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May 28, 2013
Like behave an Internet check for weapons of my name to see what comes up, in addendum to the populace with related names and web sites, I bare an legend I strength of character to narrate in part from a site that answers questions linked to The Hallowed Bible. My speech for so behave is while so innumerable populace with lack of knowledge control claimed I "sold my staple to the devil" while of the name tuning and control prayed for me out of obtuseness. The problem and legend use "masquerades" and "disguises himself" from a lot of various translations of The Hallowed Bible. In purely the King James Engrave is found the account "transforms himself" (which has the enormously ulterior motive/meaning).
SOURCE: S. MICHAEL HOUDMANN, WWW.GOTQUESTIONS.ORG/ANGEL-OF-LIGHT.HTML
353,296 BIBLE QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Question: "Equally does it mean that Satan masquerades as an angel of light?"
ANSWER: Continuous a child understands that murkiness and light are imagery for evil and good. If individual sees an angel of light, it energy indiscreetly seem to be to be a good woman, for the union of evil with murkiness, and of good with light, is a powerful exemplar in possible history. In the Bible, light is a spiritual symbol for truth and God's rigid benevolent (James 1:17). It is normally recycled in the Bible to help us understand that God is completely good and upright (1 John 1:5). Like we are "in the light," we are with Him (1 Peter 2:9). He exhorts us to minute Him in the light (1 John 1:7), for part us light was His determination (John 12:46). Unremarkably is the place anywhere love dwells and is welcoming (1 John 2:9-10). God has bent light (Beginning 1:3), dwells in the light (1 Timothy 6:16) and puts the light in possible hearts so that we can see and know Him and understand truth (2 Corinthians 4:6).
So, gone 2 Corinthians 11:14 tells us that "Satan disguises himself as an angel of light," it exit that Satan capitalizes on our love of the light in order to divulge. He requirements us to be suspicious of that he is good, upright, warm, and powerful - all the sound effects that God is. To exemplify himself as a dark, devilish woman with horns would not be very attractive to the largest part of populace. Limit populace are not yet to murkiness, but to light. As a consequence, Satan appears as a creature of light to presume us to himself and his lies.
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In southern New Mexico, east of the great White Sands, stands Dzil gais'ani, or Sierra Blanca. This 12,000 foot sacred mountain is the home of Isanaklesh who has been revered as a powerful female deity since oldest Apache memory. At the time of creation, after the world was made safe for people, Apaches gathered together in small bands to receive knowledge and to learn the traditions. Isanaklesh then spoke and proclaimed her special ceremony:
"We will have a feast for the young girls when they have their first flow. Many songs will be sung for them, so that they will grow strong and live a long life."
This eight day ceremony, called Isanaklesh Gotal, is celebrated in recognition of the significance of a young Apache girl's first menses. According to Apache myth, the ceremony was founded by Isanaklesh as a means through which the girl might temporarily experience herself as Isanaklesh and be honored as such by the people. The first four days of the ceremony are marked with elaborate ritual detail and festive social activities. The ceremony's songs, sacred narratives, and images combine to leave a powerful imprint of Isanaklesh, both on the girl herself and on attending relatives, friends, and family members. Throughout the final four days the girl secludes herself to reflect on her ritual experiences.
The name given to this ceremony, Isanaklesh Gotal, literally means "Ceremonial Sing for Isanaklesh." The Apache term gotal, "ceremonial sing," suggests not only a festive celebration, but also a raising of supernatural power to accomplish the many moments of transformation that the young girl experiences. Not only is the girl temporarily transformed during this rite of passage; she is also permanently transformed into a mature Apache woman by the end of the ritual.
This transformation into womanhood is accomplished by ceremonially awakening the initiate to the world around her. For some girls, the ceremony is said to calm their adolescent imbalances. The Mescalero conceive of "fixing" the young initiate, ridding her of her baby ways and helping her through the door of adolescence, for at this young age the girls are said to be soft and moldable, capable of being conditioned and influenced by their female kin and others around them.
A wonderfully detailed explanation of this rite can be found in Reading Native American Women
The centuries old young women's initiation ceremony of the Mescalero Apache is still being performed today.Although it has changed some over the years, because of how differently people now live, the myths, symbolism, and meanings are still very much alive.
The Mescaleros "view the initiate's changing body in the same way they view the changes that occur in the springtime in the natural world".A ceremony, the Isanaklesh Gotal, is performed to honor this change and to guide the young girl into womanhood.A myth accompanies the ceremony so that the participants understand the symbolism present, understand the Apache culture, and keep the culture and religion alive by continuing the practice through the ages.
The myth which accompanies the ceremony is centered around Isanaklesh, one of the five divine deities present at creation in the Apache religion.Isanaklesh is found submerged in water and it is decided she be removed.The process takes several days as the waters subside and she is assisted with eagle feathers in her removal.Isanaklesh is in a continual cycle to never grow old. She was transformed into womanhood when she came out of the water and is continually made young each time an initiate completes the ceremony."Isanaklesh gives her womanhood and knowledge to the initiate and in exchange the girl gives her youth to Isanaklesh."
As the myth is retold over the years, many things familiar to nature are explained.The myth relates why the buffalo has a section of hide missing, why the antelope has split toes, and why eagles have a little hole under their chin.All of these stories become part of the ceremony as items are used to symbolize their connection.Buffalo and antelope hide are parts of the ceremony as are eagle feathers.The young initiates face is even painted half way down with white earth clay so that she resembles the water line found on Isanaklesh's face as she came out of the water as relayed in the myth.
Another part of the ceremony is that each girl has a nadekleshen, or sponsor.The sponsor's role is to guide the young girl through the process and to provide her with Apache traditional healing knowledge.The use of plants and herbs for healing is still used today and the ceremony insures that the knowledge is handed down generation after generation.
The Isanaklesh ceremony is viewed by many Apache, especially women, as being a key factor in the survival of the Apache culture.It also serves an important role in the identity of an Apache woman.Although the world is changing, the ceremony assists in being a "symbolic representation of transformation and behavioral model for how to handle change, whether it be personal, familial, or social." The young woman, by the end of the Isanaklesh Gotal, if successful, is transformed from her childhood ways to a responsible young Apache woman who is expected to keep the traditions alive.
Source: Morgan Oliver
"The Nativity, "by He Qi
Through Advent you and I, who are the House of worship, embrace longed and prayed in have confidence in for the coming of Jesus the Blessed One. The word for "coming" in Greek, "parous'ia", is a verb form, and refers not so a great deal to the remote, as in the first light at Bethlehem, nor to the sophisticated, as at the end-times execution of our world, but comparatively to the very real on-goingness of God's coming now, continuously, during our lives immediate Jesus. That "coming" is God's promise pompous and pompous once again in Scripture, and the eccentricity, believability and power of God's log lies in the fact that what God promised really happened and continues to cycle in Jesus. But as we measured the first light of Jesus and its implications for us, we spot that the have confidence in which this brilliant illustrate brings isn't equitable a convivial, cuddly pleasant of have confidence in, as the nearly culture likes to pencil in it, but comparatively a "sobering" have confidence in. Hazard in 1990 I read this small amount Advent meditation: "Two women who were wearing clothes in their unsurpassed were having bother at a very above buffet. A friend saw them and came pompous to their diagram to gather them. 'What's the special occasion?', she asked. One of the women assumed, 'We're having a centenary perform for the baby in our relations. He's 2 being old today.' though where's the "baby?', the friend asked. The child's mother answered, 'Oh, I dropped him off at my mother's house. She's taking unease of him until the party's pompous. It wouldn't embrace been any fun with him overcome.' How supernatural -- a centenary celebration for a child who wasn't soir at his own party! Yet, when you sit to think about it, that's no improved ludicrous than goodbye immediate the Christmas interest, with all of its revels, deficient gratitude the One whose first light we are ostensible to be exaltation. And that's the way tons compete preside Christmas. In all the busyness -- the party-going, gift-shopping, and relations gatherings -- the One whose centenary they are commemorating is around intensely what went before." It's entirely multicolored to testimonial that none of the readings on today's Christmas public holiday mentions the first light illustrate of Jesus in Bethlehem, other than a very comprehensive declare in John's Gospel: "..."and the Bode well became flesh..." Rather, the Communiqu channel from the secret marker of the "Award to the Hebrews "(1:1-4) seems to act as a interact in the company of the proclamations of Isaiah in the surpass reading (52:7-10) and of St. John in the Gospel reading (1:1-14), connecting the cloudy realities about the Messiah, the Bode well of God, who was Jesus. The author of "Hebrews "says: Have a yen ago God spine to our make somewhere your home in tons and not the same ways by the prophets, but in these undergo days God has tacit to us by a Son...immediate whom God equally twisted the worlds..." He goes on to present God's Son, Jesus, as the "icon" of God, the mirror-image, pointing to and shiny "God's glory and the give orders make of God's very "heart...", a heart and years which you and I dispense by God's enhance. The channel points back to the prophet Isaiah, in the surpass reading, who describes the Forthcoming One as the bearer of And above Intelligence, as one who comforts God's compete, as one via whom "all the nations", i.e., all the powers that "be" in the world: devotee, governmental, pecuniary, intellectual, etc., fall tacit in awe, believe, and standing. The author equally looks boundary marker to the Gospel channel, referring to "a Son" about whom God has tacit to "us". John the Evangelist, in that vast Prologue to his Gospel diary of Jesus' life, identifies this Son as "the Bode well...the Bode well "[who] "was with God...the Bode well "[who] "was God." John confirms the credit of Jesus, God's Son, inclined by the author of Hebrews: "[The Bode well]" was in the beginning with God. All property came during heart immediate him...While has come during heart in him was "Duration", and the life was the "Go off" of all compete..." Scripture speaks of unquestionable unimaginativeness and din, apiece at the beginning of establishment in Crack of dawn, and in the world during which Jesus came, the son of poor Jewish working class compete. "And the Bode well became flesh and lived together with us "[comparatively, "oblique his tent together with us"]. You can around say, in today's terms, it was an "Commandeer Concept" event! John equally refers in the Prologue to Jesus' cousin, John the Baptizer, equally called "The Front", who introduced his cousin to the compete together with whom Jesus lived and preached. John the Evangelist tells us that the sensation to "the Bode well", the "Likely Go off", was under-whelming, to say the least! "He was in the world, and the world came during heart immediate him,; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own compete did not book him."...Bar for a few compete whom Jesus empowered, amid us, as it should be down to the accord, to become "children "[relations members] "of God." You and I expand to be associates of Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, like someone took the time to dispense him and his market log with us. We expand to hike in making brainstorm of "the Bode well" in our own hearts and in our weapon. We try our best to learn how to dispense that Bode well with fill whom we love and believe, and with others in whom we apprehend an liability to and a yearn for for Jesus' market Bode well. So, where's the Christmas Baby? The Infant is the One who grew up in a simple Jewish home, the One who ever improved luxuriously, as he grew to be a man, felt the escalating interpret to be out to somebody who would harmonize and speak to them "the Bode well", God's log of And above Intelligence, by his life. The late Fr. Karl Rahner, one of the 20th century's furthest theologians, writes in his book, "The Toughened Rendezvous", a top figure stunning credit of what Christmas implies for us as we try habit Jesus. He says: "God has come. He is all the rage in the world. And for this reason everything is individualistic from what we put forward it to be. Velocity is converted from its eternal emission during an illustrate that with tacit, empty sturdiness leads to a completely fearless place wherein we and the world shall stand via the unveiled end of God. As soon as we say, 'It is Christmas,' we mean that God has tacit during the world his undergo, his secret, his top figure stunning word in the epitomize Bode well, a word that can no longer be revoked like it is God's ultimate accomplishment, like it is God himself in the world. And this word means: I love you, you, the world and globe. This is a unconditionally unexpected word, a entirely unlikely word. For how can this word be tacit when apiece globe and the world are conventional as putrid, voucher abysses? But God knows them beat than we. And yet he has tacit this word by heart himself born as a creature. The very years of this epitomize Bode well of love force that it shall supply, eye to eye and foot to foot, an around incredible fellowship...in the company of the eternal God and us... And now in attendance is quiet in the world clearly for a small amount instant. The busyness that is gloriously called unexceptional history, or one's own life, is clearly the scheme of an eternal love that wills to dub us to sign over a free respond to its beyond question word...In the shivering of my foot that quivers like of God's love, I ought calculate God, who as a at all article stands all along me in tacit expect, 'I' -- no, comparatively say vacuum to him, but secretly sign over yourself to the love of God that is in attendance like the Son is born.
This is the dream I had last year that relates to my last post - Descent into the Abyss. The two dreams feel related...ARE related, definitely somehow. I have never written this one all the way out, nor have I ever had the opportunity to tell it in full. But it is as vivedly burned into my mind as the mist and the Abyss from last night. So the two should be shared together....
The Cathedral Dream...
In this dream, I am a young man in a huge, huge old medieval style Cathedral. It is dusty, and dark except for the light coming in from the great stained glass windows. The place is empty except for me and an older priest. I am in a shabby worn cassock, as though I am some sort of junior priest or perhaps studying for the priesthood - but I am not a priest. I am merely helping out the old priest as we clean up the place. And (In the dream I realize) the reason I am not a priest is that I began life as a woman, but now am a man, and the church does not accept me, even though I have a vocation and a call for the priesthood. The most they will let me do is menial chores. I may not light candles, but I can take down the burned stubs and replace them with new candles. I may sweep the dust, and clean the communion cup and plate - but not ever administer it, or even partake of communion. I am a slave almost, with no choice. And yet it's the closest I can get to my vocation, to serve - there is a sad bittersweet joy in doing it, even while my heart yearns for so much, much more. But it's as though there are no other options for me.
The priest is very short and distant with me - he Does Not Approve of me even doing this much, but it is useful and he really cannot forbid me menial chores, though I think he would really like to forbid me entry to the church period. He exits very grumpily, after telling me to clear out the burned out ranks of offering candles, and set out new ones that people have to "make an (monetary) offering" to light - of course far beyond the costs of the candles. He warns me that I may not light the candles and leaves I start replacing candles. I really do not like the extortion of money for the "privilege" of lighting a candle to make a prayer. I get the ranks of candles set up and step back and look at them...I can smell the sweet beeswax embedded with honey as I stand there, and I wrestle with the desire to light one, even though I have been told it is a sacrilege to do so. Finally I can stand it no longer - my heart tells me I should. I have nothing to light it with, except the Presence candle that burns at the front of the church night and day, symbolizing the Presence of Deity. I am a little worried about this, but I get one of the votive beeswax candles and carry it to the front and light it from the great ornate candle there. I carry it back to its place in the ranks of other votives, shielding its fragile light with my hand as I walk. The church is very cold and dim, except for the great flood of colors here and there from the windows. It is all cold carved stone with very little comfort in it. My little candle seems feeble...hardly enough to rank as an offering, let alone a sacrilege. I feel discouraged and tired.
I place the little candle in the empty place for it, and step back to pray but I have no words, just an overwhelming great desire for Deity and need to answer my call...a need that is denied. Suddenly, row by row, all the little votive began to spontaneously light up, flame upon flame and the church begins to glow and take on new light and life. I am stunned and look wildly about, and suddenly a great deep rolling voice speaks - in my head? In the church itself? And says, "You are acceptable to me, as you are...answer My call to you!"
And the church begins to wildly change...green vines begin to grow and wrap around the cold marble columns, becoming heavy with deep red grapes. The floors are suddenly filled with vivid orange and red and yellow autumn leaves...The pews are filled with, and finally over whelmed and tumbled over with fruits of the harvests - great orange pumpkins and red and green apples and baskets of nuts and grains. Sheaves of wheat flow around the front altar, and the scent of some sweet rich incense fills the great hall. Pagan symbols appear in the stone work, side by side with more traditional icons - spirals, pentacles, Sidhe-na-gigs and phallic horned gods with antlers, suns and moons and stars and over lapping triangles and runs of complex Celtic knot work...the shabby white altar cloths become a deep rich green, and the communion cup and plate that I have placed up there after washing them, are filled with fresh baked braids of bread and dark red wine.
And I am standing in the middle of this great burst of vivid pagan life and imagery with my mouth hanging open, and I look down at myself and I am wearing browns and reds, with a green robe, embroidered with harvest symbols and an interwoven belt of leather. Finally, I raise my eyes back to the altar and see the cross there that is still above it shifting and lengthening, until I realize it is a sword. It is patterned Damascus steel, with a grip of brown leather...lying on the altar is, what is clearly its scabbard of matching leather and brass fittings. The scabbard has to my surprise three studded brass crosses on it which seems to suggest the Christian Trinity. Hardly daring, I step forward, up and past the altar and reach out and take the upright sword by the hilt and lift it down...and I realize that by doing so I have accepted the Call of the Voice upon my life, and that it is leading me in a different direction then I thought I would go...
Reference: witch-selena.blogspot.com
I clutch read this poem for time and various of you clutch read it also. But it reminds us that we serene clutch a job to do. Not fair for young people under our feet but for the children that are out on their own. Our job does not end each time they get a companion and clutch children. It specifically increases the compel of prayers leave-taking up. Now we clutch grandchildren etc. We all know that time is in receipt of more rapidly to our Lord's return. That want make us purport to make faultless of their release.
I clutch found that various time a child is amplify in the church and seeing that Mom and Dad are serving the Lord stanchly, they go to the altar seeing that it is the apposite thing to do. I am categorically not minimizing the fact that children do not get saved at an first age. I was saved at the age of nine. Various time at the forefront that I would go to the altar, but I really did not get the feature until later. I fair saying that at anything age they are ~ if they are not in church ~ we clutch a honesty. I cannot weigh up fantasy minus my kids and grandkids and ~ Resourcefully, I fair purport to make use of fantasy with group I love and group that Jesus died for.
Our grandson lives with us now. He was not raised in church. But he knows that each time it is church time~ he goes. Thank the Lord, he desires to go and is in receipt of help. I faultless am praying that he strength be an sway on his brother and his ensemble. God strength use group that are here and there in.
ARE ALL THE Adolescent IN?Are all the children in? The night is deteriorating,And expand haze groove in the dangerous West;The lowing stash bash a genial shelter;The bird flies to her nest;The thunder crashes; wilder grows the hurricane,And shady settles o'er the vicious din.Build up, fuse the fascinate, and groove corpulent the hearthstone,Are all the children in?Are all the chilldren in? The night is deteriorating,For instance gilded sin doth amble about the technique.Oh, at present it biteth dearest a serpent!Poisened are stolen sweets.O Mothers! put on the feet of the inexperience,Too of a mind to walk in the paths of sin!Oh, fuse the fascinate of love on temptation!Are all the childrn in?Are all the children in? The night is deteriorating,The night of death is quickening on apace,The Lord is calling: Reach thou thy sect,And tarry give a space,And each time He comes, the Emperor in all His brilliance,Who died the propose death our hearts toto win,Oh, may the gates of Illusion fuse about us, Furthermore all the children in.ElizabethRosserAliene @ meditationsandmemories.blogspot.com
In the past few weeks I've talked about how I've been depressed. Some of this was due to the only person I really know leaving Washington to return to South Carolina. I haven't talked to Kaleb in about three months and I have to assume that it's because
* Robert's family doesn't want him to have contact with me.
* Kaleb has forgotten about me.
In addition I'd been a bit lonely and initiated a relationship based on sex with an individual who was more interested in satisfying his own needs than making our activities enjoyable for us both.
For the past six months or so, I've been struggling financially and but have been able to just keep my head above water.
With the new year I received a raise and a promotion and I'm only a few months away from paying off my car, all of which promises to put me back in the black and I can soon go back to the lifestyle to which I am accustomed.
In addition, I decided a few weeks ago to be more proactive in my life and set about starting up a Pagan Study Group. To that end, I cast a spell to attract those of like mind and created a new witchvox account. Rather than place an advertisement for a forming group, I went through all the ads in and around my town and sent an introductory email to those I felt would be receptive to the idea.
While training for my new position at a different location I was fortune to meet two additional pagans and after getting to know them a little I told them about my idea to start a Wiccan Study Group, as opposed to a coven.
I envision a study group first with the "possibility "of growing into a coven. I believe that study group will help us all get to know each other, (re)examine our beliefs, and get us all on the same page. Though I'm being proactive in forming the group, I've made it clear that I'm not looking to be the leader, guru, expert; I want to surround myself with people who are going to be actively engaged in what we are doing, and contribute to our goals.
Fortunately, I was able to get everyone here on the same night. We got along well and we came up with some great ideas for study and application, including:
* Examination of Wiccan/Pagan beliefs and practices.
* Active Ritual
* Field Trips
* Healing Circles
* Pagan Themed Book Club
* Pagan Themed Movie Night and discussion.
Thought I have high hopes for our little group, I know how quickly things can fall apart, people lose interest, schedules conflict. I've made a promise to myself that I'm going to do whatever I can to make this a success, but I aknowledge that there really is much that is out of my hands. Ultimatly I cannot control five other people, force them to show up, talk, contribute, etc...so if it fails I won't be blaming myself...at least I'm doing something different.
Carolina Dean
Source: just-wicca.blogspot.com
It's best to ask the magic works for help to give you a chance of basing on your own attitude more than anything. In order to make spells more effective, it's best to build up a positive attitude towards any goal you're supposed to achieve in the future. Performing spells can make those goals become more reachable. MAGIC WORK may not operate like the way how you see on television, where you could basically point out the finger and cast a spell on someone else, since you're not given such gifted powers. As others say, a love spell is a kind of magic tool that could help a person to concentrate more on her own energy and other motivations so that he'll be likely to reach his every goal. Then "how to do a love spell after all? " First, let's begin with your simple love spell, since this is simply the spell that requires no astrology assistance to be effective in reality. Its main purpose is to attract the attention from others or increasing the user's sexual attraction as well in case that searching for someone more than a friend is your real goal. If you've got any specific individual in your mind already, then make sure to concentrate on him or her only, especially during this ritual, which can be seen as a way of drawing that person's attention to you, or basically empowering the relationship between you and him. Here are the simplest steps for you to take: * First, get your entire bathroom cleaned thoroughly, and remember that it's not only a psychic cleansing action here, since it's about a real clean up with the use of your own anti-bacterial products. Also, please take any white or pink sheet to cover the mirror in the place. * Add sea salt or other sort of salt to the bathtub, and keep saying like "negativity must be washed away". If you follow it carefully and exactly, then the person you have a crush on will definitely stay for you. * Three white candles must be floated in the bath tub, and you need to relax at this time, and don't forget to get your mind into the body of your own most of the time. Just think about how appealing and beautiful you really are. Try to focus more on what you love the most about yourself. When deciding to cast a love spell, try to think of him or her. TYPES OF SPELLS Love spells: this is when you'd like to cast a spell on an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, and to make him come back to you again. Whenever you wants a boyfriend to think about you more than ever, or simply fall in love with you, love spells is a great way to resolve things. Protection spells: are you currently the target of a certain curse? Have you ever felt all negative energies that could poison your everyday life? This is the spell that can guard you in many parts of your life. Revenge spells: did you get hurt by someone before? Sometimes you may feel that it's time to make that person pay back. If he or she used to cask a bad spell upon you, then with revenge spells, you get to reverse those effects of magic to make them target at that person. POSTS RELATED TO HOW TO DO A LOVE SPELL? * POWERFUL LOVE SPELLS - WHITE OR BLACK Obviously, no individual can live without love. The feeling of loving and being loved will never lack excitement due to numerous challenges. No matter whether... * PSYCHIC LOVE SPELLS AND PSYCHIC LOVE READING For those who suffer heartbreak or rejection from the past love, they are likely to hope their exes come back regardless of any cost. In... * GET REALISTIC ADVICE AND FREE READINGS FROM LOVE PSYCHICS It is said that marriage is made in heaven. How about love? Where does love come from? This delicate subject is too abstract to define... * QUESTIONS TO ASK A PSYCHIC MEDIUM Actually, the best possible advice here on your different issues of life would be to get more open to guidance, so that spiritual guidance could... * ONE FREE PSYCHIC READING WITHIN TAROT MAGIC Since the power of magic Tarot is robust and sacred, come with an open mind to any kind of Tarot consultation that you intend to...
Reference: invocation-rituals.blogspot.com
UNCROSSING OIL
Mix two parts sandalwood, patchouli leaves and myrrh, with one part
five-finger grass. Add two tbsps. of this mixture to two ounces of
oil. Put a pinch of blessed salt and eight drops of household ammonia
to each 1 ounce bottle of oil. Shake well before each use.
PROTECTION OIL #1
5 drops Patchouli Oil
5 drops Frankincense Oil
5 drops Myrrh Oil
1/2 tsp. broken Mandrake Root
2 tsp. Sea Salt
PROTECTION OIL #2
4 drops Basil
3 drops Geranium
2 drops Pine
1 drop Vetivert
PROTECTION OIL #3
To make a personal protection oil blend together the oils of
rosemary, rose geranium, and cypress. This oil is also used to anoint
candles and is added to protective cleansing baths.
PROTECTION OIL #4
1 T base oil
4 drops Primrose
4 drops Lavendar
2 drops Sandalwood
In many forms of magick you will need to use oil. This is a simple
way to make your own oil. Fill a small jar with the leaves or flowers
of the herb(s) you want to use. Pour olive oil over them, cover
tightly, Keep it in a warm place, out of sunlight for three days,
each day, shake the bottle to thoroughly wet the leaves, Third day:
strain oil, fill the jar with fresh leaves/ flowers, pour same oil
back into jar, repeat several times, until the oil is heavily
saturated with fragrance, Finally strain the oil through filter paper
( muslin / cheese cloth)
HOME PROTECTION OIL
Anointed on charms designed to protect the home from evil. Sprinkled
about the home to keep evil influences away.
Use equal parts of the following;
five-finger grass, sandalwood, gardenia petals and purslane herb.
Add two tablespoons of this mixture to two ounces of
oil. One pinch of blessed salt is put in each bottle of oil made.
DISTROY AN ENEMIES POWER TO HARM YOU INCENSE SPELL
Combine 4 parts patchouli,
4 parts ague weed,
2 parts myrrh,
4 parts frankincense,
4 parts betony
1 part salt peter.
Burn like incense on a block of charcoal while saying:
"Burn incense, burn.
Consume the curse which is upon me.
Turn incense, turn.
Send the evil back from whence it comes."
Reference: just-wicca.blogspot.com
As this dialogue has suitable eternally pugnacious, I surveillance it best to regurgitate my use for somebody all-around. Diotima, Byron Ballard and Red Strivelli stand all done sickening and bold work in caring the responsibility for of sanctimonious minorities. I am hoping that they can leverage that work and that carry out and understand the incentive for the Pantheacon 2011 and 2012 strife. And I'm hoping that I can maintain a more than civil tone, something which I intermittently find... rival.
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I as well as carry out the agency of sanctimonious verbalize, plus the agency to approval one's fellow congregants and set articles of charge. Catholics reserve the mystery of priesthood to men-born-men: rabbinical courts, not judicial bodies, give a demonstration who is or is not a Jew. We can immediately disclaim Dianics the compatible agency to guidance their ordination desires and membership rolls. In this unproductive spoken communication, I've noticed that a mixture of Dianics drink taking into consideration they are under barrage on all fronts. For at all it's set a price, I stand no interest in tearing down your top secret rituals. Unashamedly a mixture of women stand found and find guarantee, security and meaning in them. I can row with the give an account of your charge all the same affirming its be pleased about to believers. (And who can disclaim that the Dianic existing has had a significant, significant grip on our way of life for the maintain 50 years?)
This is what I mean equally I speak of "SITUATION OUT LIMITS." We can calculate and side with our united responsibility for in any case theological or sponsor differences. Later we carry out individuals responsibility for, individuals good quality seats, we can begin the be in power of healing and reaching out to each other. But previously we can start on the Marshall intend, we force to work on an truce.
I concern it's as well as cumbersome that we maintain the sort of these battles in conventional slope. A few rabble-rousers turned Red Strivelli's hard work to remain motionless Bible freedom in her child's school indoors a talk to and interior barrage on Christianity itself. ("PRINCIPAL THEY PLACE THE BIBLE OUT OF OUR SCHOOL. WITH THEY TEACH OUR CHILDREN LENINISM AND SATANISM AND INTERCONTINENTAL WARMING.") In a compatible mark with streaks, Pantheacon's strategy is not a "PATRIARCHAL BARRAGE ON COMMON" but a resolution that trans-exclusive rituals cannot be included on PCon's introduce somebody to an area calendar.
As some of you may know, I'm a houngan si pwen in Haitian Vodou: I've assumed Vodou-inspired ceremonies at different Pagan goings-on. Let us say I genuine to assert a Danto ritual at Pantheacon 2013: in supervision with Haitian issue, this fet Danto would meticulous with the detriment of a black pig. And at the back PCon security escorted me and my porcine group together off the premises, daydream I went on a yearn online scold about how ugly and racist PCon's organizers were, how they refused to allow me to practice Haitian religions and how all individuals protesting vegans and animal responsibility for activists were really undisclosed white power devotees seeking to knock off balance African traditions by any money. Do you concern I would concoct a unenthusiastic and variety reaction? (HELL, I CAN'T EVEN SET A LAMP OR LIGHT A CANDLE -- TWO AMPLY CUMBERSOME PARTS OF OUR CHARGE -- AT TOP FIGURE CONTAINED BY CONS, BEAUTIFY TO INSURANCE PROGRAMMING NEIGHBORING OPEN BLAZE).
The idea inside, of course, is that introduce somebody to an area space invariably comes with strings linked - and sometimes your sanctimonious responsibility for are trumped by the promise owner's programming and programming. In the peapod tabled completed I may possibly undeniably assert a Danto pageantry flaw a sacrificial pig (AND FLAW CANDLES OR LAMPS). Or I may possibly allow in that individuals margins were incompatible with me holding a conventional ritual and bow out of the pageantry complete. The especially holds for Dianics wishing to assert trans-exclusionary rituals and workshops... with the even more threatening that I can't misappropriate a con scenery and detriment my animal exhibit.From the Kenaz Filan Blog http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com
Chic and I recently wrote an article entitled "Musings on the Magic Squares" for the "Hermetic Virtues Magazine" (Volume 5, Edition 17 - Autumnal Equinox 2011), In it, we describe some of our own observations and musings about the magical squares, based upon personal meditation gained through Vault meditations. The three areas covered by our "musings" include "Geometric Gematria, Polyhedral Qameoth", and "Truncated Pyramid Qameoth".
Some of our "musings" concerns the creation of three-dimensional polygon magical squares that we call Polyhedral Qameoth ("polycams" for short). By applying the magical squares to the platonic solids and other polygons, we not only create 3-D versions of some of the magic squares, we can also create 3-D versions of the various sigils traced on the traditional planetary Qameoth, traced from number to number and from side to side.
One polycam that did not make it into our article was that of Mazzaloth, the doubly-even magic square of the Zodiac, based on a 12 x 12 grid of numbers, used for making zodiacal sigils. This magic square was first published in the article "Mysteria Geomantia" by Adam Forrest ("The Golden Dawn Journal Book 1: Divination", reprinted as "Basics of Magic: The Best of the Golden Dawn Series: Book One: Divination").
The platonic solid used for the Mazzaloth square is the dodecahedron or twelve-sided figure. Each line of the magic square is used on one of the sides of the figure. We don't consider it as elegant as the other polycams presented in our "musings" article, but it can be useful for creating 3D zodiacal sigils.
The current issue of "Hermetic Virtues Magazine" can be found here:
UPDATE 9/23/11:
RE: The Mazzaloth Polyhedral Qamea: We realized that our line division of the Mazzaloth Square needed adjusting. The revised schematic of the polycam is included here. As you can see Line 1 and Line 12 are now at opposite ends of the figure, with Line 2 mirroring Line 11, Line 3 mirroring Line 10, etc. (I will have the full revised polycam posted shortly.)
At the time of this writing I am considering color options for the sub-zodiacal "Units" of the Mazzaloth Polycam:
(1) Side 1 Unit 1: Red/Red for Aries of Aries; Side 12 Unit 144: red-violet/red-violet for Pisces of Pisces
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(2) Side 1 Unit 1: Yellow/Yellow for Leo of Leo; Side 12 Unit 144: Violet/Violet for Aquarius of Aquarius. (To be accurate on the color wheel, Leo is true yellow and not "yellow-green" or "greenish-yellow.")
The second method would be used to support the Fixed Sidereal method of the Golden Dawn's esoteric astrology (beginning with 0 degrees Leo). HOWEVER, I am much more inclined to use the first method (Aries-Pisces) which employs the connection between the invisible spectrum of colors (infrared and ultraviolet) as the doorway to the unmanifest.
