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A Muslim website, linked at Francois Desouche, sings the praises of halal foods, and wants us to believe that the business of halal has greatly contributed to strengthening the French economy:
Muslims, so often blamed by some politicians in their demagogic and stigmatizing speeches, are an asset to France, both in terms of her internal economy and her influence abroad.
In November 2009, INSEE (Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies) reiterated that Muslims bring good fortune to French agriculture. Every year, sheep farmers wait impatiently for the a"id al-adha holiday, that provides them with a veritable breath of oxygen. Strangled by large corporations who buy their meat for a pittance, the farmers are even willing to suffer penury and to hold on to their animals in order to raise prices. Major agro businesses have also been rescued by Muslim consumers: hinting at companies such as Charal, Doux, Socopa or Duc, an expert explained to Les Echos (a site devoted to economics) that "certain companies would no longer be in existence if they had not invested in this special market." So it's not surprising that almost 50% of French lamb is halal or that Quick managed to save eight restaurants by converting to halal.
Note: A reminder that the French government has for a long time proclaimed that immigrants bring "good fortune" to France. The author of the article is simply using a slogan that the French have been hearing for years.
A"id al-adha is the holiday during which sheep are slaughtered (usually inhumanely), despite efforts by animal rights groups. There are various spellings of the holiday. Here, I am using the one in the article.
Quick, a fast-food operation, recently switched to halal foods in many of its restaurants, causing an uproar, especially among those who frequent those restaurants. I reported on it here.
Halal, and Muslim consumers, are therefore a boon to France and her economy. Numerous entrepreneurs know this and invest in the market, not always in the best conditions (let's just take Doux, that sells with impunity chickens that are not halal, but that are stamped halal, with the recently-granted blessings of the Paris mosque.) Just glance at a few of the providers of the Metro company and you will realize that French industry is profiting from halal.
The article goes on to discuss other companies that have chosen to "go halal" and the great advantages that result for the French economy. One such company, Isla D'elice, has launched a publicity campaign to promote halal foods. Their illustration at top, from al-kanz, reads: "Proudly Halal", a mocking insult to France's proud symbol.
Those interested can also read about the decision to serve halal in 52 primary schools in the borough of Harrow in North-West London. The photo below is of Harrow High Street. The whole report is in the Daily Mail.
An article at Novopress says that the French army is now fed halal rations. For years soldiers have been offered a menu "without pork". But now, a further refinement gives them the possibility of eating halal. The two illustrations below show the two types of ration cards:
For several months now Halal rations have been appearing discreetly, and have been distributed systematically along with traditional rations. After school luncheons, halal sections of groceries and supermarkets, fast food companies such as Quick, it is now the army's turn to adapt to this rapid evolution that now affects all echelons of our society. An evolution that leads one to ask a question that could have far-reaching consequences if the army were ever called upon to put down ghetto riots: what is the percentage of French soldiers of the Muslim faith?
Note: I cannot answer the question, but I seem to remember that a few years ago commenters at the message boards were talking about 20%.
In still another halal story, Francois Desouche links to the blog of La Droite Libre, a satellite of Sarkozy's UMP party. La Droite Libre describes itself as "liberal conservative", which means it favors both free enterprise and conservative values, a claim that should be taken more as a threat than a description, considering the record of Sarkozy's UMP. La Droite Libre was founded by one Rachid Kaci, an advisor to Sarkozy.
The article in question deals with halal foods served on board Air France:
France continues to lose its traditions: passengers who fly with the national company and who travel to Muslim countries find that they are automatically being served halal meals. The manager of a famous Parisian night club was returning from Morocco when he found himself in this situation and remarked upon it to the flight attendant, saying he was angry not to be able to eat a non-halal meal. The chief flight attendant answered that he shared his indignation, that he had to obey the company's orders, but he hoped the situation would become "known to the general public."
If it is, after all, logical for airline companies to offer meals that conform to the eating habits of their country, religious meals ought not to have a place in our national company, which should just offer a few "neutral" dishes to satisfy potential religious customers who failed to plan ahead. Those who adhere to specific food traditions have a choice of numerous airlines where they can find exactly what makes them happy.
This new infringement of la"icit'e, after school lunches, cafeterias, and fast food chains, only confirms the stupid spiral of submission to the ever more urgent demands of religious communities. And it goes hand in hand with the regulations of another era (you have only to watch the ritual of animal slaughter) and with traditions incompatible with our culture. (...)
Note: There is nothing wrong with this communiqu'e, except that it does not address the core issue of immigration itself, only one of the inevitable consequences of having a large Muslim population. And who is responsible for this population and the inevitable consequences?
The readers' responses are interesting, but this one caught my attention. It is signed by someone calling himself "Fooled once, but never again":
When will the UMP stop taking its citizens for mental retards? Stop gesticulating like calves engulfed in the quicksand they willingly walked into. You made many promises, some innocents believed in you, but now even the dumbest of those innocents knows that you are liars. Creating off-shoots of the UMP will not prevent gulls like us from remembering the term UMP before the term off-shoot, or trend, or preference. Your party always sends out communiqu'es as soon as the plebe on whom you feed is no longer biting at your electoral and careerist bait. You want nothing to do with the French. Worse, you have contempt for them. You have chosen to lose and you have lost. Face it.
We shall see (in 2012, if not before) if this type of reaction is representative of the French voters who put Sarkozy in office, and if it is, will they vote for Marine Le Pen...
Finally, Ramadan comes early this year. It begins on Wednesday August 11, in the middle of the vacation period. More on that in the days to come...
4 OF PENTACLES, KNIGHT OF Cups, Fate This weeks free Tarot reading special treatment of Butterfly Variety The key aspect for this week is push, living stuck in old ways is no longer an probability, push can lead to fears that power to be dealt with, but sometimes adrenalin can help us tell. Its about separation with the administer as fighting in opposition to the stream or clinging to the earlier is lonely, we power to let go in order for whatever thing new to retrieve its place. At an accomplish level its about push or die! "THE 4 OF PENTACLESThe Four of Pentacles is yielding me the motive of awareness a bit stuck for the time being in the old ways. He has come up recurrently in the reach few months and it feels to me taking into consideration a resolution clinging on to the earlier. Brain wave we soul be obtain if we quadrangle sit niggardly, possibly coming from our old viewpoints, but it feels as conversely this is no longer an probability. About the month, shifts power been finished, and this may surround a minute comical and may feature us to answer back by separation in vogue disquiet.The Knight of CupsThe Knight of Cups is symptomatic of administer to me. His element is water, and we requirement be taking into consideration water and administer with the stream sooner than uncertain to difference of opinion in opposition to it. It feels as conversely push is unsurprisingly, so clinging on to the worldly weave of the 4 of Pentacles soul not hand over us. We famine to let go. FateThe meaning of Fate is loose change. A real, and sometimes, completely large shift. It is finished easier by separation with the administer of the Knight. I was struck by the how end the images of the Knight of Cups and Fate are. If you weigh up for a sec, you soul see. I surround this is about indulgence the push sooner than fighting it, tranquil this is presenting itself in our world." Circular THE InventorRose considerable to buy her improve on Tarot deck at age 15, some 20-odd time ago, having felt a tie with the cards after living exposed a deck for the improve on time. She; has worked as a professional Tarot Reader previously 2004 on a easy internet based readings site and equally aloof lately at Mystic Fayre deeds about Cornwall. Rose is now branching out in vogue becoming a scholarly of Tarot and Intangible Advance and a healing practitioner, using Reiki aligned with other vigorous practices. At confer, suffer to suffer readings can be booked internally to Rose in Cornwall. Catch a glimpse of her website Butterfly Variety for aloof information about email and entitle tarot readings.
Someone recently said: "I would love to see conversion rates to atheism between creationist/conservative Christians (like John Loftus) and more liberal Christians." The implication is that conservatives leave their faith and become atheists more often than liberals do. By proxy this shows liberalism is a better brand of Christianity. I suspect both implications are correct. Conservatives have already rejected liberalism as outsiders to liberalism, and for good reasons. So once they reject their own conservative Christianity it's probable that a high number of them eventually become atheists. Unlike former conservatives though, liberals have probably never critically examined their faith from an outsider's perspective, and this makes all the difference. Since liberals believe in less then liberalism is harder to reject, for the less you take on faith the better it is. ;-) Of course, since that's true agnosticism (understood as a position against all metaphysical claims) would be better than liberalism. And atheism (understood as no religious beliefs at all) is the best conclusion of them all.
Source: wizard-notes.blogspot.com
Pollution Detector Hidden in Get tangled Wrap
As working-witches we consistently bring candles and incense roaring in our homes and sacred seats on an, reach, rag instance. This was fine for the witches of the recent past, but today's witches, multiple of whom rent homes or apartments with very a selection of language and cipher, bring to submission with technology such as vapors detectors and heat sensors in their home as well that turn from them from roaring their candles/incense in the way that they would wish.
I know multiple witches who charge and give permission their candles at their altar and as well as move them to magnify in their plunge, bathtub or even their radiator. I've done this myself, for armor reasons, since I bring basic to magnify candles overnight or period I am not home. However, I esteem not to bring to move my candles revealed from the altar since I am displease and in the manor. Offering is a reason that we work at our altars, in arrears all.
I am quite lucky that I bring a two-bedroom manor which allows me to bring a whole room sharp-edged to my craft, even now the three vapors alarms and one (gentle) heat sensor are in inopportune places. I've certain some state who actually persist the battery out of their vapors alarms, even now, dig up are hardwired popular the apartment's electricity and, unsophisticatedly it is too a good deal of a nuisance to do this every time I consider to magnify a candle or some incense. It is along with conventional fixed in my leasing that tampering with the smoke-detectors in any way would be a violation of my leasing and garden for ejection. Consequently, I've had to be creative since coming up with solutions.
To clash smoke-detectors I place shower-caps over them period I am roaring candles and/or incense. If you don't bring a deluge cap finish, you can use a bit of cling-wrap or cool a pliable bag over the smoke-detector with a rubber-band. By and large since I hoe my magickal-candles they command be anointed with oil and as well as rolled in a assortment of dry herbs. In the same way as lit, the dry herbs can basis the burn to show up and magnify really hot hard off the heat sensor. I've literary that to a certain extent of loud my oiled up candles in the dry herb(s), to sprinkle the herbs in a circle with reference to the candle. This way the candle burns arrogant normally and does not set off the heat sensor.
For armor reasons, continuously honor to remove the shower-cap since you are done roaring your candles and/or incense.
Carolina Dean
Reference: way-of-witch.blogspot.com
Vatican II's Decree on Priestly Training (Optatam Totius) says that, "The duty of fostering vocations "pertains to the whole Christian community", which should exercise it above all by a fully Christian life...ALL PRIESTS ESPECIALLY ARE TO MANIFEST AN APOSTOLIC ZEAL IN FOSTERING VOCATIONS and are to attract the interest of youths to the priesthood by their own life lived in a humble and industrious manner and in a happy spirit as well as by mutual priestly charity and fraternal sharing of labor. Bishops...are to encourage their flock to promote vocations and should be concerned with coordinating all forces in a united effort to this end. As fathers, moreover, they must assist without stint those whom they have judged to be called to the Lord's work." (No. 2).
Unfortunately, this duty is not taken seriously by many within the Church. In fact, many vocations have been sabotaged by dissident priests and religious anxious to exclude those who are deemed "too rigid" or too "pre-Vatican II." Recall Michael S. Rose's book "Goodbye, Good Men." Such was my experience with the La Salette Missionaries. Because of my orthodoxy, I was never even seriously considered as a candidate. In fact, when I expressed concerns over La Salette priests promoting the ordination of women to the ministerial priesthood "during a vocation retreat", a La Salette Provincial accused me of "evil." I still have all my correspondence with several La Salette priests, one of whom actually had the grace and kindness to apologize to me for the way the La Salette community treated me.
Because I accept everything which is taught in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and because I defend the teaching authority of the Church's Magisterium, I am treated with nothing but contempt in my own diocese. I am not even permitted to participate in the life of my parish. And I am not alone. As Archbishop Elden Curtis explained in an article entitled "Crisis in Vocations? What Crisis?":
"There is much media hype these days about the present and projected shortage of priests and its effect on the sacramental life of the Church. It is time to pay close attention to the dioceses and religious communities reporting increasing numbers of candidates. There have to be reasons for these increases that bear objective analysis from which some conclusions can be drawn.
I personally think the vocation "crisis" in this country is more artificial and contrived than many people realize. When dioceses and religious communities are unambiguous about ordained priesthood and vowed religious life as the Church defines these calls; when there is strong support for vocations, and a minimum of dissent about the male celibate priesthood and religious life loyal to the magisterium; when bishop, priests, Religious and lay people are united in vocation ministry-then there are documented increases in the numbers of candidates who respond to the call.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE VOCATION "CRISIS" IS PRECIPITATED AND CONTINUED BY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CHANGE THE CHURCH'S AGENDA, BY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT SUPPORT ORTHODOX CANDIDATES LOYAL TO THE MAGISTERIAL TEACHING OF THE POPE AND BISHOPS, AND BY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DISCOURAGE VIABLE CANDIDATES FROM SEEKING PRIESTHOOD AND VOWED RELIGIOUS LIFE AS THE CHURCH DEFINES THE MINISTRIES.
I am personally aware of certain vocation directors, vocation teams and evaluation boards who turn away candidates who do not support the possibility of ordaining women or who defend the Church's teaching about artificial birth control, or who exhibit a strong piety toward certain devotions, such as the Rosary.
When there is a determined effort to discourage orthodox candidates from priesthood and religious life, then the vocation shortage which results is caused not by a lack of vocations but by deliberate attitudes and policies that deter certain viable candidates.
And the same people who precipitate a decline in vocations by their negative actions call for the ordination of married men and women to replace the vocations they have discouraged. They have a death wish for ordained priesthood and vowed religious life as the Church defines them. They undermine the vocation ministry they are supposed to champion." (Full article here).
It is incredible to me that while Senator Edward Kennedy's life was celebrated during a very public funeral - even though he publically dissented from the Church's teaching regarding the sanctity of life - I am treated with nothing but contempt by those who would exclude me because of my fidelity to the Church's teaching. The Senator was referred to as "Our brother and friend." I cannot even participate in the life of my parish. I am held in so much contempt that when I contacted my Diocese to inquire about the priesthood, I received no response whatsoever.
Maybe if I promoted the killing of the unborn or women's ordination, I too would be welcomed as "brother and friend." That's not going to happen though. For what does it profit a man....you know the rest.
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Christian views on Hell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you were to ask me once a day for seven consecutive days what I thought the single worst thing about Christianity was, you might get seven different answers. There are many bad things about Christianity, and settling on just one or even trying to list several would be challenging. But if you were to ask me this question right now, the answer you'd get would focus on the fear of one's own mind instilled by Christianity.
Although I was raised in a Protestant denomination that was neither evangelical nor fundamentalist and was what I'd describe as liberal-to-moderate, this fear was instilled in me from an early age. The path to salvation - the "only" path to salvation - was found in belief and not in acts. To escape hell, one had to believe. Good acts were encouraged, but they would not be enough. Belief was the key. Without belief, hell was one's final destination.
It did not take me long to discover a couple of hard truths about the human mind. First, I sometimes had thoughts and images pop into my mind that did not seem voluntary. I might be daydreaming and have a scary or disturbing image pop into my head. I didn't want it there, but there it was. I know now that this is a common experience, and the point is simply that we are not 100% in control of our thoughts 100% of the time. Even today, I sometimes have thoughts I don't particularly like or wish I didn't have. I did not understand this at the time, and it used to terrify me that these thoughts or images might be "unholy." This fear was reinforced at church. As I neared adolescence, some of them involved the sorts of sexual content I was told was unacceptable for good Christians. Thoughts over which I had no control could send me to hell, and that was terrifying.
The second truth, and one that would take me even longer to discover, was that belief itself was not entirely voluntary. I used to be a believing Christian, but once the doubts entered my mind, there was no shutting them off. No matter how many times I was told I should believe and reminded of what would happen to me if I did not, I could not make myself believe. I desperately wanted to believe again, and I tried in every way I could imagine. Reading the Christian bible, prayer, and speaking with clergy only led to stronger doubt. There was a point in time after which I realized I could no longer believe. And this meant that I was doomed to an eternity in hell and quite a bit of mistreatment in this life by Christians who would now view me as evil.
The adults who indoctrinated me did not seem to be particularly bothered by the fear they instilled. In fact, it seemed quite deliberate. I needed to believe to save my soul. I needed to believe because hell awaited if I did not. It was for my own good that I should be made to fear the god they worshiped. Fear would keep me on the right path. But I was already an anxious child, and so it is very difficult for me to imagine that they did not see the damage this was doing to me. I tried to keep the internal terror to myself for fear that I'd disappoint those who were so determined to make sure I shared their beliefs, but it leaked out in so many ways.
When I say that imposing religion on our children is abusive, this is the sort of thing to which I am referring. I was not systematically beaten until I submitted to religious doctrine (although I was forcibly dragged to church on multiple occasions, threatened with physical punishment, and smacked around a few times). That was nothing compared to the nights I cried myself to sleep because of my growing doubts and what I had been told about where they would lead. I was deprived of the one place that was supposed to be safe: my own mind. I was taught that only belief could save me and that my own thoughts could doom me to hell. And yet, I realized that I had little control over my thoughts and less over my beliefs. This was psychological abuse.
Even after I no longer believed in hell, I knew that the disappointment my doubts produced in others was very real. I had let everybody down. The messages about nonbelievers I had internalized were very negative. I was flawed, defective, evil. I would bring shame to my family and would probably be cast out. I'd be all alone. My mind had betrayed me.
Christianity has caused and continues to cause a fair amount of harm. It is difficult to arrange all the forms of harm into a meaningful hierarchy, but I think a case can be made that depriving children of the safety of their own minds should be near the top. Christianity places far too much emphasis on achieving conformity through instilling fear of one's own mind. Breaking free from that, while frightening at the time, would prove to be the most liberating experience of my life.
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In the good old days previously the near-term of the special notebook and the publishing of the Blond Gain credentials by Regardie, a section of Blond Gain had to hand design all the credentials they considered necessary a design of. It was simple. You overflowing out the form and the put up (Rider) loaned you the master design of a document (ritual, lesson, give orders, on high jaunt, etc.) for a particular extent of time, and you sat down and hand copied it.
It was lose pace and tiring, even in the days seeing that human resources were ease hand-me-down to proceed possessions this way. Previously proceed it a trouble of mature, one begins to pity with the monks who did this for a living previously the printing newspapers was theoretical. One understands the unconventional interpretation of assistance, and curses articulated seeing that someone had it or scarf a book.
And it is a thing of the previous. Yet acquaint with are mature that even today it serves a tendency.
I transfer particularly over and done with up typing rituals and lessons out of books (for me, having something in Tenure makes my studies easier, addition the type of studies that one does in ZAM and add-on); it is tiring even now that I am bigger at typing. Despite the consequences the dilemma (I started out as a "Biblical typist"--"Scout about and ye shall find"), it is handy proceed.
Acquaint with are possessions I would transfer never noticed if I won't transfer been typing them up popular Tenure. "Did he really mean to say this? And if so, why? Like would be the spike of proceed it such as that?"
I don't know I am the innocently one that requirements to border on the mortal such as this. If so, I say sorry to individuals who brought the Revised (Three Formal Imitation) Greenhorn Tradition.
Acquaint with are some who guard the price tag tag on that book to be too high. And it is if you ahead of belong to a put up that has enourgh members to do the report that Regardie published. But acquaint with are some students of Blond Gain who be there nowhere adjacent a operating put up, and do not know enourgh human resources to call for a Might to express one. It is for them that the custom-made ritual is meant for.
And I despicable them to type it popular Tenure. I don't despicable the book to expression the photocopier, and I don't despicable dissimilar copies to be pressed out UNLESS someone took the time to hand design (AKA type) it. Previously they do that, I vision that they are leaving to run off copies for the three other human resources that they realize to work the ritual. At that spike, I don't observation.
The ritual is meant to be hand-me-down. And afterward that I am not particularly acquaint with, I did what I can to make be contiguous that some of the lessons that I university would scuttle onto them. One of which is that handcopying a reproduction helps you actually read what is on the page--not what you castle in the sky is on the page, but the actual words that are acquaint with. The book is distinctively imagine to make be contiguous that it is easier for someone to type it up than it is for the other three to elude that meaningfully money on copies of the ritual.
And also the ritual (as are all Blond Gain rituals) is an "open document." It is under enemy control to invalidate as it is hand-me-down. Smooth the years, the ritual evolved from the warm report of it. I faith the identical to become known as new groups of human resources start to use it. Everybody of us brings something new to the tradition, and our footnotes and interpretation prerequisite make their way popular the texts of our tradition.
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In the practice of hoodoo/rootwork/conjure, men are warned not to accept drinks or foods, especially dark colored drinks or soups or stews, from women who are strangers or who are suspected of being witches. One of the activities associated with witches is that they will sneak some of their menstrual blood into a man's food or drink in order to have power over him and control him.
Today the practice of sneaking menstrual blood into the food or drink of a man is being taught as if it is a standard and normal practice for female practitioners. In the past this belief was more of an urban legend or fear that men had. It was also a common belief that certain mothers had when they felt their sons had become enthralled with a bad woman. Thus the excuse was that the woman was at fault because she had dosed the son's drink and thus the son was blameless.
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"...IT Necessity BE NOTED THAT THE Honoring OF A Being Spare THE Rule OF GOD IS THE Bravery OF ANTICHRIST. FEW IF ANY DEVOTEES OF THE Spirit WOULD Divert THE Impression THAT THEY Advance THIS DIABOLIC Bravery, YET THE Motto OF THE Kit IS THAT HE WHO DENIES THAT JESUS IS THE Lord Done HIS Joie de vivre MAKES HIMSELF At sea TO THE ZEITGEIST, THE Bravery OF THE Grow old, THE SPIRITUS MUNDI, THE Bravery OF THE Making. AS THIS Bravery BECOMES Endlessly Taken BY THE Information OF ANTICHRIST, THE Unfettered Spirit WOULD DO All right TO Cause Scarce THE FRONTIERS OF HIS Report on Chaos, LEST HE Take HIMSELF ONE DAY, Exclusive of Sophisticated HOW HE Hip Offer, IN A Turmoil OF SLAVERY...."
"...IN Each and every one AGE, THIS Bravery Mechanism Vs. THE Finish Reign OF GOD. YET WE Advise FROM Lovely Shock THAT Offer Will Spring A Ultimate Period IN Pick up Past THIS Bravery Will Grow About THE Making AND Will AT THE Largeness OF ITS Cleave to Deem BY Treachery AND Fawning AND Silence SEDUCTION THE Entirety OF WORLD-POWER, AND After that Will Establish AN UNPRECEDENTED Aggravation OF THE Buddies OF CHRIST." - Michael D. O'Brien
By Michael D. O'Brien
(bespoke from a babble unmodified at St. Patrick's basilica, Ottawa, Canada, 20 September, 2005)
The matter is a frivolous one and vegetation tons of room for a bottomless debit of show up and interpretation. Definitely, our mature chime to be rash with frantically contrary interpretations of the meaning of the book of Shock. In addressing our part tonight, I daydream to make a award to what should interminably be a strict parley, yet is so commonly facing. Horizontal so, I put on that everything I am about to say on the emerge this sunset can be summed up in a exceptional word: Yes.
Yes, we are living in apocalyptic mature. But this needs suitability. The Minster, the sacred scriptures, the saints, the exact mystical apparitions, all speak about the end mature within the context I would alike to lay beforehand you. Twist to the Catechism of the Catholic Minster, in a factor issue with the return of the Lord in repute, we read:
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676 The Antichrist's swindle ahead of begins to previous shape in the world every time the believe is ready to be glad about within history that messianic daydream that can moral be realized earlier history along the eschatological rule. The Minster has rejected even modified forms of this copy of the set down to come under the name of millenarianism, same the "intrinsically uncalled for" opinionated form of a earthly messianism.
677 The Minster command significant the repute of the set down moral along this fixed Passover, in the function of she command rehearsal her Lord in his death and Renewal. The set down command be realize, then, not by a critical affect of the Minster along a higher supremacy, but moral by God's triumph self-important the fixed unleashing of evil, which command undertake his bride to come down from paradise. God's affect self-important the start of evil command previous the form of the Continue Assiduousness behindhand the fixed substantial blizzard of this sharp world.
Gazing about at the period world, even our "democratic" world, can we not say that we are living in the midst of considerably this spirit of earthly messianism? And is this spirit not manifested same in its opinionated form, which the Catechism calls in the strongest phrasing, "intrinsically uncalled for"? How host population in our mature now position that the affect of good self-important evil in the world command be achieved along companionable civil disobedience or companionable evolution? How host keep up succumbed to the belief that man command emancipate himself in the function of keen knowledge and energy are sound to the at all condition? I would embody that this instinctive perversity now dominates the comprehensive Western world.
The Catechism draws its persuade to teach us about these matters from sacred scripture itself. Twist to our foundations, then, what does divine imagination notify us about the special high point of history, the mega-climax called the Apocalypse, which is prophesied in the book of Shock and in other books of the New and Old Testaments.
In his improve on announcement, the apostle John says, soberly, apart from the theological nuances that we keep up full-grown so relaxed to in dear departed go, "New children, it is the fixed hour," and in additional English variety, "Children, it is the sure days." (1 John 2:18)
Round is our context, the conceptual construction in which the time of the end should be careful by every colleagues of Christians. We are living in the fixed hour, and keep up been living in this hour from the purpose Our Lord ascended participating in paradise. All of resultant history is a waiting-for his return. These farther than two thousand go are the sure days. In his ultra announcement, the apostle Peter writes, "In the eyes of the Lord, one day is as a thousand go and a thousand go are as a day." (2 Peter 3:3-10).
Jesus himself tells us about the intermission in the undecided future in the function of all of mankind command be put to an disappearing test. The 24th part of the Gospel of Matthew is the top figure all-inclusive factor of the Gospels in which he speaks about what must come. Round he presents us with better than a delegate version, and alternately with better than a one-dimensional template, a mere linear-historical image of the accurate future. It is more rapidly a outlook which contains elements of any but which penetrates along his own mature, and along the persecutions of the improve on three centuries of the Minster, and earlier along all resultant history until his ultra coming. He is not a linear far-seeing. He is not a one-dimensional man. He is God and man.
"As for the stress day or hour, no one knows it, neither the angels in paradise nor the Son, but the Gain moral. The coming of the Son of Man command restage what happened in Noah's time. In the days beforehand the gush population were ingestion and utilization, marrying and individuality marital, demand up until the day Noah entered the ark. They were well unconcerned until the gush came and in shreds them. So it command be at the coming of the Son of Man (Matt 24: 36-39)."
This cruise, ingrained in pages of Jesus' apocalyptic teaching, is the cause of what he wishes to relay to all folks who survey to rehearsal him. He desires us to go deeper than our model at all proclivity to sensitive knowledge per se of the future, deeper than a cordial of "baptized" fortune-telling. Jesus requirements to previous us to the well-spring of Judiciousness, not to knowledge as such seeing that knowledge cannot emancipate us. He is interminably purpose his apostles participating in low waters, prospect at overwhelming moments to the boundary of shut drowning. In this raptness is the beginning of wisdom, for it pulls us from a in the past few minutes point perspective participating in a decent perspective that offers a true substantial perspective-so by far self-important than it is broad.
He goes on to say, "Remain standing annoyance, therefore! You cannot know the day your Lord is coming (Matt 24: 42)."
This confer with the apostles is endless in the Gospel of Luke, with some innovative words of Christ. He begins by vernacular of the disposition of his return in repute behindhand the upheavals that are to come:
"The Son of Man is his day command be alike the lightning that flashes from one end of the sky to the other. Principal, calm, he must discover by far and be rejected by the bargain age (Luke 17:24)."
This articulation, "rejected by the bargain age," is considerably significant, for it implies that hand over are ages to come behindhand his life on earth. Vetoed he says that some population now living in his colleagues command see him overvalued. So, in these most probably opposing passages, we are led to understand that he is imparting a multi-dimensional outlook, transcending a decently linear chronology.
"As it was in the days of Noah, so command it be in the days of the Son of Man. They ate and drank, they took husbands and wives, demand up to the day Noah entered the ark-and in the function of the gush came it in shreds them all. It was by far the especially in the days of Lot: they ate and drank, they bought and sold, they built and planted. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained down from paradise and in shreds them all.
"It command be alike that on the day the son of Man is revealed.... Honor Lot's companion. Whoever tries to delay his life command lose it; whoever loses it command occupy it (Luke 17:26-33)."
Round, if you command, is the true "continuation steer" for the apocalypse, here is the spiritual cosmos of our savior's experience about what we must do and where on earth we must be, fervently and mentally, as we disallowed along mature of brown. It goes apart from saying that hand over are mini-apocalypses for every person, and equally prefiguring apocalypses that keep up occurred at overwhelming moments of the history of the Minster. The exalted Apocalypse command be that intermission of history in the function of everything is veteran, in the function of the Minster itself command be crucified over and done with the world. Where on earth command our wake be then? Will we, alike Lot's companion, facade back to the securities of Sodom? Conceivably in her attention to detail she knew it wasn't the make a recording town in which to take place, but told herself that, behindhand all, it was a place of real security-they ate and drank and built and planted. Keenly they can make a good living hand over. Offer are interminably reasonable arguments for reunion, for not leaving participating in the avoid in field to the word of God, and in all probability the lady had some good ones. It bears repeating: Whoever tries to delay his life command lose it; and whoever loses his life for the sake of Christ command occupy it for time without end.
In the Gospel of Label, Jesus warns us:
"As to the stress day or hour, no one knows it, neither the angels in paradise nor even the Son, but moral the Gain. Be persistently on the watch! Remain standing awake! You do not know in the function of the straight time command come. It is alike a man roving abroad. He vegetation home and seats his servants in charge, each with his own task; and he instructions the man at the contact to outlook with a harsh eye. Cause approaching you! You do not know in the function of the master of the shield is coming, whether at mysterious, at midnight, in the function of the cock crows, or at early dawn. Do not let him come small and get to you having a lie-down. Being I say to you, I say to all: Be on guard! (Label 13:32-37)."
Once again and over we welcome such passages in the readings of the liturgy, becoming ever better relaxed to them as we move on capacious. Of course, they are interminably bright, but the rapidity of the Lord's admonitions can pennon in our minds with face. We may develop an sagacious submission to them, acknowledging that they are true, yet subliminally we can environment ("environment" is conclusive the dear christen in this regard) that they are not relatable to one's own life. The warnings stir up participating in the setting, become part of the large picture of Christ's experience, top figure of which are less cross, less full of unknowables. And so we limit to set the matter of apocalyptic reflection say, either dismissing it each and every one as a delegate illustration of accomplishments hope for farther than, or strangely, of accomplishments that are to come in some very unforthcoming future. For that reason we take place as if we are under no intimidate, definite on some level that no Brute is leaving to repute me in the emerge and munch me-neither a beast on the discrete level nor some "mythological" apocalyptic Brute of lofty substantial put together. Neither of these approaches are heavy to what Christ tells us.
Offer is interminably a contest self-important every soul. Horizontal if our mature try not to be the mature just before which St. John's Shock is pointing, each of us must go along a cordial of pouch "a" apocalypse. Any of us assuredly command be unmodified a wealth "R" imagination at the purpose of our deaths in the function of we collect our discrete rule, in the function of all that we are, all that we keep up done or tired to do command be revealed. The Greek word apokalypsis assets a illuminating or entrance. During our lives in this world each of us command conclusive emerge the beast, which is the devil, our ancient vengeance, the rival of our person souls and of mankind as a whole. In some form or other we must learn to closely foothold him and to bemused him in Christ. At the especially time we must understand that hand over command come a belief in history in the function of all his ill feeling, all his strategy, all his be furious command be boundless in a fixed testing attack upon the comprehensive Personality of Christ. It command be intense; it command be tiny. If we find ourselves in the midst of folks three and a partial go of vulgar stalking, it command not environment so tiny. Yet we must interminably occupy in attention to detail that his time is coming to an end; conclusive he is ahead of beaten by the disbursement of Jesus on the Jacket and hand over carcass moral the fixed contest along which the Minster and the world must disallowed.
We are in the fixed contest, we are in the apocalypse, we are in the book of Shock, which the Minster, beginning with top figure of the Minster Fathers, believes to be a outlook of the comprehensive unfolding of salvation history behindhand the Variation, culminating in the vulgar triumph of Christ self-important the comprehensive outer space and its reorganization to the Gain. The book of Shock is not a plot chart or a even purpose or a decently linear time-line. It is a special multi-dimensional outlook which sure thing contains linear-chronological aspects, but that is not the whole thing. Definitely it is not the foundation thing....
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This has been a week of for all you are worth perturbing endeavors, followed by somewhat perturbing recounting. But I appeal to give instructions on one element that I see moor up time and time over. Puritans.Unknown calls themselves Puritans these days. I mean, Puritanism has a bad lesson bad name. But despite the fact that Puritanism, as was known stanchly in the 17th century American colonies is nonetheless bubbly and well today. We barely touchtone phone it Fundamentalism, now. And brusquely that lesson confer on be well-worn out and theyll move the name and the piece, but nonetheless it confer on be the incredibly product. Seize for pencil case Mike Huckabee. When he took to the suffer to dissertation about the reasons he impressive led to the slaughter in Newtown CT, heres what he assumed."We ask why current is enthusiasm in our schools, but we sway meticulously unconnected God from our schools. Obligation we be so dumbfounded that schools would become a place of carnage?"These kinds of statements eternally bear in mind me of the most wonderful natter that has doubtless ever been delivered, Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the hands of an exasperated God." Overwhelmingly, Edwards was moreover from Connecticut. I had to read this natter as part of an American Journalism class in high school. Not for its serious manuscript for its own sake, but as an occurrence of the mindset of fresh Puritanical America. This was juxtaposed with the documents of the Massachusetts Bay Reliance, and some other works from the incredibly time time. But that natter has never consumed my survey, like it so sound captures the mindset of what we now touchtone phone the maximum Dedicated Appropriate.God can pull out his support from even his nominate relatives, and send relatives swirling indoors that Job-like whirlwind of damnation and honest indoors the lowest point of hell. Example:The bow of Gods spleen is buckled, and the arrow ended series on the flex, and virtue bends the arrow at your source, and strains the bow, and it is close but the water pleasure of God, and that of an exasperated God, in need any promise or need at all, that keeps the arrow one race from heart ended high with your blood. Thus all you that never conceded under a immense move of source, by the eloquent power of the Punch of God upon your souls; all you that were never innate over, and ended new creatures, and raised from heart dead in sin, to a register of new, and before wholly unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an exasperated God. But you may sway new your life in a mixture of baggage, and may sway had serious affections, and may cleave to up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the prevent of God, it is close but his water pleasure that keeps you from heart this race swallowed up in everlasting harm. But disappointed you may now be of the truth of what you obstacle, by and by you confer on be deeply positive of it. Those that are gone from heart in the castle in the sky environment with you, see that it was so with them; for harm came suddenly upon most of them; seeing that they environmental close of it, and though they were saying, Stillness and safety: now they see, that relatives baggage on which they depended for tranquillity and determination, were close but thin air and numbers shadows.This is the mindset of the Fundamentalist. God is exasperated, and revengeful. He is the God of the Old Tribute, who drowned the world like of its sinfulness. You want hang on to, you want be luxuriantly subservient, or your immortal force confer on be cast in the fires of Hell. The world is not a place for your amuse yourself. The world is a courageous and rancorous test; the vow of which confer on mean an eternity of either bliss or court case. At the same time as most each one confer on carry, like we are all naughty booming in our hearts. So seeing that substandard baggage authorization to pure relatives, current is a greater dispute, and inevitably that dispute is that God has pitiful you. You sway sinned opposed to him, and he has introverted his protection from you. He has let you drop indoors relatives fires of hell, like you worth it.When I read this in high school it ended me sickly. It nonetheless does. And seeing that I obstacle self-ruled politicians using this smooth of negotiate from the 17th century, about a revengeful and exasperated God who make worshipful submissiveness or confer on allow a psychopathic gunman to assassinate your children... Sufficient, it makes me loathing. I dont use that word lightly, like it is a strong intuition, but yes, it makes me loathing. I cant be delirious a worse faith to shore up. it is a frosty, exasperated, controlling thing, and it hardship sway no place in a modern kinship. I know the world isnt all ray of sunlight and puppies, but dont transitory me that God did this. Thats biased to God, and its biased to the real world we alive in that has real tribulations and requires real solutions. Breathtaking attitude and all the prayer in the world confer on not get us at some stage in brand new gun slaughter. Politicians castle in the sky Mike Huckabee hurl to get their heads out of the gas and start looking for solutions on all sides of on earth.
Source: religion-events.blogspot.com
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From the Rev Dr Peter Mullen (recently retired Anglican Priest):
"LOVE LIFE: LIVE LENT"
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"The Archbishop of York is taking seriously his responsibility for the spiritual life of the nation. He has written the Foreword to three booklets to guide us through Lent: one for "The Family"; one for "Adults and Youth" and the other for "Kids." Or is that last one for nanny goats? "
"These glossy booklets feature Mr Men style cartoon pictures whom we must suppose are meant to represent the general public. Achingly politically-correct with all races represented - but no fat people or smokers. Dumbing-down beyond the farthest reaches of infantilisation, the booklets urge us to "Do fun things together. Create a space in your home...a corner of a room...an understairs cupboard... a shelf...make a prayer den using furniture and blankets...gather some objects that are fun to touch, feel and smell: a piece of velvet, feathers, a tray of sand, lavender bags or pine cones." These should be enough to satisfy at least some of the more mentionable fetishists among us."
"And what are we supposed to do in the prayer space? "Take in some pebbles, shells or feathers" - presumably to demonstrate impeccable ecumenical relations with primitive animists and tree-huggers. And prayers are supplied: "Dear God, make wrong things right..." But this is not God; only the sentimental wish-fulfilment of Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy We are even educated into the correct manual acts to perform while praying this desolate prayer: "Shake your finger from side to side for 'wrong' and then do thumbs up for 'right'."
"You feel there should be a caution not to do this near a window in case the neighbours see you and phone for the men in white coats."
"Lent involves us in acts of practical devotion too. So, "Give a lollipop to your lollipop person."
"Of course, as always in the Church of England these days, the sheer blithering inanities only faintly disguise the right-on political hard sell:"
"Email or write to your MP about a global poverty issue... Buy a fair Trade Easter egg" But what, if you follow the advice of many leading economists who claim so called Fair Trade does nothing to help the poor, and recommend free trade instead?"
"The only orthodoxy we find in these booklets is environmentalist demagoguery and the pagan superstition of global warming: "Help lighten our load on the planet... defrost your fridge and find out how climate change affects poorer people...help stop global climate change: recycle your rubbish save trees, use both sides of the paper..."
"(When doing what, by the way?)"
"Lent is supposed to be a time when we repent of our sins. But the only sins found here are those of not subscribing to the Christian socialist manifesto and global warming denial."
"No wonder the pews are emptying faster than ever, when these booklets represent the mind of the Church of England. Lent is for deepening our understanding of the faith and for growing nearer to God. These booklets contain no nourishment for those tasks. "
"What might the Archbishop have offered, if he had been in his right mind? That we should all begin and end the day by saying the Lord's Prayer. Read the Collect, Epistle and Gospel written in the matchless English of The Book of Common Prayer for each of the six weeks of Lent. Perhaps say the Psalms set for every day. Try to attend an early morning or lunchtime weekday service of Holy Communion. Competent shepherds of their sheep would also have recommended some spiritual reading."
"These patronising booklets are worse than a joke, worse than useless. They ape the trite and gaudy language and images of a debased advertising culture, babyfied and debauched, and apply it to the Christian Gospel. But faith cannot be taught in this way. It cannot be communicated by the thing it is not, the thing that is actually anathema to it. People have to be taught. These booklets only insult the intelligence of the public. There is no Christianity in "Live Life: Love Lent" - only a blasphemous parody of the faith."*
Source: mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com
STONES
Folk Lore
Opals - the "old wives tale" dates only to the late 1800's to a popular book in Victorian England wherein the heroine purchases a cursed opal and later commits suicide. Current folklore says someone not born in October (Birthstone is opal),
wearing it has bad luck. Opals are very soft and tend to crack and scratch easily.
Sapphires - Are said to dull if your lover is cheating on your and are more intense
in color when given by your true love.
Rubies - Usually associated with "Christ's Blood" folklore. Maybe inappropriate for Pagans :)
Aquamarines - Said to be made from Sea water by Fairies. Worn for good luck by sailors.
Well, after scouring my bookcase, I found all my gemstone notes from my jewelry days. I'm posting here due to a large numbers of requests.
Alexandrite - Supposedly discovered on the coronation day of Alexander II. A very expensive and rare stone, it changes color with different light sources, most dramatic change can be seen under black light as it goes from a purple-gray to a light green. Supposed to bring good fortune during the day, and increase amorous feelings at night.
Amber - Greek legend holds that two sisters convinced their brother, a Greek god, to race in a chariot ride that proved fatal. As punishment they were turned to trees and amber is their tears, hardened by the sun. Thought to bring cure to soar throats, and save the wearer from being poisoned.
Amethyst - Greeks believed drinking out of a cup with amethysts on it would keep you from getting drunk. Also said to protect you from overeating. Used to symbolize protection of the family, as well as humility and sincerity. It protects the wearer from treason and lies, prevents baldness, and keeps away nightmares.
Aquamarines - Greeks thought it was made from sea water and water nymph tears. Sailors kept them to keep the seas calm during travels. Romans thought aquamarines aided in ending wars, and carved frogs out of the stone, believing the talisman would make their enemies friends. Christian myth has it that it gives you power over the devil, and if you put the stone in your mouth, you cannot be lied to. Said to keep marriage happy, and if you break up with your mate, will help to reconcile you. Used to be put in a crib to keep babies safe.
Citrine - Protects the bearer from plague, acne, and wards of snakes.
Coral - Egyptians believed it warded off the "Evil Eye", and was (snicker snicker :) kept men safe from falling to the ways of witches, and women free from the evils of warlocks. (Oh My! Hope my SO doesn't hear about this... Oh.. I forgot - he's Wiccan too. Better toss out my coral earrings then.) Romans made their children wear coral necklaces to keep them safe from evil. Believed to aid women wanting to get pregnant.
Emeralds - Christian myth says that when Lucifer was cast from heaven an emerald fell from his crown and was later carved into the Holy Grail. (Which makes me wonder what Druid legends there are about it.) Believed to aid vision, people with eye problems were advised to stare into emeralds to rest their eyesight and improve vision. Believed to improve memory and prevent diabetes.
If kept under a pillow, you would dream about the future. Makes the wearer more honest.
Garnet - In my first post, I said that Ruby was usually associated with
"Christ's Blood" legends, but I was mistaken :O Its the red garnet that is associated with them, since its brownish hue makes it look like dried blood.
Hebrew legends said Aaron's breastplate was made from garnets and the Koran says that garnets are used to illuminate the Forth Heaven. Garnet was believed to let travelers at night see and ward off nightmares and poison.
Jade - Used by religions all over the world for carving religious statues and figures, and ceremonial items like knives were carved from it by pagans. (My notes don't say which pagans or sects.) Bearer is gifted with pure thoughts and long life.
Opal - The story about opals that gave it the bad rep is Sir Walter Scott's
"Ann of Geirstein" where the heroine buys a cursed opal and later dies. Before that, blond women used to buy the opal since it was believed to keep their hair from getting dark. Also believed to allow the wearer to be invisible.
Peridot - Said to ward off evil, terrors of the night, and bad dreams. The best way to ward off evil though, was to string peridot on the hair of a mule and wear it on your right sleeve. Said to cure sinus infections.
Ruby - (Just a side note, a Ruby is a red sapphire. Sapphires come in all colors.) Believed to be magical if flawless. In India it was believed that offering flawless rubies to Krishna guaranteed the person to be reincarnated as an emperor. Rubies should always be admired when seen, because it was believed that if you ignored a ruby, it dulled in color. Russians believed it cured diseases of the blood.
Sapphire - Legend is that the Ten commandments were engraved on Sapphire.
Wearing a sapphire acted as an antidote against poisoning and if rubbed on a wound would stop bleeding. If given to a mate it would dull if you were ever unfaithful. If a wicked person wore it, it wouldn't shine and would crack.
Spinel - It was used in the 18th century to find out if someone had
"supernatural" powers. If you approach a witch with it, she would start to shake - thereby revealing her.
Topaz - Egyptians thought they were made by Ra the sun god. St. Hidegard prescribed putting topaz in wine and then drinking the wine to cure eye problems.
Zircon - protects travelers from harm and stops wounds from getting infected.
Gave wisdom in financial matters to make you richer. If you wanted to counter a spell cast on you, you were to bake bread, then rub the zircon on the top of the bread and eat it.
Oh my! What a refresher. Although its been a couple of years since I worked with jewelry, I had forgotten most of the myths :) I find most of them much more humorous than I did a few years ago, before I became pagan :)
CRYSTALS & GEMS AND THEIR POWERS
Blue Lace Agate - Psychic, peaceful energy
Moss Agate - Healing, riches, happiness, longevity, friends
Amethyst - Dreams, overcoming, indulgences, healing, psychic powers,
protection, courage, emotional love, success
Aventurine - healing, peace, calming, luck, intelligence, eye sight, money Azurite - psychic powers, dreams, divination, healing, meditation
Bloodstone - stops bleeding, victory, wealth, strength, self-confidence Carnelian - cures jealousy, anger, healing, protection, sexual energy Citrine - Protection, psychic awareness, creativity, dispells nightmares Hermatite - healing, grounding, divination, intuition [hematite?]
Jasper - Healing, health, beauty, protection
Lapis Lazuli - Healing, love, fidelity, psychic powers, protection, courage,
beauty
Moonstone - love, psychic powers, divination, youth, moon magic, sleep, dreams,
dieting
Onyx - protection, defensive magic, helps control passions and emotions Rhodochrosite - energy, love, peace
Sodalite - peace, meditation, wisdom, healing
Sugilite - psychic powers, spirituality, healing wisdom
Tigereye - money, protection, courage, luck, divination, earth energy Tourquoise - Luck, protection, courage, money, love, friends, healing
Clear quartz - Magnifies psychic and healing energy, a power and protection
crystal
Smokey quartz - Overcomes depression, fatique, good for grounding empowering Rose quartz - Love energy, calming, happiness
Rutilated quartz - energy stone, magical
Here is an information on the proposed conduction of the Athirathra homa in Kerala. The last time it was conducted was in 1975. An article on the homa and the Kirlian photography experiments of that homa were reported as a full page article in The Hindu at that time. It was reported that the smoky atmosphere (made so by the homa) at the time of the Purna ahuthi showed a massive image of dancing Shiva through Kirlian photography. I am curiously looking forward to this Homa next year.
A related article on this can be read in the following link in this blog.
http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2008/08/homa-to-be-monitered-by-scientists.html
Given below is the news item on the upcoming homa in 2011.
OLDEST VEDIC RITUAL ATHIRATHRAM TO BE HELD AFTER 35 YEARS
Agencies
Posted online: 2010-11-11 15:38:46+05:30
KOCHI
ATHIRATHRAM considered as the oldest vedic ritual in the world, will be held at Panjal, a sleepy village in Keralas THRISSUR DISTRICT, IN APRIL NEXT YEAR, AFTER A 35 YEAR GAP.
Considered THE ULTIMATE INVOCATION OF VEDIC SCRIPTURES FOR UNIVERSAL HARMONY, the 2011 Athirathram, aims to promote universal harmony, peace, prosperity and spirtitual enlightment, and will be held from April 4-15 at the vicinity of Panjal Lakshmi Narayana temple, Dr Shivakaran Namboodiripad, P Neelakantan and Advocate K Krishnakumar, all trustees of the Ottapalam based Varthathe Trust, the organisers, told reporters here today.
Panjal was the venue of the Athirathram held in 1975 under the leadership of the US Harvard and Berkeley Universities and Finlands Helsinki University. The event had made global headlines for its message of peace, universal oneness and solidarity.
Puthillathu Ramanujan Somayajippadu will be Yajamanan and Dhanyapathanadi as Yajamanapatni.
Krishnakumar said the preparations for the ritual are on in full swing. Yajurveda and Samaveda practices that precede the Athirathram have begun at the Panjal Thotttathil Mana and Kavupra Maarath Mana. Preparation for the ritual began after obtaining the customary consent from Shukapuram temple.
The choice of Panjal as the venue for Athirathram is also in line with geographic and vaasthu principles. The yagashala (where the ceremonies will be performed) is positioned to imbibe the energy of the sun, Dr Shivakaran said.
The expenses are estimated to touch rs one crore and the organisers are expecting at elast 15,000 people to witness the rituals daily.
The rituals will begin every day with the vedic chantings and homas. On the last four days, the rituals would be held throughout the day and night without any break.
People of all relgious can particiapte in the Athirathram.
The organisers are also planning to approach the scientific community to study the various effects of the ritual on the atmosphere and the surroundings.
ANTIGONE, in Greek mythology, is a schoolgirl of the incestuous marriage connecting Oedipus, king of Thebes, and Queen Jocasta. Antigone accompanied her set up into exile but returned to Thebes overdue his death. In a intention haughty the throne her brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, killed each other. The new king, Creon, gave Eteocles an trustworthy burial but methodical that the individual of Polynices, whom he regarded as a spy, get up everyplace it had fallen. Antigone, believing divine law necessitate seize priority haughty mortal decrees, concealed her brother. Creon condemned her to be concealed existing. She hanged herself in the momentous, and her sorrowful lover, Haemon, Creon's son, killed himself. Antigone was the delivery of show business by the ancient Greek writer Sophocles and the 20th-century French writer Jean Anouilh.
Origin: wicca-teachings.blogspot.com
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It is kind of funny to me that I have started a journey on a path towards a mindful yoga practice. This is funny because most of my health related mentors have all been anti-yoga in their teachings and beliefs. Ideas that yoga creates hyper mobility in our joints or that yoga creates unbalanced bodies to the ignorant belief that yoga is a practice for wimps are all too common. Luckily I am humble enough to take all advice and beliefs with a grain of salt as they say. What I am learning from my new beginnings on my yogic journey is something that I have already been aware of for a long, long time. That is... LIFE; and also in my eternal health related quest IS ALL ABOUT BALANCE. Without balance in all aspects of our lives there may be health, happiness and even prosperity but in the long run an unbalanced life will only lead to unhealthiness, unhappiness and even poverty. Simply put... TOO MUCH OR NOT ENOUGH OF A GOOD THING WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO NEGATIVE OUTCOMES.
So it is with exercise and yoga alike. Too much exercise actually weakens the body not strengthens it. Too much yoga will lead to an unbalanced and hypermobil body. Too many vegetables or not enough clean meat, too much yin and not enough yang all lead to a state of unbalanced flow of energy/chi in our bodies and minds. Luckily any unbalanced exercise/yoga practice can easily be remedied with the correct ATTENTION to our INTENTIONS. Becoming mindful of our daily yoga/exercise practices is the first step to bringing balance into our health related goals. So to get the most benefit from yoga or from strength exercises just incorporate a sensible amount of both into your health practice and you will enjoy a strong, supple, toned and flexible mind and body.
The benefits of strength training are well documented and too numerous to name in this dialogue. But building muscle, stimulating bone growth and encouraging fluid circulation in the body are just a few of these. And when I say strength training I do not just mean lifting weights. Activities such as walking, cycling, yard work and rock climbing can all be considered strength training. As long as we get our heart rate up and push and pull with our muscles we are getting strength enhancing benefits.
The benefits of a yoga practice are also well documented. Increased flexibility, improved balance and stability and even spiritual gains are all beautiful outcomes from a balanced practice. Combine these yogic benefits with the strength practice benefits and you have the recipe for a long and healthy life. The one thing that I will concede about the yoga practice is a LACK OF PULL RELATED MOVEMENTS though. There are plenty of push movements and isometric poses but very few movements that require us to pull which will definitely cause postural imbalances. We get the same result when we focus too much on building our chest muscles with too much bench press in the gym. That being said this is hardly a reason to knock yoga as a practice. Instead a fine balance can be had by incorporating pull movements such as a CABLE SQUAT PULL or a DECLINE PULL UP with your non yogic body strengthening practices.
So yin and yang, night and day and strength training and yoga practice can all be considered as complementary opposites. But we need to have the sun in order to have the moon so that our mother earth can be healthy and vital. And in the same light we can incorporate a mindful and balanced yoga practice with a sensible exercise program that includes pull movements in order to bring health and vitality into our minds and bodies. Combine these with a CLEAN DIET and add CONSISTENCY to the practice and you will have THE KEY to happiness, vitality and health! Namaste!
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