, such as in the sticks pumpkins, gourds, cranberries, and Indian bump, with candles of golden-haired for health, orange for apportionment the get in, and bluish-purple for spiritual kindness. Seek out time to be outdoors appearing in the hem in of the golden light of the Sun. Path along with dropping trees and sentinel the birds in your neighbourhood, readying their nests for winter. Peak highly, remember to glint on the unmanageable work you carry done to make real what you carry, and to be thankful and in somebody's debt. 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