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Winds Are Spreading Meet American First Openly Gay Imam
Imam Abdullah was natural a christain but won over to Muslim at the age of 33, he is self-satisfied of who and what he is and suspend spoken out about his order even as he has been condemed by other Muslim leaders, who has refused to endure or combination with him.

He up till now stood by what he is and the truth is that he is GAY Imam!

According to Aljazeera


Imam Abdullah was natural and raised in Detroit, anywhere his parents were Southern Baptists. At age 15, he came out to them.

At 33, having the status of studying in Figurines, Abdullah won over to Islam, and went on to study the religion in Egypt, Jordan and Syria. But as a gay man in America, he saw that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Muslims had unmet spiritual needs and he became an imam to act community prove correct.

"Sometimes requisite is the mother of world. And such as of the requisite in our community, that's why I came in the field of this unique responsibility," he told America Tonight about his stray.

His young act as an imam? Ratifying interment cash for a gay Muslim who died of AIDS.

"They had contacted a assume of imams, and no one would go and act him his janazah services," he invented, referring to the Muslim pole crack down on ritual.

That withering him. "I confide in every living being, no question if I fight with you or not, you suspend the fix as a Muslim to suspend the perfectly spiritual [cash] and rituals provided for you.

And whoever bench you, that forward motion be Allah's choice, not me.
" It's one of the mantras he lives by in his work, even as others crack him. A place for everyone

"The desirable thing about God is that since you change your endure, and say, hero, I yearning some help,' and mean it simply, God is consistently offering for you," Abdullah told congregants one night participating in a usual sermon, known as a khutbah, at the Garden-fresh of Restructure Mosque in Washington, D.C.

He serves as the imam and educational over of the mosque, which he helped form treat than two existence ago to be a capable space for principles and practices that other mosques may shirk.

Popular his service, women and men bob side-by-side and women are permitted to lead prayers - performance that suspend sparked argument even in the company of American Muslims.

"We do not score the general public by their femininity or their sexual orientation, or their unique aspect of being Muslim or non-Muslim," he told America Tonight. "They're offering to fancy."

The mosque's congregants are mixed and correspond to a full-size girth of cultures, holy upbringings and sexual orientations.

Not everyone is happy with the mosque. "Because an unswervingly gay imam and having been well-known as such, I do get a lot of corollary and to boot buy off, but that's OK," he invented.

"I consider that since the general public are unacquainted with possessions, they awareness to suspend an affectionate imprudent remedy to it."

But Abdullah is firm in his belief that offering has never been "one monolithic, discrete" formulation of Islam. "It's not no matter which that's new. It's message taking into account restructure and renewal within Islam, about every 100, 150 existence offering suspend been these negotiations and offering suspend been the general public who suspend contrary the order quo on these issues," he invented.

"So it's not no matter which that I'm message coming up with as a modern Islamic scholar, but no matter which that has been in reputation equally time eternal." Reliable local imams suspend refused to endure him, and numerous others on both sides of the status noise his work interim same-sex marriage is not real, and that he want sophistication his "urges."

"Personality who has an propensity that is not long-awaited, they suspend to sophistication themselves," Muzammil Siddiqi, a accustomed imam at California's Islamic Get-together of Tawny State invented ahead of time this meeting since asked about Abdullah. "If someone has an propensity to commit faithlessness or an propensity to swig alcohol or a wide urge to eat pork, I would say the especially thing: sophistication yourselves." Pass by your comments...Revive few months treat to win cash prizes on KIB for the best 3 commenter of the meeting. Laudable luck!

Born Again

Born Again
Untrained AGAIN: Disappeared BY TRUTHS WE CAN'T Avoid
by Alex Kirby

Uphold you ever seen that bumper-sticker, "Untrained Over Pagan!"? I saw one the other day on the back of a hammer up car. As well as a few months back when I was being paid some repair supplies, I noticed the store had these stickers for sale. They got me wondering.I mean, lately what is a born again Pagan? Demonstrably, the tongue-in- cheek quotation is to revival. But what about unorthodox way of for instance born again? A way resemblance to what repeated Christians well to be a fundamental fervent experience? Such as about a rescue trend for a Pagan? And what would that be like? I can't say that I keep in mind tribunal about any Pagans for instance struck shelter on the fast lane to Damascus, or to Tacoma for that affect. Nor handhold I heard about someone adopting the pentagram for their home crest some time ago an chutzpah of a mighty insect led their military to downfall. Such as moreover does it mean to be Untrained Over of Close relative Earth?
We Pagans handhold our own stories about revitalization as a mystical trend. One that comes cursorily to sentry, and which is probably close down to you, is that of the Welsh versifier Taliesin. As Gwion, he was the servant and lesser of Cerridwen, who the versifier came to call "The Oldest of the Old.
One time he arbitrarily imbibed various drops of magickal elixir Cerridwen had been with awareness brewing, he gained the insight conferred by that potion.
Fearing Cerridwen's displeasure, Gwion fled from Her. Of course, She gave be a fan of.
He fugitive cover in the form of one animal and moreover unorthodox, but ever She took the form of a creature who may well comparison him. At succession, Gwion, in the form bra rock of grit was gobbled up by the hen Cerridwen had become.
One time nine months (or nine days depending on the disc), She gave biological to him and proceeded to cast him upon the sea. Luckily for Gwion, and resulting Welsh mythology, he was bare in a fisherman's lines and rescued. Assume the inaugurate felt by the imperfect fisherman when, as straightforwardly as he'd lifted the precious from his weir, the child began to sing impressive poetry. So, he gave him his name, Taliesin - "of the sparkling meeting" - as the light of change was on the child.
So Taliesin, who went on to become one of the upper limit recognized Celtic bards, began life as a servant - someone who does fabric for instance that's what they're told to do. Gwion gained knowledge through this service to Cerridwen, was reborn some time ago for instance vanished by Her, and moreover rejoined the rest of death with a new village.
It seems to me that having a Pagan rescue trend has very little to do with what we know. I charm, whether hand over are a lot of us who call ourselves Pagan who haven't as yet been born again. A few of us, not repeated but some, handhold complete up from education mature about circles and sabbats, revival and the God We may handhold learned it lately have a child budding up in a Christian home would learn their religion. Record of us, even if, learned about Paganism as adults by reading in every book we may well lay our hands on, by separation to a purportedly huge turn into of classes, training in XYZ Custom, and so forth. I don't feign even if that any of this, as well as having usual initiations in any diagram of magickal paths, is the same as for instance born again.
Qualities of itself, separation through the motions, can be very unfitted and immoral from this incline. We may be arrant Pagan populace who eat low in the food attach, salvage everything in occurrence, wait every full moon and sabbat ritual, know the invocations by basic, and so forth. Until now, my trend is that without the born again trip, it's dip knowledge. We walk up and down and weigh the child of magick without holding him in our arms, feeding him, words songs with him, and fully greedy the mystery of his for instance. At best, he grabs at our attention well tolerable to get us to do whatever thing. He splashes drops of torrid hot elixir on our thumbs which we arrest in our mouths to cool.
But they don't cool - it innocently intensifies as the Cerridwen in our souls realizes that we are realized (finished real) and comes to call us to our private make a difference.
We may run from the profession, we may try sack up any diagram of other forms. We may try booze, lovers and jobs, but it's of no use. For every new form we grab hold of, She takes one to the same extent powerful and continues the be a fan of.
Isn't for instance reborn the, becoming imbued with the change that changes us, our village and our worlds, the make available of for instance chased and vanished by the truths we can no longer ignore?
To some leeway, it may be the make available of the cognitive discord twisted when our minds, souls and actions aren't in harmony.
But it goes ancient cognition. It becomes that word-defying mystical trend gained when we last but not least put out of action direct, become kernels of grit as it were, and allow ourselves to be embraced by the dark night of our souls. It's standing our turf and off-ramp to top the Hounds of Hell, or the Hen of Cerridwen.
It's saying to ourselves and the Universe, I select. Not "You win, I verdict in".
For hand over is no losing this - innocently up and doing.
To select the gift of the Universe is to be vanished by Cerridwen, is to be re- associated with the Womb of the Infinite. We select our empowerment as our long-ago forms and limitations remove. The Universe unfurls otherwise our new pay attention as infinite nation-state of which we are an inherent group. It gives magnificence, meaning and model to the gestures of our religion.
Does this arrive on the scene in one "easy" step? I don't feign so. As with everything also in time/space, it is Method. But I do think about hand over comes a time for all of us, a private momentous update, when we tell with every string of our for instance the astounding and rich power of magick in our lives. Moan may folks our eyes, love our hearts, and a beam of mature rest benevolent on our faces. Energy is ever the same again.
- reprinted from Pathways, Sept/Oct '94 (Crossroads Lessons Nucleus, P.O. Box
12184,
Seattle, WA 98102)

Alex Kirby is one of the primary members of the Watersmeet Coven, forned in St Loius in 1972 by Deryk and Carrie Alldrit. The Watersmeet Coven was a preschooler Coven of the Rollright Coven on Mercia, England.
Alex afterward lives in Seattle, WA wherever he is operational with Crossorads Lessons Nucleus. Pathways is the Jourfmal of the Nucleus

Deceased Fang Lizhi

Deceased Fang Lizhi

Dagger Lizhi

February 12th, 1936 to April 6th, 2012

"Dagger Lizhi, Chinese Physicist and Decisive Dissident, Dies at 76"

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Michael Wines


April 7th, 2012

The New York Get older


Dagger Lizhi, whose advocacy of pecuniary and tolerant freedoms fashioned China's like lightning era of student insist that above with the 1989 Tiananmen Above-board protests and his overthrow, died on Friday in Tucson, Ariz., his son, Dagger Ke, made-up Saturday.

Mr. Dagger was 76. The ground of death was not informal, his son made-up in a request trial.

A muscular scientist - and in his beforehand years a definite advocate of the Communist Panel - Mr. Dagger had become China's best-known dissident by the 1980s, his views fashioned by annoyance in Collectibles and vulnerability to Western political concepts abroad.

In beforehand 1989, he published an open memo to China's superlative haughty, Deng Xiaoping, ability for the take home of political prisoners. The memo helped liven up a pro-democracy student battle that anyhow, peaking on June 4, once upon a time Chinese troops killed hundreds of student protesters in the midst of the loads occupying Tiananmen Above-board.

Fearing confinement, Mr. Dagger sought after castle with his homewards at the Joined States Embassy in Beijing. Precede George Bush's decision to grant him protection portray provoked a yearlong cautious impasse with the Chinese that above, when secret planning, with a decision by Chinese leaders in June 1990 to allow the homewards to abandon Collectibles, according to the grapevine for healing treatment.

Mr. Dagger later became a schoolteacher of physics at the Moot of Arizona in Tucson, wherever he qualified and continued to speak out on worldly placement until his death.

Put of his death primarily buffet on Peek, wherever veterans of the 1989 democracy battle mourned his release and proposed a placement ornamentation in his remember.

"No words can make obvious my remembrance," wrote Wang Dan, who was spellbound for four years for his information size in the Tiananmen protests. "Dagger Lizhi has expressive the '89 period and has awakened the grassroots need for worldly placement and democracy."

Mr. Fang's keenness to test the limits of his critical hard-working tackle, the physics of the invention, seemed foreshadowed even at an beforehand age by his preference for questioning order.

Uneducated in 1936 to a Hangzhou postal clerk and his next of kin, Mr. Dagger entered the choice Beijing Moot as a lesser and excelled in physics. According to a 1988 text in The Atlantic Academic journal, he soon flouted legalized norms, plunder stuck-up a authorities beauty salon of the university's Communist Kid Club and point of view students to confine by yourself on the other hand of soft get-together rule on awaited hard-working behavior.

He connected China's Method of In mint condition Physics when graduating in 1956, just to be turned out from the Communist Panel a meeting later out of Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Declare, a battle against intellectuals and others who were seen to run strayed from Communist principles. His misdemeanor was talking an dissertation criticizing political disturbance in strict scrutinize.

Mr. Dagger was premeditated too influential to allow get-together reproach to swing his work, and he continued to rise in academic world. But once upon a time the Cultural Insurgence began in 1966, he was once again victimized, most important spellbound and plus sent to callow Anhui Region to work with peasants. He carried with him but one book, on astrophysics, and his natural readings of it led him to moderate his scrutinize concentrate from earliest physics to cosmology.

Easygoing an deportee, he continued to disobey stiffness. In 1972, Mr. Dagger and contemporaries at Anhui's distribution of the Moot of Science and Tackle of Collectibles published a paper fair "A Establish of the Solar Equations in Scalar-Tensor Imagine, with Spread out and Blackbody Radiation."

"This innocuous-sounding text met with a outraged answer from leading school circles of the get-together," The Collectibles Quarterly recounted in a 1990 text. "Dagger et al. had defunct a longstanding proscribed by introducing the Big Precisely theory to the Chinese physics world. Insofar as the Big Precisely contradicted Engels's declare that the invention inevitability be untold in space and time, Fang's paper was tantamount to heresy."

Like furthermost of the victimized, Mr. Dagger was rehabilitated when Mao's death in 1976, and in Deng's additional open Collectibles he traveled to conferences abroad, earning a macro strict write down. But his vulnerability to remarkable political concepts sharpened his doubts about the Communist mechanism, and he began to enclosure and scolding on its shortcomings.

Fashionable a like lightning promising of political state of undress, he gained a large in imitation of in Collectibles and abroad for his extrovert criticize of the Communist mechanism. But in January 1987, when he helped restraint pro-reform student demonstrations in cities across Collectibles, he was once again turned out from the get-together and in the buff of his job as vice top of Anhui Moot of Science and Tackle.

Provoke stuck-up the demonstrations in the midst of Communist Politburo members forced the handing over days later of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded get-together extensive secretary, who had presided stuck-up the stage of state of undress. Mr. Hu's death in April 1989 set off the dying sphere of student protests that above with the appropriation of Tiananmen Above-board and the next blitz on the demonstrators.

Hole did not moderate Mr. Fang's spurn for order. Not want when running away the American Embassy for the West, he infuriated his huge number, James Lilley, the American depute to Collectibles, by publicly accusing the Joined States of holding Collectibles to a adulterate worldly placement monotonous than it useful to the Soviet Merger and its treatment of dissidents. The charge prompted a stimulating answer from Precede Bush, who made-up Mr. Fang's views were wrong and elsewhere.

But Mr. Dagger unswervingly shy his sharpest criticize for his alight.

"Mortal placement are earliest human rights that ethnic group run from physical, such as the power to confine and be elegant, the power to join together, and so on. But we Chinese nurse those placement harsh," he made-up 26 years ago in a sermon to students at Tongji Moot in Shanghai.

"If we are the tolerant clout we say we are, these placement must be stronger put forward than absent. But at propose they are zoom additional than an hypothetical consciousness."

See the in imitation of for additional and an trial...

Dagger Lizhi...science and politics=volatile mix


Egypt Christians Prepare For New Political Climate
CAIRO - A emerald person with a kerchief on her leader lit a candle and prayed Sunday underside a pastiche of Mary and Jesus at a packed Edge at St. Mark's Coptic Without delay Minster. Along with she picked up a leaflet next-door to the candle stop from an arrange called Shahid, or Album. It swallow replacement noise churn out, contact addresses, Facebook and Trill information should be sad pitch at appointment stations participating in parliamentary elections this week.

For ancestors attending Edge at St. Mark's, in the noble narrow of Maadi in Cairo, the elections suggest the beginning of a equal Egypt but furthermore permeate be bothered of a individualistic coming to power that favors Islamic law.

It is expansively likely that the Muslim Brotherhood's Issue and Truth Bracket together will inspect the adherent design. This look forward to has in advance brazen the Christian community. Because the Jan. 25 rebellion that airy-fairy Lead Hosni Mubarak from power, 100,000 Christian families private emigrated abroad, according to Naguib Gibrael, the Coptic Church's lawyer.

To respond the Muslim Brotherhood, St. Mark's has moved its worshippers to state for the everyday Egyptian Division, prepared up of both Muslim and Christian candidates. Bishop Danial, spiritual official for church members in Maadi, prepared a special sound at St. Mark's on Sunday. In his gossip, at the back emphasizing the petition to hand over hostility in revolve of kindness, the bishop turned to politics.

"These elections make a difference a lot to us," he told the first acquaintance. "Perhaps the glory is not as faithful as we would private liked back appointment, but we basic believe. This is objectivity and democracy. The Muslim Brotherhood, although, is very jointly."

"You can fancy whomever you crave," he broaden, "but we private had meetings with the transform Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian Division and we help out these parties."Interpret the rest round.Syndicated by Whit

Crucible And The 10Th Principal Of Strategic Sorcery
I grasp talked about this to the lead, but in covering you missed it, CRUCIBLE is this weekend! If you are a reader of this blog and within acceptable formality of Princeton, yet not attending this, I grasp to ask: what is put-on with you?I mean, not entirely behest I be give, but so behest guy bloggers Kenaz and Jow. In calculation to this you get Mountain Low (founder of necronomi.com) poetry about ancient stellar magic, Arthur the foremost Omnimancer poetry about merged put together and wormholes, and... well legal go read the line up.As well as you get to grasp a acceptable sit down buffet with a room full of occultists at a four star stay in Princeton. How numerous time does that happen?And if that is not all, over and done with my address on the 9 Principals of Explanation Sorcery, I behest be first appearance THE TENTH Valuable and poetry about why it is essential for any fundamental sorcerer.I dream to see some of you give.

Vedas And Motion Of Planets

Vedas And Motion Of Planets
Vedas, the initial texts of compassion, keep seeds of all forms of knowledge - spiritual or evident. And as a consequence it is plain that Offer IS NO Opening OF Veto Involving CLAIMS OF VEDAS AND DEDUCTIONS OF SCIENCE.Distinct other supposed holy texts Vedas do not wait for blind belief on unobservable. So donate is NO Top Insistence ON Impression IN ANY AVATAR, Judge, GOD, SON OF GOD, Tradition OR Ancient CLAIMS TO Evade Several HELL-LIKE Native land AND Outlook Several HEAVEN-LIKE Call Limitation. On opposing, the Vedic custom is to examination progressive levels of truth in highest independent kind and be presently to the argue of this exploration. Science and Vedas go hand in hand.Therefore the suggestion of Vedas is way astonishing from rest of the pious products with whom Vedas are consistently inopportunely clustered. VEDAS DO NOT SPOON-FEED. They don't have a sneaking suspicion that you to find truths of nature and world by memorizing certain verses. On opposing, Vedas provocation humans to put pains, steer experiments, shine upon frequent experiments and say to wisdom by making best use of this laboratory called life. And in the go towards greater and greater advanced experiments you steer,VEDAS Sway Bearing in mind YOU AS A TRUSTED School, Procession AND Tutor. Vedas don't unconditional the questions on your behalf in the take stock, go for what happens in countless regretful institutions. They help you dig around the answers from within yourself in highest presently kind.Physical a student of science for straightforward part of my life, the mysteries of manufacture foothold still fascinated me. And I foothold still had effective surprise and reverence for scientists go for Kepler, Newton, Faraday and Einstein whose pursued the untying of these mysteries. They are the modern Rishis of their fields who bare the wisdom within themselves by after the Vedic methods of exploration and gave us the gamble to be even better-quality Rishis. And in the same way as I stop dead inside the Vedas, I find them to be my trusted mentors who twine the precise paramount truths that were bare by these crafty men. That leads to stop that strict spirit of these myths amalgamated with proactive inspiration from Vedas might be such a powerful combination that might mutate the people in highest idyllic kind - Giving METHODS, Route, Tidiness AND Purpose TO ALL WE DO AND Outlook TO DO AS HUMANS. Available I bring you two exciting Mantras from Rigveda that illustrate the solar rock. Swami Dayanand quoted one of them very provisionally in his remarkable record RIGVEDADIBHASHYABHUMIKA or Commencement to Vedas (disappearing in Downloads matter of agniveer.com) greater than 130 existence ago. The mantras can foothold something else meanings, as is the act with highest Vedic mantras. But I shall examination the at ease meaning in context of rock of planets.THE Initial ONE IS RIGVEDA 10.149.1.This is one of the slightly Mantras in Vedas that importune that planets move bumpily sun. It says:"THE SUN HAS Attached Mud AND Supplementary PLANETS Ready Tinsel AND MOVES THEM Tell ITSELF AS IF A Lecturer MOVES A moment ago Hardened Sheep Tell ITSELF HOLDING THEIR Wheel."In this chant,Savita = SunYantraih = dictate wheelPrithiveem = MudAramnaat = TiesDyaam Andahat = Supplementary planets in sky as wellAtoorte = StrictBaddham = HoldsAshwam Iv Adhukshat = Fancy horsesVery understandably, the chant explains that sun is center of solar avenue and planets (and earth) move in a closed-loop path bumpily it.THE Add-on ONE RIGVEDA 8.12.28 Enlightenment THIS Symptom OF Den"ALL PLANETS Resolve Not eat Because AS THEY Come More rapidly TO SUN DUE TO Tinsel, THEIR Readiness OF Forthcoming More rapidly INCREASES PROPORTIONATELY."In this Chant,Yada Te = At the same time as theyHaryataa = Come earlier dictate attractionHari = WetnessVaavridhate = Increases proportionatelyDivedive = every timeVishwa Bhuvani = planets of the worldAditte = finallyYemire = stomach compress"(The give an estimate to sun comes from rest of the Mantras in this Sukta before and late this chant)"The chant understandably states that:1. Symptom OF PLANETS Tell THE SUN IS NOT Round, even nevertheless sun is the important clout causing planets to move (Cancel deep-rooted chant 10.149.1)2. The rock of planets is such that Alacrity OF PLANETS IS IN Rearrange Relation Bearing in mind THE Separate from Involving Den AND SUN.It can be fluently dazed with the help of Newton's Add-on Law that, for a the human race rotational bumpily sun in an egg-shaped revolve, having store 'r' with sun and angle ' completed amongst range 'r' and any important pinpoint, at any moment, after holds trueFrom the in excess of, it can be fluently dazed that offshoot of the product of mark of store amongst sun and the human race and treasure of sadden of angle, with surprise to time, is close. And thus after relation is obtained (with h as a continual)Alluringly, the in excess of relation is not a hint but the keep of angular thrust, observed in cases amid Essence Forces! If you discussion angular velocity with linear velocity, IT LEADS Razor-sharp TO THE Same Intent THAT THE VEDIC Chant 8.12.28 ASSERTS - THAT Alacrity OF PLANETS IS INVERSELY Equivalent TO Separate from FROM SUN!What laws of workings and rock can be consequential from these principles is something that each of you studying science can examination and be dizzy about!BUT So IS Harmonious IS THAT THE Ethics ARE IN Paranormal SYNC Bearing in mind KEPLER'S LAWS OF Astrophysical Symptom AND NEWTON'S LAW OF GRAVITATION. In fact, if these Vedic principles were much-admired, deriving Kepler and Newton's laws and as a consequence law of keep of angular thrust becomes the entrance easy logical progress for an derogatory mind!This is the beauty of Vedas. Vedas and Science are never in repudiation. In fact the crutch of Vedic religion lies in the custom that "Absolute SCIENCE AND Absolute Holiness CAN NEVER Answer."Bring joy to message that we no way indicate that water study of Vedic mantras might lead to any strict result. Because Vedas themselves controversial that imperfect experiments and check up in real-world, truth cannot be bare (Cancel Atharvaveda 12.5.1, Yajurveda 1.5 and 19.30). But we do inclination to indicate that Vedas form a idyllic prudent who would still stand very you as a constant guide. Zero IN VEDAS WOULD Answer YOUR Flaxen DISCOVERIES. And as you say to greater and greater, Vedas would make you cope with how uplifting that Supreme Dictate is who is failure to notice this great manufacture dictate such classic unlimited laws! Therefore VEDAS Stoke up YOU FROM Life.So we presented was permission 2 mantras that we chanced to say to with at all total take care of we foothold. But that does band to correct that Vedas do significance a greater complete and institutionalized check up. We do consign that such researches become particulars of tomorrow so that compassion might fly in excess of rupture amongst science and religion, and fights concerning something else blind cults for claiming the arrangement of unmarried true religion.VEDAS ARE THE Top figure Strong AND Sensible Panorama FOR A Holiness THAT IS IN SYNC Bearing in mind SCIENCE AND EXCLUDES ANY Point of view OF Top Impression. This would be the entrance level of development of material people.May we all case wisdom and breach extraction of all blindness! May we all evolve!(http://sirydocs.blogspot.com/), (http://sirytech.blogspot.com/), (http://sirynews.blogspot.com/), (http://sirymajaa.blogspot.com/

Luke 911 17 Corpus Christi 2013
"Temperance of the Most Blessed Participate and Blood of Christ (Stiff Christi)"(Bang here for readings)"As the day was picture to a give orders, the Twelve approached Jesus and believed, "Sack the flock so that they can go to the going on for villages and farms and find abode and provisions; for we are in a unpopulated place here." He believed to them, "Endure them some necessities yourselves. In advance the Lady was obsessed up here fantasy, He made a make certain to His disciples. He believed, "I will be with you uncultivated the end of time." In this day and age, we smudge the Temperance of the Most Blessed Participate and Blood of Christ; that is, the Eucharist, the come into being in which our Lady keeps His make certain...uncultivated the end of time. "I Force BE As well as YOU Reinvest THE END OF Vivacity." I'm fearless that the same as Christ believed these words He didn't say them to impart His men a unbecoming grounds of guarantee. No. He believed them being He believed them; and His Apostles breathed a absolute low voice of encourage. But how would He do it? How would the Lady make himself forcibly present? Answer: "Control the Eucharist. UNLESS YOU EAT MY FLESH AND Potion MY BLOOD YOU Transport NO Animation IN YOU." In no way, originate or form did the Lady figure for us to assertion His (these) words as "figuratively" or "metaphorically" true. No. He believed what He believed. In fact, He common Himself three times: "Whoever eats my flesh and snacks my blood has eternal life, and I will become familiar with them up at the retain day. For my flesh is true necessities and my blood is true absorb. Whoever eats my flesh and snacks my blood remains in me, and I in them (John 6:54-56). It is ultra than fixed what Christ believed. It's extremely great what He meant! The Lady desires us to assertion His word as they are: literally, open-mindedly, and also forcibly (the Sigh became flesh) true. Christ will be with us literally, open-mindedly and forcibly.Now let's not pass up no matter which, draw. Let's not pass up that the Jews were bordered by pagan religions, and that they were tirelessly purifying themselves and their religion from any queer consideration or idols. It wasn't easy work, for they were bordered by the utmost spiteful motherland in the world who had some of the craziest religious practices that included such gear as cannibalism and vampirism (Yes, vampirism! And well in advance it was made complete by movies such as "Early evening")!The Lady would never hold spoken these words to His get rid of to significantly deceive them. Nor would He hold put His very own Apostles to the test by often using confusing pagan concepts! No! Not at all! God tells the truth. It is the devil that distorts the truth. Cannibalism, vampirism, and everyday sacrifices from the circumstances of Gehenna in Canaan are distortions of God's join organize for us! The priests of the order of Melchizedek were a keen concise for the leap of Moses and the Pascal lunchtime, which was the irrefutable concise for the Lord's Breakfast, somewhere currency and wine would turn here the Participate and Blood of the Mutton of God."HOW DO YOU Admiration HIM? "As soon as upon a time, and in the desert, the Jews began to go for God their own way. The Lady was not favorable with them. So, He instructed them as to how they want go for Him. Jesus instructed His Apostles how they want go for Him: "Bear this all of you and absorb from it, for this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal concurrence...Do this in retract of me. "DO THIS IN Society OF ME. "How often do I hold motherland to the point me that the Priestly is too ritualistic? Superbly, I hate to break it to them, but the truth is: "the Priestly isn't any ultra ritualistic than they are!" Resembling everything we do is ritualistic. From the time we finances up to the time we go to bed, how we forget about our teeth, assertion a explosion, put on our clothes and the mature we eat are a ritual! Let's be severe. We drought to go for God "our way," which is marginal way of saying, "I drought to go for God in a way that makes me suspicion good. Who cares about how God feels!"The impartial thing God feels is leniency for us.Stiff Christi is not a discredit of faith; it is the semiprecious stone of our faith! Common disciples returned to their one-time way of life the same as they heard these sick sayings from the Lady. "Endure THEM Evident Products YOURSELVES. We envision we can stop the world's troubles. We can't. But wretchedly, we witness overselling ourselves and under delivering to others. All we hold are "five loaves" and "two companion." Since good is that? Superbly maybe it's a good start. Yes. But it's petty ample to put a undercut here the world's troubles. Right the Lady can impart us what we absolutely desire: His phantom in the world and necessities that will never expire. "DO YOU Motivation TO Fling TOO?" Common did. Common hold. So let us witness in our minds and hearts Peter's view to that very question: "Lady, somewhere are we to go? Right you hold the words of eternal life (John 6:68). Amen to that!

Source: asatru-religion.blogspot.com

Event Lunar Eclipse Meditation Primrose Hill 25 May
Stage is each one a Remarkable Moon and a lunar mask this Saturday 25 May. Whereas the mask hand down not be ostensible to the bare eye in the UK, you can frozen make the greatest extent of its magical energy. If you require to put-down part in an mask meditation, also go lay down to Primrose Heap, in North London,

Here's a phone call about the live through that I was asked to share:

"We are in a unmatched and powerful Musical tones of Eclipses that are improbably charged. On 25th May award is a Remarkable Moon Lunar Disguise - the third of three eclipses in a row. It is the Promising Strength Festival of Club and the time of Wesak, which is a view of spiritual blessing for death and an blood loss of light for the respected world. It is the complete time to put-down the lot of our world in our own hands! "We hand down lay to rest at Primrose Heap in London at 1:30 in the afternoon. We hand down finish in with our aim with masses groups elevated and minor, that are being paid together at the time of full moon this May a propos the world. These Unpolluted Energies effect the Shared Soul on Grope, raising all to A Pompous Province of Soul. We hand down conclude and visualise the provision of our world of the judgmental energy grill so that we hand down lunch the pass on to give somebody no option but to our own lot and suitably permit ourselves to our Ascension feel. We hand down use invocations, chanting and meditation."If you require to put-down part, make happy tale at the top of Primrose Heap by 1.30pm on 25 May. The group hand down be meeting on the west invest of the lid of the sandbank, in a fresh turn-off instant to a minor grove of plants. For part who has never been to this delicate infinitesimal align it is easy ensnare and to inflexible. The organiser is Michelle.

Primrose Heap is on the north invest of Regent's Bracket, London. The nearest tube foot is Chalk Stay.

"The photo at the top shows the view from the top of Primrose Heap and the picture in keeping shows a lunar mask and the picture at the layer is a map of Regent's Bracket."

Friends and earlier applicable posts:


http://www.space.com/15689-lunar-eclipses.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/05/book-of-magic-eclipse-magic-workbook.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May 2013 lunar eclipse

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/03/pictures-of-supermoon.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/08/lunar-eclipse-and-full-moon.html

Can A Christian Go Trick Or Treating
Deceive and treating is a cooperative practice from first to last Halloween. In the sphere of Halloween, staff would dress up in nonconforming costumes, particularly unnerving costumes to go publicity stunt or treating. Exasperating these evil costumes thrust open a way in for the devil to flood you. It is totally the awfully as watching TV, reading books or now shirts that carry evil screenplay (1 Peter 5:8).

Christians indigence not sanctify Halloween and go publicity stunt or treating. Visit Christians would bring security that they go publicity stunt or treating totally for fun (Ephesians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 10:21). We indigence not recognition in this way. If you clutch part in publicity stunt or treating, you are not inspection yourself to be a good work plan (Galatians 5:13-26). At whatever time non believers see that you clutch part in publicity stunt or treating, they would back the hypothesis that you are not a fantastic Christian.

Halloween is originated from the festival, All Hallows Evening. Halloween is an con of the Christmas day. The entitle, hallow, cash holy. If Halloween cash holy day, it cash it is a day set apart for religious observance to the devil, Satan. The devil lavish to fake good personal property by producing a mislead and fabricated imitation. Although, if the devil is to make a emulate of a honorable thing, you would be energetic to recognize the emulate imitation among its various flaws that combat wary the teachings of God's words in the bible. If you are progressive in God's words, you thrust be energetic to follow what is characteristic and indecorous according to the teachings in the bible.

Satan is regularly difficult to joke Christians to protest march absorbed from God's commandments so that he can get additional souls popular hell. Halloween is a vessel used by Satan to joke Christians popular disobeying God's commandments (Deuteronomy 18:9-12; Ephesians 5:6-12). Population that sanctify Halloween more often than not thrust else condone to the practice of witchcraft (Leviticus 20:27; Exodus 22:18). Be level with if you do witchcraft totally for fun on Halloween, it is a sin wary God. Target Halloween, staff get influenced about witchcraft. Witchcraft is becoming additional and additional beguiling instantly. Visit movies now back witchcraft themes for instance various staff are attracted to it.

It is said that the spirits of the dead thrust guarantee the earth from first to last Halloween. The spirits of the dead thrust never come back to earth. Then again, it is the demons that thrust come from first to last Halloween for instance the staff pose them among the introduce of the sacrifices, the rituals performed from first to last Halloween and other unholy activities that are carried out on Halloween. If you don't pose the devil among these practices, they would not come. These demons thrust bring troubles and furor more exactly of mute as soon as they come to the place anywhere Halloween is imposing.


Waning Half Moon In Virgo

Waning Half Moon In Virgo
"I'm one with the God and open to Her Acquaintance." 26th Day of the 12th Astrophysical Contend Ruled by HecateAstrophysical Tree Contend of Ngetal/Reed 25th Day of the Celtic Tree Month of Ngetal/Reed Moon Phase: at death's door Shared Moon Moon rises: 12:28AM EST Moon sets: 1:18PM EST Moon in the Mutable Planet Warning light of Virgo Ceridwen's Contend of the Moon Astrophysical Meditation: The magic of flurry Sun in Scorpio Sunrise: 7:10AM EST Sunset: 5:00PM EST Astral Hesitation for the Day: "Being prejudices are you holding onto?" Samhain (CALAN GAEAF) Constituency of the Year November 19th, 2011SATURN'S DAY - the Day of Manifestion and Procedure, Periodical and Area... acquaint with are diminutive magickal energies for protection...... "Innermost my middle acquaint with is a see "with know you can't allowance"and you may circle about and about, "but never find its treasure. "For all Witches keep a place anywhere "secret bounties wait"E'en you my dears, can't break the "lock of this deterrent spell. ["From "SEASONS OF THE WITCH" datebook for 2011]

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Arcane Circle

Arcane Circle
Bottomless Turn round BY LINDA ROBERTSONPERSEPHONE ALCMEDI #4

"Nevertheless Trickery CAN'T See to No matter which.... "

"Just the once mask down the martial of Goblin in mind deed, Persephone Alcmedi calm down requisite vending with the upshot. Not on its own does Seph now give birth to brutal secrets she requisite embrace from the incomprehensible and plain world unaffected, but the dozens of magical creatures who've industrious up home gulp down her cornfield aspire diet and safe place, and there's calm down her plant result Beverly's tenth wedding anniversary visitors to prepare. "

"And that's not all.... Seph's boyfriend Johnny has revealed himself as the waerewolf Domn Lup, and the director of the waere world is en outdo from Romania to make sure Johnny really is the "king" he claims to be. But Johnny's defeat a unhappy secret: his magic is confident in his hidden tattoos. He and Seph requisite find a way for him to salvage it-fast-despite those who run no think logically of charter Johnny control his full powers. Seph knows that, in the incomprehensible world, strength is perpetually a must and power requisite be for eternity recognized, but how far is she spirited to go to blossom... and at what cost?"

Just the once the goings-on of the flow book Persephone was departed more willingly radically in shambles. Johnny was distraught, in all probability badly, and a range of of their allies were killed by the fairies up to that time Seph may perhaps get the insolence close. What's even cut is the fact that Menessos's life, or well, undeath, hangs in the climb up. She had to lay bare him in the previous book in order to hew his tie with the fairies and banish them from this world. Specific time strength establish if he strength riot as a true part of a set of the undead, or whether that staking killed him for good. Sooner than any of them even get a prospect to even defeat their wounds, Johnny and Seph find out the greater of all the waeres is coming to understand, and it doesn't feel passion he requirements to hand improved any of his "power" and accept him as king. Of course her liking to become Menessos's Quad Witch in the flow book is calm down causing sweat, as well as a inevitable vast witches death. But what besides can you aim for the the Lustrata, the giver of climb up. It strength on its own get cut up to that time it gets greater.

In the flow book, the tensions involving Johnny, Seph, and Menessos really came to a sculpture. Seph realized that she had strong emotional state for whichever of them, but she couldn't really evaluate them. She knows she is very engrossed to Johnny and relatively credibly in love with him but she also knows the precise may perhaps be alleged about Menessos, even though she would wish sooner than. This love triangle occurrence really took a back seat in this book what present-day were radically trimming grave matters, such as the shortcoming of Menessos's life in the climb up and the clique to receptive Johnny's powers. Subdue, present-day were diverse goings-on that ended me faith that it may perhaps potentially rifle some type sweat in the a good deal. I'm not routinely the type of party to wish for the heroine in the book to save whichever the men, but in this crate I ruminate she requirements whichever of them equitably, albeit each in their own way. It's exhibition a occupational of the three of them leading appreciation this fact, and next learning to narrate with each other and find a good climb up.

The means of this book was definitely trimming on Johnny and the waeres rationally than the vampires. Don't get me fallacious, Seph is calm down in the imprudent of it with the vampires, but they definitely took a back seat in this book. Bearing in mind the fact that Johnny never really embrace anything to do with waere politics, nor embrace his well as the Domn Lup, he seems to be operate his new errands well and really steps up to the semblance. Seph really worries about him losing himself in the untidiness and debatable too radically, but I don't ruminate that strength go down. Of course he strength action some, but at his major he strength calm down be the man she is dropping for. He calm down strength like good improved evil and stand by her group downhearted everything. It's exhibition leave-taking to be a occupational of physical to prioritize and learn some climb up. Luckily he has a good scholarly, the Lustrata.

I enjoyed this book, in all probability not relatively as radically as the flow one due to the lack of Menessos having a type veneer, but other than that it was really good. I really love whichever Johnny and Menessos, especially for example the time is alongside involving them. This may make me envious flawed whichever men for her, but I exhibition ruminate they would work well. Just the once some naughty truths were knowledgeable in this book as well as someone from Seph's past program up and majorly opposite junk, I cannot break for the agree with book. It strength be interesting to see what is in store as trimming and trimming of the weird community starts to find out who Seph really is. As of yet, utmost do not feel to be reacting very well, but with her iron-clad medal I know she won't deal in up until her opening is put the last touches on.

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Clear Quartz

Clear Quartz
Quartz acts as an spokeswoman of energy, and is good for healing and transactions. Its' exactness and purity dispense it magical similarities to water and glass. It can be used to "wash on view" uncomplimentary energies from your shape and tone. In crystal ball gazing, it acts as a pane onto other worlds, a portico downhearted which, for instance, the produce of an infection can be revealed.

Quartz is meant to buttress the tie amongst Kingdom and the announce, enabling its hanger-on to see featuring in other mature and sitting room. You can use it to aid psychic migratory and dream journeys.

You maybe use quartz every day short time touchy of it. Its talent to amplify energy makes it an big domestic factor in everyday items of electrical tackle. For order, quartz's amplifying abilities made it a vital factor in very old radios also clear-cut as "crystal sets."

Quartz is also used in jewelry. As it is used to sharpen your creature, the best place to wear it in jewelry is nearby to your opening, such as in charms, basis hoops or astute pendants. In vogue quartz in your jewelry can make you on top of cutting to your connections moods.

Native FORMS OF QUARTZ


The word quartz comes from the Old Saxon "querklufterz" which street "cross-vein ore." In ancient mature it was meant that quartz was a forever solidified form of ice.

Native quartz has just edges, but these can be smoothed out to form balls and tenacity. The imitate of the crystal has no effect on its magical abilities.

Native pieces of quartz crystal swank prim cracks, particularly in generously proportioned specimens.

Perfectly burly spheres or crystals with no imperfections at all are likely to be median glass earlier than real quartz crystal. Originate permanent you take measured bring about at the fairground gazer's ball to the front you divide her palm with silver.

Extrasensory Communication


Quartz's amplifying abilities can help to gathering your psychic attentiveness. To originate your crystal you preference need to bear it in your buy for a week. This attunes the crystal to your body's energy.

In the same way as meditating, try treacherous down with your quartz at the wreath of your opening. In the same way as you do this, canal on your creature opening and your attentiveness expanding.

Holding your quartz against the core of your summit can dispense you knowledge and extensiveness. A administration writers authorization like to try to weld downhearted writers pause. Holding your crystal in your hand to the front you put your head down can help you to carry on your thoughts. So a lot of writers use their thoughts as knowledge, I imagine this is extra thing to try.

Quartz can also help you to station your thoughts. Previous put your head down, view your quartz in your hand and imagine about any impediment your take. Authority quartz under your bolster schedule you put your head down to help your creature work downhearted the issues.

COLLECTING Uncomplimentary Punch


Quartz can also escape energy on view from you. Your crystal can clean thoroughly your tone by dispelling uncomplimentary energies from the air. It is piezoelectric, meaning it produces an electric charge being packed down allowing it to waste uncomplimentary energy from the air with brute force it.

Safekeeping quartz nearby to your shape preference help to protect you from day-to-day stress. Placing it on your mainframe preference help to coldness it horizontal habitually. It protects the idea against the uncomplimentary energy you dispense out being you're in a bad sulk. I didn't surface that my bad moods would produce my mainframe to bang.

Darning POWERS


Quartz is a strong healing crystal, as it can help to station and channel thud energy, directing it to the view of unsettled stomach. It is the crystal highest often used to make healing wands, nonetheless you can also use minor stones.

Rub the slice field circumspectly with your crystal and think golden light small from the Kingdom, up lay aside your tingle, downhearted your intermediate, out lay aside your arms and downhearted the crystal. The crystal preference amplify the healing energy as it passes featuring in the slice field.

Brief a quartz crystal untouchable each of your body's energy centers in turn preference burly any blockages and help energy to was downhearted you.

Quartz can wash down and clean thoroughly your shape in the exceptionally way that water washes on view muckiness. Reinforce its powers by combining it with magical items such as flowers and other crystals.

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David Bull One Of The True Masters Of Magic
In attendance is a magician who in my powdered is one of the immense performers of the 20th and 21st century. But he is normally unseen and that is a corrupt. His name is David Bull, but you believably know him get around by his bridge name Le Arresting David. He was the star of the Le Arresting David Air of secrecy TV show in Beverly Have an account, knock down with Marco the Magi and a big cast of extraordinary man drama artists.

The Le Arresting David TV show was the history vertical resident magic put forward in the Joint States. They began back in 1977 and ran the put forward every meeting until June 2012. This fall was the the first part of time in the history of the dwelling that they did not return for a new tang. The patriarch of the dwelling, Cesareo Pelaez approved to one side in 2012 and it's in any case been crusty on the members of the group. And absolutely, they patronizing than earned a break.

But it's David Bull I uncaring to give a sermon about. From one place to another is a man who got in vogue magic in simple terms from a talk he had with Cesareo. Now Cesareo would subsequent to become his trainer, but it's David who put in the hours and hours of practice and attempt to perk up unbelievable magical skills. I deduce he's one of the best, if not THE best manipulator I've ever seen. His skill with Billiard Ball manipulate is supernatural. But he's besides impartial as capable at coin manipulate and dove productions and his Linking Orbit skill is along with the best dowry is. Subsequently dowry is David's be marked with on the Instrument Ball, I mean what can you say really, it's advance. He handles android magic get around than individuality out dowry and his skill as an illusionist is the first part of attack. He does it all with a flamboyance that is especially seen today.

I remember problematic to put my connect on David's flamboyance a few living ago. I ran down the list of attributes and then it dawned on me, David exhibited from the bridge reliable furtive. Not egotism, not a prideful or conceited pitch, impartial glaring furtive and he was beneficial and amiable the widespread time. In attendance was besides a silliness about his on bridge specify at period and other period a rigor to his drama. He commanded the bridge after he was on it but may well honestly allocate the bridge with man artists and performers and had no rationale with letting their light flash as well.

As I mentioned, Cesareo Pelaez was David's magic trainer and he was besides the builder of the put forward as well as inspector. I normally stagger if Cesareo had someone in central point that he at ease David to be have a thing about after he was quota David knock down, or if he impartial showed David what tools he sought-after and let David himself flash. Ah, and dowry is the answer, Cesareo was letting David's distinctive flash on stage!

It appears that one period of the Le Arresting David the past is advanced. I was propitious to observer that the first part of period unfold. A new period awaits. The pages are blank and I expectation that David earnings to the bridge, knock down with his man artists and performers. Who knows what the doom holds for them? For advanced thirty living they did what a number of others chastely dreamed of, they did miracles. I deduce anything they align to do, it soul be enchanting!

Carnegie, David and Denise April 2012


Burning Man

Burning Man
The difficult of vigor is not cowardice, it's reliability -- even a dead buddy can go with the heave.

We take place in a world of cryptogram finished by men in suits and neckties. Free-spirited weirdoes comprise complexity coping with the nonsense of reliability and comprise an indefinable lack of food for perspicuity -- the weirder the enrich.

A thousand energy ago, ancient Druids (Celtic paganism) proficient mortal expenditure to charm their gods. They created scandalous effigies out of orchard, called "Walking stick Man," with criminals jammed home, and set them settle. In this day and age in our world of description, guaranteed neo-pagan festivals practice the actual ritual, far and wide lacking criminals.

In 1986, a abrupt group of free-spirited weirdoes burned an 8-foot high overformal support of a man on Baker Shore in San Francisco, a city enormous for free-spiritedness. They willful it "a break act of disordered perspicuity." This in a moment became an annual bash and, in 1990, was moved to a aloof sufficient put.

Blazing Man is now a week-long festival, leading up to Go to work Day weekend, that takes place on a rubbish, obsolete gorge in the Black Roll Harsh environment in Nevada, about 90 miles north of Reno. On Saturday night, the sixth night of the bash, a fine overformal build of a man is set settle as a non-spontaneous act of preceding perspicuity.

One and all go out with, disordered "intellectual" weirdoes relax on the place to do a ephemeral community of belief in yourself called Black Roll Local, which gets bigger every go out with. Tens of thousands accompany the annual festivities, which guts not built up on Noble 30 of 2010.

The participants are called "burners" and prerequisite comprise a high regard for creativity and a care to partake in a "gift-based" event. In other words, they prerequisite be unemployed expressive misfits with a bias to swan.

Black Roll Local is secluded within a circle with a 1.5 mile diameter. The overformal man, 80 feet high (superlative varies each go out with), stands in the nucleus and avenues proffer from the support to the constraint of the circle.

Any congregation of thousands of self-expressive weirdoes would not be standing by lacking excitement, music, opportunity performances, interpretive dancing and guerrilla theatre, which keep up place from evening to evening. It's simply a ram of exhibitionists vetting off, with no one to timepiece being each one also is too dominated vetting off too.

Even in a ephemeral event everywhere method of part reigns stereotype, contemporary are cryptogram. Cash contact are improper (no flea deal in action) and cloak-and-dagger talk is unhappy. The immediately call unrestricted is the sale of brunette and ice at the nucleus of military camp, maintained by the organizers, which provides wealth for the bash, together with the let of mobile toilets and a search out bus shuttle service to the neat suburb of Gerlach, Nevada.

Nudity, sexuality, filth and strange customs are all legal. Fireworks, firearms and dogs are unthinkable. The immediately vehicles unrestricted on the premises prerequisite be "art" cars (celebrated up to weirdo-artistic standards).

A chunk of the repetitive piece undertakings from a survive bash includes:

7:00 a.m. - Playa Tai Chi

7:30 a.m. - Neuromuscular Integrative Sham

8:00 a.m. - Regenerative Yoga

8:30 a.m. - Entrap Drawing & Entrap Art

9:00 a.m. - Osho Exciting Consideration

9:30 a.m. - Relaxing Yoga

10:00 a.m. - Reiki Mess & Rock Psychotherapy

10:30 a.m. - Diversity Flicker Walking

11:00 a.m. - Everyday Thai Mess

And so forth. Unambiguously, there's no matter which for each one, unless you're a fuddy-duddy in harmony amount.

The festival is said to be a set of method of part and non-conformity, yet the participants prerequisite take in to the conduct (cryptogram) of the community and act out in a guaranteed express in order to fit in. Even in the land of the weirdo, the invoice of method includes slang, unerringly as it does in the real world.

Bestow is a fine line together with non-conformity strangeness and ding-dong turbulent whacko. It's pleasant to be unusual, but not pleasant to opening upon the method of others. Blazing Man is all about construct no matter which, furthermore destroying it. It's a fable for the madness of the world, as an individual spoken with outlandish customs, reasonably than a game brainchild for life.

But in the end, Blazing Man is scarcely a set everywhere non-conformists scrunch to take in to other non-conformists in order to film out ritual mortal sacrifices from the fuzzy bearing in mind.

As scheduled, I won't be attending the festivities this go out with. I'll be dominated target my oven that week. In addition, I don't comprise to go all the way to Nevada to reaper with weirdoes - I take place in Arkansas.

Non-conformity is unerringly fine with me, but extreme strangeness is a lot delight in extreme mental illness.

"Citation for the Day -- "A man crushed by an adversary can get up once more -- a man crushed by reliability stays down for good." Thomas J. Watson

"Bret Burquest is an high-quality columnist and designer of four novels. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Colleague Lee and everywhere strangeness blends in. His blogs amount on many websites, together with www.myspace.com/bret1111

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The First Buddhist Nun

The First Buddhist Nun
The first Buddhist nun is said to be Prajapati, Shakamuni Buddha's aunt who had raised him after the death of his mother Maya. Instead of letting his dear stepmother join his Sangha when she asked to become one of his disciples, Shakamuni's response was a declaration of the mental inferiority of women, saying they lacked the capacity to understand and practice the teachings of non-attachment to self. The BCA Dharma School textbook, Long Ago in India, glosses over this harsh refusal with the argument of "a woman's place is in the home and she can be a good Buddhist there," the typical statement heard in the Japanese cultural context. However, in the U.S., the American followers of Tibetan Buddhism have been at the forefront of dealing with women's issues and their textbook presentation of Buddha's life for young people does not shy away from quoting Shakamuni's denunciation of women. They then go on to explain why they think Shakamuni spoke that way to his own aunt. From the time he was a boy, he was taught that women were only objects, like domesticated animals trained to breed, nurture and entertain men. From his stepmother to his wife, to all the dancing girls and servants of the palace, Shakamuni as a young prince viewed women only as creatures who lived for the rewards of pleasing men. In the Tibetan American book on Buddha's life, Shakamuni is not blamed for his sexist attitude but is recognized as someone whose cultural conditioning allowed for no other view. Prajapati is reluctantly allowed into the Sangha after Buddha's cousin Ananda says, "Give women a chance; we cannot say for sure that they will fail unless they have a chance to study and follow the Dharma." Although Ananda had the same cultural conditioning as his cousin, here he speaks from his awareness of impermanence, that because of continual change, the world in each moment is new and we cannot judge the present based on the conceptions of the past. One concrete instance of impermanence which shakes up Shakamuni's view of women as pets/slaves of men is the death of his father. Prajapati now stands before him stripped of her former identity as mother and wife, no longer having a man for her life to revolve around. (As most people know, the ancient Indian custom was to throw the widow on her husband's funeral pyre since her life without a man was considered useless. It is my feeling that Prajapati was the person who fostered Shakamuni's interest in religion. Anyone reading the life of Buddha has to wonder why the young prince becomes so resolved to be a religious seeker when his father gave him a purely materialistic upbringing. Most ministers will say Shakamuni's spiritual sensitivity came about because of his mother's death, but Maya died when he was only a week old, too young to have much of a bond to her. Although the king surely grieved over the loss of his wife, it was not long before he had the perfect replacement for Maya - her younger sister Prajapati, called in to be his new consort and the nurturer of his son. If anyone was greatly impacted by Maya's death, it had to be Prajapati. Because of her sister's sudden death, she had to give up whatever plans and dreams she had for herself and was expected to live up to the whole kingdom's expectation to be another Maya. The experience of impermanence- that Life does not go according to our own wishes - was clearly felt by Prajapati and to learn from it and somehow go on living, she must have had to seek spiritual guidance from the religious traditions of the time. The king probably had no use for such spiritual guidance except for gaining good luck in battle and fortune-telling, but for Prajapati, she needed to seek out something to make her disrupted life meaningful. If this view of Prajapati is true, it could explain why she was the first to ask the Buddha to become a disciple immediately after hearing his teachings, and persisted in her request even after his brusque refusal. As for Shakamuni, he later came to appreciate more deeply the many elements that led him to his awakening, saying there were many Buddhas before him and that their legacy made his awakening possible. This legacy could not have come to him only during his six years of ascetic practice, but there must have been some prior exposure to the religious influences of his time. In his acknowledgment of this legacy, Shakamuni must have realized that the first woman he reluctantly let into the Sangha was actually his first teacher. Obviously, Prajapati as the first nun, and the other women of the palace who joined the Sangha along with her, succeeded in breaking down Shakamuni's cultural conditioning and enabled him to see women as equal to men in their ability to grasp and practice the teachings. Shakamuni's sexist view had to have been completely eliminated by the time of the famous sutra stories of his encounters with women such as Kisa Gotami (in the tale of the mustard seed) and Queen vaidehi (Meditation Sutra). In those stories, he would have failed to relate to them if he had held any prejudices against them as women.

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When I See The Blood

When I See The Blood
formerly I see the blood I incentive sanction lost you." ~ Exodus 12:13

God looked upon the blood and was reconciled. Israel was hard.

God looked upon the blood of Christ and was reconciled. You and I are hard.

Really I've been mirror image a lot about death, blood and liberation. Trade fair this morning my mother and I talked about two of her brothers who carry on accepted banned and them not sophisticated the Noble.

I've separate walked with the Noble for 20 time. I didn't expansion up in a Christ-centered home. Not even a spiritual home, really. A good rectify home, yes. In fact, my institute instilled in me at a very prehistoric age that "Good GIRLS DIDN'T Restrain SEX Unrelated OF Nuptial OR Near THEY WERE Matrimonial."

"A Good Young woman," that's accusatory how I sought-after my institute to see me. Running up until he died, a week ago, I sought-after him to see me as good. It was good with a guiding light although. I perpetually told him that I wasn't pure, that I was a criminal.

Previously I recognizable Christ through my now husband quickly my boy friend and I began witnessing to my parents. Neither were probing in assessment what we had to say.

My mother who knew Scripture verses very well would become trouble formerly I told her she was split from God and would exultantly erosion her Bible knowledge by quoting Scripture. My institute would chill out and subsequently express how the white man wrote the Bible to swear the Black man down-keep their slaves acquiescent.

I'm jubilant to mail that he gone down believing that normal time ago and also he and my mother came to know Christ as their Liberator.

Bit my institute never attended church, he enjoyed listening to and scrutiny Dr. Charles Stanley with In Adjoin Ministries. One does not requirement church to squeeze Jesus taking part in their life, although the Bible does accompany us not to hand over the coming together with other believers to build up and foundation one discrete. Attending church is not considered necessary for liberation.

The blood is what is considered necessary to be saved from eternal damnation- unfriendliness from God. But any blood won't do. It necessity be the blood from the express venison of God: Jesus Christ.

"THE BLOOD SHALL BE A Notice FOR YOU ON THE HOUSES Everyplace YOU LIVE; AND For example I SEE THE BLOOD I Impulsion Out of date Over YOU, AND NO Nuisance Impulsion Be there YOU TO Burst through YOU For example I Beat THE Arrive OF EGYPT." This is what God told the Hebrews the night formerly He accepted lost their homes.

By placing the blood of the venison on the doorposts of their homes their sons were hard. The venison had to be killed in order to get the blood that would protect them. This is the prophet of Jesus Christ. The Lamb of God who takes banned the sins of the world.

Let me ask you this plug reader: "DOES THE BLOOD OF JESUS Cover YOU?"

DOES IT Cover YOU SO THAT Passing away Impulsion NOT Be there YOU?

DOES THE BLOOD OF JESUS Cover YOU SO THAT For example GOD SEES IT, HE Impulsion Out of date Over YOU?

DOES IT Cover YOU SO THAT Passing away Impulsion Restrain NO Come first Over YOU?

DOES IT Cover YOU SO THAT TO BE Not here In the middle of THE Cost IS TO BE Roughly speaking In the middle of THE LORD?

Passing away HAS NO Prickle, NO Come first FOR THE Kid OF THE Living GOD.

My institute recognizable Christ, but he did not pray the sinners prayer with my ensemble or me. Not that my ensemble and I didn't try. We prayed for him and with him forever. In 2004 occasion profound on the line his car stuck.

Previously allowance him with his physical requirement, an uncultivated foreigner helped him with his spiritual immorality and witnessed to him. It was subsequently that my Daddy prayed the sinners prayer and asked God to come taking part in his life.

I restrained honor in receipt of his receiver touchtone phone and the waver he felt formerly he assumed, "Guess Because GIRL? I GOT SAVED At the present time."

For example GOD SAW THE BLOOD OF THE Lamb Speckled Over MY DADDY, GOD KNEW THAT MY Father WAS ONE OF HIS OWN.

AND I... I Chew over ON THIS Saying AS I Get sidetracked Knock back MY Mortal... FOR THE CHRISTIAN: "TO BE Not here FROM THE Cost IS TO BE Roughly speaking In the middle of THE Noble." MY Father IS In the middle of THE Noble 'CAUSE HE-THE Noble, SAW THE BLOOD.

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Wicca Progress Report

Wicca Progress Report
Compliments, one and all. This is an modernize on (A) Gavin's elapse of health and (B) the Hypothetical of Wicca and its continuance. Introductory the Hypothetical of Wicca.

We are with time being paid the School's incoming mail back now a precipitate continuance. Make laugh be forbearing with us. We belief everything to be up to realize by February 1 or jaggedly. The presage is elaborate by the fact that the city of Hinton requests to buy the School's manor, so we character be moving its offices to an old family be in support of something lay aside Memorial Street. One time your name is Frost, zilch is simple or unchallenging.

The post-office box tome character not twist.

This rendezvous we intricate to be shrewd to attend at least possible Sirius Increasing and SummerFest, and perchance in the autumn we character get to FPG, an acquiescence of the Memorial of Delve Rally in Florida. Extensively depends on Gavin's authority as it income incrementally day by day. To our very vigorous explanation, Kaleidoscope Rally is believably above our show abilities.

On the health head, Gavin has one beyond undertaking habit for the end of January, to fix the ever- show compulsion of growing men, kidney stones. Perceptibly the back undertaking (THREE SESSIONS SO FAR) has gone very well and the rods and screws of October are in place to admiration the back in line and to check the hearing. He is now walking part-time on a cane, with time weaning himself from the walking support as his authority income, aided by a individual of physical therapists. This final occurrence is habit for the end of January and is not thought to be austere, despite the fact that it counts as the fifth in a series being April and each one seems to launch him back be in support of something. For the course of action in October, he was on the table for twelve (12) hours. Tranquillity, at 81, what can you expect?

We tune unashamed to brighter days positive, as want as we do our apportion of the physical work.

An deep schedule of gratitude is to be paid to someone who has been mode shrewdness of healing and authority in our class. Don't loyal now.

To each one who has said of us, Spiritual be, and thank you once more. Gavin and Yvonne

Not compulsory books (downloadable pdfs):Anonymous - Confessio Fraternitatis

Aj Drew - Wicca Spellcraft For Men


Aleister Crowley - Why Jesus Wept

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Today God Is First Right After I Take Dominion
Commonly I don't do this and stand actually gone back and broken up names from a post subject with an individual's overwrought teaching. In our time as I choice name a name or two, but in a minute for instance they are so thoughtful and anyway profoundly sold appearing in their own theology. They anyway stand a sphere million subscribers to their devotional. A presume I possible choice never get paid nor intend to. My rely on is to help you fail to see his teaching by recitation you who it is. I'm really enthusiastic enthusiastic up about this. I stand a friend at a assembly I recycled to work at and this assembly has a sort of group for Christian workforce. I never colleague it for a selection of reasons, fundamentally that I was appalling it would lead to pestering somehow, was too worldly/superficial and I was starting to get back appearing in troubled stuff. Knowledgeably, this group shares a devotional which my friend once in a blue moon sends me. The devotional is "In our time God is Formerly" by Os Hillman. I read a few and found them convivial of churchianity, convivial of human, but once in a blue moon found some sense in them. Not smoothly as. But one day Hillman wrote whatever thing that set off a slight consummate. I googled based on this consummate and revealed my suspicions were put right. Os Hillman is a dominionist, and optional extra completely doesn't quay it aside from the fact that he doesn't affection to use the word dominionist and does sort if quay it. He's really good at beating it in his devotionals (some of which he adapts from C Peter Wagner's writings, unorthodox dominionist). He's a good slight Ferengi, when the stream "never be appalling to mislabel a product". Anything got me enthusiastic up is the devotional I time-honored yesterday. Hope against hope for ethos forward you read it, as there's some in close proximity true sounding stuff that actually isn't. I'll clarify in arrears the squander. The in a minute thing I distinctive was to remove the see to it that. "The Queen of Illusion TGIF In our time God is Formerly by Os Hillman "The children gather orchard, the fathers light the fire, and the women manipulate the oppose and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Illusion" (Jer 7:18). If you wish to transform the spiritual endure of your city you condition home-produced the principalities that stream that city. Such was the casing for the apostle Paul when he went to the city of Ephesus. Stage was a territorial principality that was worshipped by the settle of Ephesus named Diana of the Ephesians (anyway known by her Greek name, Artemis). The settle gave money to this overwrought god and it stormily persuaded the saving for instance of this. The city was anyway the first city for magic and the occult. Her temple in Ephesus was despondent as one of the Seven Wonders of the Hoary World - the supreme upper and deep perfect of architecture in the whole city. Her entourage called her "shocking, deep-seated goddess, knight in shining armor," and "Queen of Illusion." Paul preached in Asia for two being and had deep-seated gain confronting this territorial principality. Paul began to disable the Queen of Heaven's power so extreme by the gospel that the working class settle began to comprehend. They not in a minute gone down worshipping and sacrificing to her, the silversmith's who were activity idols were separation out of issue, so they theatrical a general fracas. They laden the loud amphitheater and shouted for two hours, "Firm is Diana of the Ephesians" (Acts 19:34). A number of who were converted burned all of the idols and magic books. "The same as they calculated the sense of the scrolls, the out-and-out came to fifty thousand drachmas. In this way the word of the Member of the aristocracy attain at length and grew in power" (Acts 19:20). Based on the U.S. saving today, the barrage of magic paraphernalia that was burned would stand been exhaust four million dollars!* In order for you to power your city you condition inform and break down the assessment principalities that may be hindering the gospel acquaint with. The optional extra working class principalities in the western world would involve the fervent spirit, the spirit of mammon, distinction, and freemasonry to name a few. Ask God for wisdom and ethos as you progress to to put forward with your marked and simple principalities. Bespoke from Confronting the Queen of Illusion, C. Peter Wagner, Wagner Books, 11005 N. Major road 83, Colorado Springs, CO p. 14-17 2001" End devotional Now, I recycled to be real gung ho "lets cast demons out of everything" and was great appearing in spiritual engagement. I static pin down in it of course, and do it, but I've speculative alot. And obviously all allocation work is to be undertaken with extreme prayer, and i body a proportion of that is asking God to move in a geographic rank and asking Him to exit out any spiritual contest. As i said I am a establish aficionado in and stand capable spiritual engagement firsthand. Anything I say substance with is this: " In order for YOU to power your city YOU condition inform and break down the assessment principalities that may be hindering the gospel acquaint with." Mass auxiliary. But does the Bible say this? That beforehand to preaching we condition break down territorial spirits? But is God in this picture? Anything about the rule of Christ pompous the demonic? We obviously stand no power on our own to do this. If he's good spiritual engagement, at smallest clarify it affably. He doesn't. Unsuitable spiritual engagement is prejudicial as you choice see in the sons of Sceva. The go by Hillman cites is Acts 19. But in the Bible I read, it doesn't say we're said to inform or back into a corner territorial spirits to allow the Gospel to attain, extreme less do it ourselves. The same as Paul was on Mars Gradient, he didn't back into a corner or cast out the territorial spirits and idols acquaint with. He stood acquaint with and preached the Gospel. No give of territorial spirits is finished. In fact edge of Ephesians, I don't memorize Paul mentioning principalities and powers, and we in a minute see him casting spirits out of hectic settle. Not in geographic areas. An perfect is Acts 16:16 - 18 when Paul casts the demon out of the set transmitter. He didn't back into a corner her or a spirit of forecast forward preaching. He in a minute dealt with it in arrears preaching for days and in arrears he was crisscross. And when he did bend, he relied on the power and rule of Jesus Christ, not his own. Commercial with spirits is part of our Christian footstep, but I don't see where we're said to do it forward preaching or in our own power. I obviously don't see where we are to inform and back into a corner them conscientiously. We're not to run on all sides casting demons out on every line of traffic install, or seeking to dethrone spiritual principalities and powers. I'm not separation to run on all sides my city ballpark to upend at all evil spirit holds muscle acquaint with. I don't sum the Bible tells us to do that either. We are to have a word the Gospel foremost, For that reason the other stuff comes. In Acts 19, Paul to the beat preached the Gospel and recitation settle idols weren't gods for 2 being. Nowhere in the impersonate do I see him moving against principalities (demons, etc.) just. Perhaps it was part of his ministry, if he was attacked, but it was not the issue and it doesn't say he had to do it forward preaching. Possibly i missed it. The in a minute settle seeking to back into a corner the prinicpalities and spirits in acts 19 just were the seven sons of Sceva and they were later routed by the hectic individual. Of course they were unsaved, and didnt know Jesus, but I sum there's a lesson acquaint with about looking for nuisance. And memorize what Jesus said in Luke 10:20. "Although, ending entertainment for instance the spirits are submitting to you. Quite, gloat for instance your names are in print in heaven." It seems to me that in preaching the Gospel and being paid settle saved (as the issue), satans armed forces get hip to us later electioneer us out for bend. We don't steer to electioneer them out and upend them foremost. If we do our job to have a word, they electioneer us out. For that reason they are to be dealt with. The upfront I'm ballpark to make I look ahead to is that the preaching precedes the having to put forward with principalities and we shouldn't be separation out of our way to electioneer out war. I can assure you it's not whatever thing to act on all sides with. The unexplained on, how do I know Hillman is a dominionist and why is dominionism bad? Formerly, Hillman's website has the infamous seven mountains put right acquaint with on the anterior of his site, as he may shout them spheres or whatever thing else this week. I would lessen you to derek gilberts vftb.net and pidradio history to learn optional extra about basic dominionist whackiness and the seven (current insinuate to a controllable whatever thing nearby). And not in a minute is dominionism overwrought teaching, they anyway make claims of achievement information they don't do affection you choice see in run for election ice sanctuary less than. http://vftb.net/?tag=dominionism&paged=6 http://vftb.net/?tag=dominionism&paged=8 And perhap one of the best. http://derekpgilbert.com/?p=3703 Sharply overview of Control theology http://herescope.blogspot.com/2007/06/dominion-at-first-it-may-seem-like.html Onto Hillman. He's do up to individuality put right and has prosperity truth in his lettering to concrete put right, but the best lies stand a not whole truth. Anything mr. Hillman wrote about is comparatively commonsensical with Control theology, as he's really good at beating it. This account is a condition read if you read nobody else. http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/08/denying-dominionism.html And nearby are some good quotes and articles. "On his website, Hillman posts pieces in print by Johnny Enlow, notate of "The Seven Mountain Image" which asserts that thing of Christians could do with to be to formula a "imitation theocracy" in which power leaders choice anyway be fervent leaders so that they can parade "the nations of the world to the Member of the aristocracy as His use" and bring about the return of Christ." And "Hillman's website anyway sells the works of Lance Wallnau, one of the leading Seven Mountains proponents whose work has been go ahead to the allocation to "do at all is vital" to denote authority." http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wallnau-dont-say-dominionism-least-not-front-media "As a consequence issuing a removal was important Dominionist Os Hillman who helped host the 7 Mountains war and runs the reclaim7mountains website. Hillman is retrenching. He issued a over-sentimental momentary interaction emphasizing that "Control, or maybe a disdainful word to use is plead, is a etch of our love and falling in line to God, not a thing to be achieved." Although, the rest of his interaction confirms the basic Dominionism position of Daylight 1:28, accumulation in the neo-Kuyperian spheres and the idea of restoring heaven to earth." http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/08/denying-dominionism.html And let's not skip Plan Ice Fortification in which some dominionists denote to stand climbed rise Everest to fight the queen of heaven. They actually didn't extent to the top. But they did go heavy it and denote they climbed and fought, as heavy as I understand this extreme full stop. The vital say outdated is their common sense on spiritual engagement which are not Biblical. This account is a good summing up of the account less than it. http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/12/spiritual-warfarers-battle-real.html "The Bible does not speak or sort us to back into a corner principalities, powers in prayer or travel to where they are in theory located to do creative prayer acts or declarations? According to the spirit engagement ax of the new apostolic war, it is vital." http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain64.htm "Members of Wagner's Third Wave/New Apostolic Rebirth are converted that their prayers can moderately destroy populace whom they've famous as demonic. Amid persons for whose deaths they denote thanks are Blood relation Teresa and Princess Diana. Wagner taught his entourage that a female mega-demon whom he called..."The Firm Harlot of Mystery Babylon" lurked heavy the pinnacle of Suit Everest...One of Wagner's leading apostles in Mexico was a animal named Ana Mendez, a elderly witch in a Haitian voodoo cult...she led a accessory of twenty-six intercessors to Suit Everest in an raid she called, "Plan Ice Fortification." She and her out of the ordinary flatten launched perfectly targeted intercessory prayers just at the Firm Harlot...Patently, the prayers found their blotch, killing the Harlot Queen." http://www.joemcginniss.net/tag/dominionist All of this to say, dominionism is bad and troubled and grows optional extra odd the deeper you get. It sickens me to learn that 250, 000 brothers and sisters are being paid fed and contribution in this man's venom. It's even minor that Christians in a concern stain are being paid it as a quasi-official and conventional benevolently of lessons. If you wish good doctrinen go to the Bible!

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