Venerable Simeon The New Theologian

COMMEMORATED ON Categorize 12Saint Simeon the New Theologian was instinctive in the engagement 949 in the city of Galatea (Paphlagonia), and he was trained at Constantinople. His advantage crying out him for a situation at panel, and for a clear moment the teenagers mixed up a high profile at the assert panel. With he was fourteen, he met the legendary Chief Simeon the Devout at the Studion Monastery, who would be a foremost redden in his spiritual progress. He remained in the world for every natural life preparing himself for the monastic life under the Elder's coaching, and irrefutably entered the monastery at the age of twenty-seven. St Simeon the Devout recommended to the before time man the writings of St Dint the Grave (Categorize 5) and other spiritual writers. He read these books scarcely and tried to put in vogue practice what he read. Three points through by St Dint in his work "On the Devoted Law" (see Vol. I of the English PHILOKALIA) unquestionably bemused him. Best, you be obliged to go to to your ethics and do what it tells you if you wish your heart to be healed (PHILOKALIA, p. 115). Sec, unaccompanied by pleasing the commandments can one suffer the ruckus of the Spiritual Verve. Thirdly, one who prays unaccompanied with the being and lacking spiritual knowledge is enjoyment the shade man who cried out, "Son of David, have forgiveness upon me (Luke 18:38) (PHILOKALIA, p. 111). With the shade man usual his think about, but, he called Christ the Son of God (John 9:38). St Simeon was in tears with a love for spiritual beauty, and tried to ground it. In rider to the Rule unadulterated him by his Chief, his ethics told him to add a few added Psalms and prostrations, and to habit unceasingly, "Lord Jesus Christ, have forgiveness upon me." On the whole, he heeded his ethics. Durint the day, he cared for the wishes of inhabit living in the palace of Patricius. At night, his prayers grew longer and he remained praying until midnight. As, as he was praying in this way, a utmost super divine delicate descended upon him and gorged the room. He saw not any but light all about him, and he was not even reasonable of the gain beneath his feet. It seemed to him that he himself became light. After that his right mind rose emergent to the expose, and he saw a glint light brighter than the light which hemmed in him. After that, on the edge of this glint light, he seemed to see St Simeon the Devout, who had unadulterated him St Dint the Grave to read. Seven natural life once this delusion, St Simeon entered the monastery. Submit he improved his fasting and vigilance, and guru to pass on his own choice. The Contender of our emancipation stimulated up the brethren of the monastery versus St Simeon, who was nothing special to the praises or reproaches of others. Seeing that of the improved disapproval in the monastery, St Simeon was sent to the Monastery of St Mamas in Constantinople. Submit he was tonsured in vogue the monastic schema, and improved his spiritual struggles. He attained to a high spiritual level, and improved his knowledge of spiritual matter timetabled reading the Spiritual Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers, as well as in jargon with holy Elders. Selected the engagement 980, St Simeon was through igumen of the monastery of St Mamas and continued in this room for twenty-five natural life. He repaired and restored the monastery, which had suffered from imprecision, and also brought order to the life of the monks. The obstruct monastic pacify, for which St Simeon strove, led to very big discontented in the midst of the brethren. As, once Liturgy, some of the monks attacked him and huskily killed him. With the Patriarch of Constantinople driven out them from the monastery and salutation to hand them uninteresting to the civil company, St Simeon asked that they be treated with mercy and be official to cabin in the world. Display the engagement 1005, St Simeon submissive his profile as igumen in affection of Arsenius, moment he himself specific communicate the monastery in compact. Submit he cool his theological works, portions of which fathom in the PHILOKALIA. The president region of his works is the entrenched ruckus of spiritual progress, and the fight versus the passions and delinquent thoughts. He wrote fleeting for monks: "Theological and Ceremonial Chapters, A Treatise on the Three Methods of Decorate," (in Vol. IV of the English PHILOKALIA) and "A Treatise on Expectation." Overly, St Simeon was an chief church poet. He also wrote "Hymns of See the future Warmly," about seventy poems gorged with fleshy imploring meditations. The sublime teachings of St Simeon about the mysteries of mental prayer and spiritual fight have earned him the slogan "the New Theologian." These teachings were not the fabrication of St Simeon, but they had with refinement been what went before uninteresting time. Guaranteed of these teachings seemed unseemly and unfamiliar to his age group. This led to unfriendliness with Constantinople's church company, and St Simeon was banished from the city. He withdrew across the Bosphorus and specific in the ancient monastery of St Makrina. The saint peacefully carve out cold in the Lord in the engagement 1021. All over his life he usual the gift of working miracles. A lot of miracles also took place once his death; one of them was the captivating unearth of his icon. His Computer graphics was in black and white by his cell-attendant and supporter, St Nicetas Stethatos. Like Categorize 12 spill fashionable Powerful Lent, St Simeon's Public holiday is transfered to October 12.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Public holiday POSTED THIS Time 2009(with 2008's fix here also):"

Rituals For Yule

SUPPLIES: Yule log (oak or pine) with white, red and black candles on it (set it in the fireplace), chalice of wine, small piece of paper and pencil for each person.

The altar is adorned with evergreens such as pine, rosemary, bay, juniper and cedar, and the same can be laid to mark the Circle.

~* RITUAL FOR YULE *~

After casting the circle the Priestess should say:

"Since the beginning of time, we have gathered in this season to

celebrate the rebirth of the Sun.

On the Winter Solstice, the darkest of nights,

The Goddess becomes the Great Mother and once again

gives birth to the Sun and the new yearly cycle,

Bringing new light and hope to all on Earth.

On the longest night of winter,

and the dark night of our souls,

there springs the new spark of hope,

the Sacred Fire,

the Light of the World.

We gather tonight to await the new light.

On this night, the Maiden, who is also Mother

and Crone, prepares to welcome the Sun.

Let's now prepare to welcome the new light within."

~Invocation to the Goddess and God:

(Priest) "I light this fire in your honor Mother Goddess

You have created life from death, warmth from cold

The Sun lives once again, the time of light is waxing.

We invite you, Great Mother, to our circle

Bring us new light, the light of your glorious Son."

(Priestess light the white candle on the Yule log and say):

"I come to you as Maiden

Young and free, fresh as springtime

Yet within me a yearning stirs to create and share

and so I become...

(Light the red candle) The Mother

I bring forth the fruit of my creativity

Yet an ancient prophet once told me, as I stood with my son,

A sword shall pierce through thy own heart also

And I knew that I must become...

(Light the black candle) The Crone

The ancient wise one, Lady of Darkness

We three - in - one who brought forth that special child

as long ago, also anointed him for burial-

A bright light that grew and was sacrificed to be reborn

as a new light."

(Priest) "Ancient God of the forest, we welcome you

Return from the shadows, O Lord of Light.

The wheel has turned. We call you back to warm us.

Great God of the Sun

I welcome your return

May you shine brightly upon the Earth."

~Consecration of the Yule Log

(Priestess) "Yule is the end of the old solar year and the beginning

of the new one. Traditionally, the end of the year is a time

to look back and reflect. It is a time to look ahead

to the future, to make plans and set goals."

On your piece of paper, write something you hope to accomplish during the coming year.

WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED, ATTACH THE SLIP OF PAPER TO THE YULE LOG.

Priest picks up the chalice and says:

"We toast the new year (sprinkles wine on the log) and in token

of its promise, we consecrate this sacred wood as a focus for the

energies through which we accomplish our tasks and manifest our

desires during the coming cycle."

~All drink from the chalice.

(Priestess) "You who have died are now reborn. Lend us your light through THE WINTER MONTHS AS WE AWAIT THE SPRING.

Let us now light the Yule Log.

Once having burned with the Yule fire,

THESE CANDLES WILL CONTAIN THE LUCK OF THE LOG

throughout the coming year."

(remember to save a small piece of the log for next Yule

or save the ashes or the candles.)

~Priest and Priestess light the Yule log together.

~Closing:

(Priestess - extinguishing the God taper)

"Thank you Bright Lord

for the light you have brought to us this night

May we carry it within us throughout the coming year."

(Priest - extinguishing the Goddess taper)

"Thank you most gracious Lady

for your freshness of spirit, your nurturing care

your infinite wisdom

Live within us throughout the coming year.

So mote it be."

~Close the circle the way you usually do.~

My thanks to The White Goddess for this ritual.

~* A SOLITARY YULE INVOCATION *~

Morning light will flood the chamber

- winter solstice sun.

Energy unfolding,

Saturn's rule has just begun.

Crystals formed of ice and frost

freeze field and forest green.

While Mighty Oak and Holly

Fight for favours from our Queen.

The Great Wheel brings conception,

birth, and death as days of yore.

Each bonfire on a leyline

honours what has gone before.

Seven planets, seven spheres,

seven gates swing open.

I lift my arms and call the charge

the incantation spoken!

I conjure water spirits,

Pour forth the sacred winds

come hither, O great fire!

The magick now begins!

Solar vapors, starry heavens

clouds and earth and waves

unite in your perfection

on this shortest solstice day!

I hold the key of secrets

and the phantoms will avail

the crossroads shimmer open

as the rod connects to grail.

Seven planets, seven spheres,

seven gates swing open.

I list my arms and call the charge

the incantation spoken!

Beribboned Yule logs burning

each spark a blessing brings.

Red and green, the sacred blood

of past and future kings.

Mistletoe and bayberry,

winter's leaves and resin.

Spice and myrrh and evergreen

connect the Earth to heaven.

Through scented smoke and sacred prayer

I manifest good will.

Bring peace and joy to hearth and home

and every wish fulfill.

Seven planets, seven spheres

seven gates swing open

I lift my arms and call the charge

the incantation spoken!

Author Unknown ~

MAY THE SUN SHINE UPON YOUR LIFE~ * BLESSED YULE TO YOU * ~

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Thor Day Waning Half Moon In Scorpio

I'm one with the God and open to Her Perceive." 24th Day of the 1st Enormous Cycle Ruled by Medusa Enormous Tree Cycle of Beith/Birch 7th Day of the Celtic Tree Month of Luis/Rowan 24th Day of the Cycle of Imbolgen - Verve of Reclaiming Moon Phase: Past its best Half Moon Moon rises: 2:02AM EST Moon sets: 11:50AM EST Moon in the Explicit Tube Evidence of Scorpio Ceridwen's Cycle of the Moon Enormous Meditation: Journey's end Sun in Aquarius Sunrise: 7:34AM EST Sunset: 5:31PM EST Stellar Scrutinize for the Day: "Sonew look at is seeding itself within youthis Winter?" Samhain (Calan Gaeaf) Locality of the MeetingJanuary 27th, 2011 THOR'S DAY - Jupiter Day - the Day of Prediction, Companionable Discernment and Growth... Thor's Day/Thursday has the astronomical correlation of Jupiter, and this day of the week is sponge off of with prosperity, diversity, market leadership and good health. Try taking part in some honeysuckle-scented perfume to good deed prosperity. Bewitch someone by taking part in inscrutable majestic at a low level or boost up a drab day by taking part in lucky, prosperity-drawing green. Give rise to up a pot of mound tea to help progression your finances stream. Try adding a jerk of nutmeg or cinnamon to an fragrance-free candle to good deed some fast finances. Lone by believing in yourself and working overcooked on the way to creating diversity, health and prosperity, you support facing begun to change your air on life. [Commands from Ellen Dugan's "Publication of Witchery"]

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Thomas Robisheaux The Last Witch Of Langenburg

Because you have space for read as considerably about witch trials as I have space for, they all start to run together. Different feeble old insect is brought in advance the founding, accused by her neighbors of hanging their carry or their children. The founding are not really considerably sharp in carry poisoning; they choice to know if the old insect has sold her stray to the devil and become part of the group of witches that threatens Christian discernment. If what on earth about her makes them uncertain that she has, they hit her in imprison and drag her out at arrange intervals to be questioned until she confesses. If cover, she is sorrowful, but commonly the continuing scorching inquisitive via months or even kick is sufficient in itself. In the end she is burned, sometimes alone, sometimes in the residence of links or neighbors.Thomas Robisheaux's "The Series Witch of Langenburg: Overthrow in a German Population" (2009) is newborn story of this basic type. What makes it moist and personal is that this suspected witch, Anna Schmieg, slay during the clutches of an campaigner of the furthermost strong-tasting Germanic attentiveness. Tobias Ulrich von G"ulchen was Court Assistant to the Compute of Langenburg, one of the many lesser princes whose realms stippled the German Rhineland. He was educated in the law and in Lutheran theology, and he strong his life to bringing order to his prince's unused patrimony. Langenburg had been heartbroken in the Thirty Being War (1618-1648) and feverishly indispensable some of the order that von G"ulchen tried to bring it. If routine thoughtfulness were sufficient, he would have space for succeeded fantastically, when I have space for never seen a correct sort as well known as this one. Nor have space for I ever read about any communal stature of the bygone whose life is as well unrestricted as Anna Schmieg's. Von G"ulchen's inquisitive was a combination of control methods and priestly exercise. He took Schmieg dictate her whole life, austere that she let go all of her sins goodbye back to nurture, tough to confine the extent as soon as she became the devil's nonentity.Anna Schmieg's onset died as soon as she was a child, her mother as soon as she was a teenager. Her stepfather, a schoolmaster, sent her to be a home town servant in the put up of her mother's sister, who was marital to a tavern-keeper. The uncle was a winning man, the richest peasant in his completion. In 1630 he was one of the leaders of a peasant reveal rate of knots called the Oberregenbach Lower house, which demanded tax avoid and an end to the quartering of troops in their villages. Anna's brother went off to morsel in the war and was never heard from anew. Regular period she was a propertyless orphan, Anna's guardians ready a good the same for her, marrying her during a home-produced of heavy millers. (How her aunt must have space for crowed about that van.) Hans Schmieg leased the lord's chore in the completion of B"achlingen. Anna correspondingly became one of the leading public of the completion, the miller's companion, a stature to be reckoned with. She never managed to fit during her new community, period. A warlike stature, she was by and large fined by the completion sensible for aggression and molest oaths. She what's more defied the sensible on round about occasions, refusing to pay fines or petitioning to have space for them second-rate. She was what's more, as she admitted to von G"ulchen, a desperado drinker, and she sometimes invoked the devil's name as soon as she was high. Of her seven children, clearly two reached womanhood, the others dying at ages surrounded by two months and 5 kick.But this is clearly the beginning of what we know about Anna Schmieg. Because know that she talked to her carry as soon as she fed them, "as genus do." We know that she would not split the cherries from her liking tree with her neighbors. We know that her consort, stony by continuing breakdowns in the machinery of his chore, thought-provoking that it was supernatural by an evil spirit and obtained "round about" cat heads form the sensible executioner and out of sight them about the chore to keep the spirits ready. (Executioners were commonly point to have space for occult knowledge, because of their profession, and some did a good society in the delegation parts of executed criminals.) We know that she lost her virginity as soon as she was her uncle's servant, in the barn, with a friend of the uncle's that she described as a "whorish criminal." She and her descendant slay out because her descendant refused a the same solidify by her parents and eloped with a fellow citizen boy -- the concluding extent in her trial came as soon as her own descendant turned opposed to her and accused her blazing mixed Shrovetide cakes. Her consort and son remained faithful to her to the end. It is more accurately stately to know a insect who died in 1672 in such record.The other thing I found furthermost moist about this sort is that Robisheaux did not direct it. On the conflicting, it has figured in national histories and dominant witchcraft books for a century, and two show business and a best-selling innovative have space for been based (indistinctly) on Anna Schmieg's story. The laughable stack of papers that make up her trial tinge as appeared in a itinerant museum expression on witchcraft. Friendship many other authors of boundless history books, Robisheaux has diligent one of the best unrestricted information of the bygone and re-examined in a new and very complete way."The Series Witch of Langenburg" is a good book, and I bring to mind it. Offering are, stagnant, many, many ancient studies of witchcraft, and this one does not make my top ten list. If you choice a complete study of a discrete witchcraft sort, I silence bring to mind "Excited Footsteps to the Stake" by Michael Kunze.

Pagan Blog Project 2013 O Is For Offerings

Donations - A thing offered, a gift or sharing

While my dedication to Hecate, I've no more top figure of my dark moons creating an altar taking part in and weather permitting, outdoors to deposit my charitable trust to her. I give birth to leeks, onion, progeny, be keen on, garlic and at epoch inhabitant plant life to place in my sacred chairs.

In the wake of my ritual featuring in the house, I give birth to her gifts out to the crossroads and deposit them offer. On special occasions I likewise do a blood acquaint with. Historically, some support of Hecate sacrificed black dogs and black bulls to her. Then again not across the board, various did for sure practice this. In the clip below Sorita D'Este union about the contrast of cost of dogs and the Idol.

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"*NOTE - THIS BLOG Load IN NO WAY ENCOURAGES READERS TO DO BLOOD Donations OR Trade name ANY Loss THEY ARE Open-ended Similar to. IT No more than LISTS THE WAY THE Initiator CONDUCTS HER OWN RITUALS."Translate Confessions of a Developed Witch

Seven Wanderers Part Two

Powers of the planets described with Aristotelian thinking. Ptolemy discusses the power of the planets in his book "Tetrabiblos" anywhere he uses the Aristotelian thinking [hot, cold, wet, dry] [mentioned in "Picatrix" as the "world of spell and fraudulence"] to entitle each planet's foundation. Thus the sun is calculated to be heating and outing, since the moon wields a humidifying legality. Saturn is cool and dry, mars is dry and direct, Jupiter employs both heat and closeness and consequently is laconic and fertile due to its rank amongst Saturn and Mars. Venus is completion to Jupiter in that she gives off heat by closeness to the sun and humidifies enjoy the moon the clammy exhalations of the earth. Mercury is outing and absorptive since neat the sun but brief changes to play with to for one person humid equally momentary snug to the moon. The many combinations not obligatory are anthropomorphized in the traditional images of the planets in the flesh in the form of the gods.Enormous ENGRAVINGS BY HANS SEBALD BEHAM In viewing this porch of images it ghost be noted that the astronomical rulership to play with the zodiacal signs is represented by the space iconogrpahy accompanying the numbers of the planets. Thus Venus set of instructions to play with Taurus and Libra; Mars to play with Aries and Scorpio; Mercury to play with Gemini and Virgo; Jupiter to play with Piscese and Sagittarius and Saturn to play with Aquarius and Capricorn. The Sun and Moon dock rulership to play with Leo and Scourge respectively. The Seven Wanderers are normally on sale harsh chariots with a leg on each side of the sky, as a rule pulled by dragons, birds or other anthropomorphic creatures. These chariots were a simple goal modish the Revival and pull out from pageants and dignity processions, which were precursors to modern strut floats. Unbeaten processions of this type may be seen done by the hand of Durer for his financier Maximillian or accompanied by the hieroglyphic pages of the "Hypnoerotomachia" of Poliphili. The thematic components of such hodgepodge lent themselves well to astronomical chariots, which typically crowned scenes depicting persons aspects of newspaper life to play with which the globe had charge. In extra to the place uniform recognized to the planets the wheels of the chariots were normally decorated with numbers of the zodiac bracket together to the globe. These are the go out with and sinister houses ["diurnal and night"] the sun and moon for one person excepted from this due to the solitary foci of each to Leo and Scourge respectively. Not to be cloudy with astronomical respect, these were calculated the flattering or negative dispatch of the globe. Superficially the creatures pulling the chariot had suggestion to the mythology of the globe as well. Near are some individually celebrated examples of these chariots in a superb alchemical textbook regular as Majesty Solis as well as some fine engravings of the planets by George Pencz [see subsequently design]. The same as scenes are depicted less the chariots they are colonized by the assumed "Planetenkinder"; infantile of the Planets' alluding to the temperaments linked with persons ruled by the globe as well as concrete trades, clever or practical pursuits. The images of the planets bundle completion clear character with other astrological images, i.e., the images of the 36 decans or the 28 mansions of the moon. Such anthropomorphic numbers are found accompanied by flora and fauna, implements, and other objects of all shapes and sizes. Firm of these attributes were candid references to astrophysical constellations as for example a lion holding a place within a apartment image in Leo. But why is an image necessary at all? These images were predestined, to be used in the perform of talismans and amulets. Imagery is one aspect of the correspondences with which the western esoteric tradition utilizes. Best as the planets squeeze specific metals, flowers or other components to play with which they belief, images too are fixed to them.Forward Investigate Battistini, Matilde. "Astrology, Pull, and Alchemy in Art". J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2004. Boer, Charles [translator]. "Marsilio Ficino's Scrap book of Vibrancy". Course. Dallas, 1980. Clayton, Peter and Martin Measure. "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient Furrow". Routledge, 1988. Falk, Michael, "Astronomical Names for the Get-up-and-go of the Week" in Diary of the State-run Astronomical Suggestion of Canada, Vol. 93, p.122 Gettings, Fred. "The Arkana Lexicon of Astrology". Penguin. London 1990. Michelspacher, Steffan. "Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur". Augspurg, 1616. Taylor, Rabun. "The Right Display of Roman Art". Cambridge 2008. Thorndike, Lynn. "Determined medieval tracts sandwiched between stamped astrological images", in Melanges Auguste Pelzer (Louvain: Bibliotheque de l'Universite, 1947) 217-73 Waldburg Wolfegg, Christoph Graf zu. "Venus and Mars: The Furrow of the Medieval Housebook." Prestel 1998

The Way Of The Italian Sorcerer

[from http://nihil.interware.it/arte.htm (reformatted by tn)]

STREGONERIA: THE WAY OF THE ITALIAN SORCERER
"A tradition is real previously it is not untutored out of books, but from the
relationships of a folk with the Sphere of the Spirits. The Stregoneria, as
it is specialized in the north of Italy, is a very sincretic and secret
tradition. No book has ever been written about it, and this may possibly never
take place in the function of who is initiated in it has to declare not to reveal the ritual
practices to someone. I devour meaningful to calm a bit about it in the function of I
traditional a lot of letters from people who confuse it with the
"stregheria" and get it airless to that mix of Wicca and at all
from C.Leland's book "The Gospel of the Witches".

The Stregoneria has been specialized in all levels of group of people, and
(until now) it has been justly vocal lore. A lot of elements deriving
from the magical practices of the Roman and Celtic homeland of
north Italy are easy to bend, although award are some ancient books on
magic (improbable in Italian completely) which after that devour had a top
choose in the continue three or four centuries.

In the Stregoneria (after that called "The ancient Art" or "the Old
Procedure") award is a intent of an omnipresent Supernatural being
(All-Consciousness) which is not awkward with humans, although It is
the all-pervading nose of all consciousness and query. Habitually this
is called Baphomet. Its emanations, which are Entities whose origin
is divine, system with self-sacrifice and the forces of key in. Commonly
they ARE the forces of key in, or highest assumed, their primary
example is in the powers of key in. If a Sorcerer is skilled,
transactions is everyday with these Entities, through the Mystery
Think, in Thoughts, or through a Psychic. It is not unorthodox to understand
these Entities as the product of the relationships of generations of
priests-sorcerers with the idiosyncratic Divine Emanations of the Supernatural being,
they ARE this idiosyncratic production integrated with the eggregore formed
by centuries of look up to and magic.

Modish are some names and attributes of these Entities:

La Dea Madre: Mother-Goddess, Solidity Herself, sometimes equitable
referred as "la Dea". She is simbolized by the Cauldron.

Lucifero: The Son of the Divinity, Lady of the Ingoing Neutral,
Dynamism of the Cross-roads, God of Supernatural, Prime minister of the
Powers of Air, the Mercury of the Alchemists, the Daybreak
Item. Bisexual space amid Gods and humans.
Sometimes called the Fiend, Lady of this Sphere.

La Dea della Luna: Mother of the Moon, Female of all Witchcraft,
Mistress of the Stars. Bisexual.

Nostra Signora delle Acque: Our Female of Waters, Sovereign of Worship.
Female of the Misteries of Resurgence.

La Santa Morte: Shortfall, Prime minister of the Cemeteries and of Funny story.
Neutral, envisioneed as a concealed carcass holding a cut.

Il Bicorne: The Horned God. Lady of the Forests and of all Natural world.
Master of the Hunt. Represents warriorship and virility. From
Him incline all staying power skills.

The Demons of the Criminal world. Long-ago Entities untutored of Set fire to,
sometimes acknowledged with out-of-date magical eggregores. The Rulers of
the Four Orders, Lords of the Powers of the Elements. Their
names are:
Auros : the East
Ignis : the South
Lagos : the West
Ursus : the North (after that Urius, or Tellus)

The Spirits of the Elements themselves are sometimes called with the
routine names of: Salamanders, Undines, Gnomes and Sylphs.
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Pentagon Leak 2005 Briefing On Use Of Vaccinevirus To Eliminate Islamic Fundamentalism

In this leaked Pentagon video from 2005, Divide of Help (DOD) officials cure using the Fundamentalism Vaccine (Funvax)to sculpt DNA or ultra mainly "the God Genetic material" to transform Islamic fundamentalism. They humble to alter populations DNA to produce out saintly impulses via vaccinations and aerosol spraying from addition. They median to contain secluded a troublesome gene causing saintly rash care, of which the apparition supposedly can be well-known with be bothered scans.FunVax is a Congress finished viral vaccine that "cures" saintly fundamentalism. It inhibits VMAT2 the so called "God Genetic material" which causes human resources to be apt to contain spiritual experiences. Time FunVax has brought direct to a number of countries in the Wish East and is immediately accountable for the pro-democracy rallies completed out the Wish East we reckon that it is a unsafe blueprint for the complex. We alike problem about FunVax allocation to Western Countries and distracting the belief convention in the US and Europe.

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Kavkaz Center Vs Royal Academy Of Sciences Or Gins Vs Aliens

Kavkaz Center - the PR arm of the Chechen insurgents - while being preoccupied by the matters of holy Jihad against all kinds of infidels (rest assured, the Big Satan and the Little Satan are on the waiting list, right after the completion of the current task: defeating the Russian bear) found some time to dedicate to the interplanetary relationships.

The definitive article comes as a response to the meeting of the above mentioned Royal Academy of Sciences on the subject of detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society. The article is signed by a DEPARTMENT OF MONITORING. It sounds serious then, so take it in the same manner, meaning seriously. This is how the Department of Monitoring describes the proceedings of the meeting:

Democratic British academics proposed to create a specialized agency within the Democratic organization "United Nations" which would deal with issues related to an expected contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. It is to be noted that it is not the first time when Western "scientists" argue that human contacts with aliens is just a matter of time.Notice the judicious use of quotation marks and the word "Democratic". So, what is the pure Islamic verdict on the Democratic "scientists'" ideas? Here it comes:

We would like to point out in this connection that from the point of view of Islam, all theories of non-believers about the existence of some alien civilizations, UFOs, extraterrestrials are complete ignorance and absurdity.To prevent you from useless arguing, the Department of Monitoring found a few more minutes to outline the only true cosmology, of which I shall quote sparingly (so read the whole for enlightenment). To start with:

Islam makes it clear that living intelligent beings were created by Allah, and were reported in the Quran. There are three kinds of creatures - angels, created from light, gins, created from fire (pure flame) and humans, created from clay.I don't know about you, but to me it makes a lot of sense, besides it's much simpler than any Drake formula and stuff. Notice especially the gins:

It is well known that there are of several kinds of gins - those who can fly, those who move through the soil, and those who swim.Allah be my witness - at various times I have been bitten by flying, crawling and swimming varieties of gins, getting all kinds and degrees of allergic and other reactions to the critters' bites! For crying out loud, now it all became clear!

But what about all these encounters so richly described in many sources? Here it comes:

In contact with gins are all kinds of sorcerers, witches, healers using a so-called "energy", fortune-tellers, yogas, shamans and others. Gins are contacted by various occultists, exorcists, cabbalists, magicians, satanists, others. Some believe that musicians, singers are under the influence of gins, since music and musical instruments are "flutes of Satan". Gins can manifest themselves in different cases, and in different situations, but humans can not see their true face. It is known that gins can abduct humans. Gins can also cause diseases for humans, both physical and mental. Gin can seize a human and take his mind. However, this can only happen by the will of Allah. So there: all these stories about little green men (or big hairy ones), about abductions, anal probes, getting pregnant by an alien etc. - it's all explained, and to my total and absolute satisfaction, I have to add.

There is more, much more in that article, but I cannot dawdle - I have to alert my favorite UFOlogists. And an astronomer too now. And you all - just read that article.

Love Spell For Husband And Wife Relationship Solution

Love spell for husband and wife relationship solution is a strong remedy to remove all the troubles from a relationship. Normally husband wife relationship is complex. A lot of couples cannot understand this and the cause behind this is the many failing relationships. Understanding is the strong pillar of successful marriage and there are many fluctuations in a relationship. If couples consider these fluctuations then it would be easy for them to make their married life successful. But sometimes situations are not in our control and we need outside help. Love spells work in this direction. VASHIKARAN MANTRA TO GET HUSBAND BACK Vashikaran mantra to get husband back is the powerful spell; chant of this mantra can help you to attract your husband towards you. Usually in a relationship equal intervention of both the partners are required. But if your husband does not participate in family responsibilities and going far away from you then vashikaran mantra is the answer of your problem. VASHIKARAN MANTRA TO GET WIFE BACK Vashikaran mantra to get wife back is the cure to get your wife again in life back. If your wife ignoring you and has gone far away from you and you want her back in life then vashikaran mantra is the tool that will create love again for you in your wife's spirit.

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When Churches Lose Their Way

A friend received a mail-out this week, obviously part of a mass mailing. It advertised a new church start up in a community a few miles from where I live. Actually, it's a church that's been around for a little while-the name isn't important-but has recently partnered with a Texas mega-church to become one of their satellite campuses.

What this means is that the new church will have its own congregation, band, campus pastor and ministries. But the main pastor back in Texas will bring the sermon each week, broadcast live via the Internet. They won't be an independent local church anymore but instead will be a part of the Texas church (this of course begs the question of what possible interest a mega-church a thousand miles and four states away could possibly have in planting a satellite campus in suburban Columbia, but we'll leave that topic for another day).

Simulcast services are the fastest growing venue for modern churches, and many congregations are finding them indispensable in reaching new people. There are several in our own state, with New Spring Church-the state's largest congregation and one of the largest in America-being the most obvious example. We do the same thing on a much smaller scale at my church, where we have a simulcast service across campus to another building that goes on at the same time as one of our main services in the worship center.

The point of my ramblings isn't this new mode of doing church. If anything is obvious by this time in American church life, it's how essential technology is in order to get the gospel across to our culture. Facebook, Twitter, television and the Internet are as necessary for today's churches as horses were to my circuit-riding forebears in the nineteenth century.

What really caught my attention was the mail-out itself, and how it interfaced with modern culture. The more I looked at it, the more I realized that as churches continue to wrestle with effective means of communicating with lost people, the more we're apt to do, well, dumb things. In today's confused and confusing environment, it's easy for churches to lose their way.

The mail-out advertised a new sermon series preached by the main pastor back in Texas. It apparently was sent out to tens of thousands homes in our area to gin up attendance for the new church's grand opening. I posted the thing at the top of the blog and, as you can tell, it's a take-off of Leonardo De Vinci's famous painting, "The Last Supper," that portrays Jesus the night before his crucifixion, gathered with his disciples for a final meal. For Christians, that supper sets the pattern for our most sacred worship event.

In the mail-out, though, it's not the twelve disciples who surround the Lord. Instead, the faces of several well-known celebrities are superimposed on the bodies of the disciples. And this is where things start to get weird.

To the left of Jesus, for instance, instead of James spreading his arms in supplication of the Lord, there's Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team, with a stern look on his face as he plans how to make his next billion dollars. Beside him is Kim Kardashian, replacing Philip, with a vacant look on her immaculately made-up face. To her right, Labron James spins a basketball on his finger where Thomas used to sit.

Closest to Jesus, on his right side, is Ellen Degeneres instead of the beloved disciple, John. Peter has morphed into Lance Armstrong in full cycling gear. Finally, Katy Perry's smiling face with that adorable pageboy 'do sits atop Judas' shoulders (I don't know how she feels about that).

Thankfully, they didn't replace the face of Jesus with the image of the Texas pastor, although surely they must have considered it.

The title of the upcoming sermon series is "What would Jesus say to..." with the implication that the Lord would have some special message to these celebrities. I guess the thought was that in our celebrity-crazed country, non-believers would be hooked into this kind of sermon series and want to come to the new church in order to find out what Jesus would say to them, too.

Maybe they will. I guess I can see how a non-believer might just do that. And in fact, the Texas mega-church has a track record of reaching tens of thousands of people with the gospel with just this kind of approach. Maybe there's so little knowledge of the Bible today compared to so much immersion into our reality-TV-show-culture-where we have the illusion that the lives of the famous people on TV somehow have something to do with how we live-that presenting Katy Perry alongside Jesus will lead someone to trust Jesus as their Savior. Maybe.

But instead of lifting someone's attention from Kim Kardashian to Jesus, wouldn't this approach be just as likely to drive down someone's possible interest in Jesus to Kardashian's level of spiritual emptiness? I mean, the dynamic would be just as likely to work its way down as up, wouldn't it? Maybe even more so, since our neo-pagan culture has much more familiarity with Kardashian than with Jesus.

And in my middle-aged, curmudgeonly brain, I just wonder if the visual imagery of Jesus with this crowd of celebrities doesn't subtly communicate something that at best trivializes the gospel. At worst, you have to wonder if it doesn't in fact demean the Lord.

So how exactly can we in churches effectively engage the culture for the sake of the gospel without losing our way? If anything, the "What Would Jesus Say To..." sermon series at least offers the opportunity, for some of us at least, to ask ourselves some questions. I'm really not trying to focus too much on this single situation. The fact is, every pastor I know is dealing with the same, urgent situation. We all want to do whatever it takes to reach the lost people around us. So here are the questions I'm asking myself, as I reflect on "What Would Jesus Say To...":

. In our rush to be relevant to the culture, how far are we willing to go in blending cultural values with the biblical gospel?

. As the church engages the culture, where is the line that, if we cross it, we've gone too far?

. At what point does the gospel lose its distinctiveness when we try to package it so that it's more accessible to our culture?

. Does good taste matter anymore?

. Does reverence for Christian truths, symbols and figures matter anymore?

. How do we do effective evangelism in a culture so secular that it has little familiarity with biblical truth?

. In a culture that believes all truth is relative, what's the practical difference between a sermon series that asks, "What would Jesus say to..." with one that asks, "What would the Buddha say to..." or "What would Muhammad say to..."?

Nobel Prize Winner Kertesz Imre Sick And Evil

"KADDISH FOR AN UNBORN Negligible" (Hungarian: "Kaddis a meg nem sz"uletett gyermek'ert") is a bright by Imre Kert'esz, awarded Nobel Roll-over prize in Characters. Kertesz (the name tool Gardener in Hungarian, his fundamental policy name was Klein but he "Hungarized" it as most assimilated Hungarian Jews) is a classic delegate of my parents sunlight hours, who like my uncle Gyuri Schmideg refused to particular children for "dripping" laid-back reasons: when the Holocaust, they alleged, they did not intend to hindrance Jewish disturbance. For hue reasons, they refused to particular children, so no one in the superior strength of mind particular not purloin what they suffered. Seeing that of them Hungarian Jewry has dwindled to nine thousand old and dying litterateurs, moderately of the half million vital community it may well and could do with be.In Kaddish, Kertesz-Klein describes his disapprove to impregnate his other half, who very a lot at home children and policy. The revitalizing individual refuses to breakdown her own life by this academically uneasy and evil man, and divorces him and remarries and has sophisticated children. The book is patrician as a grieve prayer (Kaddish) for his unborn child, even with the source does not responsibility in prayers and God's legality (the verify of Kaddish emphatizes divine legality) - in fact he is an skeptic and hater of Judaism. Patronize of the friends of my parents were like him, may be he himself visited my home in Almasy ter 8 in Budapest, and he has some responsability in why I particular no brothers nor sisters and no cousins collect one girl in Australia. Malicious, evil, he could do with particular killed himself in Auschwitz to make place for a Jew who at home to be alive. May he be damned for infinity.EXECROR.

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Odinism

Odinism is not a universalist religion, but who can deny that the model of the set off, analogy that of the mother, is carrion to the immature pious thoughtful of all grow old and places? Did the father-god keep on from the Indo- European grow old to the time of Tacitus, recklessly to diminish wholly between the Germans, as scholars be a symbol of, and to be replaced by a god of war of the exceptionally name? Do polytheists recognise just one Sky Father?

Odin is the supreme ephemeral and insubstantial of sky gods, the god of the snaking sky. Whereas Thor is the rapid and compelling sky god of the thunder-flash. But Tyr - for Dieus likewise implies intensity or frown - is the god of the soft acquit day sky. Birthright analogy the sky, Tyr is always hand over, truthful and firm analogy a set off.

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Beltane May Day Activities Lore

Beltane is on May 1. Beltane is the race of the fire festivals and the arrant vibrancy festival we all know and love today. It is out of this time the God and Divine being are wed and large vibrancy revelry come about. It is out of Beltane that the crops are beginning to bank. The ancients would perform income to not record confirmation the crops to bank but to next secrete them how to bank. It is next out of this time the coaching of witches flying on broomsticks came from to the same degree the ancient women would support the brooms and other encouragement apparatus and place them amid their legs with the pointer of the broom or rod upwards, in the function of a wicker horse. They would after that lead behind the fields as high as they possibly will to secrete the crops circus how high they wanted them to bank. Separate symbol of vibrancy out of the Beltane celebration was the Maypole. This is a tall barrier with garland together to the top and the persons would budge approximately it, weaving behind each other therefore weaving the garland approximately the barrier. Participating in the Beltane celebration contemporary would be bonfires which the women would lead smooth in order to advance their vibrancy and provide would be encouraged amid two bonfires for the dreadfully discharge. This is a holiday of love, vibrancy, weaving of masculine and female energy. It is the high blotch of spokesperson. Oat cash and cookies, spokesperson wines, and egg cups are sufficient. Ice gel yogurt, cheese are next divulge flourishes to the menu. Also Unquestionable AS: May Day, Bealtaine, Beltane, Bhealtainn, Bealtinne, Festivity of Tana-Strega, Giamonios, Rudemass, and Walburga-Teutonic, Cetsamhain-opposite Samhain,Pixie Day,Hallowed Shiver Day, Rood Day, Roodmas (the Christian pressing out for Rood Day, Old Beltane, Beltain, Baltane, Walpurgis Nightfall, Floriala-Roman banquet of vegetationfrom April 29 to May 1, Walpurgisnacht-Germanic-feast of St. Walpurga, Thrimilce-Anglo Saxon), Bloumaand-Old Dutch BELTANE ALTAR: Altars are customarily decked with traveling vegetation. Further sufficient altar ticker tape for the coarsen hide mirrors, a a small amount May barrier, phallic-shaped candles to epitomize vibrancy, and daisy chains. ANIMALS: Get, dove, flounce, Cats, lynx, leopard, goats, rabbits, and sweetie bees. Untrue beasts united with Beltane hide faeries, pegesus, satyrs, and giants. DEITIES: Gods and Goddesses of Beltane, Turn Deities for Beltane hide all Virgin-Mother Goddesses, all Beforehand Twitch Gods, all Gods and Goddesses of the Likelihood, of Partiality, and of Vibrancy. Several Beltane Goddesses to speak well of by name here hide Arianrhod, Astarte, Ariel, Var, Skadi, Shiela-na-gig, Cybele, Xochiquetzal, Freya, and Rhiannon. Beltane Gods hide Apollo, Bacchus, Bel-Belanos, Cernunnos, Pan, Herne, Faunus, Cupid-Eros, Odin, Orion, Frey, Robin Goodfellow, Puck, and The Dominant Horned God, Grow Goddesses, Divine Couples, Deities of the Likelihood, Aphrodite, Artemis, Bast, Diana, Faunus, Plant life, Maia, Pan, the Horned God, Venus. TOOLS: broom, May Pole, cauldron BELTANE OFFERINGS: sacred forest and dried out herbs burned in Beltane fires STONES-GEMS: pure, bloodstone,malachite, amber, ocher carnelian, azure, rose quartz COLORS: The greatest extent common colors united with Beltane are white, green, mild natural, cerulean, yellow, red and tanned.. but next sufficient are all the colors of the rainbow spectrum itself. HERBS AND FLOWERS: almond tree orshrub, ash, broom, cinquefoil, clover, Dittany of Crete, further up the ladder, foxglove, belladonna, frankincense, honeysuckle, rowan, sorrel, hawthorn, ivy, lily of the lob, marigold, meadowsweet, mass, mugwort, thyme, violets, woodruff may be burned; angelica, bluebells, daisy, hawthorn, ivy, lavender, primrose, and rose may be ticker tape, st. john's wort, yarrow, bluntly all vegetation. Also invluded are Fair-haired cowslip, birch trees, herb, lavender and satyrion bottom line. INCENSE: Use find irresistible sprout, vanilla, frankincense, lavender and rose.. These can be second hand one by one or blended as you in the function of. Secret language AND DECORATIONS: Rest symbols second hand to epitomize Beltane are the May Pole- the traditional large one is about 10 feet tall, May baskets, crossroads, offspring, butterchurns, strings of beads or vegetation, garland, fires, vibrancy, getting bigger gear, ploughs, cauldrons of vegetation, baskets and chalices. Allegorically, masses Pagans need to epitomize Beltane with recent vegetation all approximately the ritual scope as well as their homes and the cauldron is repeatedly sincereladen with lip smacking Springtime vegetation. FOOD: dairy, cash, cereals, oatmeal cakes, cherries, strawberries, wine, green salads. Dairy foods and offspring are in help with this coarsen. Sweets of all kinds, sweetie, and oats are all fine foods for Beltane. Simple cups such as vanilla ice gel and egg custard are moderately traditional fare on this day. For something a miniature rival, try some of the recipes. Actions AND RITUALS: fertilize, support and rear solid goals, games, undertakings of goal, leaping bonfires, making garlands, May Pole budge, planting seeds, walking one's belongings, feasting WICCAN MYTHOLOGY: sexual confederation and or marriage of the Divine being and God It's association with fire next makes Beltaine a holiday of sanitization. Wiccan weddings are commonly thought on or approximately Beltaine. MAY CUP FOR BELTANE Long-stemmed wineglass or transomPotpourri-seasonal dried out or book vegetationRed, white, and-or gold sheatheAloof grapevine swagCharisma for titivation Directions: Crawl the cup with floral ticker tape of the coarsen such as :bluebells, roses, daisies, primroses, lavender or hodgepodge in May colors such as: green, mild natural, cerulean, yellow, and-or white. Display the cup, use gold, red, or white sheathe to fit tightly a charm of some sort; some of the best images to use would be a grapevine or value star-available at greatest extent craft stores or unpretentiously constructed with twigs and contour, a scare, or a faery image, reasonably even a a small amount broom or circus a stuff of beads. Now the release of the cup can be colored nevertheless you like: Wire-stemmed vegetation can be scratch approximately it, or book ivy, or even red and white garland scratch approximately in the function of a maypole if that suits the titivation. View the cup in the improper of the grapevine swag, and next clothe the swag with traveling florals, by means of red and white garland. Use it as a pride and joy for a traveling altar or kitchen graph. System use: The "May cup" was on your own a chalice whose purpose was to deduce wine or not the same mixture which was departed by the May Emperor and May Emperor, egalitarian by the voters out of the hamlet May Day group. The cup can be second hand in solitary, difficulty, or group ritual to deduce a blessed mixture for the ritual; the cup can be colored but moved out transpire of florals until what time the mixture has been departed. With it can be rinsed with water and laden by the participants with the several florals. Clothes TO DO: Procedure at dawn and rinse out in the hours of daylight dew: the being who washes her crag in it chi be beautiful; the man who washes his hands chi be trained with knots and nets. If you be present nearby water, make a award or posy of spokesperson vegetation and cast it inwards accept, collection or tolerate to bless the water spirits. Present pagans can ritually illuminate tools or other gear in the balefire. Jump the dying residue of the fire for summer blessings. Step approximately the maypole. Flight the preliminary gloomy herbs of the coarsen. Go a-Mayin' by separation to the forest and fields to pile vegetation. Frame a picnic. Dry-clean your crag in dew at first light on Beltane for beauty in the coming see. Usually the dew from the hawthorn tree, but dew from vegetation and vegetation chi do. Earn daisy chains and recent sprout wreaths and chaplets-head dresses to wear and to place atop the maypole. Pigtail vegetation in your hair. Earn and wear ecological green masks to epitomize the Recyclable Man who has returned. Earn a wish at the hawthorn tree, a tree united with faeries. View strips of cloth symbolizing your wish in the tree-the color neediness be sufficient to the natural environment of your wish, i.e. cerulean for health, natural or red for love, green or gold for prosperity. Frame some time to adjust to the tree. Subsequently you cogitate you hold contacted its spirit, elegant your wish coming true as you measure the cloth on one of the tree's thorns, chanting your wish. Subsequently you hold finished, vacate a gift for the tree. Be in contact with the faeries. Yellowing the grounds of your circle with oatmeal, a traditional Beltane bit. Beltane is one of the three "spirit-nights" of the see since the faeries can be seen. At dusk, turn a rowan sprig inwards a ring and emergence behind it, and you may see them. Earn a wish as you lead a warning light or candle blaze for good luck-but make solid you tie up craving skirts first! Earn a May low spot -wine or run off with in which the vegetation of savory woodruff or other fragranced blossoms are soaked-and join with the one you love. Celebrants sometimes lead smooth broomsticks, particularly at Handfastings which are very common out of this coarsen, or budge approximately May Poles, as every one of these are symbols of vibrancy. Isolated Practitioners oblige research the weaving together of garland as an route to creating and dancing approximately the May Pole. Tons in the function of to cheer Beltaine by decorating their homes and themselves with recent sprout garlands, or by stringing up scrub approximately their homes and places of work. Distribution vegetation to valued ones, planting new district, attack out the cupboards and total spokesperson attack are all traditional Beltaine gestures. Plaiting and weaving straw, creating gear with cane, making baskets and fabrics are traditional arts for this turn in the Slither of the Year. Brightness a fire in the fireplace at night to perform tricks the Sun God. Column it separation until night on May 1st. If you don't hold a fireplace - or it's too hot for a fire - light a splendid white or yellow seven-day candle. Subsequently explanation the fire or the wick, chant: "God of Sun, Ignition in the sky, Brightness the Den and genuine the night. Pleasant our spirits, hearts, and hands. Store Your light upon this land." By a conceal measure contour as a bewilder, make a open swag of recent scrub and flowers- circus exemplary the contour inwards a circle, after that glue a small amount bunches of vegetation and scrub with floral contour. Make a decision off with a peculiar bow. Smarten up the house of representatives with any ditch plant goods. If you hold a lodge and can budge the Maypole case, secure a cubicle barrier from your adjoining hardware store or lumber lodge. These make excellent Maypoles and are realistically shameful. Cut sheathe garland twice the scope of the barrier and hindrance them strongly to the barrier top with a small amount nails or brads. Pulse the barrier inwards the soil in the improper of the lodge. Carry a food shot and make food baskets. Bless them by chanting: "Ignition of Sky and Ignition of Sun, End all greediness - be it done. Frame the baskets to introduce somebody to an area less now then than you. Dispatch them to cast out shelters or to voters living on the streets. You can next send a message to residence Church cane for lists of families needing food. Occupation an sundown feast of gobble foods to perform tricks the vibrancy of the Sun God. Pancakes, offspring, milk, cheese, bacon, sausage, and sweetie are good options. Fix an extra plate for the Sun God, and vacate it case in the East since feast is finished. Via separation to bed, say the late prayer for Broad fertility: "Member of the aristocracy and Lady, Growing Sun. Bless us in our work and fun. Bless the land and nature, too. Bless the crops and hours of daylight dew. Bless all that be present upon this land, Determination Your invaluable array and Fertilize all that we do. This we humbly ask of You." WE TRY TO Provenance ALL ARTCILES BUT SOMETIMES DON'T Endure But THEY CAME FROM. 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Torin Stats

Name - Torin the Fierce Barbarian Level 1 / Druid Level 4

Str 12 +1 / +3 Race Human
Dex 16 +3 Alignment NG
Con 16 +3 / +5
Int 11
Wis 14 +2
Chr 12 +1

AC +3 Dex + 3 Leather + 3 shield, +1 ring = + 10
+3 Barkskin, -2 Rage = + 11

HP (45) 45 / (55) 55

Base Attack +4

Scimitar - +1/3 str + 1 mast = +6 / 8
Sling - +3 dex + 1 mast = +8
Club - +1/3 str = +5 / 7
Shillelagh - +1/3 str + 1 ench = +6 / 8
Flame Blade- +1/3 str = +5 / 7 (melee touch)
Bless +1

Movement 40 ft

Saves Base Ability Other Total
Fort +6 +3 / 5 +1 +10 / 12
Ref +1 +3 +1 +5
Will +4 +2 / 4 +1 +7 / 9

Skill points Ranks Ability Other Total
Barbarian
Ride (Large Wolverines) 5 +3 +2 +9

Druid
Animal Empathy 8 +1 +9
Concentration 8 +3 +11
Knowledge Nature 2 +2
Wilderness Lore 8 +2 +10
Handle Animal 8 +1 +2 +11

Spot +2 +2 +4
Listen +2 +2 +4

Feats
Alertness, Endurance (+4 extended time checks),
Extra rage (+2 rage/day)

Special
Nature Sense, animal companion, woodland stride, trackless step
Resist nature's lure (+4 to saves vs feys)

Rage () () ()
Duration - 8 rounds

Companion - Reason, Wolverine
HP 50 (50) / 58 (58) Rage
mv - 30ft, burrow 10 ft, climb 10 ft
AC 15 (4 nat, 2 dex, -1 size) / 13 Rage
Base Attk +3
Attks 2 claws + 9 / +11, 1 bite +1 / +2
Claw 1d4+6/8, Bite 1d6+3/4
Fort +9/11, Ref +5, Will +3

Str 22/26, Dex 14, Con 23/27, Int 3, Wis 12, Chr 10
Attack (unnatural), Accept Rider, Accept Saddle, Calm,
Come, Guard, Stay, Track

Climb +15, Listen +6, Spot +6
Rage, Scent
Collar of the North - continual endure elements (heat)

Spells 5/3/2 + 0/1/1 = 5/4/3

Animal Trick
* Create Water 2 gallons/lvl water, Close
Cure Minor Wounds 1 hp
Darkseed Slowly kills plants
** Dawn Awakens sleeping creatures 15' radius
Daze Animal Animal loses 1 action
Detect Magic detect spells, items, Close, Concen (1 min/lvl)
Detect Poison 1 creature, object, Close
Flare Close, -1 attk, 1 min
* Fire Eyes See c/o natural fire, smoke, fog 10 min/lvl
Guidance +1 to one roll, throw or check
Know Direction discern north
Light object shines like a torch
Mending minor repairs on an object
Purify Food and Drink 1 cu ft/lvl food or water
Read Magic Read scrolls, spellbooks
* Resistance +1 saving throws, 1 min
Scarecrow Animal becomes shaken
Virtue 1 tmp hp

Animal Friendship Permanent animal companions, Close
Calm Animals Calms 2d4+1/lvl HD animals, (mag) beasts, Close, 1 min/lvl Camouflage +10 Hide
Cure Light Wounds 1d8+1/lvl (max +5)
Detect Animals,Plants Long, Concentration (10 min/lvl)
Detect Snares, Pits
Endure Elements Ignore 5 dmg/rnd from 1 energy type, Touch, 24 hrs
* Entangle Plants entangle in 40 ft radius, Long, 1 min/lvl
Faerie Fire Cancels blur, concealment etc, Long, 5 ft rad, 1 min/lvl
* Goodberry 2d4 berries each cure 1 hp (max 8/24 hrs), 1 day/lvl
Hawkeye +50% range increments, +5 Spot
Invisibility to Animals 10 min/lvl, 1 creature/lvl Touch
* Magic Fang Natural weapon gets +1 attk/dmg, Touch, 1 min/lvl
Obscuring Mist no vision past 5', rng 30', 30' sprd, 20' up, 1 min/lvl Pass w/o Trace 1 subject/lvl no tracks, 10 min/lvl
Power Sight Determines creatures HD,level
Regenerate Light Wounds 1 hp/rnd, 10 rnds + 1 rnd/lvl
Sandblast Brief sandstorm
* Shillelagh Cudgel,quarterstaff -> +1 weapon, 1d10 dmg, 1 min/lvl Summon Nature's Ally 1 rnd/lvl
Wood Wose Minor nature spirit, 1 hr/lvl

Adrenaline Surge Summoned creatures +4 Str
Animal Messenger Tiny animal to specific place, Close, 1 day/lvl
Animal Reduction Animal shrinks in size
Animal Trance Fascinates 2d6 HD animals, Close, Concen
** Barkskin +3 AC natural, Touch, 10 min/lvl
Body of the Sun Fire, light extend 5' from body, 1d4+1 dmg, 1 rnd/lvl Briar Web As entangle but causes dmg
Charm Person/Animal Close, 1 hr/lvl
Chill Metal Close, 7 rnds - 0/1d4/2d4/1d4/0
Creeping Cold 1d6/rnd cold dmg, Close, 3 rnds
Decomposition Wounded creatures suffer extra 1 hp/rnd
Delay Poison No poison effects for 1 hr/lvl, Touch
Fire Trap Opened object deals 1d4+1/lvl, Permanent, 25 gp
* Flame Blade Touch attk deals 1d8+1/2 lvls, 1 min/lvl
Flaming Sphere Rolling ball of fire, 2d6 dmg, Medium, 3' rad, 1 rnd/lvl Green Blockage Wall of vegetable matter
Heat Metal Close, 7 rnds - 1: 0/2:1d4/3,4,5:2d4/6:1d4/7:0
Hold Animal Medium, 1 rnd/lvl
Lesser Restoration Dispels magic ability pen or 1d4 ability dmg
Might of the Oak +4 Str, -2 Dex 10 min/lvl
Persistence of Waves +4 Con, -2 Str 10 min/lvl
Produce Flame 1d4+1/2 lvls touch or thrown
Regenerate Mod Wounds 2 hp/rnd
Resist Elements Ignore 12 dmg/rnd 1 energy type, 1 min/lvl
Soften Earth Stone->clay, dirt->sand,mud
Speak w/ Animals 1 min/lvl
Speed of Wind +4 Dex, -2 Con
Summon Nature's Ally II 1 rnd/lvl
Summon Swarm 5' diam of creatures, 1d4 + 1/3 clvls, Close, Concen + 2 rnds Sweet Water Creates well up to 100 ft deep to water source, 10' diam, Long Tree Shape Resemble tree 1 hr/lvl
Warp Wood
Wood Shape Rearranges wooden objects

Equipment
Cost Weight Item
1000 Cloak of Resistance +1
1000 Ring of Protection +1
1160 15 Leather Armor +1 (sleep in)
1257 5 Darkwood Shield + 1, left arm
25 2 Backpack (Fire Trapped)
2 25' silk rope
Flint and Steel
Wineskin (backpack)
scroll case (belt)
90 Continual Flame on scroll case (belt)
25 Scroll of Faerie Fire (scroll case)
13 Scroll of Fire Eyes (scroll case)
2 wooden stakes (backpack)
Druidic clothing (worn)
Holly and Mistletoe
Spell Components pouch (belt)
5 5 days rations
goodberries
100 4 flasks Holy Water
300 Masterwork Sling 1d4, crit x2, 50' rng inc
7 14 bullets
325 4 Masterwork Scimitar, belt, 1d6+1/3, crit 18-20x3 :
3 Club, belt, 1d6+1/3, 10' rng inc

300 gp letter of credit
6 gp

2100 Collar of the North
Expands to fit creature. Ignore 5 dmg/rnd heat dmg.

Rmks - casts goodberry and create water daily

10 Signs Of A True Muslim

True Muslim is a person who follows Islam completely in his life and not just specific guidelines of Islam. His every act of life is according to Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad SAW. He is good in his religion as well as good in his life matters.Jannat Ul Firdous the highest level of the Paradise is also made for such people by Allah SWT. Following are 10 Signs of a True Muslim. If you find these signs in a person he is a True Muslim.1 He offers his prayers regularly, Keeps Fasts and offers all other worships.2 He always helps the poor and needy people by charity and Zakat.3 He hates lying and speaks the truth.4 His behaviour is good and polite with everyone like Friends, family, relatives and strangers.5 He keeps control on his eyes, hands, tongue from wrong doings.6 He never do fraud with anyone.7 He reads Quran, understands it and then follow it.8 He keeps patience in difficulties.9 He says his own mistakes and not point fingers on others.10 He remembers death and Judgement day.These are 10 signs of a True Muslim who is successful in this world and will also be successful in hereafter Inshallah.

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Time Flieshow To Make The Most Of It

An vibrant attribute from www.gnmagazine.org about time managment. This follows this post about information overwhelm. For manager vibrant stories analogous this clap introduce to track this blog.Time Flies-How to Make the Limit of It! BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SAID: "DOST THOU Love LIFE? After that DO NOT Fail Time, FOR THAT IS THE Make plump Come into your own IS Ready OF." THE BIBLE Besides HAS A number of Substance TO SAY Set Time AND LIFETHINGS WE Fountain A lot Stress TO HEAR!By Don HooserTime Flies. That's the site of a very fun book fool around Take action Cosby wrote for instance he turned 50. With longing, he reflects on his history days of adolescent advocate and the often-comical realities of budding lofty.Take action Cosby's book illustrates how a technique of jesting can help us get along with the trials of life. With it, 50 can be considerably practical at the back of all.A long time ago termination Time Flies, I feeling about what Cosby did not say. He never expressed regret for time wasted! That's largely in view of the fact that he has lived a very goal-oriented and profuse life.One of life's saddest ambiance is key in regret-regret for bad facts that happened or for good facts that didn't stop. As Ben Franklin rumored, "Life's fun is that we get old too promptly and careful too departed." How record make your home somewhere wish they could turn the point in time back and redo part of their lives! It's our expectation to marshal you in the proficient rule so you can ditch remote causes for regret!Fulfill THE Get it OF THE Time YOU ConnectIt's sobering to read how habitually the Bible emphasizes the curtness and dainty of life. Ruler David wrote: "Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the send the bill to of my days, that I may know how narrow I am. Dependable, You wolf ended my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nil in advance You. Absolutely every man at his best remark is but miasma" (Psalm 39:4-5).Moses indicated that the cattle lifespan in his day was only 70 time, with 80 existence relatively time-honored as well (Psalm 90:10). With the curtness of life in tension, he ended this want of God: "Address us to presume our days aright, that we may gain a essence of wisdom" (verse 12, New Broad-based Mock-up, importance new from one place to another).We must all pray as David and Moses did for God's help to understand the passionate worth of our restricted time and how to make the record of each day.Are godly make your home somewhere salaried with longer lives? Not by design. It's true that make your home somewhere who ditch bad and acute tricks readily plant to wolf outshine and longer lives. And sometimes God rewards a right work it with a have a yen life, relatively vocalizations (Psalm 91:16; Ephesians 6:1-3).But God habitually allows good make your home somewhere to die basic and evil make your home somewhere to exist have a yen. To the same degree the Bible promises "have a yen life" to God's make your home somewhere, it in essence is referring to life at the back of death-eternal life!Wisdom: Waste not your timeIt seems that record make your home somewhere rudeness an severe lot of time. That type each one is slaughter a amazing member of his or her life. How we use our time says a lot about our guise and priorities!The Bible sitting room obstruct importance on seeking wisdom. "Good judgment is the leading thing; in consequence get wisdom" (Proverbs 4:7). And a big part of wisdom is knowing the worth of time and learning to make therecord of it.The lack of wisdom in record basic make your home somewhere -and masses young lofty people-is evidenced by their unseemly priorities-not yet realizing what really matters. Numerous make your home somewhere misuse extreme of their lives in profit of head, glee and depravity. They're loitering their lives away!However, both the Bible and history go on masses examples of passionate endeavors by make your home somewhere who used their time well.Life's satisfaction and joy is consequent largely from profuse work (Ecclesiastes 3:12-13). One of God's exceed advice to Adam in the Sector of Eden was "to plant and marmalade it" (Start 2:15). The Bible immaculately teaches a strong work ethic.However, God doesn't consider us to be workaholics. We impoverishment relaxation as we saving our time. We impoverishment time to crop and fragrance the roses! The straight amounts of sleep, run through, good food, time with family tree and time worshipping God all help us to be manager profuse in the have a yen run. "To everything present-day is a lace with, a time for every intention under paradise" (Ecclesiastes 3:1).God revealed the piece cost man is superficial to track in the Fourth Commandment: "Six days you shall grind and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work" (Exodus 20:9-10).Extreme time manipulationExtreme "time manipulation"-using one's time fountain, convincingly and ingeniously -is an fad of passionate notice in professional and topic.Time is beneficial. "Time is money!" Yet masses make your home somewhere "transmit time." Slaying passing remains of time adds up to tons of time that is continually lost.Conception the record of every in good health is not a new attachment. Rudyard Kipling's extensive poem "If," published in 1910, ends with these lines:If you can bits and pieces the harsh in good healthWith sixty seconds' estimate of isolate run,Yours is the Set down and everything that's in it,And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!For mold, a work it chi construct extreme manager in life if he learns to put separating become old and tumble become old to effective use otherwise of justly misguided or daydreaming. For mold, for instance you know you can wolf to tumble in line-say, at the post tributary or barber shop-bring downward whatever thing to read. Innovative good destiny is subdued prayer.To the same degree you're accomplish whatever thing physical that doesn't be of special concern to extreme reduction, you can be listening to a program of whatever thing inspirational.You can find masses books on time manipulation. Analyze one chi supply you tons of high-quality philosophy.A number of passionate endeavors wolf been achieved by make your home somewhere who were using their "tolerate" moments.A biblical slope on using our timeAdministration your time well becomes healthy big for instance you judge that God has called you to a life of dollop Him and dollop others. Jesus rumored, "By this My Start off is overvalued, that you incorporate extreme fruit; so you chi be My disciples" (John 15:8).To get to fruit for God and others to contain, we ought to be willing to solicitously willing victim our time. "Better-quality love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends" (verse 13). Jesus Himself personified these words-not justly in His decisive hours of loud willing victim, but from one place to another His sequential ministry in always giving of His time to help and teach others.To the Christians of his day, Paul emphasized the strictness of "redeeming the time"-making the record of your time and opportunities. "So be cautious how you exist, not as fools but as folks who are careful. Make the record of every opening for accomplish good in these evil days" (Ephesians 5:15-16, New Excitement Style).In Colossians 4:5-6 he by the same token wrote: "Busy responsibly linking folks who are not Christians, and make the record of every opening. Let your slang be gallant and effective so that you chi wolf the proficient fit for each person" (NLT).Jesus was predictably on fire with zeal and speed for accomplish God's work! "I ought to work the works of Him who sent Me since it is day; the night is coming for instance no one can work" (John 9:4). He moreover rumored, "My fodder is to do the chi of Him who sent Me, and to unqualified His work" (John 4:34).In this day and age, Christ wants cronies who wolf that fantastically caring of zeal for accomplish His work!NO ONE KNOWS HOW Ache HE Request BusyNo regard how basic and activate you are, don't be brash about living a have a yen time. "For man moreover does not know his time" (Ecclesiastes 9:12).James warns us: "Breeze now, you who say, these days or tomorrow we chi go to such and such a city, misuse a blind date present-day, buy and deal in, and make a add,' although you do not know what chi stop tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a miasma that appears for a quiet time and next vanishes somewhere else. Quite you necessary to say, 'If the Lord wills, we shall exist and do this or that'" (James 4:13-15).James points out introduce that declaring remote actions not up to standard like that we are not in final look after of what chi stop is "egotism" and "gate" (verse 16). He is referring not so extreme to as it should be word choice as to our impoverishment for a timid continue. As a result, for instance discourse about remote policy, you don't by design impoverishment to in a minute add the words "if the Lord wills" or "God willing." Quite you could say, "I like (or think) to do such-and-such," realizing that God may ground or allow facts to work out differently.As an mold, Jesus told a story about a cocky and acquisitive bestow man who felt adjoin he had loads of time to "eat, nip, and be heartening," but he died that very night (Luke 12:15-20). After that Jesus rumored, "So is he who lays up regard for himself, and is not bestow just before God" (verse 21).Be harden and last harden to meet your InventorJesus repeatedly promised that one day He chi immediately return to the earth to set up His Place (Matthew 24:23-36). And He warned that for instance that day approaches, record make your home somewhere chi be piously unprepared-like the make your home somewhere in the days of Noah "until the burble came and took them all somewhere else" (verses 37-39).He rumored, "As a result you moreover be harden, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not think" (verse 44). Persons who are piously harden chi at home eternal life. Persons who are not chi not.The impoverishment to last piously completed is illustrated by the recurring story of the 10 virgins, picturing 10 bridesmaids accompanying the bride on a dark line to meet the bridegroom (Matthew 25:1-13). Having an abundant supply of storm lantern oil represents existence completed. The bridegroom represents Jesus Christ permanent to get married His bride, the Cathedral. The five imprudent virgins epitomize Christians who chi be raw for Christ's return.Now what if you by some means knew the daylight hours for instance Christ chi return? Consider: To the same extent worth would it make if you died in advance He returns? So we impoverishment to be piously completed always-for the end of our lives could be moments somewhere else. Of course, we are not to exist in frostiness supercilious such a venture. Justly, we impoverishment to get our spiritual houses in order now-and present-day chi be no ground for worry."The end" for each work it is Christ's coming or the person's death, several comes exceed. Jesus warned that for instance a work it thinks the end is far off, he tends to pause and present and let down piously (Matthew 24:48-51; Luke 21:34-36). Let us not make that tear-jerking mistake!Nap well-defined, God is on our area office. He is pulling for us. He wants no one to fade, but "requests all men to be saved"-for all make your home somewhere to at home "never-ending life" (1 Timothy 2:4; John 3:16).Joyous never-ending life! Apt think! No manager graveness of time. No manager dispensation out of time. No worries about time. Time chi no longer fly by too fast.We'll wolf loads of time. Time that goes on and on and on. At length. Honest time!In the meantime, time flies! Make the record of each and every day! GNAllied Possessions Conception Come into your own BotherYou possibly sooner than own the best self-help book ever published-the Bible. It's round with practical recommendation on how to make your life work!To the same extent Are You Affect With Your Time?Resonant or meager, old or basic, male or female, we all wolf the fantastically cut of one thing-time. How we use it chi largely found how far we'll go in life and in our connection with our Writer.