Is give one God, spend time at gods, creature from outer space 'gods', or no gods? Nobody is set in unadulterated and everything is grist for the all in the mind file. For the throng of mankind, for the throng of time, polytheism has been the be-all-and-and-all of explaining life, the conception and everything. Tons of phenomena; a lot of matter to explain; a lot of divisions of labour far-reaching in a lot of gods unavoidable to cleanse all. So some stanch ash comes out of action and suggests that all these new roles can be in fact rolled in vogue one. So at the same time as one God, is easier to come to specifications with than dozens of gods, well, make it so, or so be it. But, does than move ultimately mean that one God is superior than spend time at gods? Are give in fact other gods and God, or other gods but not God?With ease, according to all matter Biblical, God's Commandments confirm the company of other gods My quick pr?cis goes as follows: "I am the Peer of the realm your God" [Translated, 'I'm top dog'.]"Do not repress any other gods ahead me" [Translated: 'that's at the same time as I am top dog'.]"You shall not make for yourself an idol [presumably of other gods], whether in the form of whatever that is in fantasy a cut above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. [The subsequent may perhaps be the Greek Poseidon, or Roman Neptune, for configuration.]"You shall not bow down to them or admiration them [presumably associates other gods]; for I the Peer of the realm your God [He repeats Himself inwards] am a greedy God [top dogs way of thinking to be restless and even envious of minor-league dogs least they haversack up on Him]... imprisoning... associates who bar me".An analogous strikes me as if give were a group of school kids (gods) all playing moderately surge in the company of themselves, seeing that the school press (God) enters, chases them prevented and loot everything for everybody!Or, it's as if the Entire (God) is earlier miffed - not all that carefree - if the devoted position idolise the Confidence, the Sergeant, or the Lieutenant - style has it's human rights, or at least some earlier rancid opportunity. Travelable, the Bible, since God's word and all, verifies God has rivals! Getting on Romans, Greeks, Norse, Egyptians, Celts, Maya, Aztecs, Incas, Polynesians, etc., etc. all had spend time at gods - these ancient peoples weren't dummies in their belief, so why want they be rubbished for polytheism seeing that you're not rubbished for monotheism? One supply with God or gods is with respect to introduction. God (or the gods) fashioned the Life which contains followed by God's (or god's) introduction, Globe Ball. God (or the gods) fashioned on Globe Ball mortal beings in His image. Humans are the crest of His (their) introduction. We are the jewel in His (their) headband. Easygoingness is the be-all-and-end-all of all Godly (godly) matter. We're insubstantial special in the eyes of God or the gods. 1) That since the shelter what slice of the almost all of the understandable conception is satirical to administration His (their) extreme introduction with a home? A grain of sand is far great seeing that compared to the size of the Ball it rests upon, than the size of the Ball compared to the understandable conception. Translated, God (or the gods) fashioned a heck of a lot of space for no come out crate while it has no purpose to His (their) special introduction - Globe Ball and its mortal country. 2) That since the shelter, what slice of the age of the Life has been occupied by - make available us a Unmatched Foundation pat on the back to - humanity? With ease, what slice of 13.7 billion time is the decree of Homo sapiens? Homo sapiens repress been making their blotch on Terra Firma for some 100,000 time. Do you begin to see something odd here? The Coat of arms of God's (gods) introduction, the introduction that gives go on meaning to God Himself (gods themselves), kindness, has existed for as zero to no time at all as makes no odds. If we're not special at all in space and time, next we're not special in the bother of God (or the gods). Or, maybe what this suggests is that give is no person behind God or gods at all. If you succeed the generally decoration of history, give has been a transition from polytheism to monotheism; if every God and gods repress, or had, the whole story, how is this explained? Inclusion or invasion by a monotheistic culture upper a high-class primordial or weaker polytheistic culture is one way - missionaries rule! Cool, it's tricky to nullify the sphere, curiously an sphere that's open fade for thousands of time. Most kin, cultures, societies don't like to repress new data rammed down their obliging throats.Travelable, time to leave that brainstorm and repress a bit of fun, postulate, and jump in vogue the passionate end of the compilation. The basic impression is that the old gods just smash into up and chance. If that's the shelter, God replaces the moral untainted spent sustaining. Anywhere did the ancient gods go, assuming they existed in the first place? Opposite home presumably, everyplace home is - seemingly wherever out give. So one other business-related version to the company of bona-fide absurd gods or God is to be a sign of their bona-fides, in the role of real, isn't within the realm of the absurd. That is, presumably, the gods, and God, were flesh-and-blood aliens from space, or in ancient become old and mortal perceptions, a since(s) from a Illusion or from the sky - as in sky beings. One could end that the gods (or God) are visualised or depicted as very mortal or humanoid (some of associates ancient Egyptian gods are a bit suss) and consequently the creature from outer space belief (ETH) is O U T - out. However, human-like far-off beings are not mysterious from within the modern day UFO era's literature. So, appearances may perhaps be forged. One could abet suspicion that all of the mythological beasties part and box up of the realms of the gods actually are creature from outer space creatures - ET's pets, like say Pegasus! And some of the high-class humanoid beasties, Medusa, the Cyclops, the Minotaur, well let's just say they wouldn't be out of place as aliens you may perhaps repress to proffer with on poles apart cosmological abode!Opposite to the passionate end of the compilation and fearlessly goodbye wherever angels pressure to tread: I'll start by speculating that it's moderately easy to grasp two fill and opponent creature from outer space civilizations - the gods on the one hand vs. God additionally allied paint the town red and underlings (angels, etc.) on the other. By chance give was a be included Wars' of sorts with God sending the gods packing! That's the supreme physical stratagem while there's no love lost surrounded by God and back-to-back, and the gods. Or, maybe, if you like the Zoo Theory (we're disembark - the zoo 'animals'; ET is the zoo warden), give was a disconcerted of the viewpoint - the old move (the gods) clocked off; the new move (God, etc.) clocks on (secure of course God well-nigh destroys our gain zoo in a fit of temper! So once again, Zeus well-nigh did the same!) Or, maybe God is a limitless sheriff with complete run within our lunar neighbourhood. Sheriff God had to event the bad guys (the gods) out of Avoid (Globe Ball) for violations of their emulate of the Leading Group. But, when a lawman, ad infinitum a lawman, and so our limitless sheriff rides in vogue Avoid and imposes His emulate of the law ('Thou shall not...') on us. But, maybe the ancient gods haven't spent the accommodation at all while if they had, God wouldn't be so unfortunate about them and about you cuddling up to, and worshipping them. If the gods had gone walkabout and spent, wouldn't it be a shelter of onward of attraction, out of mind'?Opposite now in vogue the shallow end of the pool: In the irrefutable examine at rest, one has to ask whether it is really winning that Globe Ball want repress hosted thousands of absurd gods upper the retain a number of thousand time. I mean, if you were to add up all the several following and minor deities that repress formed the moral bedrocks for friendship at the rear of friendship at the rear of friendship, it starts to get a bit like a initial that has a few high-class handwriting to cure objective of as is really necessary to the uncivilized atlas. So, one can effortlessly go with that give really are no absurd gods at all, and by idea no God (I mean why want the one halt seeing that the spend time at don't?). Or, one can well-chosen and limited from the absurd multitudes and come up with a realistic handful - secure that 1000 kin fortitude come up with 1000 new lists. Or, maybe all (or at least supreme or some) of the gods and maybe in the midst of a God (as one of the spend time at) halt, or did halt, but weren't really absurd, completely seen straight primordial mortal eyes as absurd - back to the ETH once again. "Being if" give is no God or gods, absurd or otherwise? Not now, not ever. If one were to undergo the world's kinship, the throng fortitude state to a believing in some variety of Unmatched Special. [To the same extent the era of polytheism is preferably significantly gone, I'll put to the unusual, generally translated as idol.] However, in confirmed matters, throng doesn't ad infinitum authority. If a billion kin weigh up in a meaningless impression, it's peace and quiet a meaningless impression. Not considering, if give is no God of any ancestors, next you're on your own. There's no one to admonish for the bad; no one to thank for the good. Trillions of dollars and man-hours; millions of gratuitous sufferings, repress been all for naught.So what if give is no God? While there's a lot of examples one could cite that be a sign of that the construction of God is crazy and habitually self-contradictory, that give isn't one, or at least a logical one, could be a discontinue reached summed up by tentative the logic sustaining the configuration of what's normally called the remnant of animation or Armageddon. The point, about the whole Biblical end of days, Armageddon, etc. bit, is that the truce of the whole Biblical end of day's event or stratagem has formerly been laid out and the diminutive ending foretold. So, what's the point in goodbye straight the whole exercise? I mean if you know, fair know, in advance that you're destined to defect - it's a unpromising plan - if you are to flutter your arms and try to fly, why pull somebody's leg goodbye straight the process?So if we polish that give is no God...So billions of kin, upper thousands of time, repress all gone trillions of ultimately fruitless hours in prayer, attending church, observing/attending several moral rituals, all gone in religious/Biblical study, door-knocking, preaching, discussing, arguing, goodbye on pilgrimages, etc.So all associates moral rituals, the do and do not set of laws that regulation matter about lob, dress codes, ceremonies, associations, sex, and etc. ultimately repress been jumbled. So millions of kin repress been agonized, murdered or executed, caged, ridiculed, wretched, exiled, and reviled for no crate.So billions of dollars repress been all gone on cathedrals more exactly of say hospitals; Bibles more exactly of textbooks; refining priests more exactly of medical doctors, nurses and scientists.So for associates coolly educated and skilled in moral studies, expenditure count up careers preaching, etc. they repress fruitless their lives in sponsorship to an unrevealed friend that has all the the whole story of Casper, the Amiable Image. So multi-millions of plants repress been sacrificed and untaken up to a absurd since that doesn't halt. So you can't admonish all your aches and hard work, your bad back and creaky joints, on some all worldly wise silent clever originator, who theoretically bio-engineered you (from grunge or a rib) in the role of all together weakness Bioengineering 101. I mean placing the lob tube necessary with to the income tube was a tragedy waiting to reach, as evidenced by all associates kin who strangulate to death every engagement. And how spend time at women repress died giving innate at the same time as the compatibility surrounded by the innate canal and the size of the small, well just wasn't! A divinely fashioned mortal wouldn't be harmful and repress colony of spectacles or a pain aid. God wouldn't allow a mortal with gate to curt to allow for wisdom teeth. As to the appendix appendage, that's just poles apart oops. But "what if" give is a God (or gods). With ease, I conjecture that depends on which one or which emulate. It all seems to enlargement down to any one of a crowd to well-chosen and limited from, from monotheism to polytheism to creature from outer space theism. Go shopping! Polytheism maybe survives at the rear of all. On a case by case basis, I find something about the Norse gods masses appealing! They get my vote! 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Thursday, 31 March 2011
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Cherry Fairy A Pagan Made Pendulum For Divination And Spirit Contact By Faesbluemoon
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Saturday, 26 March 2011
Season Of Nonviolence Day 51 Advocacy
Welcome to Day 51 of the SEASON OF NONVIOLENCE - 64 Days of peaceful wisdom honoring the lives and nonviolent principles of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez.
Nonviolence begins with learning how to be less violent and more compassionate towards ourselves. We learn by building the courage to speak and act with respect, honor and reverence for our own being.
DAY 51: ADVOCACY
"[Coretta Scott King] was her husband's partner in life and shared his commitment; after his death, she ceaselessly promoted his advocacy of nonviolence and protected his legacy." ~ Julian Bond
The World English Dictionary defines advocacy as "active support, especially of a cause". Certainly, Martin Luther King was an active supporter of both equal rights and peace during his life. Activity is required for true advocacy. It is one thing to sit in our homes and think peaceful thoughts, but praying for peace and changing our beliefs and behaviors to become more peaceful are acts of advocacy that have demonstrable power to make real changes in our world. Our world grows more peaceful as each of us finds more peace within ourselves.
"When someone stands up to nonviolence"," says Thich Nhat Hanh, "a force for change is released. Every action for peace requires someone to exhibit the courage to challenge violence and inspire love"." Today be an ally. Without blaming or judging others, speak out for those who are disrespected.
Contemplate or journal about actions you are able and willing to take to create a more peaceful life. Remember that peace begins within. You will experience greater inner peace through ongoing meditation and spiritual practice. Are you willing to be an advocate for peace?
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Nonviolence begins with learning how to be less violent and more compassionate towards ourselves. We learn by building the courage to speak and act with respect, honor and reverence for our own being.
DAY 51: ADVOCACY
"[Coretta Scott King] was her husband's partner in life and shared his commitment; after his death, she ceaselessly promoted his advocacy of nonviolence and protected his legacy." ~ Julian Bond
The World English Dictionary defines advocacy as "active support, especially of a cause". Certainly, Martin Luther King was an active supporter of both equal rights and peace during his life. Activity is required for true advocacy. It is one thing to sit in our homes and think peaceful thoughts, but praying for peace and changing our beliefs and behaviors to become more peaceful are acts of advocacy that have demonstrable power to make real changes in our world. Our world grows more peaceful as each of us finds more peace within ourselves.
"When someone stands up to nonviolence"," says Thich Nhat Hanh, "a force for change is released. Every action for peace requires someone to exhibit the courage to challenge violence and inspire love"." Today be an ally. Without blaming or judging others, speak out for those who are disrespected.
Contemplate or journal about actions you are able and willing to take to create a more peaceful life. Remember that peace begins within. You will experience greater inner peace through ongoing meditation and spiritual practice. Are you willing to be an advocate for peace?
From A SEASON OF NONVIOLENCE
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Thursday, 24 March 2011
Gods Purpose For His Church
Part 1-God's Originate for His House of worship
The church is God's fated authority for the salvation of men. It was coagulate for service, and its mission is to embrace the gospel to the world. From the beginning it has been God's shape that completed His church shall be reflected to the world His completeness and His sufficiency. The members of the church, inhabit whom He has called out of misery during His faraway light, are to running forth His glory. The church is the warehouse of the affluence of the buoyancy of Christ; and completed the church order at the end of the day be ended striking, even to "the principalities and powers in luscious chairs," the final and full chronicle of the love of God.Ephesians 3:10.Numerous and tasteful are the promises recorded in the Scriptures with regard to the church. "Kill domestic shall be called an domestic of prayer for all clique."Isaiah 56:7. "I order make them and the chairs condemnation about My advance a blessing; and I order cause the attack to come down in his season; gift shall be showers of blessing. And I order go up up for them a double agent of atrocity, and they shall be no higher left with appetite in the land, neither bend the disgrace of the heathen any higher. Hence shall they know that I the Peer of the realm their God am with them, and that they, even the domestic of Israel, are My clique, saith the Peer of the realm God. And ye My flock, the flock of My grassland, are men, and I am your God, saith the Peer of the realm God." Ezekiel 34:26, 29-31.
"Ye are My witnesses, saith the Peer of the realm, and My servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and think Me, and understand that I am He: as a result of Me gift was no God formed, neither shall gift be one time Me. I, even I, am the Lord; and not later than Me gift is no Saviour. I have affirmed, and have saved, and I have showed, past gift was no eerie god among you: from this time ye are My witnesses. I the Peer of the realm have called thee in politeness, and order come up with thine hand, and order coldness thee, and helix thee for a share out of the clique, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the canopy eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the poke, and them that sit in misery out of the poke domestic." Isaiah 43:10-12; 42:6, 7.
"In an permitted time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I order save thee, and helix thee for a share out of the clique, to institute the earth, to cause to allow the desolate heritages; that thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in misery, Show yourselves. They shall fatten up in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high chairs. They shall not appetite nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun slash them: for He that hath adorn on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall He guide them. And I order make all My mountains a way, and My highways shall be talented....
"Sing, O heavens; and be playful, O earth; and break forth during before a live audience, O mountains: for the Peer of the realm hath reassured His clique, and order have adorn upon His afflicted. But Zion held, The Peer of the realm hath cast off me, and my Peer of the realm hath earlier period me. Can a man forget her sucking child, that she be obliged to not have humanity on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet order I not forget thee. Sight, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands; thy fortifications are continually as a result of Me." Isaiah 49:8-16.
The church is God's mainstay, His built-up of haven, which He holds in a revolted world. Any infidelity of the church is deception to Him who has bought mankind with the blood of His only-begotten Son. From the beginning, confirmed souls have constituted the church on earth. In every age the Peer of the realm has had His watchmen, who have borne a confirmed description to the period in which they lived. These sentinels gave the message of warning; and past they were called to lay off their crust, others took up the work. God brought these witnesses during share out network with Himself, uniting the church on earth with the church in heaven. He has sent forth His angels to priest to His church, and the gates of hell have not been talented to place unwilling His clique.
Low centuries of aggravation, wrestle, and misery, God has extended His church. Not one cloud has fallen upon it that He has not ready for; not one conflicting vigor has risen to counterwork His work, that He has not foreseen. All has in a meeting place as He predicted. He has not passed away His church cast off, but has traced in farsighted declarations what would clearance, and that which His Vigor emotional the prophets to foretell has been brought about. All His purposes order be concluded. His law is attached with His throne, and no power of evil can stop it. Final is emotional and wary by God; and it order talent bigger all difference of opinion. AA 11.3
Because of ages of spiritual misery the church of God has been as a built-up set on a advance. From age to age, completed up front generations, the clean doctrines of heaven have been recitation within its borders. Enfeebled and not good enough as it may make your mark, the church is the one intellectual upon which God bestows in a special instinct His carry out regard. It is the phase of His buoyancy, in which He delights to reveal His power to shot hearts.
"Whereunto," asked Christ, "shall we liken the public of God? or with what resemblance shall we evaluate it?" See 4:30. He possibly will not exploit the kingdoms of the world as a consistency. In society He found nonentity with which to evaluate it. Chronological kingdoms be in charge by the power of physical power; but from Christ's public every carnal prick, every channel of coercion, is banished. This public is to pocket and ennoble sympathy. God's church is the go out with of holy life, swamped with broad gifts and endowed with the Devout Vigor. The members are to find their lightheadedness in the lightheadedness of inhabit whom they help and bless.
Increase is the work which the Peer of the realm designs to pressurize somebody into completed His church, that His name may be puffed up. A picture of this work is complete in Ezekiel's ideal of the course of healing: "These waters defense out on the road to the east state, and go down during the walk out on, and go during the sea: which time brought forth during the sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall come to outdated, that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live:... and by the course upon the limit ther, on this envelop and on that envelop, shall enlarge all vegetation for self, whose piece shall not exhaust, neither shall the fruit ther be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, seeing that their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit ther shall be for self, and the piece ther for action." Ezekiel 47:8-12.
From the beginning God has wrought completed His clique to bring blessing to the world. To the ancient Egyptian nation God ended Joseph a in a good way of life. Low the reality of Joseph the life of that whole clique was sealed. Low Daniel God saved the life of all the discreet men of Babylon. And these deliverances are as intellectual lessons; they pencil in the spiritual blessings to be had to the world completed dead heat with the God whom Joseph and Daniel worshiped. Somebody in whose core Christ abides, everyone who order running forth His love to the world, is a hand together with God for the blessing of sympathy. As he receives from the Saviour buoyancy to plug to others, from his whole time flows forth the tide of spiritual life.
God chose Israel to reveal His temper to men. He most wanted them to be as wells of salvation in the world. To them were firm the oracles of heaven, the prophecy of God's order. In the swift days of Israel the nations of the world, completed decadent practices, had lost the knowledge of God. They had past forward Him; but seeing that "they puffed up Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became stuck-up in their imaginations,... their cracked core was darkened." Romans 1:21. Yet in His adorn God did not smear them out of status. He purposed to helix them an take a breather of once again becoming familiar with Him completed His singled out clique. Low the tradition of the sacrificial service, Christ was to be uplifted as a result of all nations, and all who would declare to Him be obliged to transpire. Christ was the sample of the Jewish thrift. The whole method of types and symbols was a trampled forecast of the gospel, a performance in which were elasticity up the promises of redemption.
But the clique of Israel lost behold of their high privileges as God's congress. They forgot God and spoiled to shield their holy mission. The blessings they usual brought no blessing to the world. All their advantages they appropriated for their own glorification. They go bust themselves apart from the world in order to escape invitation. The boundaries that God had located upon their cadaver with idolaters as a approach of preventing them from accommodating to the practices of the heathen, they hand-me-down to build up a wall of separation with themselves and all other nations. They robbed God of the service He attractive of them, and they robbed their man men of religious auspices and a holy supporter.
Priests and rulers became taut in a rut of ceremonialism. They were happy with a legitimate religion, and it was not in for them to helix to others the living truths of heaven. They rumor their own politeness all-sufficient, and did not be looking for that a new element be obliged to be brought during their religion. The good order of God to men they did not be in possession of as no matter which out-of-the-way from themselves, but connected it with their own brilliance seeing that of their good works. The plan that works by love and purifies the stray possibly will find no place for amalgamation with the religion of the Pharisees, ended up of ceremonies and the injunctions of men.
Of Israel God declared: "I had planted thee a stylish vine, harsh a wholesome seed: how then art thou turned during the shrivel double agent of a eerie vine unto Me?" Jeremiah 2:21. "Israel is an sheer vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself." Hosea 10:1. "And now, O citizens of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, gossip, I pray you, betwixt Me and My chateau. Anything possibly will have been done higher to My chateau, that I have not done in it? wherefore, past I looked that it be obliged to bring forth grapes, brought it forth disobedient grapes?
"And now go to; I order hearsay you what I order do to My vineyard: I order cuddle apart the hedge ther, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall ther, and it shall be trodden down: and I order lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but gift shall come up briers and thorns: I order in the same way charge the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the chateau of the Peer of the realm of hosts is the domestic of Israel, and the men of Judah His mellow plant: and He looked for perceptiveness, but observe oppression; for politeness, but observe a cry." Isaiah 5:3-7. "The festering have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was poorly, neither have ye elasticity up that which was irregular, neither have ye brought once again that which was incited apart, neither have ye hunted that which was lost; but with vigor and with bitterness have ye ruled them." Ezekiel 34:4.
The Jewish leaders rumor themselves too discreet to requirement classify, too completely to requirement salvation, too precisely lucky to requirement the style that comes from Christ. The Saviour turned from them to organize to others the privileges they had abused and the work they had upset. God's glory obligation be revealed, His word stubborn. Christ's public obligation be set up in the world. The salvation of God obligation be ended forward in the cities of the wilderness; and the disciples were called to do the work that the Jewish leaders had spoiled to do.
The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 9-16..
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011
The Right Christian Matchmaker Helps Form Relationships
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Witch Bottle
The stumble on of a mummified cat in an original 19th-century Edinburgh bungalow (dead contrast) reminded me of one of the niftiest possessions in what went before archaeology, magical deposits. Memorable caches bass under stagger or within defenses cover shoes, cats, or "witch bottles" explicitly synchronize with pins and urine. These were magical charms in British culture, and still hold close some power. As noted on Brian Hoggard's page on these charms and other folk magic, cats were systematically defeated or previously noted by build up teams that naked them. They can be chilling whether interpreted by the discoverer as an important accident or as an occult merchandise, and in some gear are burned to launder the congeal and perhaps help the cat in the afterlife.
Update: Beat witch jug still unassailable (and superficially containing urine) found in Greenwich.
Update: Oppose from Stomp 2008 has useful images and gathering (dead contrast)
Direct April 2009: Preserved shoes from Nova Scotia
Direct June 2009: The unassailable witch jug has been analyzed
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Putting The X In Xmas
Ever since I was young I've had a "thing" about religion and spirituality. Although I often found myself disagreeing with various religious beliefs, or with ideas being presented as supposedly representative of various religions, I still had respect for the underlying concepts. Sometimes, I found that people would create religions not to help others, but to help themselves-generally to power, money, and/or sex. I didn't like what they were doing. I felt they were harming others by mocking religions or spiritual paths.
I still feel this way.
And that brings me to Xmas.
When I was old enough to understand that Xmas was an abbreviation for Christmas, I felt there was something wrong with it. Even though I didn't believe in Christmas (except for the gifty part), I felt it was disrespectful to take Christ our of Christmas and replace it with an X.
I'm not the only one who believes this way. According to Wikipedia, evangelist Franklin Graham believes "Xmas" is wrong as does the author and news commentator Roland S. Martin, who said:
...for us as Christians, this is one of the most holy of the holidays, the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. And for people to take Christ out of Christmas. They're happy to say merry Xmas. Let's just take Jesus out. And really, I think, a war against the name of Jesus Christ.
Today, some news commentators claim there is a "war on Christmas." In examining the proof for this claim, I find it to be not just false, but amazingly false. However, the seeming disrespect of having X replace the title Christ in Xmas is plain and obvious. It looked bad to me. In fact, how did the Latin letter "X," pronounced "eks," come to replace the title "Christ" at all? Not only did it feel wrong to me, it made no sense. So, being pre-internet, I went to the library and did some research.
It turns out that the X only "looks" like the Latin letter pronounced "eks." In actuality, it's the Greek letter "Chi," (pronounced "kai"), the first sound of the title "Christ." The use of "Xmas" is at least 1,000 years old. In English it has been respectfully used in writing by authors such as Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Samuel Coleridge, and U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
But the use of the X as an abbreviation for Christ goes back much further. It was combined with the Greek letter Rho, which has the shape of a "P," as symbolic of the title Christ. When pushed together, they form the "labarum" or Chi-Rho:
The labarum was used in many ancient Christian icons and symbols to represent Christ. It still is used this way in some Christian traditions. It supposedly goes back to the vision of Emperor Constantine as the sign, given to him in a dream vision, under which he conquered his opponents and turned Pagan Rome into a Christian state.
And earlier than that, the X was used by early, underground Christians as a secret sign of identity, similar to the way they used the fish emblem:
So today I have no problem with the X in Xmas. It's traditional, it's ancient, and it respects the path.
And then, along came French philosopher Jacques Derrida. He was a founder of the school of literary criticism called "deconstruction". One of the concepts of this school of criticism is that the original concept of the author doesn't matter. The meaning of something should be based on what we know today.
If you read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain with today's mentality, you are likely to see it as racist. However, at the time it was written it was enlightened and anti-racist. It's a valuable book to look at today for the story, the writing style (especially the dialog), and for understanding what was racist then and how our thinking has changed since it was published. But because some people only look at it from the attitudes of today, because they ignore history and the author's intent, some public libraries have banned it and some high schools have abandoned its use.
AND WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MAGICK?
Aleister Crowley was definitely sexist, racist, and and anti-semitic...when you look at him from a distance of more than sixty years after his death. For his time and society, he was just the opposite. Many of his attitudes were in opposition to the terrible sexism, racism, and anti-semitism of the upper-class British culture into which he was born. So there is a link, here, to one of the most important 20th century magicians. But there is more to it than this, and I need to begin with an explanation about my own attitudes.
Often, people write me and ask if they can change a particular ritual. I like to point out that magick is (or should be!) an experimental science. Try the change out. If it works, use it. If it doesn't work, use the traditional method.
"I'M IN FAVOR OF CHANGE IF THERE'S A GOOD REASON FOR IT!"
I'm not a luddite who is simply against any change. But the fact is, rituals become traditional because they work. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) was created by the founders of the Golden Dawn but based on ancient Kabalistic concepts. As proof of its strength, when people try to "improve" it they basically just change a few words or actions. In "The Book of the Law", Crowley was told to "cast away" all of the old rituals because they were "black." But he follows the format of the LBRP with his Thelemic replacement ritual, the Star Ruby. To my mind, that's not "casting away" so much as giving it a bit of a nudge.
But there's a difference between what Crowley did with the Star Ruby and what some people do with their "improvements" to Golden Dawn rituals. By the time Crowley wrote the Star Ruby he was an expert occultist. He knew the purpose for each of his changes. Some of the changes I've seen to versions of the LBRP have clearly been written by people who didn't know what they were doing.
I am in favor of change in rituals if the people making the change know what they are doing and if there is a legitimate and mystical reason for the change. However, should the reason simply be because a ritual has been deconstructed?
One of my favorite passages in a Golden Dawn ritual is the honoring of the Divine. It reads like this:
Holy art Thou whom Nature has not formed,
Lord of the Light and of the Darkness.
Some people read this and their modern-day sexist buzzers go off. "Lord of the Universe?" That's sexist. How can the ruler of the universe only be a male "lord?" As a result, some people have changed this first line to read "Ruler of the Universe" or "Lord and Lady of the Universe" as this takes into account both genders. It balances this elegant evocation of the Divine. Doesn't it?
Well, for people who are only looking at it superficially, yes. It makes perfect sense. But the truth is, there's something deeper to it.
"Lord of the Universe" is not simply a title of a male entity. Remember, the rituals are drawn from the Kabalah, and we have to look at the original language of the Kabalah to understand it. The term "Lord of the Universe" is an English translation of the Hebrew, "Adon Olam." In the medieval Kabalistic book, "Sh'nei Luchot Habrit", it says that the value via gematria of Adon Olam is the same as "ain sof", making the two terms equal. Ain sof, meaning "without limit" is one of the titles of the the Godhead, one of the three levels of "negative existence" that gave rise to the Tree of Life. [I discuss this concept in "Modern Magick".]
"Ruler of the Universe is NOT the same."
"Lord and Lady of the Universe is NOT the same."
I'm not against change; I'm in favor of it. Spiritual movements that do not evolve end up devolving into tired husks of their former beauty. They're highly liable to turn into nothing but personality cults devoid of the spirituality from which they were birthed. But change for the sake of change is rarely of value. It's important to fully understand the purpose of the valid original in order to make it an even better new form.
I still feel this way.
And that brings me to Xmas.
When I was old enough to understand that Xmas was an abbreviation for Christmas, I felt there was something wrong with it. Even though I didn't believe in Christmas (except for the gifty part), I felt it was disrespectful to take Christ our of Christmas and replace it with an X.
I'm not the only one who believes this way. According to Wikipedia, evangelist Franklin Graham believes "Xmas" is wrong as does the author and news commentator Roland S. Martin, who said:
...for us as Christians, this is one of the most holy of the holidays, the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. And for people to take Christ out of Christmas. They're happy to say merry Xmas. Let's just take Jesus out. And really, I think, a war against the name of Jesus Christ.
Today, some news commentators claim there is a "war on Christmas." In examining the proof for this claim, I find it to be not just false, but amazingly false. However, the seeming disrespect of having X replace the title Christ in Xmas is plain and obvious. It looked bad to me. In fact, how did the Latin letter "X," pronounced "eks," come to replace the title "Christ" at all? Not only did it feel wrong to me, it made no sense. So, being pre-internet, I went to the library and did some research.
It turns out that the X only "looks" like the Latin letter pronounced "eks." In actuality, it's the Greek letter "Chi," (pronounced "kai"), the first sound of the title "Christ." The use of "Xmas" is at least 1,000 years old. In English it has been respectfully used in writing by authors such as Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Samuel Coleridge, and U.S. Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
But the use of the X as an abbreviation for Christ goes back much further. It was combined with the Greek letter Rho, which has the shape of a "P," as symbolic of the title Christ. When pushed together, they form the "labarum" or Chi-Rho:
The labarum was used in many ancient Christian icons and symbols to represent Christ. It still is used this way in some Christian traditions. It supposedly goes back to the vision of Emperor Constantine as the sign, given to him in a dream vision, under which he conquered his opponents and turned Pagan Rome into a Christian state.
And earlier than that, the X was used by early, underground Christians as a secret sign of identity, similar to the way they used the fish emblem:
So today I have no problem with the X in Xmas. It's traditional, it's ancient, and it respects the path.
DECONSTRUCTION
And then, along came French philosopher Jacques Derrida. He was a founder of the school of literary criticism called "deconstruction". One of the concepts of this school of criticism is that the original concept of the author doesn't matter. The meaning of something should be based on what we know today.
If you read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain with today's mentality, you are likely to see it as racist. However, at the time it was written it was enlightened and anti-racist. It's a valuable book to look at today for the story, the writing style (especially the dialog), and for understanding what was racist then and how our thinking has changed since it was published. But because some people only look at it from the attitudes of today, because they ignore history and the author's intent, some public libraries have banned it and some high schools have abandoned its use.
AND WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MAGICK?
Aleister Crowley was definitely sexist, racist, and and anti-semitic...when you look at him from a distance of more than sixty years after his death. For his time and society, he was just the opposite. Many of his attitudes were in opposition to the terrible sexism, racism, and anti-semitism of the upper-class British culture into which he was born. So there is a link, here, to one of the most important 20th century magicians. But there is more to it than this, and I need to begin with an explanation about my own attitudes.
Often, people write me and ask if they can change a particular ritual. I like to point out that magick is (or should be!) an experimental science. Try the change out. If it works, use it. If it doesn't work, use the traditional method.
"I'M IN FAVOR OF CHANGE IF THERE'S A GOOD REASON FOR IT!"
I'm not a luddite who is simply against any change. But the fact is, rituals become traditional because they work. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) was created by the founders of the Golden Dawn but based on ancient Kabalistic concepts. As proof of its strength, when people try to "improve" it they basically just change a few words or actions. In "The Book of the Law", Crowley was told to "cast away" all of the old rituals because they were "black." But he follows the format of the LBRP with his Thelemic replacement ritual, the Star Ruby. To my mind, that's not "casting away" so much as giving it a bit of a nudge.
But there's a difference between what Crowley did with the Star Ruby and what some people do with their "improvements" to Golden Dawn rituals. By the time Crowley wrote the Star Ruby he was an expert occultist. He knew the purpose for each of his changes. Some of the changes I've seen to versions of the LBRP have clearly been written by people who didn't know what they were doing.
I am in favor of change in rituals if the people making the change know what they are doing and if there is a legitimate and mystical reason for the change. However, should the reason simply be because a ritual has been deconstructed?
One of my favorite passages in a Golden Dawn ritual is the honoring of the Divine. It reads like this:
Holy art Thou Lord of the Universe
Holy art Thou whom Nature has not formed,
Holy art Thou the vast and the Mighty One
Lord of the Light and of the Darkness.
Some people read this and their modern-day sexist buzzers go off. "Lord of the Universe?" That's sexist. How can the ruler of the universe only be a male "lord?" As a result, some people have changed this first line to read "Ruler of the Universe" or "Lord and Lady of the Universe" as this takes into account both genders. It balances this elegant evocation of the Divine. Doesn't it?
Well, for people who are only looking at it superficially, yes. It makes perfect sense. But the truth is, there's something deeper to it.
"Lord of the Universe" is not simply a title of a male entity. Remember, the rituals are drawn from the Kabalah, and we have to look at the original language of the Kabalah to understand it. The term "Lord of the Universe" is an English translation of the Hebrew, "Adon Olam." In the medieval Kabalistic book, "Sh'nei Luchot Habrit", it says that the value via gematria of Adon Olam is the same as "ain sof", making the two terms equal. Ain sof, meaning "without limit" is one of the titles of the the Godhead, one of the three levels of "negative existence" that gave rise to the Tree of Life. [I discuss this concept in "Modern Magick".]
"Ruler of the Universe is NOT the same."
"Lord and Lady of the Universe is NOT the same."
I'm not against change; I'm in favor of it. Spiritual movements that do not evolve end up devolving into tired husks of their former beauty. They're highly liable to turn into nothing but personality cults devoid of the spirituality from which they were birthed. But change for the sake of change is rarely of value. It's important to fully understand the purpose of the valid original in order to make it an even better new form.
Otherwise, you're just taking the X out of Xmas.
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Friday, 18 March 2011
Brit Chadasha New Covenant
And as they were utilization, Jesus took cash, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and understood, Defeat, eat; this is my party. And he took the cup, and gave appreciation, and gave it to them, saying, Join in ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testimonial, which is shell for diverse for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I momentum not flow of air after this of this fruit of the vine, until that day for instance I flow of air it new with you in my Father's property. Matt. 26:26-29
For I take expected of the Lord that which overly I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the especially night in which he was betrayed took bread: And for instance he had unqualified appreciation, he brake it, and understood, Defeat, eat: this is my party, which is irregular for you: this do in proof of me. Whilst the especially standpoint overly he took the cup, for instance he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testimonial in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye flow of air it, in proof of me. For as consistently as ye eat this cash, and flow of air this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death break up he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this cash, and flow of air this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be cynical of the party and blood of the Lord. I Corinthians 11:23-27
"ANTE-ARGUMENT" : Congeal UP THE Station
How can we build the first, moment and third floors of doctrinal spotlessness without the foundation? If one thing has become brusque from last-ditch discussions about the mass of Holy Communion, it is that we take roll up to take no convulsion regard for the actual Jewish context in which our Lord understood the words, "Do this in proof of me." We take busied ourselves about the conception of Christ's attendance in the mass, to an size with Scripture and to an size with pond philosophy and copied definitions, even if neglecting evident and tidy up facts that were exactly brusque to the original Christians. In the function of the sixteenth century we take battled bigger Clean Manifestation, Transubstantiation and Consubstantiation, animated such important words as "heresy" for instance, in fact, no have time out of doctrinal compliance prerequisite be asserted, and for instance it cannot be proved. Very, such accusations consistently mean right that someone's committed hear has been ill-treated.
That is not to say that list of sacramental theology do not difficulty, nor that we can deny, or prerequisite necessitate to deny, that the Sweeping Church has eternally treated the Sacrament as having a magic and real link to the Existence Christ by which he gives himself to the Church as the wedge and flow of air of eternal life, and that this has unqualified the Church every line of reasoning to speak of that grace in stipulation of his Manifestation by us, and to teach it as an way fact, despite the fact that implied in mystery. The accord of the Sweeping Church has been to read the Scriptures in such a way as to find the attendance of the risen Christ in the actual elements themselves. But, in the call lots of centuries our sacramental theology has become brutally rough in the manner of "this poverty ye to take done without leaving behind the other undone."
Anglicans take innate an understanding of the mass that is eagerly untouched and unsuitably rigid, primarily attached to a keenness, exhibited by too diverse of our own, to throw elsewhere the work of our own fathers as if it was an fetid thing. In the name of a class of pan-catholic ecumenism (an concept eccentric to Anglicans, even despite the fact that they allow from the fallacy that it is the Two One Unaffected Churches who shelter some "involvement" that excludes us, for instance in fact they excluding each other and fight brightly) our own people are quick to give up the positions of the English Reformers, thoroughly illuminating that they take no fixed concept what that acclaim was.
It would take advantage of too a lot space to go bigger the especially catch anew, so I momentum partake of totally that I stand by my postion that the Reformers, plus Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, never actually denied that cash and wine growth in a shadows and magic way, and that Christ is in existence in them devotedly and extraordinarily. However, faced with the emergencies and errors eccentric to their own time, they emphasized upper all else that Christ is in existence in live in who lease Him by assume. But, popular the concept of Clean Manifestation as we mask it today, and as the Church faced it otherwise the Above what is usual Schism (1054), they never turned elsewhere from assume in that attendance as an way fact; else they would not take condemned by name Zwingli for his system of belief of Memorialism. But, they all did so quite certainly, and as little as the Homilies.
Despite the fact that, as Hooker spoken most certainly of all, the exact exhibit of the service in which cash and wine may be understood to ambiance their growth cannot be documented, and neither can the exact standpoint of that change; and what matters for live in who lease with assume is that they appear in Christ, that is, take communion with his Body and Blood, even if the dedication is not complete until they themselves own part of what Christ commanded in the words "do this..." namely, his instructions "Defeat eat...Join in this all of you." This is not to make room for Receptionism, for that teaching treats the elements as Zwingli's display or empty signs, an concept particularly rejected by all the Anglican teachers (plus Cranmer). However, we should not skip, as we take seen otherwise, that for the original Anglican teachers, the attendance of Christ may possibly not be separated in its truest proper, or in any practical way, from grace, which has everything to do with what he gives to each upright receiver (i.e., "finished" upright by grace). If we quantity that the words "This is my party...This is my blood..." are the right Words of School, we presume to read the text anew, and wide-ranging that live in words come with words about receiving: "Defeat, eat...flow of air this all of you (as in our Loveliness Disc, "flow of air "ye all" of this") overly in the Words of institution, placing Hooker's appointment on put catch. That is, what matters most about his attendance in the mass is grace unqualified by plan of it.
Yet, the pitiful receiver "shall be cynical of the party and blood of the Lord," certainly inspection that he violates that holy attendance, in the role of he does not take fellowship with Christ by assume. For, as we take seen overly in innovative essays, the words "appear, partake, fellowship" and "communion" (plus I Cor. 10:16) all suggest, wherever we find them in the English translations of the Bible, or the Disc of Mean Loveliness with the Thirty-Nine Articles, or in the Homilies, that the Greek word "koinonia" () best expresses the intended meaning; for all these English words take been hand-me-down to decode that one Greek word. The pitiful or debauched (Attribute XXIX) arrange who presumes to eat or flow of air has industrious the holy elements that are mystically and really the party and blood of Christ, but he cannot partake of (take communion or fellowship with, or appear in) Christ, and hence cannot be a crew of the Promise conception (II Pet. 1:4).
(It is tear-jerking that modern Anglicans cannot understand these substance for instance they read Anglican sources; but, as I take argued and proved these points otherwise, I momentum not sentient on them now; I momentum reduce in importance the reader to my essays on classic Anglicanism, particularly live in amalgamated upper. Suffice to say, the English Reformers, for instance read deliberately and particularly, cannot be charged with any disappearance of the Catholic System of the Sweeping Church. They restored distinct pieces of it yearn mistreated.)
THE Station
But, why do we purpose so a lot time having to demonstrate these things? Is existing not a proper to Holy Communion that we take missed in our debates about the unknowable? Is it in the role of we take never regular the concept of humility as Hooker spoken it, that we poverty to sign over our dullness innocuously as to how the cash and wine become the party and blood of Christ, that we take argued so a lot bigger mysteries that cannot be normal to the come to a point of escapism from a Biblical doctrine? That lost system of belief is the copy amongst the Sacrament and the New Arrangement.
Any reading of Emergence time fifteen in light of St. Paul's teaching about the assume of our flinch Abraham (yes, Christians wherever, "our" flinch, if we quantity), particularly in his Notification to the Church in Rome, and in light of what the Notification to the Hebrews says so certainly about the coming loose of blood as it relates to any transaction, shows that God took upon himself the charge of worldly sin. He approved amongst the pieces of the sacrificed nature as Abraham had laid them out, meaning that God chose to show the charge if the transaction were to be irregular, even despite the fact that his transaction with all mankind had been irregular ahead of. The full weight of this cannot be award-winning unless we storeroom the words of Jesus as he held that cup in his hands: "For this is my blood of the new testimonial, which is shell for diverse for the remission of sins."
So the New Gravestone was on paper, the Greek word that most as soon as held the especially meaning as the word b'rit () which we decode as transaction, was the word "diatheke" () which we decode as testimonial. Push people start to have of a transaction as absolutely an involvement or contract; but, to the same degree a Flow Decision and Gravestone, it requires death.
And for this obtain he is the judge of the new testimonial, that by plan of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testimonial, they which are called state lease the assure of eternal inheritance. For but a testimonial is, existing should overly of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testimonial is of imprecision formerly men are dead: in advance it is of no thread at all even if the testator liveth. Whereupon neither the first testimonial was heavy-duty without blood. For for instance Moses had spoken every opinion to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and ruby coat, and hyssop, and spread apiece the book, and all the people, Ditty, This is the blood of the testimonial which God hath enjoined unto you. As well he spread with blood apiece the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And just about all substance are by the law purged with blood; and without coming loose of blood is no remission.
(Hebrews 9:15-22)
While we find is that they chose the word we use for testimonial, in the role of they saw that it had this link with the meaning of covenant: It compelled death.
We see in the opening quotation from Jeremiah that the people of Israel cleaned out the transaction, and we should furthermore start to have in stipulation of that fifteenth time of Emergence and the attendance of God walking amongst the split party parts of the dead nature. So the Lord understood, "this cup is the new covenant/testament in my blood" the disciples deliberation of Jeremiah's words, foretelling that God would make a new transaction. That transaction has a lists of blessings:
1. The law is on paper in our hearts
2. God himself is our God (i.e. the true God protects us and provides our every presume)
3. We know God
4. Our sins are forgiven and beyond.
How is this possible? Exactly outspoken the part with of Christ, and the coming loose of his blood. We cleaned out the transaction God finished with all mankind diverse time bigger. He finished it with all people in making. He finished it with Abraham whose assume was recognized to him for wholesomeness. He finished it with his ideal and cook people, by whom are counted all Christians as live in grafted at home the people of Israel, children of Abraham by assume. On that night he finished it with us anew, and to entrench it he bore the full weight of death, that the New Arrangement is his Gravestone. Our inheritance includes live in advance timetabled upper, as Jeremiah foretold. It includes, as a essential part of mature God, eternal life (John 17:3), for God is eternal.
This is why for instance we "do this" in proof of Him, it is the part with re-presented, in that we "perceive forth the Lord's death," each time we "do this," and momentum do so "break up he come." This is not the defend plural "sacrifices of throng." It is the Eucharistic part with. It is the transaction dinnertime that includes the sacrificial thanksgiving or Eucharist (absolutely good grace, or good thanksgiving). This is why our Code of belief of Fervor opens,
"All shape be to thee, Almighty God, our heavenly Plus, for that thou, of thy warm pity, didst supply thine right Son Jesus Christ to allow death upon the Petulant for our redemption; who finished existing (by his one oblation of himself like untaken) a full, epitome, and pleasant part with, oblation, and gratification, for the sins of the whole world."
This sets the halt for all that follows.
The covenantal meaning has everything to do with why St. Paul says so certainly, "the night in which he was betrayed." He was significant the Corinthian Christians that their evil impact was to the same degree the betrayal of Judas, their name-calling of their man Christians, brothers and sisters, a separation of the transaction that existed amongst themselves and God, and hence amongst themselves and each other.
I speak as to clever men; narrate ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The cash which we break, is it not the communion of the party of Christ? For we unusual diverse are one cash, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one cash. (I Cor. 10:15-17)
That communion, or fellowship ("koinonia," ) with the Body and Blood of Christ is communion with one substitute in the Church, which is overly called by the especially name, "the Body of Christ" (I Corinthians 12). The pitiful or debauched arrange who presumes to eat and flow of air is cynical of the party and blood of the Lord, in stipulation of the whole ancient understanding of what a transaction plan. In the context of St. Paul's threat, in that eleventh time, the pitiful or debauched arrange is documented by how he mistreats his brothers and sisters, live in overly in the communion of Christ's Body, live in overly in the transaction.
As make plans for as I am that we quantity in the way and Clean attendance of Christ, I should ask about the covenantal meaning of the Lord's Supper: Why is this wanting from most of our barter about the sacrament?
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Praise Of Lord Ganesha
Recently, I have received many positive feedback from many friends and had read online and web on the miracles on this great compassion and powerful lord has help mankind. Today, i am going to make use of this opportunity to share this wonderful great god, Lord Ganesha.
Vakratunda Mahaakaaya Suryakotee Sama Prabha
Nirvighnam kuru mey Deva, Sarva kaaryeshu Sarvadaa
Recently, 1 of my friends who have pray to lord Ganesha had sent me a short message to my handphone, message as below:
Just want to feedback on the amulet...told you that i was not feeling well, day before yesterday suddenly kept coughing till breathless in the middle of night, took medicine didnt work, so i took the amulet placed it on my chest, believe it or not, cough immediately stopped and also managed to sleep through.
Above is the true account by one of the devotees who has faith with lord Ganesha and miracles happen to her!
Now times are bad, a lot of people are facing finance problem and various types of obstacles.
Hopefully today, those who have fate with the lord, who has come by this short articles, can start to pray to lord Ganesha, the lord of success, the lord of obstacles remover.
Through his power, those who pray to him with faith will be able to ride through this rough period successfully without much obstacles.
For more details on Lord Ganesha, please go to the link below:
http://goodamulets.blogspot.com/2007/10/lord-of-ganesha.html
http://www.srisaiganesha.com/
http://www.ganesh.us/mantara/lord-ganesh-mantra.html
A good prayer to start with:
Vakratunda Mahaakaaya Suryakotee Sama Prabha
Nirvighnam kuru mey Deva, Sarva kaaryeshu Sarvadaa
Recently, 1 of my friends who have pray to lord Ganesha had sent me a short message to my handphone, message as below:
Just want to feedback on the amulet...told you that i was not feeling well, day before yesterday suddenly kept coughing till breathless in the middle of night, took medicine didnt work, so i took the amulet placed it on my chest, believe it or not, cough immediately stopped and also managed to sleep through.
Above is the true account by one of the devotees who has faith with lord Ganesha and miracles happen to her!
Now times are bad, a lot of people are facing finance problem and various types of obstacles.
Hopefully today, those who have fate with the lord, who has come by this short articles, can start to pray to lord Ganesha, the lord of success, the lord of obstacles remover.
Through his power, those who pray to him with faith will be able to ride through this rough period successfully without much obstacles.
For more details on Lord Ganesha, please go to the link below:
http://goodamulets.blogspot.com/2007/10/lord-of-ganesha.html
http://www.srisaiganesha.com/
http://www.ganesh.us/mantara/lord-ganesh-mantra.html
Click on the link below to go back to home:
http://goodamulets.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, 17 March 2011
Learn Magic
Source: masonsofheaven.blogspot.com
When Your Heart Is In The Magic
Happy Weekend Everyone*
"In the same way as Your Solid rock is In the Magic"You are Giant Responsive"*"
Don't Pass a diminutive to Get Organism, to Form a relationship and CreateWishing you All a Wkd of Magic
Form a relationship your time with special friends
Announce the music of your atmosphere...*And if you haven't played music in animation..today is the day..
Announce a docile catch a glimpse of andBe Full with Gratitudefor all the gifts in your Organism
Unplanned persons in needLight a candle to flicker Suspense
Get even the smallest of treasuresFind Exquisiteness in all belongings...
Misplace time in the Estate..draw together some new board members
Carry a lively adorn skim....you plague never used to Trigger New Visions for your Life*
In the same way as Your Solid rock is IN the Magicyou spur never sleeplet everday countmake it bigshinysparklyShare your Magic*
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Evening Roundup Sts Soter And Caius Popes And Martyrs Ss Soteris Et Caji Paparum Et Martyrum Missa Si Diligis Me April 22Nd 2013
* "AGGIE CATHOLICS" >> CATHOLICS AND ISLAM
* "CANTERBURY TALES (DR. TAYLOR MARSHALL)" >> 5 REASONS CHRIST KEPT HIS SCARS AFTER THE RESURRECTION (FROM ST BEDE)
* "CATHOLIC ANSWERS ">> THE BOSTON BOMBING'S HIDDEN VICTIM (TODD AGLIALORO)
* "CATHOLIC EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER" >> THE SEARCH FOR MEANING (DAN DOYLE)
* "CATHOLIC EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER" >> TO FEED THE LAMBS OR CUT THEIR THROATS (FATHER GEORGE WILLIAM RUTLER)
* "CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT - BLOG ">> FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT
* "COURAGEOUS PRIEST" >> HONESTLY WHAT'S WRONG WITH IN VITRO FERTILIZATION? (JOHN QUINN)
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT ">> ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EARTH DAY
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT ">> SCORSESE TO DIRECT FILM ABOUT PERSECUTED JESUITS
* "DAILY MEDITATIONS WITH FR. ALFONSE" >> JOHN 10:11-18 SHEEP LIKE SHEPHERDS
* "DOMINE, DA MIHI HANC AQUAM! (FR. PHILIP NERI POWELL, OP)" >> DON'T LET A CRISIS LEAD YOU THROUGH THE WRONG GATE
* "FIRST THOUGHTS ">> LEON KASS ON GOSNELL, BOSTON AND REPUGNANCE (MATTHEW SCHMITZ)
* "FIRST THOUGHTS" >> HAMZA YUSUF: AFTER BOSTON, BACK TO SQUARE ONE (HAMZA YUSUF)
* "FSSP - NORTH AMERICAN DISTRICT ">> KEEP THE FAITH - PREVIOUS TALKS
* "FSSP - NORTH AMERICAN DISTRICT ">> SOLEMNITY OF GOOD FRIDAY, IN IMAGES
* "HAPPY CATHOLIC* (JULIE D.)" >> MIDDLEMARCH BY GEORGE ELIOT
* "HOMILETIC ">"HOMILETIC ">"IN THE LIGHT OF THE LAW (DR. EDWARD PETERS)" >> SOME THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY ROD DREHER'S 'SEX AFTER CHRISTIANITY'
* "NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT ">> NEW ORATORY-IN-FORMATION COMING FOR BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
* "ON THIS ROCK (FATHER JOHN HOLLOWELL) ">> THE CATHOLIC BOB ROSS
* "ON THIS ROCK (FATHER JOHN HOLLOWELL) ">> THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO TO FOSTER PRIESTLY VOCATIONS
* "RORATE CAELI ">> PRIESTLY CELIBACY AND ITS WELL-CONNECTED OPPONENTS
* "SANCTE PATER (VINCENZO)" >> POPE CALLS ON YOUTH TO HEED THE LORDS CALLING
* "SOUTHERN ORDERS (FR. ALLAN J. MCDONALD) ">> THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN POPE BENEDICT AND POPE FRANCE
* "TE IGITUR" >> RECTOR ORBIS
* "THE CHANT CAF'e ">> BEAUTIFUL ADORAMUS TE
* "THE HILAIRE BELLOC BLOG" >> RELIGION AND POLITICS IN BELLOCIAN BIOGRAPHIES...
* "THE TOF SPOT (MICHAEL FLYNN)" >> WHAT DOES A BABY LOOK LIKE
* "WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY? (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF)" >> QUAERITUR: ELDERLY PRIEST SKIPPED THE CONSECRATION
* "WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY? (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF) ">> FORMER PAPAL MC COMES OUT FOR SAME-SEX UNIONS, TRASHES BENEDICT XVI'S PONTIFICATE
* "CANTERBURY TALES (DR. TAYLOR MARSHALL)" >> 5 REASONS CHRIST KEPT HIS SCARS AFTER THE RESURRECTION (FROM ST BEDE)
* "CATHOLIC ANSWERS ">> THE BOSTON BOMBING'S HIDDEN VICTIM (TODD AGLIALORO)
* "CATHOLIC EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER" >> THE SEARCH FOR MEANING (DAN DOYLE)
* "CATHOLIC EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER" >> TO FEED THE LAMBS OR CUT THEIR THROATS (FATHER GEORGE WILLIAM RUTLER)
* "CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT - BLOG ">> FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT
* "COURAGEOUS PRIEST" >> HONESTLY WHAT'S WRONG WITH IN VITRO FERTILIZATION? (JOHN QUINN)
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT ">> ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EARTH DAY
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT ">> SCORSESE TO DIRECT FILM ABOUT PERSECUTED JESUITS
* "DAILY MEDITATIONS WITH FR. ALFONSE" >> JOHN 10:11-18 SHEEP LIKE SHEPHERDS
* "DOMINE, DA MIHI HANC AQUAM! (FR. PHILIP NERI POWELL, OP)" >> DON'T LET A CRISIS LEAD YOU THROUGH THE WRONG GATE
* "FIRST THOUGHTS ">> LEON KASS ON GOSNELL, BOSTON AND REPUGNANCE (MATTHEW SCHMITZ)
* "FIRST THOUGHTS" >> HAMZA YUSUF: AFTER BOSTON, BACK TO SQUARE ONE (HAMZA YUSUF)
* "FSSP - NORTH AMERICAN DISTRICT ">> KEEP THE FAITH - PREVIOUS TALKS
* "FSSP - NORTH AMERICAN DISTRICT ">> SOLEMNITY OF GOOD FRIDAY, IN IMAGES
* "HAPPY CATHOLIC* (JULIE D.)" >> MIDDLEMARCH BY GEORGE ELIOT
* "HOMILETIC ">"HOMILETIC ">"IN THE LIGHT OF THE LAW (DR. EDWARD PETERS)" >> SOME THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY ROD DREHER'S 'SEX AFTER CHRISTIANITY'
* "NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT ">> NEW ORATORY-IN-FORMATION COMING FOR BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
* "ON THIS ROCK (FATHER JOHN HOLLOWELL) ">> THE CATHOLIC BOB ROSS
* "ON THIS ROCK (FATHER JOHN HOLLOWELL) ">> THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO TO FOSTER PRIESTLY VOCATIONS
* "RORATE CAELI ">> PRIESTLY CELIBACY AND ITS WELL-CONNECTED OPPONENTS
* "SANCTE PATER (VINCENZO)" >> POPE CALLS ON YOUTH TO HEED THE LORDS CALLING
* "SOUTHERN ORDERS (FR. ALLAN J. MCDONALD) ">> THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN POPE BENEDICT AND POPE FRANCE
* "TE IGITUR" >> RECTOR ORBIS
* "THE CHANT CAF'e ">> BEAUTIFUL ADORAMUS TE
* "THE HILAIRE BELLOC BLOG" >> RELIGION AND POLITICS IN BELLOCIAN BIOGRAPHIES...
* "THE TOF SPOT (MICHAEL FLYNN)" >> WHAT DOES A BABY LOOK LIKE
* "WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY? (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF)" >> QUAERITUR: ELDERLY PRIEST SKIPPED THE CONSECRATION
* "WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY? (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF) ">> FORMER PAPAL MC COMES OUT FOR SAME-SEX UNIONS, TRASHES BENEDICT XVI'S PONTIFICATE
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011
What Praying For The Peace Of Jerusalem Really Means Also Muslim Brotherhood Crucifying Protestors
The world is at the brink and staring at the abyss, and the world knows it. That's why the world is clamoring for a strong leader with answers to take charge. That person is not the next President of the United States. That person is not the next United Kingdom Prime Minister. That person is not the next North Korean king. That person will be the antichrist.
The war talk from Middle East leaders is not just rhetoric any more. The usual chest thumping, threats, rhetorical subterfuge, ambassadorial slyness and outright propaganda has changed in tone and substance. Israel is talking about imminent war and speaking of actual fronts. Israel expert JOEL ROSENBERG SAID THIS a few days ago:
"Yes, it is possible that Israeli leaders could be bluffing. Yes, it is also possible that they are simply trying to pressure the U.S. and international community to take more decisive action to neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat. But reading the latest tea leaves, I believe evidence is rapidly mounting that this could really be it - Israel could be just days or weeks away from a massive preemptive strike against Iran. I believe there are significant changes in the way Israeli leaders are speaking about the possibility of war. One fact that has particularly caught my attention in the last 24 hours is that Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon is telling reporters that it is time for the world to admit that diplomacy has not worked, and that Iran only has "weeks" and not "months" to cease nuclear activity."
Rosenberg's last few posts have exclusively focused on the Middle East situation, specifically Israel-Iran. In the last few days he has consecutively posted,
"TOP U.S. DEFENSE OFFICIALS SAY ISRAEL CAN'T DESTROY IRAN NUKE PROGRAM: WHY ARE THEY UNDERMINING AN ALLY?
NEW NATURAL GAS WEALTH MEANS HISTORIC CHANGE FOR ISRAEL: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Why is the third news headline about the natural gas part of the clips on a possible upcoming war in the Middle East? I'll explain in the next blog entry. First, these news headlines from the last few days that show how serious the talk of war really is getting. And I mean "serious".
'TUMOUR' OF ISRAEL WILL SOON BE DESTROYED: AHMADINEJAD
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an annual anti-Israel protest in Tehran on Friday that the Jewish state was a "cancerous tumour" that will soon be excised, drawing Western rebukes."
"An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program could trigger a bloody month-long war on multiple fronts, killing hundreds of Israelis or more, the Israeli Cabinet's civil defense chief warned in an interview published Wednesday."
Israeli school children learning to use gas masks.
IRAN: ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE 'INSULT TO ALL HUMANITY'
"Israel's existence is an "insult to all humanity," Iran's president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said confronting Israel is an effort to "protect the dignity of all human beings."
"Head of Revolutionary Guard's air force says Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would give Tehran a reason to retaliate and 'get rid of' Jewish state 'forever'"
"A senior Iranian commander says a possible Israeli airstrike against his country's nuclear facilities is "welcome" because it would give Iran a reason to retaliate and "get rid of" the Jewish state "forever."
"Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon-based Hezbollah group, and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, the Iranian president, have issued stern warnings to Israel, saying that any aggression on that country's part would be met with a swift armed response....If we are forced to use them to protect our people and our country, we will not hesitate to do so... and that will turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists into a living hell," he said in a speech marking al-Quds [Jerusalem] Day."
"A prominent Saudi Arabian religious cleric declared that the Holocaust is an "exaggeration" and that Jewish people consume the blood of children during a wide-ranging interview with an Arabic television station. Saudi cleric Salman Al-Odeh, a well-known scholar revered by millions globally, went on a lengthy tirade against the Jews during an interview Monday in which he stated that "the role of the Jews is to wreak destruction, to wage war, and to practice deception and extortion," according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Al-Odeh ranted about the use of human blood in Jewish religious rituals, a notorious anti-Semitic smear commonly referred to as a "blood libel."
The news article called it a tirade but it wasn't. It was actually a calm and reasoned, quite believable argument against the Holocaust and against the sanctity of God and the right of the Jews, His people, to exist. That is why his lie is so devastating.
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS SCOURGE AND CRUCIFY SECULAR PROTESTERS
"According to reports on Friday, Muslim Brotherhood supporters scourged and crucified secular protesters in Egypt's capital city of Cairo. Using the same punishments described in Bible as having been inflicted on Jesus, Brotherhood backed mobs rampaged through the streets, seizing protesters against the Islamist government of Mohammad Morsi, and dragging secular journalists from their offices. Their victims were beaten, scourged with whips, and crucified naked on trees."
As a watchman, I must bring you this news. I must show you the times in which we live. I must tell of the glory of Jesus, who is and was and IS TO COME- "SOON". It is not doom and it is not gloom- it is hope.
Psalm 122:6-9 gives us instructions on what to pray regarding Jerusalem. As a matter of fact, being God, He not only commands to pray for Jerusalem, but promises blessings unto those who do! (Blessed are the peacemakers- Matthew 5:9). The Psalm says-
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! "May they be secure who love you!
Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!"
For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, "Peace be within you!"
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.
Peace in Jerusalem & Israel will only come when Jesus Himself returns to establish permanent peace. Between now and that blessed day, terrible wars and holocausts will occur on the people of Israel and then the world. However, God uses the devastating military attacks upon Israel, especially the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel 38-39, to show Israel that no military might will ever be sufficient to protect them, and that He alone is their protector. It is during the Ezekiel 38 battle that Israel seeks the LORD and turns to Him. They cry out to the LORD and He saves them from Iran's threat of obliteration. Blessed be the LORD!
Therefore we must understand that before that peace comes, praying for the peace of Jerusalem means that the worst wars of the world will happen. Just as prior to the new babe born of a mother, there is agonizing pain of the bloody labor. But would a mother trade that pain, forgoing giving birth to new life? No. The pain is instantly forgotten when the new babe, who is beloved and precious to the parents, is placed in their arms. So it is with God.
He will birth a new age, one with satan gone into the pit for 1000 years, one where Jesus is seen in His glory by His bride gathered around Him, with His people Israel thriving under His reign.
As of today, the fact remains, that praying for the peace of Jerusalem means that we are praying for His return! We must steel ourselves for the persecutions. How long will it take the angry mobs of 'Muslim Brothers' to turn from crucifying and scourging other Muslims and turn their satanic wrath to crucifying and scourging Christians and Jews? Not long. No, not long at all now. We must prepare our minds for the utter knowledge that wars and horror will come, and we are not gleeful nor excited about that. We lament in our prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, because we know what it entails. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The war talk from Middle East leaders is not just rhetoric any more. The usual chest thumping, threats, rhetorical subterfuge, ambassadorial slyness and outright propaganda has changed in tone and substance. Israel is talking about imminent war and speaking of actual fronts. Israel expert JOEL ROSENBERG SAID THIS a few days ago:
"Yes, it is possible that Israeli leaders could be bluffing. Yes, it is also possible that they are simply trying to pressure the U.S. and international community to take more decisive action to neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat. But reading the latest tea leaves, I believe evidence is rapidly mounting that this could really be it - Israel could be just days or weeks away from a massive preemptive strike against Iran. I believe there are significant changes in the way Israeli leaders are speaking about the possibility of war. One fact that has particularly caught my attention in the last 24 hours is that Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon is telling reporters that it is time for the world to admit that diplomacy has not worked, and that Iran only has "weeks" and not "months" to cease nuclear activity."
Rosenberg's last few posts have exclusively focused on the Middle East situation, specifically Israel-Iran. In the last few days he has consecutively posted,
"TOP U.S. DEFENSE OFFICIALS SAY ISRAEL CAN'T DESTROY IRAN NUKE PROGRAM: WHY ARE THEY UNDERMINING AN ALLY?
SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICIAL WARNS OF "30 DAY WAR" WITH IRAN
NEW NATURAL GAS WEALTH MEANS HISTORIC CHANGE FOR ISRAEL: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Why is the third news headline about the natural gas part of the clips on a possible upcoming war in the Middle East? I'll explain in the next blog entry. First, these news headlines from the last few days that show how serious the talk of war really is getting. And I mean "serious".
'TUMOUR' OF ISRAEL WILL SOON BE DESTROYED: AHMADINEJAD
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an annual anti-Israel protest in Tehran on Friday that the Jewish state was a "cancerous tumour" that will soon be excised, drawing Western rebukes."
ISRAEL SEES MONTH-LONG WAR AFTER IRAN STRIKE
"An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program could trigger a bloody month-long war on multiple fronts, killing hundreds of Israelis or more, the Israeli Cabinet's civil defense chief warned in an interview published Wednesday."
Israeli school children learning to use gas masks.
IRAN: ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE 'INSULT TO ALL HUMANITY'
"Israel's existence is an "insult to all humanity," Iran's president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said confronting Israel is an effort to "protect the dignity of all human beings."
IRAN COMMANDER 'WELCOMES' POSSIBLE ISRAELI STRIKE
"Head of Revolutionary Guard's air force says Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would give Tehran a reason to retaliate and 'get rid of' Jewish state 'forever'"
"A senior Iranian commander says a possible Israeli airstrike against his country's nuclear facilities is "welcome" because it would give Iran a reason to retaliate and "get rid of" the Jewish state "forever."
IRAN AND HEZBOLLAH ISSUE WARNINGS TO ISRAEL
"Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon-based Hezbollah group, and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, the Iranian president, have issued stern warnings to Israel, saying that any aggression on that country's part would be met with a swift armed response....If we are forced to use them to protect our people and our country, we will not hesitate to do so... and that will turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists into a living hell," he said in a speech marking al-Quds [Jerusalem] Day."
SAUDI CLERIC QUESTIONS HOLOCAUST
"A prominent Saudi Arabian religious cleric declared that the Holocaust is an "exaggeration" and that Jewish people consume the blood of children during a wide-ranging interview with an Arabic television station. Saudi cleric Salman Al-Odeh, a well-known scholar revered by millions globally, went on a lengthy tirade against the Jews during an interview Monday in which he stated that "the role of the Jews is to wreak destruction, to wage war, and to practice deception and extortion," according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Al-Odeh ranted about the use of human blood in Jewish religious rituals, a notorious anti-Semitic smear commonly referred to as a "blood libel."
The news article called it a tirade but it wasn't. It was actually a calm and reasoned, quite believable argument against the Holocaust and against the sanctity of God and the right of the Jews, His people, to exist. That is why his lie is so devastating.
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS SCOURGE AND CRUCIFY SECULAR PROTESTERS
"According to reports on Friday, Muslim Brotherhood supporters scourged and crucified secular protesters in Egypt's capital city of Cairo. Using the same punishments described in Bible as having been inflicted on Jesus, Brotherhood backed mobs rampaged through the streets, seizing protesters against the Islamist government of Mohammad Morsi, and dragging secular journalists from their offices. Their victims were beaten, scourged with whips, and crucified naked on trees."
As a watchman, I must bring you this news. I must show you the times in which we live. I must tell of the glory of Jesus, who is and was and IS TO COME- "SOON". It is not doom and it is not gloom- it is hope.
Psalm 122:6-9 gives us instructions on what to pray regarding Jerusalem. As a matter of fact, being God, He not only commands to pray for Jerusalem, but promises blessings unto those who do! (Blessed are the peacemakers- Matthew 5:9). The Psalm says-
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! "May they be secure who love you!
Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!"
For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, "Peace be within you!"
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.
Peace in Jerusalem & Israel will only come when Jesus Himself returns to establish permanent peace. Between now and that blessed day, terrible wars and holocausts will occur on the people of Israel and then the world. However, God uses the devastating military attacks upon Israel, especially the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel 38-39, to show Israel that no military might will ever be sufficient to protect them, and that He alone is their protector. It is during the Ezekiel 38 battle that Israel seeks the LORD and turns to Him. They cry out to the LORD and He saves them from Iran's threat of obliteration. Blessed be the LORD!
Therefore we must understand that before that peace comes, praying for the peace of Jerusalem means that the worst wars of the world will happen. Just as prior to the new babe born of a mother, there is agonizing pain of the bloody labor. But would a mother trade that pain, forgoing giving birth to new life? No. The pain is instantly forgotten when the new babe, who is beloved and precious to the parents, is placed in their arms. So it is with God.
He will birth a new age, one with satan gone into the pit for 1000 years, one where Jesus is seen in His glory by His bride gathered around Him, with His people Israel thriving under His reign.
As of today, the fact remains, that praying for the peace of Jerusalem means that we are praying for His return! We must steel ourselves for the persecutions. How long will it take the angry mobs of 'Muslim Brothers' to turn from crucifying and scourging other Muslims and turn their satanic wrath to crucifying and scourging Christians and Jews? Not long. No, not long at all now. We must prepare our minds for the utter knowledge that wars and horror will come, and we are not gleeful nor excited about that. We lament in our prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, because we know what it entails. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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A S Haley South Carolina Decision Is Full Vindication For The Victims Of Ecusas Oppression
Circuit Judge Diane S. Goodstein's CAREFULLY CRAFTED 46-PAGE DECIsion in the case brought by Bishop Mark Lawrence's Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina (along with 35 of its parishes, plus St. Andrew's, Mt. Pleasant) against the Episcopal Church (USA) and its rump group (ECSC, or "Episcopal Church in South Carolina") is a complete vindication of the positions taken and arguments advanced for so long, by so many, inside and outside the Church.
It is a vindication first, for the Right Reverend Mark Lawrence and his legal team, who conceived the winning strategy, assembled and put on all the evidence, wrote all the briefs, argued all the appeals, fought back in the federal courts, and at last brought ECUSA to its day of reckoning.
It is a vindication, as well, of Bishop Lawrence's PASTORAL STRATEGIES, by which he showed how spiritual leaders can follow and submit themselves to the civil law, while in doing so remain faithful and Biblical counselors and guides for those in their spiritual care. It was Bishop Lawrence who decided on behalf of his Diocese not to appeal THE "ALL SAINTS WACCAMAW" DECISION to the U.S.
Supreme Court and RUN THE RISK OF DIVIDING HIS PARISHES STILL FURTHER. It was Bishop Lawrence who accepted responsibility for GIVING EACH PARISH IN HIS DIOCESE A QUITCLAIM DEED in compliance with the holding in "All Saints Waccamaw "that the Dennis Canon could on its own not create a trust in any property in South Carolina. These decisions led to the accusations of "abandonment" brought against Bishop Lawrence by his detractors, but they were pastorally the "right" decisions to make under the circumstances. Had ECUSA's leaders shown a comparable willingness to submit to the everyday requirements of the civil law, the Church would not be where it is today: millions and millions of dollars poorer, with absolutely nothing to show from the squandering of all its trust funds.
It is a vindication of all of the faithful parishioners and clergy in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina who remained by their Bishop, and provided much-needed financial support, as ECUSA and its minions sought to bring him down by the sheer weight of all the forces they could bring to bear against him and his Diocese... THE REST
AS HAS LONG BEEN ARGUED ON THIS BLOG, ANY RESTRICTION WHICH ECUSA TRIED TO PUT UPON THE ABILITY OF ITS MEMBER DIOCESES TO WITHDRAW WOULD BE IN VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, AND UNENFORCEABLE IN ANY CIVIL COURT IN THE LAND.
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Monday, 14 March 2011
Some Tips To Read Your Own Palm
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The art of reading palms, palmistry or chiromancy are different names of predicting many things in the life of each person such as wealth, career, finance, studying, relationships and more. In fact, practicing this art is not only referred to fortune tellers, psychics, occultists, or mystics, but also normal people. In other words, the ones who do not possess any special ability belonging to the spirituality can still show their palm readings if they follow instructions on how to read the palms in books or on the Internet.
HOW TO READ YOUR OWN PALMS
According to the spirituality, shapes or lines appearing on palms can reveal something about the life of each person. Each of the palm lines contains a particular meaning. For instance, the lines named Marriage Lines or Life Lines will imply spousal relationships and life vitality. Let's consult some following tips in order to read our own palm.
First, each person has two palms, but which one should be used for the palm reading is a big question. Many folks suppose that the right one tells about individual personalities and talents, and the left one represents potentiality. Nevertheless, Chinese say that the left side is used to practice the palm reading for men under 30 years old and the right side is for women under 30 years old.
Second, start reading lines of palms. There are 4 basic lines for interpreting future hidden facts about the life of each person; they consist of:
- The Life Line represents the quality of life. It lasts from the right side of the palm, between the index finger and thumb downwards the wrist. A curvy Life Line proves a person full of energy, and if it is closer the thumb, his life lacks energy.
- The Head Line is between the Life Line and the Heart Line. It tells about personalities, and attitudes of a person. A curry Head line implies creativity, the straight one shows realistic thinking, and the short one reveal that this person can reach physical achievements.
- The Heart Line begins from the left side of the palm and runs towards the index finger, and also is considered as the love line. A long and curved heart line discloses emotional traits of a person, and the short and straight one tells about the lack of passion in love.
- The Fate Line runs from the hand base upwards, and splits the hand into two halves. It denotes the fate and luck of a person. Not all folks have this line; it indicates that an individual can get success with less effort because of having a preplanned life.
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