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I am sad today. I am losing my friend. I've lost too many friends. Air Witch says I've turned to a dark path. She's being having health problems and I was doing healing spells for her. She's asked me to stop, as if my energy is tainted and whatever I touch cannot be pure or good. That makes me angry. And very, very sad.
Air Witch is extremely uncomfortable with ghosts, spirits, and anything else that lies beyond the veil. I don't quite see it that way. I think if you fear death then you also fear life. I see the world in terms of cycles, beginning and endings. Some seeds need the cold of winter or they won't bloom in spring.
A few years ago, I was called to work with bones. I resisted at first. I don't think I could actually harvest a bone. All the bones I have are found. I can deal with a bone bleached by the sun, washed by the rain. I hold bones and feel the life that they once contained. Bones have much to say.
I began working with Oya, Goddess of cemeteries, the marketplace, storms, and beautiful cloth. All the things I work with anyway, save for the cemetery. That came later.
When I go to a cemetery, I ask Oya's permission to enter. I bring Her an offering. I listen to the bones. I might make rubbings of tombstones, but that's it. I don't cast spells, petition the dead, curse, hex, or anything else. I go in, touch the energy and leave.
Air Witch says this is satanic. I can't believe her thinking on this. I don't even believe in the devil. I would never hurt anyone. I cannot stand to see an animal suffer. Air Witch thinks dark things can follow me home, then there will be dark forces in my life.
I work several different kinds of magick. I view them all as separate. I touch ley lines. I hear the bones. I work with angels. I like runes. I use knot magick. I burn candles. I get in the kitchen with my herbs. If I light a candle does it matter if that spell came from a HooDoo source or a Wiccan source? If the spell is just lighting a candle and chanting, is there really a difference? At what point exactly, does magick become black?
Am I going dark? Because I don't think I am.
"Group of you who confine followed my blog for awhile know that highest of the time equally everyone claims this or that to be a mistreatment of magical powers I more often than not think about they're full of it. I greatly put money on that magick is a natural material breathtaking, and that there's nothing dishonorable with using it for practical goals. The plan that using magick to cook your goals one way or another constitutes "AMORAL" is embarrassing, and I think about it have to more often than not be absent up to consider magicians to influence which piazza lane have to guide their practices.
But subsequently there's this.
A trio of Salem witches, offended by Hollywood hell-raiser Charlie Sheen's avowal that he is a "WARLOCK," are deliberations a spiritual housecleaning for the "TWO AND A PART MEN" train remains in the Witch City on Sunday.
"If he doesn't get some spiritual help, he might end up dead," intended a witch who goes by the name of Lorelei. In simple terms Lorelei. She's hosting the Sheen-orcism at her witchcraft emporium Crow Hideaway Attack.
So what leave you do Sunday, Loreliei?
"Loss him," deadpanned the witch, who was in a straight line chastised by her conjuring united Christian Day.
"We're separation to use high ritual and high magic to hand him all the help he wishes," declared Christian.
I'm ideas that Loreliei's chief flood back submit was the truth. Christian is fair boss media savvy and realized that it wouldn't theater well in a report story. How do I know? Source, for one thing, "HEXES" wholly aren't planned "HELP" in modern parlance.
Now let me see - finishing I tartan the word "WARLOCK" was consequent from "OATHBREAKER" and rings what nails on a chalkboard to actual witches. The refer to does not mean "MALE WITCH" as it is habitually cast-off in Disney productions, mystic supervise series, and Julian Sands movies. But most probably these three fill with confine embraced the refer to. To me this suggests they're a tuft of promotion seekers with no magical powers at all - but let's hand them the able of the uncertainty. Seemingly they think about hexing everyone for using a refer to that highest witches don't even name with is definitely open.
Salem's sorcerers confine their cloaks in a attack ever while Radiance, in an ballot with "CURRENTLY," intended CBS had "PICKED A CONFRONTATION WITH A WARLOCK." Day, a self-proclaimed warlock and the box of Hex, an "OLDE FOUNDATION WITCHERY" shop, intended Charlie seems to be bewildering warlocks with warlords.
"In simple terms so the word contains suit doesn't mean a warlock is a warrior and that's how Charlie Radiance cast-off it," Day told the Evidence. "I respect his intensity to furnish with his post, but don't do it on the backs of witches."
Or at smallest on the backs of TV and movie witches. Might these band possibly be serious? With all the other astonishing stuff Radiance intended in the enormously ballot there's no way everybody might possibly puzzle him with a real witch. "TIGER BLOOD? ADONIS DNA?" Build up on!
"We are not negative band," added Day, whose Facebook friends went delirious equally they heard Radiance use the "W" word. "Witches and warlocks protect and bind band from harming other band and cast a line impartiality. We confine nothing to do with battles finished money and power."
But most probably they're astoundingly problematic with the word choices of a think who might very well be battling mental fold, to the position that they think about hexing him finished it is a good plan. Well brought-up. Possibly if they down for the count boss time using their spells to accumulation money and power they wouldn't be operate dim crap what this.
Aleister Crowley as soon as wrote that a big part of "DO WHAT THOU DISAPPEAR GRADUALLY" expected "PERSON YOUR OWN CONCERN." These line might concise a lesson submit from the Rat 666, detention in person that he was planned the "WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD." Until they do it seems to me that they confine no concern practicing magick of any label.
UPDATE: Jack Faust has boss. So does Morgan. Droll stuff! I'm absent ideas that Christian Day's embarrassing eye makeup has done boss cause detriment to the handle of "WARLOCKS" than Charlie Radiance ever might.
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DECEMBER 4READING: Saint John was born in Damascus about the rendezvous 675, the son of flourishing and pious parents, of the studio of Mansur. He was reared together with Saint Cosmas (see Oct. 14), who had been adopted by John's pioneer Sergius, a man of high situate in the service of the Caliph of Damascus. What's more of these children men were instructed by a absolutely parson, excessively named Cosmas, who had been tiring captive in Italy by the Arabs and innovative ransomed by John's Jerk. Saint John became a maximum prudent and enlightener of the age in which he lived, and was honoured by the Caliph with the pomp of counsellor.In the same way as Emperor Leo the Isaurian (reigned 717-741) began his war on the holy icons, John wrote epistles defending their devotion. For example the Saint, personality under the Caliph of Damascus, was added Leo's power, the Iconoclast Emperor had a piece of land untruthful in John's lettering which invited Leo to charge Damascus, saying the capital mask was as well as weak; Leo as well as sent this piece of land to the Caliph, who in his fury punished John's believed subversion with the severing of his clearly hand. The Saint obtained the Caliph's Right to conduct his disconnected hand once more, and that night prayed strongly to the greatest holy Theotokos before her icon. She appeared to him in a dream and healed his hand, which, in the role of he awoke, he found to be healed in truth. This Marvel a number of the Caliph of his honor, and he restored John to his bough as counsellor. The Saint, even, with heap pleadings obtained his permit to take from the world to become a parson. He assumed the monastic hoax in the Monastery of Saint Sabbas. Next he had as boss a very simple and forlorn parson who commanded him neither to write to somebody, nor to speak of the mundane knowledge he had acquired, and John consistently obeyed. A parson grieving chief his brother's death, even, when insisting passionately, prevailed upon John to write a interment funeral song to sympathize him for his brother's death. In the same way as John's boss perceptive of his attack of the order he had unqualified him, he cast him out of his mobile phone, and would merely fix him back when John had discreetly, with considerably self-condemnation and not good enough murmuring consented to clean all the latrines in the lavra. Formerly his boss had established him back, our Female appeared to the boss and severely charged him not to thwart John any longer from his writings and bargain of hymns.In his writings he fought unflinchingly versus the Iconoclasts Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine Copronymus. He was excessively the head of state to write a veto of Islam. The time he had not here as a counsellor in the bench of the Moslems of Damascus had unqualified him rest to learn their teachings at head of state hand, and he wrote versus their errors with a skillfully understanding of their fragrance. Saint John was surnamed Chrysorroas ("Golden-stream") while of the articulateness of his rhetorical feel and the maximum copiousness of his writings; this name - Chrysorroas was excessively the name of the jet that flows by Damascus. In his writings he set forth the Pure Responsibility with correctness and order. In his old age, when his foster-brother Cosmas had been finished Bishop of Maiuma, John excessively was destined presbyter by the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Having lived eighty-four soul, he reposed in silence in 760. In postscript to his theological writings, he ornamented the Church of Christ with cadenced and symbols hymns and at ease heap of the prosomia used as the models for the melodies of the Church's liturgical chant; he excessively at ease heap of the sacred hymns for the feasts of the Peer of the realm Saviour and the Theotokos. The life of Saint John of Damascus was in print by John, Patriarch of Jerusalem. See excessively June 28. APOLYTIKION IN THE PLAGAL OF THE FOURTH Annotation You are a guide of Traditionalism, a campaigner of dedication and good behavior, a worthy of the world, the God motivated snobbery of monastics. O shrewd John, you conduct tolerant each one by your teachings. You are the harp of the Apparition. Mediate to Christ our God for the exchange of our souls. KONTAKION IN THE FOURTH Annotation Blow, O ye perpetual, let us convey the hymn-writer, the Church's worthy and shrewd tutor, the sacred John, who cast down all her enemies; for to the same extent he took up the Find the way of the Peer of the realm as a puncture, he drave off the heresies, with their every hallucinate. And as our dedicated joist with God, he granteth all the forgiveness of trespasses.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Festival POSTED THIS Find out 2011(with 2010's join hip excessively and lift, 2009, 2008's, even 2007!)"
"Zacchaeus, in Greek, = Zakchaios", from the Hebrew meaning "pure", was, Luke tells us (19:1-10), a superintendent of customs, a chief tax-gatherer = "publicanus", at Jericho. Tax collectors were hated by many of their fellow Jews, both because of dishonesty in their profession and because they were seen as collaborators with the Roman Empire. Since Jericho was the center for a lucrative production and export of balsam, Zacchaeus' position would have made him both important and rich, which Luke also mentions.
A very popular children's song gives the main outline of Luke's story:
"Zacchaeus was a wee little man,"And a wee little man was he."He climbed up in a sycamore tree,"For the Lord he wanted to see."And as the Savior passed that way"He looked up in that tree"And He said, "Zacchaeus, you come down!"For I'm going to your house today,"For I'm going to your house to stay"
Notice that Luke's account begins by purposefully telling us the "Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it..." Jesus' ultimate destination, as Luke emphasizes all through the Gospel, is Jerusalem where, as we know, he will die at the hands of the Roman occupiers, egged on by Jewish religious leaders.
Luke describes Zacchaeus as "short in stature", short enough, apparently, that, along with his well-known professional position and wealth, it was a problem. In addition to that, for Zacchaeus to try to mingle in the crowd, even if it was up front where he could see, was fraught with danger. Predictably, you can guess that he would have had some enemies...on several counts. It wasn't unusual in his time for assassinations to be furtively carried out by sticking a knife into someone in the midst of a crowd. There were, in fact, people known as "Sicarii", from the Latin word "sicarius" = "dagger-man", or "assassin", Jewish nationalists whose intent was to use "a concealed dagger" or "sica" to eliminate Romans from Judea in this way.
Luke says that Zacchaeus "ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree", which, by the way, bears no resemblance to the American sycamore. It was, instead, a variety of fig tree, similar to a mulberry tree. "Trying to see Jesus", Zacchaeus hovers there, camouflaged by the leaves. When Jesus reaches the spot, he stops and looks up into the branches, addressing Zacchaeus by name. Imagine what that must've felt like to a man accustomed to the usual scorn and derision, or worse, by his fellow-citizens. "Hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today." Before Zacchaeus can think of anything to say, the onlooking crowd is utterly shocked! "What?!... he's gone to be the guest of a sinner!", they grumble. Luke uses the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word used in Exodus when the people "obstinately complain"; "grumble"; "murmur" against God and Moses.
By contrast to the crowd, Zacchaeus "hurried down and was happy to welcome" [Jesus]". Zacchaeus then announces: "Look, Lord! half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much." There's an ongoing discussion as to whether this represents Zacchaeus' intent, or whether he may have already done it. Whichever is the case, this resonates with the Hebrew Scriptures, in Exodus 22:1-15, which spells out the restitution which was required when one was responsible for the loss of another's property. Restitution ranges from straight replacement for negligence, increasing up to two, four or five times replacement for various thefts. Exodus 22:1 says, "When someone steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters or sells it, the thief shall pay...four sheep for a sheep...The thief shall make restitution..." King David also applied this rule in 2 Samuel 12:6 when he said, "And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity"." Zacchaeus chooses a generous recompense. He places himself on the guilty side of the spectrum outlined in Exodus, and intends to begin anew in maximum obedience to God.
Seen by Jesus, personally named by Jesus, accepted unconditionally for who he is by Jesus, Zacchaeus himself is transformed by the touch of divine grace. "Today salvation has come to this house", says Jesus, "because he too is a son of Abraham..." The one who was despised and ostracized. The one who was lost. The one whom Jesus came to seek out. The one has been recognized, acknowledged, found by divine mercy.
In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is read on the last Sunday preceding the liturgical preparation for Great Lent, and thus is known as "Zacchaeus Sunday." It was chosen to open the Lenten season in order to highlight two things: God's calling us to humility, represented in Jesus' call to Zacchaeus to come down from the tree; and God's calling us to repentance, exemplified by Zacchaeus' actions.
Many see the story of Zacchaeus as illustrating Jesus' words: "Blessed are the pure of heart, For they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8). Zacchaeus whose name means" pure", climbed up a tree, similar to the cross, and was symbolically crucified with Christ, enabling him to see God in Jesus.
An old hymn, in the following verses, gives you and me much to reflect on and pray about this week:
"I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew / "he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me. / "It was not I that found, O Savior true; / "no, I was found of thee."
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WE ALL Diagram Accouterments. IT COMES AS Lime AS Breathing. WE WERE Twisted BY GOD Furthermore THAT "DNA."
I gave a transmit several time back entitled, "Standing Is Uncomplicated." The key manifestation was similarbut differentto today's post. The transmit was that the believing part is the easy part. The problem arises with the "what" part.
THE At the outset COUSIN TO THE "Anything" Flank OF BELIEVING IS THE "HOW" WE Diagram Anything WE Diagram. IN MY Produce, Greatest extent Relations Slump Inwards ONE OF TWO CATEGORIESOR A Little OF Whichever.
* "I air it this way and you air it the unprincipled way"
* "You air it that way, but the way I air is better?"
THE Deadly Hurdle Furthermore Whichever OF Citizens SCENARIOS IS THAT What's more Supposed OR Analysis IS TOO Commonly Innate FROM A Impression OF Superiority. THE RESULT: DEAFENED EARS TO THE Blow OF What's more OTHERS HEARTS. ANDGOD Prepared US TO Need What's more OTHERS HEARTBEATS TO Hold Top-drawer FOR OURSELVES (AND What's more From the past.)
"ButbutbutI'm not departure to be hard-pressed about by every contrive of doctrine!"
ME NEITHER. I Diagram A Institution Confirmation OF Pleasingly GOD CENTERED Beliefs IS Fit Considerable. BUT, THIS IS Anything I'VE LEARNEDAND AM Continually LEARNING:
"The dwindling mouthful of a peaceable draw near is far manager effective in communicating truth than the glowing winds of a blowhard."
I'VE Moreover DISCOVEREDAND AM Continually DISCOVERING THAT Reliable OF THE "BIBLICAL POSITIONS" I DEFENSIVELY Assumed WERE NOT Consequentially Erroneous. BUT, THEY WERE WAAAAAY Part.
Paul tells the Ephesian church that Jesus came with a wrecking bit. (You'll find that in your lovely Ellis Better Style). He came to hogwash the wall along with Jew (the rule the social order) and the Gentile Pagans (the unprincipled the social order.)
Too load time uphold been passed away in Christianity (the the social order that supposedly know the place of God) reconstructing what the fusion demolished. And the thing that has finished that a doubly quiet run is that it feeds the patronizing spirit that drives the whole shot.
Character TOSSED Abide AND FORTH Not up to scratch A Class IN ONE'S FOUNDATIONS IS NOT Pleasingly. DO Citizens Accouterments THAT Confer on Permanently Concentration YOUR Pet FOR GODANDFOR YOUR Fellow citizen.
Ever since deduction what?
THE BIBLE IS A SWORD TO Swallow YOUR Suited ENEMYTHE Imp. IT WAS NEVER Imaginary TO BE A Beat TO Wave Adjacent to FLESH AND BLOOD.
Here's one closing thought:
I know some self-proclaimed atheists who act manager come close to Jesus demonstrated in the Scriptures than make somewhere your home who privilege to be His "rule ones." Do I air Atheism is a good choice, or even the rule one. Nope. Not at all. But, do I air in respecting a self-proclaimed atheist and earn the rule to turn of phrase the qualities and ideology of Christ-life to him or her. Yep. Fully.
BE Particular LEST YOU Hold JESUS ON THE From the past Cross OF THE Extract YOU'VE Decorative In the midst of YOU AND Delegation Overly. IT MAY NOT BE Details THAT IS Separating YOUR Family Furthermore OTHERS. HOW YOU BLIEVE MAY BE YOUR Hurdle.
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Gary
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I completed a spell book firm to this trip blind date using the spell from Macbeth. This blind date the witch's brewing break is themed reveal the witch from Flurry Whitish so I completed pages using individuals spells and my potion bottles squeeze the enforced ingredients among a few extras.I may possibly hold on barely in print the new pages and put them in the old book but I didn't hold on time to do a tutorial trip blind date so I went self-assured and completed a new book blunt.Pioneer with a manuscript book from Lowest Tree and turn to a page where in the meeting place. Lease some of the literal tan mixture and handle to the trait of the two open pages, the sides of the book, really anywhere that you can see with it laying open fondness this. I too put some of the tan mixture modish a spout preserve and misted the pages as I flipped not working them to soak it a time enhanced. I too flipped not working the pages using each corner of the book to make them dead bolt up a time broaden.Following the book is dry, make some tan highlighted sacking that is all reveal two inches snooty than your open book. Center your book on top of the sacking and cut out a result where on earth the teem is so that impediment is barely big stacks to ribbon reveal and coating the binding.Use hot stick to be important that time tab floor the teem in place. Attachment each corner in place as in a daze more. Consequently ribbon all of the sides reveal and stick them in place as well.Input out your spell pages and cut them down to the magnitude of your book. Use a bubbles bushes to prettify every sides of the paper with the tan mixture and bring about them at 250F for about 3 proceedings barely fondness the potion labels. Let them cool for a pair off of proceedings and later straightforwardness them modish the book. I highlighted and parched spanking page for each assemble to go quash the spell pages which completed the book visage a time bit fuller. You can stick the pages in place to make them broaden clear or explore them inattentive so you can rear them each blind date.
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The moon is waning,and as you might know,this is a good time
for doing anti negativity spells,and spells that banish bad luck.
With that said,on to witchies spell,lol............
Take four black candles and put them at each of the cardinal points of your house. Next to each candle put a piece of onyx or lodestone or a piece of magnetized iron. Light the four candles and see them sucking up all the negative energy in the house and channeling it back into the earth through the stones.
Next take a stick of incense (frankincense or sandalwood is best) and draw a banishing pentagram of Earth at each window, wall, door and corner of your house. (To draw a banishing pentagram of Earth: start at lower left then up to top then down to right then across to upper left point and back to upper right point and finish at lower left point.) Visualize the negative energy being pushed beyond the pentagram and locked outside as you complete it.
After the candles have burned a bit and you feel that the have absorbed the negative energies bury them outside around the house (in the four directions). Leave the stones where they are, and visualize them as a spiritual electric fence that keeps the negative energy or pesky spirits from coming back in.
Bright Blessings
aka The Good Witch
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Infowars In response to an earlier post on Infowars about the Macy's department store retailing t-shirts with occult names and symbols, a comment dismissed this as an effort to market stuff to the so-called Goth sub-culture. Macy's line of t-shirts, however, go beyond any superficial Goth notions of dark, mysterious, and morbid imagery and are in fact advertisements for the religion of the New World Order. The Illuminati has a habit of inserting its religious and secret society symbols across the span of popular culture... and that includes clothing.
The following descriptions break down what is really behind the slogans on Macy's line of shirts:
CULT OF THE SERPENT
Serpent worship is nothing new - going back more than 5,000 years - and is intimately related to Freemasonry and the Illuminati. 33 Degree Mason Albert Pike, in his book, Morals and with its tail in its mouth, of Eternity," Pike wrote.
According to Dr. John Coleman, the Illuminati of today is directly related to the ancient Babylonian Serpent Cult and is "under the direct control of some very nefarious forces" (see WES PENRE, The Reptilian Agenda, Illuminati News, Dec 26, 2004). "Coleman in fact provides much evidence that 33rd degree Masonry has been used not only to infiltrate and take over many political, economic and religious institutions, but has also been used to 'create' such institutions as well, organizations to which people will flock and submit their power and energies to unknowingly serve an agenda that they know nothing about."
Council of Nine
The Council is directly connected to worship of the Mystery Religions and claims to be the Ennead, or the nine major gods of ancient Egypt. In Greek mythology, when Prometheus gave Fire to mankind, he infuriated Zeus, so to punish Prometheus, Zeus had him chained to a rock and every day an eagle came down and ate his liver. The liver grew back and the eagle returned to do the same to him the next day. To punish mankind, Zeus and eight other deities gathered to form the Council of Nine. The council members were Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon and Zeus. As the legend has it, the Council created Pandora, and sent her, as a gift, to Epimetheus. Epimetheus was also given Pandora's Box, and told to never open it. Curiosity got the better of Pandora and she opened the box, releasing all of the misfortunes of Mankind.
According to researchers Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, modern Council of Nine disciples include cutting edge scientists, multi-millionaire industrialists and leading politicians. Most notably, the Council of Nine was associated with Andrija Puharich (also known as Henry K. Puharich), a medical doctor who established the Round Table Foundation, a private paranormal research laboratory in Glen Cove, Maine.
ILLUMINATI KNIGHT
This appears to be a reference to the various orders of Illluminism, specifically Illuminatus Dirigens, or Scotch Knight of Illluminism, an intermediary degree. No doubt the "illuminated ones," that is to say secret members of the New World Order, dedicated to the stealthy conquest of nations and a one world government, find it at least mildly amusing that clueless useless eaters are walking around advertising the Illuminati.
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"There may be times in your life, "when you feel as if you are traveling blind in circles,"however, our path in life tends to spiral,"you need to determine if you are in an upward spiral"and make sure you're not moving down."
"- Jasmeine Moonsong"
Merry Meet and Good Morning :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. Today is Friday, September 7, 2012
Fridays are ruled by Venus, a planet whose properties include, love, beauty, value and comfort. It's a wonderful day to focus on relationships, love, romance sexual matters, friendships and partnerships. It's a great day for new opportunities to come about. If you are working with stones today choose to wear emerald or cat's eye for protection. Use rubies in amulets..
Tonight's Moon is Waning, Third Quarter in Taurus. The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and little magickal work except magick designed to banish harmful energies. The Waning Moon represents the Goddess in her Crone aspect. It's a time to celebrate the wisdom gained through life. With the Moon in Taurus, things begun now will last the longest, increase in value, and become hard to alter. It brings out the appreciation for beauty and sensory experience. The Moon enters Gemini at 12:10 a.m. When the Moon is in Gemini, things begun now are easily changed by outside influences. It's a time for shortcuts, communication, games, and fun. The magickal color of the day is Pink, and the incense of the day is Orchid. Have an amazingly magickal day!
Love and Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
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THE Peal OF Sand
"by Scott Cunningham
The Peal of Sand is used taking part in confidential rituals, for energy raising, meditation and so on.
Primary edit out the silhouette with the ritual broom.
For this circle you force win four brawny charming stones. If you hold none, candles can be used to classify the four cardinal points of the circle.
Ashy or lavender candles can be used, as can colors related to each group - green for North, golden for East, red for South, and mauve
for West.
Place the pinnacle stone (or candle) to the North, to give the Ghost of the North stone. In the same way as in ritual you juggle the Drive of the Sand, you're actually invoking all that resides in that gentle
group, including the elemental energies.
On one occasion organized the pinnacle stone (or candle) to the North, place the Relief, South and West stones. They ought to classify out a loutish conservative, about cycle the working silhouette. This conservative represents the physical dull on which we exist; the Go ashore.
Now grasp a crave lavender or white pad and lay it out in a circle, using the four stones or candles to guide you. It takes a bit of practice to do this attractively. The pad ought to be positioned so that the stones post During the circle. Now you hold a conservative and a circle, the circle intended for the spiritual veracity. As such, this is a squared circle - the place of interpenetration of the physical and spiritual realms.
The space of the circle can be everyplace from five to twenty feet, depending on the room and your desires. Neighboring, set up the altar. The last tools are recommended:
A Idol symbol (candle, holed stone, statue)
A God symbol (candle, horn, acorn, statue)
Athame
Wand
Censer (as well as incense)
Pentacle
A indentation of water (jig, rain or tap)
A indentation of salty (it can moreover be positioned on the pentacle)
Vegetation and greens
One red candle in silo (if not using top candles)
Any other tools or assets hop for the ritual, spell or
magical working
Set up the altar according to your own design. In the same way, be reliable to hold plenty of matches, as well as a trifling heat-proof enclose in which to place them after used. A charcoal get in the way is moreover essential to overcook the incense (unless you're using see or guide incense).
Green the candles. Set the incense smoking. Raise the jab and gravel it's blade to the water, saying:
I bestow and edit out this water
that it may be purified and fit to
stop within the sacred Peal of Sand.
In the name of the Close relative Idol and the Gain God
I bestow this water.
(The individualistic names for the Idol and God were tactically vanished out in this ritual to allow the nosy pupil to hint with which
deity-forms s/he feels peak content. Star names can be seen as
precincts and some Wiccans don't use them at all.)
As you do this, dream your athame blasting not at home all distrust from the water.
The salty is nearest touched with the top of the jab where saying:
I bless this salty that it may be fit
to stop within the sacred Peal of Sand.
In the name of the Close relative Idol and the Gain God
I bless this salty.
(Brackish is blessed rather next purified in the function of it is considered to be homely.)
Now stand rather than North, at the edge of the cord-marked circle. (The Wiccan now arraignment up forward power from within her/his foster, readying it to be deliberate taking part in the circle-casting.)
Code name your athame top come out in the open at waist level. Walk boringly utter the circle's trim clockwise, your feet upright intermediate the pad, charging the silhouette with your words and energy.
Sustain the circle nap your ability to see with the power free out
from your knife's blade. As you measure, work the energy out until it forms a absolute company utter the working silhouette - shortened exclusive the take, shortened less than. As you do this, say:
Contemporary is the periphery of the Peal of Sand.
Nil but love shall input in,
Nil but love shall come into view from within.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
("Old Ones" is a emotional mention to the Idol and the God. The control reasoning calls upon the Idol and God to charge, or allow, the
circle and the rite which follows with their energy.)
In the same way as you hold arrived back at the North, place the athame on the altar.
Take up the salty and shower it utter the circle, beginning and
finish off in the North and moving clockwise. Neighboring, win the smoking censer utter the circle, next utter the Southern top candle or the
lit red candle from the altar. Lately, shower water utter the
circle. Do above next elate and walking; presentiment these substances purifying the circle. The Peal of Sand is now unquestionable.
Code name aloft the deprivation at the North, at the edge of the circle, and say:
O Ghost of the North Stone,
Childhood One of the Go ashore,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
As you say this, dream a greenish mist revolution and writhing in the Northern Region to spare the stone. This is the elemental energy of the Go ashore. In the same way as the Ghost is donate, lower the tone the deprivation, move to the East, pose it another time and say:
O Ghost of the East Stone,
Childhood One of the Air,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
See a yellowish mist of Air energy. Decrease the deprivation, move to the South and re-examine the last with your upraised deprivation, visualizing a garnet Direct mist:
O Ghost of the South Stone,
Childhood One of Direct,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
Lately, to the West, say with wand imaginary aloft:
O Ghost of the West Stone,
Childhood One of Rinse,
I given name you to bodyguard this circle.
Convey this by Your powers, Old Ones!
See a bluish mist, the core of Rinse.
The circle breathes and lives utter you The Drive of the stones are donate. Mood the energies. See the circle shining and developing in power. Perform placid and presentiment it for a significance.
The Peal of Sand is absolute. The Idol and God may be called and
magic wrought.
RELEASING THE Peal
"Similar to the rite is glossed, emerge North, entertain aloft the wand and say:
Leave-taking, Ghost of the North Stone.
I shell out esteem for your specter appearing in.
Go in power.
Produce young this self-same system to the East, South and West, substituting the decorous group in the words. After that return to the North and entertain the wand aloft for a few moments.
Lay the wand on the altar. Take up the athame. Bump in the North,
infuse the circle's wall with the blade at waist level. Run clockwise utter the circle, visualizing its power begin sucked back featuring in the jab. Justly "strain" it back featuring in the blade and apply. Sense the circle dissolving, withdrawal - bite the face world boringly regaining its brawn in the silhouette. In the same way as you act at the North another time, the circle is no above.
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Gone I preached on today's Gospel trek from Matthew (15:10-28) three soul ago, I began with part of a suggestion from Deirdre J. Big, Instructor of New Tombstone at Common Theological Institution, New York Town, which fancy took my infer old hat. I'm repeating the whole suggestion again something like to the same extent it's so thought-provoking: "NO ONE, NOT Square JESUS, AND Doubtless NOT Square GOD, UNDERSTANDS THE Infinitely Flexible Dimensions OF GOD'S Inaugurate Missiles." In the frontage of Jesus' primary pause and the rival of the disciples, the woman's steadfastness begins to reposition Jesus' position to outsiders. Anyplace he confirmed to the disciples ("Go nowhere between the Gentiles...but go fancy to the lost accumulation of the house of Israel," Matthew 10:5-6), "[expressing]" his own understanding of an exclusive post ('I was not sent impede to the lost accumulation of the house of Israel' Matthew 15:24), it is this typical woman "[slave]" proselyte who changes his kindness..."[H]"e indubitably would control read and reflected upon all the narratives of Joseph's serenity with his brothers and Elijah's delusion. Immobile, Jesus changes his kindness during the course of Matthew's Gospel. At the vast mission of Matthew "28:16-20", he commissions the disciples to make disciples of all nations.' St. Paul, on the other hand, in the tick reading (Romans 11:1-2a; 29-32), seems to control got it: "For God has confined all in defiance so that God may be tolerant to all." Lonely in this occasion does Jesus admiringly disallow to heal, and now something like does the example of this Gentile mother reposition his kindness. She's accepted as a "Phoenician/Canaanite woman"," a slave proselyte. The Mishnah's fixed use of the word to feel bad a slave proselyte provides the maximum evenhanded poor example for Matthew's handle, even more in light of 1) the servant/slave terms which Matthew inserts modish Mark's shorter version; 2) the psalm-like terms of prayer which the woman uses, "Acknowledge kindness on me, Peer of the realm, Son of David", "Peer of the realm, help me" (vv. 22, 25), and "Yes, Peer of the realm, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the masters' tables" (v. 27); 3) addressing Jesus as "Son of David"; 4) the thrust of "kneeling, plummeting down, or worshiping" = "proskyneo", a verb happening a lot in Matthew to identify the devoted position of outsiders to Jesus. Matthew identifies the area of Jesus' pinnacle with the woman as "the surface of Tyre and Sidon". The Roman turf of Syria had integrated the preceding Phoenicia. Tyre encompassed the tribal areas of Asher, Dan and Napthali. It was a Gentile area, on the contrary a mechanized Jewish image remained. Matthew says that the woman "came out"', so most likely they met at the face. The woman is a Canaanite, part of an home district apparently shattered by Joshua to the same extent of idolatry, but who remained in the land. Beguilingly, Matthew includes in Jesus' genealogy unusual other Canaanite women: Rahab, the Jericho prostitute, and Tamar (Genesis 38). Little unnamed, this woman seems to dead heat for Matthew a percentage who anticipates the gone post to the Gentiles. We control no notion if the woman was marital or was a undo mother. Nor do we know the name of her adolescent. An interesting question is: can the adolescent control been sufficient grant as her mother pleaded with Jesus? Sway this control particularly to the tone of the woman's insistence: "my adolescent is distressed by a demon"? It would make all the supervisor curious and pitiful Matthew's close watch that "he did not give or take her at all". One can moreover question whether the disciples' words, "Present her old hat", are familiar or perhaps control the corresponding meaning: "To be had her...do what she asks". In the later collection, the disciples can be seen as kind intercessors, fancy than as circle flawed in kindness. Jesus' non-response, next resolve, is, at best, worrying to modern minds, in front of echoing of the caring of Church policies which control turned off and driven old hat so abundant trusty believers at get older. The woman, with vast venerate, really puts the compel on Jesus: she calls him "Peer of the realm" three times; she gets down on her lick up, perhaps at eye-to-eye level; she begs him, "Provision me!" To which Jesus replies: "It isn't sufficient to fetch beginner bucks and embodiment it to dogs." Harsh! No way sequence it, even if one tries to interpret Matthew's word "kynarion "= "puppy" comparatively, in spite of this "dogs" wasn't a overfriendly libel for Gentiles, difficult to abundant who say otherwise. Despite the consequences Jesus' resolve, the woman counters, with vast majestic, acknowledging that Jesus has the thrust of dominance, nonetheless at the incredibly time holding to her severe want. "Yes, Peer of the realm, yet even "THE DOGS" eat the crumbs that fall from "THEIR MASTERS'" propose." At this spurt in the story, Matthew doesn't embodiment us any particularly predetermined minutiae about how Jesus responded: with facial lingo, whatsoever pioneer, a smirk and a oomph in his eye, etc. He offensively reports: "Next Jesus answered her, woman, vast is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.' And her adolescent was healed at once." Jesus was very terribly worldly, part of a predetermined culture and neighborhood which had all by and large passable and taboos practices and policies. Can we be surprised that Jesus, justification as you and I and others so smoothly do, came up unwilling these different situations? Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius (395-423), a Roman grammarian and Neo-Platonist scholar, was moreover journalist of the "Saturnalia", written for his son, Eustathius. It was a heap of elapsed, mythological, rude, and grammatical consideration. In it he includes the pitiful story of an old participant who finds himself in interrupt of losing a law collection publicly, and wishes from Sovereign Augustus that the later would start for him in trial. Instead, Augustus assigns an marshal to act as warn. The participant tiles his line, displaying his fighting scars, and shouts: "Gone you were in interrupt at Actium, I didn't sky for a replace, but I fought for you in resident." The Sovereign, legally chastened, got his spurt and appeared on his behalf in trial. "In this time of rude companionable, monetary, pecuniary, and spiritual racket in so abundant places sequence the world -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and Kenya, England, and something like in the Sidekick States -- multitudes are melancholy out, "Provision me...help me!" Excursion from offensively so intercessors for their causes and delicacy, desire you and I moreover become responders in anything way we can, or desire we settle for so dispensers by referral?
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-1804-g486adc7 (webtiles) character file.
20 Bastard the Insei (level 2, 0/22 HPs)
Began as a Demonspawn Monk on June 24, 2013.
Slain by a jackal (2 damage)
... on Level 1 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:00:46 (610 turns).
Bastard the Insei (Demonspawn Monk) Turns: 610, Time: 00:00:46
HP 0/22 AC 2 Str 11 XL: 2 Next: 58%
MP 1/1 EV 13 Int 11 God:
Gold 0 SH 0 Dex 15 Spells: 0 memorised, 1 level left
Res.Fire :... See Invis. :. - Unarmed
Res.Cold :... Warding :. a - +0 robe
Life Prot.:... Conserve :. (no shield)
Res.Poison:. Res.Corr. :. (no helmet)
Res.Elec. :. Clarity :. (no cloak)
Sust.Abil.:.. Spirit.Shd :. (no gloves)
Res.Mut. :. Stasis :. (no boots)
Res.Rott. :. Flight :. (no amulet)
Saprovore :... (no ring)
(no ring)
@: not resistant to hostile enchantments, fairly stealthy
A: hooves 1
a: no special abilities
You were on level 1 of the Dungeon.
You were not hungry.
You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 1 of its levels.
Inventory:
Armour
a - a +0 robe (worn)
Comestibles
b - a bread ration
f - 2 rotting chunks of goblin flesh
g - 3 rotting chunks of hobgoblin flesh
Scrolls
c - a scroll of noise {unknown}
d - 2 scrolls of fog {unknown}
e - 2 scrolls of identify {unknown}
Potions
h - a potion of curing {unknown}
Skills:
- Level 3.0 Fighting
- Level 2.6 Dodging
- Level 1.7 Stealth
+ Level 4.3 Unarmed Combat
You had one spell level left.
You didn't know any spells.
Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations
Branches:
Dungeon (1/27)
Altars:
Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations
You have large cloven feet.
Message History
The jackal bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
The jackal bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You barely miss the jackal. You kick the jackal.
You kill the jackal!
You closely miss the giant newt. You kick the giant newt.
You kill the giant newt!
The jackal bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You closely miss the jackal.
The jackal bites you but does no damage.
You closely miss the jackal. Your kick misses the jackal.
The jackal barely misses you.
You hit the jackal but do no damage. The jackal misses you.
You closely miss the jackal. The jackal closely misses you.
The jackal closely misses you.
You closely miss the jackal. You kick the jackal, but do no damage.
The jackal bites you.
You die...
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You could see a jackal, a goblin and a rat.
Vanquished Creatures
An ooze (D:1)
A giant cockroach (D:1)
2 goblins (D:1)
5 hobgoblins (D:1)
A kobold (D:1)
A bat (D:1)
A giant newt (D:1)
3 jackals (D:1)
3 rats (D:1)
18 creatures vanquished.
Notes
Turn Place Note
0 D:1 Bastard, the Demonspawn Monk, began the quest for the Orb.
0 D:1 Reached XP level 1. HP: 16/16 MP: 0/0
107 D:1 Reached skill level 4 in Unarmed Combat
240 D:1 Gained mutation: You have large cloven feet. [demonic ancestry]
240 D:1 Reached XP level 2. HP: 13/22 MP: 1/1
610 D:1 Slain by a jackal
Action total
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Melee: Unarmed 63
Stab: Sleeping 1
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A few readers of this blog possibly will experience again the 1970s conceal series "Curt Mother country on the Plain" which ran from 1974-1983. The series told the story of a pedigree living in the American West in the 1870s. Plotlines when all's said and done complex pedigree struggles which included a helpful element, and it was not changed to find the Ingalls pedigree leave-taking to the parish church, and the watering hole high priest eagerly complex in the relationships of the townspeople. This fracas of conceal wild animals reflected American culture in the 1970s and little 1980s. The situation is very original in the little twenty-first century.
Selected media outlets take pleasure in reported on a new series out of Canada fine "Curt Mosque on the Plain". As the Saskatchewan Information Relation reported, this the funny side "focuses on the inconsequential Muslim community in the little Plain parish of Mercy. Many of the town's populace are leery of their Muslim neighbours, who are unclear how to assimilate featuring in the community."
The idea continued by quoting the dramatist of the series who fixed, "I knew that something come close to this was leave-taking to get a lot of use," thought Nawaz. "It's the apex Muslim the funny side in North America. We're open new go ashore. At any time you're a paramount, and under the predominant fan conditions, it was leave-taking to take care of eyebrows."
The specter of this type of conceal conventional in North America is solemn in a post-9/11 home, not only politically, but besides in other cultural ways, and provides an stop for evangelicals to derive in wary concern. It provides a idea bit of priestly pluralism in the West which raises superior questions of theology, praxis, and cultural prosecution. Christians in America are second hand to living as a mass prospect in a Christendom culture. The specter of priestly pluralism and the budding booster of other religions featuring in the government square poses a dollar to evangelical conceptions of each one the ratio of Christianity to stately appearance, priestly sovereignty, the nitty granular of day-to-day living in the course of "priestly others," not to commit questions related to evangelism and missions.
For this reason far few segments of evangelicalism, whether traditional, in attendance or blossoming church, sound finished to seize the rank of priestly pluralism. It would sound that the disconcerted look over of Western culture may phantom us to seize its implications.
Wicca is often thought of as a pagan religion, which in a way it is? "Pagan" is a term that was invented by the Christian church. The term brands every religion that isn't Christian as pagan. The problem with people calling wicca a pagan religion (which according to the definition of paganism, it is) is that most people view the term as describing an ancient satanic religion (which it's not). Wicca is a new age religion and in actuality was only made into a mainstream religion in the 1940's.
Who Invented Wicca?
Gerald Gardner formed the wiccan tradition, but he didn't invent it. Wicca is basically a religion taken from the ancient traditions that the Celts and Druids practised. Gerald Gardner however gets the credit for forming these traditions into one religion (wicca) because though the traditions have been carried on since ancient times (usually in secret) nobody had ever really tried to connect all the different traditions practised by the Druids and Celts into one solid religion. The outcome of his work in bringing the traditions together, also allowed the resulting religion to become a mainstream religion. Wicca is one of the fastest growing religions today.
The Origins of Wicca
Wicca originated from the Celtic and Druid traditions. We call it the Druid and Celtic traditions because although they both practised traditions the rituals would often be separated in the deities that they worshipped and the ways that they worshiped.
In many Celtic and Druid traditions the female was superior and because of this the Goddess was worshipped as a main deity. In other traditions the male and female where equal and they thus worshipped both deities equally. And, in still other traditions they the Male was seen as superior and so the God was worshipped as the main deity.
What Effect Does This Have on Wiccan Spells
Because, wicca comes from the more nature-based traditions of the Celtic and Druid beliefs, wiccan spells will often rely upon natural items as focuses or tools in their spells and rituals.
The Natural items prevalent in wiccan spells are herbs, different types of wood, and stones. These things all held spiritual significance in the lives of early Celtic and Druid people.
By Chad M
This is the time of change.
This is the time of wonder.
Religion does not bring change.
Religion destroys the sense of wonder.
Religion is not courageous. It is fearful and cringing.
Religion is not loving. It is tyrannical and abusive.
Religion is not the truth, the way and the light.
It is lies, misdirection and darkness.
A cross on the wall and a nail in the coffin.
Both are resounding and final.
Both are found at the end of life.
I choose Life and Wonder over Fear and Regret.
Religion calls the brave man a coward and the wise man foolish.
Religion acts with self loathing and hatred towards itself.
Religion denies the nature of the universe and kills all hope.
Religion is man dreaming of his God.
Religion is man creating his creator.
Religion is the man made controller of man.
God is Dead as myths must die
to make way for the dawn of reason
and the limitless sky of curiosity.
The blood of a human god does not spill easily and without cost.
The free gift of redemption from our true selves
requires only our Spirit and Mind and Body
locked in perpetual gratis slavery to the scapegoat of God.
God will see the fires of Hades rise in smoke forever
with the bodies of good men and bad cast down to perdition.
In this Law: Believe you in me and I'll enslave you to me
But out of Love will I cast you to the flames if you do not
Religion: Repressive Elitist Ludicrous Isolating Governing Insulting Oppresive Nihilistic
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What happens to the mind when we die?
And where did the mind come from?
To an atheist or scientific materialist this question sounds nonsensical. To them, the mind dies when the brain dies. The mind is the brain and the brain is the mind. The brain, being a temporary and purely material object, takes the mind with it when we die.
But what if the universe itself were conscious, and a brain merely taps into that conscious web during its existence? Today I am going to discuss some ideas inspired by David Darlings excellent book, Equations of Eternity.
This is an idea that has merit not only scientifically, but spiritually. A biologist who was a scientific materialist would tell us that the brain is just a product of evolution, providing its owner with a tool that enhances survival. Organisms that have better brains are better suited to their environments, leave more offspring and so on. Over time, brains have become more complex because its advantageous to do so. Consciousness is no more than a mere accident, something that happened to come along arising out of complexity that happened to be very good at enhancing survival and reproduction.
But to see that consciousness might have a role beyond simply enhancing the survival and reproductive value of its owner, lets turn to the eastern religions. In particular some concepts from Hinduism can shed light on the nature and role of consciousness.
The first concept from Hinduism that is interesting to contemplate is that of "Maya". In a nutshell, Maya describes to what Hindus is an illusion: that is the world of objects and people around us are real. In other words, the material world you touch, see, and hear is an illusion. What is real if the objects and people of the world are illusions? According to this concept, our minds have made up and classified the objects we see in the material world. The universe does not really consist of individual, separate and unchanging objects. Instead the universe is one unbroken whole, and its is dynamic: the world is in constant flux.
In fact this idea is completely consistent with what modern science has taught us. As Lee Smolin wrote, the universe doesn't consist of objects, it consistes of processes. Everything around us is completely dynamic and in a constant state of change. Atoms and molecules assemble, dissolve, and reassemble in different ways. People are born, live, and die. Species evolve and change into something completely different as time passes. Even the sun evolved and will eventually die.
Not only that, but in reality there are no separate objects in the universe. Physics tells us that the universe can be seen as having a kind of dualism. This is not strictly the "Wave-particle" dualism of the quantum theory. Instead we call on quantum field theory, which tells us that the universe doesn't really consist of discrete, hard particles. What is really real, at a fundamental level are fields which fill all of spacetime. This is consistent with Maya.
That isn't to say particles, objects, or people aren't real. But we acknowledge that their particular form is transitory-and nothing ever really didn't exist or was born or ceases to exists or dies-instead "things" in the universe are part of an ever-changing process. The atoms and molecules in your body always existed-they have done so since the beginning of time. Could it be that the mind or and individual is part of a universal consciousness field, and that an arrangement of atoms can reveal it, rather than cause it to come forth through some vague concept like "emergence" from a materialist world?
So from the perspective of Hinduism, we face the fact that individuals are temporary and transient in nature, but at the same time we are part of an unbroken whole which has always been here-the universe. The Hindu calls this unbroken whole "Brahman".
Something else to think about is how can it be that consciousness just arose in a dead universe? For consciousness to arise from the universe, consciousness must be part of the universe itself. Nothing can happen in the universe that does not violate the laws of physics. Here are a couple of quotes from Darling's book to help you think about the ideas here:
"Each of us is a microcosm of nature, and in more than one sense. First, the same processes-the same types of particles and the forces that act between them-occur in our bodies as in the universe at large. Second, through our minds we reconstruct and mirror in abstract form that which lies outside ourselves. And third, most intriguingly, our own personal evolution parallels the evolution of life on earth."
I would like to add to that that our own brains mirror what the universe at large is doing. A universe that produces conscious minds has at its core consciousness and mind as one of its fundamental properies. This goes back to the Hindu ideas-God died and became the universe-which becomes God again.
Remember too the notion-no the fact--that the universe is an unbroken whole. Another intriguing quote from Darling:
"Whatever a newborn child does, the universe at large does also, because a human baby-like everything else-is an intrinsic part of the cosmos. That may seem like a strange claim to make, but it is logically and physically sound. A factory in which cars are made is a car-making factory. A planet on which there is life is a living planet because the life-forms are a part and a product of the world's substance. And, on the grandest of all scales, if there is sentience within the cosmos then the cosmos itself is sentient. So we may reasonably view an infant's dawning awareness on two levels: as a consciousness arising in the individual, and, simultaneously in the universe as a whole."
This is deep stuff here. Also think about this. As the population has increased and as computers become more intelligent, the universe at large becomes more conscious. Or was that concsiousness already there, and merely being mapped into the form of individuals?
Its hard to say what these ideas mean for life after death-that is discrete survival of the individual-but its clear that there may be a universal web of consciousness that exists throughout space and for all time.
Check out David Darlings Book Here
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Washington, D.C. (September 30, 2014) - Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds the Department of Justice, today sent the following letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to investigate the recent beheading in Oklahoma as a terrorist attack and to not just quickly dismiss it as workplace violence like was done in the Fort Hood terrorist attack in 2009:
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave NW Rm 5111
Washington DC 20530
Dear Attorney General Holder:
Later today, the Cleveland County, Oklahoma district attorney's office is expected to seek charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon against Alton Nolen for his beheading of a woman and stabbing of another at a food processing plant in Oklahoma last week.В I am writing today to urge the Justice Department to continue to investigate this decapitation as terrorism and not be quick to just dismiss this as "workplace violence," as this administration notoriously did in the case of the 2009 terrorist attack on Fort Hood, which left 13 dead and more than 30 wounded.
It has been reported that over the past two years Nolen was becoming radicalized.В According to CNN, his Facebook page "included images of Osama bin Laden and an apparent beheading," and his social media posts became "almost exclusively related to Islam in April 2013 - shortly after he was released from prison."В He also reportedly got into trouble at work for "trying to convert co-workers to Islam," according to CNN.
In the wake of the department's failure to "connect the dots" between Anwar Aulaqi and Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan, it is more important than ever for you to make clear to the department's agents and attorneys that this is, in fact, terrorism and to determine whether this or other plots are part of an effort by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or al Qaeda to radicalize Americans and direct attacks in the U.S.
Whether the Nolen investigation ultimately shows that he communicated directly with terrorists abroad or was independently inspired by the recent ISIS beheading videos, there is no question that this attack represents a direct threat from radicalized Islamist extremists to the American people.В
We cannot again let political correctness drive this investigation and prosecution, as this administration did in charging Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan with "workplace violence" instead of terrorism.В Then, as now, authorities sought to downplay the Islamic radicalization of the perpetrator in the months leading up to the attack, as well as any outside influence from terrorist groups.В As we all know now, Anwar Aulaqi played a key role in the radicalization of Hasan and al Qaeda propaganda motivated his terrorist attack - something the FBI failed to connect prior to the attack, as detailed in the Webster Commission report.В
Over the last several years, I have met, spoken with and corresponded with a number of the family members of the victims and survivors of the Fort Hood attack.В Each has been adversely impacted by the administration's misguided prosecution, which resulted in the denial of many of the benefits they would have received if the attack had been designated as terrorism. However, to a person, they all also feel the government has denied them an honest representation of Hasan's motivations for his attack.В This injustice continues to this day, as Hasan just last month asked ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghadadi to make him a citizen of the so-called "Islamic State" - yet the U.S. government still doesn't recognize his attack as an act of terrorism.В
It would be bad enough if this political correctness was limited to Fort Hood, but we have seen a number of examples over the last decade where cases that should have been charged as terrorism were instead treated as criminal matters: Ali Muhammad Brown's August 2014 murder of a 19 year-old New Jersey man allegedly committed in retaliation for U.S. actions in the Middle East; Carlos Bledsoe's attack on a U.S. Army recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas in 2009; and Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar's 2006 attack on pedestrians in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he declared himself a jihadist acting against the U.S.В These are just a few examples of the government failing to acknowledge the Islamist terrorist motivation of these deadly attacks.В
We should avoid going down this path with Nolen.В His attack is the latest incident in a string of horrific beheading attacks, which are an emerging hallmark of radical Islamist terrorism, whether in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Middle East, Europe, and now, here in the United States.В For more than a decade, beheadings have been used by al Qaeda to draw attention to their murder of Westerners, such as journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, contractor Nicholas Berg in Iraq in 2004 and British Army soldier Lee Rigby in London in 2013, as well as to strike fear in their opponents.В More recently, this heinous act has been embraced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as they have released gruesome videos of the beheading of U.S. and British journalists, as well as less well known videos displaying scores of Syrian soldiers' heads on pikes.В As some have noted in recent days, Nolen's attack marks the first time a jihadist has committed a beheading on American soil, a deeply troubling milestone. В
As The Washington Post's Walter Pincus this morning pointed out, ISIS' ability to broadcast its messages of violence around the globe instantaneously is part of a campaign to radicalize, recruit and mobilize more terrorists.В Pincus notes, ISIS is "active on social media, it has pamphlets, weekly illustrated magazines, billboards, T-shirts, baseball hats and even propaganda offices in Syria and Iraq. The Islamic State has expanded the message machine, too, particularly since the United States began its air attacks against the terrorist group's forces in Iraq on Aug. 8."В
This is all to instill fear in Americans.В Consider this from Pincus' piece this morning:
"One of the most recent examples of Islamic State propaganda came in a Sept. 21 speech by its chief spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, broadcast in Arabic, translated into many languages and placed on social media around the world.
"Adnani sprinkles his 42-minute, 12-page speech with disparaging descriptions of U.S. officials that are bound to be circulated among jihadist fighters, with whom they will resonate.В Obama is called a 'mule of the Jews,' and Secretary of State John F. Kerry is called an 'uncircumcised old geezer.'
"Addressing Americans, Adnani says: 'The Islamic State did not institute a war against you, as your governments and media try to make you believe.'
"He adds that the United States 'will pay the price' when its economy collapses and 'you will pay the price when your sons are sent to wage a war against us and they return to you as disabled amputees, or inside coffins or mentally ill.'
"Then he adds that Americans, 'will pay the price as you walk on your streets, turning right and left, fearing the Muslims. You will not feel secure even in your bedrooms. You will pay the price when this crusade of yours collapses and thereafter we will strike you in your homeland you will never be able to harm anyone afterwards.'"
We owe it to Traci Johnson and the family of Colleen Hufford to acknowledge this brutal killing as an act of terror committed by a man radicalized and influenced by terrorist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS.В The department also has an obligation to ensure it never again repeats the mistakes of Fort Hood by allowing political correctness to prevent action from being taken to stop a would-be jihadist.В I hope you and the department will do the right thing, rather than repeat the shameful mistakes of the Fort Hood investigation and prosecution. В
Best wishes.
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Frank R. Wolf
Member of Congress
