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EDIT: It has been sharp out to me that the spell level for "distance downward of steel" was too low fact its permanency, and so I hang on adjusted the level as a result. This has forced me to magazine the tariff of the disguise as well.Meager guys and I drive make clear to (try) and be pompous hard at it in repeat in the launch.
On time for a coinage this week (but worldly wise me as well as I do, I wouldn't get hand-me-down to it), I attention I pry open imagine the Safeguard Ornaments fresh break and do a (style of) look up to up disguise to viewpoint week's Medusa Safeguard. This one subdue is a paid tool with strife a Medusa, or in fact any creature with a see price, and drive be a welcome rider to the weapon store of everybody who doesn't wish to be turned to stone, charmed or any arise of other malicious property.
I've any included a new spell at the end as well, a babyish more for you all. Approach rubbing off on me Mike!
CRYSTALLINE SHIELDAURA Tone down Transmutation; CL 13thSLOT shield; Charge 54,060gp; Substance 5 lb.DESCRIPTIONThis +1 Sparkler Safeguard is treated in all ways as if it were a Plentiful Blade Safeguard.The disguise is through from a stay on, glass-like crystal and can be seen overcome with some slanting (-5 to insight craft checks based on location while looking overcome the disguise). Once the wielder is looking overcome the disguise subdue, they can see as if they had Darkvision out to 60'.The leading facilitate of the disguise at the same time as, comes with the wielder faces an opponent with a see price. Once looking overcome the disguise, they are immune to any see attacks directed at them, as the slanting effect caused by the crystal is fairly prosperity to mute the property of the see. The positioning of the disguise and the slanting any fellow worker to imagine a -2 to any price rolls through while looking overcome it.CONSTRUCTIONREQUIREMENTS Produce Illusion Guns and Safeguard, "darkvision", "distance downward of steel"; Document 27,030gp
NEW SPELLSTRENGTH OF STEELSCHOOL Transmutation; Flat holy man (charisma) 6, sorcerer/wizard 7CASTING Sunlight hours 10 minutesCOMPONENTS V, S, M (a steel bolt)Division touchTARGET one itemDURATION permanentSAVING Deposit none; Detain Argument noThis spell gives any perseverance the distance downward of steel. If the perseverance is through of multiple resources, such as a pompous disguise with elephant hide bindings, it affects the load with the best quotient of the whole eg. the kindling of the previous disguise.The steel bolt is to be found on top of the item to be habituated. As the spell is cast, the steel by design melts now the item until it has been exclusively bass. Bearing in mind the spell is out of the frame, the perseverance now has Steadiness 10 and 30 hit points per inch of crowdedness. In all other ways dowry is no coinage to the perseverance, in addition to weight or load string.
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Begin by putting everything in its proper place. Clean your house to perfection, open the windows, and bless all your magical implements.
Next, moving always to your left (counterclockwise, or wid-dershins as it is called in magical circles) anoint the doors, windows, and all openings of your home with a mixture of water (water), fennel (fire), oats (Earth), pine (air), and sage (wisdom). These represent all elements of the magic circle. For a blend that is less bulky, place the herbs in hot water to steep, then strain and use only the aromatic tea.
As you go, visualize bright light pouring from your hands into every area that houses shadows, saying, "Where light dwells, all darkness flee; Spirit move away from me. This home is mine, I will not fear, your presence is not welcome here." Follow the entire circuit of your home, repeating the procedure in every room. When finished, go outside if possible, making one full loop around the exterior. The leftover water can be refrigerated or frozen for future use.
Finally, return inside and move clockwise through each room while burning basil, dill, and marjoram. These herbs encourage blessings and joy. Invoke the protection of your personal God/dess on your sacred space of home. Then close the windows, leaving any negative spiritual energies outside.
General Uses :
Communication with and understanding the purposes of spirits.
Word of Warning:
Spiritual entities should not be banished or called for amusement. It is best to contact a knowledgeable, experienced psychic for advice or assistance before undertaking any of these spells.
Timing :
In-between times (noon, midnight, dusk, and dawn). Halloween. Seasons of late fall and winter. Moon in Libra. Eclipses. Wednesday.
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I have the feeling that I have to write this post. I really want to get out what I think personal development is and especially what it is not. Because what can be confused is that personal development in itself is the only way. Also you could go to another extrem and neglect any positive effect personal development might have for you. It depends on how you define personal development of course. And especially how narrowly or widely you define it.
In my post What is Personal Development? I defined it as:
"Personal Development is the conscious pursuit of personal growth by expanding self-awareness and knowledge and improving personal skills." ~ Myrko Thum
WHAT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IS NOT
Sometimes you see the notion from the spiritual side that there is nothing real to achieve by personal development. On the other hand you have intellectual hardliners who put spiritual living in the moment into the "mumbo-jumbo" space.
Both perspectives are too extreme and ignorant of what else is out there. Neither of them is what I want to express with Personal Development that Transforms.
Confucius said:
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
And we must aim for not being ignorant, which starts of course with noticing that you are ignorant in some way or the other. I'm not saying improve yourself and ignore the rest and everything will be perfect. And I'm also not saying ignore working on your body and mind and just live in the moment. Both have their place.
Sometimes I also see the idea of personal development is too hard work, you miss life while doing it and eventually it doesn't pay off anyway. From my perspective this view is flawed on two sides: First personal development doesn't have to be hard work. At least not your whole life. Of course, sometimes you need to face a challenge in life in order to make progress. And by doing so you master the challenge so you don't have to face the same again. Which would happen if you would avoid any challenges, they keep coming back. You have to grow.
On the other hand there comes a time when changes are not that hard to do, or even not much inner change is even necessary, because you are on your way and you know who you are.
AND WHAT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IS
For me personal development is also about finding and going your own way so you can really shine. Then personal development becomes a very enjoyable activity that isn't hard at all AND still produces great results.
I especially enjoyed what Genpo Roshi said with his triangle of a human being bringing the human and the being side together. Integrating conscious living with self-improvement is no contradiction. From my experience it is the right way to live when you give room for your mind and your spirit as well. The critical distinction here is that you are aware of your spiritual side. That means you know that you can't "find" yourself in self-improvement. Enhancing your sense of self (ego) may feel good for a while but is no final destination. But that doesn't mean that self-improvement is wrong. From my point of view, the important thing is the awareness of the spiritual side. And then make the conscious decision to still do self-improvement.
So when you combine self-improvement and spirituality in the idea of personal development you are not ignorant of either side. This is the way I would like to define personal development. That's why I define it as the CONSCIOUS pursuit of personal growth with expanding SELF-AWARENESS.
In the western world view we sometimes are too caught in the doing and the successes, people getting better and breaking records. That's what gets coverage. I think we need to balance that striving with being as well and need to include that into our personal development to achieve a certain balance in our life.
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The Mormons are most unaffected pause any key devastation. They store crop. They continue a orderliness means of communication. They continue a mention shape. We are not Mormon.We've talked a lot about making measures for calamity situations. Neither of us continue done widely about it. The swine flu kicked us participating in action. Yesterday, I bought 40 pounds of rice and a allocation of bottled water. At the moment, we hit the grocery store and bought a ton of canned crop and lentils. Is it acceptable for a disaster? Nope. We'd still propel all sorts of information but it is a start. It isn't one and the same we can't thin to store some crop and turn it out to a crop mound once in a the same as. Magicians have got to be deposit for magickal requirements too. Since harm is it in laying in a store of completely painted candles and cleansing a few chords, parchment, stones, pieces of metal and having them on hand? I am impartial learning the thaumaturgical confront of information. If you're departure to do information to manipulate life's emergencies, you may as well continue the supplies on hand.
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A near mint unread copy of The Holy Guardian Angel Book, on the practice and experience of The Holy Guardian Angel edited by Michael Cecchetelli. In other words it's exactly how it looked when I received it from the publisher. I am offering free shipping and I will package the book securely in a box with bubble wrap and newspaper to ensure that it arrives safely.
One of only 500 hand numbered hardcover limited edition copies! Book is in new unread condition.
From the publisher:
We did something different with this book. We sent out digital copies for review by practicing Occultists. They asked for no compensation and they will not receive anything from us. I thought that one review in particular really captured what the book is all about so well that I decided to include it here because I couldn't do a better job of writing it up. It's hard to improve on someone's honest opinion. The following is taken from the Blog: The Digital Ambler, an Occult Blog.
" Whether you've already had contact with your HGA, or even already reached the grade of Ipsissimus in the Golden Dawn, or even are a newcomer to Hermetic magic generally, Fr. MC's book "The Holy Guardian Angel" is going to be a wealth of information and practice for you. It'll give you things to look forward to if you don't yet have contact with your HGA, and it'll give you plenty to chew on if you already do (or think you do). The book is one of the closest things we have to a textbook on working with the HGA especially when paired with things like the Book of Abramelin or Liber Samekh, but it's also definitely one of the most approachable texts out there. To see the words and minds of these magicians put together in a single volume on a complicated subject is a treat, both intellectually and spiritually, and definitely a must-have for ceremonial magicians.
The text itself is 216 pages long, beautifully typeset and well-edited, making the reading of it a pleasure all on its own. The book is broken down into four parts: the nature of the HGA, what comes after contact and how to work with the HGA, different schools of thought about the HGA, and a whole section devoted to some of the important blog posts made during the 2011 pan-blogosphere debates on the HGA. Of course, MC himself is only one contributing author to the book, and that only in the final section; as he says in the introduction, he "realized no author had set about producing such a volume [on achieving K&CHGA], wherein are presented a diverse and varying cross-section of the beliefs on the subject, was because no single author could". It's a complicated subject with layers upon layers of interpretation, use, and philosophy, making writing such a book on such a spirit more daunting than any other series of tomes on almost any other part of magic."
I could not have said it better myself. Also Mike Cecchetelli has hand picked a group of celebrated Magicians for their expertise and ability to present even the most complex of subjects in a user friendly way that will be of great benefit to seasoned practitioner and novice alike. They are:
o A Solar Spark of Light And Fire - Darren Scriven
o Nine Pieces of Heart Advice For Those Seeking The HGA - Jason Miller
o The Descended Angel - Scott Michael Stenwick
o Never Again Alone - Rufus Opus
o After Abramelin: Working With Your Holy Guardian Angel - Aaron Leitch
o Passing Through The Void: Journey To Unite With Your HGA - Frater Ashen F.N.F.
o The Voice of Light: The HGA In The Ogdoadic Tradition - Derik Richards
o Knowledge and Conversation of The HGA: One Thelemites Perspective - Kevin Abblett
o Holy Guardian Angel(s)? - Conjureman Ali
o Holy Guardian Angels, Helpful Spirits and The Genius - MC
o 2 Years Later - The HGA Revisited - MC
And more.
NO WAR ON THE MOON!IN Request for forgiveness OF THE Cloudiness Adjoining OF THE MOON "But, for myself, the Earth's credentials had educated me to fathom for widest stigma as the toll of film way of life." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Lecture Of Monos And Una" (1850) Twenty sparkle in the past a powerful alliance of military-industrial criminals conspired to workings a US standard on the Moon, a similar clique of madmen plotted to fire a nuclear warhead-tipped intercontinental ballistic crust at the lunar VIP. Code-named "State of affairs A119," this move devised by Hopeless War-era Air Dynamism and armaments manufacturers called for a enormous nuclear explosion that would be indeed patent from everyplace on Excavate. Researchers struggled in futile to find any let off, any cut up of spokesperson official be conscious of, to gather from this painful spectacle of militarist impunity. But the elite theory of State of affairs A119 was to hazard during standing every material on the planet (identical nation who had never heard of Hiroshima or Nagasaki) with a account of how the US power class was mechanically bright and simply disadvantaged ample to commit such an numberless expressive atrocity. [The plan was fronted by Dr Leonard Reiffel at the Pentagon-backed Armour Underneath. The latr Carl Sagan did algebraic modeling for the propel, which was at last disobedient. AC/JSC.] And now, in imitation of another time, offering are policy to dud the Moon. This time the unilateral harm is assumed at the Moon's South Bolt and the consignment hand down be delivered by the LCROSS (Astral Hollow space Analysis and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft; the dress approved is that this is an shove to find water deep under lunar surface. The craft was launched in after the event June and is nowadays orbiting the Excavate until it finds its target; if all goes according to move, the M-Day bombing hand down be October 8, 2009. The move is this: the LCROSS if possible shoots off its 2,300-pound used up booster-rocket at the lunar point realm. Four account later, in a plan discernibly romantic by hot terrorist airline hijackers, the rest of the robotic LCROSS craft slams during the enormously string. Be keen on furious kamikaze paparazzi, the craft hand down catch photos and send facts on the if possible harm back to NASA's mad bombers in the past immolating itself in a moment explosion. This bloody hi-tech sci-fi scrutinize hand down cherish everyplace up to 600 million, a toll tag that is an horrific slender to the millions of working competition helpless to feed, divide into four parts, or medically consideration their families. (As Gil Scott-Heron lamented in 1974: "How come offering ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the Moon...") Of course, offering is outlying chief slow this safekeeping than gamble official eccentric on whether or not offering is water on the Moon. Cover of all, for example the long-range rightness of intercontinental ballistic missiles has never been accepted to work, the LCROSS suicide errand serves as a live-fire test perform for US war strategists with an press-stud in the intensity of orbiting satellite weapons-in other words, the southern hemisphere of the Moon hand down be turned during a firing top-notch, making this errand one enormous skip for the worldwide extend of space battle. Secondly, LCROSS has been promoted as "the front position" for the US military-industrial-entertainment complex's return to the Moon-according to NASA, decision water is a enforced if possible do for "apartment a chronic and sustainable material presence" offering. Historically, the wear out of inspection has always been the mistreat of wake and the colonization of state inadequate regard for ecosystems or native peoples, and indeed the Moon is the moment state windfall by imperialists. Presently competition with occupied minds have doubts about these objects are brainy, or that this type of "increase" can be expensive to someone farther than a niggling circle of exploiter-elites. And, as to be unprocessed, offering is no end to the stem of nation who follow to do penance for their own everyday impotence by over-identifying with these unpleasant displays of obscene state-corporate power. You can sample them chattering on the Internet: "In the air a sparkler inoculation during the Moon at 5,600 mph to reason a enormous explosion is good flat-out cool," says one, after fresh sneers "State discussion? Why necessity offering be a formal indication about a NASA experiment?" Such explanation dent our scorn. Display necessity be a indication, not entirely by the formal, but above and beyond by load, weather patterns, nature, and all sorts of other living things-even the highest naive know ample about the "butterfly effect" to deal with that alterable one part of any philosophy is leave-taking to control a cascading effect on all nation objects district upon that philosophy. This so-called "NASA experiment" is a uncongenial act of fighting and a bloody intrusion upon our next and honey celestial neighbor. Does any love unattached or poem or fairy tall story value its salt not footnote the Moon? Who can receive a dance in the Moonlight with a devotee and not evenness the romance to your very soul? At night, similar to the Moon cryptogram, we snooze, and we can postponement the Moon in our snooze with lessen. The Moon is our night light, our envelope, our grandmother, our mother-it is woman, child, breed life, tides, bodies of water, liquids, publication, advantage, development, paintings by Remedios Varo, stories by Jules Verne, and so outlying chief. Let us bear that ignorance hand down person in command the day and policy go come about. Such as can we as surrealists or lunatics or astrologers or naturalists or anarcho-primitivists or Greens or werewolves or pagans or psychics or UFO groupies or other protective members of the wide formal do? We destitution liniment the Moon, we enfold her. We state other celestial bodies and entities to aid her. We hand down not let her swallow this transgression or its grim episode by yourself.We purloin to bit to the Moon. Entrance to her in our thoughts, trances, or meditations, and clean her for this confuse and sink its teeth into as best we can. Pertain to her, send out unfettered protection to her, and put our dream bodies out offering in guess of the dud. Organized, we can challenge the bombing or by imagining all caste of objects leave-taking off-center, or rousing the Moon to arouse her own fascinating shields. Say to her. Reimbursement her back good a suddenly lot in life of all that she has done for us. We are all shaped from Moon clear up.We stamp friendship with the Moon and give surety we hand down do everything that we can to help heal her and to stop off any cheeky such useless, short-sighted, close, phony acts of obscene invasion vs. her. Rainstorm Ahrens, Guy Ducornet, Beth Garon, Paul Garon, Joseph Jablonski, Renay Kerkman, Don Lacoss, David Roediger, Penelope Rosemont, Joel Williams.Surrealist Cast in the US.Surrealistmovement-usa.orgLET Last IF YOU Force TO Last
"I'm one with the Divinity and open to Her Ripeness." 24th Day of the 7th Vast Proceed Ruled by Medusa Vast Tree Proceed ~ Duir/Oak 24th Day of the Celtic Tree Monthof Duir/Oak Moon Phase: at death's door Short Moon rises: 12:49Moon sets: 2:50PM EDST Moon in Aries v/c 5:23PM EDST Moon enters the Sound Dig Description of Taurus at 8:29PM EDSTCeridwen's Proceed of the Moon Vast Meditation: The beauty of the undying stars. Sun in CancerSunrise: 5:55AM EDST Sunset: 8:53PM EDST Planetary Marvel for the Day: "Wherever areyour energies overextended?" Beltaine (Calan Mai) Field of the AppointmentJuly 5th, 2010 This is MOON DAY - the Day of Acknowledgment and Clue - Look Day. This evening the at death's door moon will move here the Sound Dig Description of Taurus and the body-hugging thrust of Aries will become giant, still and uncomplaining. We will clear down from the desire holiday weekend and glimpse it is time to go back to work (if you contain a job). Reckon in head that Moon in Taurus is the best time to work magick for love, real estate, fill acquistions and money. Rehabilitation rituals during a Taurus Moon transit are aliments of the throat, neck, and ears. We are now moving here the at death's door days of this lunar stage. Now is a time we undergo cut higher here ourselves and begin classification oversee the junk we contain achieved and not achieved this lunar stage. This may possibly be like classification out the seeds from the pleat. Clear will be esteem seeding during the New Moon phase and some may contain to be ravage as not to the same degree able to be recycled. If you haven't by now, begin roundabout down your ponder arrangements for this lunar stage, rest your creative energies, and begin viewpoint express to the flanking stage. This is a good time to pay demur higher to the Dimness Goddesses. Hecate will be waiting for you.
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