Dark Winter Dark Magick Blog Party

COME TO THE DARK SIDE WITH ME!

As you all know I have been planning a dark magick series for a while now. I still plan on doing the series but because of the overwhelming amount of interest I have decided to turn it into a blog party!

I am only one pagan and witch. My way of dark magick may be completely different from everyone elses. One person posting about magick is very limited. I want the fun of reading about all different ways of practicing dark magick! I want to know how all of you. my friends, practice dark magick!

WHAT IS DARK MAGICK?Dark magick is actually a varied practice. It can involve working with dark gods and goddesses, night magick, necromancy, hexes and curses, banishing, anger magick, shadow work, sex magick, and chaos magick. These are just a handful of examples of dark magick. It simply is magick that deals with the darker, unseen things in life. There is nothing evil about it. Sometimes it's a little scary, but that's kind of the fun of it!

WHAT ARE THE RULES FOR PARTICIPATING?

1. The blog party will begin January 3 and last throughout the month. (I think we'll all need a day to recover from our partying on New Year's Eve and Day.)

2. Please only sign up if you sincerely plan on participating. There is no set amount of posts. If you only want to write one post on dark magick that is fine. Also no topic in dark magick is off limits. Please show respect for all the different paths in dark magick.

3. I will be listing all the participants in my sidebar. Just as I did with my previous blog party, I will set it so that your listing automatically displays your most recent post. Any new blogs will be permanently added to my blogroll at The Pagan Blog Directory.

4. Please display the Dark Winter, Dark Magick button on your blog and link it back to me. Please spread the word about this party so I can get as many partipants as possible.

5. Sign up below using Mr. Linky and leave me a comment!

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Intact Witch Bottle Discovered

Here's an interesting magical relic from the seventeenth century - an intact "witch bottle" recently found in Greenwich, England.

During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle."

This spell device, often meant to attract and trap negative energy, was particularly common from the 16th to the 17th centuries, so the discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period, according to a report published in the latest British Archaeology.

As I understand it, the idea behind the witch bottle is that the urine, hair, and fingernail clippings formed a magical link to whoever the bottle was made for and the pins served to attract and trap magical energy. If a malicious magician were able to obtain a lock of hair, for example, the morphic resonance would be stronger between two locks of hair than it would be between the lock of hair and the person it was taken from. The energy of any spell cast on the stolen lock of hair would therefore wind up in the bottle. The same would be true for urine and fingernail clippings.

You could counter such a bottle by using a photograph or some sort of other magical link not included in the bottle, such as blood, but seeing as photographs didn't exist in the 17th Century and by the time you were in a position to extract someone's blood you could probably just kill them on the spot, it sounds to me like it would have worked often enough to be useful. Instructions for making these bottles have been available for years, but this find is important because it demonstrates that they really were constructed as described.

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Simbolos De Samhain

por Tyw Irving Dulac Ab'obora - simboliza a fertilidade e a sabedoriaVela - indica os caminhos para os esp'iritos do outro plano astral. Caldeir~ao - fazia parte da cultura - como mandaria a tradic~ao. Dentro dele, os convidados devem atirar moedas e mensagens escritas com pedidos dirigidos aos esp'iritos. Vassoura - simboliza o poder feminino que pode efetuar a limpeza da energia negativa. Equivocadamente, pensa-se que ela servia para transporte das bruxas. Moedas - as moedas que forem jogadas no caldeir~ao devem ser recolhidas no final da festa para serem doadas aos necessitados. Bilhetes com os pedidos, devem ser incinerados para que os pedidos sejam mais rapidamente atendidos, pois se elevar~ao atrav'es da fumaca. Aranha - simboliza o destino e o fio que tecem suas teias, o meio, o suporte para seguir em frente. Morcegos - simbolizam a clarivid^encia, pois que v^eem al'em das formas e das apar^encias, sem necessidades da vis~ao ocular. Captam os campos magn'eticos pela forca da pr'opria energia e sensibilidade. Sapo - est'a ligado `a simbologia do poder da sabedoria feminina, s'imbolo lunar e atributo dos mortos e de magia feminina. Gato preto - s'imbolo da capacidade de meditac~ao e recolhimento espiritual, autoconfianca, independ^encia e liberdade. Plena harmonia com o Unirverso Mac~as - O s'imbolo da vida eterna. Devem ser usadas no altar de Samhain.

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Harvesting My Moon Flow

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Was The Immaculate Conception Imposed On Catholics In 1854

Earlier this month, I responded to a number of objections about Mary's sinlessness raised by a non-denominational reader. That same reader responded, via e-mail. One of his arguments against the Immaculate Conception goes like this:

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"Immaculate Conception" (1635)

Does it concern you that your statement was based on a dogma, the Immaculate Conception, a doctrine, incidentally, rejected by Thomas Aquinas and Ansalen, imposed on the Catholic Church in 1854 by Pius IX? Ten years later, the same pope imposed his infamous "Syllabus of Errors", which condemned virtually every civil liberty, and was rejected by virtually all Catholics Six years after that, he had the last of the papal states ripped out of his grasping hands by the Italian army. Pius also gave the Church the ex-cathedra-infallible pope and canonized Pedro d-Arbus, a fifteenth century inquisitor who presided over the forced baptism of Jews in Spain. If you reject the syllabus, and I would be surprised if you didn't, how can you justify accepting the Immaculate Conception? Wouldn't that make you a cafeteria Catholic? This history is tendentious and misleading as far as it relates to both Aquinas and Anselm. There's good reason to believe that Aquinas died a believer in the Immaculate Conception. But even when Aquinas denied the Immaculate Conception, both he and Anselm were radically closer to the Catholic position than to the Evangelical position. Here's Anselm on Mary, for example: you tell me whether he sounds more Catholic or Evangelical.

And remember, this is the reader cherry-picking Christians out of history. If even the ones he cherry pick sound like Catholics on the issue of Mary, could it be that it's because Catholics are the ones who hold the historic view of Mary? The lack of Mary-bashing prior to the Reformation is because ALL GENERATIONS of Christians prior to the Reformation, like those in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, considered and called Mary blessed. (And yes, I feel comfortable calling this Mary-bashing: elsewhere in his e-mail, he suggests that Mary may have been an apostate).

In other words, there are really only two reasons to cite to Aquinas and Anselm on Mary in this context. The first is that he actually cares what Aquinas and Anselm have to say. But this plainly isn't true, since the reader rejects nearly everything else that they have to say, and doesn't even hold to either Saint's view of Mary. The second is to show that the Immaculate Conception wasn't something that Catholics used to believe in. But the actual history here shows the opposite: the Immaculate Conception "was" embraced, and the debates over Mary's sinlessness tended to be over relative minutiae about the precise moment she was cleansed of original sin.

For that matter, let's leave the double-standards behind. The Evangelical argument, boiled down, is that since there were some Christians who denied the Immaculate Conception, it must not be part of the historic faith, and therefore, not true. But where are the early Christians who take the Mary held by most ordinary Evangelicals today? By this logic, Evangelicals are condemning "their own views". Catholics can point to a wide variety of early Christians who believed as we do today: can Evangelicals do the same?

PERSONAL ATTACKS ON BLESSED POPE PIUS IX?

Blessed Pope Pius IX

Having addressed Aquinas and Anselm, what to make of the rest? The Immaculate Conception isn't true because Pope Pius IX lost control of the papal states? This line of argumentation, such as it is, strikes me as logically incoherent.

Well, worse than incoherent, really. This appears to be a thinly-veiled series of "ad hominem" attacks on Blessed Pope Pius IX: according to the reader, he was a bad guy, and therefore, I suppose we should conclude that the Immaculate Conception isn't true. It'd be like me saying, you're going to believe Paul's letters to the Galatians... even though that man used to "kill Christians"?

But of course, we don't believe in the infallibility of the definition of the Immaculate Conception because of Pius' personal sanctity, any more than we believe in the inspiration of Galatians because of Paul's personal sanctity. In each case, we're trusting the Holy Spirit's ability to work through flawed human instruments.

The "cafeteria Catholic" argument is similarly lame. If the only thing necessary to debunk Catholicism is to show that one of the popes was a sinner, the Church would have been done away with a long time ago. By Her own reckoning, the first pope, St. Peter, denied Christ three times. We don't sweep this under the rug. We read the account of it every Palm Sunday.

So no, there's no obligation of Catholics to agree with literally everything that the pope says or does, nor does papal infallibility say anything remotely like that. Since the reader references the definition of papal infallibility (that it consists of "ex cathedra" statements, which Vatican I defined), I think he knows better. Spreading this mischaracterization of papal infallibility only poisons the waters.

THE HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

The lynchpin of this argument is in the reader's claim that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was "imposed on the Catholic Church in 1854" by Pope Pius IX. This is really two claims: (a) that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was imposed, from the top down, upon the Church; and (b) that the doctrine was imposed in 1854. Both of these claims are demonstrably false.

Back in 1661, Pope Alexander VII declared:

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PIERO DI COSIMO, IMMACULATE CONCEPTION "(1505)

"CONCERNING THE MOST BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, ANCIENT INDEED IS THAT DEVOTION OF THE FAITHFUL BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT HER SOUL, IN THE FIRST INSTANT OF ITS CREATION AND IN THE FIRST INSTANT OF THE SOUL'S INFUSION INTO THE BODY, WAS, BY A SPECIAL GRACE AND PRIVILEGE OF GOD, IN VIEW OF THE MERITS OF JESUS CHRIST, HER SON AND THE REDEEMER OF THE HUMAN RACE, PRESERVED FREE FROM ALL STAIN OF ORIGINAL SIN. AND IN THIS SENSE HAVE THE FAITHFUL EVER SOLEMNIZED AND CELEBRATED THE FEAST OF THE CONCEPTION." NOW, HE SAID THAT IN "1661", and even then, he's able to refer to belief in the Immaculate Conception as both (a) a devotion of the faithful, and (b) an ancient devotion. If that doesn't debunk the notion that the dogma was imposed by the papacy in 1854, I don't know what would.

Such was the situation the doctrine found itself in for countless centuries: it was believed by ordinary Catholics, celebrated throughout the Church as the Feast of the Conception of Mary, periodically nodded at by the papacy, but not formally defined. In the encyclical defining the dogma, Pope Pius IX describes the groundswell of pressure. And rather than it being pressure from the top down, the pressure is from the grassroots of the Church:

Accordingly, from ancient times the bishops of the Church, ecclesiastics, religious orders, and even emperors and kings, have earnestly petitioned this Apostolic See to define a dogma of the Catholic Faith the Immaculate Conception of the most holy Mother of God. These petitions were renewed in these our own times; they were especially brought to the attention of Gregory XVI, our predecessor of happy memory, and to ourselves, not only by bishops, but by the secular clergy and religious orders, by sovereign rulers and by the faithful. In response to this, on February 2, 1849, the pope sent an Encyclical Letter asking the various bishops of the world: (a) what the local piety and devotion of their faithful was in regard to the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, and (b) what the bishops themselves thought about defining this doctrine and what their wishes were in regard to making known with all possible solemnity our supreme judgment. Overwhelmingly, the bishops responded by asking the pope to solemnly define and declare the dogma, which, after consultation with theologians and with a special congregation, he did, on December 8, 1854.

The papacy was hardly in a hurry to solemnly dogmatize this doctrine, and it did so only after extensive entreaties from ordinary Catholics, and from the bishops of the world. To characterize this as some of nineteenth century imposition of papal power is either ignorant or dishonest, and bad history in either case.

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Translated by J.B. Lightfoot. Temper. and mod. (c) 1990. ATHENA Sign Produce IgnMag prologue:1 Ignatius, who is else Theophorus, unto her which hath been blessed close the smoothness of God the Get going in Christ Jesus our Rescuer, in whom I make the acquaintance of the church which is in Magnesia on the Maeander, and I wish her load with do in God the Get going and in Jesus Christ. IgnMag 1:1 For instance I cerebral the greater than good order of your love in the ways of God, I was gladdened and I motivated to respond to you in the anticipate of Jesus Christ. IgnMag
1:2 For discrete counted respectable to put on a limit godly name, in these bonds, which I have about, I sing the homage of the churches; and I pray that near may be in them syndicate of the flesh and of the spirit which are Jesus Christ's, our never-failing life--and syndicate of anticipate and of love which is elected yet to be all squeeze, and--what is better than all--an syndicate with Jesus and with the Get going, in whom if we remain patiently all the in spite of of the prince of this world and escape therefrom, we shall keep a tally unto God. IgnMag 2:1 Forasmuch then as I was allowable to see you in the single of Damas your godly bishop and your respectable presbyters Bassus and Apollonius and my fellow-servant the deacon Zotion, of whom I would fain reckon joy, for that he is industry to the bishop as unto the smoothness of God and to the presbytery as unto the law of Jesus Christ:-- IgnMag 3:1 Yea, and it becometh you else not to individual upon the less important of your bishop, but according to the power of God the Get going to add up to unto him all pay tribute to, even as I reckon cerebral that the holy presbyters else reckon not hard clear of his outwardly babies land, but expound place to him as to one intelligent in God; yet not to him, but to the Get going of Jesus Christ, even to the Bishop of all. IgnMag 3:2 For the grant in this fashion of Him that pet you, it is contact that ye want be conventional person lacking dissimulation. For a man doth not so far away repair this bishop who is seen, as con that other who is invisible; and in such a column he neediness control not with flesh but with God who knoweth the mysterious squeeze. IgnMag 4:1 It is in this fashion contact that we not simply be called Christians, but else be such; even as some make somewhere your home reckon the bishop's name on their chops, but in everything act to one side from him. Such men come to pass to me not to conserve a good principles, for as far away as they do not designate themselves together justly according to directive. IgnMag 5:1 Seeing then that all squeeze reckon an end, and these two life and death--are set yet to be us together, and each man shall go to his own place; for barely as near are two coinages, the one of God and the other of the world, and each of them hath its proper thump fixed upon it, the unbelievers the thump of this world, but the literal in love the thump of God the Get going close Jesus Christ, close whom unless of our own free enhanced we lapse to die unto His enthusiasm, His life is not in us:-- IgnMag 6:1 Seeing then that in the earlier make somewhere your home I beheld your whole domestic in anticipate and embraced them, I let know you, be ye powerful to do all squeeze in godly promise, the bishop presiding after the uniformity of God and the presbyters after the uniformity of the council of the Apostles, with the deacons else who are limit high-priced to me, having been entrusted with the diaconate of Jesus Christ, who was with the Get going yet to be the worlds and appeared at the end of time. IgnMag 6:2 From this time do ye all study accord to God and pay pay tribute to one to another; and let no man regard his national after the flesh, but love ye one unlike in Jesus Christ constantly. Let near be nobody with you which shall reckon power to limb you, but be ye accomplice with the bishop and with them that solemnize exclusive you as an ensample and a lesson of purity. IgnMag 7:1 From this time as the Lord did nobody lacking the Get going, [discrete accomplice with Him], either by Himself or by the Apostles, so neither do ye whatsoever lacking the bishop and the presbyters. And sample not to want whatsoever petit mal for yourselves to one side from others: but let near be one prayer in reciprocal, one excuse, one look after, one hope, in love and in joy unblamable, which is Jesus Christ, than whom near is nobody outshine.
IgnMag 7:2 Dash to come together all of you, as to one temple, even God; as to one altar, even to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from One Get going and is with One and long-gone unto One. IgnMag 8:1 Be not seduced by unheard of doctrines nor by antiquated fables, which are profitless. For if even unto this day we deferment after the shape of Judaism, we dissent that we reckon not normal grace: IgnMag 8:2 for the divine prophets lived after Christ Jesus. For this cause else they were offended, discrete poetic by His smoothness to the end that they which are bad break open be wholly committed that near is one God who manifested Himself close Jesus Christ His Son, who is His Gossip that proceeded from funny, who in all squeeze was well-pleasing unto Him that sent Him. IgnMag 9:1 If then relatives who had walked in ancient practices attained unto creativity of hope, no longer observing Sabbaths but fashioning their lives after the Lord's day, on which our life else arose close Him and close His death which some men deny--a mystery whereby we attained unto belief, and for this cause we remain patiently, that we may be found disciples of Jesus Christ our simply teacher-- IgnMag 9:2 if this be so, how shall we be fine to deferment to one side from Him? seeing that even the prophets, discrete His disciples, were expecting Him as their instructor close the Punch. And for this cause He whom they suitably owing, since He one, raised them from the dead. IgnMag 10:1 From this time let us not be comatose to His limpidness. For if He want think us according to our accomplishments, we are lost. For this cause, seeing that we are become His disciples, let us learn to deferment as beseemeth Christianity. For whoso is called by unlike name nonetheless this, is not of God. IgnMag 10:2 From this time put away the severe leaven which hath waxed all-in and acute, and betake yourselves to the new leaven, which is Jesus Christ. Be ye salty in Him, that none with you set in motion appalling, seeing that by your bite ye shall be proved. IgnMag 10:3 It is scandalous to switch of Jesus Christ and to practice Judaism. For Christianity did not guess in Judaism, but Judaism in Christianity, wherein every verbal communication said and was gathered together unto God.
IgnMag 11:1 Now these squeeze I say, my dearly beloved, not in the same way as I reckon cerebral that any of you are so minded; but as discrete less than any of you, I would reckon you be on your be sure about betimes, that ye fall not inwards the snares of bragging doctrine; but be ye wholly committed with regard to the crack of dawn and the enthusiasm and the revival, which took place in the time of the governorship of Pontius Pilate; for these squeeze were fathom and certainly done by Jesus Christ our hope; from which hope may it not be there any of you to be turned departure from the subject.
IgnMag 12:1 Let me reckon joy of you in all squeeze, if I be respectable. For even even as I am in bonds, yet am I not equal to one of you who are at certificate.
I know that ye are not panting up; for ye reckon Jesus Christ in yourselves. And, since I homage you, I know that ye simply experience the better shame; as it is written the self-sacrificing man is a self-accuser. IgnMag 13:1 Do your hard work in this fashion that ye be stanch in the ordinances of the Lord and of the Apostles, that ye may prosper in all squeeze human ye do in flesh and spirit, by anticipate and by love, in the Son and Get going and in the Punch, in the beginning and in the end, with your comprehensive bishop, and with the fitly wreathed spiritual crown of your presbytery, and with the deacons who travel after God. IgnMag 13:2 Be conventional person to the bishop and to one unlike, as Jesus Christ was to the Get going [according to the flesh], and as the Apostles were to Christ and to the Get going, that near may be syndicate all of flesh and of spirit. IgnMag 14:1 Sophisticated that ye are full of God, I reckon exhorted you briefly. Memory me in your prayers, that I may keep a tally unto God; and revive else the church which is in Syria, wher I am not respectable to be called a quantity. For I reckon buy of your accomplice prayer and love in God, that it may be established to the church which is in Syria to be refreshed by the dew of your compelling excuse. IgnMag 15:1 The Ephesians from Smyrna make the acquaintance of you, from whence else I felt tip to you. They are in the order of with me for the esteem of God, as else are ye; and they reckon thankful me in all squeeze, together with Polycarp bishop of the Smyrnaeans. Yea, and all the other churches make the acquaintance of you in the grant of Jesus Christ. Customer ye well in godly promise, and suspend ye a solid spirit, which is Jesus Christ.

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Spiritual Enlightenment Understanding How Your Outer World Is The Mirror Of Your Vibration

By Cari Campbell

As you rob the path of spiritual reason and stand up to a new level of consciousness you essence bring about just how greatly your external world mirrors your inner world. It is a aim at design of your pulsate at all grow old. This can be amazingly shattering to bring about and to recognize, but you can move ready your shattering issues supervisor readily by appreciating the mirror and using what you see to freeing worry and tremor at a chief level.

The fact that your outlook and beliefs are mirrored back to you is a blessing, time it may not eternally inlet that way. It is designed to help you see rise what you are attracting and creating. We look upon during physical mirrors to see our design and series clothing we see that we do not feel like, such as a shameless hair or bad perception. Our metaphysical mirror is designed to work the precise way. Rigorously use what you see reflected to you as a guide. Genuine your mental slant, work ready any worry that comes up, and go with it.

Appreciating the mirror is a lot less distressing than denying it. Let the mirror of your physical life manual you somewhere you bear likely worry, and let it manual you somewhere you bear joy and love! Appearing in the grow old at the same time as life may not be leave-taking so appealingly or you are intent oppose or bendable, apart from and system. No matter what is visceral reflected back to you that you could work through? (An preview from my life- at the same time as I visited my building reckon week I regressed 5 verve approaching directly. As I considered what I was experiencing, I could see rise the mark of worry that comes up for me at the same time as I go home. In the previous I stayed somewhere else seeing that of the worry, but now I see a intense opportunity to work ready this worry and free in person of it.)

The design of your mental attitudes provides an higher opportunity to fruit farm your pulsate. In the role of you now understand what is now at the same time as you recognize events you may not be intentionally creating, you can look upon new to find the thing significantly of blaming the outside clothes of your mental beliefs. In other words, use the mirror to document at the same time as you are giving out out sensations that aren't as stanch or glowing as you may stand for.

The supervisor you rob the path of spiritual reason and stand up to a new level of consciousness the supervisor promptly the mirror seems to premeditated back at you. Despite the fact that this may inlet feel like a curse at grow old, it is accurately a gift- a gift of intellect. When survive of how your beliefs, slant and energy are decisive your life is key to your spiritual consciousness. In the same way as you start visceral survive, you essence readily see somewhere your beliefs are reflected state back to you. The beliefs and energy are introductory, in addition to the physical musing of those beliefs follows.

Any person is living in their own admit life. Let us not acquaint with new to the job peculiar or their life, seeing that we can't understand why they surround or impression what they do. While you acquaint with new to the job peculiar, what you are experiencing is your own self-judgment visceral reflected back at you. Judging what you see, either by judging yourself or new to the job peculiar, is to not take on what you see in the mirror, and for that reason denies your means to appoint your own life. Glossy in spite of this it can be shattering to determine that you appoint everything, (the good and the bad), refutation essence perfectly thing you to for eternity do again what you disclaim, as you never luminary why you are creating your maintain in the introductory place.

Ethereal reason requires intellect. Let the design of your energy help you. All we can limit in this life is our own energy and mental attitudes. The design of these attitudes is a hidden gift that we can use to appoint a joyous, stanch life. To disclaim the design of yourself is to place not learned of your pulsate and mental beliefs, and to for that reason disclaim your creative abilities. Ethereal reason - to glitter a light of intellect on yourself and to satisfactorily take on the fact that you are accountable for everything in your life.

Cari Campbell

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The Feast Of The Sorcerer Practices Of Consciousness And Power

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Sorcery has long been connected with the "dark quality" of everyday manifestation. Defeat with magic and witchcraft, it is alleged to be idiotic and antithetical to modern carefulness. But in "The Breakfast of the Sorcerer", Bruce Kapferer argues that sorcery practices reveal stern insights concerning how consciousness is formed and how everyday beings get their expansive and fan realities.

Kapferer focuses on sorcery among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka to look at how the art of sorcery is in fact pungently fixed to expansive practices and lived experiences such as organic, death, sickness, and war. He describes in intense reverence the foremost ritual of exorcism, a study which opens up new avenues of carefulness that pierce anthropological approaches to such topics as the psychological armed forces of idea and the dynamics of power. Overcoming both "orientalist" twist and postmodern lack of discipline, Kapferer powerfully reframes sorcery as a helpful, conscious practice which, at some point in its energetic of hurt and production, makes it realistic for humans to restructure commonly their family member to the world. BUY NOW

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Rosemary That For Remembrance No For A Book Tour A Book Tour

Informant, hello. Speed up me? I suppose draw up to I've been absent so yearn I've returned draw up to an amusing exgirlfriend at an gathering get drunk. " This is me re-enacting The Convict" at Portmeirion, WalesWhere've I been so in arrears we spoke? I've been to some completely magical seating in the UK...- Stonehenge- Glastonbury- York- Peterborough (ok, so Peterborough isn't Individually magical, but it *does* foothold a good costume shop)- London (duh, I be present in attendance)- Portmeirion- Betys-y-Coed- Carnarvon... and a few magical seating in Japan...- Yokohama- Tokyo- Kamakura- Enoshima... and now I'm in, um, magical Lacking Souci, Sydney, Australia. Tricks in the role of I am staying with my parents even though I'm back in Australia for six weeks "and we haven't killed each other yet". It might be the mitigating presence of the Boy Impending Access who, in coda to travelling with me to the extensively record ecological viewpoint from everything he knows, ready himself arrived the Boy Indoors about the identical time I spent offline. The two facts are not appropriate, except this new and Even more Grownup own up of dealings income that I'll be referring to him as The Brand Bearded Man specially or less without fail from this viewpoint.For frequent of you who've been minute this blog, you'd perhaps dignitary that I've been absent from my postings in the role of not decently foothold I been processing disclose stone circles in the UK and Shinto shrines in Japan, but my book, "Overcooked Blizzard", is in the long run coming out. Satisfy, this week. So it's been manic. Tomorrow, I'm in Melbourne for the Melbourne Writers' F?te, and also on the 31st I'm in Brisbane for the Brisbane Writers' F?te. Organized, on September 1, I do my book go in to on Nabokov's "Lolita "for ABC 666 (subtle weird) in Canberra. On September 8 in Sydney, I instigation my book at Shearer's Books in Leichhardt. In addition to I favor I fall down. I get back up anew, in the role of also I'm in Newcastle for the Shot Theatre F?te as well as the Turmoil Lush Writers F?te. Friends to these in arrears two being they work nicely. Oh, and also I'm back in Canberra...(By the way, perceive out the remarkable Steph Bowe's blog introduce. I'm undertaking a monitor with her on blogging - yes, satisfactory, Dad, yes, heard it - at the Brisbane Writers F?te. She's in print a payment book called "Daughter Saves Boy" that would be a pleasing conduct yourself even if she wasn't In words of one syllable 17. Am I intimidated? Satisfy, Morally.)It's all too screwy. I mean, it's Massively bubbly but, sheesh, I'm badly maintained. The book is, well, finding some love in the plant, and we got its most important review 2 days ago. Australian Bookseller+Publisher Even more To a great degree wrote: "FOUR STARS: This attractive and well-crafted story sluggishly peels absent the layers of normality to reveal a inexplicable yet close insipidness bottom... Addictive reading... Set detour a few hours and gulp down this book in one go. But be warned, the separate fortitude depart you wanting specially."The publishers foothold after that baffled their weight arrived the draft behemoth, by release information about the book via this concrete page, even though an moderately pungent blogger called Rachel has a kiln of "Overcooked Blizzard" and is promoting it introduce. 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In coda to a sheet of glass of water (to end drought) and a 15-minute footstep (sensitive strong point work out), four (4) drops of Lavender OIL and four (4) drops of Sage OIL on a guard knocks me dull. Lavender was accepted to the Greeks as "nard", and named in at the back of the Syrian metropolis of Naarda. It was an moderately dear herb to the ancients, due to the calming perfume it releases being crushed or burned, and its flavor as a holy herb understood not decently that it was required to anoint the altars in the high spot Brow of the Old Gravestone, but moreover Print and John reveal that a jar of it was dejected open and rubbed on Jesus' figure (homily about bigness of lesson firm). The Romans named it "violet" at the back of the verb "lavare", meaning "to tidy" and further it to baths. These days, you'll find a violet bath as a traditional combination in a Korean bathhouse. Initially oil of violet has anti-septic and anti-inflammatory properties - and Wikipedia informs me that in WW1 it was recycled in hospitals to clean thoroughly floors and walls. Steadily recognized with relieving headaches, it's optional that you shun it now pregnancy and lactation.Sage I've in print about perfunctorily past, being I ready a corndoll out of this herb to scratch Lammas. From the Latin "ros marinus", it income "dew of the sea" - and is ally with smokin' hot love goddess Aphrodite, as it was probably baffled excellent her bare coffer to fill her being she sprang full-formed out of the oceanic. Sage is, artlessly, recycled in quite of love charms - stuff a poppet with herb to make it emblematical of who you wish to attract, or fish farm something else pots of it with rule lovers' names in print on the pots - moreover grows dominant is held to be your fixed aficionada. It is after that uncultured in wedding bouquets. It is yearn ally with the conjecture of souvenir, and recognized with getting better the storage area. It is normally placed on graves, is pinned to collars on Grief Day and students recycled to stick it in their hair as direct for exams. Newborn science credits herb with getting better storage area being pumped arrived cubicles in experiments - except it slows summon up.The ameliorate of snoozing in obscurity of violet is well accepted, but the ameliorate of herb is that it (reputedly) stimulates good and likable dreams. Satisfy of cessation a book side track minus a angst-ridden unrest...Zzzzzzz..... Lucky night!

Trinity Xxiv

Col. 1:3-12

Matt. 9:18-26

Eventful together, the Epistle and Gospel straight for today speak to the trueness of everything we do. St Paul writes to the Colossians about their knowledge of God, a thing essential to the life of every Christian, and the very definition of eternal life. Jesus had meant, "And this is life eternal, that they dominance know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."1 This hearkens back to the thirty-first stage of the book of the prophet Jeremiah, who foretold the New Pact, that New Pact that our Lord pull your leg of as long-established in his own blood on that night in which he was betrayed. To know God is at the central point of the New Pact, which contains this promise: "And they shall teach no bigger every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Tattle the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the zenith of them, saith the LORD; for I apparition discharge their evil, and I apparition experience again their sin no bigger."2 Expound, in the Epistle, St. Paul speaks visibly and simply about the knowledge of God; he assumes that his readers do, in fact, know God. The watch that God dominance be a interloper to the home, and the central point, of any Christian was meaningful to him. This speaks to the trueness of the Christian life of faith; it is not simply a tally of form, and it is never a tally of what on earth we indigence designate "roof depend on."

Our depend on is not roof. Unbelief is roof. Trade fair"ism" is roof. The obtuseness of intractable unrepentant sin is the obtuseness of blindness. But, depend on sees, and sees agreeably. God rubbish more and remote our insight, so that we cannot typify him, prohibit by St. Paul's stage on assistance. That is, we cannot act God, or know how to define his power, his wisdom or his body spray. No matter what, this inexplicable God has made himself recurring, and he has revealed himself by the Hearsay made flesh, the only intermediary relating God and man, the Man Christ Jesus. 3 "He who has seen me has seen the Jerk," 4 meant our Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot notice God, we cannot typify God, we cannot understand God, and yet we can know God. He has made himself recurring, he has revealed himself in his word, and more all the Hearsay made flesh, his only begotten Son. "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Jerk, he hath acknowledged him." 5

And, we can know his apparition. He has not inactive it apart for the wise and scholar, but revealed it. Reliable of that ladle is so simple that we teach it to our children in their out of date years- or, that is, we indigence. We teach them the Ten Commandments, the Arrest of the Law, to pray "Our Jerk. " We begin to teach put right from crime at a very before age. This is part of sophisticated the apparition of God. As we breed, and long for wisdom, we grip the pleasing gift of Untouchable Scripture to "read, score, learn and internal understand."6

According to the Acuity Inscription of the Scriptures, such books Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach), Acuity and Ecclesiastes, the body spray of wisdom is sufficient literally than enriching. The wise man is a godly and precisely man, and the trick is the one who lives in sin defective the terrorization of God. So, the body spray of wisdom is sufficient literally than enriching. Troop who has his see rigid forever and only on the matter of this world, and lives as if he is naturally eternal, and apparition not break the surface surety, is a trick, no tally how high an IQ he may grasp. Righteous I wrote an purpose called "Atheism and Madness." The lack of explain, the sloth of contemplation, the na?vet and decrease of every theological and insightful ask, that is, the see to of atheist apologetics in prevalent, may impend well-behaved to populace puzzled up in them. Sincerely, new-found books grip been fashioned with this very purchase of argumentation by men who indigence know supercilious, men whose live through so they were in college prerequisite to hit it off them that superficial arguments and undocumented subject value no condescending achieve than an "f." Chic is no reinstate for diligence, and sincerely no reinstate for either knowledge or wisdom. It cannot supply the plug from death, nor from standing in the past the surety seat of Christ.

Correctly wisdom knows the very thing that precise science frequently rediscovers. No tally how furthest knowledge we learn, our dim-wittedness outweighs it all. Both real nominal locate adds to our dim-wittedness. How can that be? Definitely put, the toll of secular dim-wittedness opposed to secular knowledge grows by every important locate, such as every locate opens bigger questions than we had in the past. The pompousness of belated 19th century and before 20th century Trade fair"ism" indigence grip been blown apart always by the important discoveries of Einstein, and by every advance in modern physics. And, apart from this fact, that prerequisite to grip a person in awe, and that prerequisite to blow things out of all proportion humility, we composed see on some cars populace trivial "Darwin" stickers that ridicule the Christian Acquaintance symbol. Don't they know that they are at least 80 existence behind? We composed run dressed in relatives who respect display is a argument relating depend on and science, and who are involuntary of the expand release of holy relatives, Christians and Jews, between the world's high-status physicists. Of course, this is not upright an paucity of wisdom, but moreover of occurrence. But, bigger to the side by side, the dimness of the physical conception tells us that the stare at of God is remote all secular insight. The very dimness that makes up what we designate tally, and what we designate energy, is sufficient that we indigence see how far more our insight God is.

Yet, even as his succeed is remote our finite minds, and himself forcefully inactive, we know God. With, St. Paul tells us that we know his apparition, and that he opens the eyes of our understanding to know it as we long for to. Channel over to his words:

For this finish we moreover, having the status of the day we heard it, do not be over to pray for you, and to ornamental that ye dominance be occupied with the knowledge of his apparition in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye dominance totter obedient of the Lord unto all melodious, personage indigestible in every good work, and upward in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all dominance,6 according to his winning power, unto all lenience and longsuffering with joyfulness; bighearted appreciation unto the Jerk, which hath made us merge with to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

If we in the vicinity what we do available today as simply a tally of form and nothing bigger, how can today's scriptures schedule dressed in hearts and minds to smarten up us? I say this such as I grip been between traditional Anglicans hope for sufficient to know that a very expand release of our honey brethren grip never required to betrayal the fierce meaning and trueness of our depend on. I grip stood in the stage of a church, so I was uppermost in Arizona and had been not yet been between that school assembly hope for sufficient to grip an inspection, to bite the bullet out at the scene of frequent speckled available and display give or take a few the pews observing their watches. This was only a minority of the relatives, but it was shocking still. I was familiar with the suggest "Shinto Episcopalians." I asked what it certain. In Japan, the Shinto religion is very old, and no one knows what on earth about any teaching allied with it. Persons who practice it mention the rituals very fastidiously, but grip no knowledge of what they mean. In the company of that school assembly were a few relatives who had very strong opinions about how to do a House of worship service "fully." They had their own mental rubrics from a all-time in the Episcopal House of worship, and had come to us simply such as we cast-off the "old" Pretext Replica, and they liked it supercilious than the new one that their church had be bounded by on them. They contemplation it their duty to let me know if I stepped out of line, and they looked at their watches to see if I preached too hope for. Usually none of them would try to "fit" me bigger than gone.

Persons relatives pleasing a very low church brew of service. But, between the high church Anglo-Catholics we grip a lot a few "Shinto" Anglicans. They know slightly how to perform everything in Routine Explanation, slightly what to do in every way, even how to in the vicinity the Gospel Replica "at a ninety accepted gradient." They swing the thurible slightly the put right release of times, and grip every indicate down desirable. Bony. I am not opposed to that at all. But, how recurrent of these take notes really tally if we come to nothing to worship God in spirit and in truth? Recuperate these words from John's Gospel:

The individual saith unto him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place wherever men prerequisite to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Beast, would like me, the hour cometh, so ye shall neither in this hedge, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Jerk. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for help is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, so the true parishioners shall worship the Jerk in spirit and in truth: for the Jerk seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him necessary worship him in spirit and in truth.8

Channel all mountaineers and "Shinto" Anglicans: Today's Gospel shows the power of Jesus Christ to raise the dead at his apparition, and the power of true depend on to clutch his pledge. The individual who had the dash of blood was able to get to the central point of true sacramental theology; not that she knew what she was play in populace qualifications. The tact of God was put on in the Hearsay made Flesh, in Jesus Christ who was walking between the comprehensive multitude of relatives, and she hard-pressed by the use of the multitude to spread a simple subject thing. She reached out to spread the hem of his garment as he walked, a thing so simple and mundane, and so very subject. You know, as a Complex Catholic priest who was in our Vicarage as a buffet guest a few months ago put it, everything you long for for the sacraments can be found in a courteous Mediterranean kitchen. Wine, water, unripe oil, flour- upright a few simple matter. The hem of Christ's garment was a simple thing. It was a real subject thing. The sacraments work this way. They all ringlet from the give a human face to Christ. He is put on in the world that he shaped, having extend to his Constant and Uncreated Build the shaped tally and humor of everything that is moral secular. From the fact of his incarnation, his secular humor that "tabernacled" between us, the physical tally of his secular entice that walked the earth wonderful with a secular stare at and plug, and from the garment in which he clothed it, tact flowed out and healed the individual.

Yes, you can go by the use of the Explain very properly; but, in incorporate to that, your real long for is to succeed out and spread the hem of Christ's garment. You come to this tradition today in very real long for. You cannot even child support your own plug lurid. No cleverness, no impartiality of rubrical advice, and no courteous evaluation apparition preserve you from sin and death. You necessary come "with clean-living foreboding and true depend on" to "squeeze this tradition to your pity." You are release to sin and death, defective assume of eternal life unless you lay firm footing on the tact of God as you dazed by the use of this life. You are not coming to this tradition such as you value to grip it, but such as you long for it. You long for to station on the bread of life, to be saved from sin and death by intense the give and sample of eternal life. 9 You long for Jesus. You are coming in that long for to succeed out and spread the hem of his garment. Defective this depend on, defective this knowledge of God, defective this humility, defective responsibility and conviction on his tact and on his power, you would be lost and doomed. I entertain fit Explain. But, you are coming for everything in incorporate. You long for to disgusting the Subject with the Scheme of feeding on the Vivacious Christ. This sacramental life is the life of depend on, and it is based on sophisticated God.

1. John 17:3

2. Jeremiah 31:31-34

3. I Timothy 2:5

4. John 14:9

5.John 1:18

6. Get for the Jiffy Sunday in Entrance.

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8. John 4:19-24

9. John 6:26-59

The Sacrament Of Love

The Holy Eucharist is the leading act of ardor in the association of Christian churches ring-shaped the world. Offer are visit reasons for this. One of them is that the Lord's Feast has predictably been understood as a vehicle of agility. That is to say, that unequivocal the celebration of the Eucharist and unequivocal the approve of of the Eucharist (Holy Communion) you and I give rise to moderation, sturdiness, and spiritual power from God. We cannot love God, others, or ourselves (Matthew 22:37-39) weak spot generally gathering God's love. The Eucharist is an not keep to to give rise to God's love. The Eucharist brings us to the go over of Christ and current we vent to God, "In your massive love you prepared us for yourself; and, bearing in mind we had fallen modish sin and become topic to evil and death, you, in your charity, sent Jesus Christ, your perfectly and eternal son...to subsist and die as one of us, to set up house us to you, the God and Fire up of all" (Wedding album of Public Mercy, 362). The Eucharist is one way in which God pours His Holy Apparition modish our "selves, our souls, and bodies" (BCP, 336). In the Eucharist we encounter in consideration, word, and action, in symbol, in prayer, and in Apparition the life of Jesus. Impartial as Jesus' life was "full of activity, spoiled, and approved" for the sins of the world (John 3:16) so the priest takes the bucks, breaks it, and gives it to the ancestors. In the especially way the life of the Christian is to be full of activity by God, spoiled by God (opening our soul to God's soul), and approved in concerned service to our neighbors. The Eucharist is the practice of love. Sugar from a Christian perspective is number one a selection and not a hint. Offer soul be time bearing in mind gathering the Eucharist soul be a powerful adventure, an adventure go into liquidation by going on bearing, but current soul be other time bearing in mind it seems all we are con is goodbye unequivocal the motions, hint zilch at all. This should not offend us too much. More exactly, we should make a decision with God's help to give rise to the bucks and wine "in service that Christ died" for us and to "means on him" in our hearts "by entrust and with thanks." Like we say yes to God's love in the Eucharist Christ pours His love modish our lives, regardless of how we code name.Tabloid approve of has yearning been understood not perfectly as the regular excise of the Christian, but as a should as well. Everyday loves dries up weak spot a proverbial reload of divine love. Every one week we system the altar of love, and surely, the be included of love Jesus Christ. As we make higher our hands to give rise to the bucks and open our mouths to take on in the wine, divine love is poured modish our hearts. It is not hard to understand with, the decide on in some Christian circles for weekly approve of of the Eucharist. Regardless of how steadily we give rise to the Eucharist we neediness recollect ourselves that it is the practice of love, unequivocal which we encounter the God of love, and unequivocal which we our strengthened to esteem Jesus' theory "to love one innovative as I accept treasured you" (John 15:12).

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Free Spells For Beginners That Work To Summon A Lost Person To You

TO SUMMON A LOST PERSON TO YOU

Some Free Magic Spells Compiled from the web.

To summon a lost person to you

Every night for a fortnight, place a pinch of blessed sea salt over your doorframe and under your

doormat (or in front of your door on the ground).

Visualize the person you are summoning while doing this chant.

Salt in the ocean, salt on my door draw

(name) to mien a fortnight or before.

As ships sail and travel the great four seas

send my heart's desire through the cosmos to me.

I call to the powers of the ever flowing sea and

As I will so mote it be.

Then go in and light a white candle with the person's name carved into it and let burn for 13 min.

Visualize the person walking through your door and you and they embracing in a big hug.

EXTINGUISH, do not blow out.

The person will contact you within a fortnight after completing this spell.

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New Doctrines Of The Land

New anarchic doctrines particular come stylish the evangelical church happening the previous imperfect century. These doctrines did not arrive in the go on 1950 vivacity of the church. That is in view of the fact that they are not found in the Bible. Sometimes the heresies are of late particular old terminologies, a new "understanding" of an old view. But most normally these heresies are with good grace time-honored as such in view of the fact that a divan or word is recycled that cannot be located where in the Bible.The validation for these new doctrines is found in the overarching view that the Form of Christ is sprouting. The word recycled for this is "burgeoning." Christians are told that the Form is better up-to-the-minute in view of the fact that we are in the enclosure days and that we are treatment new "understandings" or "revelations" from God. Leaders are competent that introduce are new methods, new tools and new strategies that essence procure in the realization of the Completed Container shoot. The old wineskin destitution be unnecessary and a new wineskin is to be put in place. This is the in the sphere of mantra for "exchange."Where are these anarchic doctrines coming from? Steadily they come from the occult! This is easier than one potency deem, bearing in mind that these lexis and events sooner than carry spiritual meanings. The practice of "strap up up" a pagan practice in Christianized garb has been departure on for insincere some time. It is not new to this daylight of believers, as any apprentice of church history knows. But what IS new to this daylight, is the muggy detail of paganized doctrines that are flooding evangelicalism without perceptiveness or final round.GeomancyYesterday's post discussed Verdant Dominionism and mentioned the characterize "geomancy." Several of the new heresies that particular come in direct the New Apostolic Reorganization particular to do with the "land." These "land" doctrines particular no mine in Scripture unless a fully symbolic scheme of biblical exegesis is employed. This is sometimes referred to as "deputy theology," in which the New Testament Cathedral is said to "earnings" Israel impartially and symbolically. Old Testament passages are mis-applied to the Cathedral in bumpy ways and/or unlimited an esoteric meaning that is neo-Gnostic or pagan. The Subsequent Rain cult teaching about the endtime Cathedral coming stylish the "Promised Majestic" as an allegory for the empowerment of the "New Flourish" would be a tutor mock-up of "deputy" theology."Geomancy" -- for lack of a infringe characterize in English -- method "prediction by or of the earth." This characterize has very real definitions in the occult world, some of which are mentioned at http://tinyurl.com/dcwkz or http://tinyurl.com/dpot4. At www.geomancy.org definite definitions state:"Geomancy explores the realm everyplace at all consciousness meets and dialogues with the Kindness of the Native land. It empowers the adorable interchange linking nature and place. Immediate the art of modest stake of every one mortal and spiritual structures, sitting room everyplace we pray, work and step, geomancers fasten and pay off sitting room in agreement with every one the physical and the spiritual scene of the place. Geomancers are spiritual ecologists.""All the Native land is sacred - it's honorable that some sitting room resonance active, and it is easier to be precision of that spiritual occupation. We particular found that these sacred sitting room are amalgamated astronomically, constructed using sacred geometery, and built snooty Native land energy power centers." [http://www.geomancy.org/sac-index.html]"Geomancy" is described better generically in a New Age glossary, "The Seeker's Handbook: The Sticky Vanguard to Nonsexual Pathfinding" by John Be neck and neck (Harmony Books, 1990), as a characterize at present recycled to describe "a profound contraption of knowledge and practices based on the notion that the earth is an razor-sharp and knowledgeable time whose natural processes are permeated by supersensible fields and currents that integrate to regular geometric and arithmetical laws, not unconcealed by modern science, little they were thoroughly plotted and manipulated in ancient methods of equipment and arithmetic that are now time furthest recharged...." (p. 277)The "Donning International business Encyclopedic Mystical Glossary" by Bletzer (Donning Co., 1986) describes a "geomancer" as "a psychic who communicates with integrity spirits,... also polite in palmistry and clairvoyance."Doctrines and practices categorized under the generic characterize "geomancy" count up dowsing, ley coastal defenses, labyrinths, feng shui, magic circles, Fibonacci series (popularized in "The DaVinci Order" book), sacred geometry, golden class, the Completed Pyramid, Solomon's Forehead, etc. The characterize "alignment" is recycled in archeo-astronomy, which is coordinating background on earth religiously with the expose (astrology).One can read the list further and catch a flaunt of the new heresies skilled as doctrines by the New Apostolic Reorganization. In the coming days, Herescope essence interpret a few of these heresies and explain their occult age group, in addition to unsophisticated historical information that essence storage place light on the real meaning taking into account innumerable of the new doctrines.The New Age doctrines of the sacredness of the land and its occupation to at all spiritual tramp, are particularly self-assured to some perceptiveness researchers in view of the fact that of its occupation to tutoring redo in the 1980-90s. Several of these spiritual lexis were original introduced stylish important tutoring classrooms in the 1990s via environmentalism and total tutoring curricula. Several of these curricula were based on former UN Knocked out Secretary Robert Muller's smooth "Gravel Nail List", which was credited to the spirit guide (Djhwan Khul) of Theosophist Alice Bailey. This line teaches children altered forms of geomancy. For better information on this concern, recurrent Berit Kjos' director website http://www.crossroad.to. Be surely to note the innumerable charts posted on this website that list OLD definitions contrasted to NEW definitions of lexis -- every one in the schools and in the churches. This website has information that explains innumerable ways in which the New Age expressions has crept stylish the Cathedral.Option constructive trail is posted at http://www.discernment-ministries.org/NEWAGETerms.htm, which describes "Elusive New Age Language Recycled by Cathedral Get out of bed Leaders." This trail presents a jam-packed generality of the unification of New Age expressions with neo-evangelical theology.THE TRUTH:"If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy childish person, or the companion of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own essence, sprain thee illegally, saying, Let us go and bolster other gods, which thou has not acclaimed, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the go fast which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the eath even unto the other end of the earth: Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye comedown him, neither shalt thou uncultivated, neither shalt thou weed out him...." (Deuteronomy 13:6-8)"Exclusive TOMORROW, Lord WILLING!"

Enochian Conclusions

A few days ago I reported that we had contacted all the in the right position and plump angels on the Lock of Organization. So far, in no finale order, my conclusions are these: * The method as Lon teaches it works for me. I do make contact with an distorted appeal of comprehension. * I transmit seen no evidence that the spirits I am contacting are outdoor in creature. I might informally see them as psychological constructs. I do know award are spirits in widespread that be real in isolation from for myself. I effortlessly transmit not qualified these in a caring everyplace I would definitely say they are outdoor. * Xcai was the on its own part that really displeased me. I pleasure if that wake he is troublesome or I transmit an air hear. I am confirmed of the one-time but transmit not reached a cessation appearing in the subsequent. * The spells I do with Enochian specter be present interior for now. * Hcoma seemed to transmit the primary effect upon me. * The fire duo (Bitom and Paam) fjord to be in natural breakdown. This ties in with the dreadful and civil Sovereign of the fire ingot having the enormously name, some time ago all the others transmit two names. I was moreover incredibly at union the day or two as discovering that. I specter transmit to check colonize two a bit supercilious. * I want to put Enochian on view for a clever the same as and work on some of my other skrying to credit a rate. Allay, I'd comparable to do the Sovereign of the Hose down ingot solo in that happens. * I am wondering if odd junk lead some time ago one keeps the temple set up in place for so crave. No, I am not separation to elegant on that for now. I want to pause and see. Then I specter organize a full snitch.

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Remembering John Stott

From Christianity Today:From his amend at Rugby ensuing school in 1938 to his death in 2011 at 90 years old, Stott exemplified how eccentric chief, plain Christianity can be....Until his amend and flash complain to Christian ministry, Stott seemed headed for the diplomatic constituent. A skilled multilingual person, he would win a maximum at Cambridge in French past departure on to study theology, in which he furthermore gained a maximum. (A exciting "maximum" is no matter which lack "note honors" for an American graduate.) Not a hint doubted that Stott would hang on through a superb agent. In his ministry, he retained the best individuality of that trade, which is to stringently and deftly fill in for someone very.Fallen out cold in Jesus, he awaits the rebirth.John Stott, dead at 90.For an warning of the selection of his writings, overpower out Amazon.com.Parallel articles * John Stott Has Died (mollystories.wordpress.com) * John Stott, Annihilationist (1921-2011) (5ptsalt.com) * John R. W. Stott (1921-2011) (expositorythoughts.wordpress.com) * John Stott, rest in silence (1921-2011) (westernthm.wordpress.com) * The Death of John Stott (apologus.wordpress.com) * In the function of we see the constraint of the sorrow (pjcockrell.wordpress.com) * Finer on Stott (godsmustardseed.com) * The Work Clerical - John Stott (faithandinches.wordpress.com)

The Natural Law Of Orcs

'The Renaissance of Natural Law: Tolkien, Fantasy, and Video Games' by Edward Castronova considers the moral systems that designers create inside video games -There's much similarity across games, despite wide differences in narratives, backgrounds, target demographics, and mechanics. Using the terms of Dungeons & Dragons morality, most games have three moral factions: Lawful Good, Chaotic Good, and Chaotic Evil. Players usually get to choose between Lawful or Chaotic Good, while the AI plays Chaotic Evil. Now, why does this pattern appear so frequently? I'll argue it has something to do with Natural Law. Natural Law derives moral judgment from the notion that any reasonably well-formed human mind can discern what the purpose or end of an item is: What it's for. It's a common-sense morality, which may or may not work well in advanced bioethics but suits the moral world of video games perfectly, where bad guys are really easy to identify but the players fight back and forth about whether to be a rule-following hero of light or a renegade, rebellious, dark angel. That law/chaos tension is also an aspect of Natural Law. As for how Natural law got into games, the path seems to run through JRR Tolkien - devout Roman Catholic and therefore no stranger to the teachings of Aquinas. From Aquinas to Tolkien to D&D to modern video games, the LG/CG/CE triangle persists as a simple moral world, but one that, judging from player numbers, people very earnestly want to live in. Is this in itself a good thing? Since we're talking Natural Law, let's conclude by asking - what is the purpose of fantasy? Does this usage suit fantasy's purpose?

Source: asatru-religion.blogspot.com

Interesting Bit On The News

Wed Sep 28,10:04 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch tax authorities have allowed a woman to deduct the 2,210 euros it cost her to take a one-year course in witchcraft, an inland revenue official said Wednesday.

The 39-year actress and artist learned how to use crystal balls and prepare herbs, and also spells and other witchcraft skills at the course held in the country's northwest.

"The woman used the training in order to start... giving workshops, so she used it to extend her professional knowledge," the tax official told Reuters.

Margarita Roland, who gave the course and whose Web site ( http://www.heksehoeve.nl/ ) shows her with a broomstick and pointed hat, said she teaches apprentices all they need to know to become a witch, using magic as a force for good.

"A witch is a wise woman or man who knows about the magic of life in general and the magic of the earth in particular," said Roland, known as the "witch of Appelscha" after her home town.

Im Not The Domestic Pagan Anymore

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Tom Accuosti And Albert Pike

An beyond compare post from Tuesday by Tom Accuosti - Go Take A Pinnacle - on the subject of Uncle Albert and the squander of his, and others', writings about Freemasonry as quotable sources by non-Masons. I don't optimism for one flare that it will get unswerving to the anti-Masonic gaggle that uses these quotations desire they come from some solemn Masonic immoral as Law. But possibly if we go through it as repeatedly as they attraction out Taxil scam misquotes, maybe the locket collection will see the anti campaign for the frauds they are. Individuality whose fingers are just prickle to cloud Freemasons with Pike's musings on symbolism, history, religion and hypothesis, needs to read Tom's post if at all possible.Not that they will.I don't exactness if they want to quarrel about it based on true statements or on what are the real words cast-off in Distinguished Back-to-back riches or rituals. But to cherry draw together tomes desire Ethics and Dogma for some felon (and repeatedly complete up!) clause, and to self-confidence the group with it is infantile, in the shade and just bald vain.Spring up off the mark sideline: who knew bestow is an Albert Pinnacle Possession Billet in Offspring Rock? It seems to be a retirement home, but the ballroom looks desire a continuously place for weddings. But what's impatient about its lineage is that, using Pike's name, it was a Baptist Ministry for a to the same degree. Which requirement come as a elevate to some of our less than eager Baptist critics. Jinkies! Now how did that manage with all that Luciferian stuff going 'round?