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Each of the 4 elements in real magic have their own correspondences. In elemental magic these correspondences include:
* direction
* tool
* elemental spirit
* part of person
* direction of view
* colors
* spiritual aspect
The element fire is any energy, including kinetic energy, which is the force inherent in anything moving. In other words anything that is moving or has movement has fire energy. The colors associated with fire energy are:
SUN YELLOW - Affects spirit's vitality and alertness. If feeling spiritually groggy, take on more sun yellow. If feel too excited then dump sun yellow. You can give sun yellow to anyone at anytime safely and it is the one color that you don't have to have their permission to give because it does not negatively affect the person's ability to make choices. If someone is losing life force, sun yellow is a great color to give them.
YELLOW ORANGE - Affects the spirit and physical neural system. This is the color of the energy of reaction. Using this color by either adding more or taking some away can speed up or slow down a person's level of reactivity. Too much yellow orange can make a person jittery, anxious, nervous, jumpy or cranky. Fear is generally a mental-neural phenomenon associated with yellow orange. Conditions resulting from too much yellow orange energy will not have fever or body flushing. That will fall in the category of Red Orange.
RED ORANGE - Affects the physical neural system and body metabolism. It is similar to Yellow Orange but more physical, more related to the body. Red orange is the color of pain, anger, or fever.
BRIGHT RED - Affects the body's metabolism and temperature and is not related to the neural system at all. Bright red cannot make you angry or irritable. It can be used to raise body temperature to a high level without hurting it or damaging the nervous system. This can be done for a person who is drunk for example, to burn the alcohol out of their system. Increasing bright red is also a way to lose weight by getting rid of hard fats (with soft fats you also have to dump water energy).
DEEP RED/RED PURPLE - Affects the circulatory and glandular systems and fluids, but not the body's metabolism or burning rate. It can be used to boost passion and sexual arousal. It is also a good choice to use with frostbite to safely raise the temperature of the blood without damaging body tissue.
ELECTRIC BLUE - Has all the bands of color in it, much the same as what many refer to as "white light". It is the color at the bottom of every flame and is the driving force of the Universe. It can be used with a variety of techniques for things such as protection, blasting objects to unkey them and sweeping the body in healing work.
Some conditions are a mix of more than one fire color or fire and another energy color. For example, pain or muscle cramps are somewhere between yellow orange and red orange. Pink is a fire energy with a lot of air energy and is a sedative or relaxing.
Beginning practitioners of real magic should use caution when dealing with fire energies and should not adjust balances on others until they have mastered manipulating their own fire balances. In working with fire, as in working with all the elements, take your time, think it through and do it right. You are literally playing with fire.
To learn more about elemental magic, using the fire element and all the other elements, see the Basic Magic Level I online course.
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H"OH at site of future 'Asatr'u temple in Reykjav'ik - June 26, 2010
KS - Your role as allsherjargodi seems quite different from that of other religious leaders in the western world. You do not set or enforce doctrine, and you do not define a specific theology. How would you describe your role?
H"OH - This is a good thing about polytheism versus monotheism. Monotheism is one truth for the masses, but polytheism is many truths for the individual. In a way, it's just turning the tables. Basically, you can believe in whatever god or goddess you would like at any given time. You may have a need for Freya on Monday morning, and Thor may be absolutely essential for you on Tuesday afternoon. Nobody can teach you. You have to find it yourself.
I think my role is to teach people respect for this wonderful heritage that we have, [which is] hauntingly simple but still a really workable way of behaving and ethics. I think the "H'avam'al" has a "lot" of teachings that are as essential now as they were a thousand years ago. It's analogous to the "Analects" of Confucius in China, which are still the best precepts you can use to live by.
We don't have a revealed truth. It's not a revealed religion. We don't have the final truth hewn in stone like in Judaism and Christianity and, later, Islam. It's more up to "us", really.
KS - I recently read a description of the four men who founded the 'Asatr'uarf'elagid as a poet, a hippie, a theosophist and a N'yallist. Do you think that these elements are reflected in the organization today?
H"OH - I think it's evolved. Things even evolved a lot with Sveinbj"orn [Beinteinsson, allsherjargodi 1972-1993]. Of course, J"ormundur Ingi [Hansen, allsherjargodi 1994-2002] was a very important person, as well. J"ormundur was very good with the press. Press interest was far out of proportion with our membership in the earlier days. I joined eleven months after they got legally recognized. I was member number thirty-six. I was just waiting two years for my first bl'ot - we weren't really doing it. Me and Halld'or Bragason - who's now part of the board of directors - we were the "youth movement" of the society for many years. Ha!
Sveinbj"orn actually said that his idea of founding [the 'Asatr'uarf'elagid] - he'd been thinking about it since the early 1960s. He thought to himself, "This is my path. This is what I believe in." Then, around 1970, we had these so-called Children of God that came to Iceland. This was a Christian sect founded by a man who called himself Moses David, who was a very strange character - a very sick character, it came out later. He sent out young people to hand out leaflets and say, "Come back to Jesus" and stuff like that. Sveinbj"orn was looking at this and saying, "Why do we have these young foreigners coming to tell us to go to Jesus? Why can't we just say to them, 'Go back to Thor and Odin'?" That was, in a way, an inspiration for him.
N'yall was a theory from a strange series of books by this Icelandic geologist called Helgi Pjeturss, who was also mad. Ha! Totally mad, actually. When you come to my place, I'll have to show you his copy of the Eddic poems, because he's done some really strange things in his marginalia. Helgi was an extremely brilliant person who wrote probably the best Icelandic prose of everybody. Halld'or Kiljan Laxness - our Nobel Prize winner - says his writing is absolutely "fantastic". He actually uses him as a character in one of his books.
Helgi had this idea that, while we're asleep, we're actually living somebody else's life on another planet, so what we dream is our life on another planet. There's been this whole society of people who have been meeting for decades now. A lot of them come from the Borgarfj"ordur area where Sveinbj"orn was brought up. Now it's a dwindling society - which is a shame, because it's wonderfully eccentric. They used to have these s'eances every Thursday where they would contact the Crab Nebula and speak to Dr. Helgi, who was there teaching Icelandic. One of the teachings is that Icelandic is the most perfect language in the world, so they're teaching it all through the Milky Way galaxy.
It was really nice. I went there once and a medium was saying, "Thor here and Helgi here and Egill Skallagr'imsson here." It's fantastic. What I always found amazing was that this woman who was the medium would be with them on Thursdays, and on Saturdays she'd be at the National Spiritualist Society, and she would be contacting the other shore, in spiritualistic parlance.
Detail of Beinteinsson memorial in Reykjav'ik - June 26, 2010
KS - Sveinbj"orn Beinteinsson said that one of the impulses to start the 'Asatr'uarf'elagid came from "the desire that Icelanders could have their own faith - and nourish it no less than imported religions."
H"OH - Yes.
KS - This must have to do with the time of the Children of God.
H"OH - Yes.
KS - Do you feel that 'Asatr'u - as practiced in Iceland - is a specifically Icelandic national movement based on the "Eddas" and sagas, or do you think that it is fundamentally connected to the German worship of Wodan and Donar, the English worship of Woden and Thunor, and the other forms of paganism that existed in northern Europe as a pre-Christian, pan-Germanic religion?
H"OH - This is how it ended up in Iceland. We know that a lot of the heroic poems were recited all over northern Europe, and we have runestones showing Sigurd and the dragon. A lot of these stories were universal. The Wessobrunn Prayer - an old German prayer that we know - uses lines from "V"olusp'a": "ero ni uuas no ufhimil" ["earth was nowhere nor the sky above"]. There are variants found in Heliand, rune stones in Sweden and the runestaff in Ribe in Denmark - which shows that this phraseology and these ideas [were widely dispersed].
We know that lots of these ideas - and maybe some of the poems - were known in northern Europe. We have a lot of place names in Sweden which show us the god Ullr. We know really nothing about him except that there's a kenning for a shield called "Ullar skip" ["Ullr's ship"] in Icelandic - also "Ullar askur" and "Ullar sundvigg". He seems to have been worshiped in certain areas in Sweden. We know that there were a lot of deities written down here with little or no stories attached to them, but there are some place names in Norway and Sweden and even Denmark which show that their worship was probably bigger there than here.
In that sense, it "is" a religion that was practiced all over northern Europe. Sadly enough, there's so "little" to go on, most of the sources having disappeared. We have a small section of the Merseburg prayer in German which is referring to Odin, and we have a runic inscription talking about Logathore and stuff like that. There are little references, but it's more productive if we look at some of our sister religions like the old Persian religions, which have a similar creation myth with Ymir being Yima - and Yama/Yami in Hinduism.
Also, in Hinduism, we have Indra - who is a cognate with Thor in Indo-European - who was a dragon-slayer. It's also good to look at some of these connections. Hinduism moves into Buddhism, which is sort of a protestant movement within Hinduism, at one stage. Of course, it turns into something else. It's a nice way of looking at some of the sayings and some of the thought that we have.
Tibetan Buddhism is a fusion between the native B"onpo religion - which is a native shamanistic tradition - and the incoming Buddhism. There, we have a lot of nature deities which are quite similar to the vaettir that we have. We have dakinis riding on horses and picking up the dead people in Tibetan Buddhism, so it's very close to our valkyries and stuff like that. There are a lot of connections you can explore to deepen your understanding of what we have here.
KS - Do you think the development of what is now called 'Asatr'u was influenced by Norse contact with Lapp shamanism?
H"OH - I think there is a big connection with the Saami traditions. Lapp is a derogatory term; they would like to call themselves Saami. Lapp is someone who is wearing really patchy clothes. It's a Swedish term. "Leppur" in Icelandic has a similar meaning - terrible clothes.
There's a wonderful book written by Hermann P'alsson taking up a lot of these stories about our connection with Finland and Finnmark, which is in northern Norway. He's showing that there was some intermarrying with people from there. A lot of the older stories about magic and the practice of magic seem to be connected with the Finns.
One of our oldest and most beautiful odes - and ode that we still use in the 'Asatr'u society - is an ode called "Tryggdam'al". You find it in "Grettis Saga" (in a corrupt form) and you find it in "Stadarh'olsb'ok" and you find it in "J'onsb'ok". It's an ode talking about [how] you will keep your word as long as the earth revolves, snow falls, a ship sails, and a Finn skis.
First comes the Oath ("I will be steadfast..."), then a rough translation would be:
While fire burns,
Hilmarsson in Reykjav'ik - June 26, 2010
Earth is fertile,
A child (which can speak) calls upon its mother
And mother gives birth to her offspring,
Men light fires,
A ship glides,
Shields flash,
Sun shines,
Snow falls,
The Finn skis,
Fir grows,
The falcon flies
On a spring day,
The breeze carries him
Under both wings,
The heavens revolve,
The world is settled,
Wind blows,
Waters fall into the ocean,
Men sow their seeds (of corn).
So when you're talking about the eternal things - things that will go on eternally - it shows you that people have actually thought highly of [the Finns].
KS - Dagur Thorleifsson described 'Asatr'u as a movement back to nature and away from the negative aspects of industrial civilization. This reminded me of the Nature Boys, the German and German-American proto-hippies that inspired Hermann Hesse. Do you know if there was any exchange of these sorts of ideas between Iceland and Germany in the early twentieth century?
H"OH - That's a funny thing, because you had the hippie movement in Germany around the turn of the century and even earlier. You had the artist colony in Monte Verit`a ["mountain of truth"], as they called it, where you had all the nudists and the freethinkers and the homeopaths and all the people who were into eastern religions and stuff like that.
I've been trying to trace "some" connection. There may be a slight connection, because Helgi Pjeturss' sister was married to a German nobleman who was intimately connected with the Nietzsche family and a lot of radicals. Helgi corresponded a lot with some strange people - both in Germany and England at the time. When he couldn't find a publisher for some of his stuff, it was being published by "The Occult Review" in the 1920s and '30s in England. I think it's safe to assume that Helgi, in his time, was in touch with some of these strange people, but I don't think there was a direct influence on anything with the 'Asatr'u society early on.
KS - The Icelandic Lutheran Bishop Sigurbj"orn Einarsson was a N'yallist and a pagan in his youth, but he became an adamant public opponent of the 'Asatr'uarf'elagid being granted government recognition as a religious organization in the early 1970s. How is the relationship today between the 'Asatr'uarf'elagid and other religious groups in Iceland?
H"OH - It's pretty good, actually. We had some strange years around the year 2000 when there was the millennium celebration of Christianity in Iceland and our poor bishop - who is a son of Sigurbj"orn, Karl Sigurbj"ornsson - he made an ass of himself, to speak bluntly, in the way he tried to treat us. It came out really badly, and public sympathy shifted. This is when the first flux of people started to join the 'Asatr'u society.
KS - That's when the membership went up?
H"OH - Yes. So we are really grateful for that. Ha! He was a bit paranoid about us for some time, but now everything is very cordial between us. We are in good contact.
Also, we are part of an inter-religious group that meets up and talks about ethics and how we can prevent hatred between different religious groups. I've done co-religious ceremonies with many priests from the state Lutheran church, and also I've done some ceremonies together with the Free Lutheran Church, which split from the state Lutheran church. That took place in 1899, if I remember right. They are the largest denomination outside of the state Lutheran church - about 8,000 people, I think. We've been basically trying to build bridges, rather than to build walls.
KS - American 'Asatr'u groups seem determined to create their own version of the Catholic Church.
H"OH - Yes.
KS - They have the Nine Noble Virtues instead of the Ten Commandments, and they have standardized beliefs and ritual practices. You can order their instruction manuals in paperback on Amazon and learn how exactly how to be a pagan in ten easy steps.
H"OH - Yes.
KS - When I visited with the members of the 'Asatr'uarf'elagid here in Reykjav'ik, there was a great diversity of beliefs and difference of interpretation among the members. Do you think that this diversity of beliefs and lack of standard dogma is an inheritance from Iceland's independently-minded settlers of the saga period, or is it a reflection of the difference in spiritual attitudes between the post-religious European mindset and the evangelical American idea of true belief?
H"OH - If you look at the way that people looked at the gods - they could mock their gods, like in "Lokasenna", where they are making "huge" fun of the gods and Loki's talking about Odin being a cross-dresser banging a drum and probably f**king some males, as some say. It's total irreverence. At the same time, people felt "good" about their gods. They were their friends. They're not the Other - they're not different from us.
This is the religion and the type of faith we've had in Iceland. We've never been good Christians. All our bishops married and all our priests were married in the so-called Catholic times. Rome was sending out angry letters and saying, "Why don't you just shape up and do things like you're told to do?" They would say, "If you sent this letter fifty years ago, the ship must surely have been lost at sea. We never received it, so..." Ha! This is the way we've been practicing religion ever since the settlement.
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Here is RANDY ALCORN ON Years Adorable MINDED and whether that's any earthly good.Set your hearts on objects better, anywhere Christ is seated at the vigor hand of God. Set your minds on objects better, not on earthly objects. - Colossians 3:1-2It is equally Christians concede in essence ceased to conduct of the other world that they concede become so no good in this. - C. S. Lewis(You can after that enjoy to the 5-minute acoustic exemplar of this blog, excerpted from the 50 Sparkle of Illusion acoustic book.)Dead the living, a emerge of people concede told me, "We shouldn't conduct about Illusion. We be required to piazza conduct about Jesus."This analysis sounds spiritual, doesn't it? But it is based on excess assumptions, and it is immaculately contradicted by Scripture.Colossians 3:1-2 is a deliver a verdict claim to set our hearts and minds on Illusion. We set our minds on Illusion the same as we love Jesus Christ, and Illusion is anywhere he now resides. To desire for Illusion is to desire for Christ. To desire for Christ is to desire for Illusion, for that is anywhere we hand down be with him. That's why God's people are "hankering for a get better soil" (Hebrews 11:16).In Colossians 3:1, the Greek word translated "set your hearts on" is "zeteo", which "denotes man's indiscriminate accepting pursue or pursuit." The exceptionally word is second hand in the Gospels to attraction how "the Son of Man came to view and to show mercy to what was lost" (Luke 19:10, stress further). "Zeteo "is after that second hand to attraction how a accompany looks for his lost routine (Matthew 18:12), a mortal searches for a lost coin (Luke 15:8), and a trade searches for fine pearls (Matthew 13:45). It is a inconsistent, bouncing, single-minded hound. Hence, we can understand Paul's censure in Colossians 3:1 as follows: "Never-endingly, unreservedly, stanchly pursue the objects better"-in a word, Illusion.The verb zeteo is in the story ill at ease, telltale an ordinary stream. "Bear seeking Illusion." Don't piazza concede a chatter, read a book, or enjoy to a squeal and chime as if you've all-inclusive the claim. If you're going to suffer defeat the be with lifetime living in Illusion, why not suffer defeat this lifetime seeking Illusion so you can breathlessly trust and game for it?The claim, and its translation, implies state is rocket instinctive about surroundings our minds on Illusion. In fact, maximum directions conduct a resistance to obeying them, which sets up the necessity for the claim. We are told to except sexual dirt the same as it is our liking. We are not told to except jumping off buildings the same as usually we don't fight such a appeal. The entire day, the claim to conduct about Illusion is under assault in a hundred assorted ways. Whatever thing militates wary take about Illusion. Our minds are set so stalwartly on Alight that we are not in possession of the facts to delicious take. So we must work at it.Having the status of concede you been appear in broadsheet to set your goal on objects better, to view Heaven? Having the status of be required to you do differently?By chance you're anxious of becoming "so delicious minded that you're of no earthly good." Relax-you concede rocket to aggravate about! On the reversal, recurrent of us are so earthly minded we are of no delicious or earthly good. As C. S. Lewis observed,If you read history you hand down find that the Christians who did maximum for the story world were piazza make somewhere your home who pondering maximum of the be with. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the deliverance of the Roman Society, the utter men who built up the In the middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Hard work, all not here their cover on Alight, promptly the same as their minds were packed with Illusion. It is equally Christians concede in essence ceased to conduct of the other world that they concede become so no good in this. Aim at Illusion and you hand down get earth "confounded in": aim at earth and you hand down get neither.We adjunct a social group of delicious minded people who see possible beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be. Such people hand down surpass on a bequest to their children far enhanced heavy than any inheritance.We must begin by organization from God's revealed truth. But such organization hand down shameful us to use our Scripture-enhanced imaginations. As a nonfiction author and Bible school, I start by seeing what Scripture actually says. As a novelist, I preceding that visionary and add to it the vital function of artistic ability.In the words of Francis Schaeffer, "The Christian is the really free man-he is free to concede artistic ability. This too is our bequest. The Christian is the one whose artistic ability be required to fly previous the stars."Schaeffer always started with God's revealed truth. But he exhorted us to let that truth proliferation our artistic ability. Resourcefulness be required to not fly comatose from the truth but upon it.You may be sphere with utter sensitive and loss, yet Jesus says, "Be of good praise" (John 16:33, nkjv). Why? Equally the new family is jaggedly program for you. Heartening day is coming. The dark winter is about to be magically renewed happening fountainhead. One day soon you hand down be home-for the first of all time.Until also, I stimulate you to find joy and want as you dispute on the truth about Illusion revealed in the Bible.Why not ask God to make your artistic ability jerk and your core rejoice?Thank you, God, for the gift of artistic ability. In a world anywhere belief are so on a regular basis stranded in quicksand and are reversal to precisely principles, help us to be sadly based in your Dress up. Overhaul us to be wringing in its teaching. Thank you for pink us "hugely enhanced than all we ask or envisage" in your eternal Put in at.Randy Alcorn, Never-ending Environment Ministries, 39085 Fundamental Blvd., Determined 206, Sandy, OR 97055, 503-668-5200, www.epm.org
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The first impression on meditation for most beginners does not sound encouraging. In fact, some opine that beginners hate meditation to no end since the art involves a boring style of sitting quiet with eyes closed. But the thing that beginners forget that meditation can perfectly wipe off your metal stress and weariness and make you fit and fine for the following day. Meditation is certainly not a new innovation but rather an age old relaxation technique that has cured many health complications of numerous individuals. There are certain techniques of meditation for beginners that should be done with ease and perfection.
Meditate with ease
Meditation for beginners can be indeed tough if attempted without a proper instructor. Well, if you are one of them, you can also get CDs or magazines and learn introductory steps to meditate. Make sure you don't try to master the complex meditation techniques in the first instance or otherwise, it might not prove effective and perfect for your health.
Sit correctly to meditate
Now, if you are wondering as how to meditate for beginners, you should first learn how to sit correctly to meditate. The sitting posture should resemble a lotus flower resting in a pond. Well, some find it difficult and take a few weeks to actually imitate such a posture. However, it's true that the sitting posture is very important that can only help you mediate with perfection. In fact, choosing a perfect place to mediate is much more vital. This determines your concentration and helps you release stress.
Take health expert advice
How to meditate for beginners is indeed a big concern for the majority. Well, one can go with Chakra asanas that can revitalize you with unlimited energy throughout the day. You will be able to work with positivity and stay away from negative thoughts. One of the effective techniques of meditation for beginners is to go with Reiki which is a natural energy providing technique. Beginners will find it easy to follow once th! ey take help of a physical or yoga instructor.
Meditate in a new fashion
Meditation for beginners can be easy and exciting with the application of binaural beats. With the help of these specialized beats, your mind relaxes completely and makes you enter the inner recesses of your mind. Throughout the day, your mind and body keep fighting in encountering the work pressures. As a result, a growing weariness wraps you up at the end of the day. So, a natural question of how to meditate for beginners would pop up in your mind. Meditation can the best remedy in such circumstances.
Breathe daily
Many consider breathing to be an ineffective procedure. However, health experts have asserted that it's breathing that can improve the functions of your respiratory system and keep your blood circulation in perfect control. In fact, one of the crucial techniques of meditation for beginners is to breathe on a daily basis. The more you breathe, the better you feel both physically and mentally. In other words, meditation can change lives of people and bring them out of their dark phases. The more you meditate, the happier you stay. About the Author
Jonson Mak is a professor of medical science having interest on writing articles on medical science. For more information on how to meditate for beginners or Meditation for beginners he recommend to visit site http://themeditationmind.com/
From: tyagi mordred nagasiva To: FiatLVX Subject: Satanism, Christianity and MagickDate: Kali Yuga 49941213Quoting: andrewb@netcom.com (zephyr) a more proper approach would be to define "Satanist" as "one who believes that Satan is the bringer of spiritual power to humanity." I recommend that anyone interested in defining Satanism take a look at thealt.satanism FAQ, which delineates very many possible understandings ofthe term and the path which is associated with it. You may find it atftp.portal.com/pub/ss/FAQs.The problem is that, just like Christianity, many would like to define it for us, and I find that it feels more respectful of me to refrain from such definition with regard to others. Your suggestion above does indeed conform to some Satanist's preference, but there are others (me, for example) for whom that would not suffice. ...without Christianity, there would be no Satanism. I'm afraid the matter is much more complex than this and I would refer thosewho have an interest to alt.satanism or to contact me via email if youchoose. I may practice my Satanism within the confines of this list (inthat I purposefully become the adversary to certain expressions and ideaswhich I find oppressive or unbalanced), but I would rather discuss the matterand substance of Satanism elsewhere unless and until it coincides with myChristianity (which it often does and apparently has here once again). For an individual to believe in Satan, that individual must also believe in Christ; Satan is, quite specifically, a Christian deity, or angel. This is the argument of very many, though I feel that it is somewhat extremeand simplistic. It all depends on who you are talking to. Talk to a Neopaganand they'll likely tell you the same thing as a nominal Christian: "Satanismis a perversion of Christianity." But talk to a *Satanist* (or, preferrablymore than one of them) and you'll get quite a few different perspectives,including that that which is today Satanism has existed for a very long time by various names and has inspired many social religious movements, perhapsincluding Christianity and Wicca. The range on this issue is truly marvelous. Similarly, Christ is a Satanic deity, or angel. With this I would agree, but not for the reasons you would probably use. :> The two are so closely connected that I can hardly imagine that Satanism "has nothing to do with Christianity."That it arises within a culture which is predominantly Christian is not tobe overlooked. I'll quote LaVey on the matter and be done with the religiousissues before moving on to that regarding my Christianity and magick:[LaVey here is speaking only for Satanists who may be described by his theoretics associated with the Church of Satan]"We don't worship Satan, we worship ourselves using the metaphorical representation of the qualities of Satan. Satan *is* the name used in the Judeo-Christian tradition for that force of individuality and pride within us. But the force itself has been called by many names. We embrace Christian myths of Satan and Lucifer, along with Satanic renderings in Greek, Roman, Islamic, Sumerian, Syrian, Phrygian, Egyptian, Chinese or Hindu mythologies, to name but a few. We are not limited to one deity, but encompass all the expressions of the accuser or the one who advocates free thought and rational alternatives by whatever name he is called in a particular time and land. It so happens that we are living in a culture that is predominantly Judeo- Christian, so we emphasize Satan. If we were living in Roman times, the central figure, perhaps the title of our religion, would be different. But the name would be expressing and communicating the same thing. It's all context."As far as how this path may relate to Christianity in *my* life, and,more importantly, to magick, I can explain this fairly easily. AsI have said before, I place myself upon the Cross the World, at theGreat Crossroads where all spiritual paths converge and rest in shade.Satanism, especially as portrayed by LaVey, but by others as well, is a spiritual path of strength, open-mindedness, and iconoclasm. As such it assists the magician in keeping away the bane of certainty andof judgement through opposition in favor of the underdog. It fits rightin to my vow of humility (associating with the lowly, the downtrodden), andwhere many religious movements form organizations and promote the good ofthe One/group ("The good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one"), Satanism is a voice for individual life and liberty, for the ego as a healthy part of human life ("The good of the one outweighs the the good of the many).Both are important, I feel. LaVey puts it thus: "The essence of Satanism, and Satanic practices, is theintegration of apparent opposites. We blend magic and rationality together,without compromising either, in the same way we integrate different aspectsof one person into the same body." It is here, in that *integration ofapparent opposites* that I find my Satanism meets my Christianity in a veryimportant Work of art, of magick. I understand that some list members have difficulties with Satanism and I'msorry if you see this as somehow contradicting your values and ideas. I think there are many ways to understand these subjects, and the way I'mapproaching them is not at all uncommon, as I hope to show by quoting thosewho feel similarly. LaVey is no 'Christian-lover'. He is sometimes quiterude and officious in his manner. Yet, like Crowley, from whom he haslearned so much, he is a very important source for those who would explore the mysteries of the world and of themselves.Where LaVey stops and I take up my path is that I *also* consider myselfChristian and place value in the Christian path (I know so little of Judaism that I cannot be sure of this with regard to it, though I suspectI will like it greatly when I come to study it). LaVey needs to fill therole of Opposer, and so he argues for what I would call some very Christianvalues in the *name* of Satanism. He also has quite a LOT to say aboutmagick, some of it of value. Most people can't get past his language.So it goes. For my part, I feel I surpass LaVey by accepting even that which he openly and (in intentional controversy) despises, and this catalyzes what I consider to be my Christian magick, even though the herd will chastenand rebuke me in my glorious sacrifice. Peace and Darknesstyagi@houskaos.abyss.com (Nocifer)
Track @THEMADHATTERXXXAre you appoint to "unlearn" the so called "courteous" ways and return to the Old Way, the Lifeless Way?As you may know, some situations have occurred with Robert MorningSky's store put of wisdom on his website. In the role of happened to MorningSky's website? Robert has been settled an question only with Christie Aphrodite. Can his website be reinstated...?Look in to find out how!In Robert's own words:I am a nobody.I have no psychic abilities, I cannot channel, I do not have ESP, I do not see the afar, I have no Dynamism Guides, I cannot read Tarot cards, palms or tea plants, I have no ahead life and I have no healing powers. I have not normal a work, I have no Divine Communiqu, I have not been abducted or imbued with the Dynamism, nor have I ever seen Jesus, Mohammed, Allah or any other Divine Tutor. I have no old-fashioned powers or abilities higher than that of any other mortal for example - seemingly less so.In the role of I do maintain, in spite of everything, is a pungent ache to find out what is superficial submit. I have been blissful enough to stick some old-fashioned leads. It is with some hatefulness that I shall reach my discoveries, not for attention of what the world heart pipe dream, but with some shift that I pioneer my conclusion in a respectful and capture transfer.These are the ravings and rantings of a Madman who wanders the world seeking answers. That is all.
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"This post originally appeared on the Interdependence Blog."
As I frequently participate in discussions about whether or not Buddhism is a religion, I realize that the question itself comes from an implicit frame with which I don't agree.
If the framing of a discussion is flawed, the conversation will often spin in irreconcilable loops. Within the framing that exists, I prefer to say that my approach to Buddhism is a "secular psychology and ethics system, a full mental wellness path."
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who has a profound influence on many aspects of how I conceptualize my practice, as well as my teaching style (although I bring less of the "crazy" and certainly less of the "wisdom"), had this to say as far back as 1966, before he came to North America.
"There are many people who are more learned than I and more elevated in their wisdom. However, I have never made a separation between the spiritual and the worldly. If you understand the ultimate aspect of the dharma, this is the ultimate aspect of the world. And if you should cultivate the ultimate aspect of the world, this should be in harmony with the dharma."
I don't think the discussion has anything to do with separation of church and state from a governmental standpoint, but rather the bipolarity that individual human beings have been taught to live with in modern society. This split way of regarding our lives and experiences is quite problematic.
So, my view of whether or not Buddhism is a religion is in accord with Trungpa Rinpoche's view. The question itself is flawed. However, in our world, where institutions are either labelled and categorized legally as religious or secular, where that split already exists and is constantly fortified by the bureaucracy of thought and language, I continue to argue that it's best to promote Buddhism as secular. Is it really secular? No, it's secular/spiritual. But in a world that separates the two, it feels much more effective to further Buddhism's secular progress than its religious status, and that is how I view the path and our job in building genuine and compassionate sanghas.
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I had a rotten night. I spent it in hospital. Hunched over my keyboard, impossible deadlines biting my elbows, my pale little body betrayed me with some plainly ridiculous rash. It started on my neck and soon consumed half my face and the pain was appalling. I took my battered manuscript with me to the casualty ward; even as they strapped my arm with the pressure pump thing and passed around the little plastic cups with pills in them, I was still marking changes in the margins. Aspiring writers take note: when you do this for money, you too shall become this person.
Part of the plan for this blog is to chart not only my progress to publication, but also the accumulation of the research that informs the book; lore and tales of the witch world. Since Burnt Snow began, my daily life has overflowed with spellbooks and histories of witchcraft, compendiums of crystal magic, herbals, star charts and i Ching coins. As I'm a writer who likes to *know* the things she describes, I've invested in the paraphernalia of witch candles, crystal balls, anatomical models of bears and bagfuls of "magic rocks" - that is, the polished lumps of serpentine, onyx, snowflake obsidian and other geologic delights to which some ascribe spiritual properties and others just think are pretty.
Of my many treasures I count a copy of the annual Witches Almanac, collected on one of my rounds to Treadwell's. The truly enchanting Treadwell's will receive a description in due course, but the my concern today is with the Almanac, and the experiment ahead of me this year.
I grew up in Australia, in a post-colonial, multicultural family where all major religions were represented, the house always air-conditioned and any kind of fruit you want available at the local supermarket all year round. Australia has its popular rituals, and my multi-faith family has engaged with them with only minor vairiations on the theme. Australia's imported the traditional British Christmas, and it's held on the same day it is in Europe, as well as can be imagined when you're eating roast turkey at it's 40C outside. We do a European Easter, too - with bunnies and chickens and the celebrations of the Spring... held at the beginning of Autumn.
What I'm saying is, for all the cultural influences my family and country have inherited, I've got absolutely no experience of how festivals and feasts can work with a seasonal calendar, as opposed to against it. I barely understand harvest cycles, and I've got no idea about seasonal eating. This may be the great luxury of being Australian, but somewhere I think it may be bad for my health.
As a compendium of dates for pagan festivals, calendar of moon cycles and go-to for astrological phases, the Witches' Almanac confronts me in is detail as to how separated from the natural patterns of the earth and skies I am. In Sydney, of course, you can barely see the stars for light pollution and maybe its an apt metaphor for the division the city - or any city - creates between its inhabitants and the rituals of the pre-urban past.
So, anyway, what I'm doing in 2010 - as much out of curiosity as a form of research (as you can imagine, the rituals of the earth are most important to the witches of Burnt Snow) is I'm going to try and live my life around the events of the Almanac, follow the old Celtic pagan festivals and turn with the "Wheel of the Year". I have an advantage in that I'm going back to London on the 1st of February - *just* in time to miss the worst of the cold, and with a calendar of activities laid out for me that doesn't require adaptation of dates. The first event approaching is Imbolc, which is celebrated by Christians under the name of Candlemas. Whatever name it goes by, the tradition demands the lighting of candles and the serving of crepes.
Crepes! I love this experiment already.
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This requirements to be corrected if one is to refocus in the Take home.It may be easier to understand if you seat a parable. Signal of the totally new merchandise of defect phones. Portable phones luggage compartment at liberty us to become associated all the time to every part of the globe. Yet with all of this "connectivity" luggage compartment we not lost something? Candid even though we are associated all the time, we luggage compartment in a way become disjointed from people additional than ever.The self-same custom occurs with Conception. Science has at liberty us to become master manipulators of Conception, which is not an inherently bad thing. Nonstop science, the gods luggage compartment at liberty us to understand additional of Conception than ever prior. On the contrary, the break up casing. Spend time at people are not associated to Conception lack our pedigree were, and they do not comply with it as outlying as our pedigree did seeing as we drink that it is whatever thing to be deliberate.The Take home is based on the practices of our pedigree. In a very real typography we stand on the shoulders of giants who came prior us. So we must trial our pedigree beliefs and understanding of Conception.It may come as a discourage to tons people to deem that cosmos was not a vital centerpiece in the era of our pedigree. It was a arranged that they lived in Conception, understood the seasonal cycles, and were deeply interwoven in the substance of Nature's rapid speech. Automated they well-known some of Nature's cycles, such as the preference festivals, but they were not nervous with "sandwiched between" with Conception, seeing as they were sooner than associated.At a standstill, in today's world tons go their whole life fading plunder time to spot Conception. They don't insist on to pay thoroughness to the moon cycles to know afterward to mechanism, seeing as they get all their food from grocery stores. We busy in deeply characteristic world. It is ought that we all grab voguish show our understanding of Conception and our twist of Conception. We insist on to reconnect with the natural rapid speech of life, and of Conception, by living in a additional natural typography that is associated with Conception.Persons in the Align Take home busy a life that is faster to Conception. But it is excessively ought to luggage compartment the proper twist of what Conception is and is not. It is true that at era Conception is not to be faulted and awe inspirational, but it is excessively true that Conception is inherently neither good nor bad. While some lack to recently fuss about the beauty of Conception, that is recently one aspect of the coin. Conception can excessively be angry and thoughtful. As Crafters, we must connect with every aspect of Conception and struggle to be in deal with the opposites of her. We must understand and comply with all aspects of Conception and luggage compartment a hovering amount in order to bring forth a upright easy on the ear life.My old Crafter friend explained all of this to me. The best infer I ever usual was to somberly go and be in Conception. Go through all that Conception has to attempt, the good and the not so good. Go to a lithe cataract and ambition about the top that water has been on, investigate the status and power of the heap, but excessively go camping in a rainstorm; experience the opposites.One of the best experiences I ever had occurred one hard, brusque, autumn hours of daylight at around 5:45 AM. I went voguish the forest and watched the sunup, I highly put forward this for being new or old to the Take home, it is a somberly surprising experience. Go and sentinel the sun come up in restraint. This is how one reconnects with Conception.Show are tons other ways to connect with Conception. Establish a vegetable, and be a picture of health garden. Or possibly stage is further aspect of Conception that appeals to you, camping in the forest, boating on the marine, rock climbing in the nation... the options are incessant.Years with Conception can bring tons practical assist. You can become additional stuck, you can put in at a twist on life that is additional practical, you can learn to be superior convulsion for life and life's situations, you can become superior on the alert of your surrounds and you can put in at knowledge about yourself. Conception is wise and can amount wisdom with you if you are willing to pay sit down and dance. Seriousness the rhythms of Conception and lush a amount with your natural description is an inexpressible experience. You have to allow it to renovate. Books in PDF format to read:George Lyman Kittredge - Matter On WitchcraftAlexander Roberts - A Conversation Of Witchcraft
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Following a tradition of sacred activism Wisdom Quarterly has been organizing Occupation Meditations at Occupy Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Oakland. The same wish to raise consciousness, promote peace, and to engage in the issues that affect 99 percent of us moves us to take our cushions out into the world.
There was once a war brewing on the frontiers of ancient India. The Shakyans and a neighbors were at odds. The Buddha, pulled by affinity to his relatives and former neighbors, went there and sat down.
What was sitting meant to accomplish? Just his presence, just the emanation of his loving-kindness, just his being there was a condition for peace. More than that, it demonstrated peace. Anti-war activism? Anti-war is subtly violent. Pro-peace is peaceful. Occupying, sitting, being peace is peacefully demonstrating.
Thursday night (Oct. 27) as Occupy LA wobbled with at least one erratic protester, engaged Wisdom Quarterly activists saw the need to bring meditation back. There is already a permanent presence on the north side next to the free Collective University in the form of a sacred space tent called the Meditation Temple. The south side lawn has a Mother Earth peace ring. But we thought it important to occupy cushions in the center of site just before the General Assembly.
Asher led a guided meditation, inspired his evolving practice at Against the Stream and his own spiritual travels in Israel and Asia. The next action will take place Sunday, when we will also be joined by Pasadharma Zen group and Long Beach's Bodhi Mission. We are working on a visit by Amma Thanisanti, a Western Theravada Buddhist nun.
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"THE EASTER BUNNY DOESNT COME TO OUR HOUSE. There are a few reasons why my husband and I have chosen not to "do" the Easter Bunny, The Easter Bunny, Santa, Tooth Fairy, etc. are all characters that families tell their children to believe in. They can't see these characters, the kids learn about them from what their parent's tell them and one day they find out that it was all a myth."And then there is God; the kids can't see Him, they learn about Him primarily from their parents and a naive mind could then think that God is mythical as well. I don't want my children to grow up wondering if we are going to pull the "God" rug out from under them like we did the Easter Bunny. I think there is great potential for confusion."- Katie "
God IS mythical. Not in the "imaginary", "fictitious" or "based on false collective belief", but as part of the story that is so old it cannot be proven to be true or false.
Easter bunny is not mythical. Easter bunny is pure imagination. Invented fairytale character, imaginary creature. To play Easterbunny with your kids is as safe as reading them fairytales - or any fictional stories - allowing them to watch children's movies or participate in any action where imaginary characters are involved.
Now, I don't believe in Santa in that I'd believe any person pretending to be Santa is anything but a person pretending to be Santa. But I believe in Santa as a personification of the well-will, generosity and kindness that infuses December. I have always thought of him as a sort of special angel. Put in place by Goddess to remind people to be kind at the heart of winter and take care of those with less. I see Santa as sort of facade for the anonymous good-doers.
I have also never thought of God and Santa as similar concepts. God is the Creatrix of everything, omnipresent and very real in that She speaks to me all the time. Santa is more of a storybook character that we make believe. I don't make believe God. I KNOW God is. I feel Her presence in my life all the time.
Easterbunny is a symbol of childish joy. The gifts of Easterbunny are silly and funny, Easterbunny makes grown-ups play. If you look at the other feasts around 20th of March, you'll have St.Patrick's with leprechauns and you'll have April's Fools... There's the Annunciation, which in Swedish is "Var Fru Dag" (The Day of Our Lady) which has turned in the folk mouth to "vaffeldag" (Waffleday). There's the Crane Day, that reminds a bit of St Nicholas Day in Holland - the Crane leaves presents in children's shoes and while doing so leaves sooty footprints all over the home... and the kids follow the footprints to find the gifts. Silly, funny, joyful celebrations.
I don't think it's a good idea to reduce the Easterbunny into a caricature built of lies. But, that's me. I believe in the wisdom of people, and as the Easterbunny has become a tradition, there must be something in it the human kind needs. I suppose it has something to do with what the farmanimals do the first day of green grass... I don't know what it's called in English, but everyone with cows or sheep knows that the first day the animals get out after long winter inside, they act like wild kids. :-D Grown up, serious and distinquished cow ladies jump and dance and frolick... It's absolutely lovely.
And I think it's the same mechanism with people too. There's something with spring that is relieving, soothing and makes us want to act as if we were sorrowless children again.
BTW, I don't get the photos of children sitting in Santa's or Easter bunny's lap... and how could any kid believe Easter bunny is real, when it is so not a bunny, but something big and scary and strange and... DANG! I'd scream! :-D
Reference: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com
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PERSPECTIVE
VISION INTO ETERNITY
What is really important in life? Let's make a really short list. Let's capture and review some of these ideas in a short discussion.
"Encouraging one another. Keeping things in perspective. Remembering that you don't have to be afraid. Knowing we are more than conquerors. We already have the victory, now and forever. Never lose sight of that. What's really important isn't so much knowing who your enemy is... but..." WHAT YOU DO ABOUT IT!
These were the key points that jumped out at me from this letter I received from Julia. God Bless You Julia. I needed to hear it. Maybe we all need to hear it.
You see, Julia and I have never met. This is the first email I received from Julia. What's really fascinating is what Julia was sharing with me was exactly what I needed to hear too. I'm no different than anyone else. We all need to encourage one another. When it comes to keeping things in perspective, I am one of the worst offenders. I still have my 2012 "escape pod" on my car. It's so easy to lose sight of the fact that we have already won this battle.
How cool is it that our God's Word is the only text ever written that has an immaculate track record of accurately predicting the future? How awesome is it that we not only get to win this battle here in this "existence" but we get to move on to "rule and reign" with the most LOVING KING EVER? JESUS CHRIST!
JULIA'S LETTER
Hi John
I just want to thank you for your website and cannot believe that you even get opposite emails. I just ran into your site a few weeks ago and have probably read everything on it. I am so blessed by all the info, even though some of it is over my head at times. After having read survival sites and various other sites for a long time, your site is the" only one" that ultimately is really "encouraging in the Lord" and pulls it all together.
Even after all the evil happening now and still coming, you have helped me put it into perspective, that we do not have to be afraid, that we are more than conquerors and that we will have the victory in the end. It is so easy to lose sight of that, when you read all these alarming events for so long. It is good to know your enemy, but in the end what counts is what we do about it.
After reading your stuff I started again praying more and more in tongues, doing more and more spiritual warfare and just overall having more hope again. I am so thankful also for the sense of humor you have and for the language you use. Your thinking process just blows me away, but it also clicks and is scriptural.
So again thank you, you are a blessing. whoever is really searching, will see the truth. You are pointing the way for whoever is willing to look.
Julia
in Texas
SUMMARY IN JESUS NAME
When Jesus is handing out the 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 "rewards", please be sure you are not disappointed. We are so fortunate we live in the very end-of-times. Because we see what looms on the horizon it gives us a second chance to make a difference. And the best part is you can have fun doing it.
There comes a heavy burden knowing what we know. But if you let that burden stop you from being the shining light of Jesus in your walk on this earth, you have missed your opportunity to make the difference you were intended to make.
Don't let that happen.
Just this last weekend I went to see the movie "Skyline". I wore my new T-Shirt on purpose. The T-Shirt is black with bold white letters that says "Aliens are Demons". The fellow at the theater who took my tickets said "Hey I like that T-Shirt!". I quickly let him know "It's all in the Bible". Will that seed grow? I don't know. Was it fun doing it... it sure was!
I also contacted Metropolitan Ministries in my area. I said I would. I can hardly wait to get involved. Every person you get the opportunity to talk to about these things is...
ONE MORE PERSON we can save from the STRONG DELUSION!
We have the greatest Christian opportunity ever presented to mankind.
We have the Opportunity to Save People from the Delusion!
We have the Opportunity to Prevent People from "Falling Away"!
We have the Opportunity to Create more of "THE ELECT"
* FEED THE POOR
* HELP THE WIDOWS
* LAY ON HANDS
* CAST OUT DEVILS
* DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE ENEMY
ACT THE PART
Prov 23:7
"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he."
NKJV
BE THE KING YOU WERE MEANT TO BE
PRAISE YOU JESUS !
Reference: my-spiritual-path.blogspot.com
