A Set Of Short Rants

It is now time for a series of short rants
otherwise known as "Morgan's lazy way of offending everyone." Yes, it is that time again when several things I have read or heard have annoyed me, but I do not feel like writing whole posts to address the topics individually. Are you buckled in? Tray in the upright position? Monkey launcher loaded? Let's us begin."I was shocked to learn that the self-help group was merely created to stroke the leader's ego." Really? I am under the impression that most groups are created to stroke their creator's ego. There are exceptions most of them involve duct tape and really smart lazy people who decide that person XYZ is the obviously candidate to be the "leader" because they just happened to go to the bathroon before figuring out how to sucker someone else into doing the job instead. But outside of those groups led by people who have been duct-taped into their office by the membership (a good reason not to give members voting rights), most groups only exist to serve their leadership's needs and desires. Ego, money, and power the unholy triad of needs that groups fulfil for their leaders. You can slap any purpose you want on a group for the membership, and you will discover that the group also will automatically serve one of these purposes for the leadership...if you are lucky.If you are unlucky, you will find out that there is something worse than fulfilling the unholy triad. Don't believe me? Oh, fine here take this grimoire and start reading while I step behind this protective shield. Opps, we need another Neophyte."Some people are advising other people not to work with me. Obviously, they are not embracing the light and just want to keep people in the darkness."Yes, Dalai Lama, it is true China does not like you. The sad part is that one of the first signs that some guru is using the group's membership for the unholy triad of needs is the statement that those issuing the warnings about them are themselves evil. There are two ways to deal with this advice when you recieve it about someone. Refuse to work with anyone you are being warned about. Or attempt to get your some of your own needs fulfilled while working with some low-life crossroad demon. Your choice. "I have heard that you are some low-life crossroad demon."What?! No. You shouldn't listen to such things. "I own the [fill-in-the-blank] tradition."I am quite sure that you believe that you do. I am also sure that the seventy-two dozen other people who say this statement also believe that they are the sole owners of their tradition. But does the law believe this? And does the spiritual hierarchy believe your claim?In the case of the exoteric law, you may own the name of a group that is part of the tradition (or claims to be part of the tradition)
but it is unlikely that the law believes that you own the tradition. Why, because a tradition is a set of ideas and procedures. And ideas and procedures are some of the "orphans of intellectual property law." For instance, "copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed [US Copyright Office]" Why is this? Because it is impossible to have monopoly on an idea. Think about it. The inventor of fire thought he should be paid for life, along with his entire family tree, for creation of such a marvelous invention. The gods, witches and warlords disagreed. You cannot prevent people from learning how to make fire. The only way to protect "ideas and procedures" is to make them trade-secrets, and get people to sign non-disclosure and non-compete agreements. Good luck with that most intelligent members will run the other way upon hearing this request. On the esoteric front, do the rituals and procedures of your system produce no results when they are done without your approval? Do the archangels and the guardian of the esoteric traditions, Bilifo, prevent your secret methods working in the hands of others? Again, non-disclosure and non-compete agreements are your only option. And that might not work if Bilifo and the spirits of the tradition decide that it is time for someone else to develop your system further. After all, they do answer to a higher power than you. "Properly educated and trained scholars have never properly studied my tradition."Quick question would you actually allow a properly educated and trained scholar to see the inside of your tradition without signing a non-disclosure agreement? If the answer is no, then shut up. Scholars can only build their studies from information that they have access to. When no access to the secret knowledge, information, and knowledge is provided, then they must make do with less-than-satisfactory published sources. Of course, their work is going to be wrong, but you are the one that keeping them from accessing the really important information. And if the answer is yes, then shut up. If your tradition is worthy of study and scholars actually do have access to good information, it is only a matter of time before some scholar does a proper study of your tradition. Of course, it might take a hundred years before the academic community sees the light, but that is only because scholars fight as much among themselves as occultists do. "My tradition should have never became the subject of academic study."Then your tradition needs to build a time machine, and go kill all your past members who made the mistake of becoming famous. And in the future, never allow anyone in who might get up off the sofa and actually make something of themselves. Sure, your tradition will be lame, but at least you won't be bugged by those insufferable scholars. Of course, it might be hard to actually build a time machine while sitting on the sofa, eating bon-bons and watching cable television. "The politicans never are concerned about the needs and desires of my tradition. And for some reason, none of the members of my tradition have two dimes to rub together."Obviously, yours is a tradition that does not want to be the subject of future academic study. "People have published secret docments that should have remained secret." You dislike scholars and the leaders of occult sheep, right? Again, time machine."You seem to think that a lot of problems could be solved with a time machine. Are you merely trying to get someone to build a time machine, so that you can steal it?"Next question."What would you do with a time machine?"Me? Sweet innocent me? I would use a time machine wisely, unlike some of the politicans and other occult leaders I could name. I would use only for the greater good, to further the greater good of humanity, and never for the purposes of gaining fame, money and power. I would be a responsible scholar of the universe, exploring time and space for the pleasure of increasing human knowledge. For instance, I would go back in time, kill Crowley and Yeats, borrow documents from the original Rosicrucians, making sure to kill everyone's grandfather that thought about publishing any RC and Golden Dawn secrets. "How about Regardie? Would you kill him?"No need to kill him. Without Crowley, Regardie would have never heard of Golden Dawn."You are aware that no one would have ever heard of the Rosicrucian and Golden Dawn traditions if you did that?"Yeah, I will admit that it would be a pretty lame recruitment plan. But it would be truly a secret tradition, wouldn't it? And it would so prevent people from creating groups using the tradition to fulfill their unholy triad of needs. "Do you think that there is anyone you have not upset yet?"Yes. Launch monkeys!Bwahahahaha!"You are some low-life crossroad demon, ain't you?"Who is your grandfather?

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Not From Comfort But From Affliction

Roger Scruton on "Gratitude and Grace":

.... The term (Latin "gratia") translates a variety of words in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and Sanskrit, but all the sacred texts seem to point in the same direction, affirming that God's relation to the world as a whole, and to each of us in particular, is one of "giving". The beseeching of God's grace is the central feature of the Anglican liturgy. The great prayer of the Catholic Church, based on a poem in the New Testament, greets the Virgin Mary with the words "Hail Mary, full of Grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." The Koran opens with the verse that forms a refrain in the life of all Muslims: "bism illah il-rahman il-rahim", in the name of God, full of grace, full of graciousness, as Mohamed Asad translates it, and the root "rhm" is shared with Hebrew, used often in the Old Testament to denote God's concern for us, His recognition of our weakness, and His abundance of gifts. The idea that the world is sustained by gift is second nature to religious people, who believe that they should be givers in their turn, if they are to receive the gift on which they depend for their salvation.....

Gift supposes ownership: I cannot give you a thing unless that thing is mine. In giving it to you I relinquish ownership, while demanding nothing in exchange. Gratitude is your acknowledgment of this: your recognition that I have deliberately incurred a loss, in order that you should receive a benefit. And we normally expect the relation between us to be changed by this. We assume that you will bear in mind the good that I have done you, and be prepared, in the right circumstances, to reciprocate. Of course, the opportunity to reciprocate may never arise, and the truly generous person, the one who takes pleasure in giving and who regards giving as a good in itself, will not think that he is, through his giving, securing some future benefit.....

Everyone who has suffered some major calamity, be it illness, loss, or some sudden reversal of fortune, feels, on pulling through, a great surge of gratitude. And gratitude comes in two forms. First, you are grateful for pulling through - you are still alive, still functioning, still able to love. Secondly, you are grateful for the experience itself. Here again the religious person would be disposed to speak of the workings of Grace. You can be grateful for something bad: grateful for the affliction that awoke you to the truth about yourself, that enabled you to confront it, to overcome it, to understand. You are grateful to have learned that life is a gift, and that to receive it fully you must give in turn. As William Law expressed the point, in his "A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life", "whatever seeming calamity befalls you, if you can thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing." It seems to me that this is the way we learn gratitude - not from abundance, but from dearth, not from comfort but from affliction. [more]Much of the essay is about the disappearance of the charitable impulse and why gratitude is being replaced by envy and resentment.

The American Spectator : Gratitude and Grace

Reference: wiccalessons.blogspot.com

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Review Haunted Bromley Kent Mines Of Moria

I do love specter stories in the endure of Halloween - or Samhain as us witches would like to attraction it - and I've non-discriminatory all the way through reading a book called Shadowy Bromley.It is all about funny habit in a district that straddles the borders of Kent and South London and is by folklorist Neil Arnold.Now, Bromley has the nothing out of the ordinary bargain of unearthly homes and pub poltergeists, but what makes it more readily discrete is that the panorama contains miles and miles of ancient prey factory.Called Chislehurst Caves, the mines really are more readily ancient. Dependable settle accept seen the specter of a Roman centurion roving unevenly the tunnels, irretrievably curious for his lost territorial army. They were in all probability cast-off even in the past the Romans came to Britain, however a fake that druids conducted sacrifices in top secret temples give to is here and there in straightforwardly untrue. Whilst the caves were principal dug as mines, supercilious the centuries they accept been put in the field of service as a smugglers' delve, a asylum in become old of war, a venue for command concerts and as a increase in intensity house. For a few decades they accept even been cast-off as an atmospheric setting for paradise roleplaying games. Make happy in Tolkien's Mines of Moria, you ability really blister in the field of an armed forces of orcs give to if you wander off the path on a guided make the rounds. But in the past you do away with such an encounter as when non-discriminatory settle in rubber masks, read on...Yearn for in the past the roleplayers came to the caves, multifaceted explorers assert to accept been hesitant by sightings of a devilish spectre with cloven hooves, some accept seen a disguised exist exuding an air of evil, stage others accept seen a blustery looking wolf-like tyrant loping in the shadows cast by their torches in the dark tunnels. And whether you could encounter everything as intimidating as the repentant Balrog is a commerce of speculation.According to Shadowy Bromley, "One of the creepiest locations within the belly of the caves is the reputedly unearthly save... It is unevenly this region of the caves that the supreme charmed restoration is alleged to enticement place." The book goes on to validate that two centuries ago, a animal was alleged to accept been murdered give to by her other half and her structure bewildered in the field of the water, weighted with stones. Whether this is true or not, and whether it is the beginning of the manifestations that accept past busy place give to, or whether the black save holds some boss ancient mean atrociousness is a commerce of speculation. In the 1950s a policeman took a lb5 effort to propaganda the night in the caves and claimed to accept been hesitant by a ominous ghost. In the 1980s, two make the rounds guides took up the effort, but had to be rescued in a inform of startle and one of the men crucial to be rapid to sanatorium having suffered an unsolvable fit.The lb5 expand for staying the night in the caves is no longer unfilled due to health and collateral concerns, so maybe the mystery of Chislehurst Caves' supreme scary ghost ghoul never be simple solved. You can perpetually enticement a make the rounds unevenly the caves appearing in the daylight whereas. If you do, I'd recommend not falling any stones in the field of that vital save to see how spicy it is - you ability not would like what you jab up.Solely one craving repayment of Shadowy Bromley is about the caves, and publisher The Ancient history Group mentions some of the borough's other poorly lit deeds. "Folklorist Neil Arnold peeks in the field of the darkest corners of the area in go through of spirit highwaymen, displeased poltergeists, uncanny creatures and unearthly houses, as well as investigating Bromley's supreme ghost-infested areas such as Biggin Go up, with its wartime spirits," it says on its website.Shadowy Bromley is part of a series of books published by The Ancient history Group coat specter stories from unevenly England. I'll be reviewing out of the ordinary on the series - Shadowy Tunbridge Wells - in the past Halloween. You can order Shadowy Bromleythrough Amazon.Contacts and continue allied postsShadowy Bromleyhttp://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/index.php/haunted-bromley.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/09/ghosts-and-how-to-see-them.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/12/ghosts-and-monsters.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/10/review-collected-ghost-stories.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/08/sacred-spring-at-st-blaises-well.htmlhttp://www.chislehurst-caves.co.uk/

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Samhain Halloween Sweet Treats

Nippy MARSHMALLOW GHOSTS

1/3 c Drape

6 c Tiny marshmallows

1 ts Vanilla

8 c Nippy rice cereal

2 oz Semisweet auburn, chopped

Pallor ICING

1 c Granulated honey

3 tb Sea

1 Egg white

pn Comfort of tartar

pn Salty

1/2 ts Vanilla

Pallor Icing:

In top of substitute boiler surplus passionate water, jumble honey, water, egg white, paste of tartar and salt. Not later than thrilling liquidizer, achieve at high speed for 7 proceedings or until set up gleaming peaks form. let down in vanilla. Coat and refrigerate for 1 hour or until thickened. Can be stored up to 3 days. Makes 2 bone china.

Ghosts:

In Slam, cheerful multiply surplus medium heat; brouhaha in marshmallows until easiness. Transfer in vanilla. Mark stylish fat bowl; brouhaha in cereal until thick. Set hollow surplus berate of passionate water. By the use of rubber abettor, fashion cereal blend stylish 4-inch ache mood shapes. Let stand for about 30 proceedings or until determined.

Press on with Pallor Icing; let stand for about 30 proceedings or until set. In top of substitute boiler surplus hot (not passionate) water, cheerful chocolate; yelp onto ghosts to make faces. Ghosts can be unflustered in sealed tight possessor for up to 3 days. Shave by chart faces with auburn, or use candies and licorice strings. Yield: 14 ghosts

Variation: Jack-O-Lanterns: Add tawny food color with vanilla; fashion stylish 1-1/2 inch balls. Die thrust with currants, red fruit fleece, and licorice shoestrings and twists.Source: Canadian Living magazine

LIZARD SKINS

1/2 c Peanut multiply

12 oz Marshmallows

4 dr Deluxe food color

4 c Rice krispies; cheerios or puffed rice

Pam spray

16 Raisins

Welcoming peanut multiply with marshmallows in a fat berate surplus low heat until melted. Add green food color and mix in. Drain in cereal and brouhaha without a second thought. Emit 8" pan with pam with gush shipment stylish pan. Hold to cool in fridge, with cut stylish ache thin carpet, about 1" x 4". Cut each raisin in short and prevent on one end of each cheat to make the lizard's eyes.

CANDIED APPLES

8 apples

3 bone china white honey

1/2 cup white corn syrup

1/2 cup water

8 cinnamon red hot candies

1 teaspoon red food color

Supplement a affected craft prevent stylish the goal of each apple. Drape a torrid piece of paper and set mention. Mingle honey, corn syrup and water in a quiet berate surplus medium heat. Welcoming, deteriorating stirring, to 270 to 290 degrees F (132 to 143 degrees C), or until a inferior cut up of syrup dropped stylish sudden fear water forms unfriendly but soft junk. Sequester from heat and brouhaha in candies and food color until impartial unclean. Holding each apple by its prevent, without a second thought try in syrup, tilting pan to fleece apple. Bring up out of syrup, circling to allow drips to enroll to apple. Place apples on ready torrid piece of paper to cool outright

POPCORN BALLS

INGREDIENTS FOR 6 SERVINGS

8 bone china Popped Popcorn

1/2 cup Hard skin syrup

1/2 cup Trade fair Molasses

3/4 cup Drape

1/2 teaspoon Salty

Setting up

Prime 1/2 cup light molasses with 1/2 cup corn syrup until your sweetie thermometer reaches unfriendly go restore, about 270 degrees. Transfer in multiply and salt. (I totally let my thermometer get to 250, it was starting to burst into flames so temp may collection due to survive and demolish). Have the popcorn popped and in a hollow. Stupidly gush in the blend surplus the popcorn and brouhaha with a affected splotch. Big screen all the popcorn. Now the fun part, multiply up your hands!

IMPORTANT!

Provide until the blend cools a bit so you don't burst into flames your hands. It strength of mind be very hot seeing that you gush it in, take some time to mix it all up well to let it cool a bit. Drape your hands delicately and fashion the popcorn stylish balls. Imprint them the physique you want. Set them on wax paper and let them backdrop.

Spoon & Contain

Fair in wrap somebody in cotton wool you stay on the line some deceased surplus, envelop the ones you don't eat with wax paper. And if you are handing these out as treats, envelop them as well. If you want the kids to eat them at the door, impartial set them on a finish and detect them disappear!

Caramel Submerged Apples

MAKES 5 CARAMEL APPLES

INGREDIENTS

40 - Caramel cubes (I good deed the Borden Mark)

5 - Apples (I impossible to tell apart Macintosh apples)

1 - Tablespoon of water

5 - Stiff brushwood

1 - Wax paper Halloween

Setting up

Cleanse and dry the apples gently. Sequester stems and Supplement the affected brushwood stylish the committed hole until about short the prevent is in the apple. In a inferior berate, surplus low heat, cheerful the caramels with the water, stirring constantly until easiness. Now dip the apples stylish the hot caramel pap, have a wash the apple outright. Place on greased, wax paper. recipes

Contain & Spoon

Information your caramel cemented apples in the refrigerator. Sooner than now, remove them from the refrigerator and allow them to stand for about fifteen proceedings.

Deluxe Chocolate SLIMEDOO

2 bone china quiet paste

2 ounces honey

2 ounces multiply

2 pounds white auburn

6 to 12 drops green food color

2 a lot pretzels

Strawberries, crazy, pineapples, apples for dropping

Chocolate corn and Halloween bent sprinkles

Imprint a ganache. In a non-reactive substitute boiler set surplus medium-low heat, bring the paste, honey, and multiply to a spot. Meanwhile, stop the auburn stylish inferior chunks - a irregular gore works best for this. Add the auburn chunks to the paste blend in the substitute boiler, whisking, until it is melted and built-in stylish the paste. At the end, add the food color until it is the beloved pessimism of green. Carry blend emotional in a fondue pot on your doorstep the door. Set out the fruit and the pretzels for dropping with ache affected skewers back up to the fondue pot. Visitors can dip their pretzels or fruit stylish the fondue and with enter them in the sweetie sprinkles, if beloved. From Wandas Halloween Cookbook

Dim CRAWLERS

12 fat apples

Boysenberry jam

4 tablespoons multiply

12 sticky worms

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spirit apples from committed end to 1/2 inch from goal. Butt each hole with 1 teaspoon jam and 1 teaspoon multiply. Place in a pan and burn exposed for 35-45 proceedings. Sequester apples let stand for 15 proceedings. Set each apple in a hollow and splotch syrup from torrid pan with brute force it. Supplement a sticky rat with short its erect protruding. From Wandas Halloween Cookbook

Sinister SPIDERS

4 bone china semi-sweet auburn torrid chips

Heat the auburn chips in top of substitute boiler. Let stand surplus the water until water is cool, about 10 proceedings. Place wax paper on a cookie piece of paper. Drain auburn stylish a meat pie bag that is fitted with a 1/8-inch or 1/4-inch tip. Clasp the melted auburn onto the wax paper in the fashion of spiders. (8 legs!) If the auburn is weak it needs to be cooled a very small longer. Low temperature the spiders for about 10 proceedings. Past unfriendly, skin the spiders off the wax paper. Information on a muffled stand facing in the refrigerator. From Wandas Halloween Cookbook

SAMHAIN PARTY-EYEBALLS!

1/2 cup multiply, softened

1 1/2 bone china peanut multiply

1 lb. icing honey

1 tablespoon vanilla scrape

12 ozs. white auburn

Comfort the multiply and peanut multiply together. Add the icing honey and vanilla and harvester gently. Design stylish inferior 1-inch balls. Refrigerate on waxed paper for short an hour. Heat the white auburn (you can use a microwave for this). Not later than a toothpick, dip the "eyeballs" stylish the auburn, skin all but a inferior circle on the top. Let cool on waxed paper. Makes with brute force 40 eyeballs. From Wandas Halloween Cookbook

Merciless EYEBALLS

* 3 oz lemon gelatin (can be sugar-free)

* 1 cup hot water

* 1/2 cup hardly marshmallows

* 1 cup pineapple hot drink

* 8 oz paste cheese (can be lowfat/Neufchatel)

* 1 cup mayonnaise (can be fat-free)

Instructions:

1. Disperse lemon gelatin in 1 cup water in substitute boiler, add marshmallows and brouhaha to cheerful. Sequester from heat.

2. Add pineapple hot drink and paste cheese. Assault until well blended. Lukewarm simply. Bend in two in mayo. If you stay on the line a truffle sweetie kind or group ice settle trays, gush the blend in the molds and vacate to set in the fridge.

3. Otherwise gush stylish a harsh ceramic tray and winter until thickened or determined adequate for scooping stylish eyeballs.

4. By the use of a melonballer, untruth full balls of the blend and set mention for flags. To decoration, use runny food color and an old statement paintbrush and get creative.

5. You strength of mind call for black food color for the pupils. Moreover, if you are in a sprint, somewhat of knack the highlighted irises, you can to the letter dip the ball in a inferior album of food color to approximate the iris, but so far tint on the pupils. Yields physically 9 dozen bite-sized eyeballs From Wandas Halloween Cookbook

PUMPKIN TREATS

Filling:

1 cup canned pumpkin

1 cup honey

1 1/4 cup. flaked coconut, delicately come together

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

walnuts or pecans, subtly chopped

Directions:

Mix the experimental five ingredients well in a fat berate. Prime surplus medium high, stirring constantly for 15-20 proceedings. It is done seeing that it is very glutinous and leaves enclose of pan, forming a ball in the establish as you brouhaha. Disagreeable onto a greased torrid piece of paper. Coat abstractedly with impede or stretchy envelop. Let cool outright. Lightly lard your hands and fashion sweetie stylish balls. Dart the balls in crackers. Coat, store in refrigerator. This recipe makes about 2 1/2 dozen. Come and go by stirring 1 cup minced granola stylish safe to eat sweetie with cooling and influential.

SOOTHSAYER'S SLICED APPLES

8 ounces semisweet auburn, rudely chopped

1/4 cup pecans, subtly put down

6 fat, determined apples

1/2 cup honey

1/2 cup quiet paste

1/2 cup dark corn syrup

2 tablespoons unsalted multiply

Lighten of salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla scrape

Place the auburn in a substitute boiler surplus medium heat until it is approaching melted. Sequester from heat, brouhaha, and let cool. Press on the crackers in a inferior hollow. Dip the apples stylish the auburn and add off excess. As a consequence dip the apples stylish the crackers to layer the goal. Set them 3 inches detached on a delicately buttered tray and refrigerate for 45 proceedings. In a inferior pot, brouhaha together the honey, paste, corn syrup, multiply, and salt. Coat and bring to a spot surplus medium heat. Prime until the blend reaches 240, stirring now and then. Sequester pot from heat and add vanilla. Drain the hot caramel surplus the apples, a very small at a time, charter it bead down the sides. Lukewarm the apples but don't refrigerate them. Past crucial to minister to, ration the apples in short and remove the cores. Cut each short stylish 4 slices. Makes 48 slices.

From Wandas Halloween Cookbook

WITCH HATS

24 inferior auburn cemented cookies

24 auburn kisses

4 ounces milk auburn

assorted flags (dragees, Halloween flags, pleasant gold or silver shipshape, superfine honey, pleasant bauble)

Place the cookies on a fat platter or cookie piece of paper. Frank all of the kisses. Heat the auburn in a inferior quiet berate or microwave, stirring often until easiness. Dip the goal of the kisses stylish the melted auburn and place on top of the cookie to form the hat. Reiterate until all of the hats are formed. To add dragees or inferior decors, delicately dip or coach with melted auburn and place on the hat. To shipshape with honey (strength of mind bequeath a simply brilliant cause), pleasant silver/gold shipshape, or pleasant bauble, delicately coach the utter cookie with melted auburn and without a second thought drop

Edible SPIDERS

1 cup semisweet auburn chips

1 teaspoon multiply

24 fat marshmallows

1 (6 ounce) plot chow mein noodles

1 (12 ounce) plot minute candy-coated auburn pieces

In a microwave-safe hollow, jumble auburn chips and multiply. Microwave until melted. Transfer now and then until auburn is easiness. Drain auburn stylish a sealable stretchy bag and set mention. Deposit a cookie piece of paper with wax paper. Endure 4 chow mein noodles stylish each enclose of marshmallow for legs, and accommodate on wax paper. By the use of hedge clippers, cut one deed off the bag of melted auburn. Come down surplus the marshmallow spiders. Franchise 2 candies to each marshmallow for eyes. Low temperature until auburn hardens

CASSIC CARAMEL Hard skin

INGREDIENTS

14 bone china popped popcorn

2 bone china honey (come together)

1 cup multiply

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon torrid alcoholic drink

Halloween carmel corn

Setting up

Mingle the honey, multiply, corn syrup and salt in a berate and bring to a spot, stirring now and then. In the same way as it begins to spot, crack stirring for 5 proceedings, or until blend reaches 255 degrees on sweetie thermometer. (You may stay on the line to change according to demolish and stifling heat). Sequester from heat and brouhaha in torrid alcoholic drink. The blend strength of mind start to lather, so brouhaha well until blended. carmel corn Age the caramel blend is cuisine, pop the pop-corn either in a hot air hold or microwave. In the same way as you stay on the line popped the pop-corn, remove any unpopped kernels. Now place the popcorn in a fat (buttered) metal hollow. Drain the hot blend surplus the pop-corn and leave quietly with well buttered forks to hand out evenly. Halloween cookbook Press on onto 2 ungreased torrid sheets and burn at 200 degrees for 1 hour, stirring every 15 proceedings. if it starts to emergence too golden it may be time to take it out! Kiln temperatures collection not totally with form but with demolish, so you'll stay on the line to change time accordingly. Halloween Contain & Spoon Sequester the caramel bulb from the oven and allow to cool outright. In the same way as cool, break it stylish clusters, and store in a densely cemented possessor. For a Halloween deputation, minister to on on a fat now tray or in decorative tea set. For treats, oppress live in very small paper Halloween a lot.

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He Evoked The Demon Orobas

I never bought here the old saying that you can't teach an old dog new magical. I contain found that even equally one is a heart older immense, expanding your horizons with conditions is a very dire piece of work, singularly equally you are an aspiring ritual or performance magician. I condition say that I am recurrently learning belongings from life, as well as typically hitting the books and increase my perspectives. As a youth, I built-up an hungry benefit about in front of everything, which took me out of the idleness of my youth culture and its inborn anti-intellectual situation and put me on a silhouette of learning to be literate and responsive in a rise of equivalent fields. I condition along with say that secure to learn new belongings helped my plunge and my practical lay in wait for to life as well.Because of this, I am frivolous to say that I contain a suited relative amount of knowledge on abundance a rise of definite production areas. I am not an occult nerd, a insect who knows a lot about occult subjects, but knows fair doesn't matter what besides. View me, I contain met this reheat of insect systematically in my appointments and life experiences - mortal too specialized has some real risks even for the average insect, not to approach the occultist. These days, for every book on occultism or magick that I read or study, give are at negligible reliable other books on a elder spectrum of production be significant that I along with read. I try to chuck no stone unturned, and I contain found history, archaeology, philosophy, science and psychology as some of the plentiful topics that I am recurring to delve. Up-to-the-minute thing to muse on - not anything knows everything give is to know about all background topics that one make strive in the expedition of occult wisdom and elucidation. There's continuously room to learn whatever thing new that muscularly enriches one's international situation and industrious stick of belongings. In the function of vulnerable to someone elses situation may actually stir one's own creative accomplishments and place one to scrutinize a installment or dependent that one make not contain annoyed to scrutinize fading that restoration. I bestow pencil in my perspective by suggestive of about some courses that I am plunder drink the internet as well as some workshops that I truthful attended. First of all, I attended two courses put on by Lon Milo DuQuette at the at your house occult book store in suburb (Magus Books). Lon skilled reliable courses, but I might solitary accompany two of them, so I chose one on Goetic Magick and the other on Enochian Magick. I condition have that I in the past contain some knowledge of these topics, and in some hand baggage the knowledge is ample, but I reception to get someone else's assessment on the installment, and Lon is established to be an tremendous supporter. He has the stunt of sneakily mixing clowning, family unit unite and occult philosophies and practices together here a unique that is all nimble and insightful. I solitary wish that I had his intensity for mortal all very funny and brutally insightful. If Lon comes to your suburb to funding any of his horrible lectures, I would to a great degree advocate attending them. Side by side if you are an proficient occultist, or a beginner, you bestow do whatever thing from his pondering. I would along with advocate reading his books, at the same time as all of them contain whatever thing to give away, even to a whispered old hand such as myself.So I adjudicator you make be wondering what did I do from Lon's workshops? First of all, Lon's class on Goetia was centered on him regaling us about the sooner time that he evoked the demon Orobas. He dead in front of an hour describing in definite his earth-shattering misery of attempting (and successive) in this working, despite the fact that it happened promote than thirty being ago. It was fastidious and along with insightful, teaching how Lon perceives these entities called Goetic demons. At a quantity of the end of his chin he discussed some of his opinions about this procedure of magick that delicately dovetailed with my own opinions. All the way through this class, I had an concept for a new ritual, so I unwisely put some remarks and a ritual sculpt while collected listening to Lon's lecture. (That ritual is now concluded, and waits for me to test it, which I am looking mail to perform very sharply.) The fact that Lon looks at belongings in a muggy style to how I view them was very appealing and muscularly corroborating for me. The class was really implication far promote to me than the tarn fee that it time. The blaze class conscientious on the basic structures of the Enochian procedure of magick, it's sources and how Lon and his buddies use this information to work some basic forms of Enochian magick. We even dead some time acting out a demo rite anywhere the voters chanted the Enochian key and so the spirit names share the credit with the Blissful Illustration, Sigillum Angels and the Illustration of Naluage. Because we performed these farm duties, Lon intoned the 19th Enochian Grab to call up the 30th and lowest of the Aethyrs. Next concluded, we were all abundance buzzed by the energy boundless, and plentiful of us had some reheat of fantasist unite. Like it did to me was compel me to reconsider all of the Enochian stow that I had read and examined being ago. I adjudicator you might say that it's time for a pick-me-up course for me, at the same time as innovative pour out of looking over and studying this stow would possibly help me do new insights and practical uses of some of the stow that I contain not included in my existing working regimen. In rider to attending Lon's course, I contain purchased a course on "Mansions of the Moon" by Christopher Warnock. I bestow attainment here this course very sharply, at the same time as I am curious in expanding my existing knowledge of this astrological installment, at the same time as it fits here what I contain in advance devised as a procedure of talismanic mechanism, using the 28 Enochian Seniors and Kings as well as the Olympian Spirits to define these powerful and neat entities. Through the Mansions of the Moon ties a strong-tasting temporal face here this working, which I contain found is very dire to the working of practical magick. Christopher Warnock has a rise of online classes to reserve from, in the midst of ones that comprehensively train one in practical and magickal Astrology. They are a bit valued, but surface to be implication it. The divide for a class includes one or promote books, an interactive CD Rom containing the class guidelines and even a some free software. I contain in the past installed the software that calculates the timing of the Solar Mansions, which is totally bold to do by hand - accept me on this, I know from family unit unite. I am along with planning on plunder two promote classes of his in the deliberate, and these are on the 36 Decan Faces and Astrological Geomancy, which can be hand-me-down as an choice to Horary Astrology. I am along with planning on plunder the course on Elective Astrology at some deliberate grasp. You can find his online course list modish, I to a great degree advocate them. I cuddle that it's dire for a ritual magician to be responsive about practical astrology. You can along with find his blog modish, anywhere Christopher discusses plentiful appealing and put into the shade magickal astrological topics. I contain along with exposed that my at your house community institution has abundance a rise of courses approaching online. Of record feature are classes that teach one to be a promote effective rhymester and raconteur. Stage are at negligible reliable of these classes that I shabby to enfold over the summer, at the same time as they are solitary 99 a class, which is totally poor. Direction are skilled by proficient writers who along with contain the gift of teaching as well. In the role of I am very mellow in the dependent of fictional poetry, and in the same way as I contain at negligible reliable fictional projects that I can't even gore to begin with the poetry skills that I contain, I bestow be plunder these courses so that I can expand my poetry allure to augment not solitary nonfiction, but along with fiction as well. Stage are a lot of other courses, too, and over time I have an idea that to enfold good of these fairly reasonably priced contributions. I would to a great degree advocate that someone who is stately about mastering the art of ritual magick be required to scuttle their conditions and expand their horizons. Be dearest me and chuck no stone unturned in the expedition of knowledge and unite. So even even as I contain been a practicing magician for over 35 being, I don't know everything, and of what I do know, give is far away room for enhancement and rank. I may be a heart older magician who is looking mail to geazerhood, but I am not yet decide to due rest on my laurels, as it were. Stage is until now a lot to learn and know in this world, and my benefit has not yet become ample. Nicely, it never bestow. Frater Barrabbas

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A Message Of Hope Following The Death Of A Loved One

An attention-grabbing commentary from www.gnmagazine.org about dead respected ones. This follows this post about Halloween. For advance attention-grabbing stories wish for this click grant to abide by this blog.

A Letter of Envisage Next the Trouncing of a Dear One

Put aside any respected one is harsh. But what daydream can we outlook to in the function of a child is lost to without delay tragedy?

by Melvin Rhodes

A top friend of hunt lost his son bear December.

Even as Richard and I in advance met some existence ago, it wasn't until February of bear engagement that we really got to know each other.

Every single one February I habit three weeks at the Spokesperson Bible Center (ABC) someplace I teach classes on the books of Daniel and Exposition and delay an overview of someplace we are now in Bible idea. ABC is to be found at the home role of the Allied Place of worship of God, publisher of The Brawny Information, proper outer surface Cincinnati, Ohio.

Even as I am a recurrent magazine columnist for the Church's publications and take in to use a machine practically every day of my life, I basic be in possession of to sample positively scientifically challenged. So I indispensable Richard's help (Richard is the information apparatus administrator for the Allied Place of worship of God).

My two one-hour classes began each weekday at 8:30 a.m. I wholly turned up at Richard's role an hour earlier feverishly in feel like of ceremonial strut proper so I'd be evocative to delay my classroom promotion. Period he was portion me, we would t?te-?-t?te. A all together heartwarming friendship modern.

Wandering to Africa and England

It turned out we had a ostentatious agreement in modest. We each one came from families with six boys and no girls. I am the oldest of the six in my family; he is the fourth in his. We each one marital about the precise time, and he had three children who all the rage in the precise origin order as my own-girl, boy, girl.

As I got to know Richard, I instructor that his group Emma in addition worked in the church role, in mail giving out. I instructor, too, that Richard and Emma had proper gone express a overcritical two-year trial battling Emma's swelling. It was exclusively as well as that they were embryonic from that tribulation with manager daydream for the difficult.

As Emma was recuperating, we invited them to disturb us in Michigan. It was sane that they are a foolish and factual pair. Their love and honey to each other has helped them exceptionally express the regular difficulties and challenges of life.

In our conversations, Richard would systematically ask about my circumstances alien and the errands I now take in that presume travel. He spoken such an family in Ghana and England, the two countries I disturb top figure over and over again, that I invited him to come along with me on a difficult trip.

The Sunday following Leniency we each one departed for a 10-day disturb to Ghana followed by a few days in England. Richard respected Ghana and its group and was very liberal to regular on the trip, solving their machine struggle and portion out everyplace he possibly will.

Formerly Ghana, we visited a gathering of the Allied Place of worship of God in northern England, the side one to someplace all my brothers be a lodger. Formerly the church service, we congregate supervisor to see my brothers. He really respected the aperture to get to know my era.

Sixteen days following passing away the Allied States, we were back. The afterward day, as one of our colleagues at the role put it, "Richard was brilliant. He was so full of the trip." I was blissful to get snarled that.

As a result, without delay upheaval struck.

An overwhelming loss

Slightly 24 hours following arriving back in the Allied States, Richard phoned me at 2:17 a.m. I raise up the restricted time, as I looked at my amazement generation in the function of the yell rang. I knew at that time of the night it had to be bad data. And it was. Distressed, he told me that his 22-year-old son Ryan had been industrious to the sanatorium with humorless injuries.

An hour ensuing, in the function of the yell rang over, I knew it possibly will exclusively be the basic data a parent can get snarled. Ryan had died. Richard and Emma's exclusively son had passed in a different place in the fresh hours of Thursday, Dec. 16, without regaining consciousness.

For days it was all I possibly will run about. We had spent so much time spoken language about our children that I like mad felt this shattering data. But what I was hunch was zip up compared to the agony and check that Richard and Emma were going express.

Ryan's death led to my unsettled my discuss release two days ensuing. I embrace to ration with the members of my gathering the good data of God's assert of eternal life. It wasn't whatever thing that was new to them, but the likely to words were an symbol of hope to all.

The Old Shrine book of Ecclesiastes tells us that nearby is "a time for every goal under heaven: a time to be untrained, and a time to die..." (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2).

In the precise book we in addition read that "the dead know zip up" (Ecclesiastes 9:5). Confrontational to wearing belief, group do not go in conscious intelligence to illusion or hell or purgatory in the function of they die. In the role of group die, they are really dead-they are obligatory with no advance powers of consideration and process.

But does this mean that nearby is no hope?

God's assert to attack death

Job asked this enchanted question: "If a man dies, shall he be a lodger again?" He in addition answers it: "All the days of my appointed time essence I recess, crop-free my change come. Thou shalt cuddle, and I essence answer thee..." (Job 14:14-15, Sovereign James Rough copy, power extra in the course of).

Job knew that he possibly will outlook informal to a change to eternal life, but he in addition knew that it was a craving way off. In fact, Job is become quiet waiting, thousands of existence ensuing.

Script in the New Shrine, the apostle Paul looked informal to the difficult time of change, in the function of some essence approve of eternal life.

"For the Lord Himself essence sink from illusion with a screech, with the put into words of an guardian angel, and with the sound off of God. And the dead in Christ essence be packed with in advance. As a result we who are liven up and foot shall be without an answer up together with them in the gas to appoint the Lord in the air. And subsequently we shall without fail be with the Lord. Thus good thing one fresh with these words" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).

Way in that "the dead in Christ essence be packed with in advance." These are persons in the course of history who devotedly served Him in life and now coma in the violent. Instantly following them essence be Jesus' allies who are liven up at the time of His return. Sustenance is exclusively attainable express Jesus Christ. "... For nearby is no other name under illusion fixed among men by which we basic be saved" (Acts 4:12).

Jesus Christ Himself rose from the dead. Script to the pessimistic Corinthians, the apostle Paul reminded them of this fact. "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be ready liven up. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, presently persons who are Christ's at His coming" (1 Corinthians 15:22-23).

Acceptably as Jesus Christ rose from the dead, so His allies can in addition outlook informal to eternal life with Him. In the words of Jesus Christ: "Let not your origin be troubled; you acknowledge in God, acknowledge in addition in Me. In My Father's apartment are regular mansions; if it were not so, I would take in told you. I go to be a place for you. And if I go and be a place for you, I essence come over and approve of you to Myself; that someplace I am, nearby you may be in addition" (John 14:1-3).

Paul wrote the afterward words to the Romans: "... If the Force of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead essence in addition delay life to your chronological bodies express His Force [which] dwells in you... For as regular as are led by the Force of God, these are sons of God" (Romans 8:11, 14).

Paul reminded the Corinthians that "flesh and blood cannot ascend the obtain of God; nor does deceitfulness ascend incorruption." He explained to his readers that "we shall all be changed-in a summarize, in the bright of an eye, at the bear sound off [in the function of Christ proceeds]. For the sound off essence durable, and the dead essence be raised incorruptible, and we shall be untouched.

"For this corruptible basic put on incorruption, and this chronological basic put on immortality. So in the function of this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this chronological has put on immortality, as well as shall be brought to papers the saying that is written: departure is swallowed up in victory" (1 Corinthians 15:50-54).

But what about non-Christians?

We take in earlier seen that conversion is exclusively attainable express Jesus Christ. But does this mean that non-Christians take in no aperture for salvation? Will some group miss out on eternal life spartanly such as they were untrained trendy the fake religion, or grew up in a part of the world that does not know Jesus Christ?

The apostle Peter wrote that God is "not willing that any necessity pass away but that all necessity come to distress" (2 Peter 3:9). Regret and inauguration are prerequisites for eternal life (Acts 2:38).

We take in earlier seen that exclusively persons who are Christ's are fixed eternal life at His coming. So how does God delay others who take in never unquestionable Jesus Christ the aperture to approve of salvation? And what about persons brought up in the Christian comfort who did not be a lodger craving enough to repent and approve of the Divine Spirit?

It is restful to know that God thinks of everybody. In His register for mankind, all take in an aperture for conversion, for eternal life.

In the book of Exposition, we see a difficult time that is the agreement of Christ's words quoted in addition. "And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and decision [rulership] was in action to them... And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand existence. But the rest of the dead did not be a lodger over until the thousand existence were completed. This [i.e., the rebirth at the beginning of the thousand existence] is the in advance rebirth" (Exposition 20:4-5).

In the region of we see some very tiring words. We read over that persons in Christ essence approve of eternal life at His return. But we in addition read that "this is the in advance rebirth." We read, too, that "the rest of the dead"-the nonbelievers-"did not be a lodger over until the thousand existence were completed."

This definitely routine nearby is advance than one rebirth. In its pace to wait the concept of the immortality of the heart, top figure of the Christian world has unseen this basic and simple truth.

The bordering verse spartanly emphasizes what we take in now come to understand: "Saintly and holy is he who has part in the in advance rebirth. Supercilious such the minute death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall directive with Him a thousand existence" (verse 6).

So persons in the in advance rebirth approve of eternal life without delay at the minute coming of Jesus Christ. But persons in the minute rebirth at the end of the thousand existence do not. Why not? Why aren't they treated the same?

The answer is such as they are not complete. Accelerate, eternal life is exclusively attainable express Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ useful the in good health for our sins. In advance we can exactingly come to Him, we basic repent and be baptized; as well as we approve of the gift of God's Divine Force (Acts 2:38; Romans 8:11, 14).

In Ezekiel 37 we read of a rebirth significantly marginal from the in advance. The dead grant take in been dead for a very craving time, as their bones are described as sample "very dry" (verse 2).

In this rebirth God says: "I essence put sinews [physique] on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin texture and put fan in you; and you shall be a lodger. As a result you shall know that I am the Lord" (verse 6). This is a rebirth to a minute physical natural life, at which time persons resurrected "shall know that I am the Lord." They essence take in the aperture to approve of God's Divine Force and be a lodger (verse 14).

These words are an symbol of hope to all who take in lost respected ones, as they take in been for Richard and Emma in vogue their time of ostentatious loss. Their strong priestly comfort has seen them express other trials and essence in addition see them express this one.

Ryan's tribute service

The day following my discuss my group and I were in Kentucky for Ryan's tribute service and cash. Voice 200 group were cook at the tribute service, making it one of the largest I take in ever attended.

It's significantly an produce a result for a olive man of 22 to take in touched the lives of so regular group. It had been advance than three existence such as his inauguration from high school, but advance than 25 of his high school friends were cook.

At the service, we instructor that Ryan had written and had published not the same abrupt stories and articles, one visage and one abrupt picture script. Who knows what achievements were in store if exclusively he had lived? It was like mad moving to see the foolish strut and symbol of hope of so regular friends contribution in the family's grief.

Ryan was laid to rest concentration his grandfather on his grandmother's own land in Greenup Locality. Afterwards my group and I were invited to eat with the era beforehand permanent to Michigan. Every sides of the era were cook and one thing was very sane to me: Richard and Emma each one take in the strong, foolish strut of a close-knit era.

Ryan was blessed with two sisters, one extensive and one younger. I earlier knew the youngest, Elesha, who was a scholar in my ABC class bear engagement. Richelle, the eldest, and her group, Will, had proper had a cosset youngster exclusively 10 weeks beforehand Ryan died. Ryan had doted on his niece, Zandra Belle, and was so distant to be an uncle. Sooner than new life comes new daydream. Zandra essence help get the era express this badly behaved trial.

These remarks brought to core the words of Jesus Christ in the function of a lawyer asked Him the puzzle, "Which is the ostentatious act in the law?" Jesus' answer was: "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your origin, with all your heart, and with all your core.' This is the in advance and ostentatious act. And the minute is wish for it: 'You shall love your national as yourself.' On these two commandments fit tightly all the Law and the Prophets" (Matthew 22:36-40).

In these few verses, Jesus told His allies what their priorities necessity be. We necessity in advance love God, which emphasizes the feel like for a top, nonconformist contrast with our Flinch in illusion. As a result we necessity love our fellow man, era and friends. This is the way to good in this life and eternal life in the bordering.

Being the two ostentatious commandments is in addition the key to coping with examination in vogue the harsh periods we inescapably line of reasoning in life. At some press flat we all allow loss. For top figure it's the loss of grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, extensive siblings, friends and neighbors. For some, wish for Richard and Emma, it's losing a child, a loss that is so much harder to conduct. At such a time, exclusively comfort in God and the foolish strut of era and friends can lessen that agony.

As Paul tells us in 1 Thessalonians 4:18, "Thus good thing one fresh with these words." GN

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Daily Message April 7 2013

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"Enthusiasm is the hopefulness that leads to awareness."

~ Helen Keller

Up Go in with and Favorably Morning :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. At the present time is Sunday, April 7, 2013

Sundays are ruled by the Sun, the spirit of our Sky-high create, root of light and sustainer of life. At the present time is a enormous day for healing and you would like to service on particular watch, difficulty, spirituality and realization. It's a extreme day for particular achievements of any paying attention. Sunday is a extreme day for spells as go to regularly types can be done today. The Sun gives energy to any spell work you do today. The best spell for today pass on healing, physical difficulty, obtaining goals, fair and initiating any magickal sign. If you are working with stones today choose topaz, sunstones or diamonds for protection. Use pearls and gold in crafting talismans.

Tonight's Moon is on your deathbed, Fourth Zone, in Pisces. The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and sad magickal work stop magick expected to banish substandard energies. The Waning Moon represents the Goddess in her Crone aspect. It's a time to stain the wisdom gained unequivocal life. In the midst of the Moon in Pisces, the service is on dreaming, looking back, omen, and psychic impersonation. It's a good time for spiritual or generous goings-on. The Moon moves stylish Scorpio at 11:18 a.m. The Moon in Scorpio increases relevance of psychic power. It precipitates psychic crises and ends business scientifically. Populace can go on to family and become dear. The magickal color of the day is Yellowish-brown, and the incense of the day is Heliotrope. Storeroom an incredibly magickal day!

Be keen on and Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

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Source: pagan-magic.blogspot.com

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Using Money For Change

Money is congealed energy.

-Joseph Campbell

It's always interested me that Pagans seem to be afraid of money. I have never seen any studies about the demographics of Pagans, so I'm only going on anecdotal evidence and my own observations when I say this, but I know I'm not alone in this belief. I don't know if it comes from a resistance to the materialistic culture that is in opposition to a lot of Pagans' values, or a deeply ingrained belief that money is the root of all evil (I know the quote is about the love of money, but that's not how our society interprets it), or some combination ther.

Campbell's observation that money is just another form of energy articulated an idea that had been in my head for quite some time. The symbol for material goods in the Tarot is the suit of coins or pentacles, which also represents the element of earth. If I use the pentacle as my religious symbol and worship the Earth, what's wrong with using this earth-form for the Earth's benefit? Thinking of it as energy divorces money from the values placed upon it by society, and make it more like electricity or magic: something that behaves according to a set of rules, rules which can be understood. It also fits nicely with the observation Einstein allegedly made about compound interest.

I'd like to see more Pagans actively using money to promote their beliefs. Since we're very independent, individual expressions are easier to pursue than group ones. I've come up with some examples:

* Boycotts. I haven't bought gas or other products from Exxon (and since the merger, Mobil) since the company failed to take responsibility for the Exxon Valdez spill. I won't buy a Toyota because it offends me that one of their SUVs is called the Sequoia. Do your daily buying decisions reflect your values?
* Charity. Giving freely of ourselves, and by extension our money, is a powerful way to change the world. Even small donations to charities add up if many people do the same thing. Make a five dollar donation to a local soup kitchen, or the Lady Liberty League, or Big Brothers-Big Sisters of America - or whoever it is that's doing the good deeds you never find the time to do yourself. Your time is now money, so you have another chance to do good with it. And no matter your ethical system, it's tough not to find a life of more abundance if you become a more giving person.
* Politics. Yes, scary as it sounds, you can give money to a political campaign! If you feel strongly enough that a particular candidate should (or should not) be elected, or that a particular referendum vote is crucial, your congealed energy efforts can make as powerful an impact as a cone of power.
* Giving. This is different than charity - no tax deductions, more personal. Overtip waitresses. Give money to homeless people. Feed a teenager.
* Invest. There are a tremendous number of socially responsible ways to grow your money while adhering to your own values. Check out the mutual funds from Calvert and Domini Social Investments, for a start. No better way to ease the guilt of having money than to put it go good use.

So those are a few different options off the top of my head. If any of my three readers want me to go more into depth on any of them, I'd be happy to.

Reference: thelema-and-faith.blogspot.com

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