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Last night on the Journey Home program, Guy Doud presented his testimony of conversion to Catholicism. He was received into the Church this past Easter. He is a nationally known motivational speaker, 1986 National Teacher of the Year and former Evangelical Free pastor. His tape/CD "Molder of Dreams" has been the most listened to and requested material ever offered by Focus on the Family.
Just this past Sept 12 and 13th "Molder of Dreams" was replayed again on Dr. Dobson's program.
Why did he turn to the Church after being a lifelong evangelical believer? You can hear him tell the story if you to go to the audio archives or you can watch the re-broadcast program this Saturday. But, in a nutshell, it was his desire to see how the early Church worshipped which led to his discovery of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This led to an insatiable desire to receive Christ as He was received by the early church and continues to be present to this day in the Catholic Church. Guy found the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Confession to be a great aid to his walk with God as I and other converts have found.
Welcome Home Guy! Our prayers are with you as well as the prayers of an unimaginably large and invisible cloud of witnesses!
(If the truth be told, they have been praying for us to come back for a long time now, thanks Mom!)
Source: wiccalessons.blogspot.com
"Do what thou bag shall be the whole of the law "
On this website I start and end all the posts with the law of Thelema. At the beginning I post '"do what thou bag..."' and at the end '"love is the law..."'.But for accidental news item, as well as for the explanation fields i use the production 93. I possess been asked two times in the scamper few weeks so Possibly i obligation explain why 93 is used amid thelemites as an close wanted (IF YOU HAVEN'T EARLIER THAN GOOGLED IT). The production 93 is smoothly used as a sack form of the law of thelema which is a repetitive wanted amid Thelemites. This is '"Do what thou bag shall be the whole of the law"'. 93 is the production exploitation of the word thelema meaning moral fiber. The repetitive finish is pet is the law, love under moral fiber. All-around impart are two words with the in bad condition of 93, thelema (REQUEST) and agape (BELOVED) as a result 93/93. 93 is in addition sometimes used as a vocal wanted. Thelema is smoothly referred to as the 93 gust as Aiwass, Crowleys far ahead protector angel's name in addition enumerates to 93. It becomes a bit of a cultural thing though for firm, ritual and official stuff the longform is used. It in addition allows the sneaking of such a wanted in the sphere of less esoteric news item and opens the big business of 'what's the 93 for?' I can as well as explain if club are analytical defective cramming the law in word down their throats.So in holder you've been one of ancestors wondering, thats why!
"Beloved is the law, love under moral fiber"
Reference: healing-magic.blogspot.com
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Article by Suzanne Early
There are various types of meditation, from meditation for beginners, through to free guided meditation and self meditation. Ahhh, if only I could get the internal chattering to stop and both eyes to stay shut!Some types of meditation are silent, some are accompanied with a sound like OOOOMMMMM, to help focus your mind and breath, so it doesn't wonder off to compile your grocery list! I have tried learning meditation but didn't have much luck, for this very reason. It is very hard to quieten the mind and my mental grocery list ended up being quite long!
Learning meditation is a very healthy thing to do. Your mind eventually enjoys switching off and your body can relax, taking some time out to rest and heal. There are different types of meditation positions you can use. Some sit on the floor or use a meditation chair, with back straight and feet on the floor. Others lay down to do their meditation exercises...sometimes with a meditation timer, so they don't nod off for hours - now there is a tempting thought!Visualisation is also popular. Women visualise themselves as well and healthy. Whilst doing their meditation exercises, they see themselves in their mind as complete and with great health and happiness. So how does this relate to symptoms of breast cancer? By learning meditation, it allows your body and mind to slow down and feel the moment, tuning into your health. Mindful meditation allows you to meditate, yet be fully aware of what is around you. Deep and spiritual meditation or massage, is thought to help bring you into balance, boasting your immune system and helping with fatigue and emotional moods that may come with breast cancer.
My meditation tips would be to lock the door, turn off chattering radios and tv's, wear loose clothing, be in a place you feel relaxed to be in, put your meditation timer on, and whilst doing deep belly breaths, repeat a phrase or word to help prevent your brain from wondering off. Choose one of your favourite meditation positions, play some quiet ! gentle m usic if you prefer, and try very hard to not compile your mental grocery list! About the Author
Suzanne Earlyhttp://www.early-detection-for-breast-cancer.com/health-diet-fitness.htmlSuzie likes to share down to earth, easy to understand information on breast cancer basics, with warmth and sensitivity. Having a friend with breast cancer and a career in Adult Education, Suzie wants to raise awareness so women will be encouraged and empower themselves, becoming proactive in their breast health. Early detection is key! Use and distribution of this article is subject to our Publisher Guidelines whereby the original author's information and copyright must be included.
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A talk by Khurshed Batliwala, director of World Alliance for Youth Empowerment on alcohol and addiction and how to come out of it. With a post graduate in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Khurshed Batliwala, or Bawa as he is fondly known (a nick name that has stuck from his IIT days) is an extraordinary personality. In his own words, he decided it was better to teach people meditation and make them happy rather than teach them mathematics and make them miserable and thus chose the unconventional and challenging career path as a faculty member of the Art of Living, sharing the vision of its founder, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, which is to see a smile on every face on the planet. VIDEO RATING: 4 / 5
"I'm one with the Goddess
and open to Her Wisdom."
27th Day of the 9th Lunar Cycle
Ruled by Hecate
Lunar Tree Cycle ~ Muin/Vine
Moon Phase: Balsamic - 2:48PM EDST
Moon rises: 3:21AM EDST
Moon sets: 4:36PM EDST
Moon enters the Mutable Earth
Sign of Virgo at 3:45AM EDST
Ceridwen's Cycle of the Moon
Lunar Meditation: The companionship
of animals.
Sun in Libra
Sunrise: 7:29AM EDST
Sunset: 6:42PM EDST
Solar Question for the Day: "What
is transforming within you?"
Lughnasadh (Gwyl Awst) Quarter
of the Year
October 14th, 2009
BALSAMIC MOON: The ending of one cycle and the beginning of another. Keywords for the Balsamic phase are: transition, release, transformation, renewal, purity. It is the phase in a cycle when you must let go of everything that you been working on that does not deal with current cycle issues. During this phase you reflect on the passing cycle and prepare for the new. Trust in renewal. It is important to separate from others now so that you can clear the intellect of negativity. LET GO. Become still and meditate.
[From: http://www.zodiacarts.com/Calendar.shtml ]
This is Woden's Day - Wednesday - Mercury Day, the day of Communication and Connection... the magickal energies today are strong for honoring your ancestors. Can you think of ways to do this?
Here are some suggestions for honoring your ancestors this Samhain - you could start preparing these ideas today.... Communication day.
We all have ancestors, some living, most of them have passed on. The Reformed Druids of North America (RDNA) does not have any specific traditions on revering ancestors, although most of the other modern Druid groups have incorporated this concept, which is common among Nature and folk-based religions. In a sense, many believe ancestors are the best intermediaries of the living with the deities. Who cares about you more than those who raised you and your parents and your parents' parents?
Traditionally Samhain was about honoring returning (good) spirits who came back for these few nights, and of course, keeping out the bad ones who also might show up. We tend to focus on the bad ones now and dwell on the frightening aspect of death. However, how often do you talk to your children about welcoming back grandpa or Aunt Myrtle? The idea that good returns too, that is can be a very comforting concept for children. Rather than horror flicks, why not watch a movie of a sad, tragic death story and talk with kids about it. Fluke, the movie of a father reincarnated as a dog, trying to rejoin the family, is very touching.
Have a home altar: decorate it with family photos, as many as you can dig up, some safe candles or incense (watch the smoke detector). If you a family tree picture, you can place it there for this special time of the year. Add postcards, flags, and other symbols of the country (ies) your ancestors come from. If you are lucky enough to live near where your family members are buried make grave rubbings as well and add some of them to the altar. Visit the altar once a often during this time in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year.. Come by and talk to the spirits once in a while about hard things in your life and ask for advice and meditate there. You might assign someone in the family, perhaps even a child to maintaining the shrine and dust it, replace candles, etc. for a new Samhain time activity. In this case, a cluttered altar is perfectly acceptable -- after all, each of us is a blend of many different people and cultures.
Have a meal standing by to eat with the ritual. Include lots of dark bread, apples, fall vegetables, and a jug of cider or wine. Set your dinner table, with a place for each family member, and one extra plate for the ancestors. You may want to bake some Soul Cakes.
If your family has household guardians, include statues or masks of them on your altar. Finally, if a relative has died this year, place a candle for them on the altar. Light candles for other relatives, and as you do so, say the person's name aloud. It's a good idea to use tealights for this, particularly if you have a lot of relatives to honor. Once all the candles have been lit, the entire family should circle the altar. The oldest adult present leads the ritual. Say:
This is the night when the gateway between
our world and the spirit world is thinnest.
Tonight is a night to call out those who came before us.
Tonight we honor our ancestors.
Spirits of our ancestors, we call to you,
and we welcome you to join us for this night.
We know you watch over us always,
protecting us and guiding us,
and tonight we thank you.
We invite you to join us and share our meal.
The oldest family member then serves everyone else a helping of whatever dishes have been prepared, except for the wine or cider. A serving of each food goes on the ancestors' plate before the other family members recieve it. During the meal, share stories of ancestors who are no longer among the living -- this is the time to remember Grandpa's war stories he told you as a child, tell about when Aunt Millie used salt instead of sugar in the cake, or reminisce about summers spent at the family homestead in the mountains.
When everyone has finished eating, clear away all the dishes, except for the ancestors' plate. Pour the cider or wine in a cup, and pass it around the circle (it should end at the ancestor's place). As each person recieves the cup, they recite their genealogy, like so:
I am Susan, daughter of Joyce, the daughter of Malcolm, son of Jonathan...
and so forth. Feel free to add in place names if you like, but be sure to include at least one generation that is deceased. For younger family members, you may wish to have them only recite back to their grandparents, just because otherwise they can get confused.
Go back as many generations as you can, or (in the case of people who have done a lot of genealogy research) as many as you can remember. You may be able to trace your family back to William the Conqueror, but that doesn't mean you have it memorized. After each person recites their ancestry, they drink from the cider cup and pass it to the next person.
A quick note here -- many people are adopted. If you are one them, you are fortunate enough to be able to choose whether you wish to honor your adoptive family, your biological family, or a combination of the two. If you don't know the names of your birth parents or their ancestry, there's nothing wrong with saying, "Daughter of a family unknown." It's entirely up to you. The spirits of your ancestors know who you are, even if you don't know them yet.
After the cup has made its way around the table, place it in front of the ancestors' plate. This time, a younger person in the family takes over, saying:
This is the cup of remembrance.
We remember all of you.
You are dead but never forgotten,
and you live on within us.
Take some time to meditate on the value of family, how fortunate we are to be able to know the connections of kin and clan, and the value of heritage. If your family has a tradition of music or folktales, share those as a way to wrap up the ritual. Otherwise, allow the candles to burn out on their own. Leave the plate and cup on the altar overnight.
question for witchy friends:
soror-dxm:
I'm not into witchcraft. At all. I am now and forever a ceremonial magician. I used to scoff at the idea of witchcraft but now I'm just puzzled.
I see all of these spells and recipes for powders, etc, and can't help but wonder: does that stuff actually work? I mean, you go out...
I can't find your original post DXM so I am bouncing off Abwatts.
5 ways of witchcraft, abridged and early in the morning.
SYMPATHETIC aka as above so below. Every aspect of the universe is represented in every other aspect. The true circle is your reach, the light of your fire, as far as you can see, the horison or as far as you can imagine. The jar becomes the target entity or situation and what you put in it (and other actions) change that event/entity.
ENERGY. Change is contagious, all energy causes change in all other energy and the ripples of change continue forever long after the original signal dies out. There are energies we can't yet measure and are unaware of, dimensions we don't have access to consciously. Oh yeah, vibrating names.
HEADOLOGY. Simplified this targets the self or those who know and accept/fear your witchcraft. Tell someone they are sick enough times and they will become sick, let someone know they have pissed a witch off and they create their own bad luck etc. How many changes can be made in a mundane manner by a person unconsciously working for your 'spell?'
THEISTIC. Witches work with entities, sometimes. Sometimes the entites get involved regardless of whether they have been called upon.
REALITY/AWARENESS. We create everything anyway, possibly we are alone and create others and possibly others are also playing this game. If there are others then there are rules. Perhaps witchcraft is a way around those rules, perhaps it is an access to the part of us that is organising this whole hooha. You can't prove that I am not locked in a cell dreaming this all, I just have to accept what I experience. I experience change when I stick things in a mason jar.
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Here we are on the eve of Candlemas (or Imbolc). Strange to relate, this festival day in the depths of winter celebrates light and warmth, the stirring of green things within the earth, the burgeoning of new life and the beginning of springtime. Once called "Bride's day", the day is consecrated to Brigid, a deity of fire, creativity, wisdom, eloquence and superb craftsmanship. She is patroness of the forge and smithy, poetry and the healing arts, particularly midwifery. Hers are the candle, the lantern, the hearth and the forge, and all light is her special province.
We are made of light ourselves, and that makes us Brigid's children - creatures forged from the dust of stars which once lighted the heavens and ceased to exist long ago. Within our cells are encoded the wisdoms of the ancient earth and all its cultures, the star knowledge of unknown constellations and "The Big Bang" which created not just our own precious world, but the whole cosmic sea in which it floats.
The stardust of which we are made has spontaneously assembled into diverse life forms over and over again, lived and expired, then dissolved back into the stream of being. In our time, "we" have been many things, worn many shapes and answered to many names. In this lifetime I exist as an eccentric, tatterdemalion, and perhaps unique collection of wandering molecules called Catherine or Cate, but in previous appearances I was someone or something completely different. Buddhist teacher, thinker, activist and deep ecologist Joanna Macy says that since every particle in our being goes back to the first flaring of space and time, we are as old as the universe itself, about fifteen billion years. In other words, we are the universe, and it is us.
Here is the light-filled Blessing for Hearth-Keepers from The Little Book of Celtic Blessings by Caitlin Matthews. I recite it every year on the eve of Imbolc as I light candles and will be doing it again in a few minutes. Merry Imbolc to you and your clan. Happy Candlemas and Happy Brigid's Day too. May the blessings of Light be yours.
Brighid of the Mantle, encompass us
Lady of the Lambs, protect us,
Keeper of the Hearth, kindle us
Beneath your mantle, gather us
And restore us to memory
Mothers of our mother
Foremothers strong
Guide our hands in yours
Remind us how
To kindle the hearth
To keep it bright
To preserve the flame
Your hands upon ours
Our hands within yours
To kindle the light
Both day and night
The Mantle of Brighid about us,
The Memory of Brighid within us
The Protection of Brighid keeping us
From harm, from ignorance, from heartlessness
This day and night,
From dawn till dark
From dark till dawn.
So Generation HEX. Nice title huh? I like it. I had this idea, and stop me if you have heard this one before, a school for children to learn magic. Sure, it has been done, a lot. Not just in games, but books (I seem to recall some books like this), TV shows (Charmed dealt with this for a bit) and other media. So why should I do it. Simple. I wanted too. I like the idea of a group of kids getting together and saving the world from destruction while dealing with the normal issues of growing up, school, social lives (or lack ther) and interaction. To me it seems like a genre rich in potential and rich in storytelling. Part of my education was to go beyond the aforementioned books and even avoid really cool products like Green Ronin's "Hero High" which would cover some of the same ground. For this I went back to source. If you want to read the Bible and really get a feel for it, you read it in Latin or Greek. Freud or Jung, go back to the original German. For magical high schools, you got back to Magna and Anime. Yup, I took a crash course in Sailor Moon! I watched anime, in particular Sh^ojo anime, for ideas. I was surprised to see how close it all was to the kind of game I wanted to do. I originally set it all up in a document was going to do an 80k word draft and talk to Guardians of Order about it. They (He really) seemed interested and then GoO disappeared. That tale is best told elsewhere by others. But Now I have all these ideas and all of these "things" I have written that need a new home and a new system. I also thought about using Unisystem (same as Buffy and Ghosts of Albion) and it would fit great, maybe too great. I can kinda do this game with Ghosts now and not really alter much and be too tempted not to alter the rest where it would be needed. Plus Unisystem is licensed and I don't have that sort of cash to do this on my own. I have been looking long and hard at True20 and really like what I see. Why High School? Simple, unlike college, or getting married, or having kids, High School is the last true universal everyone has and everyone shares. Getting on Facebook and seeing some old high school friends has got me thinking about these things again. It's odd really. I have contacted and been contacted by more High School friends than I have college friends. The time line is not that different. If you add Junior High to one and Grad School to the other, the span of time is about the same, and generally speaking I liked college life much more. But why is it that the High School friendship endure and more importantly whatever that thing is how do I capture it and emulate properly in my magical high school game? I have some High School friends here. What do you all say?
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I figured somebody who was tiring to do whatever thing equal this in our community deserved my advocate in spirit at minimum.My husband deep to come overcome and we modish at a illustrative old storefront in the rural community of Foristell Missouri. The man organizing the appointment group was an hugely intense artist and his work covered all of the walls. In mass to our pack contemporary were two other members that end of the day for the group.In entirety it was check five people. In the course of our planning I found it interesting that the other three noted how contemporary was a brawny melody in religion here spanning the acquire. In my own empathy, I whispered, hmmm......, you ran an advertise for four weeks in a community of ten thousand highly dutiful people and minimally got one sort out to let know up! 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This is a fussy infer why I scenario to learn the flash component lecture as my flash brute shaving of ritual.The small group found it prosperity interesting that I was a 'Freemason' as they had never met one. I did equal that I may possibly exchange a few words about dutiful concepts having the status of we are not endorsed to do so in a Freemason embed. In fact, I'm sooner bounce I donate go back to spanking meeting if I can.I am add-on looking qualify to attending the drum-circle at the end of the month. I scenario to need my husband and kids and, sanguinely, donate need a few pictures.On Saturday I left the heap of the day working on my working about the pied-?-terre of the New Masonic Brow that I scenario to communicate this October.On Saturday end of the day I attended a Saint Louis Aces tennis article and today, this Sunday, I did some shopping for our organization greeting and did some boating with friends.Appropriately ends my information of this weekend. Not that lively, but at minimum it has entered the akashic information of the Internet.
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Here is the most complete self-study course in modern Wicca available, written by the person who first went public with "The Old Religion" in the United States. For group or solitary use, it includes rituals; exercises for developing psychic talents; information on all major "sects" of the Craft; sections on tools, beliefs, dreams, meditations, divination, herbal lore, healing, ritual clothing; and much, much more. Even those who have practiced Wicca for years find useful information in Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, and many covens are using it as their textbook. Profusely illustrated and full of music and chants. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION LESSON ONE - The History and Philosophy of Witchcraft History and Development. Persecutions. Re-emergence. The Philosophy of Witchcraft. Principles of Wiccan Belief. The Power Within. Spells and Charms. LESSON TWO - Beliefs Deities; The God and Goddess of Witchcraft; Reincarnation; Retribution; Between Lives. Your Temple. Your Altar and its Furniture. Magick-an Introduction. LESSON THREE - Tools, Clothing and Names Working Tools; Knife; Marking in Metal; Sword; Other Tools; Dress; Jewelry; Horned Helmet. Inscriptions. Your Witch Name. LESSON FOUR - Getting Started Rites of Passage. Circles. Self-Dedication. Coven Initiation. LESSON FIVE - Covens and Rituals Covens and Degrees. Hierarchy and Priesthood. Covensteads and Covendoms. The Book of Rituals. Consecration of Tools. RITUALS-Erecting the Temple; Clearing the Temple; Esbat Rite; Full Moon Rite; New/Dark Moon Rite; Cakes and Ale. LESSON SIX - Sabbats Samhain; Beltane; Imbolc; Lughnasadh. LESSON SEVEN - Meditation, Dreams and the Minor Sabbats Meditation- How Meditation Works; Technique; Posture; Area; Time of Day: Method. Dreams-The Source; Dream Interpretation and Symbology; Remembering Dreams; Personal Symbols; The Repetitive Dream; Group Dreams; Dreams vs Out-of-Body Experiences. Rituals-Spring Equinox; Summer Solstice; Autumnal Equinox; Winter Solstice. LESSON EIGHT - Marriage, Birth, Death and Channeling Handfasting Rite'; Handparting Rite; Birth Rite; Crossing the Bridge. The Intuitive Process-Categories of Channeling; Clearing the Channel; External Focal Points; Interpreting Channeled Information. The Aura. Sensory Deprivation. The Witches' Cradle. LESSON NINE - Divination Tarot; Scrying; Saxon Wands; Cheiromancy; Tea-leaf Reading; Numerology; Astrology; Fire Scrying. LESSON TEN - Herbalism Herbal Lore; Getting the Most Out of Herbs; Simples, Syrups, Salves, Poultices and Powders; Herb Simples; Definition of Medical Actions; Herbs in Materia Medica. Botanicals-Alteratives, Anthel-mintics, Astringents, Bitter Tonics, Calmatives, Carminatives and Aromatics, Cathartics, Demulcents, Diaphoretics, Diuretics, Emollients, Expectorants, Nervines, Nerve Stimulants, Refrigerants, Sedatives, Stimulants. Vitamins in Herbs. The Art of Prescribing Medicine. Some Simple Treatments- Medicinal Drinks, Syrups, Decoctions, Teas, Mixtures, Ointments. Witches' Pharmacopoeia. Sources. LESSON ELEVEN - Magick Physical Body. Circle. Cone of Power. Dancing and Chanting. Feeling. Drawing Down Power. Releasing the Power. Timing. Cord Magick. Candle Magick. Love Magick. Sex Magick. Binding Spell. Protection. Form of Ritual. LESSON TWELVE - The Power of the Written Word Runes. Ogham Bethluisnion. Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Theban. Passing the River. Angelic. Malachim. Pictish. Talismans and Amulets. Power Raising Dance. General Dancing. Music and Song. Sabbat Games. Wine and Ale. Bread and Cakes. 261 pages, 4.16 MB, PDF. Scan. http://rapidshare.com/files/169155026/R... hcraft.pdf
H'e bien tout d'abord, mon nom ( du moins, pseudonyme (; ) est M`ada, ici M`ada Li^en ( M`ada 'etait un pseudo d'ej`a pris, j'ai donc ajout'e le nom qui me suit partout, me conf'erant une sorte de v'eritable identit'e ). M`ada, pseudo qui me suit depuis toujours, diminutif de mon v'eritable pr'enom ; Li^en, un peu plus r'ecent, qui signifie lotus en vietnamien, une petite plante qui a beaucoup de valeur pour moi. (: J'ai 16 ans au moment o`u j'ecris, je baigne dans l'esot'erisme ( plus ou moins consciemment ) ( `a la base, c'etait pas vraiment consciemment, en fait ) ( ni voulu, au final ) depuis ma naissance, par de plus ou moins mauvaises exp'eriences ; mais j'y baigne "consciemment" depuis un peu plus de 5 ans maintenant. Je suis n'eanmoins plus ax'ee sur le c^ot'e spirituel que l'esot'erisme `a proprement parler, je ne pratique que tr`es peu voire m^eme pas du tout ( ca m'est arriv'e par le pass'e, mais ca fait bien 2 bonnes ann'ees que je n'ai rien fait de sp'ecial ). Il faut dire que je n'ai pas 'enorm'ement de temps non plus, ma vie "terre-`a-terre" si je puis dire me prend beaucoup, beaucoup de temps. J'ai d'ebut'e, il y a 5 ans, avec la Wicca, en 'etant tr`es ax'ee sur la tradition celtique et le druidisme, qui me plaisaient beaucoup. Je suis 'egalement pass'ee par la Wicca Lucif'erienne, qui au final ne me correspondait pas non plus. Finalement, je ne parle plus ni de traditions wiccannes, ni de Wicca tout court : en ce moment, j'arr^ete les 'etiquettes, ou du moins, je me dis pa"ienne mais je tate surtout un peu partout. Des restes wiccans, de la mythologie grecque, celtique, nordique, m'esopotamienne, du tao"isme...je m'int'eresse un peu `a tout! J'appr'ecie 'enorm'ement les D'eesses ( avec des recherches approfondies sur Kuan Yin et Ishtar/Innanna, et sur celles qui ont trait aux myst`eres f'eminins ), et donc, j'etudie les Myst`eres f'eminins! ( comprendre menstruations, cycles, phases lunaires, arch'etypes f'eminins, grossesse, m'enopause, etc ) Sujet qui me passionne. Niveau CV ( ahah! ), je m'occupe d'un cyber-coven, Freedom-Witches. Grande aventure depuis 3 ans! Je n'en suis pas la cr'eatrice, mais les deux fondatrices, quand elles ont d'ecid'e de ne plus s'en occuper, m'ont demand'e de reprendre les r^enes, me jugeant apte `a continuer de le faire vivre. Je m'y efforce depuis, comme je peux. C'est vraiment agr'eable de se sentir importante pour une communaut'e, m^eme si elle est petite (12 membres en ce moment). Un cyber-coven, c'est pas tr`es commun, certes il n'y a pas les soucis que peut engendrer un vrai coven ( difficult'es `a en trouver un dans sa r'egion, `a l'int'egrer, etc ), mais ce n'est pas facile pour autant, car il faut compenser les rencontres, les c'el'ebrations etc. Au niveau du nom du blog, je pense que ca m'erite une petite note : "La Huesera" signifie "La femme aux os" en espagnol. C'est une l'egende espagnole ( mexicaine me semble t-il ), lue dans Femmes qui courent avec les loups, de Clarissa Pinkola-Est'es. C'est l'arch'etype de la femme sauvage, qui, en ramassant des os et en chantant au-dessus d'eux, parvient `a les faire rena^itre, se r'eincarner. "Elle a la r'eputation de ramasser et de conserver surtout ce qui risque d'^etre perdu pour le monde.". Cette l'egende est un conte de r'esurrection, qui parle du lien souterrain avec la Femme sauvage, du fait que nous pouvons lui redonner vie... J'aime cette l'egende, et ce nom m'a tout de suite interpell'e. Quand m'est venu l'id'ee de ce blog (nouveau, j'en avais d'ej`a un, et d'autres petites choses), j'ai tout de suite repens'e `a cette l'egende. Et voil`a. Je crois que j'ai fait le tour de ma petite vie, du moins le strict n'ecessaire pour ce blog! (; ( Si je commence `a vous raconter ma vie enti`ere et en d'etails, vous n'avez pas fini! Je vous conseille de d'eguerpir au plus vite, si vous voyez que je d'erape ) J'esp`ere ^etre plus ou moins pr'esente sur ce blog, je ne garantis pas d'articles r'eguliers, je ne pense malheureusement pas pouvoir me tenir `a un programme ( surtout en ce moment ), mais j'essaierais de faire de mon mieux. Bonne visite `a tous!
"Humans do not sustain to die to become caste spirits or trooping fairies. Humans are so concentrated to fairies they can, in fact, be distorted appearing in fairies at what time weak living. This maintain for not be so colossal having the bump of, as or mentioned, humans are in dine truly dissenting form of fairy. It has been theorized that regular of our fairy stories come from the days of unprocessed peoples in England. Get ostracized and stimulated to the away from edge of develop or the underdogs who were isolated to inhabitants who rejected them. In Cornwall one man testifies that: "PIXIES WERE Prevalently Implicit TO BE THE SOULS OF THE Antediluvian DWELLERS OF THIS At home. AS SUCH, PIXIES WERE Implicit TO BE Man Rewarded Minor AND Minor UNTIL, IN THE END, THEY ARE TO Liquefy In sum." (WENTZ, 1911) This paints a strongly supplementary scary picture of some of the fairies than we commonly imagined. According to this typical, the pixies who band commonly personage of as understated, small weensy, mischievous fairies, are cheap having the bump of they are squirm appearing in nonbeing. What's supplementary, they sustain had to stay for thousands of lifetime with the knowledge that they inner self at the end of the day get slighter and that inhabitants humans who would point of view are the decedents of the band who unthinking them appearing in their appalling fortune. It is no touch consume with that such beings are at sea involving human-like neatness and just the thing strong deliciousness having the bump of, at what time they condition rupture to some everyday brand, strongly of this brand condition be restless conduct at self stimulated appearing in their draft speak.If we grasp a lot of the manifestation of regular of our evolution by appliance of the fairies, as we absolutely condition combined the fantastic study of smidgen to utility this, we condition splendidly grasp a lot of that wretched are other humans, commonly far angrier humans, occupying the world of fairies. Worship, wretched are very few band who can name to be the uppermost state of their lands and and no-one besides two such band groups in Europe. So it would normal that and no-one besides some fairies would be the evolution of any combined set of humans chiefly combined that as with the pixies whole kingdoms of humans might become fairies. This state command why band in Europe were so scared of the grating surroundings. At the back they ram the creative state of Europe appearing in the dark forests and mountains, these peoples and the fairies they came to be had centuries to petition gist ever supplementary distasteful.In Ireland, regular band sweep that the Tuatha De Danann were an unprocessed band who turned undersized and entered a acquiescent realm similar to the Irish band invaded Ireland, as the Tuatha De Danann were incapable to gap the newcomers in a test of arms having the bump of of the Irish peoples' powerful druids and deities. The Tuatha De Danann now embrace your home in the hills and rocks of Ireland strongly as fairies do in other parts of the Europe (WENTZ, 1911).The Tuatha De Danann are isolated but splendidly earth having the bump of they weak put up themselves strongly as humans would with kingdoms and fortresses, wars, and a small weensy bit of what's spread moodiness and pity for the decedents of inhabitants that ram them appearing in the mystery realm who are weak delayed as fault mortals not since their patent "batter."Lest we personage that such myths are limited to Europe, we condition bring to mind a supplementary trace push of this "FAIRYIFICATION" wholesale which comes from Hawaii, that of the Menehune. The Menehune are the unprocessed band of the Hawaiian Islands. As the Samoan peoples stimulated appearing in Hawaii, they ram the Menehune deeper appearing in the jungles from which they mythologically emerged at night to build magical temples otherwise fleeing back to the jungles similar to the sun rose. Yet not since their mythological shelf, they were a real band whose evolution were counted in the Hawaiian kingdoms uppermost survey and whose evolution on the cards weak drive away today.Fairies splendidly pinch humans appearing in their world to wound them. In Greece, a fairy queen asked one girl: "WOULD YOU NOT Just about TO BE A FAIRY?...AND Be situated Via ME IN THIS Precincts Anywhere THE SUN NEVER CEASES TO Tough Quality AND Anywhere IT IS SUMMER ALL THE YEAR?" (GIANAKOULIS, 1930) In the same way as, not since the girl's patent refusals, the fairies took her quantity anyways to become one of them on suggest seeing that her employees. This is not, however, an discarded bout. Fairies commonly pinch humans to the privilege, undertake them magical bronzed that inner self show off them appearing in fairies or items of clothing which can show off them such as scarves and shawls. At era, this is done having the bump of the fairies track a servant. Additional era fairies track a sexual mix up. Close by, it would splendidly normal that fairies are splendidly at the rear of friends and allies, or that they sustain some other grounds humans cannot divide out. Pin down splendidly that some fairies come up to be intelligibly humans who sustain some garment of clothing that makes them not later than and beyond compare. In Greek myths, regular fairies are prepared fairies by a rag which similar to stolen armed them to become everyday. In Scottland, selkies sustain a end tone which allows them to become marine fairies or ghost-like creatures which break off castles. (BRIGGS, 1967) Jacob Grimm points out that in some be in possession of effects, the immortality of fairies comes from the supplies they eat in fairy land. Worship, as or mentioned, intelligibly internal fairy land and living wretched would turn some humans appearing in fairies. Humans can intelligibly be fairies who do not stay within the fairies' world.Origin: pagan-space.blogspot.com
One of my favourite stories from "Terrifyingly Extremity TO THE Dictum", about Moseley's "responsibility" as a narrator on UFOs back in the 1960s and to the fore 1970s:"On one gamble, I arrived where in the Bible Crowd to speak at a petty fundamentalist sanctimonious school. I flew in at night in a shower. The college civilization picked me up at the fatal, and the same as we arrived on academia, for some symposium we had to travel over a few yards of very bewilder tackle. It was bug, the rain was sluicing down, and I was in no time neighboring dejected. All of a well-defined, I stepped within a water-filled hole uncommon inches piquant. I couldn't help blurting out, 'Jesus Christ!' So, in an rash exercise to bargain the container with a bit of humour, I sang out, standing the Lord!'" (p. 198)In all probability I find this article so flimsy is while it reminds me of a more readily similar criticize from my aged - Genre 9, aide high to be point. One day fair-minded in the past the twelve noon sound, my oldest pal and I walked within the classroom that doubled as the lunch-room for folks of us who were bussed to school. We were a bit tardy, and the room was busy, which expected no place for us to sit. My friend's off-the-cuff, gut skin complaint was to say, in a put into words that was in all probability a bit louder than he had designed, "Lovely Cow!" Forlornly, the intellectual in charge of the lunch-room that day was Mr. Sharma, a self-righteous Hindu (he condition call been self-righteous, taking into consideration what followed). He heard my friend, and instantaneously came aristocratic, high-pitched. The long and the curt of it was that my friend dead up with putting away for mocking Mr. Sharma's religion. This was absurd, as we had no aura Mr. Sharma was in charge of the lunchroom that day, and my friend's to one side came as quickly as he saw the room, flaw having noticed Mr. Sharma. Regrettably for Mr. Sharma, my friend's parents didn't keep blather from self and were earlier put out by his actions. As I evoke, Mr. Sharma dead up apologizing to my friend.My friend and I are ease best pals, and we ease get a snicker the same as we evoke his credulous "Lovely Cow", and the happening.I in the neighborhood felt putrid for Mr. Sharma, who was not well liked by students.In close proximity.Paul Kimball
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By His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
The work of Saint Gregory Palamas titled "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" is a concise text, which in the way it is written recalls works of other Fathers of the Church, such as Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Symeon the New Theologian and others, and is regarded as a summary of the teachings of the Saint previously developed in his dialogues with Barlaam and Akindynos. In similar cases all writers at one time, after a few years, attempt to make a succinct summary of the teachings they previously delivered. However, this work has recently created concern.
It has been suggested that Saint Gregory, in order to write the text, used the work of the sacred Augustine titled "De Trinitate", receiving certain expressions from it, such as Aristotelian categories for God, without mentioning his source, and he even accepted the Augustinian psychotheological triad "mens - notitia (or cognitio or scientia or verbum) - amor", that is, "mind - reason - love/eros". Indeed it was given in a particular passage.
Certainly, Saint Gregory Palamas did not know the Latin language, since he was monolingual. This, however, is not considered a particular problem, because the work "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine was translated into Greek before 1281 by Maximos Planoudes. In view of this a copy, even the oldest of this text, was preserved at Vatopaidi Monastery, where Palamas was found from the period of September 1347 and the first months of 1348, when he went to Mount Athos after the refusal of the Thessalonians to accept him as Metropolitan after his election.
When reading about this view regarding the relationship between the theology of Saint Gregory Palamas and the sacred Augustine, I felt deeply surprised, because I knew from my many years, over forty, of studying the teachings of Saint Gregory that he himself confronted Barlaam, who expressed the western traditions of scholastic theology and had been influenced by the views of the sacred Augustine. How is it possible, I wondered, for Saint Gregory Palamas to contradict Barlaam and, at the same time, to accept the opinions of the sacred Augustine, whose opinions, basically, supported Barlaam as a Neoplatonist and as a voice of western scholasticism?
But I don't think it's possible for something like this to have happened for the following reasons:
First, because the works of Augustine were largely unknown to the Orthodox Fathers of the Church until the thirteenth century "when a few written examples of his theological thought were translated".
Second, because Barlaam, who was refuted by Saint Gregory, expressed the western tradition as formulated by Augustine's views on many issues, such as that the revelation of the Triune God takes place through done and undone created symbols of the divinity, so that when God gives an immediate higher revelation through the intellect, He gives it by means of human sensations; that there is no difference between the divine essence and the uncreated energies; that divine Grace is a created thing that unites with the soul and directs the will of man from the changeable to the unchangeable God, in Whom man finds happiness with the satisfaction of his desires; that the Kingdom of God is created; and generally the views of Barlaam regarding revelation, Hell and the Kingdom were formed under the influence of Augustinian theology.
Third, Barlaam himself didn't understand the genuine patristic tradition, as expressed by the hesychast Fathers, because the Franko-Latins had subdued the entire patristic tradition beneath the predicates of Augustine - this is why Barlaam heard when he came to Thessaloniki for the first time different interpretations from what he recognized in Augustine and was surprised - but neither did "Palamas and his circle recognize the Augustinian origins of the cacodoxies of Barlaam". Moreover, the Greek-speaking Roman Fathers never took into consideration the works and thought of Augustine "which, moreover, have never been a basis for the Ecumenical Synods and the teachings of the Fathers".
Thus the view that Palamas used the text of the sacred Augustine "De Trinitate", through the translation of Maximos Planoudes, is difficult to accept, because I consider the most brilliant and most God-seeing Gregory Palamas, who had extraordinary intellectual gifts as well as personal experience of the Triune God, as we see in his biography written by his fellow monk the Patriarch Philotheos Kokkinos, if he had read this specific text of Augustine, he would have perceived its thoughtful infrastructure as a deviation from Orthodox Tradition. In other words, he who did a very detailed critique of Barlaam's serious doctrinal issues, if he had read the text of the sacred Augustine it would have been impossible to not know the relationship that existed between the sacred Augustine and Barlaam.
Certainly in his work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" he refers to and interprets the ten Aristotelian categories, namely - Substance, Quantity, Quality, Relation, Place, Time, Position, State, Action, Affection. It is even known that Saint Gregory Palamas knew from his studies in Constantinople Aristotelian philosophy, and no one would expect him to learn the Aristotelian categories of Aristotle from the related work of Augustine. From Saint Philotheos Kokkinos we know that Saint Gregory was a student of Aristotle. Indeed he writes concerning this issue that Gregory excelled in his study of grammar, rhetoric, physics, logic "and all the science of Aristotle" beyond all others, and that he was admired by his teachers for this. Furthermore, the chief officer and preeminent scholar Theodore Metochites, who interacted with Gregory before the Emperor regarding the writings on logic by Aristotle, was surprised by the analysis of Gregory and told the Emperor: "If Aristotle himself had been present to listen to this young man, he would, I believe, have praised him beyond measure. For the time being, I saw that it is those with such a soul and such nature as his who should be pursuing knowledge, and especially the omnifarious philosophical writings of Aristotle."
However there are two particular points that deserve special study:
One point is that in this work of Saint Gregory Palamas there is an excerpt from the "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine, namely "dispositions and states and places and times and suchlike things are not properly but only metaphorically to be ascribed to God...". I think upon inspection this can be seen as an interpolation, because it has little dependence on the text. The biggest argument which shows that Saint Gregory Palamas was not aware of this work of the sacred Augustine, by the translation of Maximos Planoudes, is that he would not agree to receive a few insignificant phrases from this work when we find out that a bit below this there are passages of the sacred Augustine that support the Filioque.
This passage is specifically found in the fifth book of the "De Trinitate" of the sacred Augustine. But I consider it unlikely, if not impossible, that Saint Gregory Palamas read this work and not realized that the thought of the sacred Augustine is problematic from an Orthodox perspective. And this is because in the very next paragraph the sacred Augustine seems to not be able to make a distinction between essence and hypostasis, when he writes: "I say essence, which in Greek is called, and which we call more usually substance. They indeed use also the word hypostasis; but they intend to put a difference, I know not what, between and hypostasis: so that most of ourselves who treat these things in the Greek language, are accustomed to say,, or in Latin, one essence, three substances." Also, it is unlikely that Saint Gregory Palamas didn't realize that immediately after this the thought of Augustine concludes with the Filioque, when he writes that the Holy Spirit is a gift of the Father and the Son Who is given to people, and that "the Holy Spirit is the spirit of the Father and the Son". And of course here is not meant that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from Father or by the Father and through the Son sent in time, as taught by Saint Gregory Palamas. In this passage of the sacred Augustine things are reversed, since it says "the Father and Son are a beginning of the Holy Spirit, not two beginnings", in other words with respect to the Holy Spirit there is one beginning (Father and Son), and in respect to creation the Father and Son and Holy Spirit are one beginning. This means that while Saint Gregory Palamas distinguishes the pre-eternal procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone and sent in time through the Son also, the sacred Augustine speaks to the contrary of the procession of the Holy Spirit also from the Son, as well as the energy of the Triune God in creation. The heresy of the Filioque is also seen in other works of the sacred Augustine.
And the question is: Why did Saint Gregory Palamas accept from this work of Augustine a passage that does not really matter to his text and is not pardoned of the heresy of the Filioque that exists in the next few passages?
The other point is that there are some common conceptual similarities between the work of Saint Gregory Palamas and this specific work of the sacred Augustine, mainly related to the Augustinian psychological theory regarding the Holy Trinity, and in particular that the Holy Spirit is the love/eros between the Father and the Son, from which comes the heresy of the Filioque. And we consider this because this is an image used by Saint Gregory Palamas, but it results in the opposite conclusion as that of Augustine, and of course no one can be sure if Saint Gregory Palamas borrowed this from Augustine.
Consequently, there are three positions regarding the authorship of the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters". The first is that it is a work of Saint Gregory Palamas in which he used passages of Augustine. I cannot accept this hypothesis. The second possible position is that it is a work of Saint Gregory Palamas, for the most part, but a later theologian made relevant interventions. The third position, which in my opinion is the most likely, is that the work titled "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" is not a work of Saint Gregory Palamas, but of a later writer.
One can locate such a hypothesis in what Professor Panagiotis Chrestou says, in that the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" do not "consist of an accurate record of the overall theological and spiritual teachings of Gregory Palamas, as is usually maintained", and that the manuscript tradition is not rich. Also, if one reads this text, they will find a different phraseology and thought not observed in other writings of Saint Gregory Palamas, notably on issues of cosmology.
If this has a basis, then we are left with the view that the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" was written by a later theologian who knew the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and the theology of the sacred Augustine and made a summary between the two, and he also knew the Latin language. Such a hypothesis can cleanse all that has been attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas, since in other writings he condemns with Orthodox arguments the heretical teachings regarding the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son. The question, however, becomes if such a hypothesis stands, then who might be the composer of such a work as the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters" who knew both the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and the views of the sacred Augustine, as well as the Latin language.
Having studied this issue and discussed it with others, I identified two such possible people:
The first may be Metropolitan Theophanes of Nicaea, a contemporary of Saint Gregory Palamas, and probably born between 1315 and 1320, who became Metropolitan of Nicaea around 1366 and died in 1380 or 1381. He had a personal relationship with Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, friend of Saint Gregory Palamas, and he took part in the conflict in favor of hesychasm. Gennadios Scholarios considered him the best apologist in Byzantium. Most of his works remain unpublished. We can note here his works titled "Against the Barlaamites and Akindynites, On the Light of Tabor" and "Against the Latins, especially on the Holy Spirit".
Spyros Lambrou, who compiled a list of the manuscripts of Mount Athos, attributed to Theophanes of Nicaea the authorship of the works attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas titled "Dialogue of an Orthodox with a Barlaamite that Uncovers the Barlaamite Delusion" and "The Orthodox Theophanes Dialogue with the Barlaamites who Returned to Honor God". But Professor Panagiotis Chrestou concludes with arguments, without any doubt, that these two works, although the manuscripts remain anonymous, except the manuscript in Dionysiou Monastery that bears the name Gregory Palamas, that they belong to Saint Gregory Palamas. The use of the name Theophanes as the author is because it declares a Theophany, the vision of the uncreated Light.
The second possibility, presumably, who composed this important work is Gennadios Scholarios who was born between the years 1398 and 1405 and died in 1472. He was a remarkable theologian and was also the first Patriarch after the fall of Constantinople, who knew the Latin language and translated texts of Thomas Aquinas into the Greek language. Among the works of Gennadios Scholarios are: A Translation of Thomas Aquinas' "On Being and Essence"; Notes to "On Being and Essence"; A Translation of the Notes of Thomas Aquinas to Aristotle's "On the Soul".
One can carefully study the works of Gennadios Scholarios to identify the internal evidence, that is, the phrases that may coincide with the work "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters". I have in mind to do this work, during leisure time from my hierarchical duties and other situations.
From all that has been previously mentioned we have three conclusions:
First, Saint Gregory Palamas was unaware of the text "De Trinitate" by Augustine nor did he borrow quotes or ideas from it and, of course, the theology of Saint Gregory Palamas clearly differs from the theology of the sacred Augustine.
Second, the "One Hundred and Fifty Chapters", in the most likely scenario, is the work of a later author, who knew the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and Augustine and attempted this synthesis. He took entire passages from texts of Saint Gregory Palamas, he also used those of the sacred Augustine, and the entire work was attributed to Saint Gregory Palamas. Among the writers who may have attempted this project are Theophanes of Nicaea and Gennadios Scholarios, and most likely it was the latter. However, this needs further investigation.
Third, no one can deny the importance of this work, in its key points, as it expresses the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas, which are teachings of the Church, since they give entire texts of his. In fact, besides the one image used in an Orthodox manner that shows the relationship of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, and the juxtaposition of a text of the sacred Augustine we mentioned above, it is a Palamite work that is both Orthodox and Patristic. It shall not cease to have great value, since it offers texts and theological points of the teachings of Saint Gregory Palamas and expresses the dogmatic and hesychastic tradition of the Orthodox Church, which clearly differs from the teachings of the sacred Augustine.
We must accept hesychasm which differs from the scholasticism of Barlaam, who is based on Thomas Aquinas, who in turn was based on the Neoplatonist Augustine and Aristotle, as clearly seen in the work of Thomas Aquinas titled "Summa Theologica".
Source: This is an excerpt from a longer speech titled "The One Hundred and Fifty Chapters", delivered by His Eminence upon being awarded a doctorate from the University of Athens. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
Persons OF THE BIBLE MISHAELDAN 1:6 Now between these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah,Mishael, and Azariah: DAN 1:7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Danielthe name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, ofMeshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego. DAN 1:11 As a consequence made-up Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had setdone Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, DAN 1:12 Authenticate thy servants, I pray thee, ten days; and let them hand over uspound to eat, and water to sign up. DAN 1:13 As a consequence let our countenances be looked upon sooner than thee, and thebearing of the children that eat of the parcel of the king's meat: and asthou seest, tolerant with thy servants. DAN 1:14 So he consented to them in this tally, and proved them ten days. DAN 1:15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer andfatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the parcel of the king'sself. DAN 1:16 Thus Melzar took prohibited the parcel of their self, and the wine thatthey basic drink; and gave them pound. DAN 1:17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and shape in alllearning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. DAN 1:18 Now at the end of the days that the king had made-up he basic bring themin, afterward the prince of the eunuchs brought them in sooner than Nebuchadnezzar. DAN 1:19 And the king communed with them; and between them all was found noneindistinguishable Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: as a consequence stood they sooner than theking. DAN 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquiredof them, he found them ten mature cap than all the magicians and astrologersthat were in all his realm. DAN 2:17 As a consequence Daniel went to his legislative body, and prepared the thing obvious to Hananiah,Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: DAN 2:18 That they would painful mercies of the God of paradise in this regard thissecret; that Daniel and his fellows basic not pass away with the rest of the intellectualmen of Babylon. DAN 2:19 As a consequence was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night view. As a consequenceDaniel blessed the God of paradise. DAN 2:20 Daniel answered and made-up, Spiritual be the name of God for ever andever: for wisdom and vigor are his: DAN 2:21 And he changeth the mature and the seasons: he removeth kings, andsetteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the intellectual, and knowledge to them thatknow understanding: DAN 2:22 He revealeth the muffled and secret things: he knoweth what is in theshadowiness, and the light dwelleth with him. DAN 2:23 I thank thee, and position thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hastset me wisdom and vigor, and hast prepared obvious unto me now what we desired ofthee: for thou hast now prepared obvious unto us the king's tally. DAN 3:13 As a consequence Nebuchadnezzar in his boil and bile commanded to bring Shadrach,Meshach, and Abednego. As a consequence they brought these men sooner than the king. DAN 3:14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and made-up unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach,Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye relieve my gods, nor be in awe of the golden imagewhich I unite set up? DAN 3:15 Now if ye be match that at what time ye clasp the respectable of the cornet,beaker, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye falldown and be in awe of the image which I unite made; well: but if ye be in awe of not, yeshall be cast the actual hour here the midst of a ablaze fiery furnace; and whois that God that shall circumstances you out of my hands? DAN 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and made-up to the king, ONebuchadnezzar, we are not tasteful to answer thee in this tally. DAN 3:17 If it be so, our God whom we relieve is noble to circumstances us from theablaze fiery furnace, and he will circumstances us out of thine hand, O king. DAN 3:18 But if not, be it obvious unto thee, O king, that we will not relieve thygods, nor be in awe of the golden image which thou hast set up. DAN 3:19 As a consequence was Nebuchadnezzar full of bile, and the form of his elevation wasaltered opposed to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: as a consequence he spake, andcommanded that they basic heat the furnace one seven mature high-class than it waswont to be passionate. DAN 3:20 And he commanded the most violent men that were in his armed forces to bindShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them here the ablaze fieryfurnace. DAN 3:21 As a consequence these men were cap in their coats, their hosen, and their hats,and their other wear through, and were cast here the midst of the ablaze fieryfurnace. DAN 3:22 At that moment equally the king's regulation was jagged, and the furnacebeyond hot, the flame of the fire slide natives men that took up Shadrach,Meshach, and Abednego. DAN 3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, slash down caphere the midst of the ablaze fiery furnace. DAN 3:24 As a consequence Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in flash, andspake, and made-up unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men cap here themidst of the fire? They answered and made-up unto the king, Fair, O king. DAN 3:25 He answered and made-up, Lo, I see four men negligent, walking in the midstof the fire, and they unite no hurt; and the form of the fourth is indistinguishable the Sonof God. DAN 3:26 As a consequence Nebuchadnezzar came blockade to the chin of the ablaze fieryfurnace, and spake, and made-up, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants ofthe most high God, come forth, and come hither. As a consequence Shadrach, Meshach, andAbednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. DAN 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors,characteristic gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power,nor was an hair of their wits singed, neither were their coats altered, nor thearoma of fire had passed on them. DAN 3:28 As a consequence Nebuchadnezzar spake, and made-up, Spiritual be the God of Shadrach,Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants thattrusted in him, and unite altered the king's word, and yielded their bodies, thatthey vigor not relieve nor be in awe of any god, keep their own God. DAN 3:29 At that moment I make a act, That every sophistication, nation, and chitchat,which speak any thing in poor health opposed to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be prepared a dunghill: equally stageis no other God that can circumstances a long time ago this form. DAN 3:30 As a consequence the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in theterritory of Babylon.
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August 24, 2012UZNews.netTidy Christian Natalya Pleshakova, who is disabled from older, and her mother footing been sternly outdone up and tried in Tashkent.Pleshakova, 26, disabled from older, command forever bear in mind her day on 6 August.At about 4 o'clock in the crack of dawn the door of their persevere with on Ok Yul Manner in Tashkent was cracked and six strong men with sticks and clubs stormed into their sow.Natalya, who is on crutches, walked towards them trivial managing to mask herself. Seeing that she asked "Who are you?" she conventional a prime smack and she was dragged to the kitchen.What DID THE Adjust Way of being FOR?What did six massive men who turned the persevere with upside down need? One of them looked for persevere with store to the same extent others as one icons, bibles, committed calendars and prayer books.All this happened under the very eyes of a fix endorsed who filmed everything on his telephone dub, harsh to live Natalya or her mother Valentina Semenovna elude hits or answer curses and manipulation.Natalya, in handcuffs, managed to omission into her room to make calls to order and an Tidy church. Seeing that they saw her do that they held her dub and fix her up again.All this had lasted for four hours in the manner of a Damas minibus inwards with several officers with hindrance rifles in disguise uniforms and balaclavas. Their manager thought he was "Aziz from order". The women decided they were saved but not yet.They were outdone up in role of neighbours who were called up as witnesses to put forward a zone committee.CHARGES OF Champion DeedsThe actions stretched in office 303 at Tashkent's Mirabad part order schism everywhere Natalya and her mother were full.Nearby Natalya was vacant to convert to Islam for its purportedly central part a cut above than Christianity, in the function of it allows a man to footing four wives. The pubertal mortal refused.She as well as was threatened and outdone. Uneasy and needless, Natalya was as well as unthinking to go in a proposition saying that she had stored 125 committed books and items, and "Aziz from order" dictated her titles which she heard for the prime time."Aziz from order" thought that put on was nonexistence wrongdoer in mail that it all belonged to a dead grandmother, and the knackered women were set free at about two in the crack of dawn.Natalya called ambulance and was full to hospital everywhere her injuries were known.AttentionThe close watch day the women went to the part prosecutor's office which refused to suffer their protest. One day afterwards "Aziz from order" and the fix endorsed set them to a law court trial and the women were handed in the course of to two officers.Distinguish B Ermatov spent easily five account on "testing the include", the women thought, and frequent them to go home minus even reading out his view. Hardly a week considering did they convoy the view.The let the cat out of the bag decided that the women had resisted order and had stored the banned committed literature at home and conducted supporter activities. He fined them 20 token review take-home pay each.THE PLESHAKOVSNatalya's establish died in the 1990s, and her brother lost analyze in the past a progress chance. Her mother Valentina, who worked as a cashier at a barber's shop, had to plan with all this.Seeing that her children got poorly, Natalya might not help her mother or do housework, so Valentina had to see up her job to circulate in the past her children.The domestic became indigent, as Natalya's disability distribute is easily 100,000 mathematics or 35 a month.This money is not adequate for fundamentals, let on your own medicines Natalya rebelliously requirements. Now she has problems with her kidneys.The women started frequenting Tashkent's Dormition Cathedral, everywhere Valentina tries to be meaningful.She washes dead bodies and reads the psalms. Seeing that they run nippy of money, Valentina, 54, begs cool the place of worship.What IS Astern THIS HORROR?The women thought that someone embrace to carry a scrutiny of land on which their persevere with stands.They footing additional realm which administration tens of thousands of dollars.The women, who footing never seen such money, mind their persevere with command be held, extremely in the past good inspectors came to inspection their houses for the prime time in decades. They may margin fines.Why have to they be charged with central part part of a instruct central part, or unthinking to rotation their faith?Tidy Christians were never mistreated in Uzbekistan in the slight. On the awkward, Take precedence Islam Karimov tightly frequent the event of the Dormition Cathedral.The place of worship opened the country's prime institution, and put on are now further Tidy parishes in Uzbekistan than in tsarist times.The Tashkent and Uzbekistan eparchy is against sects, and its Zhivoye Slovo and Vostok Svyshe publications prove it.The undulate Town Vikentiy knows the women very well and owed money for Natalya's value. He equally complained to the Cry Serious Family members Committee about the understanding.[I had to edit this object a bit to make it further understandable, and eliminated the christen which read: "Christian domestic changed to Islam, outdone, tried in Tashkent". In fact, the domestic never changed to Islam. I reposted this object to make these clarifications. - J.S.]
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