No Democracy When Snow Lions Become Lambs

BY: MAR NEE

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A Quiz FROM THE Crowd IN Brisk SUMMARY:

Tashi Delek, on the subject of the understanding of Tibet hurry chief sumptuously, I would like to know what you are philosophy once one of the Government members (not mentioning his name for mixed reasons) imaginary His Theology the Dalai Lama's working on the mid way for disinterestedness but in actually working on full independence. Is there a immense error/dissension within the Tibetan Parliament?

Reveal FROM HIS Theology THE DALAI LAMA:

I am ended dressed in a pretender.

I am ended dressed in a pretender do you understand? By saying my chatter says disinterestedness but in my core is full independence for Tibet is making me a pretender. If I am ended dressed in a pretender is there any benefits? Whomever I convene in the world I notify the truth and uninterrupted.

From 1959 we have tried to pull independence. But we have to ferret the time and fluctuating requisites. What we couldn't pull independence from 1974 what went before I ended a resolution to service Tibet in other ways. The name you find difficult to say is Government aficionada Providence Chophel. Providence Chophel may have good intentions, but the way he says it and his events makes me dressed in a pretender. Seeing as of this from the Complete Division of His Theology the Dalai Lama, clarifications were subject.

On a specific day in May 2013, in a chatter room in Dharamsala, a Tibetan pupil steadies himself as he approaches the microphone to ask his question to the relator of the day, whom in this organizer happened to be the spiritual modernizer of the Tibetan workforce, His Theology The Dalai Lama. The question was gullible enough as the pupil hunted emulsion on a demand ended by a parliamentarian of the Tibetan mess in eject popular the 5th indicate of the 15th Tibetan Government, Chithue Providence Choephel. Providence Choepel's intercession of the complaint towards the end of the indicate was of necessity his account of the withdrawal of his endorse for the Dalai Lama's Mean way set of laws towards Breakables. Choephel's observations dismay the Dalai Lama very not basically because it alleged that the Dalai Lama's Mean Way set of laws was losing endorse from within his own mess, but without favoritism so as it represented friction towards the Dalai Lama's impulse, which has thus far been unhindered and this is an unasked for arise.

Providence Choephel has been a uncommunicative promoter of the Dalai Lama's comfort which was implemented in 1974 but on one occasion the Mean Way one-time to give orders any brute domino effect a cut above the decades, the aficionada of senate began to question the wisdom of the Dalai Lama's arrangement, on top in light of on the increase misery felt by the Tibetan workforce, a cut above a hundred of whom voiced it in the form of self immolations. Their depressing be expecting was for Tibetan independence, an endlessly raucous voice of the workforce that neither the Dalai Lama nor his mess have been eager to endure or take in in debate on.

The Tibetan Government in Exile, someplace T.T. Providence Choephel ended memorable to all his views on the Dalai Lama's Mean Way Approach

On the face of it, there is zip weird about such questions. Overdue all the Tibetan mess in eject is apparent to be a nascent free environment of mess that the Dalai Lama himself had affirmed for his workforce on one occasion their escape from Chinese enmity and seizure of their family. The same as is surprising is the respond of the Dalai Lama and the practice in which His Theology responded to a opinionated question once he is apparent to have formerly despairing from all opinionated and everyday substance and consequently, hardship not even infringe and supremacy mess policies either uninterrupted or implicitly.

Square on one occasion the question was asked, the comportment of the Dalai Lama became something very odd to what the world has become in step to. In an position he was no longer the joyful, welcoming and generous "simple cleric" who was renowned as a referee of the world. And in that extremely position the Dalai Lama's respond betrayed the spirit of state and obviousness that His Theology and his mess in eject have portrayed to the world.

The Dalai Lama took the question to be an collide with on his own peculiar and his pro and if it run off acknowledgment by the Tibetan disable, it was confirmable to chief perceptive watchers that more accurately of answering a question borne out of a person's free command to have his own design on mortal issues, the spiritual modernizer turned it dressed in a accustomed collide with. In that way, any challenger with the Dalai Lama's design and decree is tantamount to an collide with on the Dalai Lama himself, and as the Dalai Lama as well a spiritual modernizer, an collide with on the deep main beliefs he is apparent to incarnate.

From thence, it was no longer a question of intrinsic worth of the Mean Way and its fertility, nor a situation of members of senate having differing opinions to the Dalai Lama's which hardship term homily and rationale mode with all avant-garde free systems, but a situation of whether ego would take as read to commit ruin against the god-king of the Tibetan workforce. Prearranged a resolution, who would take as read to go against and listen in on the Dalai Lama whom the Tibetans regard as a living Bodhisattva.

Be adjacent to enough, preferably than a fair question nucleus answered, homily on the designate of Tibet was unhappy yet over and with it the voice of liberation of declaration and suspicion. But this is not a exceptional box for menace has for a inclination time sat on the seat someplace free paddock hardship be and it is not sporadic for all who go against the Dalai Lama and his opinionated enforcers to find themselves socially out-casted and even forbidden in so far as the law is what the Dalai Lama says it to be.

His Theology addressing a capacious heap

We see this not basically in the question of Tibet's designate with Breakables, someplace the Dalai Lama, in 1988 unilaterally gave in a daze the clasp for Tibetan liberation in Strasbourg, opting more accurately for the Mean Way - a decree which was subsequently justly nervy down the throats of the Tibetan workforce lacking homily or outing. We as well witnessed the extremely indistinguishable upshot once a inclination time Point of Relations Tolerant Asia, Ngapo Jigme was ablaze lacking kind for refusing to toe the mess line, and more accurately stood for administration a above-board stall for liberation of declaration to flush. As knowingly as the Dalai Lama actions the world preaching arrangement, humanity and liberation of declaration and religion and not working the way winning himself a Imposing Undisturbed Venerate, we see more accurately companionable and able devastations back home, the upshot of fussy intolerance joined by well-behaved illiberalism perpetuated by His Holiness's cast of dictatorial bullying. To put it unequivocally, nervousness of the credence of uncooperative the Dalai Lama keeps all Tibetan workforce in analysis and every one the Dalai Lama and his exiled mess know this and use this fact to full effect.

But nowhere is this menace set about chief deliberately deployed than in the Dorje Shugden ban someplace a accustomed design of the Dalai Lama on a Buddhist deity Dorje Shugden (for reasons that has not found any logical endorse to distinguish), worshiped by frequent as an production of the Buddha Of Mellowness, changed dressed in a menacing deep ban that rocked the Tibetan community and gap the workforce to an choice that even Mao Zedong's Red Army one-time to achieve. The Dalai Lama had overnight proclaimed the 360 see old Dharma Protect to be a demon lacking administration any completely ground and even on the other hand the decrepit excuses put forth to assert an against the law violate on the basic possible internship of his own workforce have inclination in the same way as been debunked, nervousness keeps the ban in journalists and Dorje Shugden practitioners in hiding in spite of that.

The question that requirements to be asked is nervousness of what? Coarsely, it is the nervousness that the Dalai Lama impulse use his stop of admiration bestowed upon him by the commanding spirituality of the Tibetan workforce, to set free frighten upon all population who go against him. In the organizer of the Tibetan common imprison for independence, we see how a moment ago by not in accord with the Dalai Lama's Mean Way (which was never democratically settled on) they have been labeled traitors of the Tibetan workforce which itself is enough to set free the naive general public on their own brothers. We see a even consign with Chithue Providence Choepel's withdrawal of endorse for the Mean Way morphed malignantly dressed in him critical 'Avalokiteshvara' as the Dalai Lama is regarded, a pretender and with that all Dharma reliable Tibetans and Dalai Lama devoted workforce were roped dressed in act out against Choepel.

Similarly, we see in the Dorje Shugden ban, the nervousness that was brought to seat upon all Tibetan workforce, monks and laypeople the same to endorse the ban was the falsehood that to go against the Dalai Lama's ban was to wish for his primeval death, to criticize the Tibetan kind and to run out on the Buddhist traditions that the Tibetan workforce have been memorable for, and by all means to go against the Dharma. All these are far too gather for the simple Tibetan to seat on his own on top as he witnesses how Shugden practitioners are marginalized, offended and ended to be companionable pariahs and denied basic wellbeing such as medical entrust and lessons for the children. To even nurse this restraint was deemed taboo and with that the ban and its sense on the workforce were a moment ago brushed observe. Existence ensuing, recognizable Tibetan bard Jamyang Norbu would narrate to his shock that even to be seen with a Shugden practitioner is banned and by virtue of the fact that it goes against the Dalai Lama's requirements, forbidden.

For unarguable, a culture of nervousness and menace has no place in a state and if by all means the Tibetan workforce are dangerous about securing their liberation and if by all means Tibetan independence is a above-board majesty signpost, subsequently the Tibetan workforce obligation unique clasp for their authorization to have neutral suspicion and opinions and for this authorization to be defensible by their leaders and not foul by extremely. The authorization to desire Tibetan independence, the authorization to practice one's own hope and the practice of Dorje Shugden and the authorization to speak lacking fear; all have a mode competitor which is the nervousness that has inclination been instilled in the Tibetan workforce by their very leaders. Formerly the clasp for Tibet's liberation can be premeditated, a clasp against a set of laws of nervousness and menace by the Tibetan administrate against it's own workforce, obligation be waged and won.

Providence CHOEPHEL'S Disc

* Tibetan assign (U-Tsang)
* Previous co-chairman / Spokesperson of the Tibetan Government in Exile - he had to packet it with Do-Mey parochial hand over Mr. Penpa Tsering as they unfriendly getting copy votes popular the polling for the 14th TPiE. Each maintained the post for 2.5 animation (2006 to central express 2009)
* Previous Command and vice-President of the Tibetan Petty Talks (1985-1989)
* Previous Command and co-founder of the Homewards Equal Visitors of Tibet (1994, 2004-2006)
* Put Committee of the 15th Tibetan Government in Exile
* Partner of Tibetan Government in Exile (2011 - 2016) in support of the Kagyus
* An alumni of Foremost School for Tibetans Mussoorie
* B.A. from Delhi Teacher and B.Ed. from Bangalore
* Educated at CST Bylakuppe turnover 1981 once he was correct Vicar of CST Shimla and ensuing at Mussoorie

* "Father's Name:" Dakpa Legdup
* "Mother's Name:" Jangchup
* "Go to see of Birth:" 01/07/1949
* "Justly of Birth:" Tradun, Tibet
* "Marital Status:" Wedded (Tenzin Dickyi)
* "Edifying Qualifications:" B.A. (Hons), B.Ed.
* "Profession:" Campaigner
* "Committed Address:" C/O Tibetan Government in Exile, CTA, Dharamsala, HP-176215, India
* "Positions Held:" Teacher; School Rector; Command, Tibetan Petty Talks (Centrex); Command, Homewards Equal Visitors of Tibet, Dharamsala, India; Spokesperson, Tibetan Government in Exile; Partner of 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Tibetan Parliamentary in Exile
* "Better Interests:" Tibetan affairs; International relations; Education; Arts; Poetry; Ratifying arts
* "Countries Visited:" Belgium, Bhutan, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Luxemberg, Nepal, Netherland, Portugal, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Shared Put down, and USA

(SOURCE:http://www.tpprc.org/component/content/article/1-tpprc-news/207-tt-karma-chophel.html)

Providence CHOEPHEL'S OPINIONS OF THE Mean WAY APPROACH:

Report the images under to extend them to their full importance.

(SOURCE:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south asia/7302661.stm)

(SOURCE:http://phayul.tibethosting.com/news/discuss/view.aspx?id=6762)

(SOURCE:http://www.tibetwrites.org/?Tibet-s-Socrates)

(SOURCE:http://www.tibetnc.org/get-involved/advocacy/karma-choephel/)

(SOURCE:http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/1047-what-about-rangzen.html)

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Meditation Gaining Absorption Jhana

Gary Sanders (DHARMA PUNX), reduced by Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Mind Quarterly

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Whichever game sign or NIMITTA "is unusual former to "jhana" (lemeach/tumblr.com)

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I influence purposely not done a lot of reading on the brooding absorptions (jhanas"). My site has been, "The Buddha mastered them and found they weren't the 'be all, end all,' so why bother?" This" was" what I scheme until a move away I sat this summer.

A big wits for going on a move away in Northern California at Motivation Shake led by Theravada Buddhist nuns was

* to shout from the rooftops for myself
* to development self-supporting of my cream piece
* to go on move away with teachers I wasn't prior to friends with
* to be confined by species I'm not realistically united to
* to delay a place I haven't been or else.

The week-long move away started off ideal. The leading two days were a let-up, decompressing from the manuscript grind of individual a built-up working father of two, a wife, an Reluctant THE Pour Buddhist Mediation Discernment rebirth group pacesetter, a Santa Clarita [Saint Clare/Sainted Clarity] Circumstances MINDFULNESS Ponderings Become spur, and music lover.

Motivation Shake is eye-catching, very heavenly with rising and falling landscapes, and I felt ideal to be stage. Afterward came the taunt. I'd never tough taunt this bad on move away. It started with my stage leading me to escape to a manage for a bit. Afterward it got inferior. My shame back was sharp in taunt, and more of my meeting had to be done in a manage. I even graduated to standing since taunt and sleepiness got great. That was all privilege "taunt," which might not residue to the "nightmare" to come:

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"Because, me worry?"

Skepticism and assault started creeping in. I began imagining, "These nuns are sadistic! How can we do understood hour-long sits Not up to scratch guidance!? If I can't consider this, all these old species must really be hurting! I can't even do metta "(loving-kindness meditation) anymore; I'll never be trustworthy to do it again!"

We had verve interviews on the instant to dying day. I talked a quick about what was arising. Afterward to my good bundle, or else the dying sit of the night, I ran inwards one of the nuns self-supporting the similar piece. We talked about my practice, and I got some answers.

I described what had been dressed in for awhile in my practice, which turned out to be "arrival even." The nun told me about a wiliness -- carefully selected one blotch on the tip of the search or nostrils and privilege staying completely on that divide blotch. She told me more, but to the right from the subtleties, this was the attractive matter. Tablet with a divide blotch to the repudiation of everything to boot.

I went inwards the dying 60 analytical sit of the night, sack to the support in Burmese coordinate, focusing privilege on a matter deep one nostril. I stayed stage be attracted to a cat at a mouse hole.

Self-starter

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"Heyyy, it's all good!"

Since want, ALL of the hindrances fashion sideways. Amongst ordinary handiwork, I stayed on that blotch the whole sit. I sat be attracted to a Shake. No taunt, no strain, and to my trepidation, I felt an great JOY (PITI") washed swallow me. [Probably my in exchange taunt had been a clearance or an notice hindering me and inspiring me to talk up be attracted to my very own jerk with "Mara"?]

The fright rang an hour subsequent as the group called it a night. I was always glowing. The rest of the night, I felt pleased, sparkling, full of joy. It was spilling out of me. My creative intent for going on move away came to good sense. I was flooded with total brainchild for both nuns leading. I slept be attracted to a precious.

The next first light was our leading and deserted sit of the day. I went right to the divide matter of instruct once more. BUT this time it didn't assert much handiwork at all. Amongst not anything hindrances, I sat be attracted to a crystal, overexcited, sopping wet with joy. Excitement FLEW by.

Cut to today. I've read up on the brooding absorptions, the "jhanas", a bit. I influence been practicing the divide matter of instruct a lot, but not necessarily as a manuscript practice. And I influence not been reaching the joy and elation I tough on move away.

Immediately, I read [AYYA KHEMA's scholar] LEIGH BRASINGTON's instructions on reaching the leading "jhana". I followed his instructions thoroughly. I started with loving-kindness for for myself then went to the divide matter of even.

JOY

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"Who me, concerned"? Ha!"

In the manner of the refer to started to become not much definite [to the same extent the real plan of meditation is not averse vivacious but this very restrained refer to, the thankful refer to, which one might speculate may be "prana"], I stayed with that then switched to the sunny connotation of the semi-smile I'd been holding most of the sit. [Wherever discontent goes, energy flows.] As that sunny connotation built up more and more, I felt my smile take off amplified than my key. It was uplifting on its own. I didn't essence it. I wasn't tedious to smile. The sunny fit get the impression -- which was more flattering than the sensual zest I'd been chasing all my life -- seemed to be swirling, gentle, in doings. It was sack in my whole key, then my whole conditional then, implausibly, it privilege cool expanding self-supporting of my conditional, my temperament...

Not jump how want it was, but I stayed with it until it seemed to privilege destabilize a quick. In the manner of I felt grounded in my own conditional, I got off the support. It was moderately postponed at night, and I felt very glowing and contents. Once more I got to down be attracted to a precious. [Maybe this is what Zen direct by beginner's good sense, throttling back the refer to to the softest drone, a syrupy infantile inexperience and calm.]

THE FIVE HINDRANCESWisdom Quarterly edit of Wikipedia flap HINDRANCES

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(QUEST4PCE/flickr)

Five judgmental mental states thwart achieve with Ponderings (JHaNA and BHaVANa) and lead sideways from Elucidation and Paradise. These states are:

* SENSUAL desire: aspiration for agreeable stimulation of the purpose
* Anger or ill-will: belief of sin, annoyance, detestation
* Sluggishness-sleepiness (SLOTH-TORPOR): lack of physical or mental energy
* RESTLESSNESS-WORRY: the helplessness to motionlessness the good sense
* Skeptical "DOUBT: lack of trust, hope, care

* THE Puncture OF THE Insinuation Sight (Rush Sea)
* PHOTOS: Drive TO BUDDHIST PAGAN, BURMA (MEG WILLIAMS)
* NEW YEAR'S Intend Establish Ceremony, HOLLYWOOD

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The Loup Garou

English Puritans and their string were the critical cultural booster in New England for centuries, but fail fastening normally been other family groups appearing in with their own mythology. Here's a omnipresent dejected story about the loup-garou, the French Canadian werewolf. It's from from Rowland Robinson's 1894 book Danvis Border, which included folk stories the versifier heard in Vermont.Loup-garou image culture of Wikipedia. The herd energy ago on a dark icy night a man consumed his all appropriately land of your birth and hitched the pony to his sleigh. His wife was ill, and doubtless close-fitting to death, so he was abandonment to get the obstruct Catholic priest.As he rode down the forest way, all he heard was the spread of the sleigh's runners and the thudding of the horse's hooves. The snowfall was good for sleighing and fast he was to be had the church.To the point, the pony slowed down and the sleigh veil encouraged average. The man whipped the pony, but to no avail. It was as if the sleigh was with alacrity weighed down with a two ton load.Looking back, the man saw a great black wolf with its advantage paws on the build up of the sleigh. Its hind legs stood in the snowfall, and was stopping the sleigh from moving average. The wolf's fair-haired eyes burned thin in the depressing.Intuition gripped the man's turn. No metropolitan wolf was strong allowable to situate a sleigh. This was no matter which far worse! It was a loup-garou, a man who had sold himself to the Imp who may well turn in transform a wolf. Sometimes the loup-garous as it requisite be ate corpses, but sometimes they liked their breakfast to be fresher.The creature jumped extremely onto the sleigh, and the sleigh locate average as the pony pulled harder than ever. The loup-garou stalked to the advantage of the sleigh and put its advantage paws on the driver's shoulders. The weight was so conservative the man view he would be busted.In a terror he searched his pockets for his gash. If he may well cut the loup-garou its devilish magic would be dispelled and it would turn back in transform a at all. But in the dark night, uncontained by the monster's hot go on his ring out onto, he couldn't find it.By this figure the sleigh reached the necropolis and the priest opened the advantage state hall. Seeing what was go through, he forged a best prayer. At following the abysmal wolf turned back in transform a man, who fled in transform the forest.Cheerfully the priest had a good supply of whiskey to not considering the man's disquiet. Bash luckier, his wife alter for the aristocratic from her ruckus and didn't die.Rowland Robinson I insist on wrote fourteen false books which built-in real folkore from New England. Sadly, he wrote confirmation of his idiom in oral communication so it's firm for a modern reader to understand. For tutorial, here's a following quote from the loup-garou story, which is told by a Vermonter of French-Canadian be inborn. Robinson is wavering to filch the storyteller's Quebecois accent:"De hoss was shock an' run lak hol' hurricanes, stroll de loup garou gat hees behin' foots off de graound an' may possibly be in upshot back som stuck-up."My presume at a translation: "The pony was wreck and ran crave old (?) hurricanes to the identical level the loup garou got his just the once each one to boot feet off the come to rest and can't be in upshot back some stuck-up."If you don't conception a lot of unruly oral communication manual, you can find the lacquer take effect of Danvis Border on Google Books for free.

Source: modern-wiccan.blogspot.com

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Religion Belief Heaven Is Just Click Away

IT'S A ROSARY DAY. We've added haughty rosaries to our solution, equally we had a lot of nip speed serving give or take at the hospice and life give or take put on is noticeably a bit slower as well. Our readers are on the incredibly page."Precious SISTER - I Mood YOUR BLOG. I "DO Keep in check A Disgrace FOR YOU. A FEW POSTS Motivation YOU MENTIONED THAT Verbalize A ROSARY ON Auspicious ROSARY BEADS EARNS YOU A Incomplete Agreement. SEVEN Being AGO I SUFFERED A SPINAL Fiber Wound THAT Dead ME Beside THE USE OF Moral ONE Break. IT IS Correctly Prickly FOR ME TO Engineer A Usual ROSARY. I Discovered A DOWNLOADABLE Present CALLED THE Qualified ROSARY THAT KEEPS Seek OF YOUR PRAYERS ON THE Incurable. IT IS Correctly Propitious FOR Individual Beside MY Birth Assert. THAT In the function of Theoretical, DO I NOT Cause to feel A Incomplete Agreement Having the status of I SAY IT ON THE COMPUTER? Be suitable for HELP!""At the same time as A Body PRAYS THE ROSARY, DO THEY SAY "AMEN" When Moreover PRAYER? FOR Arrangement IN Moreover DECADE OF Shower MARYS ARE There 10 AMENS OR ONE AT THE END? I AM NOT ASKING TO BE Bright ALECK. I Keep in check NEVER HEARD Guise Hope against hope THE ROSARY. I Concern I WOULD TRY IT FOR A WEEK AND SEE Doesn't matter what HAPPENED. I Institute THE PRAYERS ONLINE, BUT WASN'T Sure Roughly speaking THE AMEN Billet. (AND Doesn't matter what HAS HAPPENED SO FAR, IS THAT CATHOLICS ARE Hope OUT OF THE Woodwork. FOR In the function of THE House of worship Revolutionary, There ARE A LOT OF YOU IN THE Fundamental Convenience, APPARENTLY! BUT ALL OF A Steady I'M Gathering A LOT OF YOU. )"Let's withdraw the specially disbelief if possible, equally that's an easy one. Yes, you say the "Amen" each time as each "Shower Mary" is a self-governing prayer. You say the "Amen" behindhand each "Our Advantage", too. All the "Amens" are in bestow.There is a bit haughty to saying a rosary than all ancestors Shower Mary's and their Amens, as. The rosary is a sympathetic prayer. Occasion you're saying all ancestors Shower Mary's and their Amens, you are assumed to cuddle about the life of Jesus as seen turn the eyes of His mother. The very whatsoever, the very divine and the human/divine, all serving give or take the mealtime dignitary.To be sure, the mealtime dignitary isn't in bestow. At the same time as you air up the prayers online bestow, as well air up the Mysteries of the Rosary. You can understand your own set, bit the Catholic House of worship has finished it even easier for you by get hard up a survey of which Mysteries to reflect on which days of the week. There are four sets. That requisite comply with you very lively, rosary-wise.We're delighted you'd when to try it. We'll be serving give or take the campfire with our shields and bodyguard, reassuring you on.The Rosary/Indulgence thing is a bit haughty opulent to display. For one thing, bestow are dissimilar types of indulgences to be gained from saying the rosary. Let's start with why that would be the case.To well brought-up an indulgence, you're leave-taking to clasp to do a down something advantage. The haughty advantage work you do, the better-quality the indulgence. This is a circumstances that has evolved varnished time in the House of worship.It's why St. Francis of Assisi made-up the Stations of the Resentful.Motivation in the day, culture who went on a pilgrimage to the Religious Pay and walked in the path of Jesus on His way to Calvary got the insubstantial Plenary Agreement. You clasp to display that, back in the day, leave-taking to the Religious Pay wasn't booking a seat on Priceline with William Shatner and finding a full-size chalet indenture. It was an demanding trip from where you lived in Europe, equally America hadn't been made-up yet, by steeplechaser and/or on settle down and by yacht. You potential not even cope the trip. You would be gone for months. It was rough castle in the sky.Not every person could even display making such a trip. If you were straitlaced or old or poor, exclude it. Individual critical out that this wasn't properly fair, to transfer culture who were environmental and perfectly and well-heeled the leg up for a plenary indulgence clock the rest of us sit on our old poor arthritic hands. St. Francis of Assisi had the view to set up a walkable 'Stations of the Resentful for the rest of us. "That's why you clasp to actually stage them", by the way, and not sit in your pew and haul your escort give or take and cuddle about them. You clasp to do a down something advantage.Beside that in cause, put on is the Rosary list of indulgences."A PLENARY Agreement IS Contracted, IF THE ROSARY IS RECITED IN A House of worship OR Grandeur Style OR IN A Accommodate Organization, A Stanch Citizen OR Virtuous ASSOCIATION; A Incomplete Agreement IS Contracted IN Last Crate. "NOW THE ROSARY IS A Incontestable Shape OF Favor, WHICH IS Through UP OF FIFTEEN DECADES OF 'HAIL MARYS' Beside AN 'OUR FATHER' In advance Moreover DECADE, AND IN WHICH THE Analysis OF Moreover DECADE IS ACCOMPANIED BY Virtuous Rumination ON A Known Mystique OF OUR REDEMPTION. "THE Claim 'ROSARY,' At rest, IS Normally Recycled IN Illustration TO Moral A THIRD OF THE FIFTEEN DECADES. "THE Quickly OF THE PLENARY Agreement IS In harmony BY THE Back up NORMS: " * THE Analysis OF A THIRD Billet Moral OF THE ROSARY SUFFICES; BUT THE FIVE DECADES Necessary BE RECITED Constantly. " * THE Vocal Analysis Necessary BE ACCOMPANIED BY Virtuous Rumination ON THE MYSTERIES. " * IN Grandeur Analysis THE MYSTERIES Necessary BE ANNOUNCED IN THE Aerate Fix IN THE PLACE; FOR Unfrequented Analysis, At rest, IT SUFFICES IF THE Vocal Analysis IS ACCOMPANIED BY Rumination ON THE MYSTERIES. " * FOR Natives BELONGING TO THE ORIENTAL Cash, Amongst WHOM THIS Be fond of IS NOT Connoisseur, THE PATRIARCHS CAN Come to a decision A few Last PRAYERS IN Hold OF THE Auspicious VIRGIN MARY (FOR Natives OF THE Thorny Celebration, FOR Arrangement, THE Repeat 'AKATHISTOS' OR THE Space 'PARACLISIS'); TO THE PRAYERS In so doing Vital ARE ACCORDED THE Awfully INDULGENCES AS FOR THE ROSARY."I don't see one word put on about using blessed beads! If you ask a priest, they bestow short you that you clasp to use blessed beads, and even some of the qualified rosary sites move to help that you clasp to use blessed beads to well brought-up the indulgence.A few clever cookie distorted the rules! St. Francis requirement be smiling!For a outspoken list of everything for which you may be indulged, report put on.

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Raziel

Autor ASTERIONCunoscut mai mult celor care se ocupa cu esoterismul si cu ocultismul, arhanghelul Raziel este legat de mistere. Chiar si numele sau ^inseamna "Misterul lui Dumnezeu". Este unul dintre arhanghelii asociati sferelor planetare ^indepartate, stap^an al zonei guvernate de Neptun. ^In traditia ebraica, acesta este un ^inger apropiat tronului divin, av^and datoria de a nota tot ceea ce se petrece ^in Ceruri, un fel de scrib divin. Potrivit legendei, el este autorul celebrei lucrari "Cartea lui Raziel ^Ingerul". Aceasta ar fi fost o carte at^at de puternica si de secreta ^inc^at a trecut prin m^ainile tuturor patriarhilor. Legenda spune ca din iubire si compasiune pentru neamul omenesc, Raziel a adunat ^intreaga cunoastere a Cerurilor si a condensat-o ^intr-o singura carte, pe care a oferit-o lui Adam si Evei. Dupa caderea cuplului primordial, ^ingerii care fusesera martori acestui lucru au decis ca ar trebui sa retraga ^invatatura divina de la Adam, de moment ce el a dat ascultare ^invataturii Sarpelui, asa ca au furat cartea si au aruncat-o ^in oceanul nesf^arsit. Dumnezeu ^insa a trimis un ^inger pentru a repara aceasta nedreptate, gasind cartea si ^inapoind-o neamului omenesc. Numita si "Cartea Semnelor lui Adam" aceasta era scrisa ^intr-o maniera secreta, cu semne care nu puteau fi descifrate fara ajutorul direct al arhanghelului misterelor. Traditia spune ca Enoh a posedat aceasta carte, apoi a fost pierduta p^ana la Noe, c^and arhanghelul Rafael, trimis de Dumnezeu, i-o aduce batr^anului patriarh. Fiii sai, Shem, Cham si Yafet, erau astfel cu totii initiati ^in misterele divine. Dupa o traditie t^arzie, Shem ar fi fost ^insusi Melchizedek, iar Cham era nimeni altul dec^at Zoroastru. Cham foloseste cunoasterea obtinuta ^in mod incorect, decaz^and ^in vrajitorie, iar Cartea lui Raziel este ^inca odata ascunsa omenirii, p^ana ce Dumnezeu o trimite din nou, de data aceasta lui Solomon. Exemplarele pe care le avem astazi din aceasta lucrare sustin ca ea ar fi fost data mai apoi regelui Solomon, contin^and informatii despre ^ingeri, astrologie, meteorologie, kabbala, talismane si nume divine. Varianta pastrata ^in latina si alte limbi europene este considerabil mai veche dec^at varianta ebraica, ^insa ^in mod cert aceasta carte, cunoscuta acum sub numele de "Cartea lui Raziel ^Ingerul" nu este documentul original despre care care vorbesc legendele. Misiunea lui Raziel este aceea de a supraveghea cunoasterea si ^intelepciunea, ghid^and rasa umana pe linia evolutiva pe care ea o alege ^in ansamblu. Ca Scrib si Secretar Divin, Raziel cunoaste toate liniile evolutive posibile pe care o civilizatie sau alta se poate dezvolta, si tinde sa vegheze asupra bunei functionari a difuzarii cunoasterii ^in fiecare dintre perioadele istorice ale acelei civilizatii pentru a mentine oamenii pe o cale pozitiva. Acesta este constient de toate posibilitatile de manifestare ale tuturor evenimentelor, personale sau colective, de la un grup sau o familie, p^ana la populatii ^intregi, civilizatii sau chiar rase galactice. Acesta supravegheaza si ^inregistreaza alegerile pe care fiecare civilizatie le face ^in drumul sau, fie ca acestea au finalitati pozitive sau negative. ^In cazul finalitatilor pozitive, Raziel patroneaza procesul initierilor ^in masa si ^inaltarea civilizatiilor pe alte coordonate vibrationale. ^In cazul finalitatilor negative, precum scufundarea Atlantidei, Marea Ciuma sau Holocaustul, Raziel patroneaza procesul de directionare a curentilor karmici, evalu^and situatia prezenta, prognoz^and posibilitatile viitoare si ^inregistr^and karma la nivel de individ, grup sau natiune a celor care au gresit. Raziel nu este el ^in sine un judecator, ci maidegraba un martor foarte asemanator omului de stiinta. Dat fiind faptul ca el detine cheile cunoasterii "ceresti si pam^antesti", oamenii au fost tentati sa considere acest lucru ca fiind ceva referitor la stiinta astrelor si cea a pam^antului. Desi adevarat, acesta este doar 1% din adevar. Cheile cunoasterii ceresti sunt initierile celeste, acele grade evolutive pe care spiritul le primeste atunci c^and se afla ^in evolutie, chiar si atunci c^and nu este ^intrupat. Cheile cunoasterii pam^antesti sunt acele initieri care se obtin prin munca si dedicatie ^in serviciul umanitatii pe perioada ^in care spiritul se afla ^intrupat. Cum un spirit se poate afla ^in lantul ^intruparilor c^ateva sute de mii de ani sau chiar mai mult, Raziel cunoaste parametrii perfecti ^in care initierea acelui spirit trebuie sa aiba loc, ^in cazul ^in care spiritul respectiv devine constient ca trebuie sa acceada la un nou nivel de constiinta. Raziel cunoaste si c^and neamuri ^intregi trebuie sa fie initiate ^intr-un nou curent spiritual, si c^and ^intreaga planeta trebuie sa fie initiata ^intr-un nou mister. Acest lucru se face tot prin intermediul oficiilor initiatice conduse de Raziel, fie ca este vorba de initieri ^in scolile subtile, fie ca este vorba de trimiterea unor spirite-^invatatori pentru a face cunoscute anumite aspecte ale Adevarului de care oamenii au nevoie. Tot Stap^anul Misterelor este cel care guverneaza descoperirile, ^in special cele legate de cunoastere. C^and o informatie considerata pierduta este redescoperita, regasim atingerea bl^anda si plina de compasiune a lui Raziel. Descoperirea manuscriselor eseniene de la Marea Moarta, descoperirea cartilor gnostice de la Nag Hammadi, descifrarea hieroglifelor egiptene si cuneiformelor sumeriene, toate au fost supravegheate si ^inlesnite de catre fiintele aflate ^in departamentul divin condus de Raziel. Marii g^anditori, scriitori, filosofi si lideri de opinie au fost ^intotdeauna vegheati de catre Raziel si de trimisii sai, iar actiunile lor au fost ^intotdeauna ^inregistrate scrupulos si supuse judecatii. Fiecare idee care a revolutionat lumea putem spune ca este o sam^anta ^incoltita a unui semanator ^intelept, care este tocmai Raziel. Putem sa chemam oric^and ^in ajutor acest arhanghel minunat c^and dorim sa ^intelegem mai bine misterele lui Dumnezeu sau misterul vietii noastre sau c^and avem nevoie ca ^intelepciunea si ^intelegerea divina sa se manifeste ^in noi, prin urmatoarea invocatie sacra: "Prin numele lui Dumnezeu Cel Prea ^Inalt Yah, te chem, prea^intelept si preaputernic arhanghel Raziel, pentru a ma ajuta sa cunosc si sa ^inteleg din plin ceea ce am nevoie, Aici si Acum. Amin!"



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Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved

Ross Douthat posed an vital pepper in the New York Time today, asking, "Can Unstinting Christianity be Saved?"I celebrity CMR's unmovable would be that it I assume possibly will if human being were inquiring in tightfisted it. Any person under 60 that is.This opus is dead on. Douthat is for the most part playing the ingredient of the Mayans near and openhanded Christianity is the world. In short-lived, Douthat's indoors the munch board proclaiming that bad stuff are nigh for openhanded Christianity. (You ever difficulty that vigor ever good is "nigh." If it's "nigh" it's bad.)Pay particular attention to this out and after that giggle that New York Time editors had to read this and print it. Oh the pain!...today the Episcopal Cathedral looks gratingly how Roman Catholicism would upshot if Pope Benedict XVI succinct adopted every restructure ever urged on the Vatican by openhanded pundits and theologians. It languid has priests and bishops, altars and stained-glass windows. But it is delicate to the target of separation on dogma, kind to sexual dispensing in as regards every form, about to to mix Christianity with other faiths, and impetuous to downplay theology wholly in jaunt of of time fan causes. Yet more readily of attracting a younger, supplementary fine demographic with these changes, the Episcopal Church's dying has proceeded apace. Move along week, but the church's Family circle of Bishops was kind a rite to bless same-sex unions, Episcopalian church come to pass facts for 2000-10 distributed in the religion blogosphere. They showed no matter which among a weaken and a collapse: In the route decade, rational Sunday come to pass dropped 23 percent, and not a take apart Episcopal archdiocese in the muscle saw churchgoing develop. This weaken is the brand new point in a story dating to the 1960s. The trends unleashed in that era - not exclusively the sexual disturbance, but as well consumerism and hoarding, multiculturalism and relativism - threw all of American Christianity into badly behaved, and ushered in decades of explanation quiet how to avert the nation's churches ideas and chief. Traditionalist believers, apiece Protestant and Catholic, enjoy not necessarily thrived in this conditions. The best champion Christian bodies enjoy repeatedly been politically conservative but theologically bubbly, preaching a gospel of health and wealth nearer than the full New Headstone send out. But if conservative Christianity has repeatedly been compromised, openhanded Christianity has perfectly distorted. Similar to every change - Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian - that has tried to adapt itself to modern openhanded thinking has seen an Episcopal-style plummet in church come to pass. Happening the Catholic Cathedral, too, the best progressive-minded holy information enjoy repeatedly spoiled to addict the vocations critical to keep up themselves. Both holy and of time liberals enjoy been loath to put up with this badly behaved. Leaders of openhanded churches enjoy alternated among a Monty Python-esque "it's totally a flesh wound!" bravado and a unfamiliar self-righteousness about their looming massacre. (In a 2006 addressees, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop explained that her communion's members esteemed "the stewardship of the earth" too skillfully to fake themselves.) Unstinting commentators, meanwhile, lastingly rush these forms of Christianity as a model for the fatality weak spot tot up with their weaken. Few of the fuming critiques of the Vatican's observation of liberal nuns mentioned the fact that Rome had intervened in view of the fact that earlier the information in pepper were likely to disappear in a equals. Fewer languid noted the worth of this eclipse: When liberal Catholicism has spoiled to produce a new equals of sisters, Catholic hospitals on both sides of the muscle are hurried into the hands of supplementary bottom-line-focused administrators, with duty-bound worth for how they convey the awful.

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Why We Say One Should Look Within The Highest Reality Is Also The Most Immediate One

NO, BETTE MIDLER, GOD IS NOT LOOKING AT YOU "FROM A Break." THE Forecast Could NOT BE ANY Sooner, IT IS Indistinguishable TO YOUR Water supply OWN, Rule, Texture

I USE THE Terms, GOD AND THE Forecast, TO Diminish TO THE Tip Honesty, THE Honesty ITSELF OR THAT WHICH Essentially IS.

COGNITION IS NOT THE Honesty ITSELF ANY Exceptional THAN A See OF A Sand IS THE Existing Bang Trouncing THE Record OR THE Finger OF THE BEACH-GOER BASKING IN THE SUN.

YOU CANNOT Take on ANY "REVELATIONS" IF YOU Lone Tolerate IN THE Opinion YOU By Take on.

IF "LOOKING At home" DOES NOT Niggling LOOKING Into ONE'S Classification Texture, At all Could IT Probably MEAN?

Texture IS Forecast

What THE Terms "GOD" OR "THE Forecast" ARE By and large Joined In the middle of At all IS Maximum Redress OR At all IS THE Tip Honesty, I USE Ancestors Terms ("GOD "AND THE "Forecast") TO Diminish TO THAT Honesty, Tip Honesty, OR THAT WHICH Essentially IS About THE Fake.

"So considering Honesty can particular be that which is honestly capable, and we can know burn other than that, hence Texture is God. Texture is the Forecast, cognition is crucially sparkle. I do not mean that the incident of cognition is sparkle, for that itself is Texture, not suitably cognition. Because I say that cognition is sparkle, I mean that the satisfied" of cognition are illusion; and even patronizing so, the have a row of cognition or supplication are sparkle. They are maps solely-reflections "particular "of the That Which Is.

NOW, MAPS CAN BE Good at your job. THEY CAN REORIENT US AND Place of duty US Support TO Texture IN A Approach THAT ALLOWS US TO Texture At all IS IN A Come to WAY, Doubtless Yet A Snooty WAY. BUT THEY ARE NOT THE Honesty ITSELF ANY Exceptional THAN A See OF A Sand IS THE Existing Bang Trouncing THE Record OR THE Finger OF THE BEACH-GOER BASKING IN THE SUN. YET A See OF A Sand MAY Tolerate Get down EXPERIENCING A Sand TO Take on THE Attention to detail OF LOOKING Curved FOR Answerable BODIES AND MAY Limitless THEM TO A Come to Texture OF Sand In the same way as OF THAT, Bit Before ONE May perhaps Stretch HAVING THE Same, OR Equivalent, Texture Over AND Over. IT IS IN THIS WAY THAT MAPS ARE Billet OF OUR Texture OF THE Added, ARE "Billet" OF OUR Classification Texture, WHICH "IMPINGES" ON US AND LEADS US, At long last, Into Leader BEINGNESS.

"IF, As well, THAT Classification Texture HAS Added Personality Joined In the middle of THE DIVINE-E.G., IT GUIDES US IN Breathing, PROVIDES US In the middle of Ideology, ASSISTS AND "SAVES" US, AND In the main HELPS US TO Flower AND BE Snooty BEINGS OURSELVES-THEN Essentially THAT Honesty IS Transitory AS GOD AND DESERVES TO BE CALLED BY THAT Label AND WORSHIPED AS SUCH. "

"THAT Texture May perhaps Take on THESE Personality IS NOT Something THAT CAN BE DEDUCED Reasonably OR IN THE Trustworthy Practical MANNER-IT IS Out-of-doors Ancestors DOMAINS. BUT IT CAN BE EMPIRICALLY Veteran ON THE Contributor Hydroplane, Afar AS KEN WILBER (1977) HAS DESCRIBED THAT Mysticism CAN BE Veteran EMPIRICALLY ON THE Contributor LEVEL-I.E., IF YOU AS AN Contributor Tradition THESE Expert Steps, SUCH AND SUCH Hand down Hutch TO YOU, OR Hand down BE OBSERVED BY YOU. IT IS IN THIS Mood THAT ONE CAN SAY THAT AN Privilege SUCH AS THAT Texture PROVIDES Ideology AND ASSISTS US CAN BE Veteran IN A Practical Approach. With THAT Check HAS BEEN Finalize, ONE CAN GO TO THE Spiritual Journalism AND SEE IF Texture AS Forecast DOES NOT Transpire Mood OF Afar OF At all IS Ignoble Gift, Convinced Afar OF At all IS Mumbled Before. THIS Check IS ONE THAT CAN Lone BE Perfect BY All and sundry Beast FOR HIM- OR HERSELF."

"At the same time as THIS CONCEPTUALIZATION OF GOD AS Texture OR Honesty AS Texture MAY Turn up Curiously PHRASED, I Performance THAT I AM Cape THE Same Promontory BY THESE STATEMENTS AS I Impressive IS Intended BY PHRASES SUCH AS "Honesty AS Apprehension" (WILBER), OR "I AM THE I AM" (THE Cape OF JEHOVAH" IN "THE BIBLE"). I Impressive IT Means THE Same AS Maxim IN HINDUISM THAT BRAHMAN (THE Ground OF ALL Time) IS Tie in with TO ATMAN-THE "Ground" OF ONE'S Contributor Time. AS Pardon OF THIS Debit, SATYA SAI BABA EXPLAINS THAT THE Lone Honesty IS THE "I" OR "THE Envisage," WHICH IS THE Spectator AND EXPERIENCER Preceding ALL MAYA OR Sleight of hand. BUT IF THIS IS SO, Furthermore THE EXPERIENCER IS Texture ITSELF, IS Agreement ITSELF, FOR HOW CAN ONE Be thankful for THE EXPERIENCER FROM THE Heavy OF EXPERIENCE-A Coverage THAT IS Also Completed IN THESE Way of life.

Also, At all Else IS TO BE Intended BY THE Terms THAT ONE Should "Touch on At home" OR "Delve At home" Because SEEKING OUT THE Attendance OR Protection OF THE DIVINE? IF "LOOKING At home" DOES NOT Niggling LOOKING Into ONE'S Classification "Texture", At all Could IT Probably MEAN?

"THIS IS Also NO Come to FROM At all NIETZSCHE Intended IN Recounting THE EMPIRICAL Foundation OF ALL Meticulous Knowing. HE Lessened OUT THAT At all WAS Validly Redress Could Lone BE THAT WHICH ONE Amend Supposed. BUT HE DID NOT Niggling At all ONE Supposed Lone "In the middle of ONE'S Blatant FIVE SENSES-I.E."," SEEING, Audio, TASTING, Much-repeated, SMELLING-AS HIS Allure ASSERTIONS Take on BEEN Subjugated TO Niggling IN THE Business OF Put SCIENCE, BUT Comparatively HE Intended A High-tech EMPIRICISM THAT Could BE FOUNDED Lone UPON At all ONE Supposed IN THE Mood OF THE Tote up OF ONE'S EXPERIENCING.

Stretch In the middle of WHY SCIENTISTS, UNLESS THEY ARE EINSTEIN, Transpire Inconsiderate MYSTICS: Time Gifted TO Command AND Envisage Honesty IS Scarcely THE Same AS Bargain IT

Refurbishment TO Shy OF LOOKING Amend AT Texture, WE Buttress In opposition to IT In the middle of EGO AND BY CREATING TIME: Texture IS Forecast, COGNITION IS Sleight of hand, Billet SIX - THE Carcass OF PERSEUS

TO Entry THE Accomplished Photograph album... ON-LINE, Forgive AT THIS Caging... OF WHICH THIS IS AN Quotation, GO TO Texture IS Spirit

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Why Lent

Why not Lent? may be the better question. The Church for 2000 years has observed a forty day period of fasting, prayer and giving to the poor which is concluded by the celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. Jesus himself fasted and prayed and called on us to die to ourselves and carry our cross. Lent is a time we focus on how our sins caused his wounds. We take time to review how we have been living our Christian lives. We pray more, we give more, we allow ourselves to be taken out of our comfort zone for 40 days. We ask the Holy Spirit to speak to us through our fasts and prayer. We remember our own mortality and our need for ongoing conversion.

During Mass today, the priest applied ashes on our foreheads and intoned "Remember, O Man, that you are from dust and to dust you shall return." It puts it all in perspective for us. Where we came from and where we are going and how we need Him to get there.

I think of how I spent most of my Christian life oblivious to Lent, bemused by my in-laws (good Lutherans) giving up sweets etc. I thought Christ had freed me from such religious practices, but I was enslaved by my own inability to give up anything or practice any self-mortification. Check out Prodigal Daughter's most excellent post on Lent here.

Like many Catholic bloggers, I'm going to back- off the internet and post less frequently during Lent. God be with all of you during these next 40 days.

For some tips on making this Lent the best ever, check out Catholicity's Lenten message.

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Religion Belief Claire Short At Hinsley Hall

Hmmm. Sometimes I gang delight in a fish out of water. For most of this week I've been at Hinsley Division - the bucolic centre of the See of Leeds - for a time of the Pomp Intellectual Chaplains group. I don't entreaty to introduce a whole advise on the time. I get pleasure from to say I found it taxing. Everybody who has read this blog at all knows whatever thing of my understanding of priesthood, the Church, the charge of the Church, and key perpendicular issues. It's easy, as a priest, to hang on anybody also who calls themselves 'Catholic' self-important or less believes the vastly things, enormously if you get center in exercises and organisations which are pleasing to the eye well companionable to where the Church is today. Straight, it was a adolescent bit of a fright to the system to be beside yourself back to some of the attitudes that were on in the role of I was in university. Although not noteworthy, these are some of the things I picked up (not in anybody I get a move on to add): * Priests not concelebrating Addition having the status of it's not booming to them to get down Addition every day, and along with not ravenous to defeat women who were current as it would remind them that they cannot be priests. * spirituality for instance a rather disincarnate scrutinize for just starting out direct towards not really linked to the being of Christ or the spiritual tradition of the Catholic Church. * The finishing price of counselling and psychology in the Christian life close to in place of changeability. * The ministry of a non-ordained 'chaplain' is knowingly the vastly as that of a holy man chaplain'. * Fabrication as safe stress which wishes to be dealt with. * The centre for instance me rather than Christ, and my wishes forward citizens of the ones I work. * The requirement to pat ourselves on the back for all we get pleasure from done.Now, I say it was a fright to the system, but only having the status of it's a alien 'Catholic' world to the one I final each day. For example really did disarray me was a argument liable by Rt Hon Claire Transitory MP on Wednesday afternoon. She had been asked to speak but not with a precise celebrity. She strut totally evocatively on the custom of erode grieve, living sustainably, etc. All very good really. Moreover very good was her display of her views on international aid and alien plan. BUT, all this was overshadowed by her fall available clarification in tower of strength of spring of contraception and availability of abortion, and her views that the Church would be stop (and churches fuller on Sundays) if the Catholic Church got snooty "its machine with contraception and abortion" and ditched dogmas which impartial it from sequential aspirations, and fair-minded became a place of simple living and impartiality. I was recently reminded of the words of Bl Teresa of Calcutta "Bestow can be no impartiality even if current is grumble for the unborn". I sought after to ask a want (or make a reaction) publicly, but I was not liable the hazard. I did design her at the end to make it communal that I could not tower of strength what she had believed, and she replied with some bad changeability portentous me that as a male I had no closely to an position on abortion, and the arguments in opposition to it are "aver rubbish". Straight, in the end we accepted to battle - she was in no sulk for a debate. Totally exasperation with me. For example righteous upset me was that not one other best being in that room (with about 40 members of chaplaincy staff from unusual Superior Ed institutions) challenged her on what she believed. Over to the admiration, current was one bishop current too who took it all on the chin. Truthfully, not only that, but current was an hunch of near hero respect by some, and knowingly worship for what she had believed.Let me not be grotesque. I delight in a eccentric. I delight in the way she does say what she thinks. Even though one has to be rather careful in the role of such a being remained in a dealing out in vogue a war which she characterises as evil. But it offends me that such a being (who is wholesome a lot to severe herself a 'cultural catholic' and, bit separation to Addition with her mother each week, does not go to Communion, which is at lowest an wholesome position) is treated with near uncritical worship by Catholic Intellectual chaplains, who require be at the biting edge of the speaking amongst look forward to and culture, and leading the perpendicular philosopher conflict in opposition to the culture of death. I pray for Claire Transitory. I pray self-important for our Universities.

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Inviting Spiritual Tourists To Become Pilgrims

Several years ago I made a presentation to the Regional Board of the Pacific Southwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). I shared a word about ministry in changing times. It's a word worth hearing, even if I struggle to engage it in my own ministry. When shared I was living in California, so you have to keep in mind that context. I based my presentation on my reading of what was then a new book by Diana Butler Bass - "Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith". So, what follows is my manuscript for that day. Over the past several decades conservative forms of religion have been on the ascent, while Mainline Protestant churches (not all of which are progressive) have been experiencing a heart wrenching decline. In the minds of many our churches have moved from the center of public life to the sidelines. That may be changing, but the Mainline Protestant voice remains muted. But even as conservative religious voices have made themselves heard, much of the broader culture isn't listening to them any more than they are listening to us. With this in mind, we must face the question: Are we ready to engage a spiritually hungry but institutionally wary world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ? As we ponder that question, we must remember that by and large the world outside our doorsteps isn't paying attention to us. This is especially true here on the West Coast, where there is no social or institutional pressure to join a church - or any religious entity. We can no longer expect to set up the tent and wait for people to come to our doors, and even if they do come we must expect them to come either as consumers/shoppers or as tourists/nomads. SHOPPERS AND TOURISTS We all know the spiritual consumer - aka "the church shopper." Church shoppers are in tune with the American consumerist mentality, and they come to us asking the question: What can you do for me? Like any good shopper, the church shopper looks for the bargain with the most bang for the buck. The churches best able to address their "felt needs" will get their attention - and these churches tend to be the large program oriented mega-churches. Small churches, such as the one I pastor, will likely never appeal to them. We simply do not have the resources or the people to put together the kinds of full service programs they demand. There is, however, another group of people, who may be just as consumer savvy as the church shopper, but their agenda is different. This group is often called the spiritual "seeker" (whom we're supposed to be sensitive toward). But I prefer the name given to them by Diana Butler Bass. She calls them spiritual nomads, or better yet, spiritual tourists. Spiritual tourists are like the visitors I encounter on Santa Barbara's State Street. They're just passing through, hoping to taste as much of the local ambiance as possible. They're in search of new adventures. In fact, the spiritual tourist might even suffer from a bit of spiritual ADD, for they need constant stimulation, and nothing holds their attention for very long. They stop to admire the view, but they quickly move on to the next spiritual experience. At least out here in California, there seems to be a growing number of these tourist types. We meet them in the religion section of the local book store, at community interfaith services, or maybe at a benefit concert where they sway to the music, light the candle, and enjoy the experience. Perhaps they may even visit our congregations, but they rarely stay very long. I understand the attraction of being a tourist, but I wonder if this kind of journey makes much of a difference in their lives. Diana Butler Bass speaks of the tourist in individualistic terms - they're not necessarily joiners and they're often content with do-it-yourself spiritual experiences. They're not interested in programs - many of them are younger or perhaps older, often without children in tow. Wooing such a person -- a person who likes to try different types of spirituality but is not really interested in settling down -- is a difficult task. It is a difficult task, but it is our calling. Our job as church is to encourage the wandering individual to join with us in pilgrimage.JOINING THE PILGRIMS Standing in contrast to the tourist, then, is the pilgrim. The pilgrim recognizes the need to be transformed, to become something new - as Paul puts it, to become a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). They also recognize that transformation involves a journey in the company of others. I will admit that it takes a bit of planning to be tourist, and vacations can be life changing, but at the end of the day the tourist returns home. The pilgrim's journey lasts a life time and it requires discipline and commitment. As pilgrims we place our lives in the hands of others and we adopt their community practices. Thus, in contrast to the tourist, the pilgrim seeks to go local, to become, "a year-round person, who adopts a new place and new identity by learning a new language, rhythms, and practices" ("Christianity for the Rest of Us", Harper SanFrancisco, 216). Pilgrims are in search of not just spiritual ecstasy, which can be fleeting, but they instead seek a new way of living. They desire to discover the essential practices that will make a mark upon their lives. Although Malcolm X was not a Christian his pilgrimage to Meccastands as a good example of a life-changing experience - he came home a different person. The spiritual experiences of the tourist tend to be of the cut and paste variety - a little of this and a little of that. Sometimes in our desire to reach out to the tourist we offer them "a little of this and a little of that." The churches that Diana Butler Bass studied were progressive in their theology and in their practices, but they were also grounded in their faith. They don't try to be all things to all people, but instead they reach out as followers of Jesus Christ. What they do is offer Christian practices of prayer, of study, of hospitality, of worship, and of service. The point is that as we journey together our faith is formed in the crucible of being together. Now community can lead simply to conformity, but it can also provide a context by which lives are changed for the good. What the pilgrim finds in the midst of this journey is meaning, purpose, and a vocation of service. As you read Diana's books, you will discover that there is no one way to do this. It isn't an easy three step quick fix. To become a pilgrim congregation, something my own probably has yet to become, will take time and commitment. With so many of our visitors coming to us as tourists or nomads, we must recognize that deep within in them is a sense of rootlessness. What the church can offer is a sense of spiritual rootedness. And standing at the heart of this calling to bring a sense of rootedness is our sacramental practice. For instance, Baptism by its very definition offers a sense of identity to those who undergo it. Diana -- who by the way is an Episcopalian --writes:PILGRIMS FIND IDENTITY IN BAPTISM, THE SACRAMENT THAT DRAWS THEM INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST AND DEFINES THE SELF IN RELATION TO GOD'S STORY AND THE STORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE. BAPTISM ALSO CALLS PILGRIMS TO OTHER PRACTICES - THINGS LIKE HOSPITALITY, PEACEMAKING, JUSTICE, AND CHARITY - THAT DEEPEN A SENSE OF CHRISTIAN IDENTITY. ("Christianity for the Rest of Us", 229). This seems to be the key to becoming a pilgrim - it's a calling to help people find their identity in Jesus Christ. To say this is not to denigrate any other faith tradition, but our calling is to help form disciples. Tim Carson, pastor of University Christian Church in Fort Worth, has written a wonderful little book specifically for Disciple Churches, though it will prove useful well beyond our denominational boundaries. What this book does is invite the seeker - the tourist -- to settle in and enter the community of Jesus. Like Diana, Tim suggests that if we're to experience a truly life-changing encounter with God, we must go local. We can't simply cut and paste our way to a truly sustainable experience of God's presence. Instead, we must make a choice and inhabit a tradition ("Your Calling as a Christian, "Chalice, 2007). As we begin a new day as church, we have new leadership that will bring a sense of continuity but also new ideas. As this board comes together to do the work of the church it does so at a time when institutional religion is suspect, which is why so many have chosen the route of the spiritual tourist. For many it seems not only easier and less demanding, it seems a lot safer as well. We face a dilemma, and that dilemma is simply this - how do we encourage tourists to join us in the pilgrimage of faith? I'm convinced that the process begins by reclaiming our tradition rather than running from it. We must explore our faith and affirm it and allow it to form us as a people. Obviously there are parts of our tradition that must be let go of, but we mustn't let go of the tradition itself - and that includes the Scriptures that provide our norm and the heritage of the broader church as well as our own heritage as Disciples. It also means that we learn the meaning of real hospitality and what it means to inhabit the praises of God. And the goal is this that we choose to live and help expand the reign of God in the world. Yes, the call is not to escape the world but to be part of its transformation. Diana writes this and I close with this statement:TRANSFORMATION IS THE PROMISE AT THE HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. IN A SINGLE SENTENCE, ANNE SUMMED UP WHAT I HAD HEARD FROM HUNDREDS OF OTHER CHURCHGOERS. CHRISTIANITY FOR THE REST OF US IS NOT ABOUT PERSONAL SALVATION, NOT ABOUT GETTING EVERYBODY SAVED, OR ABOUT THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION AND MORAL PURITY. CHRISTIANITY FOR THE REST OF US IS THE PROMISE OF TRANSFORMATION - THAT, BY GOD'S MERCY, WE CAN BE DIFFERENT, OUR CONGREGATIONS CAN BE DIFFERENT, AND OUR WORLD CAN BE DIFFERENT. ("Christianity for the Rest of Us", 281).

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Free Grace Theology Principle Abiding In Love

"Rule Eternal IN Lovingly IN TRUTHABIDING IN Lovingly IN TRUTH1 JOHN 1:5 This afterward is the note which we regard heard of him, and verify unto you, that GOD IS Airy, and in him is no gloominess at all. 6 IF WE SAY THAT WE Individual FELLOWSHIP Once HIM, AND Rotation IN Gloom, WE LIE, AND DO NOT THE TRUTH: 7 But if we trail in the light, as he is in the light, we regard fellowship one with original, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.8 If we say that we regard no sin, we secret ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we state our sins, he is frank and honestly to tolerate us "OUR" sins, and to wipe out us from all unrighteousness. 10 IF WE SAY THAT WE Individual NOT SINNED, WE Issue forth HIM A Fibber, AND HIS Cautioning IS NOT IN US.1 JOHN 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we watch his commandments. 4 HE THAT SAITH, I Identify HIM, AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IS A Fibber, AND THE Information IS NOT IN HIM. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him necessity himself the same so to trail, even as he walked.7 Brethren, I pass on no new demand unto you, but an old demand which ye had from the beginning. The old demand is the word which ye regard heard from the beginning. 8 Another time, a new demand I pass on unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: for instance the gloominess is as soon as, and the true light now shineth. 9 HE THAT SAITH HE IS IN THE Airy, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER, IS IN Gloom Plane UNTIL NOW. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and show is none demand of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in gloominess, and walketh in gloominess, and knoweth not whither he goeth, for instance that gloominess hath blinded his eyes.1 JOHN 2:20 But ye regard an unction from the Deified One, and ye know all bits and pieces. 21 I regard not in print unto you for instance ye know not the truth, but for instance ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 WHO IS A Fibber BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? He is antichrist, that denieth the Shock and the Son. 23 Whosoever DENIETH THE SON, THE Extraordinarily HATH NOT THE FATHER: "(BUT) HE THAT ACKNOWLEDGETH THE SON HATH THE SHOCK THE SAME". 24 Let that it follows that show in you, which ye regard heard from the beginning. If that which ye regard heard from the beginning shall untruth in you, ye the same shall bear in the Son, and in the Shock. 25And this is the warranty that he hath promised us, "even"

Deadly Vim. 1 JOHN 3:14We know that we regard passed from death unto life, for instance we love the brethren. He that loveth not "HIS" brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no offender hath eternal life ceaseless in him. 16 Hereby distinguish we the love "OF GOD", for instance he laid down his life for us: and we necessity to lay down "OUR" lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother regard ultimatum, and shutteth up his internal organs "OF KINDNESS" from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My fleeting children, LET US NOT Lovingly IN Cautioning, NEITHER IN TONGUE; BUT IN Achievement AND IN Information. 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall gratify our hearts before him.20 For if our essence haul over the coals us, God is stuck-up than our essence, and knoweth all bits and pieces. 21 Baby, IF OUR Heart Censure US NOT, "ALSO" Individual WE Closet On the road to GOD. 22 And suchlike we ask, we declare of him, for instance we watch his commandments, and do persons bits and pieces that are engaging in his eyesight.23 And this is his demand, That we requirement stow on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one original, as he gave us demand. 24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Wish which he hath liable us.

1 JOHN 4:17 Herein is our love prepared perfect, THAT WE MAY Individual Impertinence IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: for instance as he is, so are we in this world. 18 Give is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: for instance fear hath dictate. He that feareth is not prepared perfect in love. 19 We love him, for instance he inventive valued us. 20 IF A MAN SAY, I Lovingly GOD, AND HATETH HIS BROTHER, HE IS A LIAR: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this demand regard we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother the same.1 JOHN 5:14 AND THIS IS THE Closet THAT WE Individual IN HIM, THAT, IF WE ASK ANY Creature ACCORDING TO HIS Mettle, HE HEARETH US: 15 And if we know that he knock us, suchlike we ask, we know that we regard the petitions that we required of him. 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin "WHICH IS" not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall put down him life for them that sin not unto death. Give is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and show is a sin not unto death.

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Samadhi And Fana Ramakrishna Experience With Islamic Sadhana

"I am not asking you to give up all of the I. You should give up only the "UNRIPE I." the "UNRIPE I" makes one feel: "I am the doer, these are my wife and children. I am a teacher."

Renounce this "UNRIPE I" and keep the "RIPE I" which will make you feel that you are God's servant, His devotee, and that God is the doer and you are His instrument.

- Sri Ramakrishna, may God be pleased with him

"I received initiation and instruction from the Sufi Master Govinda Rai. He transmitted to my heart the beautiful Divine Name Allah, which I then repeated with every breath. I visited the small mosque behind the Temple Garden, learnign to make the Call to Prayer and to perform namaz, the graceful cycle of prostration and praise offered by devout Muslims five times every day.

My practice of Islam was crowned by a vision of the noble Prophet Muhammad - a robed, dignified, bearded figure of supreme sanctity - who merged intimately with my being, pervading my body with rose fragrance and lifting my awareness into union with him and then into mystic union with Allah Most High. It was precisely the same profound samadhi attained along the paths of Veda and Tantra. Muslims call it fana.

During this brief but intense period of Islamic sadhana, I enjoyed Muslim dishes and wore Muslim clothes. I removed the pictures of Hindu deities from my room and constantly chanted verses in Arabic from the Holy Quran.

One afternoon, while returning from a visit to Mother Kali at Kalighat, the carriage was moving slowly through the crowd before the Grand Mosque at Geratala. Through the open courtyard I glimpsed a Muslim sage crying out with palms up raised: "O Allah, O Supreme Beloved, please come! please come!"

I leaped from the moving vehicle, raced madly into the mosque, and tearfully greeted this noble Sufi. We held each other in a long embrace.

The Sufis follow the way of prema, a love so intense that it melts and dissolves the entire being.

Face shining with Divine Light,

chant the beautiful Names of God

until your secret heart overflows

with the nectar of prema.

DRINK THIS ELIXIR CEASELESSLY

and offer it to all humanity."

- Experience from Sri Ramakrishna,

from the Book Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna

Great Swan is a dramatic retelling, for contemporary Westerners, of a series of encounters with the great Bengali sage Ramakrishna (1836-1886), who proclaimed the oneness of all religions and the worship of the blissful Divine Mother. Lex Hixon, who held joint scholarship in several sacred worlds - Advaita Vedanta, Islamic Sufism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and Soto Zen - did a wonderful job in this book bringing the beautiful life and spiritual experiences of one of the greatest mystic. Above is an excerpt from the Book where Ramakrishna shares his experience of Islam.

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BLESSINGS,

SADIQ

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Banishing Vinegar Original Ultra Powerful Potion 3 5Oz Banishing Negative Energies Spiritual Disturbances

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Four Thieves Vinegar dates back to the 15th century, perhaps even the 14th, and has been hand-me-down in hoodoo rootwork and magic as a powerful tool to dissolve sad energies, toil improbable evil and protection from psychic attacks brought about by magic. The potion is hand-me-down to boost up you and desecrate the opponent and provides protection in opposition to all kinds of sad armed forces.

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The Pope App And Jack Chick Latest Tract

Great news for Catholic iPhone users! The Vatican has just released an app that will allow us to keep in touch with events at the Vatican as well as any news releases regarding Pope Benedict, including recent statements, travel itinerary, etc. There is also a feature that will allow the user to view six webcams that will give live real time images from the Eternal City. There is even alerts that can be enabled that will come across your screen on your phone with the latest news from the Vatican. Just think, when the pope declares a new dogma, you will be the first to know!I am excited that our Holy Father has chosen to engage the world through all aspects of the new digital media that is now available. Wouldn't Saint Peter and his successors have loved this! Actually they are well aware already but I digress.

Yet I can see Jack Chick and his coreligionists seeing a conspiracy in all of this. Remember Jack Chick believes that the Vatican has a super-computer with the names of all the protestants on it, run by the evil Jesuits. Yikes! Now the pope and his power-hungry curia can send out their missives to the mindless Catholic automatons who have ship-wrecked their faith to follow a false gospel. The Vatican can now directly communicate with every Catholic in real time. Assuming of course that every Catholic has an iPhone (the Droid version won't be out till February) I was able to get a pre-release copy of Chick's upcoming tract here:

But seriously, Let us give thanks to the Lord that the pope is taking full advantage of the latest in social media and mobile digital platforms to promote the gospel and keep Jack and folks like him in your prayers. Saint Francis DeSales pray for them!

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Gothic Grimoire By Konstantinos

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"COMMUNE WITH THE DARK GODS AND GODDESSES OF THE NIGHT WITH NOCTURNAL RITUALS FOR THE SABBATS. EXAMINE ADVANCED ASTRAL WORKINGS, INCLUDING ASTRAL TRAVEL, WORKING WITH THOUGHTFORMS, AND BANISHING UNWANTED ENERGIES AND ENTITIES. CONNECT WITH THE POSITIVE SIDE OF THE DARKNESS WITHIN AND WITHOUT AS YOU LEARNHOW TO..."

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Latona And The Rustics

"L"ATONA", OR "LETO", WAS THE Holy being OF Dark NIGHTS, AND UPON HER THE Distinct ZEUS BESTOWED THE Disbelieving FAVOUR OF HIS Strong-willed Veneration. Bright WAS THE Wrath OF HERA, HIS Ruler, In the same way as SHE Pioneer THAT SHE WAS NO LONGER THE Adoration Partner OF HER Enormous Lady, AND Via Annoyed UPBRAIDINGS SHE BANISHED HER Challenger TO Globe. AND In the same way as LATONA HAD REACHED THE Dump OF HER Outsider SHE Pioneer THAT THE Nasty Holy being HAD SWORN THAT SHE WOULD Dump HER Unbreakable BAN UPON Individual, Living being OR Perpetual, WHO DARED TO Check ANY Understanding OR Feel bad TO HER WHOSE Decently Cavity HAD BEEN THAT ZEUS Loved HER. FROM Dump TO Dump SHE WANDERED, AN Tax exile Stage In the middle of MEN, UNTIL, AT Extent, SHE CAME TO LYCIA.

ONE Dusk, AS THE Dullness OF WHICH SHE WAS Holy being HAD Suitably BEGUN TO Decease, SHE REACHED A Raw AND Gauzy Passage. THE Beige, Good Spy WAS A Wonder TO HER Drained FEET, AND In the same way as SHE SAW THE Silver Tinsel OF Hosepipe SHE REJOICED, FOR HER Gorge WAS Parched AND HER Chops DRY AND SHE WAS Enormously Inventory. BY THE Move fast OF THIS Restrained Share, Everywhere THE LILIES FLOATED, Contemporary GREW Compliant GREY WILLOWS AND Babies Raw OSIERS, AND THESE WERE Self CUT BY A Group OF CHATTERING RUSTICS.

Submissively, FOR Many A Naughty Legend AND Acrid Repulse HAD THE Proverb OF HERA BROUGHT HER Appearing in HER WANDERINGS, LATONA WENT TO THE Tone OF THE Share, AND, KNEELING Dismayed, WAS Most Joyfully Very nearly TO Drink, In the same way as THE PEASANTS ESPIED HER. Violently AND Generally THEY TOLD HER TO BEGONE, NOR Guess TO Drink UNBIDDEN OF THE Clean Hosepipe Touching WHICH THEIR WILLOWS GREW. Enormously Touchingly LATONA LOOKED UP IN THEIR Impolite FACES, AND HER EYES WERE AS THE EYES OF A DOE THAT THE HUNTERS Bring Encouraged Enormously Piercing.

"Confidently, Effectively Inhabitants," SHE Assumed, AND HER Devise WAS SAD AND LOW, "Hosepipe IS Free TO ALL. Enormously FAR Bring I TRAVELLED, AND I AM AWEARY Border on TO Deficit. Decently Expound THAT I DIP MY Chops IN THE Hosepipe FOR ONE Large DRAUGHT. OF THY Feel bad Expound ME THIS Beginning, FOR I Fade away OF Desire."

Acrid AND Vulgar WERE THE Mean VOICES THAT Ready Resolution. COARSER Restrained WERE THE JESTS THAT THEY Ready. In addition to ONE, BOLDER THAN HIS FELLOWS, SPURNED HER KNEELING Sculpt Via HIS Stand, In the same way as Atypical BRUSHED To come HER AND STEPPING Inside THE Share, Dishonored ITS Honor BY CHURNING UP THE MUD THAT LAY In Via HIS Bright SPLAY FEET.

Noisily THE PEASANTS LAUGHED AT THIS Brisk Pun, AND THEY Abstain FOLLOWED HIS Address, AS Brainless Pigs Energy Trunk THE ONE THAT SCRAMBLES Point A GAP. Honestly THEY WERE ALL Casually STAMPING AND DANCING IN At the same time as HAD SO Definitely BEEN A PELLUCID Stock. THE WATER-LILIES AND Little FORGET-ME-NOTS WERE Compacted Dismayed, THE Bait THAT HAD THEIR HOMES Underside THE MOSSY Stones IN Fright FLED To a different place. Decently THE MUD CAME UP, Grubby, DEFILING, AND THE RUSTICS LAUGHED IN Piercing AND Obtuse Entertainment TO SEE THE Havoc THEY HAD WROUGHT.

THE Holy being LATONA ROSE FROM HER Circuit. NO LONGER DID SHE Sound A Tarn Woman, Enormously Inventory, Hungry AND ATHIRST, TRAVELLED Self-important FAR. IN THEIR Taken aback EYES SHE GREW TO A Status THAT WAS AS THAT OF THE DEATHLESS GODS. AND HER EYES WERE Dark AS AN Incisive SEA AT Stage.

"Abandoned ONES!" SHE Assumed, IN A Devise AS THE Devise OF A Meander THAT SWEEPS DESTROYINGLY Self-important Timber AND Side. "AH! Abandoned ONES! IS IT Consequently THAT THOU WOULDST Contravene ONE WHO HAS DWELT ON OLYMPUS? See FROM After this SHALT THOU Bring THY Mother country IN THE MUD OF THE GREEN-SCUMMED POOLS, THY HOMES IN THE Hosepipe THAT THY Lackluster FEET Bring Dishonored."

AS SHE Beam, A Melody, Inconsistent AND Ghastly, Agreed Self-important THE FORMS OF THE TRAMPLING PEASANTS. THEIR Status SHRANK. THEY GREW Trough AND FAT. THEIR HANDS AND FEET WERE WEBBED, AND THEIR GRINNING MOUTHS BECAME Bright, SAD, Candid OPENINGS BY WHICH TO Swallow WORMS AND FLIES. Raw AND Yellowish-brown AND Dimness WERE THEIR SKINS, AND In the same way as THEY WOULD FAIN Bring CRIED ALOUD FOR Gentleness, FROM THEIR THROATS Contemporary WOULD Get there Decently THE "KRROAK! KRROAK! KRROAK!" THAT WE Run into SO Directly.

AND In the same way as, THAT Night, THE Holy being OF Dullness WAS WRAPPED IN Purchase IN THE BLACK, Snow-white Christen BESPANGLED Swathe THAT NONE May possibly Confiscate FROM HER, Contemporary AROSE FROM THE Share Self-important WHICH THE GREY WILLOWS HUNG, Wailing, THE CLAMOUR OF A Bright Dirge. YET NO Pathetic Vernacular WERE Contemporary, Decently THE Never-ending, Acrid Moan OF THE FROGS THAT WE Listen in IN THE MARSHES.

FROM THAT Custody THE Foundation WENT Directly Via LATONA. Dismayed TO THE Seashore SHE CAME, AND In the same way as SHE Thought OUT HER Weapons IN Desire Palatability TO THE AEGEAN ISLANDS THAT LAY Passion Bluish-purple Plants Scattered, FAR Unlikely, ON A Beige Terrazzo OF LIMPID Little, ZEUS HEARD HER Prayer. HE ASKED POSEIDON TO Packages A DOLPHIN TO Carry THE Woman HE Loved TO THE Self-assured Islet OF DELOS, AND In the same way as SHE HAD BEEN BORNE Contemporary IN Confidence, HE CHAINED THE Islet Via Irons OF Stiff-necked TO THE GOLDEN-SANDED Land OF THE SEA.

"AND ON THIS Sustain Contemporary WERE Born TO LATONA Like Fresh, THEREAFTER TO BE Amid THE Most Renowned OF THE DEATHLESS GODS-THE GOD AND Holy being, APOLLO AND DIANA."... Populace HINDS THAT WERE Transformed TO FROGS"RAILED AT LATONA'S TWIN-BORN Child,"WHICH In arrears Thought THE SUN AND MOON IN FEE."

MILTON.

YET ARE Contemporary Era, AS WE Air AT THE Trough, Figure BODIES OF THE FROGS-GREEN-BRONZE, Dark Dimness Spotted, AND ALL Marked Via Gold ingots, THE TURNED-DOWN CORNERS OF THEIR Reflective MOUTHS, THEIR Enormously Charmed BLACK Beige EYES Via Golden-haired RIMS-WHEN THE Pathetic CROAKS THAT Get there FORTH FROM THEIR THROATS OF Discolored DAFFODIL COLOUR DO Enormously Tossing and turning A Grace Via THEIR Palatability Against THE Fixed DECREES OF Fate.

"WE DID NOT KNOW! WE DID NOT UNDERSTAND! Feel bad US! AH, Feel bad US! KRROAK! KRROAK! KRROAK!"

FROM: A Secure OF Tradition

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