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(EX 20, 17) YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE
[17] "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him."
(CCC 2514) St. John distinguishes three kinds of covetousness or concupiscence: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life (Cf. 1 Jn 2:16). In the Catholic catechetical tradition, the ninth commandment forbids carnal concupiscence; the tenth forbids coveting another's goods. (CCC 2515) Etymologically, "concupiscence" can refer to any intense form of human desire. Christian theology has given it a particular meaning: the movement of the sensitive appetite contrary to the operation of the human reason. The apostle St. Paul identifies it with the rebellion of the "flesh" against the "spirit" (Cf. Gal 5:16, 17, 24; Eph 2:3). Concupiscence stems from the disobedience of the first sin. It unsettles man's moral faculties and, without being in itself an offense, inclines man to commit sins (Cf. Gen 3:11; Council of Trent: DS 1515). (CCC 2528) "Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart" (Mt 5:28). (CCC 2529) The ninth commandment warns against lust or carnal concupiscence. (CCC 2530) The struggle against carnal lust involves purifying the heart and practicing temperance.
Reference: new-generation-witch.blogspot.com
(Loo-nas-ah) Major Sabbat (High Holiday) - Fire Festival August 1, 2
OTHER NAMES: Lunasa (meaning August), Lughnasaad, Lughnasa Celtic),First Harvest, August Eve, Feast of Cardenas, Feast of Bread, Tailltean Games(Irish), Teltain Cornucopia (Strega), Ceresalia (Ancient Roman) Harvest Home, Thingtide (Teutonic), Lammas (Christian). Laa Luanys, Elembious, Festival of Green Corn (Native American)
ANIMALS AND MYTHICAL BEINGS: Griffins, Basilisks, Roosters, Calves, Centaurs, Phoenix
GEMSTONES: aventurine, citrine, peridot, sardonyx, yellow diamonds, citrine
INCENSE AND OILS: wood aloes, rose, rose hips, rosemary, chamomile, eucalyptus, safflower, corn, passionflower, frankincense, sandalwood
COLORS: red, orange, golden yellow, green, light brown, gold, bronze, gray
TOOLS, SYMBOLS, AND DECORATIONS: corn, cornucopias, red, yellow flowers, sheaves of grain (wheat, barley, oats), first fruits/vegetables of garden labor, corn dollies, baskets of bread, spear, cauldron, sickle, scythe, threshing tools, sacred loaf of bread, harvested herbs, bonfires, bilberries, God figures made of bread or cookie dough, phallic symbols
GODDESSES: The Mother, Dana (Lugh&'s wife & queen ), Tailltiu (Welsh-Scottish), Demeter (Greek), Ceres (Roman grain goddess.. honored at Ceresalia), the Barley Mother, Seelu (Cherokee), Corn Mother, Isis (Her birthday is celebrated about this time), Luna (Roman Moon Goddess), other agricultural Goddesses, the waxing Goddess
GODS: Lugh (Celtic, one of the Tuatha De Danaan), John Barley Corn, Arianrhod's golden haired son Lleu (Welsh God of the Sun & Corn where corn includes all grains, not just maize), Dagon (Phoenician Grain God), Tammuz/ Dummuzi (Sumerian), Dionysus, plus all sacrificial Gods who willingly shed
blood/give their life that their people/lands may prosper, all vegetation Gods Death of Lugh, Celtic Grain Festival
PURPOSE: Honoring the parent Deities, first harvest festival, first fruits grains & drink to the Goddess in appreciation of Her bounty, offering loaves of sacred bread in the form of the God (this is where the Gingerbread Man originated)
RITUALS AND MAGICKS: astrology, prosperity, generosity, continued success, good fortune, abundance, magickal picnic, meditate & visualize yourself completing a project you've started
CUSTOMS AND ACTIVITIES: games, the traditional riding of poles/staves, country fairs, breaking bread with friends, making corn dollys, harvesting herbs for charms/rituals, Lughnasadh fire with sacred wood & dried herbs, feasting, competitions, lammas towers (fire-building team competitions), spear tossing, gathering flowers for crowns, fencing/swordplay, games of skill, martial sports, chariot races, hand-fastings, trial marriages, dancing 'round a corn mother (doll)
FOODS: loaves of homemade wheat, oat, & corn bread, barley cakes, corn, potatoes, summer squash, nuts, acorns, wild berries (any type), apples, rice, pears, berry pies, elderberry wine, crab apples, mead, crab, blackberries, meadowsweet tea, grapes, cider, beer
HERBS: grain, acacia, heather, ginseng, sloe, cornstalks, cyclamen, fenugreek, aloes, frankincense, sunflower, hollyhock, oak leaf, wheat, myrtle
ELEMENT: Fire
GENDER: Female
Reference: wiccancommunity.blogspot.com
So Twofeathers and I esteemed the full moon, the wolf moon. Demolish is some info on the wolf moon and the wolf protection spell we did from Gypsy Charm.
Tonight is the night of the Lay claim to a buffet Moon. This to begin with full moon of the new get together is a time of end and indolent by the home fire. As the raging winter howls, hope the accost of home and links.
Now is the time to go within and envisage the changes you drive make in the get. Envision now what you drive rambler. Pull a moon journal to plan your lunar tides and write down your get dreams.
CORRESPONDENCES:
Colors: Black and white, silver
Gemstones: Hematite
Trees: Birch, Hazel
Gods: Inanna, Freyja
Herbs: Thistle, bananas and seeds, marjoram
Element: Air
Unbroken Moon names started with Regular Americans as tribes low form of the seasons by affable great names to each continuous full Moon. The names actually hands-on to the great month in which each occurred. Offering was some revision in the names based on tribes. European settlers followed that intention and bent some of their own names.
Sometimes it is foundation referred to as the Ad hoc Moon, Old Moon, or the Moon Formerly Yule. Evident called it the Unbroken Flurry Moon, but Lay claim to a buffet Moon seems most procure, in express cultures, such as in the midst of the caring and brilliant snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily coating their minor villages, huts, and teepees. To the extremely divide the lunar month is special 29 days long for on the be stance about, the full Moon dates transfer from get together to get together.
This is a good time to work on magic escort to protection, in addition physical and spiritual. Use this time to sprout your inner self, and advance earnestly, becoming excellent punctually to the make better aspects of your deities.
~collected from various sources
Lay claim to A Feast Guardian Relocation
YOU Option NEED:
2 green candles
1 Ancient CANDLE
Be inquiring in of a wolf/wolves
High John the Conquerer Convey oil (GERANIUM OIL Option Struggle Carnival Self-sacrificing)
Sacred Brackish AND Marine
Wine (ANY "Solar" good taste drive do mead, milk, ale, etc)
Another cakes (ANY Pleasant OF Wet behind the ears Normal CAKE Option DO)
The pictures are to help inside the energy. The candles and oil are used to give in to the spell. The sacred water and salt are for sealing the circle. The wine and the cake is an communicate of love and chow.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Put up the shutters your supplies, and on the night of the full moon, make make better a sacred space happening which you drive place the wolf pictures, the two candles, the cakes and the wine.
Rub the candles with the essential oil and light them. By way of the salt, make a circle string your sacred space, and foundation drop a line to water at each of the four preparation beginning in the North.
Sit or stand lightly and try your energy on the wolf pictures, try to see, streak, check out, and value the energy of wolves. If you reach a list of wolves prickly - total it.
NOW, Charm THE FOLLOWING:
"Candles three, green and white,
Being time protection classified this night.
The Moon is full, the sky is record,
Pressurize and evil admiration wrap.
The vigorous wolf shall ever decree,
and protect my links from harm and bane.
Take on hither! Take on hither!
Activate of the Lay claim to a buffet, strong and great!
Include AN EYE ON AND BE Unclear BY THIS Veer NOW
and in the course of your life."
Set sights on one of the cakes in defective and eat it. Award a blessing to the spirit of the wolf, and the light of the moon, and good taste some of the wine. Furthermore, reach the become cadaverous cakes and wine coating and smudge it for the raging stuff to encouragement. Make available up with the candles to snap at down, and place the wolf pictures in a bring to an end and sacred place.
~author funny
Thanks so much to Debra at She Who Seeks for giving me this Over the Top blog award! This particularly is special to me because Debra's was the first spiritual blog I started following!
The rules are:
1. You have to answer a 35 question survey with a one word answer. (Me, just one word? Ya right! But I'll do my best.)
2. You nominate six bloggers to recieve the reward!
The Survey
1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your hair? ponytail3. Your mother? single
4. Your father? estranged
5. Your favourite food? Twizzlers
6. Your dream last night? warning7. Your favourite drink? Frappuccino
8. Your dream/goal? Pulitzer
9. What room are you in? family room
10. Your hobby? astrology
11. Your fear? homeless12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? bestseller list
13. Where were you last night? home14. Something that you aren't? neatfreak
15. Muffins? chocolate chip
16. Wish list item? Dodge Viper17. Where did you grow up? farm
18. Last thing you did? eat a cookie
19. What are you wearing? jeans & long-sleeved tee
20. Your TV? barely works
21. Your pets? several
22. Friends? supportive
23. Your life? adventure
24. Your mood? contemplative
25. Missing someone? always
26. Vehicle? Dodge Grand Caravan
27. Something you're not wearing? shoes
28. Your favourite store? Half-Price Books
29. Your favourite colour? pink30. When was the last time you laughed? just now (watching Bill Maher)
31. Last time you cried? today (thought I lost my iTouch)
32. Your best friend? no one is "best"
33. One place that I go to over and over? Wal-Mart
34. One person who emails me regularly? Twitter, Myspace, and Facebook (Why Myspace and Facebook? I know I have something new when I go to my profile! Dur!)
35. Favourite place to eat? Panda Express
Here are my six nominees:
1. Jennifer at Confessions of a Kitchen Witch
2. Wendy at Athena Academy
3. Waebon at Hedgewitch Hollow
4. Domestically Challenged at Another Day In Paradise
5. His Precious at Pagan in the Rough
6. Elfwench at Chronicles of the Elfwench
Credit: 33witches.blogspot.com
My thanks to Mr Balaji, a regular reader of this blog, for forwarding this article.
-jayasree
On TUE, 17/3/09, HARAN BR " wrote:
Dear Friends,
I dont know what you think of me, I dont care about it too. But sometimes, the warnings given by fools too will be vital if followed, fatal otherwise! This is the most alarming mail I have ever received in my 4 and half years of mailing experience. It is important to read this not only for others good, but also for your own good.
Please, dont ignore this!
Please, I beg you. Donate 10 minutes from your busy schedule and read it. It is not a waste of time, but a meaningful analysis of what has happened, is happening (and a prediction of what would happen if this is ignored).
If you ever have one percent gratitude to the enormous milk your mother gave you, you will understand the importance of this mail!
Remember, PREVENTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN CURE!
RELIGION, NOT CASTE, HIDES BEHIND RESERVATIONS
It is a measure of the success of the Christian propaganda machinery that idiot Hindus have no threat-perception of their own. How else can we explain that notwithstanding the barbaric Crusades, Atlantic slave trade, White Christian European colonialism, the near-total extermination of the native peoples of North and South America, and the total destruction of the faiths and cultures of Native Americans, Africans and growing sections of Asians, uni-polar or bi-polar world order, the poles are always located in the Christian world, Hindus see the sword of Islam clearly but do not see or sense the Christian cancer eating into the vitals of the Hindu nation?
Horrified senior advocates of the Madras High Court who read my Plainspeak column 'Madras High Court lawyers' mutiny - the church's first big step' are pressing the panic button. The idea that the Bar and judiciary has been brought to its knees by a section of lawyers espousing Tamil Eelam and that Eelam will be a Tamil Christian state, has jolted their grey cells into feverish activity. While no immediate decisive result of the brain activity is expected, at least a beginning has been made towards kindling awareness within this self-absorbed community about the simmering Tamil chauvinist political cauldron.
In all government and government-aided institutions, including institutions of politics and administration and institutions of higher learning, elevation to top posts at any level or grade is simply a matter of emerging as the senior-most worker at the right time at the end of the assembly line; unless the post happens to be a political appointment - like the Rashtrapati Bhavan, NSA, Governor of a state, Vice-Chancellor of a university or Director of the CBI. For some posts like Chief Justices of High Courts and the Supreme Court, Commissioners and Directors-General of Police, Vice-Chancellors, Directors, and Deans, a person must not only be ready at the delivery point in the assembly line but must also be on the right side of the ruling dispensation. Needless to say, stakes are very high because these posts come with power, privilege and pelf. Needless to say again, what goes into the assembly line determines what comes out of it at the end and at the top.
The writer was present at the Judicial Academy last month to depose before Justice Srikrishna who was appointed to look into events leading to February 19 in the Madras High Court. The writer and her friends were intimidated by a menacing group of lawyers who demanded that we be evicted from the premises and that we should not be allowed to depose. It is besides the matter that we refused to be intimidated but the writer had been carefully observing the hordes of lawyers who had thronged the venue; the bulk comprised Christians and anti-Hindu dravidian Tamil chauvinists (as distinct from Tamil Hindus). This triggered the question 'why'? Why were RC Paul Kanagaraj and a dravidian Tamil S Prabakaran heading the Madras High Court Advocates' Association and the Tamil Nadu Advocates Association? How did they become Presidents of these organizations?
This question demanded an urgent response because these two individuals are credited with the dubious distinction of getting the Madras and Tamil Nadu Bar to espouse a foreign policy issue (which is not the domain of the judiciary), besides celebrating a notified Christian Tamil terrorist's birthday in the High Court premises; they are singularly responsible for paralyzing the Tamil Nadu judiciary which has worked for only ten days in this calendar year. The answer to the 'why and how' the state's advocates' associations slipped into their control is rooted in the peculiar reservations policy of successive dravidian Tamil Nadu governments, both DMK and AIADMK. Reservations which stand at 69%, is way above the national policy of 50% reservation quota for the socially and economic non-forward castes. So far, attempts to challenge this abnormality in the courts and bring it on par with the national numbers have met with ferocious opposition from all dravidian Tamil parties.
The Brahmins and other non-Brahmin forward castes, even if the families live in penury, are kept out of the reservation quota in higher education and government jobs. Children of economically backward temple pujaris who earn a pittance, children of socially and economically backward Brahmins who carry the dead in their community to the cremation ground, children of poverty-stricken vaidikas who do not eat two full meals in a day, are also kept out of the reservation quota regime. If a section of the Hindu forward castes are kept out of the quota regime, it would be expected that those brought into the quota spectrum would belong to the socially and economically backward 'castes'. But is that the case? How many of us know that the 'c' in the OBC and MBC is not caste but 'class' here and 'community' there. Economically backward Hindus are kept out of the empowering quota regime because of their 'caste' but Christians and Muslims are brought into the fold in the guise of 'class'.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF RELIGION BEHIND RESERVATIONS
MUSLIMS
Let me cite the much-acclaimed Sachar Commission report, Table 10.3
Around 40% of all Muslims are already enjoying the benefits of reservation under the OBC quota
The percentage of Muslims and Christians who are cornering the benefits of reservation in the BC and OBC quota vary from state to state
West Bengal - 2.4%
Uttar Pradesh - 62%
Kerala, where the Muslims constitute 25% of the total state population, 99% are classified as OBCs and are claiming reservation quota
In Tamil Nadu 93.3% Muslims have been notified as OBC by the state government in 2004-2005 whereas in 1999-2000 83% of Muslims were notified as OBC - a steep increase of 10% in just five years!
CHRISTIANS
All-India population as per 2001 Census - 2.3% or 24.2 million
1/3 of all Christian population is tribal. Of the remaining 2/3, around 70% claim backward status
North-east - 5.3 million tribal Christians which is 1/4 - 1/5 of the total Christian population. The North-east Christians are all tribal people
Orissa - 8 lakh tribal Christians
. Bihar and Jharkhand - 1.1 million tribal Christians
. Of the remaining 16 million Christians, 60-70% of all Christians in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Orissa are notified as OBCs with percentages varying from state to state as indicated earlier
Only 10% of all Christians in the country are not availing of any kind of reservation and these would be largely the Goan and the Syrian Christians.
Now let us look at some hard facts about the politics and religion behind reservations.
All-India reservation - total 50%. ST 7.5%, SC 15%, OBC 27.5%.
All-India tribal population stands at 8.2% while all-India SC population is 16.2%
Christians constitute only 10% of the total tribal population but they corner 90% of all ST reservation quotas in higher education and government employment.
J">Around 70% of Christians and Muslims have been brought into the quota regime as backward communities or backward classes
There is no category called Scheduled Caste Christians or Muslims. When the church demands reservation for so-called dalit Christians and God forbid, that it may ever happen, then the church will de-notify large segments of the OBC Christian population and re-classify them as Scheduled Castes so that they can corner all the benefits of SC reservation just as they are cornering all the benefits of the ST reservation quota.
This cornering is made possible only because of the constitutional right provided to minorities to start and run educational institutions. There is a move now afoot to equate degrees obtained from Muslim madarasas to the CBSE board so that the Muslims in the OBC spectrum may be enabled to corner another major chunk of the benefits of reservation just as the Christians are doing now.
Under the Gandhi-Nehru inspired secular political dispensation, Hindu OBCs and Hindu STs are being systematically disempowered economically just as the Hindus of the country are being disempowered politically. The economic and political disempowerment of the Hindus is directly proportional to the empowerment of the two most-well-organized so-called global Abrahamic minorities.
To get back to how the likes of Paul Kanagaraj and S Prabakaran have ascended to the powerful positions they now hold, we will have to look at the face of the religions behind the Tamil Nadu reservation quota regime. Paul Kanagaraj and S Prabakaran were elected Presidents by the advocates of the Madras High Court and Tamil Nadu courts respectively. These advocates have only to be registered in the Bar; it is of no consequence that they may not have made a single appearance in the court to argue a case. The bulk of these advocates enter the courts directly from law colleges where admission to the courses is governed by Tamil Nadu's distinctively anti-Hindu reservation policy.
What is true of admission to law colleges is true of medical colleges, engineering colleges, IITs, IIMs, and admission to all under-graduate and post-graduate courses in the Sciences and Humanities. Let us now look at the reservation quota regime in Tamil Nadu
TAMIL NADU TOTAL 69% RESERVATION
50% BC + MBC - 30% BC, 20% MBC
18% SC - 15% + 3% exclusively for Arundhatiyar community
1% for ST
About 90% of all Muslims and Christians have been included for reservation under the 30% BC category
70% of all Tamil Nadu population is considered BC, a very unusual and high percentage.
50% of the 70% BC population is qualified for reservation.
Now let us see how this works in real terms by taking admission to medical colleges as an example. There are altogether 3000 medical seats of which 30% or 900 seats are allotted to the BC. 600 seats or 20% of the total are allotted to the MBC.
Christians constitute 6.5% of the total Tamil Nadu population while Muslims constitute 5.5%. Of the total 6.5% of Christians, 6.1% or around 80% of the total Christian population have been classified as BC. This is 1/9 of the total population. BC Christians were cornering 300 seats out of the 900 medical seats every year; that is 1/9 of the population was claiming 1/3 of the share of seats. AND THAT IS WHY CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN CLERGY MET THE TAMIL NADU CHIEF MINISTER TO ASK HIM TO RESCIND THE ORDER GRANTING 3.5% RESERVATION FOR CHRISTIANS. THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT PROMPTLY RESCINDED THE ORDER AND ALLOWED THE CHRISTIANS TO COME BACK INTO THE 30% BC QUOTA SEGMENT WHICH WAS GETTING THEM PHENOMENAL RETURNS. Christians must be removed from the 30% BC quota unless we want a situation someday in the near future when they may rampage across the entire BC spectrum. Giving this super-forward religion even 3.5% quota is bad enough but allowing them to occupy the elephant's space in the BC quota segment is willful betrayal of the cause of Hindu backward classes.
The same would be true of all professional colleges and in admissions to all under-graduate and post-graduate degrees too. We must not be beguiled into thinking that the remaining seats go to Hindu BCs and MBCs. If we consider the possibility that preference in reservation is given to anti-Hindu, irreligious dravidian Tamils with marked political affiliations, then we begin to understand what is happening in the Madras High Court and in all other courts of Tamil Nadu. RESERVATION BENEFITS ARE BEING HOGGED BY THE MINORITIES AND ANTI-HINDU DRAVIDIAN TAMILS. Tamil Hindu SCs, BCs and MBCs are being increasingly marginalized and alienated from the mainstream.
Events of February 17 and February 19 in the Madras High Court are only a violent expression of what has been happening for more than a decade now in Tamil Nadu's educational institutions of higher learning. The Tamil Nadu government had announced 3.5% exclusive reservation for Christians and Muslims. This 7% minority reservation quota was supposed to have been hived off the 30% BC reservation quota. In the beginning, the church welcomed the move but soon beat the retreat when it realised that under the 3.5% exclusive quota, Christian BCs were eligible only for 105 seats as against the 300 seats it was snatching from the mouths of Hindu BCs.
Now let us look at the last government deception which is proving fatal to Hindu Backward class and castes. According to the 2001 Census report which for the first time was collecting such data on the basis of religion, if we consider urbanization and literacy as indicators or indices of forwardness, then in Tamil Nadu -
Male literacy is Christians 90%, Muslims also 90%, Hindus 81.5%
Female literacy is Christians 82%, Muslims 76%, Hindus 62.5%
Urbanized percentage - Christians 56%, Muslims 73%, Hindus 41%
If we have to avert a social bloody revolution, then Indian polity must begin to define forward and backward and also address the anomaly of the 'c' in FC and BC. Keeping Hindus out of reservation on the basis of caste but bringing in the Christians and Muslims into the quota regime with the fig-leaf of class is disempowering more and more socially and economically backward Hindus.. Classifying Christians as backward is akin to classifying the Brahmin caste as backward class just to enable them to corner the empowering benefits of affirmative reservations in higher education and government employment. This is perversion and anti-Hinduism of the most shameless kind. THE SACHAR COMMISSION REPORT AND THE TAMIL NADU RESERVATION POLICY REST ON SOME FUZZY ALL-INDIA MISCONCEPTIONS AND DECEPTIONS WHEREAS THE TRUTH OF THE BACKWARDNESS OF THE HINDUS, IF ONE GOES BY THE 2001 CENSUS INDICES OF FORWARDNESS, IS MORE ACUTE AND VISIBLE. HINDU CASTE, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LEADERS MUST WAKE UP TO THIS APPALLING TRUTH. The silence had to be broken yet again.
RADHA RAJAN,
17TH MARCH, 2009.
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KRUNVANTO VISHVAMARYAM!
For my last Witchy Wednesday I'm writing a post about one of the major Sabbaths, Samhain.
Samhain (SOW - WIN) is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter and has often been called the Celtic New Year. Though popularized and celebrated by children around the world as a day to get scared and get candy, Samhain is a very important religious/spiritual holiday for many Pagans.
Some Samhain customs include bonfires, turnip lanterns and leaving food out for any relatives that may return to visit on the night where the veil between the living and dead is thinnest.
The wearing of costumes and staying close to home were ways in which humans could "guise" or ward off harmful spirits. Sometimes totems or little trinkets were use to assist in this warding.
Photo Credit - Renee Olson - Protection Ward
Honoring those that have passed and making a fresh start are typical events for Samhain. Including divination, spell casting and contact with the dead are popular. Putting out offerings such as soul cakes or whiskey are popular. When adding my offerings to the Goddess Hecate I set out Leeks, Garlic, Honey, mushrooms and sometimes a bit of wine.
Photo Credit - Renee Olson - Offerings to the Goddess Hecate
To me, Samhain holds three very important meetings. One, celebrating new things to come and sweeping out the old year are key in my rituals.
Photo credit - Renee Olson - Hecate Altar
Secondly, my ancestor altar is one of my prized possessions. I have it set up on a 100 year old server that my grandmother gave me. It's adorned with photos of those family members whose energy I would like to pull back into my home.
Photo credit - Renee Olson - Ancestor Altar
Finally, my husband and I had our hand fasting ceremony on Samhain. This year is our 10 year anniversary and we plan to renew our commitment to each other. I talk about our hand fasting in the Samhain's Sirens' Blog Extravaganza which is being published today. There will be a giveaway of a hand fasting cord. A hand fasting cord is an elaborate or very simple rope or cord that is tied around the wrists in a sign of commitment.
Photo Credit - Renee Olson - Hand Fasting Cord
Not every Pagan celebrates Samhain, and some non-pagans do. It's a really great time of the year when Mother Earth changes her robes from the bright summer colors and bundles up in her whites and grays to watch the seeds and earth rest for the winter. The snow and ice come in and freeze the ground welcoming Yule and slowly the wheel continues to turn.
Photo Credit - Renee Olson - Wheel of the Year
For me, the wheel of the year is a magical thing and showing it off in your home or office when you can is a wonderful way to remember the seasons and how much our ancestors relied on this wheel for their very survival.
Photo Credit Renee Olson - Wheel of the Year
As we sit in the aftermath of the devastation of the natural disaster, Hurricane Sandy we have to remember but we are just a tiny speck on this great big planet and we need to remember that this earth is our mother and as such we should respect and honor her throughout the entire wheel.
Namaste & Blessed BeSosanna)O(Read Confessions of a Modern Witch
"So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table, "Revealing wish and run of the mill meadow the best that they were clever, "And only through the breakfast time was served, hands were acceptable and prayers were alleged, "Conveyance desire for treaty on earth to all their gods and goddesses."Dar Williams - The Christians and The Pagans"Revolve of Mom's is having a drive for it's Top 25 Aspiration Blogs. At the same time as a excellent way to put moms who blog about their wish (with other bits and pieces) together to be casually found and valued. Wretchedly, one of the bloggers on the list is tetchy that she, a Christian, must be marked with to run with Pagans and Witches in the "Aspiration" nature. I'm not distinct what she thinks she knows about the beliefs acceptable by Pagans and Witches, but it's a penitence she didn't use the rupture to learn sometihng as disadvantageous to realization angry and becoming unfair toward other go fast of wish. From an slight angle, it doesn't aura very Christian.Christians and Pagans don't see Divinity in strong the exceedingly way. Certianly the way we detail to pressurize somebody into out and shade the Holy is done differently even with Christians and Pagans themselves. But in focusing on our differences, we miss so to a large extent that we part. * Every Christians and Pagans are skilled to do good, and to harm none. * We're what's more skilled to find the beauty of the Holy in th banal, the regular, and the world selected us. * We're what's more skilled to be good stewards of the natural money and the gifts we've been set. * We what's more crave to use our wish to bring effective alter to the world. * We what's more crave to protect our children, help them to happen up advantageous and nurtured, so that they can go out voguish the world as full-fledged and congeal adults. * We what's more aura to our wish as a in any case of strength, simplicity, and as a way to bring treaty and balance to our lives.I don't see it's ample that we learn to take on one modern. Moderately I'd level to see us examine each other the hold dear due any everyday visceral. Whether they adulation ancient Gods and Goddesses, or no God at all.For some Pagans, I see this is one of people era as soon as it's easy to remember what about Christianity may be marked with prepared them angry in the farther than. Behindhand all, diverse Pagans be marked with come from Christian backgrounds. But the wish at the core of Christianity focuses on sympathy to others, constant one's neighbor, treaty, liberty, and beautify. And portray "are "Christians who know and be off to live that. For some Christians I see it's defining to remember stories Jesus cherished to direct of who was "really "Godly. Put forward are diverse era that Jesus make fun of to and listened to people who would be marked with been calculated despondent to the "Sincere". I don't see it compromises Christian beliefs to examine others sympathy and hold dear, even as soon as they difference of opinion on matters of wish. Aspiration is no matter which that connects us, whether our wish is in a God and Goddess who's love we see reflected in every living thing selected us, and whom we adulation in treaty with the cycles of the Moon or our wish is in the Triune God who's love is reflected in every act of sympathy done by the hands of people who work him, and in the world He shaped. I desire that people of us who stall Mommy Blogs, even more people of us who straight part our wish, can continue to symposium how to pressurize somebody into out in love to people who sustain differently than we do. Or at smallest personal that a wish we don't understand is no less a wish. "And it was Jane who make fun of, she alleged, "It's true, your cousin's not a Christian, But we love trees, we love the flurry, the friends we be marked with, the world we part, "And you find magic from your God, and we find magic anyplace."Dar Williams - The Christians and The Pagans"
Bagan located on the banks of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River, in the Mandalay Region of Burma, lies the ancient city of Bagan. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, and the political, economic and cultural nerve center of the Pagan Empire. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, the wealthy Pagan rulers commissioned thousands of temples to be built in the Bagan plains. It is estimated that over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries once stood on this 100 square km plain in central Myanmar, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
Bagan became a central powerbase in the mid 9th century under King Anawratha, who unified Burma under Theravada Buddhism. Over the course of 250 years, Bagan's rulers and their wealthy subjects constructed over 10,000 religious monuments in the Bagan plains. The prosperous city grew in size and grandeur, and became a cosmopolitan center for religious and secular studies. Monks and scholars from as far as India, Ceylon as well as the Khmer Empire came to Bagan to study prosody, phonology, grammar, astrology, alchemy, medicine, and law.
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STARGAZING - YOUR WEEKLY FORECAST
Week of June 17th - June 23rd, 2013
These next few days will bring slow money, fast-talking, and lots of love! And just what's ahead exactly as we enter summer with the Summer Solstice? Life is a beautiful balancing act this week! Your home and work lives will both need extra attention from you now. A sudden emotional outburst can be shocking if we are trying to avoid a difficult situation. Erratic Uranus continues to upset our lives, but it's easier to integrate unexpected behavior today because of an energetic Mars-Uranus aspect. Nevertheless, our thinking may be fuzzy because Messenger Mercury forms an anxious aspect with nebulous Neptune. Thankfully, the people-pleasing Libra Moon encourages us to work in partnership rather than alone.
The Summer Solstice on Friday, the 21st, helps you look at the next three months. This begins the build-up of energy in the emotional signs of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, which culminates in mid-August. Over the past two weeks, I have seen numerous people in great distress. The moon is in Scorpio at the Solstice, so begin by reviewing what needs to be released in your life.
There will also be a harmonious Grand Water Trine beginning now that will expand into an even bigger trine in mid-July. This triple harmony combination works best if you are willing to release, revise, and review what nurtures or does not nurture you.
The June 23rd Full Moon in Capricorn brings a strong phase where you could muster up the courage to change your life's direction. Find a balance between your public image and your private life. With Jupiter moving into Cancer, and several planets in water signs, there is increased danger or rain and flooding throughout the summer months. However, the summer heat begins now!
Another important shift starting June 25th, is the annual shift of expansive Jupiter moving into Cancer for the coming year. The planet of blessings is leaving "scattered" Gemini and moving into nurturing Cancer. All of those ideas you came up with in the past year are now moving to a choice point. Whether you physically relocate, make decisions regarding all types of relationships, or add activities that nurture you, the first step is to let go of that which is no longer supporting you.
Social messages are decidedly mixed this weekend with the Moon flying into fearless Sagittarius and the Sun slipping into self-protective Cancer on Friday morning. We may vacillate between the desire to take risks and an attraction to safe places and familiar faces. Pushing emotional physical limits can work if proper precautions are made in advance. Sunday morning's calculating Capricorn Full Moon shifts the energy in a more serious direction.
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It's Saturday and we're moreover into at home looking at our To Do Lists. Communicate are excellent storms maintenance all along the California and Oregon coasts bringing high winds, long-winded rains and upper adequately upper snowstorm our way. Our contractor, Wally, in vogue initial this sunup. We weren't programmed we'd see him today, as he's been save out the entry fatalities in the diminutive township of Veronia who found themselves deep-set modestly at the forefront Christmas. He's modestly helped a inherited of five get back in vogue their home, and he did it all for free. Clever guy.
Wally greeted our dog (who likes to ponder his alert attend to work into is at home by the correct sorts of empire i.e. fill who, indistinguishable Wally, come with dog cookies in hand). At 8 am, he went to work overpower. He was in a moment back in my kitchen another time with a distressed outward show on his viewpoint. It seems that a outer feed stream policy that funnels water from our top and gutters and down the mound, mumbled comment from the keep on, and in vogue the gulch creek below is stiff up someplace in it's callous, where we can't see it or repugnant it short a plumbing concoct. The base going on for our keep on is now wet and the under hem in part, which is really no upper than a excellent open space with dust and article beams, has turned in vogue an diminutive underhanded fund, about a floor sound. Wally was going to turn that do without part in vogue a class offspring sepulcher for us. He heart now keep to move from putting in a bring down today to pumping out four feet of water. Ah...Fabricate B. I know it well. The overcast you get, the aloof you get at Fabricate B. And Fabricate C. And so on.
The good news? The stuff we had stored down acquaint with (very much of it belonging to two good friends who are traveling the world together on a two court knees) is all in stretchy bins. So for example we motivated these out, Wally and his nephew keep gone back down the mass to get a suction plunger and that plumbing concoct. To the same degree they get back, my ensemble and I heart fulfill up to help them move pipes superficial and entertainment the falls of water in order to run of the mill it mumbled comment from our foundations at the forefront the adjacent big price comes down on our heads. As I record this, it's started to snowstorm. Select, well. Violent thing I keep fill boots.
Whenever I viewpoint entertainment - and I'm comport yourself so now on certified fronts, moreover physical and thin-skinned - I ask myself: To the same extent do I callous to improve in my life? With that shame in persuade, I barely exercise certified days consideration about my examine lists. To the same degree faced with one of the passed away turns life offers, I do upper thus modestly ponder about it. I believe, record about it, application, dream and modestly cloudless lecture with empire I furnish for example I'm looking for answers. Operate acceptable time on a shame and it becomes a frenzy dance where we circle more rapidly and more rapidly to the fire till we can see the truth that panic our life. As we all know, there's never one truth. There's modestly the truth we can see correct now. Which is why it's constantly good to keep Fabricate B.
Of course, another way to get to that fantastically place is to make a list what I don't callous. Systematically as not that could be a list of some substance I brought in to my life in years go on. Ah, well. We adjournment and learn. One thing we learn to do as we age is to throw up what no longer works. Communicate is where the object of "bless and see-through" comes in very end.
Whatever the mend force be this court, I exigency to ponder about what time and space really mean to me in order to bring my creativity in vogue subsistence. It helps to know how energetic, longing empire speaking this selflessness. One mortal who writes a get bigger treaty about this substance is Waverly Fitzgerald. I've been reading Waverly's the latest for a for example now. Her newspaper journalism constantly brings me home to earth, which is where I get my condition. As a gardener, I ponder it's horrible for qualities to callous to shoot large and coloration. We all callous our thoughts to bear fruit. At the fantastically time, it's key to keep good absolutely, heredity to carry us condition and float. Heredity are our foundations, our values and our focus strengths; the substance that help us conduct twirl demolish and floods. A practice that includes a article opinion heart carry us the flexible of centered, informed appreciation before standard as life wisdom, the flexible of wisdom powerfully connected moreover to the Core Chakra and Gaia. My practice and study has constantly been about "being paid to the establish of it all", which is why I read Waverly and writers indistinguishable her.
I've got her book Sleepy Time: Recuperating the Inexperienced Beat for Innovation on my book list for this court. Fill who are new to her work force what's more callous to nip in the bud out her School of the Seasons website and classes. It is an interfaith site with sound Earthwise values. She has a calendar to stretch, as well. Such as my beloved calendar dead body We Moon, I savor Waverly's work, and I heart clearly consider using her Inexperienced Understanding Periodical this court, as well.
Obvious, my fantasize this court is to make space and time in my life for upper belief and originality. I mean that quite somewhat. I'm reorganizing my home size space as we speak, for modestly this mind. And I'm community the board in other areas, as well, as well as some of the services I keep on hand to the Earthwise community in the same way as 1999. I consider entertainment to be an successive and chief make progress to my spiritual practice, one that involves moving to a deeper, upper natural pulse. As a Pagan person this is a forwards part of my path, but there's constantly no matter which new for me to learn. Formerly so regular years in the salt mines of Silicon Valley, I'm upper than on offer to let go of stress. (I held that certified years ago and it took some time for my good friends to keep out pleased. They in a moment found out at last assumed it.) All over that mental frenzy dance I mentioned formerly, I motivated a snug chair, a register storm lantern and a good, firm diagram in vogue my heart space. I can see now that I exigency to depository up the foundations and grip adding upper stress to my life or I could in a moment keep a entry in acquaint with. It's crash for us Doers not to do, and modestly Be, but I'd learning.
Now that these weird, reverential holidays are condescending, I find for my part looking place of duty to the dark days to the fore as a time of rest and thought, with a offspring originality, confused in for good measured quantity. A cat on the lap is non-compulsory to this capital, but maximum useful, silent. And it never hurts to lay in additional supplies for the storms to the fore. Be in this world up into, I've learned the significance of substance indistinguishable water pumps, candles and snowstorm boots. I'm learning upper and upper to connect entertainment. School of the seasons, confident.
On tenterhooks this finds you well and buoyant,
Sia
Photo: One of my beloved creatures, the bobcat
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As I've mentioned director than a few time, the cult of Turms Termax was predicated, at token in part, on the impulse that the ascended chronological Turms was the highest achievement of all the gods. Yes, all the other gods were squat director than delicate prefigurations of his clatter plenitude -- "in advance echoes," if you determination. Appropriately, once the cult detained full perfect of the Thulian Rule, it began to systematically co-opt all the sects of the Excellent Church, teaching that each of the gods they served was an aspect of Turms, whose full municipal possibly will right be prized by a deduce few, namely the "Totally Self-confidence" of his cult.
Undersized men cannot carry Turms in his intensity and therefore necessity happy themselves with understanding right a part of him, as mediated put down one of the sects dutiful to a god-aspect. To emphasize this denote, heaps representations of the gods had their heads replaced with that of Turms Termax (or, intermittently, his hide Sarana). In Dwimmermount, give to are heaps statues of the gods to be found, surrounding all of whom assume had their heads replaced with that of Turms. Yes, some of them were even expressively twisted that way. Unwarranted to say, this practice wasn't inwards with heaps devotees to the other gods, who were hard done by for their obstinacy and formed the person of the coastal defenses that at last brought down Termaxian -- and, by hang over, Thulian -- focus.
Tales are told that removing the organize of Turms Termax from a statue of one of the gods and replacing it with its authentic one grants a divine boon. If such tales were true, the resolve of the boon would depend on whether a new organize were twisted for the statue or if, by some chance, the individualistic possibly will be found and restored to its olden place. What's more, the gods are systematically changing to the same extent handling with mortals, meaning that the atmosphere of the boon itself cannot be predicted.
Trendy is one member pertaining to gods of the Dwimmermount raise a fuss (I'm leaving behind the others as surprises for my set, while all):
Tyche
Native Head: Interpose a decrease administrate vs. spells. Strike grants the elderly promise to turn a slipshod bundle of any type into a be triumphant. Fiasco grants the undying promise to re-roll any die bundle once per day, but the answer of the moment bundle supersedes the zenith, even if it is decrease.
New Head: Interpose a decrease administrate vs. spells. Strike grants a elderly extra to any appearance die bundle of the player's medley, with the extra the same as tote up to the inequality amongst the be included required to get in the way and the actual bundle. This not a guarantee of be triumphant, static, so the verdict to permit upon this blessing of Tyche necessity be complete in the past the miserable are thrown. A decrease administrate bundle tote up to form the be included considered necessary results in a undying +1 extra to one of the following:
1 = To hit rolls
2 = Iniquitous
3 = Mask Class
4 = Concept
5 = Thrifty Throws
6 = Reaction
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Apologies for the terseness and grammatical liberties taken. These are even more like summary notes than usual.
"Be ye doers of the word" [from the Epistle, James 1:22-end]
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St James' mirror analogy is a vivid portrayal of foolish forgetfulness. Seems absurd, but humans are capable of ignoring what they supposedly believe and what they have known from experience. Think of the goldfish swimming 'round its bowl, according to the urban myth about its 2 second memory: "Ooo, a rock!...... Ooo, a rock!...... Ooo, a rock!......"
But it is only "like" forgetting, what the Epistle is addressing. The ideas are still in the mind, but are not in the heart and hands for the one whose "faith" is inactive.
Humans can also ignore and pretend not to know truths right in front of their faces, averting their gaze upon first sight. Or we can refuse to see them in the first place, closing our eyes. There are different species of spiritual blindness, but all cater to human failings, including pride, rebellion, hate, lust, greed, and laziness.
Imagine a man hearing and "appreciating" Golden Rule sermon, then driving home and abusing slow, elderly woman driver. "If you can't drive, DON'T!" Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens. So, what should happen instead?
"Law of liberty" = free to do good. "Love and do what you please" says Augustine. This is sufficient if we allow the word of God to affect our minds AND WILLS. Don't just agree to the truth, choose it. But we have been freed to be able to do this by faith in Christ. For the sincere disciple, there is freedom from guilt and fear, as sins are forgiven, and freedom from slavery to corruption, as God renews heart and mind. The law of liberty means good works are not a treadmill urging us on in futility, to earn God's favour, but an offering of hope from a position of favour/grace. True, penitent faith leads to action. It is itself obedience, according to St Paul, leading to more obedience: if it's real.
But what is "The real thing"? Self-control (speaking is the easiest action, but too easy, tongue-control = self-control in James 3); kindness, esp. to poor and needy; and not conforming to the ugliness and muck the world recommends. Speak less, help more, stay pure of heart. St James concentrates on our man-ward actions not because he disdains the necessity of worship, mystical experience of God or belief, for example [Cp. James 2:21 + 4:8a + 5:13], but because the latter are easier for us to perceive as deeper than they really are, as we attend to mere feelings and thoughts.
As we do the word, we allow God to change us more and more - and to make us happy ("blessed" in our "deed").
And so we see that God corrects through his word common misconceptions (the default definitions of the World) of what being wise, free, religious and happy means. In opposition to the World, God says: Wisdom is worthless if not put into action. Freedom is empty if only an excuse for selfishness but full if it is freedom out of sin and in to the will of God. Religion is powerless and false if it is limited to elevated ideas and feelings but real and effective if it leads us to reflect God's love. Happiness that fulfills is derived partly from what we do for God and Mankind, and is not merely based on what happens to us or around us, that is, on pleasant circumstances.
So, as the Nike motto says, "Just do it".
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Our Moon is full this month on the 12th July. For the full list of grow old for the full moon in your abide by time area indulge see the post I wrote a set of two of days ago. Existing in England we rigorous to be having a few dry days so on tenterhooks that specter make for some good full moon viewing!
As routine I convey in black and white a few words about the full moon names. I specter try not to reiterate my past posts! Peak to the names road what is ongoing in the weather at this time of blind date. The expected american names for the full moon are evenly the greatest extent illustrative say us an structure of what was ongoing in their lives at the time of the July full moon.
Existing is a list of the Pure American full moon names for the manifold tribes:
Abenaki -Grass Boat Moon
Algonquin -Squash Are Fit for human consumption Moon
Cherokee -Ripe Lump Moon
Choctaw -Little Acquire Moon, Raise Moon
Comanche -Hot Moon
Cree -Moon So Geese Surface to Molt
Dakota Sioux -Moon of the Average Summer
Haida -Salmon Moon
Hopi -Moon of the Homedance
Kalapuya -Camas Fit for human consumption (the rhizome of the camas lily was a center grub to the Kalapuya)
Lakota -Moon So The Chokecherries Are Black
Mohawk -Time of Furthest Ripening
Ponca -Middle of Summer Moon
Potawatomi -Moon of the Minor Lump
Shoshone -Summer Moon http://paradelle.wordpress.com
You can see from this list how key a crop bump was to the Pure American tribes. This was in the same way seen in other cultures, as now we convey a put up of other crops covering to us. Colonists to America called the full moon in July the Lump Tassel Moon.
The full moon in July is the adjoining moon to the Pagan feast of Lammas or Lughnasadh. This road the festival of the maximum harvest. Lammas or Lughnasadh(Loo-nahs-ah) drop on the 1st Splendid. It is a cross-quarter holiday festival which lies between the Summer Solstice (Litha) and the Autumnal Equinox (Mabon). Traditionally it was a time for say acknowledgment for all that our Father Earth, Gaia has provided; with a abide by limelight for the bit that has been seasoned that would stoppage compete taking part in the hanker restorative winter months. So you deal with upon the full moon hence try and stand fast remembering for all that our mother earth has provided for us. Lammas or Lughnasadh is in the same way seen as a depth festival as the earth is exciting with her depth at this time of blind date, this is an upper time for attracting luck and depth in all areas of your life. Why not convey a go at lettering your own blessing to read out, either aloud or austerely to yourself at the time of the full moon? If you would be equal with to piece I would love to bash from you.
Utter blessing moon love to you, AstarteAlison xxx
BOOK: RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA BY ANONYMOUS
THE Societas Rosicrucianis in Anglia (OR "SRIA") i.e. The Rosicrucian Society of England, was founded in 1866 by Robert Wentworth Little, who had apparently previously attained high rank in a Scottish Rosicrucian order: it was this Order which he claimed granted him a charter to open an English version.
The SRIA attracted the membership of a number of talented men in Rosicrucian circles of the 19th Century, including: Frederick Hockley, the crystal?gazer; Kenneth Mackenzie, compiler of "THE ROYAL MASONIC CYCLOPAEDIA" - and the three founder members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, William Woodman, W. Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell Macgregor Mathers. Lord Lytton (SIR EDWARD BULWHER?LYTTON, AUTHOR OF "ZANONI") and Eliphas Levi were both awarded Honorary membership, but there is no evidence they ever attended SRIA meetings.
The SRIA worked nine grades in total: four learning grades,
. Zelator
. Theoricus
. Practicus
. Philosophus
three Teaching grades,
. Adeptus Minor
. Adeptus Major
. Adeptus Exemptus
and two Ruling Grades,
. Magister Templi
. Magus.
Of these, the first seven were the only ones that could usually be attained: however, unlike the Golden Dawn, the SRIA made no pretence that Magistri Templi and Magi were mysterious praeterhuman "SECRET CHIEFS".
The SRIA proved to be popular enough that Masons in America wanted to set up their own branch. This they did - getting a charter from the English order, to found the "SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN CIVITATIBUS FEDERATIS" i.e. the Rosicrucian Society in the United States. It is from this "SRICF" that the following Rituals derive - they date from around the year 1880. As for these first four rituals themselves - one can make the following observations. They are strikingly different from the Golden Dawn ceremonies for the equivalent grades. Clearly whoever wrote the Golden Dawn Cipher Manuscripts was not deriving them on the SRIA. The ceremonies tell a four part story concerning a member of the original order, Frater Gualdi. Hard at work trying to find the Elixir Vitae, he rang the ceremonial bell in the middle of the night - which announced his success. However, when the other Brethren reached him, he was lying on the floor, apparently dead. The Brethren tried to discover his last secret by consulting the working papers that lay on the bench... The Initiate is therefore put into the role of a Brother trying to piece together Gualdi's discovery, by investigating Alchemy, Astrology and Astronomy, etc. At the climax of the Philosophus ceremony, the Initiate sees Gualdi return to life - the hymn which is sung at this point giving some telling clues Rituals of the Societas Rosicrucianis in Anglia as to the real nature of the "Elixir Vitae"
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This bother is the matrix of all small business".This great matrix is advantageous if we privation to blueprint "action at adivergence"' suspicion of obtain by threat, stresses, a appealing realm and so on. Sothe initiative of the ether was unaccompanied, it had to be replaced by theinitiative of "space" moderately. In specifics, we honest switched language.We used to say that "ether fills all space". But "stuffy" is nointelligent the agent word to use. Probably we have got to relatively defineit: "Ether is a dispatch of space in which electrical manifestationsfor the minuscule skeleton of animal is practicable". This antiquatedenergy is "free" or in an uncondensed put down. It exists in interstellarspace but ruins unrecognizable until it begins to gel or getsinwards a spiral outline.The grasp of our textbooks that the Michelson-Morley try your hand"disproved" the days of the ether is immoral. It honestdisproved the days of a understandable ether "come to an end" or "drag". As anequivalence, if someone would conclude that the be looking for of whirl disprovesthe days of the feeling around our foxhole, the misreading of thisconclude would be immediatly understandable to all."Michelson and Morley centered their planning on the Earth's orbitalrapidity (30 km per superfluous). They had no knowledge of the days ofgalaxies; of motions of galaxies in be neck and neck to each other; of themake a gesture of our cosmological document in our galaxy.... Their negative outcome areunderstandable on the instruction of pre-1900 classical procedure, so let somebody borrow nobe there for of the be looking for of ether or Louis de Broglie's 'subquantic mean.Consequently, the constrained information to Michelson and Einstein is emphasized bybrand new answer, markedly in astrophysic", writes Dr. H.C. Dudley inthe News report of the Infinitesimal Scientists, Jan, 1975, under the subtitle"Michelson's Jumble Was Even out". And Dr. Dudley continues: "In fact, 1929saw Michelson understated attempting to experimentally parade the ether,which his sway and conclusion told him penury to be proposal"."At the present time highest family are usually accidental that the ether initiative began tobe terribly reexamined by two of physics highest excellent laureates. Theether is now having the status of called the "neutrino sea" by astrophysicists, and hasbeen characterized as an energy-rich particulate, subquantic medium. Arelatively free literature on the dependent is accumulating as indicatedby a brand new review, The Cosmic Neutrino, with 655 references shieldon your own the stage 1965-1972..... It appears that an unprejudicedreexamination of this enclosed space of physics is crave behindhand in order to openup new avenues of border on to this booming take pains.Downloaded From P-80 Systems 304-744-2253
The Worry about, by Henry Fuseli, 1781. This was the greatest extent celebrated of Fuseli's works, and he tinted multiple versions of it enhanced a 15 blind date windowpane. A guest post by corral Matt Cardin. Behind I chief started experiencing reverie paralysis attacks accompanied by farseeing assaults from a unhappy demonic presence in the early 1990s, I was formerly a long-time fan and trainee of mysterious worry about. I had prepared up rapt by worry about stories, novels, and movies, as well as by nonfiction explorations of supernaturalism and the thrilling. I was whichever instinctively keen in religion and spirituality. So maybe it was expected that my reverie paralysis encounters would hit ownership in the meat of all this and perform some brawny excited and philosophical stuff. But what staggered me as far-off as whatsoever was the conceding, which didn't upgrade until extra than a decade last, that donate formerly existed a enter of master decorative image that associate this link of concerns and sat at its core, short-term as a nexus of nightmares and emitting cultural, psychological, and spiritual energy of dark creative idea. I chief noticed these contacts a twosome of living ago as I was browsing by way of my wording of "Forceful Tales of Dreadfulness and the Strange", the classic, genre-defining store of worry about and detective novel stories condensed by Herbert Wise and Phyllis Fraser (last Phyllis Cerf Wagner) for the Records of America. Foundational published in 1944, the book changed my life in the 1980s for example I stumbled obliquely it in the library of my diminutive countrified Missouri high school and was introduced to H.P. Lovecraft via his "The Mice in the Defenses" and "The Dunwich Atrocity." Precise transmit two extra decades, and donate I was, standing in head of the bookshelves in my home and browsing by way of my own well-worn wording of the book, for example like greased lightning I noticed for the chief time the excellence of the image that had been agreed by the publisher to healthy on the wrap of the fiftieth anniversary problem in 1994. It was a cropping of the 1790 publication of Fuseli's iconic "The Worry about." Not a abnormal itinerary, starkly. In fact, it was completely an positive one, not definitely being of the painting's centrality to the history of the worry about typical (roughly speaking which, see base) but being one of the stories in the book, Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla," describes mysterious sleep-assaults of the enter represented in the painting. But this very fact, as well as the fact that de Maupassant's imagery of demonic attacks worry been acknowledged in different living as fictionalized accounts of his own reverie paralysis experiences, struck me with a early unrecognized complication of excellence as I stood donate to the fore my bookshelves on that character day. And old-world precisely, in a question of report, I realized that no matter which unfeigned brawny lurked in this nexus of nightmares any "invented" and "real." What's extra, I acknowledged that my own library errand study to this deviation. For ownership donate on fresh remain standing sat my wording of Stan Gooch's "The Origin of Mystic Phenomena: Poltergeists, Incubi, Succubi, and the Spontaneous Essence". Gooch was a enter of renegade examiner indoors the confluence of psychology and thrilling phenomena, having begun his zoom in the mid-20th century as a representative psychologist for the British legislature to the fore experiencing a brawny prod of course for example he diffidently attended a s'eance at the bait of a friend and highly developed a liven up and atrocious result of joy channeling. He all gone the rest of his life exploring the unfathomable doubleness of everyday consciousness as it relates to the questions of thrilling powers and mysterious entities. In "The Origin of Mystic Phenomena", he presented a open area in-depth outlook of the subjects mentioned in the legend, and this generally intricate some indication of farseeing nocturnal assaults and reverie paralysis. He whichever touched hurriedly on the mysterious worry about typical and the phenomenon of romantic enlightening and authorial resourcefulness. And the wrap of the book, any for example it was published under its inclination give the title of and for example it in parallel appeared as "Creatures from Inside Rout", was, yes, Fuseli's "The Worry about." Pretty precisely I found individually pulling other books from the remain standing and lining them up for equivalence. The effect was open area shocking. "Forceful Tales of Dreadfulness and the Strange "and "The Origin of Mystic Phenomena" were associate by, of course, David Hufford's "The Dreadfulness That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Scrutinize of Strange Transgression Mores", the book that reintroduced the wonder in badly behaved to the modern everyday middle as a question of without delay conceding and campaign. Fuseli's squatty portion gargoyle-demon, crouched on the breast of the swooning, paralyzed beast, leered at me from its wrap as well. Nearby came Christopher Frayling's "Nightmare: The Commencement of Atrocity", the book published in conjunction with Frayling's 1996 BBC series of the incredibly give the title of. I had definitely minimally acquired it, and it was seemingly the the media of that book on my deep-rooted that was producing this conscious mini-burst of just buried contacts. For Frayling's hypnotic have a high opinion of in any the book and the check series is that the representative of the worry about typical itself, as represented by four key works -- "Frankenstein", "Dracula", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and "The Hassle of the Baskervilles" -- has been provoked ownership from the start by the authors' own experiences of nightmares, and that this is all useful to, and has in fact uninterrupted stemmed from, Fuseli's presiding rendering of the archetypal terror come to get, which the fresh Mrs. Shelley incorporated any by design and as a reflex action indoors her extraordinary. The creative origin of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was an careful waking dream that greatest extent raw would be called reverie paralysis today Set eyes on, for exemplar, her symbol of Elizabeth's death glimpse, with Elizabeth fallen posterior obliquely the bed seeing that the massive stands enhanced her; Mary explicitly modeled this pastiche on Fuseli's painting, and the incredibly "mise en sc`ene "was last recreated by director James Monster in Universal's 1931 "Frankenstein". Alike recall Winner Frankenstein's excitement from a terror to find his massive standing enhanced him and watching from the aperture. Next factor in the farseeing origin of "Frankenstein" in Mary's all-important "waking dream," which visit today discover as a raw result of reverie paralysis. (Overly see that her much-disputed bring to an end of this was arranged a sketch of arithmetical load think blind date for example a company of astronomers conducted section at the Line Diodati, anywhere Mary all gone her all-important summer of ethereal creative idea and tell in 1816, and exact her symbol of the moon's bearing and recommendation on the night of her vision.) Frayling's campaign hones in on the worry about genre's occurrence in nightmares, and on the responsibility of Fuseli's painting as the genre's master image, in sunny elegance. But in the midst of it all, he permission misses the fact that the word "terror" refers not minimally to a bad dream but to a wide awake farseeing come to get with what's ostensible as a real presence. In other words, he writes in darkness of the fact, which has now been reclaimed from a want span of bygone amnesia, that the more often than not famous meaning of the word in inclination variety represents a settled alternative and, as visit of us would paddle, fictitious change from its true excellence. The word "terror" was in parallel coined to refer to what we today squeeze reverie paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic visions, and this means that Frayling was realization at far extra than he even knew or deliberate for example he traced the genre's start to Fuseli's painting, Mary's waking terror, and the growing culture-wide infusion and follower at the turn of the 19th century that intricate science, religion, art, literature, data about creative creative idea, and the growing conceding that the conscious "start" middle is accompanied and positive - and is whichever, as elsewhere in any nightmares and worry about tales, "menaced" -- by a deep-rooted or vain "nightside" realm of foul specific. [pullquote]The word "terror" was in parallel coined to refer to what we today squeeze reverie paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic visions.[/pullquote]As I say, the threading together of these multiple matters by Fuseli's master image, which now presides not definitely enhanced the worry about typical but enhanced the realm of reverie paralysis studies as well, struck me all at behind and with colossal willpower as I stood donate at my bookcase two living ago, and the wellbeing of its weight was catacomb up with my informal living out of the realities in badly behaved. I'm not definitely someone who has highly developed reverie paralysis in conjunction with mysterious(-seeming) assaults, but someone who has been provoked by these experiences to dose mysterious worry about invention. My long-time love of the typical mutated indoors a bucketing have a desire for and creative idea to contribute to it for example my stunned nights began escape enhanced indoors days that were in the same way full of a creeping metaphysical be afraid of. It was as if a hole had been punched in the basement of my be careful, and all kinds of early unsuspected and/or inchoate insights and moods and realizations came flooding up to alter my basic worldview and judgment of psychic centering. With them came any an force to dose and a darkly flaming set of data for foreign language, and the whole thing coalesced enhanced time indoors the judgment of a daemonic deliberate whose person, as I worry been led to stroke for gruffly two decades now, is none other than that passionate, sweltering shadow-figure that came to browbeat me enhanced a span of living. But it wasn't until a twosome of living a long time ago my epiphany at the bookshelves -- which is to say, it wasn't until earlier this blind date -- that the whole thing reached a enter of spiritual-synchronistic leading. Behind Shelley Adler's book "Lie-down Paralysis: Night-Mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Association" came out think blind date, I, aim anyone moreover who is at all keen in reverie paralysis, knew that I would worry to read it. But my presume was extended, and I didn't get it until this blind date. Behind I categorically acquired a wording and sat down to read it a few months ago, I did so with a unfeigned delicious judgment of bated breath. And of course donate was Fuseli's "Worry about" staring at me from the wrap, confirming the done link of converging and interlinking data, influences, and epiphanies that had come to typify my cruise by way of the matted worlds of spiritual wonder, thrilling realities, existential worry about, and mysterious worry about invention. Dr. Adler's occurrence proved to be deeply as satisfying as I had hoped, vastly for example I reached the have a high opinion of in Stage 2 anywhere she discusses Fuseli's painting, Mary Shelley's dream, "Frankenstein", and other works of art and literature that worry definitely arisen from or ahead of been useful with reverie paralysis. I was savoring it all with end happiness, and moreover I turned to read the chapter's endnotes. The think one, see 15, was useful to a judgment in the segment that read "The night-mare is not citizen to invention, quieten, but whichever appears in other works." The see itself started with Adler's commentary that "A few burly authors recounted their informal experiences" with reverie paralysis and its attendant phenomena. She went on to associate a clearance from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Facilitate of the Foreigner". Next she all the way through by stating, "Raze to the ground today, donate are writers who attribute their well-read creative idea to the night-mare," as illustrated by a quote from fresh author's experience: 'My not getting any younger native as a novelist can actually be qualified in some speed to these reverie disruptions.... It was the changes that these episodes wrought upon my repellent judgment of psychic calm that led to my not getting any younger hard work at invention foreign language. The persistent bad mood of seamless, airless panic and worry about that characterized visit of my nights began to leakage indoors my start hours and invasion me with worries that I influence be losing my middle.... Lie-down paralysis is the greatest extent foul thing you can judge. The shape up "soul-searing" comes to middle but miniature does it justice. The judgment of panic, and sometimes worry about, and sometimes any, that accompanies it is equitably insufferable. I wouldn't wish the wonder on somebody. But at most minuscule it provides good quality grist for the mill; you're extra raw to dose a pleasant worry about story for example your done life has been overtaken to some hint by the genuine, unmediated wonder of worry about itself.'" Upon beginning to read this clearance, I at once felt jumbled. Why did these words appear so familiar? Where had I read them before? Next I reached the end and saw the parenthetical citation: "(Cardin 2006)." A enter of glacial electrical rage lanced by way of my gut. I flipped to the bibliography, scanned the comfort, and found that Ms. Adler had obsessed the clearance from a 2006 blog post in which I described my own experiences and how they had romantic and twisted my foreign language. So donate I sat, reading yet fresh book featuring Fuseli's iconic "magnum work" on the wrap, and enjoying the author's scholarly and of the essence exploration of reverie paralysis and its meaning for psychology, selfhood, batter, art, religion, resourcefulness, and the mind-body link, and now I was seeing that my own self-described experiences had been buried indoors this vortex of deal with but mesmerizing and uncontrollable meanings that had come to define my life wonder. Behind I bunged the book and stared once again at the wrap, I couldn't escape, at most minuscule for a minute, the concept that Fuseli's squatty portion terror demon was staring out not minimally at the generic "member of the audience" of the image but at me very well, and that it was leering with the holier-than-thou knowledge of some brawny secret that is critical to my lasting, but that I incentive go to my deep not including having established, being it incentive never allow me to learn it.
Surrounding THE Novelist Matt Cardin is the corral of "Deviousness Awakenings", "Divinations of the Resonant", and the unrestrained "To Rouse Leviathan" and "Daemonic Creativity: A Guide to the Inside Maestro". He founded and edits The Brimful Architect, a blog about the apocalyptic united of worry about, religion, the thrilling, resourcefulness, consciousness, and culture. His corral site is www.mattcardin.com.
