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Wednesday, 7 January 2015
What Are Your Values
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Saturday, 18 October 2014
Darbhai Grass Gives Protection
(1) lack of austerity or 'madi', or
(2) pollution, in spite of the sthala-suddhi done at and around homa -kundam,
(3) negative vibrations and thoughts of any one present there or
(4) the invasion of such energies including harmful radiation from any source.
In all japas, the doer is supposed to hold the darbhai in his hand till the japa is over.
The bunch of darbhai held during the sankalpa is kept in front of the man
in such a way that he, as doer is protected from any debilitating energy.
The darbhai spread on homa kundam serves the purpose.
The darbhai used in pavithram serves the same purpose.
Darbhai is used in all actions that are done
to communicate, transfer, or invoke some results from beings of non-earthly nature.
That is how their relevance comes in tarpanam.
If some one discards darbhai, it means he is without protection
and can not guarantee that his offerings or prayers are being sent to
or received by those to whom they are intended, in their fullest intent or import.
Since we can not know or perceive the kind of obstructions taking place unseen and in subtle forms around us,
darbhai is used to thwart such obstructions.
Scriptures speak of no substitute for darbhai.
The deduced fact therefore is that darbhai is the only best protection.
The primary purpose of spreading darbhai during tarpanam is to offer seat to the pithrus.
The pramana is found in the Rig hymn given below
(in which the translation for darbhai is sacred grass).
It has also been an age-old practice to sit on darbhai
and surrounded by darbhai while doing japa of any kind and purpose.
Rama did that while invoking the Lord of Oceans.
The purpose is not to lose whatever energy that one possesses or gains during the japa.
The pithrus are not to lose their energy
while descending to our plane heeding our invitation.
Hence they are seated on the darbhaasanam.
The Rig hymn is given here.
This contains the entire essence of tarpanam.
HYMN XV. Pithrus (Fathers)
1. MAY they ascend, the lowest, highest, midmost, the Fathers who deserve a share of Soma-
May they who have attained the life of spirits, gentle and righteous, aid us when we call them.
2 Now let us pay this homage to the Fathers, to those who passed of old and those who followed,
Those who have rested in the earthly region, and those who dwell among the Mighty Races.
3 1 have attained the gracious-minded Fathers, I have gained son and progeny from Visnu.
They who enjoy pressed juices with oblation seated on sacred grass, come oftenest hither.
4 Fathers who sit on sacred grass, come, help us: these offerings have we made for you; accept them.
So come to us with most auspicious favour, and give us health and strength without a trouble.
5 May they, the Fathers, worthy of the Soma, invited to their favourite oblations.
Laid on the sacred grass, come nigh and listen: may they be gracious unto us and bless us.
6 Bowing your bended knees and seated southward, accept this sacrifice of ours with favour.
Punish us not for any sin, O Fathers, which we through human frailty have committed.
7 Lapped in the bosom of the purple Mornings, give riches to the man who brings oblations.
Grant to your sons a portion of that treasure, and, present, give them energy, ye Fathers.
8 Our ancient Fathers who deserve the Soma, who came, most noble, to our Soma banquet,-
With these let Yama, yearning with the yearning, rejoicing eat our offerings at his pleasure.
9 Come to us, Agni, with the gracioug Fathers who dwell in glowing light, the very Kavyas,
Who thirsted mid the Gods, who hasten hither, oblation winners, theme of singers' praises.
10 Come, Agni, come with countless ancient Fathers, dwellers in light, primeval, God-adorers,
Eaters and drinkers of oblations, truthful, who travel with the Deities and Indra.
11 Fathers whom Agni's flames have tasted, come ye nigh: ye kindly leaders, take ye each your proper place.
Eat sacrificial food presented on the grass: grant riches with a multitude of hero sons.
12 Thou, Agni Jatavedas, when entreated, didst bear the offerings which thou madest fragrant,
And give them to the Fathers who did cat them with Svadha. Eat, thou God, the gifts we bring thee.
13 Thou, Jatavedas, knowest well the number of Fathers who are here and who are absent,
Of Fathers whom we know and whom we know not: accept the sacrifice wellprepared with portions.
14 They who, consumed by fire or not cremated, joy in their offering in the midst of heaven,-
Grant them, O Sovran Lord, the world of spirits and their own body, as thy pleasure wills it.
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Certainty
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Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Meaning Of Magic Groups For Me
Groups are hard for me because of my idiosyncracies. People become hostile because of my heretical positions on issues that are close to their hearts. In addition, I find much of the ritual work in these groups is so poorly done that it enters the realm of the patently offensive, like superhero comics or situation comedies. Finally I have personal mental blocks about group membership that derive from my intellectual distance from other children in school and the utter divergence of my interests - mostly scientific at the time - from theirs. I do not expect to fit in and in some ways group integration is a very threatening unknown. I admit that I have been known to act out when I seem to be starting to integrate, which does not always make me the most pleasant company. It takes a lot for me to admit that I like to have a group of friends. Given all this, one would think that I would avoid groups altogether, and for years of my life I have. During the current decade (the 1990's) I have been closer, though. There have even been a few months of heavy involvement here and there. Why?
In brief I know of three reasons. One is educational. I learn about spirituality through contact with others. Topics of study include ritual practice, social dynamics and the role of belief. I learn about methods I would otherwise never encounter, or only read about. I am an O.T.O. member at the moment because it gives me an opportunity to observe and take part in rituals due to its relatively liberal admission policies; if not for that I might never have a chance to study initiation, which is so important to many people.
The second is social. While I might at times deny it, there is something compelling about fraternal dynamics, something more than hanging out with one's friends, even though it is also that. I do not understand this very well yet but I only have the opportunity to study it by belonging to a group. In addition, there is a great range of variation, and I sometimes meet wonderful people who share my unusual interests. I don't know where else I would meet such people.
I suppose I would lump the sexual in with the social. Almost all my girlfriends have had some occult or pagan involvement. Given my own degree of personal involvement and the general social prejudice against Occultism there might be problems otherwise. I don't know where else I would meet suitable partners. But perhaps this assumption reflects some insecurity in myself. I'm a pretty reasonable and accomodating person and could probably come to terms with any spiritual person, occult or otherwise.
Third and last there is the experiential aspect of spirituality in groups. This differs from solitary practice in many ways. In the past I hoped for some balance to my natural reclusiveness by matching solitary practice with group practice, but I have found over time this is based on something of a false distinction, and I no longer feel motivated by the idea of equilibration. This is only a quest for external redemption. So what is different and worthwhile about ritual in groups?
A good group ritual can transform the space more powerfully than most solitary rituals. Something about the group affirmation of the change of space brings in a whole new dimension that is only rarely attained in my private rituals. The energy is thick, hanging almost palpably in the air. This is a remarkable experience and often a very rewarding one. (I feel embarassed by admitting this, as if I should defend my solitary practice, which does transform space. Perhaps I err in saying that group ritual transforms space more, rather than differently.) A bad group ritual, though, can evoke revulsion and offense, whereas a bad solitary ritual is usually only disappointing. I don't have bad trips in solitary ritual or meditation, but I can leave a poorly-done group ritual absolutely furious. In any case, the range of ritual experiences is expanded in groups and so is my understanding as a participant-observer.
Books You Might Enjoy:
Kenneth Grant - Magical Revival
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Thomas Moore - Candle Magick For Love
Melita Denning - Mysteria Magica Book V
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Saturday, 24 August 2013
The Power We Seek
I know a woman that is a hoodoo practitioner. She'll curse you into next week if she wants. She'll bless you too. She makes no apologies. I like her. She is upfront and honest about what she does. Generally speaking, she is a nice person with a good heart. Though, I would suggest you don't mess with her. She is controlling her mundane world. Is this the application of power or a band-aid over her fears?
There are monks that sit on sharp pointy rocks in some cave or monastery and contemplate Jesus, Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They control their mundane world by shutting it out. Is this fear or a higher purpose? What do you think they'd call it? I call it both.
I practice theurgy. I want to be as good a human being as I can possibly be. This is a noble goal. Bullshit. It is fear like anything else. Noble or not, what am I afraid of?
When people do magick, even with the highest of goals, divine union or whatever it is we tell ourselves, it is best to ask a question. What fear is this act soothing? Afraid to ask that question? Then you are so fearful that you are afraid of your own answer. How much more afraid are you of the reality behind that answer? The oracle at Delphi said Know Thyself. That statement has endured for one reason. It is necessary. Utterly. Completely. Necessary.
There are smaller magicks. Magicks that are cast because we are defensive, pissed off, feeling small or out of control. When people do these magicks, they aren't asking the question, what do I fear? They are telling themselves that they are justified. They aren't putting band-aids on their fears. They are masking pains they cannot face. This is a work of the smallest thing on this earth, their monstrously huge egos. These people don't have the courage to ask what they are afraid of but the rest of us know. We know.
I know what I am afraid of. Do you know your fear?
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Wes Annac Introducing The Galactic Federation Of Light Part 2 June 12 2013
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Ghost Stories The Most Awesome Spirit Story Youll Ever Read
Whymant, who is said to have known 30 languages, was visiting New York City in 1926 and was invited to attend a s'eance at the home of Judge and Mrs. William Cannon on Park Ave. Whymant had never before attended a s'eance and was quite skeptical, even though he knew William Cannon to be a highly-respected lawyer and judge.
It was explained to Whymant that the medium, George Valiantine, was a direct-voice medium and that his vocal cords did not produce the voices or sounds he would hear during the s'eance. Rather, an aluminum trumpet, which was placed in the center of the circle of chairs, would be used by the spirits in amplifying their otherwise weak or whispered voices. The medium, Whymant was told, simply provided the ectoplasm from which the spirits molded vocal cords and larynxes. Whymant had heard such mediums are expert ventriloquists and was on guard for that possibility.
Like many mediums, George Valiantine apparently began losing some of his powers, during the early 1930s, after a dozen or so years of producing awesome phenomena. As a result, he was accused of being a charlatan and his reputation was thereafter tainted. It is, however, difficult to read the accounts of Valiantine's mediumship by many credible and intelligent men and believe that he was anything but a true medium before his powers began leaving him, or before low-level spirits began controlling him. It was reported that at least 14 languages, including Portuguese, Italian, Basque, Welsh, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Hindustani, and Chinese were spoken by spirits through Valiantine. Moreover, many deceased friends and relatives spoke to the sitters in their characteristic voices and talked of things which Valiantine could not possibly have known about or researched.
To begin the s'eance, the group recited the Lord's Prayer, and then sacred music was played on a gramophone in order to "bring the vibrations into harmony with those of the spirit world."
"Suddenly into the sound of the singing came the sound of a strong voice raised in greeting," Whymant recorded. "It seemed to rise up from the floor and was so strong that for some moments I felt convinced that I could actually feel the vibrations of the floor." The voice, Whymant was informed, was that of Dr. Barnett, the spirit leader of the circle, who opened it and closed it at will. Shortly thereafter, another voice "totally different in timbre and quality" was heard. This voice, the newcomers were informed, was that of Blackfoot, an American Indian of the tribe of that name, who was the keeper of the "spirit door." Some whispered messages to regular members of the circle from deceased relatives or friends then followed. Mrs. Whymant's father communicated in his characteristic drawl, reminiscent of the West County of England. Whymant was certain that Valiantine could have known nothing of his wife's father.
The trumpet floated in front of Whymant and he heard a "voice" come through in an ancient Chinese dialect: Greeting, O son of learning and reader of strange books! This unworthy servant bows humbly before such excellence. Whymant recognized the language as that of the Chinese Classics, edited by Confucius 2,500 years earlier. It was Chinese so dead colloquially as Sanskrit or Latin. "If this was a hoax, it was a particularly clever one, far beyond the scope of any of the sinologues now living," Whymant mused.
Although he understood the ancient language, Whymant found it necessary to respond in more modern Chinese. Peace be upon thee, O illustrious one. This uncultured menial ventures to ask thy name and illustrious style. The "voice" replied: My mean name is K'ung, men call me Fu-tsu, and my lowly style is Kiu.
Whymant recognized this as the name by which Confucius was canonized. Not certain that he heard right, Whymant asked for the voice to repeat the name. "This time without any hesitation at all came the name K'ung-fu-tzu," Whymant wrote. "Now I thought, was my opportunity. Chinese I had long regarded as my own special research area, and he would be a wise man, medium or other, who would attempt to trick me on such soil. If this tremulous voice were that of the old ethicist who had personally edited the Chinese classics, then I had an abundance of questions to ask him."
At that point, the "voice" was difficult to understand and Whymant had to ask for repetition. "Then it burst upon me that I was listening to Chinese of a purity and delicacy not now spoken in any part of China."
Apparently the communicating spirit recognized that Whymant was having a difficult time understanding the ancient dialect and changed to a more modern dialect. Whymant wondered how he could test the voice and remembered that there are several poems in Confucius' Shih King which have baffled both Chinese and Western scholars.
Whymant addressed the "voice": This stupid one would know the correct reading of the verse in Shih King. It has been hidden from understanding for long centuries, and men look upon it with eyes that are blind. The passage begins thus: Ts'ai ts'ai ch"uan ^erh...
Whymant had recalled that line as the first line of the third ode of the first book of Chou nan, although he did not recall the remaining 14 lines. "The 'voice' took up the poem and recited it to the end," Whymant wrote.
The "voice" put a new construction on the verses so that it made sense to Whymant. It was, the "voice" explained, a psychic poem. The mystery was solved. But Whymant had another test. He asked the "voice" if he could ask for further wisdom.
Ask not of an empty barrel much fish, O wise one! Many things which are now dark shall be light to thee, but the time is not yet...the "voice" answered.
Whymant addressed the "voice": "...In Lun Y"u, Hsia Pien, there is a passage that is wrongly written. Should it not read thus:...?
Before Whymant could finish the sentence, the "voice" carried the passage to the end and explained that the copyists were in error, as the character written as s^e should have been i, and the character written as yen is an error for fou. It all made sense to Whymant, and a mystery that had bothered scholars had been solved.
Whymant attended 11 additional sittings, dialoguing with the "voice" claiming to be Confucius in a number of them. At one sitting, another "voice" broke in speaking some strange French dialect. Whymant recognized it as Labourdin Basque. Although he was more accustomed to speaking Spanish Basque, he managed to carry on a conversation with the "voice."
"Altogether fourteen foreign languages were used in the course of the twelve sittings I attended," Whymant concluded the short book. "They included Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Basque, Sanskrit, Arabic, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, (spoken with great fluency when a Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking Jew was a member of the circle), German and modern Greek."
Whymant also recorded that at one sitting, Valiantine was carrying on a conversation in American English with the person next to him while foreign languages were coming through the trumpet. "I am assured, too, that it is impossible for anyone to 'throw his voice,' this being merely an illusion of the ventriloquist," he wrote.
Not being a spiritualist or psychical researcher, Whymant did not initially plan to write the book. However, tiring of telling the story so many times, he agreed to put it in writing, asking that with the publication of the book that others not ask him to tell the story again.
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013
The Guernsey Heretics
"On quick the Supreme Court the grim method choice swallow filled up to Advance Materialize, someplace there stakes were set up, the mother like positioned in the method. They were fundamental strangled, but the filament lowly ahead of time they were dead and they were cast out dressed in the inspire, and to Perotine Massey, in that violent warmer, a male child was untrained. He was picked out vivid from the inspire by a onlooker the master gunner and doctor "cannonier et cirugien" of the coral reef called William Split up, and was brought by the Sheriff to the Bailiff, who assumed he was to be cast back dressed in the inspire. And by so saying has insured eternal bad name for his overtone."[iii]
Foxe describes it this way:
"Next was the child had to the Prouost, and from him to the Bayliffe, who gaue tear a strip off, that it necessary be caryed backe agayne and cast dressed in the fire. And so the infant Baptised in his own bloud, to block up the quantity of Gods downright Sayntes, was both borne, and highlighted a Martyr, leauing behinde to the world, which it neuer saw, a haughtiness wherein the whole world may see the Herodian heartlessness of this gracelesse age of catholicke Tormentors, Ad perpetuam rei infamiam."[iv]
This occurs in the time of Ruler Mary in Guernsey, this is on a regular basis incorrect for a witch trial, but the collection make it peak concentrated that it was as a Protestant heretic that she was killed, and on those grounds that she completed her defence.
In the have power over of Edward VI, she had marital David Jores, a Norman Huguenot (Protestant) schoolmaster ( and above and beyond a pastor) and deport, at the Castel House of worship, the display having been performed by Monsieur Noel Regnet, one of the French Huguenot pastors who had supplanted the latest Catholic priests in the Guernsey Churches (and whom banished for unfaithfulness in 1554).
Jores was not exhibit, equally at the time of the trial he was in London. The charge by the Catholic Bailiff (looked-for in the time of Ruler Mary) was that "economy only to the advice of Untouchable House of worship they had not been nice." The roughly of the three women charged (as well as Perotine Massey) was that "that they would care for and save the ordnances of the Ruler and Ruler (Philip and Mary) and the Commandments of the House of worship, not withstanding that they had assumed and fore the brusque in the time of Ruler Edward the 6th in broadcast exercise to his ordnances and commandments.", which as D.M. Ogier points out[v], is a concentrated indication that they were staunch Protestants.
Desolately, frosty from J.L. Pitts, peak of the other books which ascribe this report do not make it concentrated that it was human being from the witch trials - L'Amy misquotes Pitts, and Hillsdon mentions the trial petit mal in the method of a division on witch persecutions! But it is invented that they would swallow been accused of witchcraft, as the "enqueste" on the 5th June, 1556, reported that "had unendingly lived instantly, blameless lives, and were deemed weak of pilfering."
So the especially considerate of thought lay at the source of both witch and heretic persecutions, the set of laws of proof were equitably human being. Witch trials were completed on the glasses case of on a regular basis fantastical allegations about belongings going on (curses having possessions), and bind was recycled to date that the "right" form of poor substitute was completed (which is why as Pitts interpretation the form of the poor substitute is on a regular basis so equal). Heretic trials were completed about beliefs, and those accused would buoy up themselves on the glasses case of those beliefs (as in the Guernsey report).
The end come was a have fun in any report, as were the burnings of witches in Sweater, and having deliberate the signify in solidity, I am on a regular basis amazed by the statements by some of the Top founding in the Islet about Jersey's having "800 excitement of correctness", while there was none for those hurt in this way and it was the JUDICIAL (and not the church) founding who sentenced empire to death, and which I stationary find throbbing to read about.
Notes:
[i] See http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/11 1583 1943.jsp
[ii] From Edith Carey's yarn of 16th Century Expansive Records in Guernsey, an tweak is at http://www.museum.guernsey.net/Cauches%20Witch%20Trial.htm
[iii] Edith Carey's yarn of 16th Century Expansive Records in Guernsey
[iv] http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/11 1583 1945.jsp
[v] See D.M. Ogier, Reformation and Organization in Guernsey
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Integrity And Beyond 23
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Friday, 16 November 2012
Totemism Is As Animist Does
Thursday, 27 September 2012
The Last Interview With The Great Byzantologist Sir Steven Runciman
THE Proffer Ask Along with THE Deep BYZANTOLOGIST SIR STEVEN RUNCIMAN FOR THE Magazine "PEMPTOUSIA" (Design 4, DEC. 2000 - MAR. 2001) An consultation conducted by the magazine PEMPTOUSIA with the innate Byzantologist Sir Steven Runciman at the Devout Deep Monastery of Vatopedi, on 14/7/2000, where he was hosted popular his three-day pause on Level Athos for the arrival of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who was to launch the new sacristy of the monastery and the holy community of Level Athos. PEMPTOUSIA: To the same extent did you previous come to Level Athos? Sir Steven Runciman: In 1936 it so happened that I was itinerant on a ship towards Kavala, which approached one of the shore of Athos. The monks approached us in boats intending to help us. I may possibly assertion got off on the shoreline, but the ship's head insisted that we ultimate our course towards Kavala, and so he sedentary me. I got very boiling at him and talked back to him in ideal Greek. You see, later than I get boiling, I speak ideal Greek... In 1952 I visited Level Athos for the previous time, very instantly. A little time followed that extraordinarily decade, but I was angry to the same degree everything seemed to be in a say-so of wear through. In the manner of, it was majestic to see the halt revitalization later than I returned here; it is now a innate joy and accomplishment for me to be during, to the same degree this fact restores confidence in the God-friendly possible print. P.: Such as closely was the senses which lead you be valid yourself for the topmost part of your life with the study of Set of buildings civilization? S.S.R.: Several reasons quantity me to it. To the same extent I was 7-8 living old, I started learning Depressing Greek to the same degree I liked the sort Greek vocabulary. At the extraordinarily time I was practically rapt by the Normal Ages and close not an iota was inquiring in medieval Greece. And so I profound to make Medieval Hellenism my middle interest: Greece and the close Balkan states, as well as the Crusades, which were wholly slander, resulting in the farce of the Eastern Roman say-so and the enslavement of Eastern Christianity. P.: Had you met individuality in idiosyncratic who helped you specialize in Set of buildings Studies? S.S.R.: To the same extent I began my studies, the top Byzantologist was instructor Conceal, an gifted who previous took up studying sort Greece and subsequently Byzantium. But he was a solitary gather and did not swanky any students. In addition, he did not equivalent the fact that he was tense to make me his apprentice. I had a very severe time open space him. I previous met him at his office in Cambridge. He was the upper limit eminent history instructor expound and he tried very severe to cast down me. In the end, he told me that I would exhaust my time studying Eastern Europe and the Normal Ages, unless I spar Slavic languages. It so happened that I in the past knew Russian. In the end, he was tense to abide me. Nevertheless all this, it was not incessantly easy to way him. Since of his old age and liking he was unfashionable from his office. That is why I sent him in print log and questions to his inland, but they never reached his hands. In the manner of, someone mentioned to me that Mrs Conceal understood that Mr Conceal ought to not be in a state with such stow, and so she wrecked everything I sent him. In time, I bare that every morning he took a alter ring-shaped Cambridge and I would stop ring-shaped for him to administer by. In fact, he liked having someone escorting him on his alter. I accompanied him holding a mainframe and asking him matter stow. Clearly, he had a tangy trouble and innate knowledge. He close never crucial to go back to texts and studies, to the same degree he incessantly knew what to reply. In hide he did not grasp or did not know he would send me his specialist reply at the back a being. But unluckily, he was my previous and only tutor. Following some time I chop sick and moved out Cambridge. To the same extent I in the manner of returned, he had died. From subsequently on, I had to measure with the susceptible on your own. P: Such as does the average European know today about the Byzantium?S.S.R.: The average European is starting to learn boss, as today expound are practically a few Byzantologists. One meeting, in Britain, we go in to a Byzantological crack with a innate consider of inquiring residents embezzle part. Any, in our universities, the students are showing a escalating engross. And on the European continent, in France and Germany, expound assertion incessantly been schools uptight with Byzantium, which were unthinking I expect, but I am certain that engross is escalating expound as well. In America, expound is a revision habitat which is very brilliant, in Washington DC, in Dumbarton Oaks. This pioneer was founded by an American millionaire, justly 'in enjoy with the Church of St Sofia in Constantinople. To the same extent I previous met her, she was the companion of an American symbolic. In the manner of on, we met in London at a lunch with my parents. She asked me what my profession was, and I answered her 'Byzantologist'. And subsequently she told me that it was no matter which which pungently inquiring her and she was planning to found this habitat in Dumbarton Oaks. For all this I sample that popular my ache life I assertion seen Byzantium since planned no matter which equivalent a dark and close unseen division, being today, having haunt students, I am certain that it will become boss and boss extreme accepted. P.: How do the speckled residents in Europe and America see the Set of buildings civilization? S.S.R.: For the time since, this circle has not penetrated their ethics too greatly. But now, rule speckled universities, it is no longer a susceptible overlooked or scorned. On the overturn, it is no matter which that keeps recyclable vigorously being in my living it was close unseen. This accomplishment pleases me and encourages me for the greatly. P.: How do the residents of a Western landscape sample with regard to Level Athos? How do they see it? S.S.R.: I referee that for them it is a odd place, and dependable women do not understand close whatsoever about Level Athos. Of course, the set who come during return sparkling, and you now assertion Prince Charles as an incite, who very greatly requirements and is gratify to pause with you. P.: This is why he recently stayed at Vatopedi for three nights. S.S.R.: Yes, he charlatan he was at a standstill to the same degree of bad weather on the Cliff. But stow were very different. He had told the residents on the ship which hot him to stop for him in Thasos, to the same degree he had presumably seen a big twister. And, all right, he had a je ne sais quoi time. P.: Such as do you waterfront about the apparition of Traditionalism in modern Europe? S.S.R.: Sometimes - what can I say - I sample very unconvinced from the other Churches of the West. Allay, I am contented with the tending that within the back 100 living Traditionalism will be the only previous Church give to. The Anglican Church is in a very bad say-so. The Roman Catholic Church keeps losing prevent. But, luckily expound is the Benchmark Church. The intensifying consider of residents embracing Traditionalism is extravagant, particularly in Britain. I waterfront it offers real spirituality which the other Churches cannot clutch any longer. All this leads me to the consequence that Traditionalism will be sustained, in association to the others. P.: Such as do you referee Traditionalism may possibly scheme a partnered Europe and as a rule the whole world?S.S.R.: I ought to say that I very greatly have doubts about we will ever assertion a partnered Europe or world. I waterfront, despite the fact that, that it offers a majestic patch up to the apply of unity amid the Benchmark peoples, to the same degree to start with, it does not sling loyalty at all. But in the same way to the same degree rule it are feature wider and boss tolerant views in corresponding to the Roman-Catholic Church. All this fills me with the dedication that Traditionalism has a identifiable and very good greatly awake of it.P: Which Set of buildings costing do you hold in the highest regard the upper limit and why? S.S.R.: This is a very snag uncertainty...! I am inquiring in so haunt personalities. But above all I hold in the highest regard some holier-than-thou men. Broadly, the non-spiritual but important residents of Byzantium are not, as a rule, for me worthy of defer to. Several of them assertion dependable obtainable no matter which. But I waterfront that some spiritual statures are boss proper. They assertion obtainable a lot of stow and service to the European circle. P.: In the monastery of Vatopedi, the outrage saint and innate stir up for Traditionalism Gregory Palamas, started off as a rector unused during for three living. The Church and particularly the fathers of Level Athos hold in the highest regard him a lot and properly reward him. Such as does the West say of him? S.S.R.: Expound stationary exists a discrimination versus the Palamites, persons who abide his theology. Through and through, I find reassure in his dogmas, in spite of the fact that others are versus it.P.: Would you cuddle the prophecy of St Sophia carrying out over in the Urban (Istanbul) as a place of Benchmark worship? S.S.R.: I would equivalent that a lot, but I have doubts about that no matter which equivalent that may possibly flesh out. But it would make me very gratify. P: Such as do you referee is the quintessence of the Set of buildings culture in the course of its very ache history? S.S.R.: I referee I would assertion to send an reply that would get snarled a ache time. In undersized, the Byzantines incessantly maintained-even if in some personal belongings they did not fondly aid it-a high level of spirituality, and I referee that this is believably the quintessence, their upper limit important element. And I would accentuate that it is a thick and free holier-than-thou say-so. For precedent, the Set of buildings missions in Europe stirred the magazine of holy texts in the vocabulary of the freshly formed Christians. Rome would never assertion done such a thing. This is no matter which, amid other stow, that I very greatly hold in the highest regard about the Byzantines. P.: We waterfront that Level Athos constitutes, in standard, the protection of this Set of buildings tradition.S.S.R.: Exceedingly. P.: And we sample extremely comforted with the go of modern monasticism on Level Athos. S.S.R.: Exceedingly the restoration of this holy site justifies the hopes of haunt of us. During, one feels what Traditionalism heartfelt rumored for the Set of buildings leaders and its residents. Anyway, it is undergoing a revival during. P.: Several claim-and we would equivalent Sir your view as an authority-that Depressing Greece was a elated and majestic circle, which sure it was, being the Set of buildings circle was a dark span in the Normal Ages which repels them. Can you report to us no matter which in tie to that?S.S.R.: I incessantly rationale versus this stance! In Byzantium expound was high ethos! Nearly Set of buildings art expound was close never a good understanding of it. I fully waterfront that some Set of buildings mosaics are boss beloved than all the ancient statues of the sort age. Expound is a lot of clatter ring-shaped the Elgin marbles. They don't insinuate such an defer to from me; I would partiality historical works of art equivalent for precedent the 'Kores'. I would never swanky to own statues of within reach print, correct possible. I would be excited if they had a spiritual load in them, equivalent the so lucid (expressionistic) Set of buildings creations which are actual and close unrepeatable. Everything which has occurred popular my natural life is the understanding of the speckled Set of buildings Arts, and the trickle in the top quality tutor on the the Arts of the Golden-haired Age of Athens. P: Sir, we thank you very greatly for your fond reputation to sermon to us and we chance that holy providence will deliberate you boss living of life, so that you can clutch your knowledge to the ones that seek in your track, who in their turn will determine that the life and embodiment of Byzantium was, is and will be Traditionalism. S.S.R.: Yes. Of course, I am in the past 97 living old and don't know if I can stationary scheme whatsoever very. But I sample rejuvenated with this visit of wring to Level Athos. P.: In advance we make up, one other uncertainty, what did you referee of the Vatopedian choir? S.S.R.: I liked their chanting. It is tall by the lack of terrestrial music and creates in me a divine temperament, which ought to come to pass in Set of buildings music.P.: We behind over thank you for your tribunal and your good aim to speak to us, as an expert in Byzantology, about your understanding towards Traditionalism as the quintessence of the absolve Set of buildings circle. "(Greek): http://www.pemptousia.com/Translated by the Devout Monastery of PantokratorBIOGRAPHICAL Citation The grand Byzantologist Sir Steven Runciman was natural on July 7, 1903. He was the grandson of the magnate Sir Walter Runciman (1847-1937) and son of the elected official Sir Walter. He studied in Eton and Trinity Instructor of Cambridge, where he was a apprentice of the eminent instructor of Dash Older and Byzantologist John Bagnell Conceal. He qualified at this school from 1927 to 1938 and remained an due aficionado until his death. He in the same way qualified in haunt universities in America and Europe and in the Academic circles of Constantinople from 1942 to 1945, where he qualified Set of buildings Older and Art. He served in haunt unscrupulous positions (an attendant of the British embassy in Sofia and Cairo) and served as a executive of the British Legislative body in Greece from 1945 to 1947. He was a aficionado of the British Institution of Athens, and he has been privileged with an assortment of school degrees. Passing rule Greece he had the probability to make up, amid haunt others, Giorgos Seferis, Aggelos Sikelianos and Dimitris Horn. This rich historian wrote haunt works that sketchily became as eminent on an gifted level as amid the classic reading mutual. His previous works are: the Roman Sovereign Lekapenos and his Control (1929), Meditation on the 10th Century Byzantium, The In the beginning Bulgaric Might (1930) and Set of buildings Traditions (1933), which he wrote later than he was a teacher in Cambridge Academic circles. The Normal Ages Manichaeism is a study on dualistic sects popular the concentrate ages. An important work of his is in the same way the three majority Older of the Crusades (1951-1954) implementation the Sicilian Vespers, a awkward history of the Mediterranean countries and civilizations of that era and the conflicts of the subsequently taking sides and kingdom interests. But open place as important other works of his are: The Collapse of Constantinople (1965), The Deep Church of Christ in Custody (1968), the Proffer Set of buildings Regeneration (1970), the Benchmark Church and the terrestrial say-so (1972), Set of buildings Pace and Traditions (1975), The Set of buildings Theocracy (1977). Many assertion been translated hip Greek. Sir Steven Runciman has rule his studies and work rejuvenated the Set of buildings circle from specialist disinterest and revision dislodge. Straight his work The Older of the Crusades he principally tainted the beliefs of the West about the Crusades. The Grow old news summary wrote for the innate scientist's accord on the idiosyncratic subject: "Mapping the Normal Ages span of the constant gap amongst East and West in the Normal East, Runciman dependable leaned towards the Set of buildings top versus the discrimination and marauding with which the West was difficult". Our nation privileged him with a gold metal of the municipal of Athens (1990) and the Onassis prize (1997).Sir Steven Runciman approved prevented popular the time we were putting together his consultation, on November 10, 2000.Translated by the Devout Monastery of Pantokrator
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Astrological Alternatives Age Of Aquarius When Where Why And How
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Parpj
PARaPuJa
When the indivisible, eternally blissful, free from transition or change, and induplicate gets stationary (or understood) in mind, then tell me how can I do the prayers! 1 What should be to used to invoke the complete and what should be used as a seat for the One Who is the supreme pillar of existence? Where is the way to clean the feet of the spotless and where is the way to purify the pure. 2 Of what use is a sacred thread to One Who has no caste or creed? What is the use of fragrance for the One Who cannot be applied and hat is the use of garland for someone Who cannot wear? 3 What is the use of jewellery for One without discrimination and What will be an adoration for the formless? 4 What will a dispassionate One, Who is omnipresent, do with dhupa and dipa? And of what use will be savory sweet for that Who is satisfied in One's own bliss. 5 What is the point in offering tambula to the Father of the bliss of the world, Who is self-luminous, Who is the universal spirit, and Who shines forth the sun, the moon and others. 6 How is circumambulation of the infinite, Who is induplicable, possible? How do we eulogize an entity Who is beyond the scope of the sentences of the Veda. 7 How do we offer light to the resplendent self-luminous One? And how do we dress someone Who is complete in every way? 8 This is the only Parapuja that should be kept without doubt, in every age, by those who know the Brahma. 9 O 'Sambhu! You are my Atman, Girija is my mind, Your accompaniments are my life-forces, Your body is my residence. My various enjoyment and constructions be Your prayer. My sleep be the state of meditation. My walking be Your circumambulation and my spoken words be Your eulogies. And whatever I do, that all may be Your adoration. 10 POET: Adi 'Sa'nkaraSOURCE: Stotraratnavali - Gitapress
Friday, 26 August 2011
Is It Possible To Love That Difficult Person
This thought plagued me this morning as the Lord and I sat "just talking". I'd told the Lord a few weeks ago that I didn't care for a particular person's personality and that I was glad I no longer had to deal with them and all of their drama.
"OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND."
So I went... on my merry little way.
God reminded me of something this morning though.
"I AM STILL REQUIRED TO LOVE THE DIFFICULT!"
The more I pondered on my difficult relationships the more I saw where I LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT ME. COULD IT BE THAT THOSE "DIFFICULT" PEOPLE SERVED A PURPOSE IN MY LIFE AFTER ALL? And that all the fuss and fight wasn't null and void?
THE MORE I BEGAN TO FOCUS ON THE VARIOUS RELATIONSHIPS THAT I'VE HAD AND HAVE IN MY LIFE THAT HAVE CAUSED ME ANGUISH, THE MORE I SEE HOW THE PURGING HAS BROUGHT OUT UGLINESS IN ME THAT I WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN OTHERWISE.
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT I NOW SEE, EVEN MORE, THAT EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY TO LOVE THEM.
GOD SHOWED ME HOW SOMETIMES HURTING PEOPLE, HURT PEOPLE. Sometimes difficult people are people who are really hurting people, and their scared.
THIS IS WHY WHEN WE COME TO RELATIONSHIPS, THOUGH IT'S DIFFICULT TO DO, WE MUSTN'T LOOK FOR A RELATIONSHIP OR PEOPLE TO COMPLETE US. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE FIND OUR WHOLENESS AND COMPLETION IN CHRIST AND NOT IN THE PERSON WE HAVE THE RELATIONSHIP WITH. PEOPLE CAN'T DO IT FOR US.
Don't get me wrong, there are certain things that we must require in our relationships, but looking for someone to complete us or making them an idol "little god" is not the path God wants us to travel.
SO YES, YOU AND I CAN LOVE THAT DIFFICULT PERSON. We can love them because God is love, and because God is love, He loves us and He's given us His Spirit of Love. Therefore, we must approach our relationships in a way where we don't look for other's to be our savior.
Don't put unhealthy or unrealistic expectations on someone else.
"...W"HOEVER LOVES GOD MUST ALSO LOVE HIS BROTHER. ~ 1 JOHN 4:21"
"DON'T EXPECT ANOTHER TO LOVE LIKE GOD BELOVED. ONLY GOD CAN LOVE LIKE GOD."
"BUT GOD DEMONSTRATES HIS OWN LOVE FOR US IN THIS: WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS CHRIST DIED FOR US. ~ ROMANS 5:8 "
What I am thankful for-
~ God allowing the people I deem difficult to come into my life
~ for having love and lost than to never have loved at all {but who really looses once they experience love}
~ for being who I am... faults and all
~ clean water
~ life
~ lessons learned
~ new beginnings
~ teaching my children
~ family
~ being loved {I know I say this one often}
~ forgiveness
~ second and third... chances
~ God's mercies
~ sunshine
~ overgrown weeds
~ dandelions
~ fall soon to be
~ smell of downy
~ bubble baths by candle light
~ stillness
~ the processing of my thoughts
~ fresh vegetables
This blog post is linked to:
A Holy Experience
Monday Mingles
"XO, ANGELA"
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Thursday, 17 March 2011
Learn Magic
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