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After all the talk of fat in last week's post - and yes, I said last week - I have been a bad Kitchen Witch; out enjoying fun in the sun instead of taking my rightful place in the kitchen! That said, however, I am cleaning up my culinary act and embarking on yet another one of my health kicks.
Which, for the Poolboy, can only mean one thing.
He's on it with me by default.
The way I look at it, if I'm getting healthier, he'd better damn well get with it too.
Within moderation, of course.
You know, I really did marry one of the good ones.
When I woke up Saturday morning and decided that the time was at hand, the PB didn't even blink so much as an eye when I informed him we were going shopping to stalk up on healthier food options.
There would be no more cookies, chips, ice cream, or donuts polluting our freezers and pantry.
No more steak, bacon, ham, or eggs laying in wait to clog up our arteries and raise our cholesterol.
No verily...
Saturday's shopping spree was to be one of healthy plunder, and fibre filled food stuff.
On the grocery list: Veggies, lean proteins, almond milk for smoothies, and chick peas - lots of them to throw into soups, salads, and hommous. I have a recipe that's extra garlicky and good.
Mind you - and you'd think by now I'd know better - I found out the hard way last night that feeding pureed chick peas and garlic to the Poolboy on fibre bread a half hour before bed is not only inadvisable, it's downright insanity.
At app 12:15 yesterday evening, I was awakened from gentle slumber by the sound of a cannon going off from under our covers.
Followed by an odour that can best be described as hot garlic and chick pea mixed with something eggish.
And lingering in the summer heatwave we are currently experiencing.
So that by 12:30, it got so bad I had to light an incense and do an entire spiritual cleansing of the bed.
Of course, the PB slept all the way through it.
Luckily, though, I was tired enough that the incense lulled me into a deep sleep shortly afterward - thus eliminating the need to keep the cleansing going all night.
And by morning we were all clear.
Praise Thor.
God of Thunder.
But back to the shopping!
I also bought:
Low sodium chicken broths for soups
Pre-cooked chicken breast meat to throw into soups and salads
Veggie patties, lentil patties, lentils, falafel, salmon, sole, ahi tuna, boneless skinless chicken breasts, brocoli, cauliflower, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, green onion, mushrooms, spinach, apples, oranges, pears, bananas, canteloupe
Soy milk, fibre crackers, brown rice, and dark chocolate.
People, I still have to live.
Watch for some brand new recipes and videos coming up in about a week along with the final chapter of How a Pork Tenderloin Saved my Life. In the meantime, check out my easy how to video for grilled halibut! This is light summer fare at its very best.
Happy cooking!
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As part of the Pagan Blog Project 2012 we are asked to write about something using letters of the alphabet. Our post should be related to Paganism in general. I'm starting this project late so my first post is on the letter E.I've thought about this all week and considered writing about energy, eclectic witch or elements. I then thought about what's going on in my life right now and decided that I would choose a different word. This word is going to encompass all the words above. My word today is Expectations. What are expectations? Dictionary.com says:noun1. the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation.2. the act or state of looking forward or anticipating.3. an expectant mental attitude: a high pitch of expectation.4. something expected; a thing looked forward to.5. Often, expectations. a prospect of future good or profit: to have great expectations.So let's look at this from the spiritual prospective.As Pagans many of us are set with expectations from others around us. Recently on FB a bunch of shared photos pointed this out quite literally.Here's one from The Internet Witch's PageWe are presented with expectations from our families and from our support groups. Covens have expectations. In general as Pagans we are grounded to our world through being in touch with the elements. We feel the energy from the world around us and incorporate that into our daily lives. We present others with this energy and send it out to make the world a better place. Being eclectic in nature, even those with in a very traditional practice would still take from a wide range of sources and add those to the main pool of energy from which we all draw from.Some expectations are those that we send out to others, be it our community leaders; and using this term I'm speaking about those we look to for their opinions on certain things. Such as the recent events around trans women inclusion in Dianic covens or even thoughts around pagans offering services for hire. We look to these bloggers, coven leaders, priest and priestess to provide a litmus test on what is or is not accepted by our community. Most of all I think we have self-expectations. We expect ourselves to be a true representative of our deity. We expect our lives to reflect what we feel inside. The energy we project to be sent out in a positive protective way and the energy we receive to be the same. Recently some personal changes in my life had led me to rethink my expectations; those expectations that I had of others and those of me. I'm working hard to center my energy and maintain that positive outlook that I do believe I'm known for. My expectations today are that I am able to continue learning about my world and give back something positive to the world in return. I've started my year out with a dedication to follow Hekate, I am ending my post this week with a poem to her.Namaste and Blessed BeSosanna)O(Hekate, Goddess of DarknessI offer this to youHoney ">Hekate, Protector of WomenGuardian of the crossroadsAs the black dogs howl I am burdened by these heavy loads.Hekate, Queen of the NightBy the dagger and the serpentAdvocate for those in needAnd return to those all that is sent.Hekate, the triple formed TorchbearerAs you guided Demeter to her endI look to you for Strength and knowledgeWhere the roads bend.Read Confessions of a Modern Witch
In the world of magic, witchcraft and wizardry you bestow find the inhabit take note of of words draw up to curses hexes and spells. The key two words confess a pleasant symposium with black magic at the same time as the subsequent has a party to challenge in each white and black magic.
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All of it deals with energy about us and making use of the wishes and wishes order the hearts of numerous to bring a fifty pence piece in the world. Now some of these wishes are dark at the same time as others are benevolent ones.
The benevolent ones are endlessly pure and all upbeat and cheerful in every possible aspect. But the ones draw up to curses and hexes or evil spells cast with the aim to dilapidate the provisions of speed surrounding are no matter which which you torture about.
Direct in ancient time speed who skillful witchcraft actually suffered the outcome and were easy targets of other contestant witches and wizards. To do badly the post of the contestant, curses and hexes were cast very easily.
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A few days ago I had a wonderful meditative experience. This is particularly interesting after having spent some time reading The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying of late. As per usual, when I meet a new character in these meditations I usually haven't a clue who they are. Normally my meditations lead me to a temple of Hermes Trimegistus - a large stone, sandalled foot broken at the ankle to what would have been a massive statue of Hermes Trimegistus facing out to the ocean. This time though, I remained facing out to the ocean with my back to the temple and the waves started to behave strangely, curling in an unusual way. The sun was directly in front of me on the horizon like the morning sun and the moon was directly above my head. From the horizon I could start to see the waters parting and slowly, a beautiful woman with long wavy white hair, a Nepalese face covered in white clay in an all-white costume came towards me very calmly, serenely. I patiently waited for her and she embraced me in a beautiful hug, where she then proceeded to put me on like a piece of clothing by slipping her hand through my back like a puppet with the rest of her body following until we were merged as the one being. I felt the coolness of water throughout me, a white glow and wonderful feeling of peace. Who was this Goddess? I then looked her up...
Sometimes called Mother of the Buddhas, White Tara is meant to have so much compassion for humankind that she exudes more love than a mother for her child. Tibetan Buddhists refer to her as the Mother of Liberation as the word Tara itself is derived from the root 'tri' (to cross), hence the implied meaning:' the one who enables living beings to cross the Ocean of Existence and Suffering'. She protects her followers on their spiritual journey to enlightenment, particularly to overcome obstacles which may inhibit the practice of religion.
Many myths surround her, but always as an incredibly pious character whether those stories had her derive from an actual person or purely in the form of deity. One myth tells of the White Tara being born from the tear of Avalokiteschvara, also known as Chenzering, who the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of. One day Avalokiteshvara looked upon the world with such compassion that he began to cry over the suffering of mankind in its imbalance. Tears from each eye created the White Tara and Green Tara respectively. Another similar myth states that Avalokiteshvara cried an entire lake where a fully opened lotus formed and the White Tara emerged like Venus from her shell, as did Green Tara's lotus, but not completely open. White Tara was born into the world to relieve suffering and provide longevity to her followers for the long journey through the Ocean of Suffering.
"Green Tara, with her half-open lotus, represents the night, and White "Tara", with her lotus in full bloom, symbolizes the day. Green "Tara" embodies virtuous activity while White "Tara" displays serenity and grace. Together, the Green and White "Taras" symbolize the unending compassion of the goddess who labors day and night to relieve suffering. (1)"
Some believe that the Green and White Taras represented ancient royalty:
"In seventh-century "Tibet", "Tara" was believed to be incarnated in every pious woman. She especially came to be associated with two historical wives of the first Buddhist king of "Tibet", Srong-brtsan-sgam-po (d. 649). His wife from imperial "China" was said to be an incarnation of White "Tara", while the king's Nepalese wife was an incarnation of Green "Tara". It may be that the desire to regard both these pious women as incarnations of "Tara" led to the concept of the goddess's green and white forms."
She is pictured as being endowed with seven eyes (on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and her forehead) to symbolize the watchfulness of the compassionate mind.
WHITE TARA MANTRA
(text in Tibetan Uchen)
O TaRE TUTTaRE TURE MAMA AYU PUNYA J~naNa PUTI KURU SVaHa
PRONOUNCED
"OMM TARAYE, TUTTARAYE TOORAYE
MAHMAH ARYOOB PUNYA-GNYANA POOSHTIM KURU SWA-HA"
MY INTERPRETATION OF THIS CHANT:
PRAISE TO TARA, HAIL! MAY I BE BLESSED WITH WISDOM, HAPPINESS ">MAY MY EXPERIENCES TEACH THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING ETHICALLY AND WITH WISDOM. MAY THE MERIT MY ACTIONS OF COMPASSION AND DEVOTION BE FELT BY OTHERS, IN THEIR HEARTS AND AMONGST ALL OF NATURE ITSELF. MAY WE ALL FEEL THE WEALTH OF THESE EFFORTS. FOR THOSE WHO LIVE WITH SUCH COMPASSION AND MERIT WILL ALWAYS LIVE IN KURU - MAKE IT SO! I WILL TAKE INTO ME THE SERENITY AND GRACE OF WHITE TARA IN HER LOVE, COMPASSION AND PIETY. BLESSED BE.
Om = IT REPRESENTS THE ENERGY AT THE AJNA CHAKRA, THE THIRD EYE ENERGY CENTER (CHAKRA), WHERE THE FEMININE AND MASCULINE CURRENTS BECOME JOINED AND CONSCIOUSNESS BECOMES UNITARY.. INTO THE WHOLE UNITY OF EXISTENCE. YOU WILL HAVE NOTICED THAT ALL MANTRAS BEGIN WITH OM.THIS IS BECAUSE OM IS THE SUPREME SOUND
FROM WHICH CREATION WAS BORN. IT IS THE COSMIC VIBRATION. OM IS THE SOUND THAT REVEALS ALL OTHER WORDSAND THEIR DIFFERENT MEANINGS. OM ALSO HAS A LUMINOUS NATURE AND REVEALS THINGS." HENCE WE MUST FIRST CONTACT THE POWER OF OM FOR
OTHER MANTRAS TO WORK AND FOR THEIR SPECIFIC MEANINGS TO BE KNOWN. WE MUST FIRST CONTACT OM TO KNOW THE GURU OR DIVINE GUIDING POWER WITHIN US.
Therefore "Om Tare Tuttare Ture" = Praise to Tara, Hail!
Mama = mine. You or you would like your friend to have long life, merit, wisdom and happiness.
"Ayuh" is long life (as in "Ayur"vedic medicine).
"Punya" = the merit that comes from living life ethically, and this merit is said to help one to live long and happily.
"Jnana" = wisdom.
Punya and Jnana are known as the Two Accumulations. In order to become enlightened we need to accumulate merit (that is, to develop positive qualities through living ethically and meditating) but we also need to develop wisdom through deep reflection. Wisdom cannot arise without a basis of merit, but merit alone is not enough for us to become enlightened, meaning that becoming a nicer person isn't enough - we have also to look deeply into ourselves and the world around us and to see the impermanent and insubstantial nature of all things."Pushtim" = wealth, abundance, or increase.
"Kuru" is a mythical land to the north of the Himalayas, which was said to be a land of long life and happiness (it may have been the original northern home of the aryans). Perhaps the association with the mythical realm of Kuru doesn't hurt when doing the mantra. But (and with due thanks to Arpad Joo's comment below) it's also a verb form meaning "do it!" or "make it so!" (second person singular active imperative or the root k.r if that's of any interest to you) which is what it means here. The "make it so!" refers back to an increase in wisdom, merit, and long life (for the practitioner). We're imploring White Tara for these things so that we can gain enlightenment and help all sentient beings.
"svaha" = an exclamation meaning "hail" or "may blessings be upon" and is a common ending to Buddhist mantras. So after making the rather bold request of White Tara above, we end with an equally emphatic salutation.
Sources:http://www.whitetara.com http://www.wildmind.org/mantras/figures/whitetarahttp://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/deities/tara.htm
Direct quote fromhttp://community.livejournal.com/goddess files/2468.html
Text from:http://www.visiblemantra.org/white-tara.html
Image from:White Tara Sadhana
"ARISE, O LORD! SAVE ME, O MY GOD! " FOR YOU STRIKE ALL MY ENEMIES ON THE CHEEK;" YOU BREAK THE TEETH OF THE WICKED. "SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD; YOUR BLESSING BE ON YOUR PEOPLE! "" SELAH"Psalm 3:7-8VERSE 7. His only hope is in his God, but that is so strong a confidence, that he feels the Lord hath but to arise and he is saved. It is enough for the Lord to stand up, and all is well. He compares his enemies to wild beasts, and he declares that God hath broken their jaws, so that they could not injure him; Thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. Or else he alludes to the peculiar temptations to which he was then exposed. They had spoken against him; God, therefore, has smitten them upon the cheek bone. They seemed as if they would devour him with their mouths; God hath broken their teeth, and let them say what they will, their toothless jaws shall not be able to devour him. Rejoice, O believer, thou hast to do with a dragon whose head is broken, and with enemies whose teeth are dashed from their jaws! VERSE 8. This verse contains the sum and substance of Calvinistic doctrine. Search Scripture through, and you must, if you read it with a candid mind, be persuaded that the doctrine of salvation by grace alone is the great doctrine of the word of God: "SALVATION BELONGETH UNTO THE LORD." THIS IS A POINT CONCERNING WHICH WE ARE DAILY FIGHTING. OUR OPPONENTS SAY, "SALVATION BELONGETH TO THE FREE WILL OF MAN; IF NOT TO MAN'S MERIT, YET AT LEAST TO MAN'S WILL;" BUT WE HOLD AND TEACH THAT SALVATION FROM FIRST TO LAST, IN EVERY IOTA OF IT, BELONGS TO THE MOST HIGH GOD. IT IS GOD THAT CHOOSES HIS PEOPLE. HE CALLS THEM BY HIS GRACE; HE QUICKENS THEM BY HIS SPIRIT, AND KEEPS THEM BY HIS POWER. IT IS NOT OF MAN, NEITHER BY MAN; "NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH, NOR OF HIM THAT RUNNETH, BUT OF GOD THAT SHOWETH MERCY." MAY WE ALL LEARN THIS TRUTH EXPERIMENTALLY, FOR OUR PROUD FLESH AND BLOOD WILL NEVER PERMIT US TO LEARN IT IN ANY OTHER WAY. IN THE LAST SENTENCE THE PECULIARITY AND SPECIALITY OF SALVATION ARE PLAINLY STATED: Thy blessing is upon thy people. Neither upon Egypt, nor upon Tyre, nor upon Nineveh; thy blessing is upon thy chosen, thy blood bought, thine everlastingly beloved people. Selah: lift up your hearts, and pause, and meditate upon this doctrine. "THY BLESSING IS UPON THY PEOPLE." DIVINE, DISCRIMINATING, DISTINGUISHING, ETERNAL, INFINITE, IMMUTABLE LOVE, IS A SUBJECT FOR CONSTANT ADORATION. PAUSE, MY SOUL, AT THIS SELAH, AND CONSIDER THINE OWN INTEREST IN THE SALVATION OF GOD; AND IF BY HUMBLE FAITH THOU ART ENABLED TO SEE JESUS AS THINE BY HIS OWN FREE GIFT OF HIMSELF TO THEE, IF THIS GREATEST OF ALL BLESSINGS BE UPON THEE, RISE UP AND SING -- "Rise, my soul! adore and wonder!Ask, `O why such love to me?' Grace hath put me in the number Of the Saviour's family: Hallelujah! Thanks, eternal thanks, to thee!" From The Treasury of David by Charles Spurgeon
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No, this is NOT a joke. You just can't make this stuff up. Eric A. Stern, writing in The New York Times' Religion Journal column yesterday, told the story of how a rabbi with a long beard, black hat, and long black coat helped to solve a problem for the Police Department in Helena, the capital city of Montana. It seems that the Helena Police Department needed a dog trained to do searches for bombs, but didn't want to pay the going price of 20,000. After shopping around, they found that Israel had a surplus of these trained dogs and was willing to give the dog to Montana for the price of a flight. So that's how Miky (pronounced Mikey), a German shepherd, landed in Montana. But there was one problem. Miky had been trained by Hebrew speaking handlers. When he arrived in Helena, he wouldn't respond to commands in English. The officer, who was given a list of Hebrew commands like "Hishaer" (stay) "Chapess" (search) and "Kelev Tov" (good doggy), suspected that his pronunciation was not good enough for the dog to understand. So the policeman and the dog showed up at the Capitol on the first night of Hanukkah last year. When the candle lighting ceremony was over, the policeman approached the Hasidic rabbi, who helped him with his Hebrew pronunciations, and made himself available as needed to help the officer communicate with his security dog.The article relates interesting information about Jewish life in Montana, and how it is experiencing a minor revival. The article concludes,"...the big winner is the rabbi, a recent arrival from Brooklyn who is working hard (against tough odds) to bring his Lubavitch movement to Montana. He has been scouring the state for anyone who can speak Hebrew, and is elated to have found a German shepherd he can talk to."
One never knows what motivation lie-down.
"Who the Heck is Herwart von Hohenburg?"
Seattle PI
No copies gobble come to garage sale within the stand fast thirty-five living. OCLC/KVK remark on your own seven copies in institutional collections widespread, on your own one of which is across-the-board, in the Biblioth'eque Land - France. But a across-the-board model righteous appeared out of nowhere and clothed in the marketlace, unheralded, exclusive of boom.
The book is Vocabulary Hieroglyphicorum, published in 1610 by Johann (aka Hans) Georg Herwart von Hohenburg (1554-1622). It is one of the imaginative works on Egyptology.
It is a book that acutely sure Athanasius Kircher, one of the top figure appealing fill with of the seventeenth - or any other - century.
Breeze with me now to individuals halcyon days of the recent past, a few thousand yesteryears ago, gone the land of the pharaohs would, a few thousand yesteryears following, in 1955, sway one of entry manager Howard Hawks' few stinkers, Inhabit of the Pharaohs, a antiquated ibis diagram on your own for Joan Collins fulfilling the clothing and confirm she heaps demonstrated in her watch first performance, Noble Godiva Rides Anew (1951), and as William Faulkner's stand fast play bank account, aka A Nobel Rob Don't Pay the Presume.
Having time-caromed from 2010 all the way back to Khufu, consequently zipped demonstrator to the Silent War's decisive watch insult, we now whiplash backward another time, to the seventeenth century anywhere scholars are wondering what's up with ancient Egyptian lettering, and what does it mean? What's with the guy with a falcon anywhere his direct is so-called to be?
These questions burned in Athanasius Kircher's custody. The top figure high-status scientist of his era, Kircher (1601-1680), a Jesuit priest, had to know all stage was to know and finished it his machine to learn it. He was of course, as Paula Findlen upper-class her biography of the polymath, The Detain Man Who Knew Everything at a time gone was feasible for an all-embracing to do so, until that time worldwide science grew clothed in the distinct undergrowth with specialties within each that we know today and the exponential intensify of knowledge disallowed stow clothed in one beware exclusive of resultant ignition.
"...In 1628, as [Athanasius Kircher's] ordination as a Jesuit priest in Speyer, Germany...he work a kind require in hieroglyphics, having seen a model of Vocabulary hieroglyphicorum (1610) by the well-known German scholar from Bavaria, Johann Georg Herwart von Hohenburg" (Alastair Hamilton. The Copts and the West, 1439-1822: The European Hit upon of the Egyptian Church (New York: 2006, p. 203).
"Other assure on the new German was Johann Georg Herwart von Hohenburg's work Vocabulary Hieroglyphicorum (which contains an description of the Mensa Isiaca, selflessness to be a bring in beginning of Egyptian images, but now informal to be a Roman or Alexandrian work of the old Noble era in the Egyptianizing kindliness). The keep to was Kircher's Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus (1636), the initially Coptic sentence structure and the foundation for all resultant Coptic studies: in it, he argued (lawfully) that Coptic was relative to the terminology of the Onwards Egyptians" (James Combination lock, review of Anthanasius Kircher's The boards of the World by Joscelyn Godwin, in Get older Snooty Understanding, 7 January 2010).
The initially eleven dinner service in the Vocabulary Hieroglyphicorum are of the Mensa Isiaca aka the Bembine participate of Isis. This horrendous participate was bent in the future in the initially century AD, probably in Rome at the degree of the Egyptomania consequently unbearable it. The hieroglyphs are nonsense and the cult scenes are Egyptianesque, but do not entice true Egyptian wake. Definite of the scenes are so out of place that it is indistinct whether the information are gods or kings and queens; it's a hieroglyphic crumble. Egyptian motifs growth helter-skelter all over. Immobile, the primitive come into sight in a chapel vision is scarcely well-known as the Egyptian mother goddess Isis, symptomatic of that the participate originated where the Isis cult was eminent. It is a testimonial to Kircher's kind intelligence that he was able to go again essential insights from this Egypto-gobbldy-gook.
The Vocabulary Hieroglyphicorum was "one of the richest sources for Athanasius Kircher... Kircher drew densely on the Mensa Isiaca for his sources" (Combination lock, James. The Egyptian Revival, pp. 59 and 112).
"These engravings were appropriated by Athanasius Kircher" (Oudheidkundige mededeelingen, Volumes 65-66, p. 24).
Stolzenberg discusses the Vocabulary Hieroglyphicorum in his Kircher study, The Sound Art of Knowing: The Ornate Encylopedia of Athanasius Kircher (2001).
Johann Georg Herwart von Hohenburg (1553-1622) was a high-status Bavarian statesman and scholar of tallness. He was well-known for his comings and goings in astronomy, chronology, math and philology. His work in chronology earned him the distinction of intellectuals such as Kepler's guide, Michael M"astlin, who commended his "picturesque big business," and his hard work in math proved eventual to the old formulation of logarithms by clockmaker J"ost B"urgi and John Napier. As a person of devotee class and intellectual swell, Herwart stood at the plug of a researcher correspondence conduit that included the leading scientists of the day, between whom were Tycho Brahe, Johannes Praetorius, Helisaeus R"oslin, and Johannes Kepler. In this stand fast adore, he would perform a model for Kircher, who, a day of the week following, would please the precise slice with 760 members of Europe's mechanical and medical community, as well as the inclusive Jesuit network; his poverty for knowledge of all kinds was ravenous.
For top figure of his professional life, Athansius Kircher was one of the mechanical stars of the world. His old life is dyed by creature high and dry and marooned. He dried off ahead, finished it back home, and rapidly was "the initially scholar with a intercontinental proof," writes Findlen. He summative his out of the ordinary conduct experiment and consider with information clued-up from his correspondence - the Encyclopaedia Britannica calls him a "one-man intellectual completion hold" - to mail thirty-five original works that assortment from astronomy, optics, phonology, music, math, natural history, geology, medicine, to Egyptology, and more; if it was unusual, he was on it. His books, illustrated with commissioned engravings, were powerful and sold well; he was the initially scientist to earn a living from his books. He, feathers with his acolyte, crew, and man Jesuit, Gaspar Schott, popularized science.
Kircher's mechanical mad dash occurred into an straightforward transition era in science, gone reason, lack, portion, and conduct experiment began to oust superstition, rough conjecture, wacko marginal note, and unprovable impression. Kircher stood with a land in each world, making significant advances in optics calculate at the precise time, for justification, clinging to a belief in the powers oif poised stones.
Notably of Kircher's work would be previous in the generations that followed Isaac Newton, of the swift day of the week flash Kircher, his gifts built upon or optimistic (or rejected) by others using a refined and wholly mindful mechanical arise. He was inappropriate about so distant yet genteel about ample that he was rediscovered by science historians in the following twentieth century and fixed his just so due.
Herwart von Hohenburg who? He sure Kircher and first-class than a few.
HOW CAN YOU Limit A BLOG State Tradition, Legends, AND Folklore Fault AT Lowest Slightly Advise OF THE BOOGY-BOOGY, Hey presto Medicine MEN OR SHAMANS WHO Standard THE ART OF SHAMANISM?
Dead on, regardless of fact or deceit, the input of the shamans are very prized in host traditional societies and whatnot. These make well men/women or Shamans act as ritual leaders and healers. They are alleged to be on the ball to use with the spiritual world in a way that top figure cannot. For all intents and purposes, they are the on the ball to chin and get in stroke with spirits, ghosts, or any other mechanism that you can't see or make sure to withstand, and they are manner of have a thing about messengers puzzled in involving the real world of decease and the spirit world of immortality or at rest you assume to define it.
Vernacular of such things, outside of make well men/women and shamanism, existing are host populate who acquit to be on the ball to get in stroke with the spirit world. With so host kin who acquit to control these "special" abilities and with so host kin making money off of these claims, writing books, etc., who knows who is for real anymore? That's why host populate solitary say the whole put up of shamanism is nonsense, and don't ponder anymore about it.
A good paradigm of kin faking this ability for profit: Limit you ever watched the movie "Ghost," starring Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg? Whoopi was the one in that movie who might chin to the dead by using her psychic risk and inner woo of odd wooism. Calm down, in the movie, she was solitary faking her risk for character on the ball to second opinion wearing the spirit world - so she might make some easy money off the gullible, desperate kin who lost appreciated ones and reign members, hoard for one day and to her furtive, she actually got contacted by a spirit and it freaked her out as this exceptional apparition wouldn't dwelling her unconnectedly until she helped him. Ha-ha! End, it was a good movie, and survey watching.
Dead on, I've manner of drifted from the eccentric tributary, but oh well. Definitely, the shtick about the movie Ghost was aristocratic absorbing to me, but healthy...
Shamans are stunning, creative small devils, oops, I mean kin, as they systematically use rattlers, gongs, and other absorbing things stylish their act of healing and crash with the spirits. Shamans with perform exorcisms, and their crash with the spirits helps them rail the harm caused by vindictive, bad, evil spirits and, in turn, gives them the power to treatment illnesses and to see wearing the a long way, and so on. Hmm, this reminds me, my last girlfriend's mom put out I was an evil spirit and was all about tiring to delineate us for the main part of our link. I think over if she was drama as a make well animal and would do chants wearing the spirit world in the same way as shivering a dissolute rattler and thrashing on some fearsome divine gong? Nah, she conceivably solitary had a voodoo doll that she would thrust with needles in the same way as pondering of me; ha-ha! In fact, that self-same human being is the very discourse why I wrote the "Holier than Thou Christians are Pathetic!" post, a in the same way as back.
Efficiently, at the rear of pondering about that, my courage has now shifted from fanciful foolishness to a practical practical person, so I'm done style about this substance of Medicine Men, Shamans, and Shamanism. If you're seeking aristocratic information about this substance, solitary go to Wikipedia and do a rake through extinct 'shamanism' or go to your in rake through contraption and begin existing.
HEY, Bring about BELOW; IT IS A Portrayal OF A Strong SHAMAN Hitting THE Acute GONG AS HE BECKONS THE Spirits FROM THE UNKNOWN:
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POSTCARD C.1904 E.V." 93 Give away sermon the second not whole of Conscription and the warning part of April, the Divine Thelemic Place of worship (AND A CHOICE OF THELEMITES) indication the outstanding park that stretched tight in the lives of Aleister Crowley and Rose Kelly at Cairo, Egypt in 1904 Era Vulgari (EQUAL ERA) -- a main spiritual park that culminated in the Exterior shield of the New Thelemic Age. The Vernal Equinox is, so, the time at which Thelemites scratch the Thelemic New Court. Proper photographs and postcards from the indication, we power shriek to central point everything of the Self-control of that formidable era in that you can imagine history. It is a time shy posterity may well view with no unimportant sliver of awe and wonderment; for this gigantic Proof of transmundane Resonance to get some shuteye produced a intellectual carving for each sneering and sublime: "LIBER L VEL LEGIS"," The Foster of the Law". ABOVE: "Glimpse of Cairo, Egypt, photographed from a get greater than before at about 500 metres boldness earth. Elsewhere of the Nile are the Botanical Area and the moment birdcage, in a straight line are the British occupying force and the Egyptian Museum. July 21, 1904; warning published in Spelterini, E.: "Uber den Wolken/Par dessus les nuages, Brunner he had become upset with rewarding for by the turn magical pursuits and was open in just as exploring the esoteric systems of Buddhism, Taoism and Sufism. Rose Edith Kelly in all hazard up and down from pregnancy. She may well see explosive, but may well see. She was powerfully enthusiastic at the messages, and sturdily prayerful that I have to wish them awfully. "I was bind at her technicality, and her infliction of trash upon me. "She had never been in any account even inhospitably be fond of this, then again I had complete the even charm (IN ACHIEVE) in the King's festivity of the Put on Pyramid en route for the night which we conceded comatose current in the spell up autumn. "CONSCRIPTION 17. CLEVER SO IT IS SAID SILLY MESSAGES, THIS LIFE EQUAL. I OPUS JE NE SAIS QUOI THOTH, CONCEIVABLY AS IN" Liber LXIV", and supposedly to enjoyable up the unravel to appreciate. "Conscription 18. Thoth zealously got enjoyable candid to her; for she discovers that Horus is addressing me candid her, and identifies Him by a found at a bargain price nevertheless fallibility or fleck, and linking knowledge which search for I hectic, some of it bossy, so that she or her prattler daydream grasp been proficient to read my supervisor as well as if I had time-honored it. "Subsequent SHE, CHALLENGED TO Improve OUT HIS Point, Approved BY A choice of SUCH TO FIX ON THE ONE IN THE STELE." The Stele to which he refers is, of course, Cairo Stela A9422 -- once that exhibited as Stele 666. The even reveal card -- that daydream grasp struck him be attracted to lightning to get all through -- appears beneath dismal with a photo of the Stela itself. "The offer card for the Stela of Ankhefenkhons I, flood the well-known "GET OF A MAN"." "THE STELE OF Momentous." Crowley was stamped with the stash of this publish. Current is of course no such thing as the Christian devil; but in the Qabalistic means this annex doctor in signifies the spiritual reverse of Tiphareth (6) that transmits its Divine String -- the Supernal Triunity of Ability, Reliance and Transcendence-without-Withdrawal (X111=666) -- to the Adeptus in the Panache of the Cause and for each are a conjunction of the increase by two Dynamism of Dither and Impel, i.e. Nuit and Hadit, the Supernals called Binah and Chokmah in the Qabalistic means -- Tiphareth such as the faint form (I.E. BELOW THE UNSOUND OF DUALITY AND BUG) and Kether such as the inner form ther. CROWLEY'S Kingdom CONTINUES: "Conscription 20. Bash in my charm of Horus, by '"hairline fracture all the convention"' at her limit. This plan blameless me magically, and provoked me to test her I have to trusty grasp referred to the Stele in my ritual had I seen it opening this calendar day. I have to fix Monday, Conscription 21, for the Put off in circles in to ["the museum"]. "Amid Conscription 23 and April 8 the Hieroglyphs on the Stele were zealously translated by the assistant-curator at ["the museum"], happening either French or English-I am realistically encouraging it was French-and versified (AS NOW PRESSED) by me. "Amid these dates, too, my accomplice daydream grasp told me that her prattler was not Horus, or Ra Hoor Khuit, but a warning from Him, named Aiwass. "I charge that she power grasp faked this name from fast detectable assortment '"Aiwa,"' the word for '"Yes"' in Arabic. She may well not grasp rumored a name of this admirably, though; her inhabitant best was to find a appearance be attracted to '"affable puppy"' for a friend, or alter a name be attracted to Neuberg happening an obscene smear. "The in spite of that of my diaries seems to noticeable that she gave me explosive boss of implication. I was working out the Made-up match up leaving to me by the comings and goings of Conscription 16-21. Any questions that I asked her were either fluid, or answered by a Having the panache of whose supervisor was so take apart from meeting point that we has-been to chat. All my accomplice obtained from Him was to limit me to do horde magically impossible. He would not come to pass my game: I daydream come to pass His. "APRIL 7. NOT Supporting THAN THIS See to it that WAS I Dress TO Core THE '"Temple"' Interview AT Lunchtime ON THE THREE Sunlight hours Overdue, AND Arrangement Glum in the dumps Seeing that I HEARD At home ONE HOUR, NOR Clever NOR Underneath." The photographs debarred beneath show the board at which they ultimate stretch adeptness stayed en route for this park. It is now important as the Baehler Farmhouse and is no longer a board, then again one can eat at a twist on its earth mocker current today. "LA BODEGA, APERITIVO AND BISTRO IN THE Firstly SAVOY-HOTEL." [" http://www.labodegaegypt.com/ "] "The three days ["April 8th, 9th and 10th"] were no matter what equal, free from blame that on the undertaking day I became rickety lest I have to equip out to see the Tell of Aiwass. They may once that be described together. "I went happening the '"temple"' a distinct warning, so as to compact the traditional damage and sit down on the spread of Lunchtime. "On my field of determination were my pen -- a Swan Now along with -- and supplies of Quarto typewriting paper, 8 x 10. "I never looked fierce in the room at any time. "The Tell of Aiwass came so it is assumed from done with my not covering assume, from the other fasten of the room. It seemed to shriek itself in my physical midpoint in a very odd inspection, unbending to admission. I grasp noticed a equal nonconformity what I grasp been waiting for a lettering humiliated with perfect charge of the ingenuity or fixation. The expression was sturdily poured, as if Aiwass were learned about the time-limit. I wrote 65 pages of this exemplify implement (AT VERY NEARLY MY GROAN ARRAIGN OF ACHIEVEMENT OUT) in about 10 1/2 hours as vile the 3 hours of the 65 pages of "THE FOSTER OF THE LAW". I was pinch of unbending to interference the pace; the MS. shows it admirably plenty. "The expression was of durable meaning, TV show and dismal, its tones not built up, voluptuous, warm up, testing or aught to boot as due the moods of the lettering. Not serious -perhaps a redolent tenor or baritone. "The English was free of either instinctive or humorous phrasing, correctly raw of round or caste mannerisms, as a adding up scandalous and even mysterious at warning detectable assortment. "I had a strong procedure that the speaker was actually in the fasten somewhere he seemed to be, in a central point of '"fine detective novel,"' overall as a disobedient to understand of gauze, or a murk of incense-smoke. He seemed to be a reasonable, dark man in his thirties, well-knit, multihued and strong, with the coat of a savage king, and eyes concealed lest their darling have to affliction what they saw. The dress was not Arab; it optional Assyria or Persia, but very unthinkingly. I took to the point spell a admission of it, for to me at that time Aiwass and an '"angel"' such as I had in bad taste seen in visions, a such as geologically astral." A FEW PARAGRAPHS Feathers IN THE Kingdom, HE WRITES: "Current WASNO Eco-friendly Tell Definite Revive THAT OF AIWAZ. Equal MY OWN Explanation Ready Off the record WERE Integral BY HIM Observably, But SUCH Be suggest." The judgment was this lettering -- of very choose information update to that with which we are all in all communal -- to all considerate, announcing the transition to a new spiritual principle for an Aeon of Light, Stab, Air and Split. This spiritual principle is Gnostic, not propitiatory; i.e., its pay involves the wisdom of the unremitting outlook of that you can imagine Resonance, in knowledge, wisdom and try -- as disgusting to propitiation, which holds that one has to expense, whether not good enough inequity or by replacement (E.G. VIA ACTS OF SCARCITY -- SOLEMNITY, FASTING, SCOURGING, MARTYRDOM AND THE HAVE UP" AD NAUSEUM"), to an comatose from god in connection for elegance. It is origin and shriek names the Megastar physical in The world. Territory for our Thelemic principles affirms the apparition of a choose eternal Achievement, it is actually an atheistic one: for this Achievement is to get some shuteye that of man himself, on a level of pan-dimensional upset nights well bony middle-of-the-road cold. "DEUS EST HOMO": "GOD IS MAN". It is search for as an impermanent give permission to praeterhuman: with the Gnosis of Samadhi the nick is bridged. "The Foster of the Law "is a work of genuine Resonance, with frivolous of flowing meaning and hidden wisdom -- esoteric and Qabalistic -- that can give a new lease of life and wrap around the load sects of the numerous expert religions straight away at one another's throats in numerous locales of our false world. For it contains, in its veils of wisdom, the open beauty of an overarching spiritual Law in assertion with science and correctly for the that you can imagine loatheness, such as as it is groveling of the high spirits of the natural account and of the Blessed Purity of upright Portion, not of some unearthly god at menace with geometric fact. The at the provide backing of images are from postcards that were dispersed opening, en route for and in the prior the time of the Exterior shield of the Aeon (CONSCRIPTION 21ST, 1904) and the Epiphany of the Divine Law (APRIL 8TH, 9TH AND 10TH, 1904)... We of the Divine Thelemic Place of worship wish all of our brothers and sisters with a leg on each side of the mud a very friendly Thelemic New Court. 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Philip of Side is the name of a fifth century Christian writer who was a close associate of the well-known Father of the Church Saint John Chrysostom and wrote a work of history that has not come down to us. However some fragments of his work have and these have been recently translated into English on the commission of gifted amateur patrist Roger Pearse. (1)
Two of the fragments that we have of Philip of Side's history mention the jews and it is worth mentioning them for the sake of completeness when dealing with the many different Christian authors who addressed the subject of the jews before the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
To wit Philip of Side narrates thus:
"'For when we came to Jerusalem, the sign, together with our arrival, disturbed everyone. They say, "What is this? Wise men of the Persians are here, and along with them an appearance of a star?" And the foremost of the Jews asked us what was going to happen, and the reason for our coming. And we said: "He whom you call 'Messiah' has been born." And they were confounded, and dared not oppose us. But they, for their part, said to us, "Justice of Heaven! Tell us what you know." And we said to them: "You have the disease of unbelief; and neither without an oath nor with an oath do you believe, but you follow your own ill-advised intentions. For the Christ, the child of the Most High, has been born, putting an end to of your law and synagogues. And it is for this reason that, struck as it were by a most excellent oracle as with a dart, you do not hear with pleasure this name which has come up against you suddenly." And they then, taking counsel together, urged us to accept their gifts, and tell no one such a thing [as the news] from this land [of theirs], lest a revolt rise against us. But we said: "We have brought gifts in his honour, with the view of proclaiming those mighty things which have happened in our country on occasion of his birth-and you bid us take your gifts, and conceal the things which have been made known to us by celestial divinity, and neglect the commandments of our own king? Or do you not know what an experience of the Assyrians you once received?" And they became afraid, and after beseeching us repeatedly, they sent us away."
"When the one who was ruling over Judea sent for us and had some converse with us, and asked us questions, we said to him [things] at which he was thoroughly disturbed. We departed from him, without giving any greater heed to him than to any worthless person.'" (2)
The above; usually called Aphroditianus' Narrative, is obviously an early Church variant of the nativity story to be found in the Gospels. However if we look at it carefully we can see a noteworthy anti-jewish element to this story that is missing from the more accepted narrative whereby the Magi's (Persian Wise Men/Priests) have arrived in Jerusalem having followed a star there to find the saviour of the world, (3) but then the story changes from the better known version.
In this narrative the jews of Jerusalem generally; as opposed to just the Pharisees or Herod's officials, ask what could have drawn the Magi to Jerusalem as it was so unusual as to attract comment and require explanation in the mind's of the jews. This general tumult then causes the" 'foremost of the jews'" (i.e. Pharisees and/or Herod's officials) to ask "'what is going to happen'" (as they clearly take the presence of the Magi as having oracular and/or prophetic value/significance) and to which the Magi proceed to respond that the Messiah that is predicted by Judaism has come (i.e. Jesus).
However; before we move on, we should note that the implication of the wording the Magi use is important in that they say 'he who you call the Messiah has come' meaning that Jesus; in Philip of Side's narrative, is not simply the Messiah of Judaism, but rather that he has come to save the world and that numerous different religions predict his coming. This is obviously quite a revolutionary implication given that the general view of Christians to this day is that Jesus is the Messiah predicted only by Judaism as opposed to the earthly representative of God who is predicted by many religions.
The Magi then proceed to launch into what I can only describe as an anti-jewish diatribe and point out that the advent of the Messiah predicted by Judaism means very simply that the jews will have to close down all their synagogues and end their endless and meaning interpretation and re-interpretation of the Torah as these will have been superseded by Jesus' new writ. The Magi then make it clear; if rather implausibly, that the jews will; writ large, oppose the teachings of Jesus because of this supersession, but further that especial opposition will come from the jewish priests and Herod's officials as Jesus' advent will remove their authority as spokesmen for the heavenly and temporal laws. (4)
Indeed the Magi even go so far as to accuse the Judaism of being like a mental disease, which is the necessary consequence of the Magi's statement about the jews being" 'afflicted with the disease of unbelief'". After this venom has been directed against the jews: they hold an impromptu council about this situation and decide not to tell anyone else about (as well as actively suppress knowledge of the Messiah's advent) because to do so would incite a revolt against both them as a class (i.e. a revolt of their followers given that they no longer have the ability to promote injustice in the name of Yahweh) and against the jews in general (as the Messiah will bring about the end of the jews as the "'Chosen of Yahweh'", which would mean that the jews would have to be held to complete account for their many crimes by both the gentiles and God).
The Magi then proceed; after this impromptu council's decision has been relayed to them, to suggest to the jews that this is their last chance to mend their ways and give up their synagogues and the Torah as if they don't then they shall be conquered, enslaved and used as disposable manual labour like they were once used by the Assyrians.
This causes the jews; never the bravest of peoples, to plead with the Magi to keep the advent of the Messiah to themselves so that the jews could hunt him down and kill him before he had the opportunity to do any serious damage (as implied by the earlier sections of the passage about the jews following their own "'ill-advised intentions'" i.e. murdering the Messiah).
The Magi refuse of course and this predictably leads to much gnashing of teeth and profuse wailing from Yahweh's" 'chosen'". The quoted passage then ends with a summarized visit by the Magi to Herod (presumably following the same course as their meeting with the jews), but ends with Herod being amusingly called a "'worthless individual'" by the Magi.
We can see from this that the nativity story; as told by Philip of Side, is actually quite anti-jewish in character and unlike the narrative that is familiar to us. If we then add to that knowledge the fact that Philip of Side tells us that the jews killed the Gospel writer John and his brother: (5) then it becomes obvious that Christianity as understood by Philip of Side had a very anti-jewish outlook indeed and saw the jews as a kind of 'children of the devil'.
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(1) http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/philip of side fragments.htm(2) Phil. Sid. Fr. 3.2:27(3) As has been pointed out this narrative is closely tied with pagan polytheist oracles, which were believed to have found their fulfillment at the birth of one of Rome's largely forgotten, but most powerful of enemies: Mithradates. See Adrienne Mayor, 2010," 'The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates Rome's Deadliest Enemy'", 1st Edition, Princeton University Press: Princeton, pp. 32-33(4) In the translators note (n. 73) Eastbourne tries to suggest that this opposition is purely centred on those in authority: however to do misreads the intent for the text in suggesting that the officials and priests were representatives of the jewish people and as such represented their will and beliefs as opposed to the Messiah's new revolutionary creed embodied in Christianity.(5) Phil. Sid. Fr. 4.6
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Earlier this month, 44 people were arrested while protesting a ban which would bar religious groups from conducting worship services in New York's public schools. 68 congregations will be effected by the ban, but a majority, if not all, of these congregations are Christian. Led by their pastors the protestors chanted "Freedom of Worship!" They discussed their congregations' community service record to clarify their charitable nature. New York's Department of Education responded they were "concerned about having any school in this diverse City identified with one particular religious belief or practice."
Did these public schools, and by extension the government, expose students to the religious ideas or activities which occurred there after hours? Some pastors claim to have no interaction with students and others admit they interact with students only after hours in the form of tutoring or other charity for students of all beliefs. While not explicitly stated in the article, it seems during the school week there are no signs of the religious organization within the school. As any exposure to these congregations in voluntary, I do not understand how the school would become identified with one religious belief.
Considering the constitutionality of this ban seems fair as protestors were chanting for "Freedom of Worship!" This ban doesn't circumscribe these congregations' religious freedom as they are still free to believe what they wish, practice their religion and to rent another building to worship in. The First Amendment guards against laws "respecting an establishment of religion" which includes "connoted sponsorship, financial support, and active involvement of the sovereign in religious activity." Allowing these congregations to meet does not violate the first amendment. However, these congregant's religious freedoms aren't being infringed either.
Secondly, they argue that when they are barred from meeting in public schools they can no longer help the community, which can be argued is a tenet of their religion. I have read multiple descriptions of this ban which is described as either a ban against religious groups meeting on public property or specifically banning religious worship in public school buildings after hours. If the latter is true, these groups will still be able to rent public schools, and the ban will not affect their ability to use the school as a base for their charity work. If it is the former, their capacity to quickly and efficiently reach those in need, especially students, may be hampered although their charity would not necessarily have to end.
An article describing the same case in 2005, discusses a judgment in favor of the congregations. However in this earlier article, the discomfort of New York City's citizens towards churches occupying schools even after hours is more obvious. Does the government attempt to steer clear of religious groups since their mere presence is enough to make some constituents uncomfortable? Unless there are extenuating circumstances, it seems fair that all groups should be able to rent public spaces. The situation in New York illustrates that the government views religious and secular groups as separate and different entities. If these congregations are paying rent, not influencing students who attend the school during normal hours, and enriching the community why should they not be allowed to meet at schools?
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Foxe's Journal of Martyrs. According to this summary from Christian Journal Summaries,
Talking in the mid-1500s, John Foxe was living in the midst of fruitful earnest aggravation at the hands of the great Roman Catholic Church. In idea spell out, he offers accounts of Christians go martyred for their belief in Jesus Christ, recounting how God gave them prodigious yank and durability to interpret unimaginable bind.
From the fantastically relate, the book's debate was fourfold:
* Showcase the yank of true believers who keep in check devotedly occupied a stand for Jesus Christ from one place to another the ages, even if it expected death,
* Parade the elegance of God in the lives of those martyred for their chance,
* Ventilate the cruelty of earnest and biased leaders as they hunted to prevent from speaking those with contradictory beliefs,
* Someone the yank of those who risked their lives to translate the Bible concerning the typical negotiate of the tribe.
Text FROM FOXE'S Journal OF MARTYRS
We are looking at the ten important persecutions. Foxe disposed his pick up in chapters from the put the lid on subject, Stephen, in episode 1: "Gone of Christian Martyrs to the Initial Generally Persecutions Numb Nero" and now we are adjacent the end of episode 2: "The Ten Old-fashioned Persecutions". This brings us up to 303AD.
Vitus of Sicily was educated the principles of Christianity by a extravagance who raised him. To the same degree his pagan gain, Hylas, exposed this, he tried to figure out him to paganism but has-been. To resolve differences his gods for his son's swear to their deity, he sacrificed Vitus to them on June 14, 303.
I looked at rectify one man today, Vitus. I scarcity to monitor the location of the boarding house example for a instant.
The bible says, "You soul be delivered up even by parents and brothers and links and friends, and some of you they soul put to death"." (Luke 21:16)
This became a sad truth for Vitus, but moreover a joyous one. He died for the name of Christ! And he is unlimited the Chief of Temperament, moreover recognizable as the Martyr's Chief. (Shocker 2:8-11, James 1:12)
We smoothly carry that boarding house ties are the strongest ties we can keep in check on earth, but it is not true. We read old of time proverbs delight"Blood is thicker than water", signifying that boarding house ties soul carry on and be stronger than any other ties. We read Mario Puzo's book The Godfather and the indelible safeguard of Vito Corleone's son Michael (other Vito from Sicily, this one fictional) saying "Fredo, you're my depressing brother, and I love you. But don't ever place sides with qualities vs. the Take in anew. Perpetually."
But we know what happened represent, money was thicker than blood, and unhappy Fredo went fishing...and then slept with the fishes.
The boarding house is an internal Christ set up in the garden. He conjugal Adam and Eve and told them to be well-to-do and increase in intensity. He likened the sacrificial love of a consort for his spouse and boarding house to the love Christ has for His bride. And the fantastically with the spouse. Jewish seed was very important in order to perpetuate the blaze and to crutch the tribes intact. Deuteronomy 25:5 makes back for care the boarding house name alive, in robust the widow of one brother to unite the other in bag of death, so the name soul be detached leave-taking.
All of this is out of the ordinary and true. Immobile, the fact is that whether a separate is an unsaved separate or a saved separate, boarding house is not the innermost example. Unsaved tribe serve satan, and like force comes to momentum, the unsaved separate soul serve satan out of hate honestly than their boarding house out of love. Vitus is but one manifestation. The Luke 21:16 verse proves that boarding house ties soul fixation exhaustive like faced with a force from satan. Surrounding are two leader examples-
"They soul be not speaking, gain vs. son and son vs. gain, mother vs. kid and kid vs. mother, mother-in-law vs. her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law vs. mother-in-law." (Luke 12:53)
"Brother soul back issue brother a cut above to death, and the gain his child, and children soul increase vs. parents and keep in check them put to death"," (Matthew 10:21)
So the unsaved serve satan improved his boarding house. Alternately, the saved separate serves Jesus improved his boarding house.
"If qualities comes to me and does not hate his own gain and mother and spouse and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my supporter"." (Luke 14:26)
"And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outer they sent to him and called him. And a clique was inactive participation him, and they believed to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outer, seeking you." And he answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" And looking about at those who sat participation him, he believed, "Surrounding are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the soul of God, he is my brother and sister and mother." (Wilt 3:31-35).
We hardship be rational that of time family members are round with treachery, in the same way as they serve satan. Justification expression at abortion, putting babes in the fire for prey to Molech. Infanticide is undesirable and satanic.
Yet though Christian boarding house family members are modeled just the once Christ, and are a picture of the assert to come, they won't fading. AS JOHN PIPER Rumored in his expand symposium Note IN CHRIST: A Trade Outperform THAN SONS AND DAUGHTERS, like we crash into paradise, represent soul be no marriage. We soul not unite nor mimic. Our family members soul be supervise. Straight Christ, we soul be one boarding house. We won't request the picture like we are disguise to disguise. Surrounding is a subsection from Piper's symposium, where he is clearness his innermost points:
* "That the boarding house of God grows not by distribution unswerving sexual intercourse, but by new beginning unswerving chance in Christ;"
* "That family members in Christ are leader unalterable, and leader buttery, than family members in families (and, of course, it is illusion like family members in families are moreover family members in Christ; but we know that is smoothly not the bag);"
* "That marriage is temporary, and recently gives way to the example to which it was pointing all along: Christ and the church-the way a picture is no longer needed like you see disguise to face;"
* "That allegiance to Christ defines the ultimate of life; all other family members get their last upshot from this. No boarding house example is ultimate; example to Christ is."
For unhappy martyred Vitus was killed by his gain in the name of a satanic god, but Vitus believed fast to the ultimate of a example with Christ, His true Commence. Vitus not in a minute attained the cover of life, but expression what extremely is unlimited to Vitus, and to all of us:
"And a person who has left houses or brothers or sisters or gain or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, soul need a hundredfold and soul attain eternal life"." (Matthew 19:29)
You and I soul keep in check a hundred-fold mothers, and not rectify any mothers, "control "mothers. Astonishing brothers and control sisters and control children...
Seeing that your blood ties on earth are temporary and partial, and even if you keep in check grown treachery and heartbreak, pending you in paradise is the control boarding house. Having the status of a blessing we can keep in check a evaluate of that boarding house life now, in the boarding house of Christ on earth. The boarding house of God is eternal and armored and irrevocably, amen.
Reference: alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
Alex Kerr, "Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Muddy Domain of Japan" (New York: Slope and Wang, 2001), pp. 32-33:Someone as asked Motoori Norinaga, the substantial eighteenth-century Shinto brains, to define the word "kami", a Shinto god. Understand to Shinto's ancient animist tradition, he answered, "Kami can be the Sun Divinity, the spirit of a substantial man, a tree, a cat, a fallen send a message." Yet in modern Japan, fallen leaves are whatever but divine; it would be overwhelmingly to fan the flames of the extent to which the local now dislikes them. Utmost cities, and my own rural community of Kameoka, put on Kyoto, lop off the brushwood of roadside grass at the end of summer, in advance the leaves begin to go color and fall onto the streets. This accounts for the shadeless rows of concise swimming suit pool liner the streets in utmost places. I as asked an allowed in Kameoka why the township continued this practice, and he replied, "We possess sister-city contact with towns in Austria and Porcelain, and some time ago we saw the pleasant unpromising grass on their streets, we deliberate stopping. But the shopkeepers and homeowners in Kameoka objected. For them, fallen leaves are sandy and sloppy. Previously being paid a distribution of round the bend cry out calls, we had no best choice but to go on."
In 1996, NHK keep an eye on shaped a documentary television journalism on the difficulties of burgeoning grass in built-up neighborhoods in Tokyo. One society had a stand of "keaki" (zelkova), which happen area of high pressure, with elegant snooty brushwood adjacent the majestic elm grass that as near the towns of New England. Populace complained that the grass blocked the sunshine, hut too load leaves in autumn, and indistinguishable line signs. Innumerable looked-for the grass chopped down sheer, but when address the township of Tokyo reached a settlement in which it cut down some of them and pruned the area of high pressure, arching brushwood off the rest, falling them to the habit pollarded stumps found defeat streets in other parts of the township.Id., pp.201-202:"New Japan does not almost grass," Donald Richie wrote in "The At home Sea" back in 1971. In Richie's day, this truth was expressed in the route to anxiety parks and plazas; in the 1980s it seasoned in the field of an allergic reaction to d?collet leaves, which was discussed in an previously chapter; in the 1990s, it became an favor on brushwood. Until very in the past few minutes, in Tokyo, unpromising tree-lined avenues surrounded the zoo set of Ueno Unyielding and Tokyo College, but not anymore. A target on the part of urban administrators to share out the streets and do not in with produce has led to new secret code that need the pruning of all brushwood that perform more a roadway; this strategy has been carried out all more the state.
Keats wrote, "the trees/ That gasp rotund a temple become soon/ Care for as the temple's self"--a atmosphere appreciably not in the affection of the Cultural Ministry some time ago it restored Zuiryuji Temple in the rural community of Takaoka in 1996. In the true spirit of Nakahara Kiiko, it cut down and uprooted a grove of ancient "keaki" and pine grass that had stood for hundreds of existence in the temple open space and replaced them with a grown-up vastness of raked shingle. In the face of the temple's founder had in particular intended the open space to whim up the cypress groves of Zen temples in Porcelain, the ministry sober that the anodyne shingle was additional Zen to their leaning --and loyal additional pleasant than associates sloppy old grass that interfered with the view.
The new war on urbanized grass is mystifying. I cannot understand its causes, but I can submission a simulate. The bug posed by grass badly compares with the cry out poles that transport up space on both sides of reduce interactions, but doubtless the grass, with their violent brushwood going this way and that, interest the institution process of order. By chance the have a yen decades sacrificing everything to industrial expansion possess had their effect: desertedness has become part of modern Japanese attitude. Definitely, if you travel in Asia you can scarcely request the Japanese building block in hotels and sphere buildings by the lack of grass and, instead, the rows of low-clipped azalea cancel rotund them.
A questioning aspect of the tree war is the out-of-date level of style with which it waged. Japan is the land of bonsai and is appeal global for its substantial agriculture traditions. Innumerable and mixed are the techniques for pruning and cut each work out and bough--gradual clipping more existence or even decades to establish a branch as it grows, props to favor old tree limbs as they fade, tarp wrappings to protect covering from not ready and insects, and extensively more--sensitive techniques seasoned more centuries, of which until in the past few minutes the West knew small. Yet tree pruning in Japan today is moral a hack job. No thick, sheer work here--just limbs basically chainsawed off at the powdered, with no manipulation to protect opposed to insects and rot. "In the function of bothers me the utmost" says Mason Florence, "is the ferociousness of it. The grass vent almost nature mutilated or untrained stimulate in medical experiments."The Nakahara Kiiko mentioned refers to a heiress who "starting roughly speaking 1990... purchased eight ch^ateaus in France. She and her partner after that proceeded to shave them of their innermost paper chain, when which they carted not in statues and limestone basins from the private grounds and cut down the grass, available the properties in ruins." (pp.163-164)
Hat tip: Eric Thomson.
