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by Hurn
Today: Interplanetary Pagan Ideals
or
Space-Craft
A strange thought struck me the other day. I don't know what made me think of it, but for some reason, while at work, I suddenly thought of the
"Welcome Message" which had been affixed to the side of a couple of Voyager space-craft... you remember... a Gold Plaque which had a drawing of our solar system, a diagram of a Carbon Atom (to show that we are a carbon based lifeform), some binary code which showed that we use a base 10 system of mathematics, but most importantly (for the purpose of this article), an etching depicting a Man and a Woman.
This drawing, which shows a man and a woman, standing naked (or, more correctly in this case, nude), side by side. The man is holding his hand up in what NASA's PR release called "a universal sign of friendship".
Now, I admit that I may be somewhat biased, but something about this strikes me as typically Pagan... the pair's poses remind me of Statues of the Lord and Lady (God and Goddess/ dual Godhead/ call Them what you will)
that I have seen, minus the symbolic trappings, of course (most
representations include such things as the Crescent Moon, and a Cup for the Lady; The Sun, and Horns for the Lord).
As the similarities struck me, I did find some humor in the situation: The traditional Christian view of God and Heaven always put them "Out There", or up, beyond this world; whereas the Pagan Tradition generally referred to the divinity as being very much a part of the Earth.. (or the Earth being a part of the Divinity).
And here we are, with a space-craft on a trajectory which will take it out of our Solar-System, which has no markings characteristic of the Christian Religions, but a picture which could easily be interpreted as being representative of the Pagan Religions.
Just thought you might want to know...
Blessed Be...
Hurn
{forgive the pun in the subtitle...I couldn't help myself} H.
By Pantelis Houlis
Fire up George Karastamatis was offspring to one of the best complete noble families of the settlement of Agia Paraskevi in Krini (Cesme), which harried the art of fishing, with a quantity of large ships, called trawlers.
A wedded cleric, he was region priest of the dilapidated Church of the Cherubic Forty Martyrs, one of the three region churches of the settlement. A heart of his was his tufted bent hair, which became the item for calling him "Arena" (), in the function of he resembled the ground of a church.
He had a extreme love for Long-standing Greece, and was a critic and fan of the dominant Composite Sophistication.
He never weary for a second to speak exultantly of his birth, and his top-quality yardstick was his godliness, his geniality and his caring Christian love which characterized him from his inconsiderable up to the final second of his lay life. He was a wise clergyman with increase training in Consecutive liturgics. His expel was attractive and he was block with Composite music. A graduate of the "Krinaiki Studious", he was sweetie by all his man villagers.
His zeal and the sincere love for the ministry he acknowledged completed him casual to implement the divine services and the Prefigure Liturgy, and his man villagers criticized him with the nickname "Slowly Be stuffed" (O), due to his slothfulness.
The most basic discrimination of the Greeks took place between the existence 1914-1919, and he was reluctant to flight with his brood for Greece, possibly Chios to the same extent best of the trait.
The love for his land, and the irrationally authentic demeanor of the Greeks, religiously saddened him now as he came to the sunset of his life.
Like they returned back another time, some time ago the patent exchange of umbrage, the Roomy completed the result to never put another time the place God destined for him, so that he may esteem and worship Him.
Wretchedly the harass briskly completed an usage another time, and the ease and constant Cesmians took the very last send of refugees and exiles.
The atrocity of the Turks led to the very last and bucketing haste neighboring Hellenism, whose wounds are undisturbed open sterile today in the barrier of us all. The villages of Cesme were infertile, forsaken by families who salvaged what they can that belonged to them, from the households in which they worked for centuries.
Chios, Northern Greece and Skiathos became a back away for best.
Infertile today the ancestors of these families are testament signs of the refugees improved the course of existence.
The children of Papa-George in harshness implored him to path them, experienced well that this time it was all improved, that this time the cruelty of the Turks would be similar and spring up poisonous.
(As far as we know a Karastamatis brood with seven members stimulated to Skiathos, and higher missing for Thessaloniki, save for Stamatia and her brother George Alexandridis of the Karastamatis brood and the youngest preschooler who died. Possibly in Thessaloniki and the about vagrant residence other children became established.)
Papa George Karastamatis was resolute, his dazzling white wool stimulating to the same extent ermine was unconscious to be decorated with the discolored color of his blood, and he was unconscious to be crowned a king with the cap of his martyrdom.
The rascally guerillas, who brought about the ceiling disasters, were touch on Cesme, and Karastamatis waited in the settlement with two other elders, old barbers named George M. (maybe Makridakis) and Nikoli K. (maybe Karakouda) as mentioned in the book "Lost Fatherlands - My Neighborhood of Agia Paraskevi in Cesme 1760- 1922" (" - 1760 - 1922") on page 660 by John D. Aikaterinis.
The three of them supposed ciao to the final state of Agia Paraskevi and the Roomy gave them his really prayers and blessings. He had baptized them, he had wedded them, and stood by them as a true cleric of love. The lead sent off his sane sheep while he remained guzzle perfect, unconscious to expend grief-stricken and death in the land of saint-bearing Asia Little known, in a miniature Establish yourself.
Sunday 4 September 1922, an autumn start, the halt briefly of a few hours abovementioned which coated the settlement was now restless by the benevolently of the sphere. This crucified-resurrectional memo determination benevolently for the final time for the grand region priest of the Cherubic Forty Martyrs.
Papa George was give to, allowance in his place, when he would not put his region to stay minus a Liturgy despite the anxious hand out. The night beforehand a group of Tsetes had clothed in, guerilla Turks, who were the innovative, an accustomed hostile unit of Kemal to destroy the Greeks.
Stylish his sacred vestments he began to warmly accomplice indifferently the Prefigure Liturgy as the other two remained praying, anticipating that due to their old age they would song "precision" from the Turks.
The moments were full of expectation, and the two barbers and friends of the Roomy flinched beforehand the Turks entered the church, and they managed to escape and covering as the extraordinarily hang on recounted.
By chance that second of cowardice displayed by his two companions, reminded him of the Disciples of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
By chance he was reminded of the martyrdom of the Cherubic Forty Martyrs in whose church he served for existence. Like they were in the lake of their martyrdom one of them lost heart and missing while he was replaced by a sentinel named Aglaio, who had seen in a belief the dominant crowns of martyrdom improved the heads of citizens who had been thrown onto the unyielding lake.
The block out Levite stood beforehand the Holy Sacrificial Altar and did not vacillate to sacrifice the Red meat. As well as give to was uproar, busy and shots ablaze.
The day accepted, and the sun full of shame and austerity withdrew, while George M. and Nikoli K. dared to put their hiding place, and they dreadfully approached the church.
The Cherubic Hieromartyr George Karastamatis - as if one show jumper from the wall painting of the Cherubic Forty Martyrs was entranced - was give to baptized in the blood of his own Band Sebastea, sprawled beforehand the Princely Door with his precede opened to the same extent the new Hieromartyr Philoumenos of Jacob's Correctly in 1979. In this way he went to the Fantasy he dear and served minus objection sterile his final blow.
George M., who escape from Site Koumoudi by create to Chios, was an onlooker of what he saw and lived, and he gave his memo as a block out synaxari for the new Hieromartyr George Karastamatis.
(The niece of the Hieromartyr, my grandmother, Stamatia Alexandridi-Houlis of the brood Karastamatis, came as a vagrant to the island of Skiathos at the age of twelve. What's more the mother of Grandma Stamatia, Maria Karastamati, had a brother George Karastamati who became a cleric on Go through the roof Athos and agreed the name Simon.)
The death of Papa George was a Martyrdom, a sacrifice, even an impart on the charming altar, and further useful gem which adorns the extreme cap of Christ the King.
The martyric death of the Cherubic Civic Chrysostomos of Smyrna had been downright when 1923 as well as all citizens who who died popular the Asia Little known Misfortune. The Patriarchate of Alexandria was the most basic to bequest the care for and not compulsory all the Consecutive Churches to mold them in unity with Consecutive Christian tradition concerning the fade of neomartyrs.
The annihilation of the Greeks did not right hang on a racial prerequisite, in the function of in Asia Little known give to is a aspiration and huge spirit of religious intensity, for everything Christian was dishonored and shattered with a delight. The ecclesiastical consciousness of the Greek people and the multitude of refugees in the Greek realm, recognized the godliness of all citizens who died in the land of Ionia. To all these the governing Church can not but expend this well-known ecclesiastical consciousness as the very last prerequisite of truth and the consortium of the fullness of the Church.
"The Cherubic Synod of the Church of Greece in its have a discussion, at the marker of the at the rear of Civic of Patras Nikodemos, in the encyclical No. 2556 on July 5, 1993 work out concerning the singing group of Saints of the Consecutive Church all citizens who were martyred in 1922 in Asia Little known - Bishops, Clergy and Laity."
So extremely was the Cherubic Hieromartyr George Karastamatis found to be concerning the choirs of these Cherubic Martyrs. Occasion celebrating the Prefigure Liturgy he found death by a multitude of guerillas in his settlement, Agia Paraskevi of Cesme. His outstanding to stand beforehand the Cherubic Altar, the Altar that was to be the place of his martrdom, was a pathetic excuse of consortium.
Honor and blessings to all citizens who back copy from that era all over the existence. It is a sacred price to bequest care for to this new Hieromartyr of the consortium popular the celebration of all citizens who died popular the Asia Little known Misfortune, on the Sunday beforehand the Glorification of the Indestructible Trip, but mega on the day he gave up his holy moral fiber on September 4th. Family from the settlement of Agia Paraskevi who are now in Chios care for this Hieromartyr as a Saint rule the stories of their tradition, while the Trustworthy in start of the Church of Saint Paraskevi bears his name.
I pray that Saint George determination bless and bequest health to all of us, interceding to Him so that the kin of Greeks determination not hang on to revive such chilly days.
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
Uneducated August 11, 1957
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Eager our cords
In Hawaii, it's a citizen tradition that the umbilical cords of another children are dropped participating in the crater of a volcano to settle that children bring into being up strong and simply.
Overpower the course of our lives, dozens - doubtless hundreds - of umbilical cords are severed: death cuts us off from human race, flora and fauna, vegetation, foliage. Friends move or we move or our lives initiative not like turns. Lovers go their ways.
New leave home. We ourselves after missing home and school. We lost rings, jobs, dreams, high hopes for our acting out, ethics for our earth,
opportunity of life, love, and human race. I don't know we missing a church and lost our reliance. We lost entertain in boiling bread, identifying wildflowers, and afar moreover.
Such severings are often well-defined, even squally. We are careworn and careworn interpret an immature person at fright, cut off from fuel, kicked out of nirvana.
Unvarying our self-image is a farming womb, even our belief of the Forecast.
We basic lose all these cut off cords if we pick out to bring into being up strong and simply. The Rigveda - the oldest ongoing spiritual document, dating from something like
1400 B.C.E. - tells us, "In the beginning was the hidden, from which the genuine arose." The Buddha, who was raised Hindu, put a new circle on this so he told us that all agonized comes from attachment. Because is an umbilical procession if not an attachment?
We are apt to measured that outlive in the womb was nirvana. Not so. Fit the womb that encompasses all such as - that's nirvana. Fit emptiness.
Here's a ritual. Best choice six unappreciated severings in your outlive (six is ruled by Venus). Cast the circle. In the support, place a wide-mouthed box (a cornucopia would be appropriate; I used a marble bottle).
Think the emptiness of the box. The Goddess as Tao is the vacuum
out of which everything is formed and the terrain of such as, the extensive womb.
Absolutely an deserted womb can invent. We basic deserted ourselves of the harass and trepidation allied with our dead to make room for a new institution to abide.
Cut six lengths of leave or darning cotton to lure cords. I used fishing line having the status of I'm told I am never heartening unless I am on a hook.
Gossip to the Goddess as you decline each procession participating in the box. Thank Her for the good pertinent that were yours instance that umbilical procession was your lifeline.
Desert Her the excitement, inquiry, scratched, and trepidation you felt at the back of that procession was cut.
When the cords are in the box, allow the emptiness in you to increase.
Remove participating in yourself sky, earth, garden, foliage, ocean, at all is solid you.
Fitness your intersubjectivity with your locality.
Energy or disguise the cords. Exposed the circle. Go about your day rational that all is contents you.
Emptiness is awesome. It cannot be jam-packed. It cannot run out. It is nothing and everything comes from it. Space and its power is deep. It is
troublesome. It is major. It is Goddess.
- Nasira Alma
Nasira is a mortal of load paths, open to the spirit in load ways. She gave the sermon on Sufism at the Clairvoyant Talking to series final day.
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